1993 to today · six terms

Clinton to Trump, on the record.

How Americans felt, how their wallets did, what they wanted fixed and which promises got kept, term by term. Pick a measure, then tap a president for their full data sheet.

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Share of Americans satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S. Higher is better. Source: Gallup.

47th president · 2025–now

Donald Trump

Republican · Vice President JD Vance

Term ends Jan 20, 2029. Numbers are for the term so far.

Job approval so far: 37% avg
Satisfied with the country so far: 28% avg
Unemployment: 4.0% → 4.2%
Inflation so far: 3.0% avg
Real weekly pay: -0.8%
Economic growth so far: 2.7% avg
Consumer mood so far: 54

What Americans wanted fixed

The government26% named it the country’s biggest problem in Gallup’s Oct 2026 poll.Gallup: Most Important Problem
High cost of living17% named it the country’s biggest problem in Gallup’s Oct 2026 poll.Gallup: Most Important Problem
Economy in general15% named it the country’s biggest problem in Gallup’s Oct 2026 poll.Gallup: Most Important Problem

Promises, so far

Kept 15 (20%)
Compromise 3 (4%)
Broken 5 (7%)
Stalled 21 (28%)
In the works 31 (41%)

75 promises rated by PolitiFact MAGA-Meter; many are still in progress.

Portrait: Daniel Torok, public domain.

Side by side

How each term compares

Each row ranks the six terms against each other. The greener a cell, the better that term was on that measure; the pinker, the worse. Trump’s current term is only partway through.

Measure
Satisfied with the countryAverage, Gallup	48%	38%	24%	30%	22%	28%
Job approvalAverage of polls	55%	51%	48%	40%	42%	37%
Unemployment changePoints, start to end	−3.1 pts	+3.6 pts	−3.1 pts	+1.7 pts	−2.4 pts	+0.2 pts
InflationAverage yearly rate	2.6%	2.8%	1.4%	1.9%	5.0%	3.0%
Real weekly payChange, start to end	+5.8%	+3.6%	+2.1%	+5.9%	±0.0%	−0.8%
Economic growthAverage real GDP growth	3.8%	1.8%	2.2%	2.8%	2.9%	2.7%
Consumer moodAverage, U. of Michigan	98	86	79	93	68	54
Promises keptShare rated Kept, PolitiFact	n/a	n/a	48%	24%	33%	20%

Presidents inherit economies and face shocks they don’t cause, like 9/11, the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19, so these numbers describe what life was like during each term, not how much credit or blame a president deserves. Clinton and Bush have no promise score because no one rated all of their promises.

Where the numbers come from

Satisfaction, approval and top problems: Gallup. Approval through Obama comes from Gallup’s polls as compiled by the American Presidency Project; Trump’s first term and Biden come straight from Gallup. Gallup stopped measuring presidential approval in 2026, so Trump’s second term uses the Project’s table: Gallup through December 2025, then other national polls of all adults, such as AP-NORC, CNN/SSRS, Marist, Pew, Reuters/Ipsos and Verasight. Each dot is one poll.
Jobs, prices, pay and growth: Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Economic Analysis data, plus the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey, all via FRED at the St. Louis Fed.
Promises: PolitiFact’s Obameter, Trump-O-Meter, Biden Promise Tracker and MAGA-Meter. Clinton and Bush served before PolitiFact existed; their signature promises come from the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Portraits: official White House portraits, which are in the public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Updated November 5, 2026. Refreshed automatically every week.