Overall, 45 percent of Americans now approve of Trump's performance, up from 42 percent in March 2017, according to Gallup.

In fact, the only president with a worse net approval than Trump has now, was Trump in his first term. No other president has been lower — Trump is at -4 in net approval per CNN — across the past 70-plus years. The president watches polls and he surely won’t appreciate that stat. But it does come with a bit of a bright side for Trump.

Donald Trump is the richest US President in history. The 78-year-old made his debut in the Top 500 of the Hurun Global Rich List 2025, with his 53 per cent stake in Truth Social helping him treble his fortune to $7.

Read President Donald Trump's proclamation imposing new auto tariffs on cars and light-duty trucks made outside the U.S.

In today's big story, President Donald Trump's trade war just intensified. What's on deck Markets: Two major banks slashed their stock-market outlooks for 2025. Tech: Googlers grilled leaders about smaller pay bumps in an all-hands.