Trump Just Beat The Last Three Presidents On One Key Issue

CNN data guru Harry Enten said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump was blowing his competition out of the water — both Republicans and Democrats — when it came to his approval rating with regard to foreign policy.

Enten spoke with CNN anchor John Berman about the latest numbers, which show Trump, nearly ten months into his second term, has a 43% approval rating on his foreign policy positions. Berman asked for context, wondering how Trump stacked up against past presidents in their respective second terms.

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Trump’s foreign approval rating is up like a rocket compared to term 1.

He has the highest foreign policy approval rating at this point in his term 2 of any 21st century president.

Big reason why: Israel-Hamas conflict. E.g. His net approval is 40 pts higher than Biden’s was. pic.twitter.com/8rzNjCphEJ

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) November 19, 2025

“This is one of the areas in which Donald Trump is performing significantly better than he was in term one,” Enten explained, noting that during his first term in the White House, Trump’s approval rating on foreign policy had been significantly lower at 35%. “Up like a rocket, we’re talking about 43% now, that’s an eight-point rise. On the net approval rating, that’s a double-digit rise.”

Berman noted that it was almost expected for presidents in their second terms to pivot to foreign policy and do whatever they can to cement their legacies before leaving office — and he asked Enten how Trump stacked up in that regard.

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Enten showed a graphic comparing Trump to the two other 21st-century presidents who served two terms — George W. Bush and Barack Obama — who had foreign policy approval ratings of 36% and 37% respectively, at the same point in their second terms.

“This is something I think Donald Trump really likes to look at because the bottom line is this presidents like to build their legacies off of foreign policy, and at this particular point the American people like much more of what Donald Trump’s doing on foreign policy than either of the two other twenty-first century presidents who serve at least — or served two terms,” Enten explained.

Berman asked whether Trump’s high marks on that particular issue had anything to do with how he’d responded to the war between Israel and the Hamas terrorists controlling Gaza, and Enten said it had likely been a major factor.

“The American people liked what Trump was able to do between the Israelis and Hamas,” he said — and pointed to Trump’s net approval on the Israel-Hamas conflict (+3) compared to former President Joe Biden’s (-37). “Joe Biden was 37 points below water by the end of his presidency.”