Trump’s Approval Rating Spikes Amid Ukraine Peacemaking Efforts, New Poll Finds

A new survey shows that Trump’s approval ratings increased after his recent summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin last Friday, giving him majority approval in all age demographics except those over 65.

The survey, conducted by InsiderAdvantage on August 15-17, found that 54% of respondents approved of Trump, while 44% expressed disapproval. Separated by age group, 57% of respondents in the 18-39 and 39-64 demographics approved of the president, compared to 40% of respondents 65 and over.

Trump’s ratings are also up among black and hispanic respondents, according to polling analyst Matt Towery.

The results come amid Trump’s efforts to broker peace in Ukraine. The president met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders at the White House Monday, in a more friendly and productive meeting than Zelensky’s last Oval Office visit.

InsiderAdvantage has a least-biased rating from Media Bias, and was rated as one of the top ten polling services covering general elections from 2014-2022 by RealClearPolitics, coming ahead of several legacy media outlets and YouGov.

These new numbers are at odds with many recent polls, which claim a negative approval rating. In a Pew Research Center poll from the beginning of August, 38% of respondents expressed approval and 60% disapproval.

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The surge in public approval comes in the wake of Trump’s Alaska summit with Putin last Friday, in which Trump attempted to draft a peace agreement with Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Trump called the meeting “very productive.”

“We had an extremely productive meeting, and many points were agreed to. There are just a very few that are left. We didn’t get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there,” Trump told reporters in a bilateral press briefing after the summit.

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff announced on Sunday that Putin made an unprecedented concession during the summit, agreeing to allow the U.S. and European nations to provide security guarantees to Ukraine in a hypothetical peace deal.

“We got to an agreement that the United States and other European nations could effectively offer Article 5-like language to cover a security guarantee,” Witkoff told Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”

Witkoff said it was the “first time we had ever heard the Russians agree” to such a provision.