U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 17, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
The American people have reached a new level of frustration with President Donald Trump over the affordability issues affecting their budgets.
On Thursday, CNN data analyst Harry Enten revealed that no president that he could find has had such historic disapproval ratings on fuel prices than Trump.
During the pandemic, as Americans went back to work, fuel prices spiked to slightly over $5 per gallon, but even President Joe Biden didn't suffer Trump's level of disapproval.
Speaking to co-host John Berman, Enten explained that often when gas prices go up the president is the one who "pays the price." Never has it been this much, he said.
"We're talking about a record here," Enten said. "Take a look at this: highest disapproval on gas prices. Look at this. President Trump, 79 percent. Seventy-nine percent of Americans disapprove of him on gas prices!"
He displayed numbers from former Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and the current Trump administration.
It "also reached the 70s, but [it was] never this high," Enten said about the oil crisis of the 1970s. "This is a record high in terms of looking back at every single president this century. Again, President Trump is breaking records across the political map. But on this one, he is also doing. And in a way, simply put, don't want to be breaking records."
The main reason those numbers are as bad as they are, he explained, is that Republicans are now also angry at Trump. While Democratic disapproval (97 percent) is frequently high, and his Independent voter disapproval (85 percent) has climbed, his GOP voter disapproval on gas prices has now reached 52 percent.
Enten said he even sifted through the records of the second Bush presidency, saying he didn't reach those historically bad numbers with Independents until the very end of his presidency, as the economy collapsed. Trump is tied with those numbers.
"And that is why he, of course, has the highest disapproval rating of all time, at least that I could find for any president on gas prices," Enten closed.
