With only four days remaining in U.S. President Joe Biden's term, it has been revealed that the Biden administration is receiving more negative evaluations than Donald Trump's first administration. Many Americans consider President Biden to have been a 'failed president.'
According to Fox News on the 15th (local time), recent polls revealed that a majority of Americans rated President Biden's term as a failure. In the latest survey conducted by CNN and SSRS, 61% of respondents reported that President Biden's term overall was a failure, while only 38% evaluated his term as successful.
In a joint poll conducted by USA Today and Suffolk University, 44% of respondents rated President Biden as historically a failed president. In a Marist poll, more than one-third of respondents considered Biden 'the worst president in American history,' while 19% referred to him as 'below average.'
President Biden's approval ratings have been steadily declining, except for the first six months of his term. The approval ratings, which reached the mid-50s at the beginning of his term, sharply dropped starting in August 2021 due to the aftermath of the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the resurgence of COVID-19. The subsequent severe inflation and surge in illegal immigration further contributed to a drop in President Biden's ratings.
The Washington Post (WP) stated, "Looking at the approval rating trends of past presidents, Biden's current rating is virtually tied with the records of former President Jimmy Carter and former President Donald Trump, who recorded the lowest end-of-term approval ratings among past presidents," noting that "Biden is perceived as a more negative president currently than Trump was at the end of his first term."
Meanwhile, President Biden, who is nearing the end of his term, presented allied diplomacy as his core achievement. In a speech delivered in Washington, D.C. on the 13th, President Biden stated, "I have strengthened diplomatic efforts during my administration, creating more allies than ever in U.S. history," and added, "Through this, the U.S. and its allies have become stronger, and adversaries have become weaker." He also mentioned, "Few thought that the U.S., Japan, and South Korea could establish a trilateral partnership, but we were the first to achieve it," and further discussed the consolidation of allies across the Atlantic and Pacific with the U.S.-Japan-Philippines partnership and AUKUS among the U.S., Australia, and the United Kingdom.