Trump least popular first-year president EVER: poll
According to President Donald Trump, his administration has been one of the most successful in American history. But the public strongly disagrees.
The Republican Trump is now the least popular first-year president in the country’s history and a vast majority believes he has failed to keep the promises that won him the White House, according to two new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research polls.
The results showed a poor approval rating for Trump. The president received a 32 percent rating, marking Trump as the least-popular commander-in-chief since approval ratings were recorded. Conversely, Trump received a 67 percent disapproval rating.
Those figures also included a “quarter” of Republicans disapproving of Trump’s first year in office, perhaps suggesting the billionaire’s hold on his base is slipping.
Trump’s approval rating has largely stayed in the 30s for months now. Both Monmouth University and the Reuters/Ipsos’ latest polls show a 33 percent approval rating and only two other major polls have notched the rating above 40 percent. RealClearPolitics’s current average sits at 37.2 percent approving compared to 58 percent disapproving.
In contrast, President Barack Obama began his first year in office with a 57.2 approval rating and began his second year at 46.7 percent, according to Gallup.