Trump is set to begin his presidency with a historically low approval rating

President-elect Donald Trump's approval rating is the lowest for any presidential transition Gallup has measured,the polling firm saidon Friday.Trump's approval rating clockedin at 44%, with 51% of respondents disapproving of the president-elect, the Gallup poll conducted two weeks before Inauguration Day found.Those numbers represented a dip from his approval rating in mid-December, when 48% of respondents approved of Trump while another 48% disapproved.Theapproval ratings are significantly lower thanthe three otherpresidential transitions measured by Gallup: Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.At this stage of the transition, Obama hada soaring 83% approval rating with just 12% of respondents disapproving. Bush was favored by 61% of respondents while 25% were not in favor of him, and Clinton saw a 68% to 18% split.Comparing Trump's past two splits, he has witnessed his approval rating among Democrats drop to 13% from 17% in December, and his favorability among independents has dipped dramatically from 46% to 33% over the past month.An unusually high percentage of respondents, 44%, also believed that Trump has selected a below average or poor cabinet. Obama. Bush, and Clinton did not receive more than 13% in that category for their cabinets during the initial transition.Gallup conducted the polling between January 4 and 8 with a random sample of 1,032 adults over 18. The margin of error was 4 percentage points.SEE ALSO:Democrats just launched a campaign to fix one of their biggest problems during the Obama eraJoin the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: These are Stratfor's chilling predictions for 2017
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