Donald Trump's Approval Rating Is In The Toilet

President Donald Trumps latest approval rating has sunk to anew low, according to the latest Gallup poll.Only 37 percent of American approve of the job Trump is doing, and 58 percent disapprove, the daily poll found Sunday.Those are the worst ratings since he took office eight weeks ago. His approval rating stood at 45 percent just nine days ago.Trumps approval rating is lower than any otherpresident at this point in his first term since Gallup started tracking the numbers 72 years ago in 1945.Barack Obamas rating at this point in his presidency was 60 percent.HuffPost Pollsters aggregate, which combines publicly available polling data, currently puts Trumps approval rating slightly higher at 44 percent, with 53 percent disapproving.Its not clear which of several issues may have torpedoed the presidents numbers.Its been a tough week for Trump. His health plan was zapped by the Congressional Budget Office, which revealed some 24 million Americans would be cut out of health insurance over the next decade. His revised travel ban was blocked again in court. And hes being hammered over his insistence that he was wiretapped during the presidential campaign by Obama, despite what his own intelligence officers are saying and the findings of the intelligence committees in both the House and Senate.Meanwhile, questions continue about his associates connections with Russia. A hearing Monday will address both Trumps wiretapping allegations and Russian ties.Trump also had an awkward meeting Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.Obamas lowest approval rating throughout both of his terms was 39 percentin a Zogby Poll, higher than Trumps now in his early days in office when a young presidency is usually popular. Trump skewered Obama over the 39 percent numbers in 2011.@BarackObama has a record low 39% Gallup approval rating. Why so high' Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2011 Gallups daily poll results are based on telephone interviews with 1,500 people nationwide and have a 3 percent margin of error.type=type=RelatedArticlesblockTitle=Related Coverage + articlesList=58a7fc48e4b037d17d282c92 -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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