Trump Approval Rating Hit An All Time Low Last Week
Just when you thought Trump’s approval rating couldn’t get any lower, it just did.
It seems not a day goes by that Donald Trump doesn’t set a new record for low approval ratings.
According to a new Gallup poll, Trump set an all-time low in job approval rating last week. For the week of August 21-27, Donald Trump’s approval rating was 35 percent – the lowest weekly average of his presidency.
And since August 20 Donald Trump’s approval rating has not been above 35 percent.
As you can see from the chart below, Donald Trump’s approval rating hit a record low last week.
Source: Gallup
“After starting out in the mid-40s, Trump’s job approval rating has been below the 40% mark in each month since February. He is on pace to spend the entire month of August below 40%, with his job approval rating last at 40% on July 11,’ Gallup notes.
No other president has had a full-term average approval rating of less than 45 percent. Donald Trump is on track to change that.
Republican approval of Donald Trump is slipping
The Gallup poll also confirms a trend we have seen recently – Donald Trump is losing his base. According to the poll, Republican support for Donald Trump is slipping.
Since the beginning of his presidency, Donald Trump has averaged an 85 percent approval rating. But last week, Trump’s job approval rating among Republicans was down to 78 percent.
About the poll: Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Aug. 21-27, 2017, on the Gallup U.S. Daily survey, with a random sample of 3,541 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±2 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
