Trump ends first year with lowest approval of any modern president: Poll
US President Donald Trump has concluded his first year in office with the lowest approval rating of any first-year president in modern history, according to a new poll.
That is according to polling by the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which shows that Trump has averaged just a 39 percent approval rating since his inauguration on January 20, 2017. The survey was released on Friday.
Trump's approval rating is lower than his three immediate predecessors – Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton -- at the same point in their time in the White House.
Fifty-seven percent of respondents have disapproved of the presidency of Trump.
In the history of the NBC/WSJ poll, Trump has scored the lowest first-year approval rating out of any modern president.
The previous low was held by former President Obama, whose first-year average stood 11 points higher than Trump’s, at 50 percent. Bush ended his ended his first year in office with 82 percent and Clinton came in at 60 percent, according to the NBC/WSJ poll.
The poll was conducted from January 13 to 17 and about 900 American adults participated in it. Its margin of error is about 3.3 percentage points.
The numbers in the NBC/WSJ poll are similar to those in the latest Gallup poll which found that 39 percent of voters approve of the job Trump is doing while 57 percent disapprove.
According to RealClearPolitics' presidential approval average, Trump's approval rating came in at 39.5 percent as of Friday.
Recent surveys show most Americans view Trump as a divisive figure and even question his fitness for office.
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