The Washington DC-based consulting firm Gallup, famous for its public opinion polls around the world, reported that the new president of the United States, Donald Trump, barely has a 47 percent approval rating as he enters his second term, making him the most unpopular American president in the country's history.
“At 47 percent, President Donald Trump’s initial job approval rating for his second term is similar to the 45 percent he earned during his first term, again putting him below every other president-elect since 1953,” the pollster said in a statement.
And, he added, “Trump remains the only president-elect with initial approval ratings below 50 percent, and his latest disapproval rating (48 percent) is three percentage points higher than in 2017.”
The highest-ranked candidate so far, according to Gallup, remains Democrat John F. Kennedy, who, in the first month of his presidency in 1961, had a 72 percent approval rating and just 6 percent disapproval rating.
Kennedy is followed by Dwight Eisenhower (1953) and Barack Obama (2009), both with an approval rating of 68 percent, while third place is occupied by Jimmy Carter with 66 percent.
While it is true that other polls put Trump in a better position in terms of American liking, they do not radically change the figures. CNN poll says 56 percent of adult citizens expect Donald to be a very good or fairly good president, while 43 percent expect him to be a fairly bad or very bad president.
Polls conducted before Trump was sworn in as president barely gave him 50 percent of voter approval, such as the one conducted by Fox News, while that of the Wall Street Journal found that 47 percent of registered voters viewed him favorably, while 51 percent viewed him unfavorably.
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