Gallup: Trump Net Approval Rating Drops 8 Points In First Week In Office

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2017 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. China's Foreign Ministry has rejected President-elect Donald Trump's sugg... FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2017 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. China's Foreign Ministry has rejected President-elect Donald Trump's suggestion that he might use support of Taiwan as a bargaining chip in future negotiations between the two sides. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump’s net approval rating dropped by eight points in his first week in the Oval Office, according to daily polls tracked by Gallup.

On Sunday Jan. 22, two days after being sworn in, 45 percent of respondents said they disapproved of Trump’s job performance and 45 percent approved. By Friday Jan. 27, the percentage who disapproved rose to 50 and percentage who approved dipped to 42.

Trump has had a busy but rocky first week in office, signing off a series of executive orders laying out major policy changes like a temporary ban on refugees and on citizens from seven majority-Muslim nations. He had a friendly meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday, but raised tensions with Mexican president Enrique Peña-Nieto over his insistence that Mexico will pay for a southern border wall that the country does not want.

Other national surveys show similarly low approval ratings for the President. Forty-four percent of respondents to a Quinnipiac survey released Thursday said they disapproved of his handling of the presidency thus far, while only 36 percent approved.

Gallup’s daily results are taken from telephone interviews with 1,500 adults nationwide. The margin of error is plus or minus three points.

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  1. Abnormal approval ratings for a not normal fraud whose values are decidedly un-American police state values.

    Edit: Petition to the Vice President and Cabinet Department Heads of the United States: Whereas the 25th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America (below) calls upon you to remove a President who is of unsound mind or “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” we the undersigned respectfully request you carry out your duty and by written declaration state that President Donald J. Trump is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.

    Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

  2. Approaching zero on an asymptote!

  3. Avatar for estamm estamm says:

    Within hours, Trump will be claiming that his approval rating went UP 8 points.

  4. Gallup’s daily results are taken from telephone interviews with 1,500 adults nationwide.

    Prompting Donald Trump to sign an Executive Order directing the Dept of Justice to investigate rigged popularity polls.

  5. I don’t believe polls anymore.

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