The following article by Jessica Kwong from Newsweek was posted on the National Memo website November 24, 2017:
Ten months into his presidential tenure, Donald Trump’s approval rating is worse than at least a dozen past presidents.
According to an interactive infographic by the data-aggregating website FiveThirtyEight updated on Wednesday, which was Trump’s 307th day in the White House, his approval rating was an unimpressive 38.4 percent. Disapproval was 55.5 percent.
That’s poorer than some of the least popular American presidents, including Richard M. Nixon, who played a major role in the Watergate scandal and is the only commander-in-chief to have resigned; Gerald Ford, who granted a controversial presidential pardon to Nixon; and Lyndon B. Johnson, who failed to lead the U.S. out of the Vietnam War. Continue reading “Trump’s Approval Rating Pales Against Past Presidents”