Trumps Approval Rating Has Been Falling Steadily, Polling Average Shows

President Trump’s job approval rating has fallen steadily during his first three months in office, according to a New York Times average of polling.Mr.Trump’s approval rating has sunk to about 45 percent, down from 52 percent one week after he took office.

Around half of the country now disapproves of his performance, the polling shows.American presidents typically enter office with a groundswell of support that wanes over time.But Mr.

Trump’s approval has been dropping slightly faster than his predecessors.Mr.Trump started his term with the second-lowest approval rating for a president in modern history.

The only recent president to have started in a worse position was Mr.Trump the first time he took office.The polling average, assembled by The New York Times, includes nearly all publicly released polls that track Mr.

Trump’s approval rating.The goal of a polling average is to balance the biases of individual polls, which can vary in quality and frequency, and to make it easier to track changes in public opinion over time.The average does not directly address the causes of the decline in approval, or whether they are driven by specific actions like his enactment of tariffs, his threats toward allies or gyrations in the markets.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.

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