WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ approval of the job Donald Trump is doing as president has been highly stable, showing less movement than all previous presidents’ ratings during their first two years in office. His presidency also has been notable for the absence of two historically reliable patterns in presidential job approval — honeymoon periods and rally events. It is possible that Trump — and to a lesser extent his predecessor Barack Obama — have ushered in a new era of marked stability in job approval ratings resulting from extreme party polarization.
1. Trump’s Stable Job Approval Ratings
To date, Trump has averaged 39% job approval as president, with his survey ratings ranging from a low of 35% to a high of 45%. The 10-percentage point range in Trump’s approval is the smallest for any president during his first two years in the Oval Office by a significant margin. Richard Nixon had the second smallest range of job approval at 16 points, while the average for presidents prior to Trump during their first two years is 28 points.
I have read many of comments to news stories on yahoo and money and markets that attracts a lot of trumpers. There is no explaining or reasoning with them they KNOW what they know about the world and see trump as the non-politician, successful businessman, manly man who says what he means, means what he says and would get more done, though he’s done a lot, were not for the deep state, dems, libs, commies and trump hating traitors. Of course these are not the real power behind trump. The billionaire class, big business and foreign interests are in for the solid financial gains and consider him a useful idiot.
I don’t see a way back for this 40% they like the way trump is leading and I think many would be happy to see him clear away all impediments to one party rule.