The latest Gallup Poll shows that Donald Trump® will enter the White House next week with the lowest transition approval rating of any president since the organization began polling on that matter since 1992. More people—51 percent—disapprove of the pr*sident-elect’s transition performance while only 44 percent approve.
Look how that compares with his three predecessors:
Waiting for Trump to label that “fake news.”
Here’s Lydia Saad at Gallup reports:
Looking at both positive and negative ratings, Americans view Trump's Cabinet as worse than the Cabinets chosen by Obama, Bush and Clinton. However, taking into account just the percentage who consider his Cabinet "above average" or "outstanding," Trump's 32% is only modestly lower than the 38% for Bush in January 2001 and matches Clinton's just before his inauguration in mid-January 1993. Only Obama's 45% was significantly better.
The chief differentiator for Trump is that many more Americans rate his appointments as "below average" or "poor": 44% say this about Trump's Cabinet choices, compared with 13% for Bush's, 12% for Clinton's and 10% for Obama's. The wide spread between positive and negative views of Trump's Cabinet appointments serves as another example of the highly polarized environment in which Trump will be taking office on Jan. 20.