If you're looking for some relative cheery news amid the tragedy of yesterday, take a moment to reflect on the fact that Trump hit his all-time highest disapproval rating Tuesday—60 percent—in Gallup's rolling daily tracking poll.
But not only did the Don hit his personal best, he totally bested every other president dating back to Nixon. Here's a brief look at how many days it took for the following presidents to attain 60 percent disapproval status.
Nixon: 1,736
Ford: Never
Carter: Never
Reagan: Never
H.W. Bush: 1,290
Clinton: Never
W. Bush: 1,758
Obama: Never
Trump: 144
It's true that Trump dropped back down to 59 percent Wednesday, but the trend lines don't look good any way you slice it. Even HuffPost Pollster's polling average appears to slowly but surely be moving in the wrong direction for him.
As Gallup noted a couple days ago while handicapping the consistently low approval ratings that go hand-in-hand with Trump’s historically high disapproval ratings:
Trump's approval ratings have bounced back from previous low points to levels above 40%, but this time Trump seems to be in a more sustained slump, with his rating averaging below 40% for four of the past five weeks.
Trump continues to have the lowest ratings for a newly elected president in Gallup's history of approval ratings. The previous low first-year approval rating in June for an elected president was Bill Clinton, with a 37% approval June 5-6, 1993. The approval ratings of all other presidents since 1953 in June (May in the case of Eisenhower) of their first year after being elected were above 50%.