Trump has the worst approval rating of any president in 72 years

President Trump in the White House Rose Garden of the White House. Credit: Evan Vucci, AP Photo

It’s a new record!

Trump now has the lowest two-year average approval rating of any president in over seven decades.

A new poll from ABC News/Washington Post shows Trump with an average approval rating of 38 percent during his first two years in office. That is 23 points lower than the average approval for the 12 presidents before him, 61 percent, going back to 1945 — when the first approval polls for U.S. presidents were conducted.

Trump’s immediate predecessor, President Barack Obama, averaged a 55 percent approval rating in the same two-year time period, and President Bill Clinton had 51 percent. President John F. Kennedy had the highest marks, averaging 74 percent support over his first two years in office.

View the complete January 25 article by Oliver Willis on the ShareBlue website here.