{UAH} 'Sinking like a rock': Trump's approval rating keeps plummeting
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'Sinking like a rock': Trump's approval rating keeps plummeting
(President Donald Trump boarding Air Force One.REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
President Donald Trump received his lowest approval rating since he took office, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
Thirty-eight percent of voters in the latest Quinnipiac University poll said they approve of the job Trump is doing, down from a 42% approval rating in Quinnipiac's last poll on February 7.
The Quinnipiac poll shows a severe partisan split — 83% of Republicans said they approve of Trump's job performance, while 91% of Democrats disapprove.
"President Donald Trump's popularity is sinking like a rock," Tim Malloy, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said in a release. "He gets slammed on honesty, empathy, level-headedness and the ability to unite. And two of his strong points, leadership and intelligence, are sinking to new lows.
"This is a terrible survey one month in," Malloy added.
Among the other results:
- 39% of voters surveyed said their opinion of Trump is favorable, while 55% said their opinion of him is unfavorable.
- 55% of voters surveyed said they think he does not have good leadership skills, while 42% said they think he does.
- 55% said they think he is not honest, while 40% said they think he is.
- 63% said they think he is not level-headed, while 33% said they think he is.
- 58% said they think he is doing "more to divide the nation."
- 38% said they could trust Trump to do what is right "almost all of the time."
However, a Politico/Morning Consult poll published Wednesday tells a different story.
Forty-one percent of voters in that poll said they think the country is heading in the right direction, up from 29% immediately after the election in November. Further, the Politico poll showed Trump's approval rating increasing over the past week to 49%.
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