Mod: Can we say the American people have turned a little sour on the Orange Menace? He absolutely hates bad polling numbers, so please pass this around as much as you can.
Trump Job Approval Slides to 39% (
Gallup Polllink):
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has fallen to 39% amid nationwide protests about racial injustice. His ratings this year had been the best of his presidency but are now back near his term average of 40%.
The latest reading is from a May 28-June 4 poll, conducted as protests occurred throughout the country after the May 25 death of
George Floyd.
Floyd, a black
Minneapolis man, died in police custody after a white officer pressed his knee on
Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes. Trump's comments and actions in response to the protests last week, including a vow to send
U.S. military troops to cities to quell violent protests, were controversial.
The administration was widely criticized after police in
Washington, D.C., used chemical irritants to disperse peaceful protestors from an area shortly before the president posed for photos in front of a nearby church. The protests are occurring as the nation continues to deal with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The poll was completed before the news Friday about an unexpected drop in the unemployment rate.
The decline in approval returns the metric to a level last seen in October, shortly after the
House of Representatives launched an impeachment inquiry into
Trump's dealings with the
Ukraine government.
Trump's latest job approval rating fell significantly among all party groups, and by similar margins among each. This includes drops of seven percentage points among
Republicans (to 85%) and independents (to 39%), and nine points among
Democrats (to 5%).
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