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U.S. President Donald Trump likes to think of himself as a

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THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS ENTIRELY THE OPINION OF MARKY YIANNIS AND DOES NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE
INQUISITR.

It is the one-year anniversary of President Donald

Trump’s inauguration tomorrow, Saturday, January 20,
and while he won’t be celebrating it, the 45th president of
the United States owns the worst polling numbers in his
Marky
Yiannis first year in the Oval Office of any U.S. president – ever.

The most recent polling numbers do show the 71-year-old

former reality show host – the oldest president elected in
American history (70) – has made gains and is now
polling an aggregate approval rating of 39.6 percent. But
those aren’t good numbers and remain far lower than the
prior worst numbers for a president in his first year, the
numbers of the 38th president, fellow Republican Gerald
Ford, (43.5 percent).

But the numbers President Trump has recently achieved

are at least better than the 36.4 percent approval

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aggregate rating he bottomed out at on December 16.

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Those numbers are, in a word, dismal…but they do not
represent his worst polling numbers.

Trump’s Net Approval Rating Lowest

This is the worst news for Trump: He has numbers well

below other polling-era presidents when it comes to his
“net approval.” Net approval is calculated by taking
approval rating and subtracting from it the disapproval
rating, which has dipped down to 59 percent and lower in
some polls. As Bloomberg News reports, Trump’s net
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net approval rating was +4.9). For you Democrats out
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approval rating was +7.1 (leaving the Donald 22.6 percent
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All of this data comes from averaging all of the polls out
there, with some individual poll results being somewhat
more favorable to Trump, others somewhat less. The
averages being used here were compiled on Nate Silver’s
FiveThirtyEight website (though numbers on other polling
data aggregator sites, like RealClearPolitics, are similar).

Thus far into his four-year term, Trump has either ignored
his dismal polling numbers or cherry-picked the best
polls, such as those from the conservative-leaning
Rasmussen Reports, and boasted about them,
exaggerating as he goes.

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There is an obvious issue with Rasmussen’s method of

polling that the company has yet to correct. That is that
Rasmussen only makes automated calls, thereby
connecting exclusively with landlines, leaving out cell
phones from its data.

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Given Trump’s polling numbers are historically

unprecedented, in the wrong direction, it appears that
now only the floor may be the limit. Or is that the case?
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Three years later, Reagan was re-elected in a landslide.

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