Sixty percent of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s job performance, matching an all-time high for his disapproval rating in the Gallup Poll.
A weekly presidential job approval tracker released today found that six out of ten Americans disapprove of Trump’s performance, while 38 percent said they approve as of the week ending Nov. 25.
The president’s disapproval rating has largely hovered in the mid-50 percent range in the Gallup poll, but this week marks the fourth time it has hit 60 percent.
It previously hit that threshold in August 2017 in the aftermath of a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., again in late October 2017 and once more in December 2017 around the time the GOP passed its tax-cut legislation.
The Gallup weekly presidential approval tracker has a margin of error of 3 percentage points, and is based on a survey of roughly 1,500 adults.
The dip in numbers came during the same week that Trump signaled he would not dole out additional punishment against Saudi Arabia or Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
He also clashed with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts over the 9th Circuit’s rulings, and his administration issued a report that contained a dire warning about the effects of climate change.
The poll findings arrived on the heels of a midterm election that saw big successes for Democrats, who easily took back control of the House of Representatives.
The Republican Party has hitched its wagon to Trump, but his popularity is struggling.
“This is now the party of Donald Trump. I read articles saying the Republican Party has merged with the Trump coalition—they have no choice. Trump voters own the Republican Party. That’s consolidated,” John McLaughlin, a pollster on Trump’s 2016 campaign, told Politico. “The bad part is they haven’t broadened his coalition. They haven’t gotten his job approval over 50 percent, like Reagan. We haven’t done that.”