Trump Doesn't Make Grade in New Poll

Fewer than one in five Americans (18%) give President Donald Trump an A for his overall performance in office, which is actually up from 16% in April 2007 but about a wash given the margin of error.

That is according to a Morning Consult/Politico poll released in advance of the President's one-year anniversary in the job.

But more than a third (35%) give the President an F, up from 24% in April 2017.

Not surprisingly, politics plays a big part in your view of the President and in the change in the numbers. Republicans are 10 percentage points more likely to give the President an A than they were in April, while Democrats are 16 percentage points more likely to give him an F.

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Combining D's and F's,79% of Democrats see his overall performance as below average or a failure with only 8% give him above a C, while 72% of Republicans give him a B or better and only 10% a D or F.

Despite low unemployment and a booming stock market, only 43% of respondents gave the President above a C on the economy, and 42% on jobs, though those were his highest numbers in most of a dozen categories including "draining the swamp," with only 22% giving him above a C for pulling that plug.

The President's disapproval rating is 51% compared to 37% in a January 2017 poll.

The national survey of 1,988 registered voters was conducted Jan. 4-5. It has a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.