Trump is not popular

The president's approval rating is the lowest of any president at this point in their term

I am intending the Chart of the Week newsletter to be a quick reaction to recent news, a picture worth 1,000 words on the past seven days of headlines. This week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to effectively dissolve the Department of Education, which is underwater among voters by 30 points. And his surrogates have started a campaign against the “activist judges” ruling against the administration’s various overreaches of executive power. Meanwhile, three-fourths of Americans say Trump should follow the rulings of the judiciary.

So for today’s COTW, I thought I should take a look at how Americans feel about Trump, and compare it to how they have felt about past presidents at this point in their terms. Is all this unpopular stuff affecting how Americans view the president? Is he below the two-month historical baseline? Or are we so polarized that nothing matters? Let’s load up the data and take a look. (P.S., I update the charts in this post daily, with fresh versions …