Americans are split evenly when it comes to President Trump’s approval, according to the Rasmussen Reports. The poll says that 49 per cent of likely voters approve of the President’s job performance, while 50 per cent disapprove.
The latest figures include 33 per cent who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 39 per cent who Strongly Disapprove.
Rasmussen polls are released daily which means that these are numbers that come on the heels of a turbulent week in the White House that saw Jared Kushner losing his security clearance, Hope Hicks announcing her departure, the president calling his own Attorney General ‘disgraceful’ and the announcement of tariffs that sent the stock market into a nosedive.
Reports called the president, on Thursday, ‘unglued’ before he announced his tariff plan
AG Jeff Sessions (L) was at the White House Thursday after Trump attacked him on Twitter. Jared Kushner (R) leaving for work on Friday carrying files that are not top secret after his security clearance was revoked
President Trump’s tweet about his own attorney general set in motion an unprecedented fight in the executive branch
Trump’s son-in-law lost his top secret security clearance, it was revealed on Tuesday, when the White House announced a change in policy on interim clearances after the Rob Porter scandal.
Kushner hadn’t gotten his final clearance because there are questions about his family’s business dealings.
Further, at least four countries have reportedly discussed how to manipulate Kushner, taking advantage of his family’s business dealings and his naivete.
Trump attacked his Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Twitter Wednesday, calling him ‘disgraceful’ for his handling of the Russia investigation.
Sessions was forced to defend himself, saying in a statement: ‘As long as I am the attorney general, I will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor, and this department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner according to the law and Constitution.’
Hope Hicks was the first staffer to join the Trump campaign. On Wednesday she became the fourth Communications Director to quit the Trump Administration.
Hope Hicks left her apartment on Friday with an overnight bag. She stopped at the White House before heading out of Washington.
Hicks on Friday, hair whipped by the nor’easter winds, reportedly headed to Connecticut for the weekend
Later Wednesday, longtime aide Hope Hicks became the fourth Communications Director to resign the post in Trump’s 13 months in office.
The former model, 29, announced her departure one day after she admitted in closed door testimony before the House Intelligence Committee that she sometimes told ‘white lies’ for the president.
Trump reportedly berated her for that admission, apparently asking her ‘how can you be so stupid?’ She resigned the next day.
It was a reportedly ‘unglued’ Trump on Thursday who announced tariffs on imported steel and aluminum which sent the stock market plunging, down 420 points by the day’s close.
The White House was unprepared with details of the tariffs, and are now working to build a plan. Meanwhile, Trump tweeted on Friday that ‘trade wars are good and easy to win’.
Trump tweeted defense of his tariff plan on Friday, calling trade wars ‘easy to win’
In a since corrected tweet, the president attacks “Alex” Baldwin and misspells ‘dying’
That same day, the leader of the free world, had a brief Twitter war with Alec Baldwin, after the actor said his Emmy-winning SNL role playing POTUS was ‘excruciating’. Trump misspelled the actor’s name, and the word ‘dying’ before editing the tweet.
But at the end of the week, those polled by Rasmussen for the Friday poll said that if the election were held today, Trump would carry Republicans and unaffiliated voters. Democrats, however, would reject him in droves.
No matter which side of the aisle these likely voters are on, Rasmussen says that all agree that Trump is ‘charting the course for the country, and no one else is even close.’