The Donald Keeps Sliding…

It certainly appears Trump is on a fast track to completely tanking. He really, really, REALLY needs to pull his head out of his alternative reality. But, given Trump’s yuuuuuge ego and overly inflated self-image it is very unlikely he will ever accept his shortcomings, which are many and yuuuuuge, and make the attempt to do what he needs to do to be a successful president.

Looking forward to next weeks Gallup poll numbers.

Since he announced his candidacy, there have been a grand total of seven polls collected by Huffington Post Pollster in which half the country views President Trump favorably. That’s seven polls out of 514, 1.4 percent of the total.

That didn’t matter, thanks in part to Hillary Clinton also being seen more negatively than positively by the time the election rolled around. And it doesn’t really matter now, because the metric on which Trump is now judged is not favorability but job approval.

Is Trump doing a good job as president? At his exhausting/tive news conference Thursday, he suggested that he was, pointing to a recent survey from Rasmussen Reports that showed him with 55 percent approval. Over the course of 2016, though, Trump developed a bad habit of cherry-picking poll results that cast him in a favorable light, and that’s where Rasmussen falls. There have been 138 polls of Trump’s job approval since he took office; in 42 of those, he’s at or above 50 percent. That’s better than his favorability numbers, to be sure, at 30.4 percent. But it’s also the minority.

Full Gallup Poll BELOW THE FOLD