Trump popular support plunges

[karynnj]

25. Because he is President and can appear before the joint session of Congress

where the members have to be polite (yeah - Joe Wilson was an outlier) -- and after he more or less competently read a teleprompter speech, he was praised for being able to do that. I suspect that he had a very good day after he did this - before the Sessions problems came out. (A good day impacts 3 data points as this is a 3 day tracking poll)

This is the period normally called a honeymoon. The country is seeing the President announce his cabinet and, in Trump's case, a Supreme Court nominee. Normally, this and the innaugeration is when the public sees the person become the President. Most things he has done have been ceremonial - making announcements and welcoming world leaders. With the latter, the meetings are important, but we often hear little unless the two leaders opt to speak of agreements. Note that the conversation after Trump's biggest engagements has been distinctly weird - twitter memes on his very excessive handshake with the Japanese President followed by twitter memes that he refused to shake the hand of Merkel! (The best was the Irish Prime Minister annoying Trump by pointing out ST Patrick was an immigrant.)

For comparison purposes, for the same time period that Trump has been in office for President Obama - he was over 60 percent approval except for one day where he was 59. http://pollingreport.com/obama_job1a.htm (scroll to bottom as the poll has most recent days of the first term first.) Now, Obama was elected in a real landslide, but with all the controversy of 2000, President Bush was in the high 50s and 60s as well in the first three months of his first term. http://pollingreport.com/BushJob1.htm

Not to mention, Trump there have been few real problems in the economy or the world that have impacted these numbers. Obviously the middle east is still a problem - though the 68 country Obama coalition is on the verge of freeing Iraq from ISIS and has made significant progress in Syria. (Expect Tillerson/Trump to speak of that coalition - maybe not mentioning Obama or Kerry) In addition, NK has been setting off missiles. Compared to what Obama faced - with the economy near to going off the cliff and far hotter wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Trump's loss of the support that started to gather around him after he won -- has been the result of stupid mean things he and his team have done -- and who he surrounds himself with.