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The Least Popular President

Trump asked to be president of only some of the people in his inaugural address. It looks like he's getting his wish.
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How low can his approvals go?

How low can his approvals go?

 Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

The numbers are in, and we can call it now: Donald Trump has the worst approval numbers of any first-week president of the polling era. By far. It's not close.

The current HuffPollster estimate has 39 percent approving of his brand-new presidency and 41 percent disapproving. That's stunning. Barack Obama, hardly the most popular president, never fell below 42 percent approval according to that average at any point of his eight years in office.