The rating of the first three months of Donald Trump's presidency became the lowest in the entire history of observations. According to the Gallup Public Opinion Foundation, the activities of the US President in the first three months of his work are approved by only 41% of Americans. For comparison: the similar rating of Barack Obama was 64%, Bill Clinton's rating was 55%. The highest level of support for Americans distinguished the first months of the presidency of John F. Kennedy, whose rating was 74 percent, writes "Newspaper. Ru ".
Experts believe that the record low level of support for President Trump's actions is a result of a split in American society that has intensified after the elections. The situation was not helped even by missile strikes against Syria and other threats of using military force against potential enemies of the United States. According to the authoritative sociological service of Quinnipiac University, after a missile strike at the airbase in Syria, the rating of the US president rose to 40% from 35% two weeks before.
The US media is jealous that the president's rating is even lower than the rating of United Airlines, which received a record negative evaluation after the forceful removal of one of the passengers, whose place the airline employees needed. As the edition of Politico writes, Trump's rating reflects "sharp political disengagement" in the USA. If you recall that the presidential candidate from the Democrats Hillary Clinton in absolute terms received more votes than Trump, then one should not be surprised at this level of his support today.
According to the professor of the European University in St. Petersburg, Americanist Ivan Kurilla, in the fall of Trump's rating there is nothing unusual, since he had a low base at the time of his inauguration.
In the US, the rating increase after the military actions is called "uniting around the flag". In addition to strikes against Syria, the White House also made tough statements against the DPRK, which violates the regime of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, and also allowed the break-up of the nuclear deal with Iran. According to member of the Association of Military Political Scientists Alexander Perendzhiev, all this rhetoric is aimed at "rallying the Americans in the face of foreign policy threat".
In this case, experts say, "Newspapers. Ru ", the White House still does not have a clear foreign policy strategy. Trump does not have enough "people" to fill out all the vacancies in the State Department, where employees still retaining positions disloyal to the new president are still retained by President Obama.
Former US National Security Adviser Jimmy Carter Zbigniew Brzezinski told the publication that "Trump must act as president and not as a political showman.
The US is too important a country to be led by the "absent president".
The "missing president" portrait was supplemented with an interesting detail by The New York Times. According to the publication, during the first 87 days of his presidency, Trump spent more time on the golf course than his predecessors Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton combined (19 days Trump, not one Obama and Bush, 3 days Clinton). But just two years ago, Trump criticized Obama for playing too much golf.