Trump at the Abyss

Politico reports that Trump's approval rating hit a new low:

President Donald Trump’s approval rating hit another low in Quinnipiac University’s poll, which found this week that 34 percent of voters approve of his job performance and 57 percent disapprove.

Trump’s previous low in the Quinnipiac survey was a 35 percent positive and 57 percent negative rating, registered on April 4.

FiveThirtyEight's poll average is more sanguine: 38.3 Approve/55.9% Disapprove. But the trend lines are definitely negative.

My sense is that Trump is inching close to the point of no return. His Tweets following the London Bridge ISIS murder spree marked another boundary-crossing event in public diplomacy.

If you look at the Gallup history, once a prez goes south of 35% approval it is a death knell:

Gallup Historical Presidential Job Approval Statistics

Low individual measurements

	Dates in office	Low approval rating
		%
Harry Truman	February 1952	22
Dwight Eisenhower	March 1958	48
John Kennedy	September 1963	56
Lyndon Johnson	August 1968	35
Richard Nixon	July 1974 and Aug. 1974	24
Gerald Ford	Jan. 1975 and March 1975	37
Jimmy Carter	June 1979	28
Ronald Reagan	January 1983	35
George H.W. Bush	July 1992	29
Bill Clinton	June 1993	37
George W. Bush	October 2008	25
Barack Obama	Aug. 2011, Oct. 2011 and Sept. 2014	38

Truman never recovered, neither did Nixon, Carter and W. Only Bush I did, and that was as a lame duck.