Trump is now in the 13th sustained job approval decline of his presidency. If it were to end now the dip would receive a rank of 5 on the 10 point scale relative to all of his other dips. The last dip was a 6 and lasted from August to September. His numbers improved from that point and bobbed around 42% until the week of December 9. That was the week Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison, and there was also some Flynn and Manafort news swirling around.
These dips almost always result from a confluence of negative new coverage. So what happened after news of Trump’s legal troubles? Jim Mattis resigned in protest, and then the government shut down. The shutdown will continue to be a negative news story that looks to continue hurting Trump’s approval, and this weekend there was some new major developments in the Russia investigation which may drag him down even further. Stay tuned.
Most amazing news is that The FBI started an investigation that Trump may have been a Russian operative! How will that affect his points!
We shall see. There was a lot of news on that front this weekend. Let’s see how the news coverage goes. There are a lot of other issues right now.