US President Donald Trump has the highest disapproval ratings of any new president in recent history, according to a new survey.
A majority, 53 percent, of Americans disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job as president, while 44 percent approve, according to a new CNN/ORC poll released on Friday.
It marks the highest disapproval rating for a new elected president since polls began tracking those results, making Trump the only president to hold a net-negative rating this early in his presidency.
However, 78 percent of respondents say Trump is handling the presidency as they would have expected.
Trump’s first two weeks in office have been marked by nationwide protests over his executive order banning citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US.
Fifty-three percent of those surveyed by CNN say they oppose Trump’s immigration…