A majority of Americans think US President Donald Trump’s first year in office has been a failure and that he’s divided the nation, according to a new poll.
By a 53-to-40-percent margin, Americans deemed Trump’s first year a “failure,” the NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll released Wednesday finds. A third of Americans said Trump’s first year was a “major failure.”
And by a 61 to 32 percent margin, or nearly 2-to-1, Americans said they believe Trump has divided the country since his election.
Aside from handling the economy and the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group, most Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of almost every other issue, including the tax plan, the state of race relations, women’s rights, immigration, health care, the budget deficit and foreign policy.
“The first-year grades for Trump are not good,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion. “It’s not a pretty picture for the president after the…