Donald Trump will become
president Friday with an approval rating of just 40%, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll , the lowest of any recent president and 44 points
below that of President Barack Obama, the 44th president.
Following a tumultuous transition period, approval ratings for Trump's handling of the transition are more than 20 points below those
for any of his three most recent predecessors.
Obama took the oath in 2009 with an 84% approval rating, 67% approved of Clinton's transition as of late December 1992 and 61%
approved of George W. Bush's transition just before he took office in January 2001. The complete CNN/ORC poll results Trump's wobbly handling of the presidential
transition has left most Americans with growing doubts that the President-elect will be able to
handle the job. About 53% say Trump's statements and actions since Election Day have
made them less confident in his ability to handlenthe presidency, and the public is split evenly on whether Trump will be a good or poor president (48% on each side).
The President-elect dismissed the poll findings on Twitter : "The same people who did the phony election polls, and were so wrong, are now doing approval rating polls. They are rigged just like
before."
