Donald Trump is off to a "historically awful" start to his second term, according to CNN polling analyst Harry Enten.
The president remains above water in his approval rating six weeks into his second term, but Enten said his popularity was well below the historical average.
"We'll set the baseline here," Enten said. "We'll look at overall approval rating, and we're going to look at presidents at this point in their presidency, right, and the word here that I would use to describe Trump is awful. In fact, the only person who does worse than Trump does right now with a plus-one net approval rating is himself back at 2017, when he was at minus-eight. So he's doing better than he was."
"He's making gains, but he's doing worse than everybody else," Enten added. "The average president at this point, get this, plus-27 points on their net approval rating. Donald Trump is doing historically awful. The only person he beats is, again, himself from term number one."
Enten said his approval on economic issues continues to be an ominous signal for the president.
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"How about on the issue, that one he says he was most elected to to fix, and he said he would do it on Day One, which would be the economy," Enten said. "On the economy, well, he beat himself on overall, but on the economy, he can't even beat himself. Again, this is historically the worst going back in polling at this point in a presidency, the net approval rating on the economy. He's right now at minus-four points. In term number one, he was at plus-eight points. Historically, the averages plus-15 points. He is doing nearly 20 points worse than the average president when it comes to the economy."
"On net approval rating, he is historically doing awful, awful awful – weak weak, weak – and on the issue on which he was elected to, of course, fix, he is doing historically awful," Enten added. "This is not good. If this number holds, you can guarantee his overall approval rating will go down and it could take his entire presidency with him."
