"I love the polls," President Donald Trump eagerly quipped to Jimmy Fallon last year. And he wasn't lying; the president's go-to defense, regardless of the situation in hand, is to refer to handpicked — but often inaccurate or incomplete — numbers that have been placed in his head by random samplings of voters (or, sometimes, just people who click boxes on the internet).
While Trump may have been quick to talk about how favorable his rating was before he was elected president, since January, he has tumbled tremendously in the public eye. It's a differential that, to use the president's parlance, can only be defined as "yuge." Trump has yet to break the 50 percent approval rating in many of these contests, and has slumped to the high 30s and low 40s. Even his friends over at Fox News have noted the steady decline.
Here, we've reviewed nine of the biggest, most respected polls on the matter to provide a quick rundown of just how Americans have rated the president so far. We'll update these stats as they evolve — and when a new record high or low has been reached.