Trump is excited a single poll puts him at 50 percent approval

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President Trump's tweets from his first weekend at Camp David took a self-congratulatory turn Sunday morning:

Trump also celebrated a new poll that puts his approval rating at 50 percent:

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Averages from multiple polls put Trump's record-low approval rating at about 40 percent, with 53 percent disapproval. Exclude the Rasmussen survey, a clear outlier, from that average, and Trump's approval is in the high 30s.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.