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