President-elect Trump posted high favorability ratings in a Fox News poll released Wednesday. The Republican was seen positively by 47 percent of Americans, the highest number in the poll’s 15-month history of tracking his favorability and a 9-point bump from last month.
Trump was viewed unfavorably by just over half of registered voters, substantially lower than previous numbers, according to the Dec. 11-13 poll. President Obama, leaving the White House in five weeks, has 57 percent favorability, down from 68 percent in December 2008, a month before he took office for his first term.
The billionaire businessman also made gains in surveys about his temperament. Now 44 percent of people say Trump’s personal style of expression is appropriate for a president, up 8 points from the week before the election.
Still, some are concerned about his use of social media, including his most-used medium of Twitter. More than 60 percent say his tweets are inappropriate and just one in four approve.
With five weeks until the inauguration in Washington, Trump will enter the Oval Office with lower-than-normal expectations. Just one in 10 people say Trump will be one of the greatest presidents of all time, while one-quarter think he will be above average and 16 percent expect him to be about the same as others. Twelve percent say he will be below average and nearly one-third say he will go down in history as one of the worst U.S. leaders.
The poll was conducted by the Anderson Robbins Research and Shaw & Company Research with 1,034 registered voters nationwide by cell phone and landline. All questions had a 3 percent margin of error.
