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Trump ends 2017 with his highest approval rating in months

President Donald Trump's Gallup approval rating reached its highest point in months to close out 2017.

  • President Donald Trump hit his highest Gallup approval rating in months to close 2017.
  • He hit 40% for the first time since late September.

President Donald Trump's Gallup approval rating reached its highest point in months to close out 2017.

In its final three-day rolling average of 2017, Trump's approval rating hit 40%. It was the first time Trump broke the 40% threshold since late September, and only the second time he hit 40% since July 12.

The rating came as Trump mostly laid low during an extended trip to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. It followed the recent passage of the major Republican tax overhaul, which Trump signed into law just before departing Washington, DC, for Florida.

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For much of his first year in office, Trump toiled in the mid-30s in Gallup's daily presidential tracking poll. No prior president tracked by the polling outlet hit the 30s sooner in their presidency than Trump.

And with a presidential low of 33%, which he hit most recently in early December, Trump has already hit a lower point than former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Dwight Eisenhower reached at any point during their presidencies.

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