Fox & Friends tweeted on Tuesday morning about President Donald Trump's "soaring" approval rating of 41 percent. The post was ridiculed so much that it was taken down after being online for just one hour.
"President Trump's approval rating soars - up 5 points from September," the post read, citing a recently released CNN poll.
The survey shows that Trump's approval rating climbed to 41 percent, compared to 36 percent in early September. Fifty-two percent of those polled disapprove of the president's job, a slight decrease from the 58 percent who disapproved of his performance last month.
Even after increasing several points, Trump's 41 percent approval rating is still historically low for a president at this point in their leadership. Trump is the only commander-in-chief in modern history to have a disapproval rating about 50 percent over 600 days into his first term, according to FiveThirtyEight's polling data.
At this point in his presidency, Barack Obama had a 45 percent approval rating, compared to Trump's 41 percent. President George W. Bush had over a 65 percent approval rating at the same point in his first term.
Trump boasted about his popularity earlier this month after Rasmussen, rumored to be his favorite polling site, released a survey stating that his approval rating was 50 percent.
"Working hard, thank you!" Trump tweeted.
The Fox & Friends post received backlash for boasting of the president's polling numbers, with one Twitter user replying that Trump's approval rating was "soaring like a chicken in flight." The tweet was removed from the show's account within an hour of its posting, according to Raw Story.
The polling done by CNN, which showed an increase in Trump's approval rating, was conducted at the same time his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was officially confirmed by the Senate.
Kavanaugh was appointed to the high court on Saturday in a narrow vote of 50 to 48 after his confirmation was temporarily stalled due to allegations of sexual misconduct made against the judge by three women. The accusations claimed that Kavanaugh engaged in abusive behavior toward girls when he was in high school and college. The nominee vehemently denied all of the allegations.
Early polling shows that Kavanaugh's appointment may have energized Trump's base of Republican voters. But the Kavanaugh's confirmation leaves Democrats furious, with some lawmakers threatening to impeach the judge if Democrats take back control in the House and Senate this November.
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