Presidency has been disruptive and unique

By MATTHEW DOWD
Jan 21, 2018, 6:00 AM ET

... Trump began his first year with the lowest starting job approval of any president in modern times, and he finishes with the lowest ending job approval in modern times in the first year of a presidency. This is an amazing feat and it points to an administration that has been incredibly polarizing without a vision or message that a majority of citizens support ...

For all the talk of .. bringing more respect for America in the world, international polling shows a dramatic drop in confidence in American leadership from that in President Obama—a drop in every single country but two — Russia and Israel. Pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, supported by nearly every nation around the globe, was not helpful in demonstrating America’s international leadership ...

... Trump's White House has had the greatest senior staff turnover in its first year of any in the last 50 years. He also has a staff embroiled in legal difficulties and facing a second year of likely continued investigation. For a candidate who said he hires only the "best people" .. Trump has set new records in human relations problems internally ...

... Trump started his term with a solid base who helped bring him into office, and a rather large resistance group who opposed him at every turn. In the course of the year, his base, while solid has shrunk and today only 24 percent of Americans strongly approve of his job performance. The resistance to him has grown bigger and more vehement in opposition — today 49 percent of Americans strongly disapprove of his job performance ...

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