On June 16, Donald Trump is scheduled to announce whether he’ll run for president. Since 1999, when Trump first entered a presidential race, Gallup has asked people occasionally whether they have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of him. Unfavorable opinions have generally outweighed favorable ones.
Q: We’d like to get your overall opinion of some people in the news. As I read each name, please say if you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of these people.
More recent polling among registered voters shows somewhat more negative results. In a Monmouth University poll from March, 56% of registered Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they had an unfavorable opinion of Trump, while 28% had a favorable opinion. A May Quinnipiac University poll found 69% of registered voters had an unfavorable opinion of him, while 20% had a favorable one.
An amusing exercise done by the Washington Post’s Wonkblog also reflects these results. Combining poll data and data from a Google Consumer Survey, the blog’s chart shows that the Terminator, Darth Vader, the shark from Jaws, and Voldemort, all poll more favorably than Donald Trump, whose favorability ratings were the lowest of all fictional characters and real people included in the lineup.
Running for president may be the “ultimate job interview,” to borrow a phrase from Donald Trump’s reality TV show The Apprentice. Whether Americans will tell Trump “you’re fired” remains to be seen, but it looks unlikely he will be hired for the job.
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