HOW UNPOPULAR IS DONALD TRUMP?

How unpopular is Donald Trump?  Not based on what is written about him in much of our mainstream media, but for real – and compared to, say, his predecessor?

Here, from a (typically excellent) piece by powerlineblog.com’s John Hinderaker, is your answer:

The Democratic Party media tell us every day that Donald Trump is a uniquely, unprecedentedly unpopular president. His disapproval numbers, they say, are astronomical. There is some truth to that. Trump’s numbers certainly could be better. Just look at this chart, which tracks his “strong approval” numbers against those who “strongly disapprove.” This guy is about as unpopular as you can get:

Oops…wait…sorry…The guy with the 45% strong disapproval rating and a -26% Approval Index was Barack Obama, in August 2011. Funny, I don’t recall the press yammering at us non-stop about how unpopular Obama was for eight years. For purposes of comparison, how does President Trump stack up?

Currently, Rasmussen, the source of the Obama chart embedded above, has President Trump with 45% approval and 53% disapproval, compared with Obama’s worse numbers–44/56–in August 2011. Trump’s current Approval Index of -14 is one that Barack Obama could only dream of for most of his presidency.

I think it’s safe to say that we can find an answer in there – one which, I’ll bet, most people are wholly unaware of.

And why are they unaware?

Could it possibly be that mainstream media’s continuing love-affair with Barack Obama and hate-affair with Donald Trump has something to do with it?

I apologize for insulting your intelligence by asking a question with a self-evident answer.