In 2017, Trump broke the all-time record for worst net approval rating among independents after a president’s first six months in office. In July 2017, Trump’s approval rating with independents stood at -23. Now, the president has shattered that all-time low with a -29 net approval rating among independents.

To think that the president “crushed his first six months in historic ways” is to ignore what the public wanted, expected, needed and asked for.

President Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen 10 points, to the lowest level of his second term, in the latest Gallup poll released Thursday, slightly above his first-term low, though his second-quarter average approval rating of 40% is below that of previous presidents.