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Trump's Approval Rating Climbs To Personal Best, Tying His First Week In Office

The Gallup poll was conducted last week, before public outcry over the president's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
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Amid public outrage over President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, a poll from Gallup released on Monday found that the president’s job approval rating has climbed back to his personal best in a Gallup poll: Forty-five percent, the same figure as his first week in office. 

The poll was administered last week, fresh off Trump’s historic summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Gallup was quick to note that Trump’s rating is high for his presidency, but lower than the historical average of 53 percent for all presidents since the organization started polling in 1945. 

HuffPost Pollster, which combines recent opinion polls including CNN, Rasmussen and Gallup, found that Trump’s approval rating was at 43 percent.

While Trump’s approval rating climbed over last week, news this week has overwhelmingly focused on his administration’s policy of separating undocumented immigrant families detained along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Detention center photos showing immigrants, including children, in chain-link cages, as well as harrowing video footage of kids crying for their parents, have caused lawmakers, including fellow Republicans, to publicly condemn the policy. 

A CNN poll released on Monday found two-thirds of respondents disapprove of the Trump administration policy of separating families, but that the majority of Republicans support it.

Gallup polled 1,511 adults between June 11-17, using live interviewers to reach both landlines and cell phones. Trump’s approval rating rose last week because Republicans and independents rated him higher, according to Gallup. 

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Immigrant Families At The U.S.-Mexico Border
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Undocumented immigrants who turned themselves in after crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. await processing near McAllen, Texas, on April 2, 2018. (credit:Loren Elliott / Reuters)
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Families who crossed the border near McAllen, Texas, on May 9, 2018. (credit:Loren Elliott / Reuters)
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A U.S. Border Patrol spotlight shines on a mother and son from Honduras on June 12, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. (credit:John Moore via Getty Images)
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Central Americans seeking asylum wait as U.S. Border Patrol agents take them into custody on June 12, 2018, near McAllen, Texas. (credit:John Moore via Getty Images)
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A Honduran mother stands with her family at the U.S.-Mexico border fence on Feb. 22, 2018, near Penitas, Texas. (credit:John Moore via Getty Images)
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U.S. Border Patrol agents take a Central American family into custody on June 12, 2018 near McAllen, Texas. (credit:John Moore via Getty Images)
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U.S. Border Patrol agents take a father and son from Honduras into custody near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018, near Mission, Texas. (credit:John Moore via Getty Images)
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A Central American family waits to be taken into custody on June 12, 2018, near McAllen, Texas. (credit:John Moore via Getty Images)
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Central American migrants wait as U.S. Border Patrol agents take people into custody on June 12, 2018, near McAllen, Texas. (credit:John Moore via Getty Images)
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Two women and a child who crossed the border on Feb. 22, 2018, near McAllen, Texas. (credit:John Moore via Getty Images)
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A Honduran child who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her family on Jan. 4, 2017, near McAllen, Texas. (credit:John Moore via Getty Images)
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U.S. Border Patrol agents take Central American immigrants, including this young child, into custody on Jan. 4, 2017, near McAllen, Texas. (credit:John Moore via Getty Images)
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A Honduran woman and child on Jan. 4, 2017, near McAllen, Texas. (credit:John Moore via Getty Images)
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent checks birth certificates while taking Central American immigrants into detention on Jan. 4, 2017, near McAllen, Texas. (credit:John Moore via Getty Images)
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Adults and children await processing near McAllen, Texas, on April 2, 2018. (credit:Loren Elliott / Reuters)
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Guatemalan immigrant families turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol near McAllen, Texas, on May 8, 2018. (credit:Loren Elliott / Reuters)
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U.S. Border Patrol agents take Central American immigrants into custody on Jan. 4, 2017, near McAllen, Texas. (credit:John Moore via Getty Images)
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