President Donald Trump's approval rating drops to six-month low of 43% as coronavirus crisis drags on and unemployment mounts to over 16million, poll says

President Donald Trump’s approval rating has slumped to a six-month low of 43 percent as the coronavirus crisis drags into its third month.

A total of 56 percent of voters disapprove of Trump’s job performance in office, according to a Friday Rasmussen Reports poll of 500 likely voters.

Those latest numbers include 30 percent of likely voters who strongly approve of Trump’s job in office and 44 percent who strong disapprove, resulting in a presidential approval index rating of -14.

President Donald Trump’s approval rating has slumped to a six-month low of 43 percent as the coronavirus crisis drags into its third month. A total of 56 percent of voters disapprove of Trump’s job performance in office, according to a Friday Rasmussen Reports poll of 500 likely voters

Trump today is doing worse in approval ratings than President Barack Obama did during his time in office this time in 2012. On April 9 2012 Obama had an overall approval rating of 49 percent

On this day in 2012 when Barack Obama was in office, his approval rating was 49 percent.

Trump hit his all time approval high of 47.3 on March 31, but that number has plummeted to 44.9 percent, according to a RealClear Politics polling average.

Over the past month, Trump’s approval numbers have dramatically risen and fallen as the nation is reels from over 500,000 cases of COVID-19 and over 20,000 deaths, and businesses go out of business and unemployment hits record numbers. 

A record high of 6.6million Americans filed first-time unemployment claims last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. 

Last week's numbers bring the total claims over the past three weeks to more than 16million. 

Comparing those claims to the 151million people on payrolls in the last monthly employment report, means the US has lost 10 percent of its workforce.

That's about a 14.7 percent real-time unemployment rate for the week ending in April 4, according to Fortune.  That rate is the highest the US has seen since 1940.   

Across the country food banks have been inundated with long lines as unemployment spikes and families find themselves low on cash. 

Food banks have been struggling to keep up with unprecedented demand, especially this week as the country observes major religious holidays of Passover and Easter. 

On Saturday, Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County hosted a drive-thru food distribution in Anaheim, California, meant to provide food to people most affected by the coronavirus pandemic. 

The three-hour event was stocked with enough food for up to 7,000 families, with each car in the line being given a bag each of potatoes, onions, shelf-stable grocery items and King’s Hawaiian Bread, KTLA reported. 

In Honolulu, Hawaii, a two-mile-long line of cars awaited the Salvation Army's drive-thru emergency food distribution Saturday, Hawaii News Now reported. 

People waited as long as two hours to receive their food packages. All told, the Salvation Army said that it given food to nearly 700 cars, with multiple families inside one car, indication that thousands of people had actually been given food.   

Feeding America - the largest hunger-relief organization in the country - told Good Morning America that it estimates it will need to feed an additional 17.1million people - many of who are relying on food banks for the first time - as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

This, on top of the 37million people that were previously food insecure, including 11million children and 5.5million seniors.

'I’ve never witnessed a system being more strained,' Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot said.

'For the first time probably in our history, we’ve had to turn some people away,' she said, not that 'We don’t want to do that, ever.'