That's definitely a fair point. The reason I was using Gallup is because they tend to be a high quality pollster and I'd assumed the aggregate data for Obama wo

That's definitely a fair point. The reason I was using Gallup is because they tend to be a high quality pollster and I'd assumed the aggregate data for Obama would be a bit more difficult to find. It's not. Here [1] are the aggregate data for Obama's presidency. At this point in time during his presidency he was rolling at an aggregate 44.3% approval, so we have a total aggregate popularity difference of 2.6%. And once again, as I've constantly stressed, I'm speaking about this moment in time as that is generally what people are referring to when comparing presidents at any given moment in time. E.g. you would not say Bush was a popular president, yet he had an average approval rating of 49.4%, which was even higher than Obama. The thing that confounds it is averages -- his popularity shot to near 100% after 9/11 from which it started a long slow downward slide as the 'rally around the flag' effect waned. And similar for Obama. He is an absolutely phenomenal and charismatic speaker and he seemed to be living up to his promises at first, which made him tremendously popular. But as it became clear that his early actions belied his actual character, his popularity waned -- leaving him, moment for moment, pretty comparable to Trump at this point in time. Yet if you polled people on these issues I think there's no doubt that perception vs reality would be incredibly skewed. And for this I think both the social media and the media have played major roles. And this distortion of reality is not productive for a healthy democracy.