President Donald Trump’s approval rating jumped to 45 percent in the days following the president suggesting U.S. military action against North Korea, a poll released Friday shows. Trump’s approval rating increased from 39 percent last week, according to a daily presidential tracking poll by conservative-leaning Rasmussen Reports. The president’s approval rating is now at 37 percent, according to the non-partisan Gallup poll, with a new report scheduled for Monday. Trump’s predecessor, former President Barack Obama, had an approval rating of 54 percentage at roughly the same point in his presidency. The Rasmussen poll shows Trump’s approval rating increased after North Korean leader Kim Jung un threatened a missile strike on the nearby island of Guam, a U.S. territory with an American military base.

Source: Fox News August 12, 2017 12:38 UTC