President Donald Trump appears to have hit a rough patch in terms of public support as the first year of his second term in office draws near its end, if a certain prominent polling firm is to be believed.

Trump's approval rating in Gallup's poll has reportedly sunk to a second-term low of 36%, while his disapproval rating has increased to a high point of 60%, according to The Hill.

While those numbers look decidedly bad for the Republican president, it is worth pointing out that nearly all of the other major polls show a less negative situation for Trump, though none rate him in positive approval territory with the American people.

Trump approval reaches new low point

Per The Hill, the pollsters at Gallup surveyed 1,321 respondents between November 3-25, which notably included the Democrat-dominated off-year election wins and the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, both of which were used incessantly as cudgels by Democrats and the media to attack President Trump and his Republican supporters.

The pollsters found that, after holding steady around 40-41% throughout the late summer and early fall months, Trump's approval had declined to 36%, just one tick below his previous second-term low of 37%, and only a couple of points higher than his all-time low of 34% in this poll, which was marked in January 2017, just after the infamous Capitol riot.

Meanwhile, Trump's disapproval rating in the Gallup poll, which was registered at 48% at the start of the current term, surged from 54% last month to 60% in the latest survey.

Trump not doing well on most important issues

Given the already dismal level of approval for President Trump among Democrats, Gallup observed, the vast majority of the recent decline in his rating came from drops in support among his own Republican base, from 91-84%, and among independents, from 33-25%.

The low approval also extended to his handling of all nine of the major policy issues the pollsters track, though it is worth noting that Trump's numbers on the issues of crime, foreign affairs, trade, and immigration all exceeded his overall rating, while his handling of the economy, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the federal budget, the Russia-Ukraine war, and healthcare were all at or below the overall mark.

If there were any bright spot for Trump in Gallup's latest survey, however, it would be the fact that, as low as his rating has dropped, it remains more than twice as high as the public's approval of Congress, which plummeted from 26% in September, before the prolonged government shutdown, to just 14% in November.

"The longest shutdown of the federal government, election losses for the Republican Party, and continued concerns about affordability appear to have damaged Trump’s standing with the American people in November, especially Republicans and independents," the pollsters assessed. "His overall job approval rating is down to the lowest point of his second term, and it is approaching the low from his first term. His ratings on individual domestic issues such as the economy, immigration, and the federal budget deficit, which were previously areas of relative strength for him, are no longer."

"Reduced majorities of Republicans approve of his overall job and his actions on many of the issues, and independents offer increasingly negative assessments of Trump," the analysis added. "Coupled with the recent electoral losses for the Republican Party, this could be a sign of trouble for Republicans in next year’s midterm elections, when the GOP will try to maintain full control of the federal government."

Gallup's results well below Trump's national average

To be sure, Gallup's numbers paint a pretty grim picture for President Trump, but the results of that survey are something of an outlier in comparison to what virtually all of the other major pollsters have found about his approval among the American people.

The RealClearPolling average has Trump pegged at 42.7% approval and 55.1% disapproval, for an underwater rating of -12.4 percentage points.

For a myriad of reasons, not all of which he can control, Trump is indeed at his lowest point thus far in his second term, in terms of his approval, but he still has three more years to go, the crucial midterm elections are still a year away, and there remains plenty of time for him to take positive steps on several issues that could dramatically improve his standing with the voting public.