If he is hoping that America will respond by embracing him, the recent track record suggests that is not likely. Coming into those speeches, Obama had the highest approval ratings in 2013 and the lowest in 2014 (according to Gallup). Part of the reason the approval ratings did not change much is that opinions of Obama among Democrats and Republicans were already pretty near the poles. The average gap between the parties’ approval ratings of George H.W. That is not the same as approval rating; it compares Trump with Hillary Clinton, not Trump to Trump.

Source: Washington Post January 30, 2018 20:18 UTC