President Donald Trump's approval rating for how he's handled the coronavirus outbreak is underwater for the first time since March 1 in Morning Consult's polling.

In the April 10 to 12 version of the survey, 45% of respondents approved of Trump's handling of the crisis compared with 49% who disapproved, leaving him with a net negative approval of four percentage points.

In the previous poll, conducted between April 3 and 5, Trump had a net positive approval rating of one percentage point, with 48% approval and 47% disapproval.

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President Donald Trump's approval rating for how he's handled the coronavirus outbreak is underwater for the first time since March 1 in Morning Consult's polling.

Trump's approval rating for his handling of the coronavirus crisis has fallen from 53% in the March 17 to 20 version of the company's poll to 45% in the April 10 to 12 survey, which polled 1,987 registered voters.

In the same amount of time, Trump's disapproval rating has increased by 10 percentage points, from 39% between March 17 and 20 to 49% between April 10 and 12, leaving him with a net negative approval rating of four percentage points in the latest poll.

In the previous poll, conducted from April 3 to 5, Trump had a net positive approval rating of one percentage point, with 48% approval and 47% disapproval.

Each of Morning Consult's approval polls surveys about 2,000 registered voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.

On Saturday, The New York Times published a lengthy investigation of all the instances Trump brushed aside warnings of the severity of the coronavirus crisis, failed to act, and was delayed by significant infighting and mixed messages from the White House over which action to take and when.

The Times conducted dozens of interviews with current and former officials and obtained 80 pages of emails from a number of public-health experts both within and outside the federal government who sounded the alarm about the severity of the crisis in an email chain they called "Red Dawn."

In addition to Trump's Morning Consult approval rating now being underwater, he remains one of the least trusted officials on the coronavirus crisis in Insider polling.

In a SurveyMonkey Audience poll conducted from April 10 to 11, Insider asked respondents to rank 10 top public officials on a scale from 1 to 5 on how much they trusted the person for official guidance on the coronavirus crisis.

While respondents ranked Dr. Anthony Fauci and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo the highest, Trump came in second-to-last place, receiving an average rank of 2.48 out of 5. His son-in-law, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, came in last place with a score of 2.35 out of 5.