Mr Trump's approval rating appeared to be consistent despite the barrage of news concerning his former associates Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen.

Former campaign manager Mr Manafort was found guilty of eight counts of tax evasion and bank fraud in the first trial resulting from the FBI and special prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged collusion between the president's 2016 campaign team and Russian officials.

The same day, Mr Trump's former personal lawyer Mr Cohen pleaded guilty to a separate eight counts of similar charges and appeared to imply he committed the crimes at the direction of the president.

Mr Trump reached an all-time high approval rating of 45 per cent in the weekly Gallup poll on 18 June 2018. Still, half of Americans surveyed were not happy with the job he was doing at that point - he had a disapproval rating of 50 per cent.

His lowest approval rating came in December 2017, when only 35 of Americans overall approved of the job the president was doing.