Republican strategist Karl Rove, who is widely credited with orchestrating the successful election campaigns of former President George W. Bush, thinks the Republican Party would be insane to encourage President Donald Trump to campaign for them.

In an op-ed published Thursday on his own website and in the Wall Street Journal, Rove argues that Trump’s deep unpopularity would be an anchor around the neck of any Republican who campaigned alongside him.

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“He has the worst ratings in his first year of any modern president,” Rove writes. “Mr. Trump’s approval in the Gallup poll is 35%. By comparison, President Obama ended his first year at 50% and Bill Clinton at 54%, and both watched their party get shellacked in the midterms. Even George H.W. Bush, at 73%, saw a few seats lost in 1990.”

Rove also says that Trump has a penchant for going wildly off script at his rallies — and notes that Trump couldn’t even help himself at this past summer’s Boy Scout Jamboree, when he alluded to boat orgies and goaded the Boy Scouts into booing former President Barack Obama.

Instead, writes Rove, Trump should keep a low profile and work on becoming more presidential so that next year’s election is about policy and not his personality.

“The quip that the way forward is to ‘Let Trump be Trump’ only gives advisers an excuse to ignore the president’s divisive rhetoric, needless personal attacks, narcissistic focus on ephemera, indefensible mangling of facts, and childlike need for constant praise,” writes Rove. “A better goal would be to ‘turn Donald Trump into President Trump.’ The hope (admittedly rather remote now) is that Mr. Trump could somehow work to become a unifying leader and let go of his seething grievances.”