Twenty nine percent of Americans think leaders of other nations respect President Donald Trump. | AP Photo 5 numbers that mattered this week

Continuing our POLITICO feature, where we dig into the latest polls and loop in other data streams to tell the story of how Americans are reacting to President Donald Trump and the upheaval he is bringing to Washington. Here are five numbers that mattered this week:





The first three weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency have been dominated by executive actions — not all of them popular.

A Quinnipiac University poll out on Thursday shows the underpinnings of even some of his least controversial executive orders are viewed negatively.

Only 39 percent of voters said Trump should remove regulations on businesses and corporations, compared to 49 percent who don’t think Trump should do that. Just 29 percent thought Trump should remove regulations designed to combat climate change.

Just 38 percent of voters wanted Trump to build a wall along the border with Mexico, and 40 percent support restarting the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.

Voters were divided on whether Trump should support efforts to repeal the 2010 health care law: 46 percent said he should, but half said he shouldn’t.





“#PresidentBannon” is breaking through.

A large majority of Democrats, 69 percent, have an unfavorable opinion of Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist in the White House, according to the Quinnipiac University poll released this week. And 47 percent of independents share that unfavorable view.

But the vast majority of Republican voters, 65 percent, say they don’t have an opinion of the once-obscure former Breitbart executive. Twenty-nine percent of GOP voters view Bannon favorably, and 6 percent have an unfavorable opinion.

Bannon isn’t the first White House aide to achieve public notoriety. Gallup tracked then-Bush political adviser Karl Rove’s favorable rating multiple times between 2005 and 2007, finding more Americans viewed Rove unfavorably than favorably at each time. Rove’s unfavorable rating peaked at 50 percent in late April 2006, higher than the 41 percent overall unfavorable rating for Bannon among all voters.

But Gallup interviewers identified Rove as a presidential adviser when they asked Americans about him. Quinnipiac did not provide a job title for Bannon — meaning his mostly negative name recognition is more organic.





Trump’s interactions with foreign leaders have reportedly created headaches for his administration, and most Americans feel Trump is disrespected around the world.

Only 29 percent of Americans think leaders of other countries have respect for Trump, according to a Gallup poll out Friday. More than two-thirds, 67 percent, think international leaders don’t have much respect for Trump.

That’s far below where other recent presidents have started. In February 2009, 67 percent thought leaders respected then-President Barack Obama, and 49 percent thought leaders had respect for George W. Bush two weeks into his presidency.

But foreign-policy challenges can take a toll on presidents. In early 2016, the percentage who thought foreign leaders respected Obama was just 45 percent.





A new Pew Research Center study underscores the changing landscape of online news.

The study was conducted last year by pinging respondents more than two dozen times over the course of a week and asking them if they had consumed news online in the past two hours.

Among those who had seen news online in the past two hours, 36 percent said it came from a news organization’s website or application. But just as many, 35 percent, said it came from social media.

Rates were lower for news through search engines (20 percent); emails, texts and alerts from news organizations (15 percent); and emails and texts from friends and family (7 percent).

Even combining the rates from news websites and alerts, only half of online news consumers were getting the story from news organizations.





Every new administration raids the legislative branch for its Cabinet, but Trump has broken up the longest-serving delegation pair in the Senate.

Jeff Sessions’ resignation this week to become attorney general ended a more-than-20-year run for Sessions and fellow Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, which was the longest active streak in the Senate, according to the University of Minnesota’s “Smart Politics” blog. Sessions and Shelby became the top pair of senators after Sen. Barbara Boxer’s retirement ended a 24-year run for Boxer and fellow California Democrat Dianne Feinstein.

Sessions was promptly replaced in the Senate on Thursday by Luther Strange, who intends to seek a full term in next year’s elections.

The new leaders are Washington state’s two Democratic senators: Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, who have been a pair since Cantwell joined the Senate after the 2000 election.