President Donald Trump fell to his lowest approval rating among Californians since he took office, with just 27 percent of state residents approving of his job performance, according to a poll released Wednesday.

That’s down from 30 percent and 31 percent in post-inauguration January and March surveys conducted by the same organization, the Public Policy Institute of California.

In follow-up interviews with the Bay Area News Group, poll respondents didn’t hold back on their views about Trump.

“I think he’s completely unqualified for the job, and it doesn’t surprise me at all that the approval rating is that low,” said Beth Woerner, 55, a Democrat who lives in Martinez. “He has a complete inability to look beyond himself, and I don’t believe he has the nation’s interest at heart.”

Trump’s approval numbers aren’t the lowest for a president among Californians — for example, an October 2008 PPIC poll as the economy plunged found that just 19 percent of state residents approved of President George W. Bush.

But Mark Baldassare, the president and CEO of the Public Policy Institute, said he had never seen such low ratings so early in a president’s tenure. “Late in the presidency, people have developed disappointment over a longer period of time,” he said. “To start out with such low approval ratings, that’s the part that’s unusual.”

At least Trump is doing better than Congress, which has a 26 percent approval rating — a 10-point drop since March. But both Trump and Congress are falling far below state elected officials: 52 percent of respondents said they approved of Gov. Jerry Brown’s job performance, while the state Legislature came out with a 46 percent approval rating.

When it comes to the hot topic of Russia, 58 percent of respondents said they thought the Russian government tried to influence the results of the 2016 election, and 47 percent said they thought Trump’s campaign intentionally helped. A whopping 70 percent of California Democrats said they believed the Trump campaign had purposefully aided the Russian effort, compared with just 12 percent of Republicans.

Noreen Hariman, 45, who lives in Morgan Hill and is not registered with any party, said she was convinced Trump’s campaign had collaborated with the Russian government. “I think he’s out to help himself,” she said. “You can’t trust somebody to be president if you can’t trust him before he gets in office.”

Californians also disapproved of more specific Trump administration policies. In foreign policy, just 28 percent of respondents said they had confidence in Trump’s ability to handle North Korea’s nuclear program, and only 21 percent said they thought Trump had a clear plan for dealing with the civil war in Syria.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has suggested that he may crack down on marijuana sales in states like California that have legalized the drug. Only 38 percent of Californians said they thought the federal government should enforce marijuana laws in states like California, while 60 percent said the feds should take a hands-off policy.

Meanwhile, opinions were split on whether respondents supported retail sales of marijuana in their own communities, with 48 percent in favor and 47 percent opposed.

The poll has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.2 percentage points and was conducted of 1,707 California adult residents in English and Spanish between May 12 and 22. About two-thirds of the group were interviewed on cellphones and one-third on landlines.