If Donald Trump is still legally permitted to run for federal office in the presidential election of 2024, he may have a long road to politically rehabilitation. More than seven out of ten Americans right now do not see his presidency, and by implication him, in a positive light. While most Republicans hold firm for him, he’s even taken a serious hit there.

If these numbers hold steady or get worse for Trump, his political future as a candidate is over on a national level, no matter what the Senate does. Though he could still run for state office or play somewhat of a role somewhere, sometime. But consistently bad numbers could kill any of those opportunities for him.

“His career average approval rating is the lowest for any president in modern polling, back to 1939, and he is the first president in that time never to achieve majority approval at any point.” https://t.co/w2RzjUySES

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 16, 2021

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FNC: “President Trump’s approval rating plunged to an all-time low of 29%, 9 points lower than it was in August 2020, according to a Pew Research poll released Friday. Growing GOP disenchantment is driving the decline, with just 60% of Republicans now rating Trump’s job performance positively, down from 77% in August. The deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 by a pro-Trump mob appears to be tarnishing the president politically as he prepares to leaves office, still refusing to acknowledge that Joe Biden won the election.”

In the poll more than half (52%) say Trump bears “a lot” of responsibility for the assault on the Capitol. Another 23% say he bears “some” responsibility. According to Pew, 54% of Americans think Trump should be removed from office. Less than a third of Americans (29%) want Trump to continue being an influential political figure, while 68% say he should retire from politics.

A CNN poll came up with similar results. “A majority, 54%, say Trump ought to be removed from office before January 20 because of his role in the events of January 6, when Trump incited a mob of his supporters to storm the US Capitol — an unlikely prospect as Vice President Mike Pence has ruled out the use of the 25th Amendment to expel Trump from office and no Senate trial on the impeachment charge passed by the House is likely before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in this week.”

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But do these things faze Trump at all? It seems not. Last week he said, in regards to his infamous Wednesday speech, “People thought that what I said was totally appropriate.” As Talleyrand said of the Bourbons in exile, “They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.”