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'No president has been hated more': CNN expert reeling at 'just atrocious' Trump feedback

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CNN's Harry Enten's eyes popped at the latest polling for President Donald Trump on a crucial economic issue. The 80-year-old president has earned the highest disapproval rating on gasoline prices of any president on record, Enten said, as energy officials forecast continued limits on travel through the Strait of Hormuz for the rest of the month and gas and energy prices keep fluctuating – just over two months before the midterm elections. "The American people very much dislike, I dare say hate, President Trump when it comes to gas prices," Enten said. "In fact, no president has been hated more when it comes to gas prices ." An average of polls shows 79 percent of Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling gas prices, Enten said, a mark no other modern president has reached. By comparison, Joe Biden topped out at 72 percent disapproval, George W. Bush hit 75 percent amid high prices in 2006, and Barack Obama, unpopular in his own right in 2011, reached only 68 percent. With prices a