Donald Trump has only been in office for a month, but according to a new poll by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal, he’s off to a rocky start. However, the nation is split on whether the challenges he’s facing are concrete problems, or just the average shake-ups that come with a change in presidency.

Sonja Benjamins-Carey

43 percent of people polled attributed the roadblocks Trump has faced so far to difficulties commonplace in any new presidency. However, 52 percent of those polled believed that these challenges present real problems that aren’t going away with time.

The overall approval ratings aren’t looking good either. Only 44 percent of those polled approved of Trump, with 48 percent disapproving. A Gallup poll from Feb. 25 puts his numbers even lower, with only 41 percent approving.

Trump’s ratings have taken a dive only a month after his inauguration, the shortest amount of time for negative ratings on record. In comparison, it took 32 months for Obama’s ratings to fall, and 41 months for George W. Bush.

The poll was conducted with 1,000 adults from Feb. 18-22, and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.