Trump got some welcome news earlier this week, when a new CBS News/YouGov poll (conducted Feb. 5 to 7) showed 53% of Americans approving of his job performance. The other 47% said they disapproved.

That’s Trump’s highest approval rating ever in a CBS News poll.

For comparison, just 40% of Americans approved of Trump’s performance in CBS’s February 2017 survey — a number that barely budged during his first year in office.

Other recent soundings have confirmed that Trump’s general approval rating is higher now than it was eight years ago — largely because his GOP support is greater today. Gallup has Trump at 47% overall (versus 45% in 2017); Pew Research Center puts him at 47% as well (which tops all of its first-term numbers for him).

Trump’s average approval rating across all reputable polls has decreased slightly since he returned to the Oval Office on Jan. 20, according to the aggregators at FiveThirtyEight, while his average disapproval rating has increased significantly. This means the gap between the two numbers has already shrunk by 3 percentage points, from 8.2% on Jan. 24 to 5.2% currently.

Again, polarization is the underlying story here. According to Gallup, a full 91% of Republicans approve of Trump’s performance so far; just 6% of Democrats agree.

In contrast, 43% of Republicans initially approved of Obama, a Democrat — and 32% of Democrats initially approved of George W. Bush, a Republican.

Just 13% of Americans said it would be a “good idea” for the U.S. to take over Gaza (as Trump has repeatedly insisted he plans to do)

Clear majorities oppose new tariffs on goods from Canada (62%), Mexico (56%) and Europe (60%)

And most (52%) oppose “the U.S. government establishing large detention centers, where people would be sent and held, while the government determined whether or not they should be deported.”