Many people are saying the polls are fake. (Wait, did that one show me winning?) But there's still a thing or two to learn when a bunch of them show a yuge trend. Namely, as Stephen Colbert pointed out last night, Donald J. Trump will enter office as the least popular president-elect in modern history, while his predecessor has a seat at the head of the cool kids' table.

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"But hey," Colbert quipped, "It's not a popularity contest—and neither was the election."

Trump's 40 percent favorability rating—a CBS poll actually has it as low as 32 percent—is 39 points below President-elect Obama's in 2009. ("If America's known for anything," Colbert grinned, "It's giving black men the benefit of the doubt.") It's also 20 points behind Obama right now, three months after Trump won an election that was supposedly a referendum on Obama's eight years in office. In that same CBS poll, 62 percent of Americans said they approved of how Obama had handled his job of president, while a CNN poll, also out today, has it at 60 percent. That 62 number is the third highest among outgoing presidents since 1981, behind Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, tied at 68.

Again, right now, 60 percent of Americans approve of President Obama, while only 40 percent of Americans approve of President-elect Donald Trump.

"Now, when Trump saw these dismal polls, he realized you can't please everybody, and he just got to work for the American people," Colbert said, barely holding his deadpan. "I'm just fucking with you. He of course fired back at reality on Twitter."

The same people who did the phony election polls, and were so wrong, are now doing approval rating polls. They are rigged just like before. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 17, 2017

Of course, national polls had Clinton winning a few percent more of the popular vote. Which she did.