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Some good news for President Donald Trump: His approval rating actually went up Friday.

The polls haven't been kind to Trump lately, with results showing that he was either sinking or holding steady at relatively low levels of support. But Gallup's tracking poll Friday found the president's approval rating stood at 42 percent. Fifty-four percent disapproved.

Mind you: 42 percent approval isn't great; in fact, it's downright bad for a president so early in his tenure. But for Trump, it's a big spike. Earlier this week, Gallup pegged Trump's approval at just 37 percent, dangerously close to the low point of 35 percent he set in late March. The Gallup daily tracking survey interviewed 1,500 U.S. adults and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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President Donald Trump speaks before signing the VA Accountability Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 23. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

It's still too soon to tellexactlywhat effect the current health care debate will have; Republican senators are working to get an Obamacare replacement passed even as the House bill proved deeply unpopular. But the Gallup poll could be seen as an encouraging sign for the White House. The last two times big health care news droppedboth when the House bill failed to garner enough support to take a vote and when that unpopular bill actually passedTrump's approval rating took a nosedive.

It's expected that the Congressional Budget Office will release its score on the bill early next week. If it's anything like the report on the House bill, which estimated the legislation would lead to 23 million Americans losing coverage, it could certainly lead to the public growing upset with GOP lawmakers and the president, who has backed the Republican effort to dismantle Obamacare.

As the score approaches, Trump's average approval rating is inching closer to making its way out of the 30s. The weighted average from data-focused website FiveThirtyEight rose slightly to 39.1 percent Friday. The FiveThirtyEightaverage adjusts for a survey's quality, recency, sample size and any partisan leanings. FiveThirtyEight's tracker has shown a pretty steady decline for the president's approval rating, falling from about 42 percent at the beginning of last month to the high 30s now.

And while Gallup gave the Trump a morsel of hope,it hasn't been allgood news for the former reality TV starin the polls. The latest daily tracking survey from Rasmussen Reportsthe president's favoriteright-leaningfirm that has often found his approval to be higher than other surveysput his rating at just 46 percent, down from50 percent this time last week. "Great news!" Trump tweeted at the time.

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Attention all unemployed minors: Jobs are coming!

Donald Trump, 71, delivered a speech at arally on Friday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, promising new jobs and support for our veterans.

But the presidents message was slightly skewed in a video promotion for the rally that Trump himself posted on Facebook later in the day.

The videos creator seems to have fallen victim to a classic case of homophone confusion, writing that the White House is putting our minors back to work referring to underage citizens as opposed to the coal miners Trump has championed throughout his campaign and presidency.

The gaff did not go unnoticed on Social Media, where Trump supporters and detractors joked about the typo. Facebook user Steve Robbins commented,Hopefully the miners get work also. I mean its great for our youth to have employment, but mining seems kind of dangerous as a first job.

This is absolutely hysterical!! wrote Ivelisse Berio LeBeau. Yes, lets put kids back to work, who cares about child labor laws!

Trump supporter Kim Rubin commented, Whoever is writing your copy needs to learn to spell! MINORS are children; MINERS mine coal. Dont get me wrong, Im a Trump fan, but that doesnt mean I give glaring mistakes a pass!

Ironically, minor miners were common in the early years of the 20th century, when children were preferred to do the work due to their small stature and ability to fit in spaces adults could not. One of the first child labor laws for the mines was passed in 1885, which required boys to be at least 12 to work in the coal breakers.

We have eliminated restrictions on the production of American energy, Trump said at the rally. We have ended the war on clean, beautiful coal. And we are putting our miners back to work.

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President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House in June.NICHOLAS KAMMAFP/Getty Images

Donald Trump ran for president based on his success as a leader in the business world. So what do the chief financial officers of some of the world's largest companies think about President Trump's management style?

Roughly six months into Trump's presidency, CNBC posed just this question to its Global CFO Council , which includes executives from companies such as AT&T , BNP Paribas, Cisco , Clorox , DuPont , Facebook , Ford , Levi Strauss, Marriott, MasterCard, Unilever, and United Airlines.

Thirty-nine CFOs completed the anonymous survey, and of the 35 that answered the question asking them to describe Trump's management style in a single word, only four responses could be construed as positive. They were "Business-style," "Directive," "Fluid," and "Unconventional." (Yes, the latter two aren't necessarily positive, but we're giving him the benefit of the doubt.)

The rest of the responses trash Trump as a manager. The most popular answer, mentioned by four CFOs, was "Chaotic," and "Chaos" was named once separately as well. Three other words got two responses apiece: "Erratic," "Reckless," and "Unpredictable."

Among the other terms used to describe Trump's management as president:

"Arrogant" "Authoritarian" "Clueless" "Confusing" "Dictatorial" "Hubristic" "Incompetent" "Narcissistic" "Self-absorbed" "Terrible" "There are no words"

The executives who participated in the survey are also growing less optimistic that Trump can follow through on the promises he made as a presidential candidate. The CFOs' confidence fell significantly between February and June when asked about Trump's ability to repeal and replace Obamacare, begin building a wall along the Mexican border, launch a large infrastructure plan, and enact corporate and personal tax reform by the end of 2017.

For example, in February, when a similar survey was conducted, the CFOs were 59% confident that corporate tax reform would be law by the end of the year. By June, the CFOs' confidence level fell to 44% on the issue.

Many organization and management experts have been unimpressed with Trump's leadership style from the beginning. After the New York Times consulted several such experts a few weeks into Trump's presidency, this was the consensus opinion:

Thus far, the Trump administration is a textbook case of how not to run a complex organization like the executive branch.

On the other hand, 100 days into the Trump presidency, BusinessInsider.com asked four management experts to weigh in on how he was doing as a leader, and they had some good things to say. They characterized President Trump as an aggressive negotiator who has lots of energy and projects confidence.

Yet one of the experts, Columbia Business School professor Adam Galinsky , offered this caveat on how confidence translates to leadership: "I think we are attracted to confidence, but I think eventually that confidence has to be connected to actual performance."

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His visit comes at a time of immense uncertainty and unpredictability in Indian-US relations.

Earlier this month, he singled out India during his announcement declaring the United States' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Top of the leaders' agenda will be the H1-B visa rehaul, the fight against terror and expanding on bilateral relations with the new administration.

We spoke to five young Indians about the importance of bilateral ties between the two countries and what they make of Trump.

Harshit Tibrewal, 22, is a software engineer working for a start-up. He believes good relations between the two democracies are vital, especially given India's rise in the global order.

"I think the relationship between the US and India is very strong, because a lot of trade happens between the two, a lot of people from here go to work and study there. Both countries are superpowers and Modi going to meet with Trump shows that the relationship is strong and getting stronger. It's very good to have such a good relationship with a strong country."

His sunny outlook comes despite being in an occupation hardest hit by Trump's visa crackdown.

"I don't think it (H1-B visa reform) will affect Indians. Most of these software companies need us," says Tibrewal.

Indian firms like Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro use the H-1B program to send thousands of engineers to the US.

Around 70% of the 85,000 H-1B visas issued annually go to Indian workers.

According to Tibrewal, Trump's America First agenda could actually backfire on him -- and the US.

"Indians have great minds of their own. Quoting Bill Gates, 'If I stopped hiring Indians, another Microsoft would have opened in India'. Donald Trump should know this too."

Twenty-year-old Kanika Sethi is a recent commerce graduate. While she understands the importance of relations between India and the US, she's skeptical about Trump's leadership.

"Donald Trump is a rich leader. I can't say whether he is a good or bad leader. But the first thing that comes to mind is money."

Between Modi's election in 2014 and Obama leaving office at the beginning of 2017, the two leaders met eight times. A record for leaders of the two nations. Obama is also the only sitting US President to have visited India twice while in office.

"There's no comparison with Obama. Obama was the best."

Yakita Somani, 20, also a commerce graduate, is more pragmatic about the upcoming visit especially on the hot button topic of H1-B visa restrictions.

"The first preference is given to American people and that's absolutely right. In India, if we protest for our rights, then that's the same thing. Indians there (the United States) who are facing discrimination and inequality, I feel you need to struggle for something. It's their policy and being the most powerful country, they don't need to think about the entire world."

At the same time, she is aware that forging closer ties with the United States is crucial for India.

"I feel America is the most powerful country, so if India is tied up with a country of this position, it will be beneficial i areas such as defense, security and many other things. Our country will become powerful."

Surya Hooda, 22, wants to become a civil servant and is currently studying for his exams.

"India's relations with America are very important. During Obama's time, they were on the rise. Now, Trump and his administration are going back on a lot of policies that the Obama administration employed."

"Trump has pulled back from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). India was not a part of the TPP so now there's an opportunity where we can directly establish bilateral relations directly with the US so that's a plus point."

Just weeks after coming into office, Trump formally withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation deal that had been negotiated under Obama.

Twenty-two-year-old Kilang Walling is an engineering graduate.

He describes Trump as a "loudmouth" and "not the kind of person you find in power."

However, like the other young people CNN spoke with, he understands the importance of US-Indian relations, especially in South Asia.

"India is growing in terms of power and the economy. Both India and the US need to cooperate. And because India is surrounded by not so friendly countries like China and Pakistan, India needs the US and the US also needs India because America and China also don't function well."

For Walling, the issue he wants to see most discussed during Modi's visit is the US' withdrawal from the Paris climate accord.

"He (Trump) shouldn't have done that. America being a leader and a forward thinking country, he shouldn't have pulled out."

"I feel very strongly about the Paris deal. How the world is going, how climate change is going. It's essential that every human being needs to worry about this because we need sustainability. It's not only about living today, there are generations to come so we have to worry about this."

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