House Speaker Mike Johnson dropped some jaws to the floor by suggesting Donald Trump is currently netting ratings that’d make a North Korean despot blush.

“The president is the most maligned and attacked political figure in the history of American politics,” he told CNBC. “But he’s also the most resilient. You see at the same time, his approval ratings are skyrocketing.”

“CNN had a story, I think a day or two ago, he was at 90 percent approval rating,” Johnson added. “There’s never been a president that high!”

He’s half-right. There has indeed, throughout the history of the United States, never once been a president who secured approval ratings even remotely near that number, being closer to the kind of figures you might expect to see from deeply repressive totalitarian countries like China, Azerbaijan, or Belarus.