President Donald Trump's approval rating has hit a new low in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

According to the results, just 38 percent of Americans approve of Trump's job performance, down 5 points from September, while 58 percent disapprove. Trump's previous low in the national NBC/WSJ poll was 39 percent in May.

President Trump's approval rating is 38%, the lowest it's ever been in the NBC/WSJ poll.https://t.co/0RLJ2PlGlF pic.twitter.com/nZOSuVLmrT -- Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 30, 2017

According to NBC, Trump maintains an 81 percent approval rating among Republicans surveyed, but his numbers have declined among independents (from 41 percent in September to 34 percent now), whites (from 51 percent to 47 percent) and whites without a college degree (from 58 percent to 51 percent).

Recent issues and controversies may have especially contributed to the figures. According to the poll, less than 1 out of 3 Americans approve of how Trump has handled the mass shooting in Las Vegas, NFL players' protests, Puerto Rico hurricane relief and health care.

New NBC/WSJ poll: Trump underwater on nearly every issue except economy, management of TX/FL storms.https://t.co/nqAGAxjfGP pic.twitter.com/I5oK3xtXue -- Carrie Dann (@CarrieNBCNews) October 29, 2017

Another poll by Fox News last week found Trump's approval ratings had fallen to 38 percent, the same as NBC/WSJ. A month earlier, Fox News said 42 percent approved of his job performance.

JUST IN: Fox News poll: Trump approval rating hits new low https://t.co/lTrcg31YfO pic.twitter.com/e8LM4Bdt2J -- The Hill (@thehill) October 25, 2017

CNN reports Trump, who has now finished his ninth month in office, is doing even poorer in daily Gallup tracking polling. He's at just 36.9 percent after three quarters, the lowest ever in a president's early tenure in modern polling.

According to CNN, over 288 presidential quarters since 1945, only 31 of them were worse than Trump's latest three months in office. President George W. Bush ended his final quarter at 29.1 percent, President Richard Nixon dropped to 24 percent before resigning, and President Harry Truman saw numbers as low as 23 percent near the end of his tenure.

The recent low approval ratings also come before news of charges filed by special counsel Robert Mueller against Trump aides, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, in an investigation of possible meddling by Russia in the 2016 election. Trump blasted the charges, including conspiracy against the U.S., in a series of tweets Monday morning.

"Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign. But why aren't Crooked Hillary & the Dems the focus?????" he wrote on Twitter. "....Also, there is NO COLLUSION!"

The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted among 900 U.S. adults from Oct. 23-26. The results have an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.3 percentage points.