Host Rachel Maddow had plenty of material to work with while laying out the collapsing popularity of President Donald Trump’s agenda on the Friday episode of her MSNBC program.“It’s about public opinion,” Maddow told her audience. “… [and] the numbers for him are brutally bad. In the Pew poll, President Donald Trump is underwater in his overall approval rating by 19 points. In a Fox News poll, people are asked if Trump’s policies are helping or hurting the U.S. economy. They say Trump’s policies are hurting the U.S. economy by a margin of 22 points.”A recent Economist/YouGov poll reported American people felt the president has hurt the U.S. by a 24-point margin. And polls got no better Friday, with a New York Times/Siena College poll showing respondents oppose Trump withholding funds from universities by a 25-point margin, and imposing tariffs without congressional authorization by a 33-point margin.READ MORE: ‘Looks horrible’: Former Trump FBI chief says Kash Patel may have fumbled judge’s arrestWhen respondents were asked if Trump should be allowed to eliminate programs enacted by Congress, a vast majority said no by a 33-point margin. Trump deporting legal immigrants for protesting against Israel was also widely disapproved of in the NYT/Siena poll by a 46-point margin. If the president should be allowed to send U.S. citizens to an El Salvador prison, like he’s threatened? No, by a 63-point margin. Maddow also highlighted the 70-point disapproval when respondents opposed Trump ignoring orders from the United States Supreme Court.“When you are losing polling questions about stuff you’ve said you might want to do, or stuff you’re trying to do, when you’re losing polling questions like that by 40, 60, 70 point margins, we’re pretty close to something that looks like a national consensus view in this country,” said Maddow, “and the view is ‘no.’ No to what Donald Trump is doing. Do you approve of how Trump is managing the government? No. Do you approve of how Trump is managing trade? No. Do you approve of Donald Trump’s executive orders rolling back DEI programs in the federal government? No. Do you approve of Donald Trump on the economy? No. Do you approve of Trump and his handling of the Russia/Ukraine war? Nope. Handling of immigration? No. Treatment of the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case? No, by a 21-point margin, no.”An additional Associated Press poll out Friday reports Trump at -24 on the economy, which had always been his strong point, as was immigration. A new Washington Post/ABC Ipsos poll also released Friday even has Trump’s immigration ratings going negative, which was not the trend for years.“I don’t know that we have ever seen another first 100 days from any president this roundly rejected and hated by the American people,” Maddow concluded. READ MORE: ‘Disgusting’: Republicans panic after senator promises to impeach Trump after midtermsWatch the video below, or by clicking here.
Trump boasts of gains, faults predecessors as inflation and voter skepticism persist
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