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Happy to have you here. So here's the headline tonight at the Washington Post, Are things falling apart for Trump? About 100 days in, the signs are almost uniformly negative for the second term Trump Project. Very provocative headline. There are things falling apart for Trump. I dunno. But let's look. Let's look at the evidence from the Post tonight. Multiple polls this week showed Trump hitting new lows. His approval rating has been double digits underwater in surveys from the Pew Research center where he's -19, the Economist YouGov poll where he's -13, the Reuters Ipsos poll where he's -11, and now Fox News where he is also -11. Trump was already more unpopular at this point in his presidency than any modern president not named Donald Trump. He's now flirting with falling below where he was even at this point in his historically unpopular first term. Perhaps more troubling for Trump, most of his major policies are even more unpopular than he is. That suggests his image is largely buoyed by loyalists who might not like what they are seeing from him, but they still say they support him for now. Quote Around 6 in 10Americans have been critical of both his tariffs and Elon Musk's roughshod efforts to cut government programs and employees. In one poll this week, Americans said by a nearly two to one proportion that the Trump administration should abide by a court order to facilitate the return of a man wrongly deported to prison in El Salvador. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. That's a court order the administration is apparently flouting. Polling also suggests Americans strongly reject the Trump administration, sending hundreds of men to the brutal El Salvador prison without due process, as well as Trump's efforts to deport student visa holders, quote in sum. In sum, it's all an increasing mess Trump might try to muddle through, including by pressing forward on tariffs and risking a constitutional crisis by challenging the courts to actually make him abide by their orders, quote. But with the courts asserting themselves and the public taking an increasingly dim view of what he is doing, political gravity is taking a heavy toll. It took a little less than 100 days. Yeah, well, when you put it like that way, it does sound bad. It does sound like things are falling apart for Trump. But, you know, we've also got the receipts like we've got the actual numbers. So you don't just have to trust the characterization of them in the Washington Post tonight. We can actually just. Look, let's start with the Fox News poll. Why not? I should say that while, while Fox News on TV is all pro Trump all the time, it's also true that their polling unit is just a normal polling unit that does normal scientifically sound polling. So you hear Fox News poll doesn't mean it's like a foxy poll. It just means it's a poll that's done by the Fox News organization that said this is what they're turning up right now as Trump hits his hundred days benchmark. And it is, it is really, really not good for Trump. Do you think the Trump administration has been competent and effective in managing the federal government? No. By a nine point margin. Do you approve of the job Donald Trump is doing as president? No. By an 11 point margin. In the long run, do you think Donald Trump's policies will help the country? No. By an 11 point margin. So, you know, not positive on the big picture for President Trump. Well, what about the other president? Do you approve of the job Elon Musk is doing working with Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency? Fox News poll respondents say no. Resoundingly, by a 17 point margin. Do you approve of the way Donald Trump is handling the economy? No. By an 18 point margin, 18 points on the economy. Do you think Donald Trump's policies are helping the US economy? No. By a 22 point margin. Do you think imposing tariffs on products imported from other countries, countries helps the U.S. economy? No. By a 23 point margin. Do you approve of the way Trump is handling tariffs? No. 25 point margin. Do you approve of the way Trump is handling inflation? No. 26 point margin. Oh, and here's a really good one. This is again the Fox News poll. If President Trump thinks the Supreme Court is overstepping its constitutional authority, can he ignore the court? No. By a 49 point margin. So that's the Fox News poll, obviously that's all terrible news for Trump. The others are worse. Here's the Economist YouGov poll they pulled on a bunch of policy issues, asking people not just how they feel about how Trump is handling himself generally, but how he's doing on basically every issue area of policy. And the answer to every single one of those questions was basically the same answer. I mean, look, I'll just show you what I mean. Do you approve of Trump's handling of jobs in the economy? No. By a 12 point margin. Do you approve of Trump's handling of trade? No. 16 point margin. Do you approve of his handling of inflation? No. Do you approve of his handling of immigration? No. Do you approve of Trump's handling of foreign policy? No. National security? No. Education? No. Crime? How about crime? No. Not crime either. Do you believe Donald Trump should bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States? Yes. Yes. Americans say Trump should bring Mr. Abrego Garcia back to the US and they say so emphatically. By a 22 point margin, quote. Since President Trump took office again this year, have his actions on the economy helped or hurt the United States? Hurt by a 33 point margin. Do you think Donald Trump has the temperament to be the president? No. By a 10 point margin. Are you confident in Donald Trump's ability to deal wisely with an international crisis? No. 13 point margin. Are you satisfied with what Trump has accomplished in his first 100 days as president? No. 15 point margin. Trump has been president for about 100 days. Has he performed better or worse than you expected when he became president? Worse. By a 17 point margin. Since President Trump took office, has his behavior in the United States. Excuse me. Has his behavior in the White House helped or hurt the United States, not just the economy, but has he hurt the nation? Hurt. Has he helped or hurt. He has hurt the nation, Americans say by a 24 point margin. Other than that, Mr. President, how's your first hundred days been? Couple more. This is interesting. NBC News has brand new polling on young people's views. This is people age 18 to 29. People age 18 to 29 disapprove of Trump's handling of inflation and the cost of living. By a 39 point margin, people age 18 to 29 disapprove of Trump deporting people for participating in protests about Israel's actions in Gaza. They disapprove of that by a 52 point margin. And look at this. Should people in the US who hold student visas, work visas and green cards be given due process protections when facing criminal or civil charges, should they get due process protections? 92% say yes. 92%. I don't know, maybe they might be overestimating the appeal of performatively cruel, tyrannical, secret police snatch and grabs off American streets. Yeah, funny. They thought Americans would love that. Turns out Americans do not love that. Okay, one more. This is the Pew poll, and this one is put together a little different than the others in terms of the type of questions they're asking. And you'll see what I mean when I give you these questions. But again, I'll tell you the bottom line here. The answers for Trump are all the same as those ones that I just read. None of it is good for him. Just look at this. This is the Pew poll. When it comes to cuts the Trump administration is making to federal departments and agencies, would you say that the Trump administration's approach will sa Americans money in the long run? No. No. By a seven point margin, do you approve of the Trump administration's actions to end diversity, equity and inclusion policies in the federal government? No. By a nine point margin, do you approve of the cuts the administration is making to federal departments and agencies? No, by an 11 point margin. When it comes to cuts the Trump administration is making to federal departments and agencies, do you think the administration's approach will make the government run better? No. By a 15 point margin. Okay, so this is, this is all very bad, right? Well, how about this Trump signature issue, right? The big splash he wants to make, the thing he wants to be known for, the thing he says is the most beautiful word in the English language. The thing he celebrated was something he called Liberation Day. How do we feel about that? Because that's where Donald Trump thinks he's best positioned with the American public. Do you approve of the Trump administration substantially increasing tariffs on goods imported from most countries that trade with the United States? Do you approve of Trump's tariffs? No. By a 20 point margin, he does in the Pew poll get one big yes, though. A really big one. The question is, if the US Supreme Court rules that a Trump administration action is illegal, do you think the Trump administration has to follow the court's ruling and stop that action? Americans say yes by a 79 point margin. So, yeah. What was the headline in the Post tonight again? Are things falling apart for Trump? Yep. Huh? Yep. On every front. And I mean that the top line takeaways in terms of how the country feels about them, it's just brutal. I mean, in that Pew poll, his overall approval Disapproval number is negative 19. He is 19 points underwater while he is still in his first hundred days in office, he is 19 points underwater in terms of overall approval versus disapproval. That's crazy. This is the headline Pew put on its article presenting the results of its poll, which makes it seem like even they were a little shocked. Trump's job rating drops. Key policies draw majority disapproval as he nears 100 days. Outlets like CNBC are pulling results from that poll to show not just how bad things are for Trump right now as he approaches 100 days, but also how quickly he is dropping over time. Quote. Americans confidence in President Donald Trump's ability to manage the US Economy has plummeted since he has regained the White House. According to a new Reuters Ipsos survey, just 37% of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the economy. That's a rating lower than at any point during his first term in office. A new Pew Research center survey also found that less than half of US adults, 45%, have confidence in Trump's ability to make good decisions about the economy. That represents a 14 point drop from the same poll in November of last year. And again, that's whether people have confidence in Trump's ability to make good decisions about the economy. He's well below 50%. He's at 45%. But that's a 14 point drop just from November. CNBC, quote. Those polls follow a CNBC All America economic survey released earlier this week, which also registered Trump's lowest economic approval ratings of his entire White House career. Ta da. He is tanking. He is tanking on the stuff he wants to be known for and on everything else. And he is tanking in general. General. And he is tanking in the specific. And the most radical stuff he has been floating, hinting that he might potentially do right is the most radically unpopular stuff that they are polling. I mean, what was that last result we put up from the Pew poll? We put up that last yes, can Trump defy a Supreme Court ruling? 88% of the country says no. No, he cannot defy a Supreme Court ruling. Only nine percent say yes, he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also 9%. 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told YouGov this week that they have a favorable view of the Black Plague. So that's the demographic we're working with here. 9% in favor of what Trump keeps hinting at, right? That he'll defy the courts and just become a full on dictator. 9% also in favor of the Black Plague, which killed like, you know, 50% of the population of Europe. Nine percent of Americans think that's good. You know, and of course, there's no reason to think those are the same 9% of people. But you do kind of wonder, don't you, things are going very, very dramatically south for Trump with the American public in truly overwhelming numbers and over the widest possible breadth of issues. And, and, you know, correlation is not causation. But that is happening at the same time that things are going south for Trump in terms of him just being stopped when he's trying to do stuff. Americans of various stripes and in various positions associated with various institutions just stopping him from doing what he's trying to get away with. This week, for example, Trump has been blocked by two more judges, one in Colorado, one in New York, both prohibiting him from using the Alien Enemies act from the fricking 1700s to try to disappear any more people without giving them the opportunity to contest what he's calling them and what he's doing to them. In New York, a federal district court judge extended his earlier order blocking Trump on this issue. He said in his ruling this week, quote, this is not the Inquisition. It is not medieval times. This is the United States of America. Yeah. Speaking of the Black Death, now yet another federal judge has ordered Trump to return to the United States. Yet another man who Trump sent to that prison in El Salvador. Everybody in the country has now been following closely this case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The administration is still trying to dodge and delay its response to the supreme court's directive that Mr. Abrego Garcia needs to be returned to the United States. But now there's another man. Now a Maryland federal judge has ordered that Trump must return yet another young man who he sent to El Salvador, a man identified on only by the name Christian. In court proceedings simultaneously, Frederica Wilson is the latest Democratic member of Congress to show up bodily at one of these black hole sites where Trump has been shipping people. We spoke earlier this week on this program with Congressman Troy Carter, who led a delegation of US Members of Congress and one senator down to the two Trump administration immigration prisons in Louisiana. Now, Frederica Wilson, the Democratic congresswoman from Florida, has gone to another one of these facilities, the one in South Florida. That's the so called chrome immigration prison in Miami. And it's important that she is there. Part of not disappearing people is making sure that the places people are taken to stay on the map and get high profile visitors and oversight and press attention. And Democratic members of Congress, including Frederica Wilson today are starting now to make that happen. Trump lost in court again this week on his transgender military ban. He's now asking the United States Supreme Court to take it up. Trump lost in court this week on denying passports to transgender people as well. Trump lost in court this week on trying to shut down the Voice of America media service. Trump lost in court this week on his bizarre executive order trying to mount a federal takeover of elections. This is, you might remember this, this is where he said he wanted to hand over all state voter rolls to his top campaign donor, Elon Musk, because, yeah, what could possibly go wrong with that? That was blocked today in court. Trump lost today in court as well on denying so called sanctuary cities and counties federal funds. Trump lost in court today on trying to impose ideological anti diversity punishments on American school districts. And to add insult to injury, Trump also today got to enjoy the spectacle of the Republican governor of North Dakota vetoing a North Dakota, excuse me, vetoing a Trump inspired North Dakota book ban that would have sentenced librarians in North Dakota to prison terms for violating that ban. He vetoed it. Republicans in the state legislature passed it, but he vetoed it. That's too far even for the Republican governor of North Dakota, who can probably read a poll. Yeah, that's how it's going over with the Republican governor of North Dakota. How do you think it's going over with the American public that they're trying to pull this book ban stuff at places like the U.S. naval Academy in Annapolis? This was St. Augustine, Florida, yesterday, people protesting against Trump's cuts to the national parks. Protect our national parks. We love our national park rangers. Protect our public lands. This was Modesto, California. On the left side of your screen at the offices of Republican Congressman Tom McClintock. On the right side of your screen, that's Pueblo, Colorado, at the offices of Republican Congressman Jeff Hurd. In both cases yesterday, people protesting against Trump and the Republicans planned huge cuts to Medicaid. This was Des Moines, Iowa. Iowans rally for the rights of the Deported People rallying in Des Moines on the left side of your screen and on the right side of your screen, people rallying at the federal building in Rochester, New York, in both cases telling Trump to obey court orders to stop disappearing people without due process. This was the courthouse in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the left side of your screen, people turned up there furious yesterday to protest after Trump's agents arrested immigrants inside the courthouse yesterday. And on the right side of your screen, that's Burlington, Vermont, where people again protested at the federal building in support of Vermont resident Mohsen Madawi, who was arrested, you will remember, at his U.S. citizenship test. How's Trump doing turning around public opinion about his behavior in office? Well, he's cutting Meals on Wheels for the elderly and disabled, dismantling the agency that does that. Trump is trying to have millions of people who are alive, legally classified as dead in the Social Security administration without any due process and without any process in place for these people to correct it if and when they can show up at a Social Security office to try to prove that they are alive. Trump is apparently keeping in place his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who the AP is reporting tonight, installed an insecure Internet connection in his office, a public facing insecure Internet connection in his office that bypassed Pentagon security protocols apparently specifically so he could use a commercial messaging app for texting because maybe he didn't understand why his cell phone wasn't working inside the Pentagon for his texting habits. Oh, weird. How come your cell phone isn't working good in there? Better rig something up to bypass security. He's turning out to be a real peach on national security. Trump is apparently keeping him in place. Trump tonight has signed an executive order targeting, apparently trying to criminalize the largest fundraising platform for Democratic political candidates and causes in the United States. We're going to speak exclusively with the CEO of that platform, ActBlue, in just a moment. We're also going to speak tonight with a member of Congress who led her constituents in what appears to have been a successful campaign to keep open her district Social Security field office, which Trump was inexplicably going to close. So are things falling apart for Donald Trump before his first hundred days are even up? Are they? Survey says yes. But the American people are pushing very, very hard to make very sure of it as well. And we've got lots to get to tonight on that front. Stay with us.