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🗓️ 26 April 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | Now it's time for the last word with Jason Johnson hosting. Good evening, Jason. |
0:04.6 | Thanks so much, Rachel. Appreciate it. Now, good evening, everyone. This is Jason Johnson. |
0:12.0 | I'd like to bring to you the news of what is happening in our economy, because I got to be |
0:17.0 | honest with you, it is scary and it is chaotic. Donald Trump has been very unpopular with the American people for quite a while now, |
0:25.7 | and it's becoming more and more apparent as we look through polling and recognize that time after time, |
0:31.6 | even the New York Times is pointing out that polling has shown the American people are growing tired of Donald Trump's antics. |
0:38.2 | Now, what is that actually looking like? We're seeing that 66% of Americans are saying that the |
0:44.1 | economy appears chaotic. Fifty-nine percent of Americans are saying the economy looks scary. |
0:49.4 | But that end of itself is fine, right? We assume that certain people are going to have issues with Doge. |
0:55.4 | Certain people are going to have issues with how the economy may be functioning. |
0:59.2 | But when we're getting into the granular areas of the polling, it's becoming abundantly clear |
1:03.7 | that the American people are sowering on everything that Donald Trump has done. |
1:08.8 | On issue after issue, a majority of voters disapprove of |
1:12.0 | Donald Trump, from immigration to managing the federal government to Russia's war in the Ukraine. |
1:17.2 | Only 43% approved of Donald Trump's handling of the economy, a serious erosion on an issue that |
1:22.4 | for a long time had been one of his strengths. We also learned that voters think that Donald |
1:26.5 | Trump has gone too far with his |
1:27.8 | agenda as he pushes the legal limit of the executive branch authority. Fifty-four percent said Donald |
1:33.2 | Trump exceeded the powers available to him as president, including 62 percent of independence |
1:37.9 | and 16 percent of Republicans. Today, Donald Trump told reporters that he has spoken to China's president numerous times to discuss a deal to ease tariffs. |
1:48.7 | He told Time magazine the president Xi called him, adding, quote, I don't think that's a sign of weakness on his behalf. |
1:56.1 | When asked what President Xi said to him, Donald Trump offered a nonsensical response. A spokesperson for the Chinese government |
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