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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

How to Lose a Country in 100 Days: Trump's Weak Poll Numbers

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki reflects on the tumultuous and chaotic first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency, as the country faces so many crises of his own making. Senator Adam Schiff returns to discuss the recent polling showing low approval ratings on nearly every issue, from the economy to the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. They later discuss the Acting US Attorney for Washington DC, Ed Martin, who is awaiting senate confirmation and what Democrats like Schiff are doing to slow the process down. Representative Brittany Petterson joins Jen to analyze the hypocritical policy proposals the White House is considering to incentivize women to have more kids. And finally, Jen previews her new primetime show, “The Briefing with Jen Psaki,” which premieres on May 6th.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay.

0:09.0

This week we will hit the 100 day mark of Donald Trump's presidency.

0:15.0

If you can't believe how quickly time is flown by, that's not all how I feel.

0:19.0

But if that's how you feel, don't worry, everyone,

0:21.5

there are only 1,361 days to go of this journey. Now, the first hundred days, though,

0:28.7

is often the high watermark of a presidency. It's, you're fresh off a political win, you have

0:33.3

momentum, you can finally try to implement the plans you talked about on the campaign trail.

0:37.7

You're still in a sort of honeymoon phase of your presidency, for most presidents.

0:43.1

It's a time when the American people are most willing to extend some bend to finish of the

0:47.3

doubt of what you're going to do. But as we approach the end of Trump's first hundred days,

0:52.4

it seems he was pretty quick to squander whatever

0:54.8

goodwill he came in with. And that's not just me saying. I mean, poll after poll after poll,

1:00.3

and I literally mean there's so many of them, is making that all perfectly clear.

1:05.0

There was a new NBC news poll out just this morning that shows Trump's favorability is at just

1:09.6

45%. Now, Fox News poll put his approval a point lower at 44%, which, by the way, is the lowest

1:16.6

rating that Fox has ever measured for any president at this point in their term.

1:22.6

And those weren't even the worst numbers Trump saw this week.

1:25.3

At Washington Post, ABC News poll showed his approval

1:27.6

rating at just 39%. And then there are the numbers on the specific issues. And this is where I think

1:32.4

it gets very interesting, like these from the New York Times. Trump's underwater by four points on

1:38.3

immigration, an issue that typically had been his strength. He's underwater by eight points on

1:43.5

managing the federal government, underwater by 11 points on trade, by eight points on managing the federal government,

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