Is Trump Losing the Country? Abortion, Immigration, and The Biggest SOTU Ever

The Big Ben Show

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.5 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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On this episode of The Big Ben Show, Ben Domenech covers the White House’s messaging problem, the political risk heading into the midterms, and why “being too online” can distort reality. Ben reacts to Ross Douthat’s argument that Trump is “losing the country,” then digs into how policy support can still lose the narrative. Plus, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List, joins to break down the surge in abortions post-Dobbs, the abortion pill (mifepristone) regulatory fight, and why pro-lifers are demanding a return to in-person dispensing rules that were rolled back during COVID. Later, author Lionel Shriver joins the show to discuss her new novel “A Better Life,” immigration, the literary world’s politics, and why fiction avoids telling the “settled population” side of the story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, boys and girls, we are back with another edition of the Big Ben Show.
0:11.5	I'm your host, Ben, Dominic.
0:12.7	You can follow me on X at B.
0:14.0	Dominic.
0:14.4	Follow the show at Big Ben Show Fox on X and on Instagram.
0:18.4	And today I want to talk to you a little bit about the trajectory that the president of the United States is currently on.
0:24.7	There have been warnings now, multiple warnings from supporters of the president and from his critics,
0:31.0	about the direction that this administration is currently going in, about the signs that we're seeing when it comes to the poll numbers, about the degree
0:39.1	to which he has potentially been focused too much on foreign policy as opposed to domestic
0:44.1	policy, and quite frankly, about the White House's inability to message around the different
0:50.9	policy positions that they have had in numerous ways.
0:55.2	Ross Douthat is one of the critics of the president who occupies the conservative seat
0:59.9	at the New York Times.
1:01.4	Here was his take this past week.
1:03.5	I want to tell you a secret, one that most conservatives on the internet don't want you to know.
1:09.2	A year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has lost the country.
1:12.6	The majority of voters believe the country's worse off today than it was a year ago.
1:17.6	Proverating at 37% the lowest of his second term.
1:20.6	A failure, fail, fail, fail.
1:22.6	And the grand coalition that he united to defeat Kamala Harris has evaporated.
1:28.3	And all of this was predictable.
1:30.8	From the first days of Doge through the debacle in Minneapolis, the Trump administration
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