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Deadline: White House

“Signs of resistance”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

News, Ms Now, The White House, Versant, Daily News, Government, Politics, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Nicolle Wallace

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace covers growing signs of resistance against the Trump administration across poll numbers to sports figures speaking out against Trump to artists using music to promote unity in a time of deep division.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi there, everybody. It's Fort Rock in New York. It is the single biggest story. The biggest

0:11.2

development in American politics since Donald Trump first descended that golden escalator

0:16.2

at Trump Tower more than a decade ago. Donald Trump is right now, as we come on the air, at his lowest point in terms of popularity

0:24.5

in his political life, and now more than ever, there is both a permission structure

0:30.1

and a growing imperative to speak out against Donald Trump and his administration.

0:35.6

A brand new poll from CNN shows Donald Trump's approval rating at just 36%.

0:40.3

Among independents, Donald Trump's approval rating is 26%.

0:45.2

Just 32% of all Americans think Donald Trump has the right priorities.

0:50.1

68%, almost 70% of all Americans say that Donald Trump is not paying attention to the most

0:56.5

important problems they face in their lives. At this very moment, Donald Trump appears intent on

1:02.3

proving those 68% of us, right? Trump is doubling down on one of his least popular issues,

1:09.0

the tariff regime. In the wake of the Supreme Court,

1:12.0

giving him a political get-out-a-jail-free card by striking down his tariff regime as illegal

1:16.9

and unconstitutional, Donald Trump, snatching defeat from political victory, has announced he's going to

1:23.8

impose a 15% global tariff. He says he's allowed to keep that in place for 150 days.

1:31.3

In a post on true social this morning, Trump threatened to use tariffs, quote, in a much more powerful and obnoxious way, with legal certainty, end quote.

1:40.7

If there's one thing Americans have said they hate, it is Donald Trump's tariffs.

1:46.5

Americans have been consistent about that in poll after poll after poll, and those Americans

1:51.1

include people who voted for him.

1:53.7

The latest, a survey in the Washington Post-Ipsos and ABC News that finds just 34% of Americans

1:59.8

approve of Donald Trump's handling of tariffs,

2:03.0

64% disapprove, identical to what it was back in April.

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