Stephen A's Take: Trump's not happy with record breaking negative polls about his first 100 days.

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

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0:00.0	Now let's get to Washington, and the poll numbers that show Americans are not that happy with President Trump after nearly 100 days in office.
0:11.9	That's according to a new ABC News slash Washington Post poll, okay?
0:17.5	Or IPSS, I-POS poll.
0:21.0	It says just 39% of respondents in this poll said they approve of how Donald Trump is handling his job as president.
0:28.5	That's down six points from February, while 55% said they disapprove.
0:34.3	This beats the previous low of 42% for a president at or near 100 days in office dating
0:40.5	back to 1945. The 42% was also Donald Trump in 2017. Meanwhile, more Americans are losing faith
0:49.7	in the president when it comes to the economy, despite running on a platform of economic turnaround.
0:56.0	72% of those responding to the polls say they think it's very or somewhat likely
1:02.0	that Trump's economic policies will cause a recession in the short term.
1:07.0	And finally, the poll shows the Democratic Party remains out of favor with the public at large.
1:14.4	People said they trust Donald Trump over the Democrats in Congress to handle the nation's main problems by 37% to 30%.
1:23.5	Furthermore, while 60% said Trump is out of touch with the concerns of most people in the country, even more, 69% said the Democratic Party is out of touch.
1:34.7	It's 64% for the Republican Party overall.
1:39.8	Ladies and gentlemen, let's get the good out of the way to talk about the president, the 47th President of the United States, formerly the 45th President of the United States of America.
1:49.1	When it comes to immigration enforcement, there is no doubt that Donald Trump has been successful.
1:55.7	We can slice it any way we want to, but Joe Biden having an open border policy caused a lot of problems in this nation,
2:03.6	particularly the psyche of American citizens. You cannot have folks crossing the border illegally
2:10.6	in an undocumented fashion, thinking that that is going to bode well for American citizens.
2:18.3	Whether it's courtesy of $53 million in prepaid credit cards that were doled out by the Adams
2:25.3	administration, the mayor of New York, whether it's Gavin Newsom and the state of California,
2:32.3	indicating that there's some debt issues with Medicare because
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