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Deadline: White House

“Still doubling down”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Murray – in for Nicolle Wallace – on Trump’s falling approval ratings, universities banding together to resist the Trump administration, and Governor JB Pritzker’s powerful call to action. Joined by: Sam Stein, Claire McCaskill, David Jolly, Leah Litman, Caleb Silver, Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Susanne Craig, Emily Glazer, Kristy Greenberg, Eddie Glaude, Amb. Michael McFaul, Mallory McMorrow.

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. I'm Melissa Murray in for Nicole Wallace.

0:14.2

We are nearly 100 days into the second Trump administration, and it turns out that the more voters see of the Trump agenda, the less they like it.

0:22.6

A spade of new polls are all showing the same thing. That the only president who was less popular

0:28.2

than Donald Trump at this point in their term is, well, Donald Trump during his first administration.

0:34.7

In ABC News, Washington Post-Ipsos poll released yesterday puts Trump's approval at 39%.

0:41.1

That's the lowest of all recent polls. An NBC News poll puts his approval rating at 45%. Voters appear

0:48.6

to be deeply frustrated with Trump's handling of the economy and the chaos that's been caused by

0:53.8

the Trump tariffs.

0:55.3

A New York Times poll released just Friday reveals that half of all voters think that Trump,

1:00.9

who ran on a platform of economic growth, has actually made the economy worse.

1:05.9

But this feedback has not yet broken through at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

1:10.6

The Atlantic reports that during an

1:12.5

interview, quote, Trump pushed back on the notion, popular among some Wall Street analysts,

1:18.3

that financial turmoil, plummeting markets, the threat of a recession, a weakened dollar,

1:22.9

would cause him to roll back his tariff policies. It always affects you a little bit, he said, but there's no

1:28.9

red line, no certain number at which he would feel compelled to change course. That's right.

1:35.2

Despite the fact that he has already paused his so-called reciprocal tariffs, Trump is actually

1:40.5

doubling down on tariffs and trade wars, arguably one of his most unpopular

1:44.7

policies. He says he has no red line, that there's no point at which he confronts so much

1:49.6

resistance that he would feel compelled to back down. That take-no prisoners, regget-nothing

1:55.4

approach is how the Trump administration has tackled almost everything on its agenda, from mass

2:00.5

deportations to

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