The Approval Drop, The Drive Home, and The Spotify Deal
The Breakfast Club
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Mimi Brown breaks down the day. Trump's approval just hit a new low. Your Memorial Day traffic and gas survival guide. And the Spotify-Universal AI deal that's quietly reshaping music. Plus, the Front Page Friday Quiz.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:09.1 | President Trump's approval ratings just hit a new low, and Republicans are the ones pulling it down. |
| 0:15.1 | I voted for President Trump. |
| 0:16.9 | I'd like to see the prices go down because it's really killing you. |
| 0:20.5 | Memorial Day weekend traffic is about to test every driver in America. |
| 0:24.6 | No vacations, pretty much just staying around this area now. |
| 0:26.6 | And Spotify just changed the roles how music gets made in the AI era. |
| 0:31.6 | The top chart of Spotify today, there's a legitimate use of AI done by artists, and we would have loved for them. |
| 0:38.7 | It's Friday, May 22nd. |
| 0:41.3 | From the Black Effect Podcast Network, I'm Mimi Brown. |
| 0:44.4 | This is Front Page, and here are today's biggest stories. |
| 0:49.0 | Plus, today on the front page Friday quiz, three questions from this week. |
| 0:55.5 | And it could be your name I'm calling out next Friday. Stay with me. |
| 1:01.3 | The president's approval rating just hit an all-time low, and the people pulling it down |
| 1:05.7 | are not Democrats. They're his own voters. A new Fox News poll out this week shows Trump's approval rating has fallen |
| 1:13.5 | among Republicans to 80%. That's the lowest number Fox News has measured for him since he returned |
| 1:20.1 | to the White House. But here's where the numbers get interesting. Among non-Maga Republicans, |
| 1:25.9 | the more moderate side of the party, Trump's approval is now at 54%. |
| 1:30.4 | Among white voters overall, 43%, among rural voters also 43%. |
| 1:37.1 | Translation, the people who put him in office in 2024 are starting to back away. |
| 1:42.8 | I voted for President Trump. |
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