“The bottom has fallen out”
Deadline: White House
Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in the east this afternoon, proof of an age-old principle |
| 0:08.9 | that you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, |
| 0:14.9 | but you cannot. You cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Donald Trump, |
| 0:20.7 | take notes because right now the American |
| 0:22.5 | people are mad at you. Call it a reckoning if you want, not just for Trump, but for those lawmakers |
| 0:28.4 | who've hitched their wagons to the MAGA movement. Tomorrow will make it seven months since |
| 0:34.1 | Trump's second term began. I know it feels like 11 years. His report card, though, is so bad. |
| 0:39.9 | It's going to need a signature from a parent. Overall, according to Pew, his approval rating is in the |
| 0:44.8 | dumps with just 38% of all Americans on his side. That compares to 60% who disapprove of Donald |
| 0:52.7 | Trump's performance as president. It's a near record low for him. |
| 0:57.2 | On tariffs, which are the signature tool of his economic masterminding, he's 23 points underwater |
| 1:06.5 | on tariffs on foreign policy amid the pomp and circumstance, amid a flurry of meetings with |
| 1:13.4 | European leaders. |
| 1:15.6 | Trump is 14 points underwater right now. |
| 1:18.6 | And on his administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, largely ginned up by |
| 1:23.2 | his own coalition and base of core supporters, Pius says just 25% of all Americans approve of how he's handling that. |
| 1:31.6 | And it compares to 70% who do not approve of how Donald Trump is handling the Jeffrey |
| 1:37.3 | Epstein files. |
| 1:38.8 | Before you write any of that off, this is a small matter. |
| 1:41.7 | Go beyond the numbers. |
| 1:42.9 | Look at what elected Republicans are hearing |
| 1:45.4 | about the so-called Epstein files. This is from Wyoming. Wyoming is a state Donald Trump won |
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