The Daily Blast: Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The other day your faithful podcast host argued that Donald Trump’s presidency is in free fall in terms of public opinion. Now the signs are even clearer: His approval ratings have dropped below 40 percent in The New York Times’s polling averages and in two other sets of averages as well. That’s a critical milestone. Meanwhile, CNN’s Harry Enten powerfully points out that Trump has been on a steady, inexorable decline for months, and is now a net 45 points under water with independents. That’s worse than Richard Nixon during Watergate. And the millions who showed up to protest Trump and No Kings marches last weekend constituted perhaps the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. We talked to Leah Greenberg, co-founder of Indivisible, which organized the protests. She explains what surprised her about No Kings turnout in red areas, explores the deeper reasons that Trump is cratering on unlikely issues like immigration and war, and digs into what Democrats must do to sustain this energy through Election Day. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:30.1	Donald Trump's unpopularity is hitting some important milestones.
0:36.4	His approval rating has dropped below 40% in at least three different sets of polling averages.
0:39.6	What's more, another analysis shows Trump is more unpopular with independence than any president at this point in his second term,
0:45.1	including Richard Nixon. And millions of people across the country just marched to protest
0:50.8	his presidency in what may be the largest single-day protest in U.S. history.
0:56.4	So what's the real nature of the connection between those protests and Trump's plummeting
1:01.3	approval numbers? The answer to that will give us a sense of what it all means for the fall
1:06.2	elections. So we're talking today to Leah Greenberg, a co-founder of Indivisible, the group that organized those
1:12.2	protests, about what to make of what's going on out there in the country. Leah, nice to have
1:17.1	you on. Great to be here. So Leah, what's the final estimate on the turnout at the protests over the
1:22.8	weekend? And by the way, congrats. Thank you. Thank you. Well, so our final estimate is more than 8 million folks showed up across 3,300 events around the country and around the world.
1:32.6	We had people in all seven continents.
1:35.6	And one of the things that was really powerful and exciting about this March was, or this moment was the sheer number of those new events that were taking place in red, rural, and
1:45.5	suburban areas. We've long had really incredible turnout in a lot of those big blue city centers,
1:51.3	but what we are seeing across the country is a real incredible spread at a very hyper-localized
1:57.1	level of this discontent and this visibility of opposition to the Trump administration.
2:01.9	Well, I really want to come back to that because his erosion in Red America and with the
2:07.1	base is an important thing. So the New York Times polling averages have Trump at 39% approval
2:13.8	with 56% disapproving. Nate Silver's polling averages have them at 39.6%. And the 50 plus
2:21.2	one website has Trump even lower at 37% approval to 58% disapproval. Leah, all three of those are below 40%.
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