The Daily Blast: Trump’s Fury at Dems Goes Nuclear as Crushing New Shutdown Poll Hits

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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President Trump’s fury at Democrats over the government shutdown is escalating. First he angrily announced that he’s “terminated” the big tunnel project connecting New York and New Jersey, basically saying he’d done this to punish Chuck Schumer, an extraordinarily deranged act of direct retribution. Then he unleashed a rambling tirade filled with lies about “mentally damaged” Democrats’ shutdown stance. All this comes as a new CNBC poll finds Trump and the GOP blamed for economic damage over the shutdown by 53-37. This has driven his economic approval down to 42-55, the worst ever in CNBC polling, with his standing on inflation at an abysmal 34-62. We talked to Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg, author of “The Hopium Chronicles.” He argues we should focus on the fundamentals: Trump is doing immense harm to the country, he’s deeply unpopular, and that will matter in the midterms—though Rosenberg also discusses why beating Trump and recovering from our authoritarian slide will be a brutal longer-term slog. 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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1:41.3	We're in a really strange moment right now. As the government shutdown drags on, President
1:50.5	Trump's rants about Democrats and his angry threats are growing more degenerate and detached
1:56.3	from reality by the day. He seems utterly incapable of grasping the degree to which all this is
2:02.5	backfiring on him. His lies about Democrats and health care are only driving them to dig in further,
2:10.0	and his bizarre new boast about killing a major tunnel project connecting New York and New Jersey
2:15.1	is clearly helping the Democratic candidate in the New Jersey
2:18.6	gubernatorial race. Meanwhile, a striking new CNBC poll suggests that the shutdown is causing
2:25.2	Trump to absolutely crater. Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg has been arguing that we should
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