This is the warning.

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

As the legend hold, St. Patrick cast the snakes out of Ireland and into the sea.

Whether true or not, there are no snakes in Ireland today, but many slither about in these United States.

And if you were to turn on the television this morning on NBC News or to look at the

Drudge Report, then you would have had a chill run down your spine.

When you heard the news today that Donald Trump is more popular

than he has ever been maintaining his apogee of 47% approval as he degrades America's

alliances, insults our allies, wages economic war on Canada, sells

out Ukraine, assaults the government, treats government employees like insects, and rambles

nonsensical idiocies from morning till night. But these numbers that celebrate Trump's strength should

not make you look away. They should make you look more closely. So we're going to do something

this morning. I'm going to take you through the poll as if you were my client sitting across the

table and we had a talk this morning at the meeting

about the NBC poll. Now, let's get into it. The number that's being sold to the American people

at the news in the poll is this one that shows Trump's approval strength, this number 47. And in fact,

that is a high number for Trump. Now, here's the way

you have to read these. You have to connect two numbers in the poll. You have to connect on the negative

side, those that feel very negative. I would be one of those people about Trump and those that feel somewhat negative about him.

And then on the other side of that, there are people who are okay with Trump, kind of like them,

and there are people that are really into them.

When you add those numbers up and you can do the same for Elon Musk and for J.D. Vance, for the Republican

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