"The thing about snake oil"
Deadline: White House
Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the Tariff King, and the Tariff King has done a great job, and I hope we win the Supreme Court case, because if we don't, be a shame for our country. |
| 0:13.8 | Be a shame. |
| 0:14.5 | We have a great, safe, beautiful country now. |
| 0:17.8 | We're doing better than we've ever done. |
| 0:21.3 | Hi again, everybody. It's 5 o'clock in New York. So here's the thing about snake oil and a |
| 0:25.9 | fundamental truth understood by those who seek to sell it. Eventually, ultimately, people catch on. |
| 0:33.7 | And the product inevitably fails to produce the promised result, the salesman's con, |
| 0:39.6 | collapses in on itself spectacularly, and the gig is up. |
| 0:43.7 | The only hope for the snake oil salesman is to get out of town before his customers wise up to him. |
| 0:50.1 | For Donald Trump, though, there's really nowhere to go. |
| 0:53.5 | There's nowhere to hide this afternoon. |
| 0:55.2 | He has to sit there and watch as the Americans he lied to and swindled the false promises of a vibrant economy and disentanglements from foreign conflicts, |
| 1:05.1 | increasingly come to understand a simple truth about Donald Trump. |
| 1:08.8 | He was lying about everything. |
| 1:10.5 | They got played. Trump's |
| 1:11.7 | overall approval rating in a new AP Norc poll merely scratches the surface, 19 points underwater |
| 1:19.0 | overall, plus that number on the lower right, two-thirds of independence now disapprove |
| 1:24.4 | with Donald Trump. On his handling of immigration, more specifically, that same poll shows 61% of all Americans disapprove of Donald Trump on his handling of immigration more specifically. That same poll shows |
| 1:28.9 | 61% of all Americans disapprove of Donald Trump on immigration. And look at the relatives as Republicans. |
| 1:35.9 | Only 76% of the Republicans in Trump's own party approve of him. For him, that is a very low number and alarming one. |
| 1:43.9 | It goes on. 61% disapprove of how |
| 1:46.6 | he's handling foreign policy. That number's 57% on Venezuela. On the economy, 37% of Americans are |
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