Trump Angered by Fresh Slide in Polls as Even Fox Admits He’s Tanking

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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A new CNN poll finds Donald Trump’s approval at an abysmal 36 percent. And a Washington Post survey finds him absolutely tanking on just about all major issues. But to Trump, this cannot be real: He just issued an angry, rambling tirade about how such polls are "fake." He even declared that his support is “silent,” while insisting he got many millions more votes in 2024 than he actually got. Amusingly, this came even as Fox News aired a striking graphic showing Trump’s approval on tariffs at an abysmal 34-64. This isn’t the first time Fox has admitted how badly things are going: The network’s own recent poll found him deeply underwater on the economy, tariffs, and even immigration. We talked to Marquette University political scientist Julia Azari, author of a good new piece explaining how Trump operates outside the Constitution. We discuss how this extra-Constitutional governing is itself rendering him deeply unpopular, why Trump’s poll denial reflects a refusal to acknowledge legitimate opposition, and what it all tells us about the current state of the American experiment. 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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1:03.1	With Donald Trump set to deliver his State of the Union speech, he just got hit with a barrage of brutal new polling.
1:11.8	One survey has him 27 points underwater, and the other shows him absolutely tanking on virtually all major issues.
1:19.2	Yet in a strange rambling tirade to reporters, Trump simply denied any of this polling is real,
1:23.2	and at one point he even declared that his support is silent.
1:27.7	We think something big is missing from discussions of Trump's bleeding of support.
1:33.0	A lot of it is due not just to costs, but also to Trump's flagrant abuses of power.
1:39.1	Political scientist Julia Azari of Marquette University has an interesting new piece,
1:44.7	breaking down all the ways that Trump is fundamentally governing outside the constitutional order.
1:48.8	So we're talking to Julia about the role that's playing in his failures.
1:50.8	Good to have you on, Julia.
1:53.0	Thank you so much for having me.
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