TRUMP IS LOSING ONE APPROVAL POINT EVERY FIVE DAYS - 5.1.25
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
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SEASON 3 EPISODE 122: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump is the greatest president of all time... at losing public support! Almost overlooked in the typical maelstrom, analysis by the last King of 538: Trump's Net Approval Rating has fallen farther, faster, than any other president since they started keeping the statistic in 1953. On Inauguration Day he was at Net Plus 10. After 100 Days he's already at Net MINUS 10. At this rate, by August he'll be at NET MINUS 30. He is losing an approval point every FIVE DAYS. By itself, the Net Minus 10 is also a record.
And that's just the start of Trump's polling crater. Internal Republican Congressional Campaign polling has him at a Net Minus Seven inside vulnerable swing House districts. He is collapsing faster than he is collapsing the economy! This sets up the prospect of a Democratic landslide next year, if only the Democrats will TRY. Chuck Schumer's response? More bipartisanship in spending bills!
B-Block (33:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer wants an ethics investigation of Minnesota Congresswoman Angie Craig because when he was too terrified to host a town hall in his district, she did. Their districts ADJOIN. DC US Attorney nominee Ed Martin sinks further into deceit over Hitler cosplayer Hale-Cusanelli. And Trump demands Penn apologize for letting transgender athletes compete or he'll withhold $175 million in funding. My suggestion? Penn should declare that Trump got his degree from Penn's Wharton School by deception and sue HIM FOR $175 MILLION. And new developments in Bill Maher's self-immolation. He did something ELSE about Trump - eight years ago - that he attacked Larry David for doing last week!
C-Block (45:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: If I didn't actually invent the mobile phone, there is every chance I was the first to use one on the streets of New York City. It was this time of year, about 35 years ago, and it still shocks me that I actually stopped pedestrian traffic on 42nd Street just by answering a call.
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| 0:00.0 | Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:17.2 | Donald Trump is the greatest president of all time at losing support in the polls as fast as humanly |
| 0:28.4 | possible. He has hemorrhaged approval. He has turned his honeymoon into a divorce, |
| 0:34.8 | and he is setting up a Democratic landslide next year, if only the Democrats |
| 0:39.2 | would try, and the evidence went by so fast, the real report card on the first hundred days, |
| 0:46.7 | well, 102 days, it went by so fast almost nobody noticed. |
| 0:51.0 | Elliot Morris, the last king of 538.com, now in charge of strength in numbers, |
| 0:58.5 | calculated the change in Trump's approval, the depth of his sinking underwater since day one |
| 1:05.9 | to day 100, and it is the worst in American polling history, dating back to 1953, worse even than |
| 1:14.7 | Trump's own first term. He was a net plus nine at the time of his inauguration, and he is at |
| 1:21.9 | minus 10 now. Plus 9 to minus 10 in 100 days. |
| 1:28.4 | And the minus 10 is itself a presidential record. |
| 1:33.1 | The move from positive territory to gurgle, gurgle, your drowning is a record. |
| 1:38.6 | The dispelling of the notion that he might be okay this fast is a record. |
| 1:43.6 | He is the most worst president of all time. |
| 1:49.2 | As Morris notes, only Gerald Ford is even in Trump's league. And even after Ford pardoned Nixon and shed half his support, Ford was still a net plus and a net plus 24. At 100 days, |
| 2:04.1 | Carter was a net plus 55. George W. Bush was a net plus 27. Trump is a net minus 10. He is drowning. |
| 2:14.7 | He is losing an average of one approval point every five days. At this rate by early |
| 2:21.5 | August, he would be at net minus 30. I mean, this is worse than the economy. That's how bad these |
| 2:28.9 | numbers are. Trump only wasted 7% of the value of the stock market in the first hundred days, and gross domestic |
| 2:35.2 | product only shrank three-tenths of a point when it was supposed to continue the huge growth |
| 2:39.3 | it had under Biden. Trump went from net plus 10 to net minus 10 in 100 days, and that's just the |
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