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The Beat with Ari Melber

Trump Opposition Hits New High

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, Government, News, Versant, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant Media

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

MS NOW’s Ari Melber reports on President Trump’s plummeting approval ratings amid the Iran war and rising gas prices, and is joined by legendary political strategist James Carville.

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0:00.0

Welcome to beat everyone. We begin with Donald Trump's political crisis. This is a domestic story

0:05.2

with international implications. Fox News has a poll. Think about the source, showing a record 59%

0:12.1

of Americans disapprove of Trump's presidency now. That's the highest across both terms among Hispanics.

0:18.4

It's far worse. Disapproval surging to 72 percent. And that's a group that he

0:25.5

had actually made up some ground with in the last election. Trump faces scrutiny for failing across

0:30.7

the board. It's not one failure like prices. And people say, well, presidents don't have sole

0:35.1

control of the economy or just on foreign policy,

0:38.1

or just on the ICE tactics. It's basically disapproval across the board. On immigration,

0:44.6

well, people don't like what they saw, especially over the last few months. Gas prices are now

0:48.8

a dollar higher than a month ago, and that is a choice that is a direct result. Donald Trump made the choice to start the Iran

0:57.8

war. Very few Americans were prepped for it or thought it was necessary, and now they're paying for

1:02.6

it, quite literally. White House officials reportedly examining what the continued spike in oil prices

1:07.2

means for the broader economy, because Bloomberg, a nonpartisan finance outlet,

1:12.2

is reporting on how this could lead to a wider recession, which is something that even

1:16.6

from a self-interested perspective, Trump doesn't want because it would hurt him further in the

1:20.0

midterms. As for the war, take a listen. I won't use the word war because they say, if you use the word war, that's maybe not a good thing to do.

1:30.8

They don't like the word war because you're supposed to get approval.

1:35.3

So I'll use the word military operation, which is really what it is.

1:39.1

It's called a military decimation.

1:42.9

A verbal or superficial approach to these problems is not very appealing

1:47.9

according to the polls, Donald Trump suggesting it's about words or branding, but real Americans

1:53.0

are dying over there. And using different words for that doesn't change that. Privately, we're

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