Trump Prepares For State Of The Union As Approval Ratings Drop
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on 360 what the president will say tomorrow night about the state of the Union and what Americans are already saying in brutal new polling about the state of his presidency. |
| 0:13.0 | Also tonight, Mexico and the Americans stranded in what was a vacation paradise until a drug lord's killing by the government set off a fiery campaign of |
| 0:22.1 | revenge. And breaking news just in in the Nancy Guthrie case, what authorities are now saying about |
| 0:28.0 | one of the surveillance images from her doorbell camera. Good evening, everyone. John Berman here in for |
| 0:34.4 | Anderson. And we begin with the State of the Union, both the message the President will deliver about it tomorrow night and the one that Americans have for him, |
| 0:41.4 | when asked in so many words, for their take on how the country is doing. First, here's the |
| 0:46.5 | president. We have a country that's now doing well. We have the greatest economy we've ever |
| 0:53.3 | had. We have the most activity we've ever had. We have the most activity we've ever had. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm making a speech tomorrow night, and you'll be hearing me say that. |
| 0:59.6 | I mean, it's going to be a long speech because we have so much to talk about. |
| 1:05.5 | Keeping them honest, the economy is doing okay, but not great. |
| 1:10.0 | It grew by an estimated 2.2% last year, down from 2.8% in |
| 1:14.6 | 2024, and growth slowed to an estimated 1.4% in the fourth quarter of last year. As for jobs, |
| 1:21.6 | according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employers added just 181,000 for all of 2025, |
| 1:29.9 | which is about what a healthy economy adds in a typical month. Inflation meantime cooled slightly last month, but remains higher than either |
| 1:35.1 | the Fed or consumers want to see. And more than any other single issue, that is what voters |
| 1:39.9 | want to hear from the president about tomorrow night by a wide margin, according to new CNN polling. |
| 1:46.4 | And though the president did not specify which polls he was talking about, he certainly was talking |
| 1:51.8 | about them today. |
| 1:54.8 | And I had to go through, and I still do, fake stories, fake polls. |
| 1:59.2 | I had polls for the election that showed I was going to get |
| 2:02.7 | swamped and I won in a landslide. They were fake polls because polls are tough. You know, |
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