Trump Press Sec’s Weird Fawning Rant Goes Awry as Poll Slide Worsens

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered one of her most obsequious, fawning tirades about President Trump yet. She credited him with single-handedly resolving a half dozen major geopolitical conflicts around the world, and angrily asserted that it’s high time Trump is granted the Nobel Peace Prize. It’s no accident that this came amid new polling evidence that Trump’s coalition is falling apart in a freshly dangerous way for him, as documented in a great new piece by New Republic senior editor Alex Shephard. In today’s episode, Shephard explains how the numbers show key constituencies getting away from him. We discuss all the ways Leavitt’s North Korea-style propaganda actually works against Trump by reinforcing the emperor-has-no-clothes vibe around him, why the press is reluctant to tell the truth about his unpopularity, how Democrats need to stop treating him as if he’s invincible, and what that should look like. 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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0:29.6	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:46.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
1:02.6	We don't think it's really sunken in with people just how badly President Trump is doing in the polls right now.
1:06.2	He is deeply underwater on every major issue.
1:14.6	And in another data point, new Gallup numbers show party identification among Democrats rising and among Republicans falling.
1:18.6	Trump's political situation is very precarious.
1:21.7	The fate of many of these trade deals is up in the air.
1:28.7	Inflation just rose again by a key metric, and Trump just had a terrible day in an appeals court where judges were skeptical of the legality of his tariffs. We don't know for sure that those will even hold up.
1:34.9	We can always tell when Trump is in a shaky situation when press secretary Caroline Levitt
1:40.3	rushes in to praise him with absurdly over-the-top obsequious flattery, and boy, did she not
1:46.7	disappoint this time. Today we're talking about all this with New Republic Senior Editor
1:51.8	Alex Shepard, who has a great new piece taking stock of Trump's overall cratering and polls
1:56.9	across the board. Thanks for coming on, Alex. That's great to be back. So, Alex, let's quickly
2:03.0	take stock of the situation. The consumer price index is up again, up 2.6% from a year earlier. Some
2:09.5	headlines, New York Times, quote, key inflation measure rose in June. ABC News, similar.
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