Trump's Approval Hits a New Low, ICE Book-ins Hit a Record High, and the Heat Slip Up on LeBron
The Breakfast Club
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🗓️ 23 July 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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A new Economist/YouGov poll finds President Trump's approval rating near record lows, with just thirty-six percent of Americans approving of his performance. More than forty-three thousand people were booked into ICE detention in June, the highest monthly total since President Trump returned to office. And the Miami Heat accidentally posted a YouTube link titled "LeBron James Introductory Press Conference," dated July 27th, before quickly deleting it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:09.2 | A new poll finds President Trump's approval ratings near record lows with just 36% of Americans approving his performance. |
| 0:17.1 | The economy is doing great. |
| 0:19.3 | The stock market's higher now than when I came to office, |
| 0:21.7 | and we've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariff money. And more than 35,000 people |
| 0:27.6 | were booked into ICE's attention in June. The highest monthly total since President Trump returned |
| 0:33.4 | to office. We're not making this up. We're enforcement laws they wrote. They appropriate us money to enforce it. |
| 0:40.1 | And the Miami Heat accidentally posting a YouTube link titled LeBron James' introductory |
| 0:45.5 | press conference before quickly deleting it. |
| 0:48.7 | It's the third time I've been a pre-agent. |
| 0:51.3 | It's Thursday, July 23rd. |
| 0:53.6 | From the Black Effect Podcast Network, I'm Mimi Brown. This is |
| 0:57.3 | front page, and here are the day's biggest stories. Stay with me. President Trump's approval |
| 1:06.9 | rating is slipping again. A new economist UGov poll finds 36% of Americans approve of the job he's doing. |
| 1:14.1 | That gives the president a net approval rating of negative 24. |
| 1:18.9 | Just two points above the lowest rating he's recorded across both of his terms in office. |
| 1:24.6 | For comparison, that puts Trump below former Joe Biden's lowest approval point, |
| 1:29.7 | which reached negative 23. The poll surveyed more than 1,600 adults between July 17th and |
| 1:36.5 | July 20th. The survey also found more Americans are questioning the president's age. |
| 1:42.1 | 52% now say Trump is too old to serve as president up 12 points since January. |
| 1:48.0 | On the issues, 47% say the economy is in poor shape, the highest level recorded in this poll |
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