Trump's Bad Week

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Over the past few days, Republicans have suffered some major losses at the ballot box, Supreme Court justices have expressed skepticism about tariffs and Congress’s refusal to end the government shutdown will result in thousands of canceled flights. It adds up to a very bad week for the Trump White House. In a special round-table episode, The Times’s national political correspondent Lisa Lerer, the White House correspondent Tyler Pager and the congressional editor Julie Davis try to make sense of it all.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavarro. This is the Daily.
0:09.1	Over the past few days, President Trump has endured major setbacks at the ballot box where Republicans lost races across the country, at the Supreme
0:23.6	Court, which appears poised to strike down his tariffs, and in Congress, whose refusal to end
0:31.1	the government shutdown will result in thousands of canceled airline flights beginning on Friday.
0:38.3	Today, I try to make sense of all of that with three of my colleagues, National Political Correspondent Lisa Lair, White House correspondent Tyler Pager, and Congressional Editor Julie Davis.
1:01.3	It's Friday, November 7th.
1:09.4	So shall we get started?
1:10.2	Yeah.
1:10.8	Okay. Lisa L? Yeah. Okay.
1:11.6	Lisa Lairn.
1:12.7	Hi.
1:13.4	Welcome back to the Roundtable.
1:15.6	Julie Davis, good to see you.
1:17.2	Great to be here.
1:18.4	Tyler Pager, always a pleasure.
1:20.0	Thanks for having me.
1:21.3	I want to start this conversation with you all with a very simple question for the three of you.
1:26.7	Has this been the worst week for President
1:31.6	Trump in the second term? I think there's a good case to make yes because voters actually
1:39.1	weighed in on how he was doing. And I think we've seen a lot of polling, but it's different when people
1:44.8	actually go to the ballot box and register their feelings, and their feelings were overwhelmingly
1:49.8	opposed to the broader Republican Party at this point. And up until this week, President Trump
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