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Trump’s Cruel Policies Are Tanking His Poll Numbers

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller joins Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House to discuss how Donald Trump’s reckless immigration and economic policies are driving his approval ratings into freefall, hurting small businesses, and causing political damage even among his own supporters.

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0:00.0

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0:24.9

suffering political consequences as a result of his reckless and cruel policy actions across a number

0:32.8

of fronts. Talked about the poll numbers, showing that his treatment of Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia has less

0:41.5

favorability than almost anything else that he is doing or has done, which went against a lot

0:47.1

of conventional wisdom on whether or not the immigration issue was something Democrats could

0:51.7

fight on. It was right at line of what I've been

0:55.0

telling you. But also how we're seeing consequences, economic consequences for small business owners

1:01.4

and how the tariffs are starting to hit a home with people that are inside his basis support.

1:07.1

So it was a good chat with Nicole with my buddy Andrew Wiseman. Check it out.

1:12.1

And we'll see you back here soon.

1:13.2

And subscribe to our feed.

1:14.2

Tim Miller, I have an infinite curiosity about what people thought was going to happen.

1:22.1

Because I think anyone that's watched him just in the political arena understood that a campaign launched in Waco with the words,

1:30.7

I am your retribution, was about burning everything down.

1:34.7

And so I have watched, it is really the first Trump story that has shocked me in nine years

1:41.0

to watch sort of the titans. And tragically, in our country, the smartest people don't go

1:47.1

work in Washington, right? They don't take $110,000 year ceiling salary jobs on Capitol Hill, right?

1:55.6

They go, they're either entrepreneurs or they go work in finance, and they, and so to see the

2:00.4

smartest people in the world shocked by the autocratic things that he did early quickly and incompetently

2:05.4

has been amazing the the piece of it though that I think are the kinds of folks we work for

2:14.4

would would sort of intersect with it is that American families

2:19.7

are going to suffer.

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