It is Saturday, December the 13th, and the honeymoon period for Donald Trump is over.

Multiple polls now show that his approval rating is deep underwater as the public grows

weary of how his administration is handling or

mishandling many of his top campaign promises. A new poll from AP and Norke released

this week shows that Trump's approval rating stands at just 36% unchanged

from last month which represents a record low for his second term. It's the third

poll in as many weeks to show deep debt dissatisfaction

with his job performance, following similar results from surveys conducted by Gallup and Reuters

Ipsos. They offer strong proof that many Americans have soured on how the Trump administration is

carrying out many of its top priorities, including its vicious and sometimes violent crackdown on legal

and illegal immigration, which is terrorizing communities of color and tearing families apart.

If you recall during the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump made no secret of the fact that he

wanted to deport millions of, quote, criminal illegal aliens. But the reality and the brutality of how the Trump

administration is carrying out its mass deportation operation is driving people away from him. And the face of

that merciless crackdown is the Homeland Security Secretary, Christy Noem. She's been on the receiving

end of a lot of intense scrutiny, including for Issa's inhumane and potentially illegal treatment of immigrants.

Those concerns began not long after she was confirmed by the Senate, and it became a huge flashpoint in the spring after the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrago Garcia, whose Kafkaesque case has become a saga in itself.

Abrago Garcia is a Salvadoran national who entered the United States without authorization

when he was a teenager.

In 2019, a judge ruled that he could not be deported back to El Salvador where he faced

danger from a gang.

But that's exactly what the Trump administration did back in March.

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