Trump Spirals into Rage as Brutal Poll Hits and Legal Losses Pile Up

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Donald Trump seems really mad. He exploded over birthright citizenship after his arguments on it fell flat in the Supreme Court. That came despite his decision to show up at the proceedings, another display of anger designed to bully the justices. He also raged at them over this earlier in the week. Meanwhile, Trump is angrily threatening our NATO allies for failing to bail him out by helping reopen the Strait of Hormuz. On top of all that, Trump just suffered a string of losses in the lower courts. And a new CNN poll finds his economic approval at a crushing 31 percent, with 27 percent approving of his handling of inflation. We talked to Corey Brettschneider, an expert on the presidency. He explains how all these failures are rooted in delusions of omnipotence, how Trump is coming face-to-face with the limits on his powers, why it matters that lower courts are performing heroically, and why the ultimate check on Trump is really the people. 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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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:29.8	Donald Trump seems to sense that his power is ebbing.
0:35.8	He raged over birthright citizenship after his arguments on it fell flat in the Supreme Court.
0:39.5	He buffoonishly moved the goalposts on Iran to compensate for his war failures. He sustained many new losses in court, and his polling just took
0:46.0	another huge dive. The throughline to all this is as follows. Trump is trying to maximize
0:52.4	presidential power like no one in recent memory, yet on one
0:56.3	front after another, he's discovering that his powers have limits. One of the best out there
1:02.1	at explaining how presidential power really works is Corey Brechtnyder, author of several books
1:07.6	on the topic. So we're talking to him about all this today.
1:11.9	Corey, good to have you on.
1:13.8	Pleasure, Greg. Always.
1:15.7	So let's start here.
1:18.7	Trump has suddenly suffered a string of losses in court.
1:21.6	A judge temporarily blocked his ballroom.
1:28.6	Another judge ruled against Trump's executive order, ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. Still another rejected his claim of presidential immunity over January 6th, allowing a lawsuit
1:34.2	by police officers to continue.
1:36.8	Corrie, it seems like the connecting line in all this here is that Trump claimed all these
1:41.3	excessive powers and has been told, no. Is that more or less what happened? And what's your take on all these excessive powers and has been told no. Is that more or less what happened?
1:46.1	And what's your take on all these? Well, I think it remains to be seen what the Supreme Court is
1:50.9	going to do or higher courts will do in these cases. But certainly for now, it does look like
1:55.3	he's being stopped. And he's not being stopped by accident. These aren't just one-off cases.
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