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The Beat with Ari Melber

Trump This Week: Plummeting Polls, Court Losses, Tariff Doubts

The Beat with Ari Melber

MSNBC

Government, Daily News, Politics, News

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Friday, April 25, and reports on the economic turmoil under President Trump and his attacks on free speech. Plus, Rev. Al Sharpton and Nems join for the latest "Fallback" installment. Will Sommer and Margaret Carlson also join.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We end what has been quite a week.

0:01.9

We are going towards 100 days on Tuesday next week.

0:04.3

You're going to be hearing about that if you follow the news and politics.

0:07.9

This is, therefore, the final Friday until President Trump hits that big 100-day marker.

0:13.7

He's ending another very rough week.

0:17.0

And a lot of the ingredients that made it so rough, chaotic and even hellish for the Trump administration were largely of Trump's own making.

0:26.1

President Trump marks 100 days in office next week, but new polling shows voters see little to celebrate.

0:32.9

Americans are not buying what Donald Trump is selling them.

0:35.9

The polls, you know, they're not extraordinary.

0:38.5

He is underwater when it comes to the economy, tariffs, and inflation.

0:41.7

It's been one of the worst April since the Great Depression and the most volatile April

0:45.6

since the global financial crisis.

0:47.4

She saw the markets tanking and blinked.

0:49.9

There were a rough couple of days there in the courtroom for the Trump administration.

0:54.1

Well, once again today, Donald Trump backed down.

0:57.7

Once again today, the man who always pretends, he never backs down.

1:03.7

Never.

1:05.3

Backed down big time.

1:09.1

That is true, as our friend and colleague Lawrence O'Donnell puts it there. And you'll notice in

1:14.1

that brief summary, I just showed you how this week is playing. We included coverage and reaction

1:19.4

from folks across different networks. This is not one of those things that splits into America

1:25.1

sometimes divided perspectives of what do you consume and what do you think

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