Speaker 1: Now let's get to Washington and the poll numbers that
Speaker 1: show Americans are not that happy with President Trump after
Speaker 1: nearly one hundred days in office. That's according to a
Speaker 1: new ABC News Slash Washington Post poll okay or IPSUS
Speaker 1: IPSOS poll. It says just thirty nine percent of respondents
Speaker 1: in this poll said they approve of how Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is handling his job as president. That's down six points
Speaker 1: from February, while fifty five percent said they disapprove. This
Speaker 1: beats the previous low of forty two percent for a
Speaker 1: president at or near one hundred days in office dating
Speaker 1: back to nineteen forty five. The forty two percent was
Speaker 1: also Donald Trump in twenty seventeen. Meanwhile, more Americans are
Speaker 1: losing faith in the president when it comes to the economy,
Speaker 1: despite running on a platform of economic turnaround. Seventy two
Speaker 1: percent of those responding to the polls say they think
Speaker 1: it's or somewhat likely that Trump's economic policies will cause
Speaker 1: a recession in the short term. And finally, the poll
Speaker 1: shows the Democratic Party remains out of favor with the
Speaker 1: public at large. People said they trust Donald Trump over
Speaker 1: the Democrats in Congress to handle the nation's main problems
Speaker 1: by thirty seven percent to thirty percent. Furthermore, while sixty
Speaker 1: percent said Trump is out of touch with the concerns
Speaker 1: of most people in the country, even more, sixty nine
Speaker 1: percent said the Democratic Party is out of touch. It's
Speaker 1: sixty four percent for the Republican Party. Overall, Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: let's get the good out of the way to talk
Speaker 1: about the president forty seventh President of the United States,
Speaker 1: formerly the forty fifth President of the United States of America.
Speaker 1: When it comes to immigration enforcement, there is no doubt
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump has been successful. We can slice it
Speaker 1: any way we want to. But Joe Biden having an
Speaker 1: open bold the policy caused a lot of problems in
Speaker 1: this nation, particularly the psyche of American citizens. You cannot
Speaker 1: have folks crossing the border illegally, in an under d
Speaker 1: in an undocumented fashion, thinking that that is going to
Speaker 1: bold well for American citizens. Whether it's courtesy of fifty
Speaker 1: three million dollars in prepaid credit cards that were doled
Speaker 1: out by the Adams Situ administration, the Mayor of New York,
Speaker 1: whether it's Gavin Newsom in the state of California, indicating
Speaker 1: that there's some debt issues with medicare because of the
Speaker 1: money that you spent on a legal immigration, whether it's
Speaker 1: crimes in the streets, whether it's the perception that the
Speaker 1: streets are unsafe in the streets of America simply because
Speaker 1: of an immigrant, an immigration problem, you cannot have that.
Speaker 1: And the fact that Trump rolled up in there and
Speaker 1: cleaned this stuff up, prioritizing border control role definitely is
Speaker 1: going to be perceived as a plus, whether Democrats and
Speaker 1: others like it or not. Swift cabinet confirmations is another
Speaker 1: successful thing. Why because thirteen cabinet nominees were confirmed within
Speaker 1: ten weeks of passing the pace of the previous administrations.
Speaker 1: You gotta give them credit for that, because you got
Speaker 1: people in place to get things done, assuming they get
Speaker 1: things done. Energy policy reversals, we all know that Trump
Speaker 1: sounded executive orders promoting fossil fuel development, including revoking electric
Speaker 1: vehicle mandates and encouraging energy exploration on federal lands. This
Speaker 1: is considered a good thing, ladies and gentlemen. And of
Speaker 1: course foreign policy initiatives, because efforts have been made to
Speaker 1: broke the ceasefires in Ukraine and Gaza, and so he's
Speaker 1: going to get some credit for trying to make inrolls,
Speaker 1: for making inroads. Rather in that regard. Here's the bad.
Speaker 1: There's still economic concerns. You saw the poll numbers right,
Speaker 1: and another poll indicated only eleven percent of Americans felt
Speaker 1: better off economically since Trump three election, with fifty one
Speaker 1: percent believing the economy is deteriorating. And tight tariffs have
Speaker 1: been cited as a significant misstep because you were targeting
Speaker 1: not just China but everybody, which meant some of them
Speaker 1: were our allies who ultimately turned towards being enemies and
Speaker 1: were willing to talk to China about doing business with
Speaker 1: them because of the position that Donald Trump and his
Speaker 1: administration took were led by Peter Navarro, by the way,
Speaker 1: that was problematic. You also got a situation involving civil
Speaker 1: rights rollbacks. Let's not forget that the Trump administration aggressively
Speaker 1: targeted DEI efforts, including defunding health research for black communities
Speaker 1: and cutting support for historically black institutions. According to some
Speaker 1: folks on Capitol Hill, that is not something to be
Speaker 1: flattered that he should be flattered about. That is a problem, okay.
Speaker 1: And then of course there's distrained international relations. His former
Speaker 1: policy moves such as withdrawing from the World Health Organization
Speaker 1: and the Paris Climate Agreement and attempting to annex Greenland
Speaker 1: that weakened alliances and drew international criticism. So I look
Speaker 1: at it that from that standpoint, Doge that remains to
Speaker 1: be seen because they were considered somewhat successful in terms
Speaker 1: of their course saving efforts, but it's been controversial, and
Speaker 1: of course we have to give him credit as far
Speaker 1: as I'm concerned in protecting women's sports in that regard,
Speaker 1: because we all know with the whole transgender thing and
Speaker 1: the participation in women's sports, that was something that needed
Speaker 1: to be addressed. So there you have it. Here's what
Speaker 1: I walk away with more than anything. Despite his low
Speaker 1: approval ratings, he's still more popular than the Democrats. So
Speaker 1: it's really the ultimate indictment against the Democratic Party because again,
Speaker 1: despite the noise that he has made, and despite unfavorably
Speaker 1: he's looked upon, the Democrats still can't beat him because
Speaker 1: you still have nobody to beat him. You don't have
Speaker 1: a face that resonates nationally. You don't have some who's
Speaker 1: dogged in their beliefs who happen to be able to resonate.
Speaker 1: We saw Corey book At the Senator, who's been a
Speaker 1: guest on this show speak for twenty five straight hours.
Speaker 1: Not too many people cared. We see Jasmine Crockett and AOC,
Speaker 1: you know, speaking with this weecon. Not too many people
Speaker 1: are caring. We see AOC going on tour with Bernie
Speaker 1: Sanders and they're drawing some crowds. But here's the reality
Speaker 1: going the hell off about Trump ain't gonna get you
Speaker 1: so far because all you're showing us is that you're
Speaker 1: not willing to work with him. And because you're not
Speaker 1: willing to work with him, and the Democrats have control
Speaker 1: of neither the White House, the House of Representatives, or
Speaker 1: the Senate, you're powerless. You're just blowing into the wind.
Speaker 1: The Democrats have got to win the midterm. They've got
Speaker 1: to win the midterm, whether it's the Senate or the House,
Speaker 1: they've got to win the midterm. Because if you don't win,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to work with you, because the GOP
Speaker 1: is going to stand with it, because they're going to
Speaker 1: petrified that they'll be booted out of office by their constituency,
Speaker 1: because Trump will work to turn the constituency against them
Speaker 1: so they're gonna march lockstep with him when it really
Speaker 1: really counts. Based on what I'm looking at, he could
Speaker 1: lose some of them if he alienates them. He's already
Speaker 1: made the Supreme Court a bit suspect of some of
Speaker 1: the things he suggested, courtesy of all the lawsuits that
Speaker 1: have come their way because of the executive orders that
Speaker 1: he has signed, and how that's worked out because he
Speaker 1: got a lawsuit every other day for crime out loud.
Speaker 1: But in the end, it doesn't amount to anything if
Speaker 1: you don't have a Democratic candidate anywhere who can take
Speaker 1: him on or one of his surrogates that's going to
Speaker 1: succeed them in twenty twenty eight, assuming he doesn't elect,
Speaker 1: he doesn't pull off, rather circumvent in the twenty second Amendment,
Speaker 1: and he gets to run for a third term. By
Speaker 1: the way, I'm just guessing, but it's an education to
Speaker 1: guess based on some of the things that I'm hearing.
Speaker 1: While Barack Obama has no interest in returning the office,
Speaker 1: that may change. If Trump, courtesy of Steve Bannon and
Speaker 1: his crew, get to circumvent that twenty second Amendment, it
Speaker 1: may change. Could you imagine Trump versus Obama for the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight presidency. Say what you will, but that
Speaker 1: would be mustcy TV. We'd be transfixed. I don't even
Speaker 1: know if it's worth talking about anything else if that happens,
Speaker 1: because everybody be talking about Obama versus Trump, Obama versus Trump.
Speaker 1: That's all I have to say about that.