Donald Trump has long been struggling in the polls, but according to CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten, he is currently at a “term-two low.”
On Wednesday, Enten broke down the most recent data, which shows the majority of Americans disapprove of the president on every single issue.
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“Six months in, the rules of political gravity absolutely apply to Donald Trump,” Enten said, “and the USS Donald Trump has taken on a lot of water,” he added, comparing the president to a naval ship.
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Enten began by talking about Trump’s net approval rating, which he explained started at plus six points in January and has since dropped to minus 11 points.
“His net approval rating has dropped nearly 20 points in the aggregate since the beginning of his presidency,” Enten explained. “The American people do not like what they’re seeing, and Donald Trump’s administration is in a ton of trouble at this point in the minds of the American voters.”
He then broke down voter disapproval by issue.
“[He’s] minus-five points on immigration – his best issue, he’s underwater. How about the economy? That was what he was elected for – minus-14 points. How about foreign policy? Minus-14 points. How about trade and those tariff wars? Minus-15 points. And, of course, the Epstein case, the lowest of the bunch, minus-37 points, 37 points below water.”
Indeed, even some of the most ardent Trumpers are turning on the president due to his administration’s treatment of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Trump has lashed out at supporters for their anger that he won’t release files about the late sex trafficker that the administration has long been dangling in front of them. He has continued to try to convince people to forget about Epstein, despite the fact that the MAGA world has been obsessed with the case for years and despite the fact that Trump, himself, has fueled that obsession.
Many have speculated that the reason more information has not been released is because Trump himself – or at least high-ranking members of his administration – was actively involved in Epstein’s misdealings. Trump – who has been accused of sexual assault or other forms of sexual impropriety by at least 27 women – had a decades-long friendship with Epstein and joked about how his friend was “fun” and “terrific” and liked women “on the younger side.”
The Epstein issue appears to be the one thing that his most devoted fans cannot explain away or forgive him for, though as Enten shows, it’s far from the only issue people are unhappy with.
“No matter it seems what Donald Trump does, the American people do not like it,” Enten concluded.
He then joked that his “one piece of good news” for the president is that there is one other presidency that had a lower net approval rating at this point than this one. “The bad news is that it was Donald Trump’s other presidency,” he revealed.
He also pointed out that at this point in a presidency, the average president since 1953 has enjoyed a plus 27 net approval rating, further emphasizing just how poorly Trump is polling.
“It seems to me that Donald Trump is about 40 points lower than the average president at this particular point,” Enten concluded. “He has the second-worst net approval rating at this point. He is underwater on all the major issues of the day. The bottom line is, six months into this administration, I think that most Americans would apply the word or words disaster, terrible, awful, horrible. I think that is the way that the American people would see it at this particular point.”
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