'The dam is breaking': Podcast host claims pushback is leading Trump to destruction
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump looks on at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., February 18, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
April 29, 2025
“Protests, polling, and pushback”: These are the three things The New Abnormal pcodast host Jesse Cannon believes show the “Trump dam is breaking.”
Cannon believes small wins like the lowest 100-day approval rating in 70 years are “super important” because they chip away at the “Achilles’ heel" of the president.
“The pushback and protests against all of this do have some wins," he said.
"And I think if we keep doing the wins, we do weaken this,” Cannon said. “I have a lot of skepticism about how it’s gonna work. But I do think that harm reduction is important, and I do think that weakening them, even if it just chips away at the skin of the Achilles’ heel, is super important.”
The podcast co-host Danielle Moodie pointed out polling for President Joe Biden “was in the mid-50s” for the same timeframe and George W. Bush “was in the low-50s.” Trump is at 41%.
She claimed Trump is “circling the drain” with his poll numbers.
The pair later theorized what it would be like to live in a fascist state and if Trump would “cancel the mid-term elections.”
Cannon encouraged the continued “pushback and protests” to “weaken [Trump].