President Donald Trump has sunk to historic lows in his approval rating, and CNN's Harry Enten sees "no sign" that he can turn things around.
The 79-year-old president has been underwater in approval for more than a year now, and his war in Iran has driven up fuel costs around the world and made consumer costs even higher, which has driven down his approval rating even lower.
"We are talking as low as Death Valley, and this, I thinkis so key here," Enten said. "You know, it is sped up now, butthis has been a steady fall intothe abyss – there is no bottom,Death Valley. See, that ishow low we are going, and lookat this. I think this reallyjust kind of shows that it isnot one event that is dragging Donald Trump down. It's a slewof events that have come together and have continuouslydropped his net approval rating.You know, you go back to lastyear, when he was sworn in for asecond term, he was at plus-sixpoints, then minus-three pointsa year ago, minus-seven pointsnine months ago, minus-10points on Oct. 20, 2025."
"January 2026, minus-13 points, andnow all the way down to minus-18points, a term-two low, and whatis so key to point out here islet's just say that somehow wegot out of the Iran wartomorrow," Enten added. "Yeah, might ctlimb alittle bit, but we have seenthis steady, slow or steady anddropping number that just seemsno sign of rising."
That trend is different from his first term, when Trump was actually rising in approval at this point in 2018, and Enten said his approval with independents was historically awful.
"Eye-popping indeed," Enten said. "Thisnumber, if there's one bignumber from this is that Donald Trump now has the worst netapproval rating amongindependents of any presidentever at this point in term two,he is worse than Richard Nixon,who would be going adios, amigosin a few months back in 1974, and term two, look at this, minus-45points, worse than George W. Bushat this point in term two, the Iraq war was weighing him downat minus-37 and worse than Richard Nixon, when, of course, therewere all those impeachmenthearings back in 1974, at minus-36,he's nearly 10 points worseamong independents on his netapproval rating at this point interm two, Donald Trump, than Richard Nixon. My goodnessgracious."