Data analyst aghast at latest Trump polling: 'No joke – what a disaster'

President Donald Trump's approval rating on the key issue that won him re-election has hit a dismal new low, and CNN's Harry Enten is betting things will get worse.

A new CNN poll shows the 79-year-old president's approval for his handling of the economy has hit a personal low of just 31 percent just a year and a half after voters chose him to carry through on his promise to fix inflation immediately upon returning to office, but that hasn't happened and the public is dissatisfied.

"This is no April fool's joke, this is a disaster," Enten said. "All these numbers are a disaster for President Trump. I mean, let's just talk about inflation, which is the name of the game. Okay, highest disapprovals on this inflation about this time in a presidency. Whenever you have Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter on the board and you're matching them or slightly exceeding them when it comes to inflation, you know it's bad. Look at this – 72 percent in our latest CNN poll say they disapprove of the president on inflation. Joe Biden, an average of polls at this point in his presidency, 68 percent, and Jimmy Carter, whose presidency, just like Joe Biden's, was absolutely wrecked by inflation, was at 66 percent about at this point in his presidency back in 1978."

"Donald Trump, even worse than they are," he added. "So you see it here, and the one word is or phrase I might say is, oh my goodness gracious, what a disaster."

Inflation was substantially higher during Biden's presidency than Trump's second term, but rising fuel costs associated with his Iran war are driving voter approval into the tank.

"Biden'sworst number, his worst numberin any poll I could find, was 72 percentdisapprove of Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump," Enten said. "Right now, in ourCNN poll, 76 percent, 76 percent, three in four Americans disapprove of the waythat Donald Trump is handlinggas prices, and again, the gasprices were higher during Biden,but the increase has been sodramatic under the last monthunder Donald Trump – we'retalking about an increase ofabout a dollar – it's the highestincrease that we've seen sinceat least 1991 in terms of rawdollars. No wonder this numberis so high. He is beating ordoing even worse than Joe Bidenwas on gas prices, which ofcourse was such a major issue."

Trump's approval rating on the economy is historically bad compared to other presidents, Enten said.

"These are the worst inour poll – 69 percent disapprove of Donald Trump on the economy," he said. "For George W. Bush it was 57 percent, interms of the average, Barack Obama, 56 percent. Donald Trump iscrushing them on a metric youdon't want to be crushinganybody on, which is disapprovalratings on the economy – he'sdouble digits. I was looking atsome other polling data alsoabove the 57 percent to 56 percent, the worstof all time at this point. Interm number two, it's theeconomy dragging Trump down,being, of course, accelerated byinflation being so bad, and, ofcourse, the gas prices justadding up. It's like a pancaketower and you're just reachingthe top, and this is not a toweryou want to climb."

"Where doesthe Kalshi prediction market saythat we're going on inflationchance CPI year over year isabove 4 percent in any month in 2026,64 percent [chance]," Enten added. "That would be for thefirst time since 2023, so theinflation tower that we're goingup, it seems like there are moresteps on a stairway, certainlynot to heaven, more like hell, if you're the president of the United States."

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