Making a rare appearance on Saturday as a guest on MSNBC host Katie Phang's last show, Rachel Maddow graded out Donald Trump's first 100 days and the best she could say about the second-term president that he has "flailed."
Jumping right into it, Maddow, after saying she would miss Phang hosting her own show, began, "Let me just say, the 100 days, there has never been a president who has botched the first 100 days of his presidency more than Donald Trump has. You don't have to take that as a subjective view. It's the view shown in scientific polling of the American public. The public is deeply, deeply, deeply against what Trump is doing. He's -- the YouGov polling that came out this week, I think he is 19 points underwater!"
Pointing out that she believes Trump is "more ambitious" than during his first term before losing to President Joe Biden in 2020, she added, "I do think we're in the middle of an attempted authoritarian overthrow of American democracy. I mean, I think everybody who predicted that was right, but I don't think he's any better at it."
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Maddow also noted expectations for Trump the second go-around were high but that he has stumbled as he's been mired himself in pushing his policies.
"He was going to be better at doing what he wanted to do, and that's what we should brace ourselves for. And I actually don't think that's the way it's worked out," she observed.
'"I think the other thing I was talking about sort of what the pundit class got wrong heading into Trump's second term," she elaborated. "I think what we –– there was, again, a kind of pundit, common wisdom or kind of observer common wisdom that the American people weren't going to resist, you know, weren't going to stand up, that there was there was no sign of the kind of mass resistance to what trump is doing. That's turning out not to be the case at all, it's just different this time."
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