‘Far more popular than you!’ CNN data guru mocks Trump over new polling in Canada feud

Americans now favor Canada to President Donald Trump by a margin of nearly 60 percentage points according to a new poll, a revelation that CNN's Harry Enten promptly ridiculed the president over on Monday.

The poll comes amid Trump’s latest spat with Canada over an advertisement that criticized Trump’s tariff policy using the words of former President Ronald Reagan. Trump falsely accused the Canadian province that paid for the ad of manipulating the late president's words and immediately cut off trade talks with the nation, and then slapped it with higher tariff rates in retaliation.

Trump’s feud with Canada, however, likely won’t bode well with the American public, at least according to the data reviewed Monday by Enten.

“When you pick on Canada as the United States president, you are picking on a country that the American people adore,” Enten said. “When you're going after Canada, you are going against [something that] is far more popular than you are, Donald Trump.”

According to the poll, the net popularity of Canada among Americans sits at +49 percentage points. For Trump, that figure sits at minus-10 percentage points.

“Pretty much every single time among most Americans, Americans will choose Canada over Donald Trump, and yet Trump has decided to pick yet another fight with somebody, some entity or some country that is more popular than he is,” Enten said.

“No president has come anywhere close to how popular Canada is right now, and Donald Trump certainly is long, long away, he cannot see Canada from his house when it comes to his net popularity.”

As far as how Canadians are feeling about Trump, it arguably fared worse, with Enten summarizing Canadians’ feelings about Trump with one phrase: “They think Trump’s a big poseur.”

"They hate Donald Trump, they hate everything that he's doing,” Enten said. “Canadians who say America is an enemy or potential threat, in 2023 it was 7 percent. Look how high it's gone now, we're talking about 48 percent! And the Trump administration has a net popularity rating in Canada of minus-58 points. So Americans love Canada, but Canadians no longer love the United States of America.”