As Donald Trump closes in on the end of his first 100 days of his second administration, his approval numbers are plummeting as the reality of his policies –– from trade to immigration –– take hold and American voters take stock.
Early Thursday morning on MSNBC, a "Morning Joe" panel addressed a new Fox News poll that showed the president underwater by 26 points when it comes to how voters think he's doing and, according to one co-host, there was even worse polling released on Wednesday.
According to MSNBC analyst and former Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) policy adviser Elise Jordan, the honeymoon is over for the now-embattled president.
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"That new Fox News poll finds Trump's overall approval rating underwater, with 44 percent approving and 55 percent disapproving," co-host Mika Brzezinski prompted her panel. "The president is also underwater on the issues that really were key to his campaign: immigration, foreign policy, the economy, tariffs and inflation ––he ran on most of those."
"Based on Trump's first 100 days, voters are also less optimistic about the future," she continued. "Thirty-eight percent say they feel encouraged about the next four years, while 51 percent are discouraged. Those numbers were 45 percent and 84 percent, respectively, at the 100-day mark of Trump's first term."
Co-host Willie Geist contributed, "The Fox News poll is actually more generous than some of the others that came out yesterday. Pew has the president at a 40 percent approval rating, also historically low at this point, and importantly, on the economy, Reuters has them at 37 percent. So it turns out, at least if you take an economy that was in most ways, not always, except for inflation, was humming along and you aggressively tank it with tariffs and other actions, voters, including Republicans, don't like it very much."
"And an economy that, in January and February, before all of the tariff nonsense came on the scene was doing quite well and was enthusiastic about Trump's presidency and optimistic," Jordan interjected. "And you see how quickly the sugar high of just the first 100 days is over now that voters are actually seeing what kind of results, or lack thereof, are coming into play."
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