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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 02-20-2025-233230

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountability from our leaders. Maddow works with unmatched rigor and resolve to explain our complex world and deliver news in a way that's illuminating and dynamic, connecting the dots to make sense of complex issues. Maddow also conducts thoughtful interviews with individuals at the center of current news stories to provide important perspective.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The data is in.

0:03.6

It's been a month officially as of today for this new presidential term.

0:08.1

And what the data says sort of broadly, bottom line, is that the country kind of hates

0:15.5

this guy.

0:17.5

I shouldn't say hate.

0:18.7

It's not the right words.

0:19.7

It's not a nice word. Maybe it's can't stand him.

0:23.6

Or maybe I shouldn't characterize it at all.

0:26.6

I'll just, I'll show you the numbers. I will say we probably should have seen this coming.

0:32.6

I didn't necessarily believe that it was coming this far, this fast, but right out of the gate, Gallup did polling just after the inauguration.

0:43.5

They did their first poll on public opinion of Trump in this second term, starting immediately after the inauguration.

0:49.9

Literally, they had their first poll in the field the first full day Trump was in office, the day after he was sworn in.

0:55.7

That is the definition of the honeymoon period, right?

0:58.7

That's when you are at your high watermark in terms of what people are expecting from you

1:03.0

and hoping for from you.

1:06.9

But in that first gallop poll of this presidential term, sort of shockingly, Trump was already

1:12.9

underwater.

1:14.9

In his first week in office, more Americans disapproved of him than approved of him.

1:22.2

I mean, only about one point, but still, that's unheard of.

1:25.2

That's a more than unusual thing in presidential polling.

1:29.4

Gallup, in fact, said at the time that in the 70-plus years they have been doing presidential

1:34.5

polling, Donald Trump is the only president for whom his approval ratings were underwater right

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