Trump gets reckless as his agenda tanks with the American public

The Rachel Maddow Show

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4.5 • 34K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Rachel Maddow reports on the ongoing parade of terrible polling numbers for Donald Trump, and talks with Rep. Jamie Raskin about the Trump administration arresting a judge. Rep. Robert Garcia also joins to discuss deportations, including breaking news that the Trump administration has deported several U.S. citizen children.

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0:00.0	I'm really happy to have you here. Happy Friday. So correlation is not causation. Just because
0:07.4	things happen together doesn't necessarily mean that one of those things caused the other
0:12.2	one to happen. Still though, it's hard not to think that these things happening right now
0:19.0	in the news might not have something to do with one
0:22.4	another. Here's the first thing. It's about public opinion. We started last night's show
0:28.7	with a look at public opinion concerning this president and this presidency as he approaches
0:33.8	the end of his crucial first hundred days in office. And as we discussed on last night show, the numbers for him are brutally bad.
0:42.9	In the Pew poll, President Donald Trump is underwater in his overall approval rating by 19 points.
0:49.9	In the Fox News poll, people are asked if Trump's policies are helping or hurting the U.S.
0:54.5	economy. They say Trump's policies are hurting the U.S. economy by a margin of 22 points.
1:01.9	In the economist Yucca of poll, they asked if Trump is generally helping or hurting not just the
1:07.5	economy, but the whole United States. Since Trump has been back in office, have his actions as president helped the United States or hurt the United States?
1:17.1	The American people say Trump has hurt the United States, and they say it by a 24-point margin.
1:24.4	So we covered some of that yesterday.
1:31.0	Now, today, banner headline all day long at the New York Times, quote, voters sour on Trump in new New York Times Sienna poll. And then you get the
1:39.6	full headline, voters see Trump's use of power as overreaching. And then it's just a litany of all the
1:46.8	things Trump has been trying to do and how much the American public hates all of it. Do you support or oppose
1:52.4	Trump withholding funds from universities? Oppose by a 25 point margin. Should Trump be allowed to
1:59.5	impose tariffs without authorization from Congress? No, by a 33 point margin. Should Trump be allowed to impose tariffs without authorization from Congress? No,
2:03.0	by a 33 point margin. Should Trump be allowed to eliminate programs enacted by Congress? No,
2:08.6	by a 33 point margin. Should Trump be allowed to deport legal immigrants for protesting against
2:13.8	Israel? No, by a 46 point margin. Should Trump be allowed to send U.S. citizens to that
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