I think sometimes it's important to do a little bit of reality check and take a little different spin at the numbers.

I'm going to do that right here because all we talk about is how unpopular Donald Trump is. But in reality, he's basically more popular than he was at any point in

term number one and more popular than he was when he won election back in November of 2024.

What are we talking about? Isn't that favorable rating right now comes in at minus four points?

Compare that to where he was when he won in November

of 2024 when he was at minus seven points or March of 2017 when he was at minus 10 points. So when

you compare Trump against himself, he's actually closer to the apex than he is to the bottom of the

trough. And of course, that's so important because Donald Trump, historically speaking,

has had his numbers underestimated. So I think it's very important to compare him to himself to

understand he's actually more popular now than he was when he won, or certainly where he was

at this point back in his first term, the bottom line is Trump is more towards the ceiling than he is

towards the floor. So when you do that, it makes my knees hurt. So when you look at this compared to sort

of historically, what does it tell you about the percentage of folks that think the country

itself, with him at the helm, is on the right track? This I think is rather important because,

again, if the pulse have historically underestimated

Donald Trump, what is a metric that might get at understanding at how popular he may actually

be?

So let's take a look at the percentage of the country who say that we're on the right track.

It's actually a very high percentage when you compare it to some historical numbers.

What are we talking about?

According to Maris, 45% say that we're on the right track. That's the second highest that Maris has measured since 2009. How about NBC News? 44%. That's the

highest since 2004. The bottom line is the percentage of Americans who say we're on the right track

...