This is not like a built in pivot. This is a guy who's trying to like, save face. And the reason that he might pull it off is because people from Fox News and Newsmax whose job is to lick around his undercarriage. - Period. - Over the weekend. [00:00:15] And this is suspect five polls coming out on the same day, one of them worse than the one before. These are propaganda polls. That's what they are. They're trying to lie to the American people. They're trying to sway public opinion. [00:00:33] President Trump has finished his first 100 days with historically low polling numbers, and now conservative media is trying to explain away Trump's approval numbers. You just watched Jim McLaughlin and Rob Finnerty do their best on Newsmax. Let's watch some more of these. Right wing takes trying to spin for Trump. [00:00:53] He's not in freefall. He's had a little bit of slippage because he's doing a lot. He's breaking a lot of eggs to make an omelet, but he is not dropping in any significant way. - I can guarantee you all day. - Mitchell. They're going to be bombarding us in the 100th day. That Trump is the most unpopular, is the most unpopular president in 100 years. [00:01:15] What you see this April, it looks like it's going to be the second highest month of all of Google polling history or Google's data history of searches for Trump approval. So that's how I know it's a psyop. People are getting these stories shoved down their throats. They're going on Google. They're trying to check it out themselves. [00:01:32] The mainstream media is going to information gatekeep and shove. A Quinnipiac poll in their face that says -12. The problem with the 100 days and looking at the polls is that this, this format and his agenda is not built for a 100 days. That's right. This is this. He's he's redoing the he's in his language. [00:01:48] He's redoing the base. He's framing out the house. A lot of it was rotted and now he's replacing it. There's not a lot of glory in framing out a house. And last night Trump went even further than what you just saw in that compilation. [00:02:03] Here's what he had to say about his polling. This is all done in 100 days. But when you watch the fake news, you see fake polls again. They poll more Democrats than Republicans. Democrats aren't going to say, I'm going to vote for Trump. [00:02:19] And we still got 4,544%. But on the legitimate polls, I think we're in the 60s. I really I think we're in the 60s or 70s or something. Brett, I want to bring you in here. Trump saying they could be in the 60s or 70s in legitimate polls. [00:02:35] But I think if we really evaluate those numbers, he could be as high as 90, 100, 110% approval rating, am I wrong? That's a really good point. Because why stop at 100%? Because some people love him. Double. There might be a Siamese twin contingent that goes underreported. [00:02:53] In most polls, there's two L's in polls. Why should you not get two votes in polls? It's so ridiculous. I love like, okay, so I like to play out like plot out the field here. Newsmax, Fox News. All right. [00:03:10] Those are two different levels of legitimacy. Just ask the people who work for them. All the people on Newsmax really want to work on Fox News, period. End of story. And the people who work at Newsmax and Real America News and all of that stuff, [00:03:26] they are clinging on to the last rung on the way down, out of the job that they've always wanted to have or in the past have had. And what they do is we all know this is true algorithms and right wing media sphere. [00:03:43] They know exactly what they need to do to keep their jobs and their job. They keep it. They just need to say that Donald Trump is always right, has never done wrong, and anyone who contradicts them is a liar and fake news. [00:04:00] Now, what's troubling that one guy saying like, oh, there's so many people searching for the, you know, Donald Trump approval ratings, that means that, like, your viewers probably don't believe you. If you're getting that kind of a bump there, like, I'm gonna go search [00:04:18] and do my own research myself. And what they'll find is people don't like his economic policy. They like that he's doing something on immigration. They don't like pretty much everything else that he's doing. They don't like what he's doing on taxes. [00:04:34] They don't like what he's doing on the economy. They don't like what he's doing with tariffs. They hate it. Why? Because it's bad. And then Brian Kilmeade like has a point and doesn't have a point right. The part of his statement that has a point is Donald Trump does not have [00:04:51] a hundred days plan. It's not just that his plan is 100 days. What he has kind of said he's doing would take a long time. If you wanted to break things down and build them up. Here's the one catch for what Brian Kilmeade said. [00:05:07] He's undone all the stuff that he did originally because it failed so spectacularly. Everyone out there in the in international sphere that we do business with has essentially stood there and watched Donald Trump say, I'm going to tear up you. [00:05:25] And they're like, wait, what? This guy's going to tear off me? That sucks. And he's like, yeah. And then all of America and all of the world was like, that's a horrible idea. And then Donald Trump was like, psych! And he tariffs them. [00:05:41] That is, if your plan is to just totally face plant and get up and pretend nothing happened. Like, why did that need to be step one other than he thought it would work so well? But he undid it. This is not like a built in pivot. [00:05:57] This is a guy who's trying to, like, save face. And the reason that he might pull it off is because of what we just saw in that montage. People from Fox News and Newsmax whose job is to lick around his undercarriage. Period. [00:06:14] Trump and his fans have also argued that pollsters cannot be trusted when it comes to his 100 day polling because they have traditionally underestimated his support in presidential elections. This morning, Harry broke down. Why the numbers don't support that argument. [00:06:31] Let's watch. A lot of Trump advocates, including Trump himself, has argued that because the polls were off in 2024, quote unquote, you can't trust the polls. Now, that is a line of BS. That is a scientific term, for it is BS. What am I talking about here? [00:06:46] Well, let's just talk about Trump's average approval rating. I average across five recent national polls among registered voters. So we're talking voters here, not adults. Currently he's averaging get this -12 points way underwater. But okay let's say the polls are off like they were in 2024. [00:07:01] What would his net approval rating be? Well it looks pretty gosh darn similar. It's minus ten points. He's still way underwater. Historically low for a president only basically matching himself last time around. Way below where Joe Biden was way below where Barack Obama was way below where George W Bush was at this point in their presidency. [00:07:18] And that is because the national polls, although they underestimated Trump in 2024, they only underestimated his margin by about two points. So we give him the two points here and he's still swimming with the fishes way underwater, no matter what way you put it. At least if we apply the polls being off like they were in 2024. [00:07:36] Now, Brett, before I bring you back in here, I want to go over one more poll that PBS released yesterday. 45% of US adults rated Trump's return to the Oval Oval Office an F, including 80% of Democrats and 49% of independents. [00:07:53] At the other extreme, 23% of Americans, including 54% of Republicans, gave the president an A. About half of US adults say Trump's second term has had a mostly negative effect on their lives, and a majority believe he is rushing to make changes without considering [00:08:12] the effects of his actions. Rushing to make changes without considering the effects. Brett, that doesn't sound like Donald Trump. If this is so difficult, right? Because like, obviously that's what he's doing. But there is this thing about America where after you like. [00:08:28] The way I would describe it is like we want someone to do something, but we also don't want anyone to do anything. I owe this people in there right now. It's just like a general dynamic. Are the bums we got in Washington. They don't do anything. [00:08:44] And we need someone who's an outsider come in and do something. And no matter who it is, the new regime comes in. And as soon as they start doing anything and, you know, often before they do anything, people are like, these guys are bums too. So there's always that. [00:09:01] And that presents itself in such ways as, you know, there's if the incoming party, if the incoming president has a majority in Congress, odds are by the end of the second year when they have the midterm elections, they'll lose seats. [00:09:16] That's just how it happens, because it's easier to run against someone who's in office. When it's a, you know, they just give you more, like throw this person out in a swing district. Basically, that's that's just kind of how it ends up working. But like with a difficult part for me is like when you're [00:09:37] when you're fighting against it in the internet's like we are right now, there's people that might just luck into like a position where it seems like they were right, even though they didn't do anything. Like if you like I in the wake of Trump's win, you go in there, you're like, [00:09:54] I just want to find out what people that support Trump were thinking. And there's always going to be a downslide. And there's people on the other side who are like, Trump was an idiot this whole time, and he's evil and sucks. And those people like, maybe they're they didn't get through to anybody, [00:10:11] but they're right that Trump is getting punched in the face. And like, I'm trying to figure out why people would still hang around with Trump and read the tea leaves on this. But like, in the meantime, he is absolutely screwing himself over by making such horrible decisions. I know there was a lot. I hope it made sense. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. [00:10:29] Totally not true, but it does keep you updated on our live shows.