NCS knowledge guru Harry Enten has supplied a brutal “reality check” to Donald Trump because the president brags about eyebrow-raising polling outcomes.
The president latched onto a ballot cited final week that confirmed he had 100% favorability amongst MAGA voters. He described it as an “honor” and bragged about it publicly on a minimum of two events.
Enten’s evaluation was blunt. “Donald Trump has never been more unpopular in his second term in office,” he stated on The Source with Kaitlan Collins on Thursday.
Enten circulated the NBC News ballot final week. It really discovered that, among the many full pattern, simply 44 p.c of respondents authorized of Trump, whereas 54 p.c disapproved. However, the bit that titillated the president was extra nuanced than he was prepared to confess.
Enten stated Trump is at a second-term excessive of 59 p.c disapproval. / NCS
The ballot requested respondents if “You consider yourself to be a supporter of the MAGA movement,” to which 30 p.c replied “yes.” So, the ballot confirmed 100% of 30 p.c of individuals approve of Trump.
The president took a victory lap regardless. “They said they’ve never seen a poll like that. The NCS poll said I’m 100 percent, and they’ve never seen that before, which is an honor,” he stated on the White House garden final Friday. He additionally introduced the outcomes up repeatedly on the National Republican Congressional Committee’s 2026 Annual Fundraising Dinner on Wednesday.
On Thursday, Enten had a message for Trump. Speaking to Collins on NCS, he stated, “I’ll give you a reality check. Look, President Trump is quite popular with MAGA. MAGA very much enjoys this [Iran] war. They very much love the president. But of course, they are just a certain portion of the electorate. When you expand it out. The reality check is this. Donald Trump has never been more unpopular in his second term in office.”
He used a Fox News poll launched on Wednesday to make his level. It surveyed 1,001 registered voters nationwide who have been randomly chosen from a nationwide voter file. The outcomes have been damning for Trump, delivering his highest disapproval ranking but: 59 p.c.
The New York Times’ each day common of polls. / New York Times
“And I will note this, Kaitlan Collins,” he continued. “It is not just the Fox News poll where Donald Trump is at an all-time highs in terms of his disapproval ratings, all-time lows in terms of his approval rating. It is in the polling aggregate as well. It has been poll after poll after poll in which he’s either at or near an all-time high in terms of his disapproval rating.”
At the time of writing, the New York Times’ each day common of dozens of polls has Trump’s disapproval ranking at 56 p.c. His approval ranking is a meager 40 p.c.
Trump’s warfare in Iran has brought about a schism within the GOP and prompted independents to stroll away. The battle has brought about financial chaos and hit Americans within the pocket.
However, Trump doesn’t seem to care. Speaking on the NRCC dinner on Wednesday, he stated vitality costs rising and the inventory market recoiling “didn’t matter to me.”
“We had to get rid of the cancer, cut out the cancer. The cancer was Iran with a nuclear weapon,” he stated