CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten gave President Donald Trump a brutal reality check on Thursday, a week after the president bragged about having 100% approval among MAGA voters.
“Look, President Trump is quite popular with MAGA,” Enten acknowledged to “The Source” host Kaitlan Collins. “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,” Enten said.
Enten’s “reality check” follows the president’s uncharacteristic praise for CNN after Enten discussed polling that showed 100% of MAGA voters approved of Trump.
Trump said it was an “honor,” adding that he was “impressed” by CNN.
As for the Iran war itself, an NBC News poll at the beginning of March showed that a majority of voters disapprove of how the Trump administration is handling the conflict — but also showed that 90% of self-identified MAGA-aligned Republicans back the president’s war.
Citing a Fox News poll from Thursday, however, Enten showed viewers that the president’s overall disapproval rating has increased from 51% to 59% since March of last year.
And it’s not just the Fox News poll, according to Enten: “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,” Enten said.
The data analyst dug deeper into how Americans are viewing Trump’s war with Iran, telling Collins, “they don’t like what’s cooking.” He continued to cite the Fox News poll, which found that 64% of Americans disapprove of the war.
“The Fox News poll was one of the rare polls in which we had an even split early on in the war in terms of support and opposition, and now that support has plummeted, the opposition is up,” Enten said. “It is very clear, no matter which poll you look at, that the American people are not with Donald Trump when it comes to Iran, even if the MAGA base is.”
