‘Horrible! Horrible! Horrible!’ CNN’s Harry Enten Stomps Trump Over Deadly Trade War Poll

CNN senior data correspondent Harry Enten delivered bad news for President Donald Trump, calling poll numbers about his tariffs “Horrible! Horrible! Horrible!”

Trump has announced stiff 25 percent tariffs against close U.S. trading partners Canada and Mexico and 10 percent on goods from China, which are set to take effect Monday. The move has sparked widespread criticism and an admission from Trump that at least short-term “pain” for consumers could result from the policy.

On Monday’s edition of CNN News Central, Enten joined anchor John Berman to break down the public’s reaction to the tariffs — which Enten noted is not great to say the least:

JOHN BERMAN: How do Americans feel about tariffs? When asked.

HARRY ENTEN: Yeah, how do they feel? You know, I feel like Howard Stern’s mother, something horrible has happened here! That’s what’s going on here! Getting on my biggest New York Jewish accent I could.

Trump’s tariffs on Canada, China, Mexico. Look at this. Just 38% support. You don’t have to be a mathematical genius to figure out that 51% oppose is larger than the 38% support.

Look, Trump has done some fairly popular things in his first few weeks in office. This is not one of them.

No! No! No! Horrible! Horrible! Horrible! To quote Charles Barkley.

The American folks are opposed to these tariffs. When you ask it specifically like this about the three countries, or if you ask it more vaguely about tariffs overall, they simply put, do not like it, Mr. Berman.

JOHN BERMAN: It’s interesting, even with China in the question, people say that they are opposed to tariffs. The majority here, there’s not a majority on a lot of things these days.

How about how Americans say they want to see Donald Trump focused in this first hundred days and whether tariffs should be a focus?

HARRY ENTEN: You know, the two big focuses for Trump in the polling are immigration and the economy. Tariffs ain’t it my dear friend. Tariffs ain’t it.

Trump should focus on tariffs in November of 2024. When Ipsos asked that it was 1%. Look at what happened December of 2024. It doubled. It doubled, but to only 2%. When you double to only 2%, you know that the American people don’t want Trump’s focus to be here.

They don’t like it. They don’t want his focus to be there. They want it to be on other issues.

JOHN BERMAN: Are they paying attention? Do they notice that this is happening?

HARRY ENTEN: Yeah. So the big question is, you know, Trump has done a lot of things that are unpopular in the past, but the poll numbers haven’t moved. That may be the case here, but I’m a little skeptical of that. Why?

Take a look at weekly Google searches for tariffs. Look how much higher they are versus a year ago. They’re up 2,400%! That reaches a 21 year high. You know, folks are paying attention when there are more Google searches for that than for Taylor Swift, who almost always is in the top of Google search.

JOHN BERMAN: There were more Google searches for tariffs than Taylor Swift.

HARRY ENTEN: Correct. In the past week, more Google searches for tariffs than for Taylor Swift. I never thought I’d see it happen, but American people are actually interested in tariffs and in a negative fashion. It seems to be.

JOHN BERMAN: We’ll see what happens over the next few hours. It does raise questions about whether there will be the follow through.

HARRY ENTEN: We’ll see.

Watch above via CNN News Central.