‘Awful Awful Awful!’ CNN’s Harry Enten Laughs at Trump’s ‘Historically’ Low Net Approval in First Weeks of Term
CNN senior data correspondent Harry Enten couldn’t contain a laugh at President Donald Trump’s “historically awful” net approval at this point in his presidency — second only to one other early term rating that might ring a bell.
Enten has given Trump a mixed bag of polling news in these opening weeks of the new term, and was gushing over his approval rating just a few weeks ago.
But on Tuesday’s edition of CNN News Central, there wasn’t much of a silver lining when co-anchor Kate Bolduan asked Enten how Trump is faring just hours before his address to a joint session of Congress:
KATE BOLDUAN: So set the scene, first of all, overall approval–. How that helps us always have a good sense of how Americans are feeling.
HARRY ENTEN: Right. We’ll set the baseline here. We’ll look at overall approval rating. And we’re going to look at it. The presidents at this point in their presidency. Right?
And the word here that I would use to describe Trump is awful! In fact, the only person who does worse than Trump does right now with a plus one net approval rating is himself (LAUGHS) back in 2017 when he was at minus eight. So he’s doing better than he was.
KATE BOLDUAN: I was going to say. You could spin it another way. He’s making gains!
HARRY ENTEN: He’s making gains, but he’s doing worse than everybody else!
The average president at this point, get this: plus 27 points on their net approval rating!
Donald Trump is doing historically awful. The only person he beats is again himself from term number one.
KATE BOLDUAN: How about on the issue that one, he says he was most elected to to fix. And he said he would do it on day one, which would be the economy.
HARRY ENTEN: On the economy. Well, he beat himself on overall, but on the economy, he can’t even beat himself.
Again. This is historically the worst going back in polling at this point in a presidency. The net approval rating on the economy.
He’s right now at minus four points. And term number one, he was at plus eight points.
Historically the average is plus 15 points. He is doing nearly 20 points worse than the average president when it comes to the economy.
On net approval rating, he is historically doing awful, awful, awful! Weak, weak, weak!
And on the issue on which he was elected to, of course fix. He is doing historically awful. This is not good! If this number holds, you can guarantee his overall approval rating will go down and it could take his entire presidency with him.
Watch above via CNN News Central.
