‘Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!’ Trump Approval Blows CNN’s Harry Enten Away After Unpopular First Term

CNN senior data correspondent Harry Enten gushed over the dramatic change in President Donald Trump’s approval ratings — which have eclipsed his first term in one stunning metric.

Trump spent most of his first term mired in negative territory, but a new CBS News poll showed him with a record-high 53 percent approval rating.

On Monday’s edition of CNN News Central, Enten told co-anchor Sara Sidner that Trump’s surge is all the more impressive given that

SARA SIDNER: Is this? Are you going to show us sort of where we’re at now and how rare it is that this?

HARRY ENTEN: So I want you to take a look at this plus size, this plus sign. Right? Compare that to the negative sign. Being on the plus size of the ledger. Right. And positive net approval territory, a positive net approval rating for Donald Trump.

Again. Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa! Entire first term, just 11 days. Just 11 days Donald Trump had a net positive approval rating.

Compare that to the second term just so far, just so far! Every single day of Trump’s second term so far, he has been on the positive side of the ledger. 21 days, all three weeks.

That’s already ten more days than it was in his entire first term!

So, again, this is just another sign that Americans are far more likely to like what they’re seeing in his second term than they were during his first term.

SARA SIDNER: He also won the popular vote in his second term. So it stands to reason that there would be more people that would approve of of some of what he’s doing.

Is there something that Americans say about why it is that they that they like him now more than they did back in the first term?

HARRY ENTEN: You know, I think one of the things that’s so important for politicians is for folks to believe what they’re saying and that they’re keeping their campaign promises.

So I think this gives you a pretty gosh darn good idea of what may be going on. Trump’s doing what he promised to do. You go back to April of 2017. It was just 46% of all Americans who said that Trump was doing what he promised to do.

Compare that now to February of 2025. You know, there was a good show that was on during the 1990s called A Different World.

That is what’s going on right now. We’re living in a different world. 70% of Americans say Trump is doing what he promised to do.

Watch above via CNN News Central.