Donald Trump gets stunning, ‘historically awful’ polling before addressing congress – PennLive

Donald Trump will walk into his first address of congress during his second term on Tuesday night having just received some historically awful polling numbers on net approval rating and the economy.

How bad is it?

Well, per CNN data guru Harry Enten the only person to poll worse than Trump during this second term, historically, was Trump during his first term.

And, per Enten — who, it should be noted, has reported some positive polling for Trump multiple times, too, across this second term — it doesn’t look like things are going to get better soon for the president.

“We are going to look at presidents at this point in their presidency, right?” Enten said as he pulled up a graphic on CNN Tuesday. “And the word 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-1 net approval rating is himself back in 2017 when he was at a minus-8. So, he’s doing better than he was. He’s making gains, but he’s doing worse than everybody else.

“The average president at this point, get this, plus-27 on their net approval,” Enten added. “Donald Trump is doing historically awful. The only person he beat is, again, himself from term number one.”

Enten was then asked about how Trump was polling on the economy.

“Well, he bat himself on worst overall, but on the economy, he can’t even beat himself,” Enten said. “Again, this is historically, the worst going back in polling. The net approval rating on the economy, he’s right now at minus-4 points. In term number one, he was at plus-8 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 in which he was elected to fix (the economy), 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.”

Enten was then asked about the tariffs, and he showed polling that showed 64% oppose tariffs with Canada and 59% oppose them with Mexico.

“We are already dealing with a president where the economy is bringing him down, these tariffs, in my mind, will only bring him down further,” Enten said. “Historically awful polling at this point, and the tariffs I think will only lead to further deterioration.

“Americans don’t like the idea of prices going up,” he added. “That leads to approval ratings going down.”