Rachel Maddow twists the knife with a grin as Trump’s poll numbers take a jaw-dropping dive.NH

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow gleefully ticked through a blizzard of “astonishing” recent poll results for President Donald Trump as off-year elections provide an early test of his second term.

As Trump gaggled with reporters aboard Air Force One last week, he appeared to rule out a third term for himself, and lamented that “I have the best numbers for any president in many years, any president.”

On Monday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, the host opened her show with a marathon commentary that belied Trump’s boast, starting with an “astonishing” 63 percent disapproval in one recent poll:

In terms of how Americans are feeling right now about this presidential term and about how things are going in the country right now, well, there’s lots of new data on that that I can show you right now.

Let’s start with the new CNN poll. New CNN poll shows that Donald Trump has never been more unpopular than he is right now. Donald Trump’s disapproval rating, in this new CNN poll, it’s actually higher — his disapproval rating is higher than it was in the immediate aftermath of January 6th. After January 6th, a whopping 62 percent of Americans said they disapproved of Trump.

Today, the number of Americans who say they disapprove of Donald Trump is not 62 percent, it is 63 percent, 63 percent disapprove, only 37 percent approve of Trump. That means right now he is 26 points underwater in terms of his approval rating with the American people. That’s astonishing.

Elsewhere in this CNN poll, we learned that Americans say that Trump has hurt America’s standing in the world more than helped it. And they say that by a 24-point margin. Since he has been back in office, he has hurt America’s standing in the world more than he has helped it.

America, how do you feel about Trump tearing down the East Wing of the White House? Well, 10 percent of Americans say they like that. His support on that is 10 percent. More than five times as many Americans say him doing that makes them feel dissatisfied or angry. He’s underwater by 44 points on tearing down the East Wing of the White House to build his ballroom.

Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll is also just out. Trump’s overall approval rating in that poll, he’s underwater minus-18. In this poll, right after January 6th, his disapproval rating spiked to 60 percent. Again, that’s right after January 6th, disapproval 60 percent. Today in this poll, it’s 59 percent disapproval, which means in this poll, he is within one point of where he was in the immediate wake of his supporters laying violent siege to the U.S. Capitol in a failed attempt to try to seize power by force.

And they asked — they asked a question here, not just bluntly do you approve or disapprove of Trump, but they asked it a little nuance to it in a way that is always interesting to me, because even if you are not a supporter of President Trump, let’s say, everybody knows somebody who is a really strong supporter of Trump, right?

I mean, whether it’s a co-worker or an uncle or some other family member, maybe there’s, you know, a neighbor down the street who’s got all the Trump flags on his truck or whatever, I mean, everybody knows somebody. And the national media pay so much attention to people who are strong Trump supporters.

But how many of them are there? Well, look at this. This, again, is that Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. Trump’s overall approval rating is — is minus-18. He’s 18 points underwater overall.

But if you look at the nuance, if you look at the people who feel strongly, the proportion of Americans who strongly approve of Trump is 20 percent, the proportion of Americans who strongly disapprove of Trump is 46 percent. People who strongly disapprove of Trump outnumber the people who strongly approve of him by significantly more than 2 to 1.

And Americans disapprove of him on everything. America, do you approve of Donald Trump in his handling of Israel’s war in Gaza? No, minus-6. Do you approve of Trump’s handling of crime? No, minus-11. Do you approve of Trump’s handling of immigration? No, minus-13. Do you approve of Trump’s management of our relationship with other countries? No, minus-19. Do you approve of Trump’s handling of the Russia-Ukraine war? No, minus-21.

Do you approve of Trump’s handling of the economy? No, minus-25. Do you approve of Trump’s management of the federal government? No, minus-27. Do you approve of Trump’s handling of tariffs? His signature issue, what he most wants to be known for in this presidential term. Do you approve of Donald Trump’s handling of tariffs? No, Americans do not approve of him on tariffs. He is minus-32 on that issue.

Since Trump has been back in office, has he made the United States weaker or stronger? Americans say Trump has made the United States weaker, and they say so by a 15-point margin.

Should ICE agents be wearing masks out in the street? No, 16-point margin. Should Trump be sending the National Guard to states over the objections of those states’ governors? No, 18-point margin.

The criminal charges that Trump has demanded against James Comey and John Bolton, are those criminal charges justified, or are those politically-motivated bogus prosecutions? Americans say those charges are politically motivated by a 13- and 14-point margin.

America, do you like the fact that Trump is tearing down the White House East Wing to build his ballroom? No. In this poll, no, Americans say they do not like that by a 28-point margin. How about Trump’s plan to take $230 million for himself from the U.S. Justice Department, supposedly as some kind of compensation for all he’s been through? He wants the federal government to write him a check for $230 million. America, do you like that idea? Shockingly, no. By a 42-point margin, Americans say no, they hate that idea very much, thank you.