By Molly Goddard
8:55am PST, Feb 11, 2025
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Just 11 days, Donald Trump had a net positive approval rating," Enten explained to the audience and his co-anchor
Sara Sidner.
"Every single day of Trump's second term so far, he has been on the positive side of the ledger. Twenty-one days, all three weeks. That's already ten more days than it was in his entire first term!" he continued.
Per a
CBS News poll, the businessman reached a 53 percent approval rating amongst United States citizens, which he did not see consistently during his first term.
70 percent of respondents feel Trump is staying true to his promises, which is a vast difference from the 46 percent who said the same in April 2017.
The Apprentice star's deportation efforts have a 59 percent approval, and 51 percent of Americans even back Trump's placement of
Elon Musk in our government.
"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," Enten said. "So, I think this gives you a pretty gosh darn good idea of what may be going on."
Per a
Siena College poll, in Trump's home state of New York, he's currently seeing a 41 percent approval despite its typically left-leaning voters.
The commander-in-chief sat down for a candid interview on Sunday, February 9, during the Super Bowl LIX pregame show on Fox, where journalist
Bret Baier pressed him on the rumors he wants to annex Canada and why he's entrusted the Telsa founder with overhauling government spending.
"I think
Canada would be much better off being a 51st state. Because we lose $200 billion a year with Canada. And I'm not going to let that happen too much. Why are we paying $200 billion a year essentially in subsidy to Canada? Now, if they are a 51st state, I don't mind doing it," Trump made clear.
When asked if he can rely on Musk — especially now that he has access to sensitive data — Trump replied, "Trust Elon? Oh, he's not gaining anything. In fact, I wonder how he can devote the time to it. He's so into it."
"I'm going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education; he's going to find the same thing," he said about the tech mogul's next possible assignment. "Then I'm going [to tell him] go to the
military — let's check the military."
"We're going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse," the Republican explained. "And, you know, the people elected me on that."
Trump also tried to send a message of unity despite his divisive nature and
policies. "We have to come together," he stated. "But to come together, there's only one thing that's going to do it, and that's massive success. Success will bring the country together, but it's hard."
