By Katherine Tinsley
2:43pm PDT, Apr 28, 2025
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Rachel Maddow recently made fun of
Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, as new poll data revealed his popularity is dwindling.
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"So, correlation is not causation. Just because things happen together doesn't necessarily mean that one of those things caused the other one to happen," Rachel Maddow began before tearing apart Donald Trump's policies. "Still, though, it's hard not to think that these things happening right now in the news might not have something to do with one another."
"Here's the first thing. It's about public opinion," she continued. "We started last night's show with a look at public opinion concerning this president and this presidency as he approaches the end of his crucial first 100 days in office. And as we discussed on last night's show, the numbers for him are brutally bad."
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Rachel Maddow — who's been a vocal critic of Donald Trump throughout his political career — is committed to covering the first 100 days of his second presidency.
"Since Trump has been back in office, have his actions as president helped the United States or hurt the United States? The American people say Trump has hurt the United States and they say it by a 24-point margin," Maddow said, referencing a The Economist and YouGov poll.
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"Now, today, banner headline all day long at The New York Times, quote, 'Voters sour on Trump in new New York Times/Sienna poll,'" Rachel Maddow said. "And then you get the full headline: Voters see Trump's use of power as overreaching. And then it's just a litany of all the things Trump has been trying to do and how much the American public hates all of it."
Shortly after, Maddow began listing all the possible reasons Americans could doubt Trump.
"Do you support or oppose Trump withholding funds from universities? Opposed by a 25-point margin," she said.
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Donald Trump's use of tariffs and mass deportations have been trending topics, and Rachel Maddow didn't hesitate to mention them in her analysis.
"Should Trump be allowed to impose tariffs without authorization from Congress? No by a 33-point margin," she said. "Should Trump be allowed to eliminate programs enacted by Congress? No by a 33-point margin."
"Should Trump be allowed to deport legal immigrants for protesting against Israel? No, by a 46-point margin," Maddow continued.
According to
ABC News, only 39 percent of survey participants support Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump's administration also drew heat for unjustly deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia and then ignoring a Supreme Court order to bring him back home while simultaneously touting hopes to send American citizens who commit crimes to jails in South America.
"Should Trump be allowed to send U.S. citizens to that prison in El Salvador like he's been threatening to? No, he should not be allowed to do that by a 63-point margin," Maddow said.
"Should Trump be allowed to ignore an order from the United States Supreme Court? No, by a 70-point margin," she continued.
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Donald Trump's return to the White House was historic, but opinions on the president are quickly changing.
"When you are losing polling questions about stuff you've said you might want to do or stuff you're trying to do, when you're losing polling questions like that by 40-, 60-, 70-point margins, we're pretty close to something that looks like a national consensus view, in this country and the view is 'no' — no to what Donald Trump is doing," Rachel Madow said.
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"Do you approve of how [Donald] Trump is managing the government? No," Rachel Maddow said. "Do you approve of how Trump is managing trade? No."
"Do you approve of Donald Trump's executive orders rolling back DEI programs in the federal government? Nope," the journalist continued.
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"Do you approve of Donald Trump on the economy? No," Rachel Maddow read. "Do you approve of Donald Trump and his handling of the Russia-Ukraine war? Nope."
"Do you approve of Donald Trump's handling of immigration? No," she continued. "Do you approve of Donald Trump's treatment of the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case? No, by a 21-point margin, no."
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Donald Trump has questioned the validity of the poll results, but Rachel Maddow praised the journalists who compiled them.
"Credit The New York Times and their editors for actually, I think, really getting right the big takeaway from this poll in all of its detail. The big takeaway really is what they put in the headline: Voters see Trump's use of power as overreaching," she said. "And they can say that credibly in this poll because they asked about it."
"I mean, outright majorities of the country say that Trump has gone, quote, 'too far' — on tariffs: too far," Maddow continued. "On his cuts to the federal workforce: too far. On immigration enforcement: too far. On his overall changes to the political and economic system: too far."
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While Donald Trump often refers to legacy media outlets as "fake news," Rachel Maddow pointed out that a diversity of outlets had comparable data.
"Outright majorities of the country say he's gone too far on all of those things, and it's not just that New York Times/Sienna poll that's out today," she said. "There's also a new AP national poll that's out today that puts Trump minus 24 on the economy, whoa."
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"There's a new Washington Post/ABC/Ipsos poll that's out today. Their headline: Trump's immigration ratings turn negative," Rachel Maddow said. "He's always been able to count on people being with him on the nasty things he says about immigrants, not anymore. People are not with him on immigration anymore — the thing he can always count on having a positive approval rating on, not anymore."
"So, it's — it's all bad for Trump in terms of the public just soundly rejecting everything he's doing even the stuff that he says just for political effect, it's having the opposite political effect that he intends," she continued.
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According to reports, Donald Trump's approval rating recently hit a historic low: It's the lowest any president has scored since Harry S. Truman in 1945.
"I don't know that we have ever seen another first 100 days from any president this roundly rejected and hated by the American people," Rachel Maddow said. "And as I said, correlation is not causation, things happening together doesn't necessarily mean that one of those things cause the other one to happen."
"But on the day we've got on the front page of The New York Times 'voters sour on Trump' [and] 'Americans think Trump is overreaching in his use of power,' on the day that is the news on Donald Trump, what does Trump do? He arrests a judge. He arrests a judge."
On April 25, FBI agents arrested Milwaukee-based county judge Hannah Dugan for obstructing justice and concealing an individual from arrest after she helped an illegal immigrant avoid ICE agents waiting for him outside her courtroom.
