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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Public says first 100 days suck, with worse expected to come [1]
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Date: 2025-04-26
New York Times/Siena:
President Trump’s First 100 Days By 54-42% Americans Disapprove of Job Trump is Doing; Majorities Disapprove of His Handling of the Economy, Immigration, Russia/Ukraine War & Trade
56% Say Trump’s Changes Have Gone Too Far; 66% Call Second Term Chaotic; 42% Say Trump’s Second Term ‘Exciting’
76% Rate U.S. Economy Negatively But 45% Say Their Personal Finances in Good Shape; By 44-34% Americans Believe Trump Economic Policies Will Hurt Not Help Them Personally
By 61-33% Americans Say Country’s Best Years are Yet to Come
Best years? As soon as Trump and his Republican cronies are gone.
x 🇺🇸 NATIONAL POLL: NYT/Siena (A+)
President Trump
🟢 Approve: 42% (-12)
🟤 Disapprove: 54%
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2026 Generic Ballot
🔵 DEM: 47%
🔴 GOP: 44%
🔵 Indies: D+17 (52-35)
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Trump's net approval on key issues
🟤 Immigration: -4
🟤 Economy: -12
🟤 Russia/Ukraine war: -21
🟤 The case… pic.twitter.com/5c0lcS7984 — InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) April 25, 2025
That last one cut off by our system interface? 🟤 The case involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia: -21. So even though immigration is -4, the specific case of Abrego Garcia is a political loser.
x Remarkable from WaPo poll: Trump sinking fast on immigration among independents. 56% disapprove of handling of issue 62% oppose removing foreign students 52% oppose renditions to El Salvador Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there Engage, Dems. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1944... — Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) 2025-04-25T17:05:52.081Z
Washington Post:
Trump is telling a story about Abrego García. The public isn’t buying it. More Americans say the mistakenly deported man should be returned to the United States than say he should remain in prison in El Salvador, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll released Friday. The strategy reflects Trump’s approach to his second term: Hit back, double down, don’t apologize — and change the subject to immigration, when possible. The president has viewed immigration as his strongest political advantage, the chief reason he took back the White House and a go-to attack line in choppy news cycles. His team has spent much of April highlighting the president’s immigration policies, rather than dwelling on the financial fallout since Trump announced sweeping tariffs on foreign imports three weeks ago and stock markets plunged. But this time, the strategy doesn’t appear to be working. More Americans say Abrego García should be returned to the United States than say he should remain in prison in El Salvador, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll released Friday. Forty-two percent say Abrego García, who has lived in Maryland and is married to a U.S. citizen, should be brought back, vs. 26 percent who say he should remain imprisoned abroad.
x As Trump’s approval rating has fallen, he has lost the most ground with young people. They are now as anti-Trump on approval as they were pro-Biden in 2020.
What happened to the big GOP gains with voters under 30? I think they were more about anti-incumbent bias than MAGA. pic.twitter.com/bGC3Um9Q7h — G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) April 25, 2025
Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring:
It’s not just trade Trump is addressing scientific research, public health, and other crucial issues with the same lack of care I was aware of Trump’s extremely dubious ideas about trade policy and thought it was definitely possible that he would implement them. But I was also aware that Trump is a huge liar, and the argument from his business community allies that this was just populist chum that he had no intention of following through on seemed plausible. Then came Liberation Day, on which his business allies learned that he is crazier than they thought. After several days of begging and pleading and stock market losses, he was persuaded to partially reverse course. But what will happen next with Trump and trade? I have no idea. I am in the same position that I was in on the evening of the election: I’m aware that Trump has crazy views about trade, I’m aware that Trump’s public statements are wildly dishonest and inconsistent, and I’m aware that Trump likes it when the line goes up. I really don’t know what’s going to happen. But I also know something else about Trump, something that I wish his business allies would more seriously consider, which is that the slipshod manner in which he makes trade policy is not unique to trade policy.
x If the FBI has nothing better than this, and one has to assume they'd come out strong, this is going to be so bad for them. They don't disclose a conversation, knowledge by the judge of ICEs presence, etc. They use the vague "at some point" and the passive "apparently learned".
https://t.co/IA2M7BZ5BN pic.twitter.com/m4KPOJHT4W — Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) April 25, 2025
Susan B Glasser/The New Yorker:
Waiting for Trump’s Big, Beautiful Deals Whether a trade pact with China or a peace accord with Russia, the President doesn’t seem to know what he’s actually asking for, never mind how to actually achieve it. I happened to meet soon after with two people who had attended the JPMorgan conference, and they were surprised at how much the markets were reading into the Treasury Secretary’s remarks. Bessent, they told me, had made a point of noting that China and the U.S.—despite having imposed tit-for-tat tariffs of more than a hundred per cent on each other’s goods—are not even engaged in talks right now, never mind anywhere close to a formal deal. Bessent also acknowledged that the Trump Administration will not have any trade deals finalized anytime soon with the dozens of other countries he’s targeted for “reciprocal” tariffs, but instead it hopes to merely have “memorandums of understanding” with some of them by the new deadline he’s set of early July. Bessent also told the audience that there could be two to three years of economic limbo, presumably while the Trump-induced economic tumult played itself out. None of this was in the initial market-moving report by Bloomberg . Neither were the comments by Jamie Dimon, the C.E.O. of JPMorgan Chase, who followed Bessent onstage. The two people who attended the conference recounted that Dimon offered blunt talk, telling the investors that he hoped Trump would fire Bessent’s internal rival, the protectionist hawk Peter Navarro, who is currently serving as a White House trade adviser; that Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs plan was “stupid”; and that a recession was now all but guaranteed. Vibe check: bad.
x This is irredeemably morally offensive. It's also certain to be deeply unpopular with the vast majority of Americans. This regime is full of guys who are so far out of their minds they can't even tell how far gone they are. — Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) 2025-04-26T03:00:49.539Z
Ron Fournier/Detroit Free Press:
My autistic son is a gift to the world. RFK Jr. doesn't get it. I am nearly certain the reason for increases in autism diagnoses is the fact that doctors are now better at identifying it. Also, parents are more willing to seek the diagnosis, and the support that comes with it. My experience tells me that. Science tells me that. But I'm an open-minded man. If somebody wants to conduct serious, unbiased research on autism and determine whether the cause is natural or man-made, I'm OK with that. I will note the National Institutes of Health spends $300 million a year on autism research, including studies examining genetics, environmental factors and the way the condition is diagnosed. That’s a lot of money. That’s good research. What I’m not OK with: President Donald Trump and his Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., spending taxpayers’ money on phony studies with rigged outcomes to support their conspiracy theories ― or with RFK’s plans to reportedly pursue those studies by collecting Americans’ private health data.
x Musk is 21 points underwater in the new Siena, what a speed run to unpopularity. There’s more “very unfavorable” than all the favorables put together. pic.twitter.com/j1KT58e8DR — tyson brody (@tysonbrody) April 25, 2025
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