‘Historic’: New polling shows majority of Americans are not happy with Trump presidency

well the thought Donald Trump walking into the house chamber again may make you want to crawl into the fetal position which I totally understand that speech is actually where I want to start and here's why because tomorrow night he's going to give you his version of events and I want to give you mine now I could sit here and tell you all about the inner workings of how a big speech like this typically comes together in a White House how the writing process typically Works how the preparation typically Works how the strategy typically Works what

a president is thinking about in the days ahead all of the things I could talk about all of that but the thing is in this moment that would all be pretty useless because this is not a normal speech it's not a normal presidency it's not a normal reality we are all living in to State the obvious and I think it's important to remember all of that heading into tomorrow night because Trump is going to have a big platform and he's definitely going to try his hardest to convince you that his plan and his last six

weeks in office have helped you somehow now I mean just this morning Trump previewed his speech by saying quote tomorrow night will be big I will tell it like it is but let me translate that for you real quick when Trump says he'll tell it like it is what he really means is that he's going to tell you what his own warped version of is of what he wants you to believe I mean I obviously don't know what's in the speech I can't entirely predict all the things he's going to talk about at all but

I I think it's pretty safe to say that he's going to lie he's going to exaggerate he's going to sugarcoat he's going to say a lot of things that aren't true as you're watching that and resisting the urge to throw something at the TV if you do just make sure it's a soft thing just remember that you know what's true no matter what he says tomorrow you know what he's already done you know what you've been seeing with your own eyes you know how you and your family and your neighbors have been feeling I mean

you probably felt a little less safe but that next flight after a series of recent crashes and air disasters As Trump and mus continue their quest to gut the FAA I bet you've heard about the measles outbreak in Texas killing a child that might be the same age as your kid or your grandkid As Trump and muskot the Department of Health and Human Services you might have seen the news today that for the first time in history your Social Security checks might not come on time you've probably gone to the grocery store over the past

few weeks and seen that the prices have not actually gone down but up and you know that when Trump imposes his tariffs on Canada and Mexico in a few hours costs will go up even more if you have money in the stock market you probably notice that the markets tanked today after Trump confirmed those tariffs are coming and I know you saw what happened in the Oval Office on Friday when Trump bered an ally under attack and sided with a murderous dictator point is this you see what's happening you know what's happening and if you

spent the last few weeks worrying about what all of this means for you and what this means for the country and your Community you're not alone I mean you're in the majority actually brand new polling shows that a majority of Americans say the state of the union is not very strong a majority of Americans say the cuts to the federal government are doing more harm than good majority of Americans say Trump has not paid enough attention to the country's most important problems and the only president who had a lower approval rating than Donald Trump at

this point in their presidency is Donald Trump again you see what's happening you you know what's happening and you are in the majority we see that very clearly in the data and we're also seeing it in communities and town halls all across the country I mean look at the greeting vice president JD van Scott in Vermont over the weekend when citizens crowded the streets carrying signs like democracy not Fascism and my personal favorite goosi in Russia JD and listen to this chorus of booze at Congressman Keith self's Town Hall in Texas over the weekend the

program [Applause] I mean that's pretty loud from the people of Texas and watch this moment from a town hall in Kansas where constituents pressed Senator Roger Marshall Marshall so forcefully that he literally just got up and walked out we don't have time for everyone to stand up I do got two more commitments today appreciate everybody making the drive out and God bless America thank you [Applause] [Music] they seem a little displeased there in Kansas and I want you to take a listen to one more this is from Congressman Tom sasi's Town Hall over the weekend

and keep in mind as you're watching that well yes he is a Democrat he represents a very purple District listen everybody's freaking out everybody's like you know I'm mred like's let's work together let's try and find common ground and what happened in the white house yesterday I was so pissed pissed off I knew you had to get that out of your system I mean he was referencing Donald Trump berading zinski the president of Ukraine in the Oval Office and people were clapping because they were pissed off too it's pretty loud and clear from the people

of Long Island now Trump of course came out this morning and said nothing see here and that all of these people and at all of these Town Halls are just paid troublemakers that's his claim and of course there's no evidence that that's true but that response is an awfully good window into what we will likely hear from him tomorrow night he's going to tell you not to believe what you're seeing with your own eyes not to believe what you're feeling in your gut and to just take him at his word I'm here to tell you

to do the exact opposite I'm here to tell you to trust what you've been seeing with your own eyes believe what you've been feeling in your gut and know that you are definitely Ely not alone I can think of two better people to talk with about all of this Dan fer is a former senior adviser to President Obama and co-host of PODS of America Ben roads is the former deputy National Security adviser to President Obama if this was a normal State of the Union we could just get super nerdy about all the preparations but it's

not so we're not going to do that so Dan let me start with you I I kind I just gave my take on how I'm looking at tomorrow night we're all going to watch it so if people watching don't want to watch it we'll we'll tell you all about it but how are you looking at it I think one of the big questions about this speech is is everyone People Like Us the media the Democrats in Congress going to treat it like a normal speech just a slightly more extreme version of a traditional State of

the Union but that's not what this is right we we know what we're going to get is going to be gaslighting we know that we are undergoing one of the most radical and dangerous potentially unconstitutional changes in how America operates over the last six weeks here and are we going to treat it as such are we just going to get up there and critique what he says say you know maybe this wasn't exactly right maybe this wasn't wrong go through the strategy of it and then come out with our talking points about the price of

eggs right or we G or we going to play a bigger game here and talk about what's really happening and I think that's the question for all of us as we try to figure out because we don't really have the vocabulary or the experience to really deal with what Trump is do with Elon Musk are doing to our country right now no question it's it's um unprecedented is one way of talking about it but it's it's many many things Ben let me ask you I mean one of the things that you always prepare for and

you always watch on the outside is sort of what everybody does in the room and I'm sure we will talk about that tomorrow as we see it but I think it's important to also level such as how abnormal and horrible in many ways things are right now I mean we just learned tonight that the us is going to pause all military assistance into Ukraine I think we should expect um anything in this moment of course but if Trump makes a big deal of that tomorrow night are you expecting Republicans in the chamber are going to

stand up and applaud I mean what what are what should we be preparing for to the degree we even know in that regard well just to build on what you said in your opening Jen and what Dan said uh he's going to try to present all of these deeply radical things he's doing um on his own terms yeah and then there's going to be this instinct to digest them as if there are kind of policy shifts right so Ukraine he will present what he's doing ber president zalinski in the Oval Office and cutting all assistance

as a peace plan um and not as what it really is which is a transformative event in American history where the United States is shifting from the side of our European allies to the side of laar Putin that's what it is he will try to present it as something else as a peace plan in the same way that he'll try to present you know Doge as just an effort to get rid of waste and fraud and cut some uh spending from the budget and not what it actually is which is an effort led by a

tech oligarch to dismantle the US federal government right and so across the board there going to be these things where he's trying to kind of take advantage of the normaly of the venue you know I just am a guy with an agenda to make government work better to bring peace to Ukraine to you know have a big beautiful economy never mind that the tariffs that are going to go in effect tomorrow we going to have huge disruptive effects on vital American sectors like the automotive sector like the prices of food and so I think the

Republicans look I have no hope for them they'll stand in applaud they'll salute Mr Trump they'll do whatever they have to do to avoid you know some magga media coming after them I think what we have to do is not give into the normaly of the event we are living through a very abnormal thing that is happening and we're going to be living through it for at least two years until the midor elections and and I think that's how Democrats need to respond and frankly everybody who's in the kind of reality based World whatever their

party affiliate needs to respond I mean the man can read from a teleprompter if he needs to I actually don't I mean the inauguration was so much crazier than the first inauguration so that's not what I expect but if anyone says he became president tonight tomorrow night I'm going to lay on the ground so I hope that's not what happens anywhere Dan let me ask you just about Democrats and because because that that is one thing Ben Ben raised there and also you referenced I mean the the vernacular and how exactly to fight back it

feels like everybody's kind of working out the Kinks of what works and what doesn't work some Democrats are not showing up some are doing alternative events some are bringing um federal workers who have been fired what do you what do you think they should do I mean all of the above honestly which is I think for much of the we're getting better I'm we should sate the Democrats are getting better than they were a few weeks ago but as a party we've been so flumed by how to deal with Trump because I think the results

of the election the degree of the shift in Trump's Direction really sort of broke people's brains and so we're like L of people are waiting for whatever the right the Silver Bullet the right message with the one poll that's going to tell us what to do when the reality is just like get out there and make noise right get out because that right now and this is I think the lesson of media in the Trump era is quantity is more is more important than Precision in what you say so go there attention my only piece

of advice I think is don't play wacka try to tell one story about what Trump is doing and the story that I would recommend is corruption it is what ties all of this together right whether you have the world's richest man rooting through our government including The Regulators that look after his businesses whether you have a taxpayer funded crypto scam whether you have a taxpayer funded political ad for Trump bunch of people are enriching themselves within the government like that is a story that can tie everything together but you don't have to take my story

just get out there and start talking e