'Americans have turned against you': Analyst warns Trump has 'a real problem'
CNN reports President Donald Trump is “bristling” at polls that show Americans are blaming his administration for their economic woes, and even calling the polls “fake.” But CNN analyst Harry Enten blared a warning to the president about ignoring the numbers.
“If I had one piece of advice … in the words of Michael Jordan, ‘stop it.’ Stop going after the polls. You have a real problem here,” Enten said, before pulling up a host of surveys all saying the same thing.
“You go back to October of 2024, who did American’s trust more in inflation, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump? They trusted Donald Trump by nine points on average,” Enten said. “You jump over to this side of the screen, those same exact polls have him way, way, way underwater — 26 points underwater on his net approval on inflation. So, it's not that the polls are fake, it's that the American people have turned against you, Mr. President!”
“You've gone from leading by nine points on inflation to being 26 points underwater,” Enten warned. “You're doing something very wrong in the minds of the American public. Negative 26? … That's a huge problem.”
Even if the polls were off as they were last year, Enten said the difference would not shift Trump’s 30-point drop toward disaster by any meaningful amount.
“Let's say the polls are off. Let's take up Donald Trump on his hypothetical, right? ‘Oh, the polls always underestimate me.’ … Currently, he's 26 points below water. If the polls are off like they were in 2024 … he's then 24 points underwater on inflation,” Enten said. “So, yes, the polls underestimated him. But just by about a point and a half in 2024. He would still have a massive, massive, massive problem on inflation.”
And Enten added that there is “no guarantee that the polls are underestimating him.” In fact, they’re probably much worse considering how badly the polls skewed optimistic in Republicans’ favor before Democrats trampled them in off-year elections.
“We just saw a week ago in both Virginia and New Jersey, who the polls underestimated in 2025. They underestimated Democrat Mikie Sherrill by eight points in New Jersey. They underestimated Abigail Spanberger’s margin by five points in Virginia. The bottom line is this: The polls and inflation are absolutely awful for Donald Trump, even if they were slightly better, he'd still be way, way below water, but things might be even worse than the polls suggest.,” Enten said.
“The bottom line is this: Donald Trump has a massive issue on his hand, and no wishing will make it go away," Enten said.
