Speaker Johnson Asked Point Blank To Respond To Trump's Historically Low Approval Rating

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At today's House Republican leadership press briefing, Speaker Johnson was asked about President Trump's poor poll numbers.

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00:00Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

00:01Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.

00:02On the subject of polls, polls about the first 100 days of President Trump's administration

00:07were released a few days ago, and he has the lowest approval rating of any president in

00:13the last 80 years, according to the Washington Post, BBC News, and Ipsos, I believe.

00:18Other polls suggest similarly low numbers.

00:20What do you – how do you interpret those numbers, and is that not a sign that your

00:25conference, your party, your leader, need to be changing course given those low record

00:28ratings?

00:29Well, there's always a – in any new administration, it's a roller coaster, right?

00:34When you come in and you make dramatic change, which is what he did, he's delivering on the

00:37promises made, there's some bumps along the road.

00:40I mean, we're changing everything.

00:42As we said, when President Trump was running, I told him and we told our own voters he could

00:46be the most consequential president of the modern era.

00:48Now the media is – all of you are acknowledging that it's true.

00:52By extension, we can be the most consequential Congress as well, because we quite literally

00:56have to fix every area of public policy.

00:59The last four years was an absolute unmitigated disaster, and we've got to fix it all.

01:04So when you're doing that, it's disruptive in a way.

01:07And the early initial people, they have an emotional reaction sometimes for the big changes,

01:11but what they're seeing and what the real polling is showing is that they understand that we're

01:16headed somewhere.

01:17This is the – out of the gates, all these big achievements that we just recounted, and

01:20I said we're just getting started.

01:22The reconciliation bill is the big chunk of this.

01:24The vehicle through which we will deliver the America First agenda is this big, beautiful

01:29bill, which is why we call it that.

01:31The president's approval rating is better than it was in 2017 when he got started, right,

01:36because people trust him.

01:37The thing about President Trump is he's had an administration.

01:40This is not a new thing.

01:42People remember.

01:43It's hard to remember.

01:44It seems like it was 20 years ago.

01:45But right before COVID, we had the greatest economy in the history of the world.

01:48There's been a little question and concern about the rocky start and some of the stock

01:53markets, some of the tariff policy and all that.

01:55But right now, even today, people are beginning to see the dust settle on that.

01:58They understand there was a master strategy behind this, and they're seeing the results.

02:02We're going to have 100 countries, by some accounts and maybe higher, renegotiate their

02:07trade policies with America because of what President Trump did.

02:10He's the only leader bold enough to have done that.

02:12And that's going to be a net positive, of course, for all the American people.

02:15It's going to be more fair for us.

02:17We trust the executive to do that.

02:19We trust this executive to do that.

02:20And President Trump has had some great achievements.

02:22So, look, polling goes up and down.

02:24We all talk about it, pros and cons.

02:26But at the end of the day, we're going to deliver on these results, and the American

02:28people are going to reward us for it.

02:30Yeah.

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