I think this is fair.
BO talking point memo:
So we're gonna begin tonight with the polling, and that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. ABC News poll, so-so poll. And the key to this is 2,454 adults, not registered voters, not likely voters, adults. When you have just adults, the awareness of the issues goes down because you don't have a lot of people who are actively invested in our system. It could be anybody. Now, I don't mean to diminish these people, but pollsters usually go for registered voters. That's what they usually go. The first question is job approval, 39% approved, 55% disapproved. That's the lowest number in an ABC News poll, first 100 days since 1945. That would be Harry Truman. Not a good showing there. Second question, the economy since Trump took office, better 21, worse 53, same 25. This is the key to the poll, okay? So 53% of Americans feel they're worse off economically, their money, than they were under Joe Biden. Why do they feel that way? Stock market. That's why. And that is what is missing in the analysis. If the stock market, in the next month or so, rockets, then Trump's job approval rating will go along with it simultaneously. This is a one-issue poll. And I noted that Karl Rove, who does not like Donald Trump at all because Trump diminished the Bush family. His analysis on Fox was that Trump's in dire trouble. No, he's not. He could be. The tariff doesn't work out, he'll be in dire trouble. But now he's not. Because in the next hundred days, everything could turn around fast. In the middle of, we're talking about late June, early July, Trump could be at 50 percent job approval if the market comes up. But that's not how it's being portrayed.
Two more questions Trump approval on immigration, approve 46, disapprove 53. That goes against every other poll. Just so you know. And Trump approval on tariffs, approve 34 disapprove 64. There you go, that's it. That ties right in. Why is this happening? Well, Donald Trump is a change agent, okay? He's bold. I wrote a memoir called The Bold, Fresh Piece of Humanity, which the nuns used to call me. Well, you can assign that to the President of the United States. And we have a $37 trillion national debt. There's no way to get that down unless you get more money in here, which is what the tariffs would do. And you cut, doge. But, the Democrats are not interested in that at all. They don't feel it's important. They don't care about it. Biden did nothing about it, nothing. Biden was the biggest spending president in history, okay? So Trump comes in and says, look, I'm gonna change this whole economic system. When you do that, there's gonna be pain. If it were easy, it would have been done a long time ago. The only other president that did this is Teddy Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt. So when he took office after William McKinley was shot dead in 1901, Roosevelt went after almost immediately the so-called robber barons. I write about this in Confronting Evil. So talking about John Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan, the big monopoly guys, and they were exploiting the American worker, not only paying him nothing, but dangerous, dangerous working conditions. Roosevelt beat them, but it took a long time, and it was bloody. Roosevelt took a lot of heat for it. But he changed the economy, busted the trusts, busted the monopolies. Okay, that is a very valid comparison of what Trump's doing now. Teddy was like this, I'm going to do this. Trump is convinced that tariffs are the future to get America a stronger economy. He's convinced of it.
Now, there have been a few other presidents that have been disruptors. And Trump is absolutely a disruptor. He wants a smaller federal government. And again, his opposition does not. They don't want any of this, including the media. So the presidents who disrupted the system were Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman. That's it. Those are the only presidents that disrupted the American system. And all of them paid a price for it. Lincoln paid his life for disrupting the slavery industry. That's why Booth killed him. And the others, Jackson was with the national bank, and he didn't want the federal government controlling the economy. Teddy, as we just mentioned, Franklin Roosevelt brought in the safety nets after the depression, changed the whole structure that the government had an obligation to save you if you were drowning. And Harry Truman basically said, look, I'm running the show. I'm firing Douglas MacArthur over in Korea. I'm dropping the atom bombs. Disrupter. So, it's important that you know the context of what Donald Trump is doing. The other thing in this poll is that I don't believe, and I'm not being supercilious, word of the day here, that Americans don't understand tariffs even after all of this. They do not know what they are. They don't know. They don't know where the money goes, they don't know who pays the money, they don’t know why they're necessary, they don't know how much... America gets screwed every year to the tune of a trillion dollars. A trillion dollars more leaves our country than comes in, in trade. I mean, that's big. And again, there's no way to reverse that without pain. And that's what we're experiencing now, and that's why Trump poll numbers are down. In the end, I don't know whether Donald Trump will succeed in this. Nobody can possibly predict that. I think he might, but I can't go further than that. I hope he does. I hope he does. Be better for everybody here. And that's the Memo.
