🚨MASSIVE: Pollster Mark Mitchell says President Trump is on pace to pass Obama as the most popular president in U.S. history:
“At this point, yeah 100%. Trump is about to outperform him. That’s what is going to happen.”
Benny Johnson: “However, in spite of all of it, in spite of all of it, peace is polling very, very well, and Donald Trump is still polling historically well. Is that a correct take?”
Mark Mitchell: “Yeah, 100%. If you look at – I don’t have them here – but our approval chart where we overlay every single prior president going back to Obama 1, we have all that. I should’ve prepped it. I’m pretty sure… oh, there it is! It’s been updated. The red line that you’ve circled there is getting awfully close to that purple line. It’s way closer in the recent chart. It’s… I don’t know. I think it’s going to cross, and it would be awfully ironic if, literally the month that Donald Trump ended Iran’s nuclear ambition after a failed $100 billion Iranian nuclear deal that Obama got passed in 2015, a deal with Iran, the same month that Trump 2.0 crosses Obama 1.0 approval. I think that would be really poetic, so I’m gonna have to keep watching that and see if it happens.”
Benny Johnson: “So you’re saying that Trump is about to outperform Obama for being the most popular president in our lifetimes?”
Mark Mitchell: “At this point in the term, and going forward, yeah, 100%. Yeah, that’s what’s going to happen. And it’s like, okay, well, you look at that big spike, and somebody’s going to be pedantic and say, ‘No, Obama had like a 70% approval rating.’ Well, yeah, they were releasing doves at his, you know, at all of his rallies and stuff like that. Yeah, he came in with a really high approval rating. Everybody thought that he was going to cure the great financial crisis, and now look what happened. It absolutely imploded as well.”
Benny Johnson: “And the cautionary tale here is that foreign entanglements and forever wars destroy presidencies.”
Mark Mitchell: “Yeah, and they always have a knack of keeping popping up. For some reason, it’s almost like the inertia in Washington D.C. with every fiber of their being craves this kind of dalliance or release or whatever it is. And we saw a lot of those people, we saw their masks slip. But it’s really easy in your self-crafted Washington D.C. bubble to listen to the special interests that are telling you, ‘No, this is easier, this is better, this is a checkbox that we have to tick off, this is something that’s part of our foreign policy punch list, and it’s gotta get done sooner or later, and so now’s our chance, and look what a good investment it’s going to be.’ You know that’s how D.C. works.”
Benny Johnson: “It’s our sacred obligation to our allies, but our allies don’t even abide by the effing peace deal that they signed. They can’t even buy by it for an hour.”
Mark Mitchell: “Yeah, Trump dropping F-bombs at the White House today, he’s so angry and frustrated and raging at all of this.”