Donald Trump’s approval rating continues to drop. The latest Pew Research Center poll, released Thursday, found that only 37% of Americans approve of how he’s handling his job as president — the lowest rating of his second term.
The poll also shows Trump deeply underwater among some key demographics: Almost three-quarters of Asian and Hispanic voters have an unfavorable view of him, and only 30% of voters age 18 to 29 approve of the job he’s doing as president.
On Friday’s “Morning Joe,” branding and marketing expert Donny Deutsch called the results “pretty stunning.”
Deutsch said he believed the president’s sinking poll numbers had “a lot” to do with his immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.
“This is the first time I’ve heard so many Trump voters say to me — and I’m surrounded by a lot of Trump voters, you know — ‘This is a bridge too far.’” He added that the people he speaks to believe the operation “feels so un-American” and “inhumane.”
Deutsch said the president is aware of how his immigration enforcement policies are playing to the American people. The branding expert said he believed a recent FBI raid at a Fulton County elections office in Georgia was, in part, an attempt to create a distraction.
“I think it’s no coincidence that happened now to defer attention away from,” immigration, he argued, which he characterized as a “losing issue.”
“Morning Joe” co-host Jonathan Lemire said the new poll reflected “something we very rarely see, which is part of Trump’s own base seems to be, if not abandoning him, but at least questioning him, his ability for the job, and certainly the direction his policies have taken.”








