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Trump's presidential honeymoon from hell (episode 229)


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Seventy days into his presidency, Donald J. Trump gets the nod of approval from only 35 percent of Americans, the all-time lowest approval rating of any president in his first year. The latest Gallup poll also shows his approval rating among men falling from 51 percent to 44 percent during the month of March. The traditional honeymoon enjoyed by most presidents during their first 100 days has not happened. In fact, says political analyst Herb Smith, Trump is having the presidential "honeymoon from hell." Smith, longtime professor of political science at McDaniel College in Westminster, talks about Trump’s struggles and how it could affect Republicans in the 2018 elections. And, fresh from a McDaniel roundtable on the subject, Smith talks about "fake news" and "alternative facts," and he compares the dystopian prophecies of Orwell's "1984" with Huxley’s "Brave New World."Links:http://www.gallup.com/poll/207518/trump-approval-rating-unusually-low-unusually-early.aspxhttp://www.gallup.com/poll/207497/gender-gap-shrinks-trump-loses-support-among-men.aspxhttp://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Maryland-Politics-and-Government,674904.aspxhttp://www2.mcdaniel.edu/Poli_Sci/facsmith.htmhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/books/review/which-dystopian-novel-got-it-right-orwells-1984-or-huxleys-brave-new-world.html?_r=0
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