05/05/2025
It is also the lowest approval rating for any president after 100 days since Dwight D. Eisenhower and makes Trump less popular now than he was at the same point during his first term.
And in the latest Fox News poll, conducted between April 18-21 among 1,104 registered voters, Trump's net approval sank to -10 points, with 44 percent approving and 55 percent disapproving, down from -2 points in March.
That makes Trump's approval lower than that of Joe Biden (54 percent), Barack Obama (62 percent), and George W. Bush (63 percent) at the 100-day mark in their presidencies, and is down 5 points from Trump's 49 percent approval in March.
An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted between April 18-22 among 2,464 adults showed that Trump has the lowest 100-day job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, with 39 percent of respondents saying they approve of how Trump is handling his job as president, down 6 percentage points from February, while 55 percent said they disapprove.
Given the outcome of this season's series, the Braves are glad to be done with the Dodgers.
Before their series with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Atlanta Braves were on a high. They had just returned from a successful road trip out West against the Diamondbacks and Rockies, and they were riding high after winning four consecutive series.
Nevertheless, despite their inconsistent road performance, the Dodgers are always going to be a difficult club to contend with. Even if it wasn't entirely out of the question to believe that the Braves could defeat the Southern California powerhouse in this series, the Braves would still have a difficult time continuing their winning streak. Let's review how this weekend's series went one last time:
Yoshinobu Yamamoto was once again utterly dominant for the Dodgers, and that second run proved to be plenty for Los Angeles to win. Yamamoto also pitched six innings, but he only walked Marcell Ozuna twice and gave up only one hit while striking out six. The Braves actually only managed to produce two hits in this one. Luckily, Matt Olson's homer off Kirby Yates was one of those hits, ensuring the Braves didn't be shut out (or no-hit), but in the end, it was just a matter of running into a star pitcher who is currently on a hot streak.
Braves 3, Dodgers 10, Saturday, May 3.
Rain affected the second game of this series as well, but it lasted a little longer than the rain delay on Friday. The latest start time in Truist Park's history was 10:21 p.m. ET, which is when the game began.
This game's outcome was quite comparable to what would occur in a Braves vs. Dodgers game that began after 10:00 p.m. ET. The Dodgers scored early and frequently in this game, as Spencer Schwellenbach was completely dominated for six runs over 3.2 innings. At one point, the score was 7-1 Los Angeles, but Nick Allen's RBI and Ozzie Albies' homer brought the Braves within four. Finally, just over 1:00 a.m., Freddie Freeman hit a home run against Scott Blewett in the eighth inning to give us the final score of 10-3.
May 4th, Sunday
Dodgers 3, Braves 4.
We had the unique opportunity to watch the Braves play from ahead against the Dodgers on Sunday Night Baseball. Austin Riley blasted a two-run homer to put the Braves ahead early in the game after Bryce Elder struck out the side to begin it. Riley loved hitting Dustin May's home runs so much that he repeated the feat during his subsequent at-bat. Austin put the Braves ahead 4-0 with another two-run blast.
Brutal Approval Rating Polls for Donald Trump: Should He Be Concerned?
For the first time in his political career, Trump's approval ratings were in positive territory in January, and polls suggested that he was more popular than ever.
However, that momentum has disappeared. At the 100-day mark of his second term, Trump is now the least popular president, surpassing even his previously dismal ratings from his first term. This is a startling reversal.
Polls Show a Historic Drop
In the most recent CNN/SSRS survey, which was conducted among 1,678 adults between April 17 and 24, 41 percent of respondents said they now approve of the president's job performance, while 59 percent said they disagree. That is 7 points lower than it was in late February and 4 points lower than it was in March.
Trump attempted earlier this week to undermine recent polls by calling them "fake news."
Like the news itself, the fake news's polls are phony! "We're doing fantastic, better than ever," he wrote in a Truth Social post.
The image painted by Democratic pollster Matt McDermott is much more dire. There is "no historical precedent" for a president to bounce back from such a severe early-term decline in popularity, he claims. "Once trust is broken, it is hard to rebuild—and right now Trump is burning through whatever goodwill he had left with critical swing voters."
According to presidential historian Allan Lichtman, who specializes in election prediction, Trump's historically low 100-day approval ratings are "a major red flag" for both his administration and his wider political power. He says, "There is no precedent for any president recovering from such low approval ratings at the hundred-day mark," and that Trump's only opponent for this type of early-term unpopularity is himself, although he never fully recovered during his first term. Lichtman concedes that rates of approval can change, but he contends that the likelihood of this happening is "dim."
"A lot can still happen, although the chances of a significant increase in approval ratings for Trump are dim," stated Trump.
The assistant director of Yale Youth Poll, Jack Dozier, adopts a more comprehensive stance, arguing that it is simply too soon to determine the entire extent of Trump's second term. The president's popularity can change, he says, and "only time will tell" if Trump's current polling marks a brief decline or the beginning of long-term political harm.The image painted by Democratic pollster Matt McDermott is much more dire. There is "no historical precedent" for a president to bounce back from such a severe early-term decline in popularity, he claims. "Once trust is broken, it is hard to rebuild—and right now Trump is burning through whatever goodwill he had left with critical swing voters."
According to presidential historian Allan Lichtman, who specializes in election prediction, Trump's historically low 100-day approval ratings are "a major red flag" for both his administration and his wider political power. He says, "There is no precedent for any president recovering from such low approval ratings at the hundred-day mark," and that Trump's only opponent for this type of early-term unpopularity is himself, although he never fully recovered during his first term. Lichtman concedes that rates of approval can change, but he contends that the likelihood of this happening is "dim."
"A lot can still happen, although the chances of a significant increase in approval ratings for Trump are dim," stated Trump.
The assistant director of Yale Youth Poll, Jack Dozier, adopts a more comprehensive stance, arguing that it is simply too soon to determine the entire extent of Trump's second term. The president's popularity can change, he says, and "only time will tell" if Trump's current polling marks a brief decline or the beginning of long-term political harm.
