Ezra Klein

People are mad about prices.

We should talk about immigration.

They're mad about immigration.

And they're mad about disorder that now Donald Trump is causing.

And going piece by piece to this deal or that deal, to no tax on tips, to whatever, is not going to talk him out of it.

One is you think about the process by which state of the unions are normally vetted, right?

The amount of interagency meeting and making sure the president doesn't say anything that can be untrue.

The Trump White House, because it cares so little about the fact checkers, has freed itself from that discipline and that rigor.

And so...

That's like the understatement.

And so the fact that nobody stopped him from getting something that substantial wrong is, as you say, telling, but it's telling about a kind of a weakness and a vulnerability around him, which is that they are not doing things right.

Carefully.

The other thing I want to note on immigration.

So immigration has gone from Donald Trump's dominant issue.

If you look at his net approval, so approval minus disapproval, at the beginning of his term, you know, a year ago, he has a net approval on immigration that is around plus 10, which is very, very strong for him.

That's a big number, yeah, for those of you who don't follow this stuff.

It's now flipped.

Yeah.

It's now, you know, it depends on the poll you look at, but negative 7, negative 10, negative 13.

So that's a big loss on his strongest issue.