Mark Halperin

inexplicable they find uh the fact that he's supported okay and why am i talking about this today you know i've been on my mind now for over a decade uh state of the union uh so many democrats choosing not to go so many democrats bringing guests to the state of the union uh purposely to uh troll the president annoy the president uh so much on social media with gavin newsom and other democrats using

profanity, striking back at Donald Trump with the same level of vitriol and profanity that he uses so frequently in his pronouncements on social media and elsewhere.

This is a house seriously divided.

It's a house seriously divided.

And it's divided in asymmetrical ways.

So many Democrats bristle when I talk about Trump derangement syndrome.

And I get why they do.

And not everyone who opposes Donald Trump has derangement.

They have their reasons, valid reasons in so many cases for vociferously opposing him on policy, on style, on what they believe is the most corrupt administration of all time.

But undergirding all of that is something that is rational from their point of view to be emotionally upset about this.

And the disconnect that it causes, even for

All but a handful of Democrats, whether they have so-called Trump derangement syndrome or not, they can't understand why he's supported.

Now, his approval rating is down, but he's still supported by more than 45 percent of the country.

Probably around 45, maybe.

That's not nothing.

And it's a lot because from their point of view, Donald Trump's the worst possible person to be president.

And what I have found in asking people this week about the rest of the year, not about the midterms.

We've talked plenty about that.

We'll talk more about it.

But how do you see the rest of the year for America where we face tough choices as a country on Iran, on Russia, Ukraine, on China, on Greenland?