Mehdi Hassan

You know, he's got Tulsi Gabbard, who just quit as a director of national intelligence.

So it's a car crash of a presidency.

As I say, he's more unpopular now than any president at this point in the presidency.

Some polls suggest he's more unpopular now than he was the morning after January the 6th, which tells you just how unpopular he is.

But the polls are really showing that, the American public.

Every poll.

In as much as... Every poll.

And Trump knows this and it's killing him.

Because if there's one thing he's always craved, it is public approval.

And he's never got it.

He's ran for president three times.

He's never won a majority of the popular vote.

Even last time round, he won 49.8%.

He didn't quite get to 50.

But he's obsessed with this idea that they are expressions of the public will.

And he's not.

The public are very much against him.

Mehdi, how much of this bombast, the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the ballrooms, the birthdays, how much of it is a distraction from the mess the US has made abroad?

And is it working in the sense that, you know, are people talking about Iran or are they excited about the prospect of the God bless America guy, Lee Greenwood, you know, pumping out his patriotic anthems at Trump's big rally?

It gets hard debating how much of what Trump does is a distraction from other things that Trump does.