Harry Enten, CNN’s chief information analyst, made a shocking declaration about President Donald Trump on Tuesday, calling him a “soaring eagle” regardless of his tanking economic system and plummeting approval rankings.
“I think this was this concern among some folks that Donald Trump would come in for a second term and kind of be a lame duck, he ain’t no lame duck—if anything, he’s a soaring eagle,” Enten mentioned.
He went on to enthusiastically level out that Trump’s 111 government orders had been “the most at this point in a presidency in at least 100 years.”
Enten didn’t point out that amongst lots of Trump’s orders are actions trying to resegregate the US and roll again rights for girls and the LGBTQ+ neighborhood.
He then argued that Trump tried to ship on his marketing campaign guarantees however failed to attain the overwhelming majority of his Day 1 pledges.
Citing a CBS Information ballot, Enten surprisingly argued that the outcomes, which confirmed that 36% imagine Trump is utilizing the correct quantity of energy whereas 17% say he’s utilizing too little, is proof that “a majority of the American public” don’t imagine that Trump is appearing like a king.
However, he failed to say, the ballot additionally confirmed that 47% of respondents—the most important of any group—imagine that Trump is utilizing an excessive amount of energy.
“Is Harry Enten angling for a job in the Trump administration or what is going on here?” journalist Aaron Rupar wrote on Bluesky.
Regardless of the rosy image Enten tried to color, the scenario in the true world is considerably extra dire.
The U.S. economic system is in a state of turmoil as markets have been dropping considerably following Trump’s arbitrary determination to impose tariffs throughout the globe. Even a few of Trump’s billionaire backers, like Elon Musk and Invoice Ackman, have voiced considerations about Trump’s burgeoning commerce struggle.
Trump’s assist has fallen in a number of opinion polls, notably concerning the economic system. Within the conservative Rasmussen Ballot, Trump dropped under 50% for the primary time in his second time period.
And a Wall Road Journal ballot launched on Monday confirmed that 54% of voters oppose Trump’s tariffs—a far cry from the “soaring eagle” that Enten labeled him.
However Enten’s rant was in keeping with how the company media has handled Trump over the previous couple of years, minimizing—or not even reporting on—his errors and missteps and giving a misunderstanding of the general public’s assist of Trump.
On the identical time, key figures within the media—together with billionaire moguls like Washington Put up proprietor Jeff Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg—have been bending the knee to Trump by tilting protection in a rightward path.
Enten’s proclamation comes simply a couple of days after hundreds of individuals throughout the US expressed their frustrations about Trump in the course of the nationwide “Hands Off!” protests.
Seems like, regardless of CNN’s claims, Trump will not be “soaring” above something.
