New Trump polling leads CNN analyst to doomsday prediction for his presidency: ‘Awful, awful, awful’

President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are historically bad — and they’re likely to get worse, according to CNN political analyst Harry Enten.

Enten, appearing before Trump’s national address on Tuesday night, couldn’t find even the slightest good news for Trump in the network’s new polling.

“The word here that I would use to describe Trump is ‘awful,’” Enten told host Kate Bolduan. He later repeated the bad news: “He is historically doing awful, awful, awful ... weak, weak, weak.”

Enten said that at this point in his presidency, Trump is beating only one other president — himself. Trump’s current approval rating of plus-1, while historically horrible, is better than his minus-8 at the start of his first term in 2017.

Bolduan joked that Trump “is making gains.”

“He’s making gains, but he’s doing worse than everybody else,” Enten said. “The average president at this point, is plus-27 points on their net approval rating.”

Enten pointed out that Trump is polling miserably “on the issue ... he was most elected to fix, and he said he would do it on day one, which would be the economy.”

Trump — who barely addressed the economy in his speech other than to blame the former administration — is currently at minus-4 on the economy, according to CNN’s polling. That’s far worse than he was in 2017, when he was plus-8.

“This is historically the worst, going back in polling, at this point in a presidency,” Enten said. “Historically, the average is plus-15 points. He is doing nearly 20 points worse than the average president when it comes to the economy, on net approval rating.

“This is not good. If this number holds, you can guarantee his overall approval rating will go down, and it could take his entire presidency with him.”

When asked what effect tariffs are likely to play, Enten predicted more doom for Trump. CNN’s polling shows that 64% of Americans oppose tariffs on Canada, while 59% are against tariffs on Mexico.

Trump’s initial tariffs have targeted Canada, Mexico and China, while sending the U.S. stock market into a 1,000-point-plus nose dive over Monday and Tuesday.

While all three nations have talked tough and have threatened actions to cripple the U.S. economy in retaliation, experts say Canada and Mexico could be driven into a recession, which, in turn would hurt the U.S.. If that happens, Trump will be to blame.

“These tariffs, in my mind, will only bring [Trump] down further,” Enten said. “Again, historically awful on the economy at this point, and the tariffs, I think, will only lead to further deterioration.

“Americans don’t like the idea of prices going up. That leads to approval ratings going down.”

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