{"id":2280705,"date":"2026-02-13T16:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2280705"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:55:32","slug":"joe-scarborough-says-this-is-why-trumps-approval-ratings-have-cratered-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/joe-scarborough-says-this-is-why-trumps-approval-ratings-have-cratered-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Scarborough Says This Is Why Trump\u2019s Approval Ratings Have \u2018Cratered\u2019 | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/morning-joe\/\"><em>Morning Joe<\/em><\/a> co-host <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/joe-scarborough\/\">Joe Scarborough<\/a> discussed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s falling approval ratings on Friday (February 13), saying the president\u2019s \u201cshock opera\u201d tactics are wearing thin.<\/p>\n<p>The MS NOW anchor was referring to the latest polling from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/02\/12\/trump-polling-approval-biden-democrats\">Axios<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/politics\/articles\/54073-elections-donald-trump-approval-jeffrey-epstein-taxes-economy-ice-february-6-9-2026-economist-yougov-poll\">YouGo<\/a>v, which shows Trump losing support from independents and 18 to 29-year-olds, with voters saying former President <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/joe-biden\/\">Joe Biden<\/a> did a better job in office.<\/p>\n<div class=\"piano-in-article\">\n<p>\u201cThese polls, where a year into the president\u2019s term, voters are saying Joe Biden was better, and there\u2019s a spate of them out this week, young voters have cratered,\u201d Scarborough said, per <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/joe-scarborough-warns-trumps-shock-opera-has-cratered-his-polling-buck-stops-with-the-president\/\"><em>Mediaite<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThe YouGov-Economist\u00a0poll found Donald Trump -42 net approval among 18 to 29 year olds. That\u2019s a 51-point swing from +9 at the start of the presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scarborough said he\u2019s never seen anything quite like it during a presidency, but noted the White House doesn\u2019t seem to want to do anything to address the falling numbers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I have never seen numbers like that: Joe reacts to Trump\u2019s cratering poll numbers\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rKguYJlYMU8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cEvery day it\u2019s another act in a shock opera, which I don\u2019t know. Maybe there\u2019s this belief, I know there\u2019s always been the belief, shock people, own the libs, and gain your power from their overreacting, but we\u2019re not,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe understand this, and it\u2019s not owning the libs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cAs I\u2019ve said before, if you\u2019re hitting your forehead with a ball peen hammer, that\u2019s owning you, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing in these numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scarborough\u2019s wife and co-host, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/mika-brzezinski\/\">Mika Brzezinski<\/a>, also shared her thoughts on the matter. She said people are growing frustrated with the lack of consequences within the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the no-consequence presidency. Nobody gets fired. Whether it\u2019s shielding child predators or being child predators within this administration, potentially, or whether it\u2019s execution-style killings in Minnesota, whether it\u2019s ICE raids gone wild\u2026 no accountability, none at all,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>Scarborough added, \u201cYou do something really stupid. A lot of times, you get rewarded for it if you\u2019re loyal. Now, that may work in Russia, that may work in Belarus. It does not work in the United States of America. And that\u2019s why those poll numbers have collapsed by over 50 points among young voters, among independents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have to be consequences to stupid actions inside the White House,\u201d he concluded. \u201cAnd if not, the buck stops with the president of the United States. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-block\">\n<div class=\"post-block\">\n<div class=\"post-block\">\n<div class=\"post-block\">\n<div class=\"post-block\">\n<p><strong><em>Morning Joe<\/em>, Weekdays, 6 a.m.\/5c, MS NOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>More Headlines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.gjsentinel.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough discussed Donald Trump\u2018s falling approval ratings on Friday (February 13), saying the president\u2019s \u201cshock opera\u201d tactics are wearing thin. The MS NOW anchor was referring to the latest polling from Axios and YouGov, which shows Trump losing support from independents and 18 to 29-year-olds, with voters saying former President Joe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2086256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[22389,398006,398010,391910,420521,436968,21738,21902,398007,22048,398005,398008,398004,137882,137883,398009,398013],"class_list":["post-2280705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-controversies","tag-first-presidency-of-donald-trump","tag-joe-scarborough","tag-mika-brzezinski","tag-morning-joe","tag-news","tag-ntvb_media","tag-political-career-of-donald-trump","tag-politics","tag-politics-of-the-united-states","tag-presidencies-of-donald-trump","tag-presidency-of-the-united-states","tag-syndicate","tag-syndicate-news","tag-trump-administration-controversies","tag-united-states-presidential-administration-controversies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Big-Ticket-gjsentinelcom.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280706,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280705\/revisions\/2280706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2086256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}