Abolish Bad Tweets

**Jon Favreau** (0:20)
Welcome to Pod Save America, I'm Jon Favreau.

**Dan Pfeiffer** (0:22)
I'm Dan Pfeiffer.

**Jon Favreau** (0:23)
Dan, what do you think of our new studio?

**Dan Pfeiffer** (0:25)
I can only see you and four feet to your right and left. Oh, there we go.

**Donald Trump** (0:30)
There's an eagle in there?

**Jon Favreau** (0:32)
You didn't watch all of Tuesday's pod on YouTube?

**Dan Pfeiffer** (0:35)
No, I listened to it like the Gen X where I am. What's to your left? Is that a Statue of Liberty?

**Jon Favreau** (0:42)
Yeah, there's a Statue of Liberty over here.

**Donald Trump** (0:44)
Or to your right, I guess.

**Jon Favreau** (0:45)
And then there's an eagle over there because we are taking patriotism back. We're liberals who love America.

**Dan Pfeiffer** (0:51)
One yellow mural at a time.

**Jon Favreau** (0:52)
That's right. Well, anyway, you gotta get down here so you can test out the new studio yourself. You and I have a bunch of news to talk about today. Donald Trump's approval ratings are at record lows.
And he is losing his grip on the economy, the war, just about everything else Americans care about. And yet, here we are still. Democrats get more good news in the key Senate races in North Carolina and Georgia. And maybe even some deep red states where independent candidates are carrying the anti-MAGA banner. We're also in the homestretch of the heated primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin. We're going to talk all about that. That's fun. We're also going to talk about the latest with artificial intelligence. As Sam Altman tells us that we are in fact in the singularity.
Elon Musk is saying that we're all going to die anyway. And nobody on Capitol Hill seems to know what to do about it. So that's cool.
But first, a reminder. If we do make it to November, and we do make it to these midterm elections, and AI hasn't killed us all yet. We have Crooked Con, November 5th through the 7th in Washington DC. And tickets are going pretty fast, pretty fast. So you are going to want to get a ticket to Crooked Con if you haven't already gotten yours yet.
We're going to be announcing all kinds of fun things in the lead up to Crooked Con. Guests, creators, everyone else who's coming. And so you can check out all the details. Grab your tickets at crookedcon.com. Friends of the Pod subscribers get a special discounted rate. And if you're not a subscriber yet, that's just another benefit for signing up today. Once again, that's crookedcon.com and we will see you all in DC from November 5th through the 7th. All right, let's get to the news. With 95 days until the final midterm elections of the Trump era, the president has made himself historically unpopular and is dragging his party down with him. He has lost control of the Iran War, which is now in its fifth month with no end in sight. He has lost control of the economy, which is now suffering from sluggish growth and high inflation because of Trump's war and Trump's tariffs. He has lost control of his own party in Congress, where two Republican senators whose careers he ended are still refusing to confirm his acting attorney general Todd Blanche, whose nomination Trump says he may temporarily withdraw. The president has also lost the American people, his approval rating in three high-quality polls that came out this week.
32%, 33% and 34%, near record lows for Trump in either term, which I can't really understand because the guy has really been on top of his game lately. Here he is on Wednesday.

**Donald Trump** (3:29)
Whether you're a Republican or Democrat, you don't want to go and be subjected to this airport. Between the trams and the Star Wars thing, that they go to the Star Wars and elevated buses, and nobody knows what's going on, it's a real mess. Anytime you see windmills, you see a failing country.
And they're made in China, not used by China, but they're made in China. I think the Ark is going to be incredible. I think the protected ballroom and military center that we're building at the White House is going to be unbelievable. It's very important. You know, grass is like human beings, grass is a life also. And we're changing, we're raking, cleaning and changing all of the parks.

**Jon Favreau** (4:06)
Grass has a life also, Dan. Who was talking about Dulles there, he's renovating Dulles Airport. And for any of you who've been to Dulles, might be the one renovation, the one Trump renovation I'm supporting.

**Dan Pfeiffer** (4:21)
Yeah, I would agree with that. Dulles is not America's best airport. So we're not putting our best foot forward there.