Trump announces plans to hold a massive public rally to celebrate 100 days in office. Russian drone attack in Ukraine kills at least 9 people and wounds 70 more. China pushes back after Trump signals progress in trade talks with the world s other biggest economy. Supreme Court appears to favor an opt-out option for LGBTQ+ in school.
00:01:17.960China pushing back after President Trump indicated that the U.S. is negotiating with the world's other biggest economy.
00:01:24.040Overnight, multiple Chinese officials denying that there have been talks.
00:01:28.040One saying, quote, there are no trade negotiations between China and the U.S.
00:01:32.380Any claims about progress are unfounded.
00:01:34.720Yesterday, the president signed executive orders targeting universities he views as liberal adversaries to his political agenda.
00:01:42.560It's part of his campaign to end what he calls wokeness and diversity efforts in education.
00:01:47.900The Supreme Court appears to favor an opt-out option for LGBTQ plus readings in school.
00:01:55.120A majority of the justices signaling support for the religious rights of parents in Maryland who want to remove their kids from classes using the storybooks.
00:02:04.360Donald Trump's net approval rating on immigration is actually positive, which is very much unlike his first term.
00:02:09.700If you ask, are we on the right track or the wrong track when it comes to immigration policy, the plurality say that we're on the right track,
00:02:16.120which is very different from where we were just a few months ago under Joe Biden.
00:02:20.460Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily here live, Washington, D.C.
00:02:25.380Today is April 24th, 2025, Anno Domini, 100 days.
00:02:33.020We are less than one week away from the 100th day of President Trump's second term, his second administration, many are calling it.
00:02:42.720And in fact, I'm pleased to announce and to have heard the president and his team announce last night that they have decided they will, in fact, be holding a massive public rally to celebrate 100 days up in Michigan.
00:03:00.360I think the fact that the inauguration was itself canceled for President Trump, he wasn't able to have the parade, he wasn't able to celebrate the victory.
00:03:09.860I think it's big and I think it's important.
00:03:12.120I hope that there is, in fact, a lot of pomp and circumstance at this rally.
00:03:16.980I hope that they add some more of those elements so that it's not just a traditional political rally for President Trump, but also a moment for the country and everyone to understand that this country has been changed, has been shaped and has been shifted because of the events of 2024, but even writ large, the events of the last 100 days.
00:03:37.880And so what are we talking about, the things that have been done?
00:03:40.880Look, my top three have always been, and I've been talking about this for years, trade, immigration, and foreign policy.
00:03:47.660If we are able to change the trade, immigration, and foreign policy, we can change the entire trajectory of this country.
00:04:16.900You get sent to Bukele, and Bukele will put you away.
00:04:20.740And then finally, of course, foreign policy, working to wind down the wars, particularly the war between Russia and Ukraine that, as we learned recently, has been run by the United States militarily on the tactical and operational level out of an intelligence command and control suite in Germany.
00:04:40.760This is what we elected President Trump to do.
00:04:45.820And so I sit there day in, day out, and say, you know what?
00:04:49.300We've got to actually make sure that we get all that across in the swamp, because it is the swamp running these information warfare and 4GW attacks and operations on President Trump, on the administration, Pete Hegseth, and others about what they're doing.
00:05:06.100But let's talk about where the American people are and how they think about this, coming up next.
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00:06:56.640All right, folks, coming up on the 100 days of President Trump's administration, the first 100 days of his second administration, we should say.
00:07:06.040And I wanted to break down not only where the president is, but also where the country is.
00:07:12.100And who better to understand that in public opinion than the People's Pundit himself, Rich Barris, joins us here on the program.
00:07:23.660Oh, we always love the dream, and we're living the dream every single day.
00:07:28.740And so, look, I got to tell you, I'm looking at some of the things across the board, and I don't just say, you know, people say, oh, it's, you know, it's, you know, there's this thing, there's that thing.
00:08:02.840So, Rich, that being said, let's talk about where President Trump is now in terms of these approval ratings, which, by the way, are pretty high when it comes to President Trump to begin with.
00:08:16.180Yeah, I just want to preface that answer with something.
00:08:22.340But, yeah, I mean, they were never going to roll over, Jack.
00:08:25.240But I want to preface this, what I'm about to say, with something, which is – and it's stunning to me that we have to go through this every year, every cycle after cycle.
00:08:34.440I cannot beat this anymore like a dead horse.
00:08:39.660Not all polls are created equal, and it is stunning to me that here we are now, a couple of months after the election in April, and we're still looking at the same pollsters who got stuff wrong and giving them the same level of credibility as those who got it right.
00:08:56.200And if you look at RealClearPolitics right now, what you're going to see is that Trump's approval is underwater by about the average that these pollsters have understated his support.
00:09:08.080It's not completely equal to vote chair, of course, but it is one of our best gauges for whether or not, obviously, the country supports the president.
00:09:16.460So what I mean by this is it's a little bit frustrating from my side of the fence here.
00:09:22.520It's a little bit frustrating that every election we go through this and where people who will support Donald Trump are panicked over the media polls, and then we get to the election.
00:09:50.660Emerging media should stop lending these people that much credibility because you are the new credible source of news for the generation that's 60 and under.
00:10:16.820You know, you spend hour after hour, day after day, breaking this stuff down and explaining to people that this industry is filled with incompetence and it's filled with corruption.
00:10:55.300The no and low prop voters who supported Donald Trump, first time in my lifetime, that the adult or voter eligible population, the VP, the voting eligible population, was more Republican or more Trumpy in this case specifically than the likely voter population altogether.
00:11:11.980That was being driven by these people, those low and no prop voters.
00:11:31.120They're not your 65-year-old neighbor who's obsessing over Fox News or obsessing over CNN, is ready to pick up the poll the minute I call or one of my employees call.
00:13:17.100I was – that definitely is that type of question because it's like, what do you think you know?
00:13:22.440And do you ever look back and review something that you may have thought you did know or you had a good grasp on?
00:13:27.780And then now it has proven – it never came to fruition and it's proven to be incorrect.
00:13:34.060These are the people, honestly, who somehow sympathize with the Palestinians and Israel is the great big bad, yet they love Vladimir Zelensky.
00:14:21.180And ask them the last time they even bothered taking a poll or speaking to a pollster.
00:14:24.820I mean I know it's anecdotal, but the fact of the matter is these people have different behavioral – they're in different behavioral categories.
00:15:56.700There were even the others who did a good job.
00:15:58.800They may have had Harris winning Michigan, or they may have had Harris winning North Carolina.
00:16:03.500We are the only ones who had him sweeping every seriously competitive state.
00:16:09.440And then Minnesota was close, but it wasn't – it was closer than it has been in recent elections outside of 16, but it still was – it's still lean to Harris.
00:16:20.120But everyone outside of myself consistently had that.
00:16:24.320There was one pollster who flip-flopped like crazy at the end, and I don't even consider it credible.
00:16:30.460I mean, they announced they were doing final polling, Jack.
00:16:33.120Then we came out with our final polling, and they went, oops, let me – actually, we were just kidding.
00:16:54.300So, you know, when you have some other firms out there that did have Harris winning by one point in Michigan, that's within the sample era, and they gave an accurate depiction of how close that race was.
00:17:48.220It's them – that that's a systemic, deep problem with the industry, and whether it's ethical or methodological, it doesn't matter.
00:17:56.180It's happening, and the effect is the same.
00:17:58.140And yet the people who are wrong year in and year out not only get elevated, but – and I think maybe this is the part that drives me nuts the most.
00:18:34.600You're popping a blood vessel every time you gov, who hasn't gotten an election correct in 15 years, every time you gov puts out a poll that you pop a blood vessel over, you're doing it.
00:18:53.200So, Rich, guys, what Rich is talking about, just to zoom out a little bit, is the issue is that this generates headlines for so many news outlets, which then generates the clicks and shares to say, oh, my gosh, all of a sudden, Trump is underwater on war.
00:19:13.660He's underwater on election, the stock market.
00:19:17.220Look, he's totally lost this segment of the population on this issue, immigration.
00:19:23.220It's, you know, people are totally the tariff.
00:19:25.300I remember, Rich, they, I believe it was YouGov, actually, when that when Trump announced the tariffs, all of a sudden, YouGov snap poll comes out like 12 hours later.
00:19:35.260And they're suddenly telling us that America hates the tariffs.
00:19:43.720And then it feels like, and I understand why, but it's almost like the White House press team feels like we need to respond to the narrative that's being put out by these organizations.
00:19:55.020And what Rich is saying is the initial data that's coming in is bad.
00:21:40.360It's today's edition of Human Events Daily.
00:21:43.840Look, folks, I think it's no one's surprise that I've been at the White House recently, numerous times that I've been traveling with administration officials.
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00:22:32.760And, of course, whenever you're around the president, it only ratchets up further and further.
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00:23:46.480We're on with Rich Barris, the People's Pundit.
00:23:49.120Rich, you've been going through and walking us really down this line about how the media runs these fake push-pulls to generate their narratives, to generate false perceptions of reality.
00:24:00.720You know, and I love it because then Saturday rolls around, and here's Trump and Elon, and they're walking into the UFC, and everybody's cheering!
00:24:08.380And everybody's, like, on their feet for him, and Mel Gibson's saluting from the front row, and you're like, wait a minute.
00:24:17.160This is not a situation where there's this, like, massive outcry against Trump the way that the media would have you believe.
00:24:24.840But that being said, Rich, we do need to understand and tell the truth about what's going on.
00:24:32.000And we know, of course, that President Trump, when it comes down to it, has been making some very big changes and talking about even bigger changes.
00:24:41.900We know this has spooked the market the way that this always happens, particularly on the economy.
00:24:46.500And that's why, on this issue, I did want to drill in, Rich, what are you seeing in those numbers when it comes down to it?
00:24:54.740Because, look, these, for better or worse, you know, personally, I think that America has invested too much in the stock market.
00:25:03.160I think this is something that ultimately, perhaps, has gotten too much exposure to the average American.
00:25:09.060Washington, this is a, this is a, you know, like a, this is like a casino culture.
00:25:13.700And yet, suddenly, we're told this is the best way to, to expand our money.
00:25:18.260And because, of course, this is the way we've set ourselves up financially.
00:25:21.280I don't usually pop off on this, but I guess I just am.
00:25:24.740So, that being said, though, that is where a lot of people have their money.
00:25:28.300So, Rich, what are you seeing on the economic front?
00:25:31.580Yeah, I mean, it's, it's funny to me, Jack, in the period of, let's call it globalization, when they changed the economy from a goods-producing economy to a primarily service sector, reliant, market-based economy.
00:25:46.800And I mean, I don't mean markets the way people think, I mean stock market-obsessed-based economy.
00:25:51.540They've collapsed it no less than two times in order to change the economy into a cheap goods, no manufacturing, no living wage economy.
00:26:02.060It was going to take disruption to be able to change it back, which is the agenda that people did vote for.
00:26:09.660And so, I just want people to understand, I'm not saying here that there's not economic concern.
00:26:15.020And for those who watch my show, everyone knows for weeks I've been very critical of the White House's messaging because I think they're reactive instead of being proactive, and they're not speaking in the terms that I think they should be speaking in or think would be effective.
00:26:29.420All right, so I'm not absent criticism, but the truth is, it is your, the narrative you're hearing right now about the economy and everything is being, we're not the left.
00:26:40.960That's right. I mean, it's being pushed by people who were never honest to begin with, right?
00:26:48.040And what I really see is a similar situation to what happened with Reagan when he was elected in, of course, the 1980 election.
00:26:55.740He was hammered from the day he took office in 81 after those tax cuts and the reforms that he pushed.
00:27:02.020He was hammered all the way up until 83 when the economy started to turn around.
00:27:06.120He needed to implement a little bit of pain in order to fix what the Carter mistake, Carter and others, it wasn't just Jimmy Carter.
00:27:13.960But in order to, you know, get the country back in the right direction, he needed to implement some pretty big changes and it wasn't, the benefits were not immediate.
00:34:31.900You poll the public, and it turns out the public can hold conflicting views even within themselves.
00:34:38.020Part of my job to figure out, okay, where do they actually feel on the overall immigration picture?
00:34:43.540And I think it's important to note, as we have mentioned, is that Donald Trump's net approval rating on immigration is actually positive, which is very much unlike his first term.
00:34:51.500If you ask, are we on the right track or the wrong track when it comes to immigration policy, the plurality say that we're on the right track, which is very different from where we were just a few months ago under Joe Biden.
00:35:02.860So, yeah, you see those polling, and you see it's conflicting.
00:35:05.160It kind of actually reminds me a little bit of the gun control debate, right, where you see, oh, my God, 90% background checks.
00:35:11.340And then, of course, you look at ballot measures in places like Nevada and Maine.
00:35:14.800And then when it's actually on the ballot, it's basically 50-50.
00:35:17.440In my opinion, on this particular topic, what we're really talking about, and the metric we should be looking to, is do people like, when they ask, do you like what Donald Trump's doing on immigration?
00:35:27.020And if their plurality says yes, which is what's going on, then that's the number that I think is most representative of the public at large.
00:35:33.580We're here for our final segment with Rich Barris.
00:35:36.540And, you know, as we come to President Trump's first 100 days, his second 100 days, in a sense, because it's the second administration, let's take a look back, because we're almost coming up, and this will be here very soon, on the 10-year anniversary of President Trump coming down that golden escalator.
00:35:54.320And remember what the world was like in 2015.
00:35:58.840If you were Republican and you mentioned the word deportations, you were pushed to the side.
00:36:07.040You were publicly attacked by the media.
00:36:09.760You were far right because you wanted illegal aliens out of the country, or, God forbid, you wanted to maintain the current standard of the country that we live in now.
00:36:22.040You wanted peace, you didn't want congestion in your cities, you didn't want this creaking education system, health care system, housing situation, all of these problems that are exacerbated because there are too many people in this country, or the fact that you don't like the cheap foreign labor being imported that's literally pushing people out of their own jobs in places like Disney, where they were having to train their own foreign replacements.
00:36:52.040They turn around and say, you know what, on this question, even CNN has to admit it, that Trump is ascendant on this issue, that Trump won on this issue.
00:37:03.440His entire political career is because he got this right, and in addition, all of the incredible talents and everything else that he's accomplished, but he was right on the money.
00:37:17.420When it came to this issue where the American people are, Rich Barris, I want to bring you in here, and I really do think that it's incredible that look at where, you know, just as we talk about, you know, the trajectory of things.
00:37:30.360Look at where the Republican Party has come since the autopsy of 2012 to today on this issue.
00:37:38.320It is night and day, and these people have absolutely fallen.
00:37:42.540They have absolutely fallen, and I got to just say one more thing before we get out, is that to the Republicans in D.C., if you think, oh, well, we'll just slow roll Trump, and then we'll go back to the Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush.
00:37:58.780Those type of candidates are never going to win again.
00:38:01.880If you do try to go back to that kind of party, not only will you destroy the coalition, Maha, as well, what you're going to end up with is a world where the far left, like the Luigi's, actually take over.