Name: Enten: Even Fox News poll shows Trump’s Iran war is unpopular
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The president's choice to enter into a war with Iran has not been widely popular with Congress, as Sarah was just discussing.

It hasn't been popular with the American people either.

So how is it impacting Trump's approval rating, Sarah?

As CNN's Harry Enten here now to run the numbers.

So Harry, Fox was one of the initial polls, right, um, in terms of showing how the Iran war was sitting.

It didn't really show that there was a big issue with it initially.

Things are changing this morning in this latest poll that we have out.

Look, when there was this slew of initial polls that came out, the Fox News poll was the one initial poll that did not show that the war was unpopular.

Trump has lost his one good poll when it comes to the Iran war, because just take a look here: net approval rating of U.S.

What that essentially means is 50% approved, 50% disapproved.

Look at this now: the net approval rating for the U.S.

military action in Iran, negative 16 points, just 42% of the American public approve of it, 58% disapprove.

So now we're looking at basically every single poll in which the clear plurality or majority of Americans disapprove of the U.S.

Trump can no longer point to a poll that actually shows that among the general public at large, that the American public actually approve of this military action.

So this is the overwhelming for the Iran war.

When it comes to how President Trump is handling Iran in general.

You think, "That's bad." But look at Trump's handling of it.

Look at this overall: 28 points underwater.

Very, very unpopular Donald Trump's actions are when it comes to Iran.

And look at those in the center of the electorate.

58 points underwater Donald Trump is when it comes to Iran.

And of course, this has been dominating, dominating politics over the last month.

And so what we see here is the U.S. military action in Iran: not popular in a poll.

And Donald Trump's handling of it: even worse.

And those in the center of the electorate, you can barely find any independents at this point who approve the U.S.

So earlier this week, the president's overall approval numbers were not great.

I think they had you saying, "Yikes." Where do they stand in this Fox News poll?

You know, we have been talking about in poll after poll after poll.

Look, you can look at one poll and you see, "Okay, Donald Trump's hit a new all-time low." And you go, "Okay, maybe an outlier." Then you see two.

In March of 2025, according to Fox News, he was at minus 2 points.

Look at where he is now: a term too low, 18 points underwater according to Fox News.

There is simply put no poll you can point to at this point at which Donald Trump is either at or near a record low.

And this is yet another one, and he is just struggling mightily.

This Iran war is simply put at this point, a few weeks in, not popular, and

it is becoming less popular the longer it goes on.

Would you support troops on the ground in, in Iran on this point?

I've been asked 100%, crystal clear from the beginning, no.

This war is now in its, uh, third, going into its fourth week.

Um, there are more questions than answers.

We're not getting we're not getting answers from the administration on the end game.

Coming out of this briefing today, I don't have any confidence whatsoever that they have a plan, a strategy, even very clear goals for what they want to do next.

Everyone needs to get the same briefing we received today and make that decision: is it right to go into a protracted, elongated war where soldiers are going to die?

And right now, I am adamantly opposed to boots on the ground, based on the information that I have.

Joining me now in the group chat, we have Congressman Corey Mills.

He's a Republican from Florida, member of the House Armed Services Committee.

Um, I wanted to talk to you because obviously you are a military man, but

Answer the question from Nancy Mace: do you see a plan, or do you see a protracted war?

That's not what the president's objective has been from the very beginning.

I mean, if you think back, for example, to 2011 in Libya, one of the primary reasons that we went in and we didn't declare the war as but as hostility, as the Department of Justice had clarified under UN regulations, is that there was no boots on the ground.

It was about trying to protect innocent lives of civilians there.

And I think with 40,000-plus people being completely just massacred within the streets by trying to do what we would call the First Amendments, I think that the president looked at this, looked at the, uh, overall nuclear threat.

And I think that when we saw the fact that recently they were even launching hypersonic ballistic missiles that.

Because you're calling it a war when it's not actually a war.

I think by most average people's understanding of seeing bombings every day.

Lindsey Graham has talked about taking Karg Island and compared it to Iwo Jima.

So here that here's what I tell President Trump: keep it up for a few more weeks, take Karg Island where all of the resources they have to produce oil, control that island, let this regime down a vine.

We got two marine expeditionary units sailing to this island.

Then I had Mike Herodopoulos on this show, Republican, also from Florida, and

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