CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten outlined how Americans have overwhelmingly turned against the president’s tariffs, with poll numbers showing a plummeting level of support.

Enten explained that in November of 2024, 52% of Americans supported the tariffs while 48% were opposed. Now, 60% are opposed, with 40% in favor.

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“The opposition, up like a rocket,” Enten emphasized, adding, “The Americans have gotten a taste of the tariffs and they spit it right out.”

He said 77% of Americans now believe tariffs raise prices in the short term and only 4% think the opposite. In the long term, numbers are only slightly better, with 25% thinking they lower prices and 50% still thinking they increase them.

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He then explained how this has affected the president’s approval rating overall, explaining that the economy and tariffs are the primary reasons people are dissatisfied with him.

“The bottom line is this: when prices go up, presidential approval ratings go down, and that’s exactly what we are seeing in the polling data,” Enten said.

Multiple courts have ruled against the administration’s tariffs after a group of small businesses filed a lawsuit; however, the administration is allowed to implement them while it appeals the latest decision to the Supreme Court.

The executive order imposing the tariffs relied on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which grants the president the ability “to deal with an unusual and extraordinary threat” to a declared national emergency, the lawsuit states.

But the order is “unconstitutional and unlawful,” the filing asserts, because “the imposition of tariffs is not among” the expanded powers a president is granted under the act, nor does the state of U.S. trade constitute an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the nation.

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