'Shocking': Joe Scarborough flags new 'absolutely stunning' anti-Trump polling number

President Donald Trump continues to sink in the polls on issues related to affordability and the economy, but on issues he’s historically performed best at – namely, immigration – his numbers have sunk dramatically in what Joe Scarborough flagged Friday as a "shocking turnaround from over the past year.”

“I was really struck by the poll [on whether] Donald Trump's immigration policies make you safer or less safe, and the majority of Americans say [they] make Americans less safe,” Scarborough said Friday while on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe.”

“It's just an absolute stunning, almost shocking turnaround from over the past year. Obviously, you look at the killings, you look at the brutality that [Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi Noem's forces are engaging in, the secret police... get the masks off, please!”

Trump’s favorability on issues like the economy – while never historically strong – has cratered since he took office, falling by double digits in January from as recently as last July. On immigration, however, where Trump once held majority support, his support has also sunk, including in private polling conducted by the GOP itself.

The cratering support for Trump’s immigration policy has largely been driven by his administration’s chaotic and violent deportation raids across the nation. More than 328,000 migrants have been arrested as part of the mass operations, and despite Trump’s pledge to target only the “worst of the worst,” more than 73% of arrested migrants had no criminal history.

Amid rising grocery prices that Scarborough noted were “more inflationary in the month of December than any time since 2022,” Trump’s ongoing fixation on matters unrelated to affordability and the economy – including his recent campaign to force officials to rename the Dulles Airport and Penn Station in his honor – was a clear sign that the GOP was in trouble in the upcoming midterms, Scarborough said.

“[Affordability is] what Americans want to talk about!” Scarborough said. “Not renaming crappy airports and lousy railway stations, or racist tweets, or Greenland, or Venezuela, or all this other stuff!”