Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former White House communications director from Donald Trump’s first term, on Wednesday revealed what his advisers really want the president to focus on, but he just won’t.
Responding to a new CNN poll that found Trump’s overall approval rating has plunged to 34% and showed 73% of those surveyed think he is focused on the wrong things, Farah Griffin said: “These are glaring signals; alarms are going off.”
The current disapproval rating of Trump is “stunning,” she told “News Central” anchor John Berman.
“The president continues to seem extremely distracted,” Farah Griffin continued, noting how Trump was “all over” the place during his address at the re-organized White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Trump’s “White House advisers, I talk to many of them, they simply want him to focus on the economy, yet he will not do that,” she said. “For some reason, he wants to talk about virtually everything but the economy and lowering the cost of living.”
“The midterms don’t look great for Republicans,” Farah Griffin noted. “I think it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that the House is going to flip.”
But Trump may have “in the back of his mind that the Senate very much looks like it may stay in Republican hands,” she added. “It could flip but there’s not some overwhelming wave, I think, that he’s expecting, and I think that gives him some hope that there is going to be this balance of power where he still may have Republican control in the Senate, yet lose the House to Democrats.”
Watch from the 3:30 point here: