It's Wednesday, April 30th.
I'm Erin Ryan, in for Jane Koston, and this is What a Day,
the show that thinks that the kid that scratched up the 50 million euro Rothko painting at a museum actually created more interesting art than the original Rothko.
Art as resistance, art as irreverence, art as a rejection of protocol.
Give that kid a genius grant.
On today's show,
Canada's Liberal Party rides national hatred of President Donald Trump to an election victory.
And Trump holds a 100-day rally celebrating himself in Michigan,
a state so close to Canada that if he stays really quiet,
he can probably hear raucous Canadian boos directed his way from Ontario.
But first,
President Trump cruised to victory in the 2024 election in large part
because voters said they trusted him more on the economy.
Now,
I've got my own theories about what I believe the economy was code for among voters who simply couldn't bring themselves to trust Kamala Harris.
But now that we're a few months into Trump's second term,
voters are, across the board, less than enthusiastic on the job Trump has done.
We're seeing this in the polling.
Trump is underwater overall, but also across several polls,
a majority of Americans are giving the president a thumbs-down fart sound on his signature issue.