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CNN’s Harry Enten Says Dems’ Claim That Trump Is Acting Like ‘A King’ Doesn’t ‘Hold’ Water With Americans

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CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said on Tuesday that Americans largely do not believe Democrats’ claim that President Donald Trump is behaving like “a king.”

Democrats, including Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, have suggested Trump is attempting to govern as “a king.” Enten noted on “CNN News Central” that the majority of Americans think the president either does not have enough power or has the perfect amount of power, citing March CBS News polling. 

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“You can believe that he’s doing stuff completely differently. But do you think that he has a little too much power or not? And this is interesting. So Trump’s presidential power is too much, the right amount, too little,” Enten said. “Well, 47% say ‘too much,’ but then you get 36% who say the ‘right amount.’ Then you get 17% who say ‘too little’. So you’re essentially dealing with a majority of the American public, 53% who do not say that Trump has ‘too much’ power. They either says he has ‘too little’ power or the ‘right amount’ of power.”

“So the idea, that argument that Donald Trump is ‘a king,’ that I don’t think holds with the American people,” he continued. “It does hold maybe with 47%, but with the majority of folks, they believe Donald Trump’s doing something completely differently and they don’t believe he has ‘too much’ power.”

Enten also noted how Trump has signed 111 executive orders since taking office in January.

“That is the most at this point in a presidency in at least 100 years. In fact, it’s the most in any single year, and we’re only in April, since Harry S. Truman in the early 1950s,” he said. “The bottom line is, whether you like Trump or you don’t like him, you can’t say that he’s come in and not tried to deliver on, what he at least believes, was his promises on the campaign trail. And he’s doing so in historic fashion.”

Trump also signed over 200 executive actions within 12 hours of beginning his second term, tackling issues ranging from the border crisis to the economy.