JUST IN: CNN Forced To Admit President Trump Has The HIGHEST Own Party Approval Of Any 21st Century President!

The corporate media has spent months selling a story about a Republican base turning on President Trump.

CNN’s own numbers say otherwise.

A CNN clip is circulating again on X showing President Trump with the highest own-party approval of any 21st-century president at this point in a second term.

The comparison is not close.

CNN: President Trump has the highest own party approval of any 21st century president at this point in term II.

Own Party Approval at this point in the 2nd term:
Trump: 86%
Obama: 77%
Bush: 77%

Are you one of the 86%?

A. Yes
B. No pic.twitter.com/I9t5easKOm

— WHLeavitt (@WHLeavitt) June 28, 2026

The clip lays out the own-party approval numbers at the same second-term mark: Trump at 86 percent, Barack Obama at 77 percent, and George W. Bush at 77 percent.

That is a nine-point gap over two former presidents who were each considered strong inside their own coalitions.

The underlying segment came from CNN data analyst Harry Enten, who posted it on March 5, 2026.

Enten framed the data through President Trump’s influence in Republican primaries, saying his endorsements had become extremely powerful inside the GOP.

He said most candidates Trump endorses win, and even many Trump-backed challengers defeat incumbents.

Then came the bigger political explanation: Trump held the highest own-party approval of any 21st-century president at that point in a second term.

That is CNN’s data analyst saying it on CNN, not a campaign press release.

Newsweek covered the same CNN segment the next day, adding useful polling context around the numbers. The value of that writeup is that it kept both numbers visible at once: rough overall approval, but massive own-party approval.

Its writeup noted that the broader poll showed Trump’s overall approval underwater, at 38 percent approval and 59 percent disapproval. That broader number is the one the media prefers to blast across the chyron.

That poll ran from February 27 to March 2, surveyed 1,515 US adults, and carried a 3.4-point margin of error.

That context is exactly why the CNN admission matters: overall approval among all adults and approval inside the Republican Party are two very different political measurements. A low national number does not automatically mean the GOP base is slipping away.

The overall number gets the headlines. The own-party number tells you who is actually with him.

More recent polling shows the same split holding firm.

AP-NORC reported on June 19, 2026, that Trump’s overall job approval was steady at 37 percent, unchanged from May and close to where it sat in February. The poll did not show a sudden national collapse, even after weeks of heavy media pressure.

That poll surveyed 3,040 adults from June 11 to June 17. It looked at overall job approval as well as issue handling on foreign policy, immigration, Israel, Iran, and the economy.

AP-NORC found views on Iran, immigration, Israel, and the economy remained sharply partisan, with most Democrats and independents disapproving while a large majority of Republicans approved. That is the same political shape the CNN segment exposed months earlier.

The useful read is simple: a divided country nationally, and a Republican base still clustered around Trump.

That reality runs straight into the revolt narrative the press keeps recycling, and some in conservative media noticed.

But we were told there’s a massive revolt against Trump from the right. So weird. https://t.co/O7FtQ1n8zL

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) June 28, 2026

The point sticks because the numbers back it.

When a CNN segment itself shows Republicans rallying behind Trump at 86 percent, the revolt story looks more like a media wish than a finding.