Rachel Maddow explains the connection between eating a type of rodent called a marmot and contracting the plague, literally. This fact does not appear to have discouraged Donald Trump Jr. from eating marmot anyway.

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow said Thursday that Donald Trump’s historically poor approval ratings for a newly inaugurated president are “sinking like a cinderblock in the ocean” due to the unpopularity of many of his policies.

It's not just his approval rating, she said. Everything Trump has done so far has been "wildly unpopular with the American people."

Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's dismissal of senior military leaders, and former Fox News personality, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, removing the U.

Rachel Maddow notes that while Donald Trump golfs and performs stunts for TV cameras, Elon Musk is hard at work on the project of dismantling the U.S. government. And even though Musk's behavior is so poorly received it is hurting business for his car company,

Rachel Maddow looks at the displeasure with which Americans are dealing with the effects of Donald Trump's reckless cuts and mean-spirited orders, and how that voter outrage is creating political pressure for Republican politicians to stand up for their constituents against Trump.

Rachel Maddow checks in on new polling data about how Americans are feeling about the first few weeks of the second Donald Trump administration and the numbers are not good for Trump.

Rachel Maddow looks at how wildly unpopular Donald Trump's attempt to flip America's foreign affairs alignment with an embrace of Russia and weird false accusations against Ukraine is, with Republican politicians caught in awkward disagreement and voters broadly not on board.

Rachel Maddow emphasizes the importance of resistance by Republican legislators to Donald Trump's agenda, and points out that the unpopularity of Trump's actions may help that resistance politically,

Rachel Maddow looks at how local reaction to Donald Trump's unpopular agenda is causing problems for Republican politicians who need that local support to be re-elected even if Trump doesn't care, and how that local pressure could come back to bite Trump.