IOWA TOWN'S MIXED REVIEWS ON TRUMP'S FIRST YEAR
--SUPERS--\n:34-38\nMel Manternach\nMonticello, Iowa Resident \n\n:41-:48\nMel Manternach\nMonticello, Iowa Resident \n\n:50-59\nGerald Retzlaff\nMonticello, Iowa Resident \n\n1:00-1:07\nGary Fisher\nMonticello, Iowa Resident \n\n1:22-1:34\nVoice of Renee Adams\nHog Farmer\n\n1:44-1:50\nNo Font Provided\n\n1:50-1:57\nRenee Adams\nHog Farmer \n\n1:58-2:03\nPresident Trump/Jan 8 (No Font Necessary)\n\n2:08-2:27\nBill Weir\nMonticello, IA\n\n2:29-2:36\nRenee Adams\nHog Farmer\n\n2:37-2:39\nNo Font Provided\n\n2:53-3:22\nCindy Bagge \nPresident, Oak Street Manufacturing \n\n3:26-3:29\nLou Holly\nRepublican Voter\n\n3:52-4:03\nJerry Hahn \nMonticello, Iowa Resident \n\n --LEAD IN--\nPRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP -- AT THIS POINT IN HIS TERM -- IS THE LEAST POPULAR PRESIDENT SINCE MODERN POLLING BEGAN 70 YEARS AGO.\nA CNN POLL IN DECEMBER SHOWS HIS APPROVAL RATING AT 35-PERCENT NATIONWIDE.\nIOWA WAS A STATE TRUMP WON BY NINE-AND-A-HALF POINTS BACK IN 2016.\nBILL WEIR WENT TO THE SMALL TOWN OF MONTICELLO TO SEE IF OPINIONS ABOUT TRUMP HAVE CHANGED.\n --REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS--\nIN MONTICELLO, THEY STILL WIND THE CLOCK TOWER BY HAND.\n-NATS-\nSTILL MIX POLITICS INTO THEIR COFFEE DOWN AT DARRELL'S.\n-NATS-\nIT'S TRADITION GOES BACK TO TRUMAN…BUT NO PRESIDENT HAS EVER TESTED THE LIMITS OF MIDWESTERN POLITENESS LIKE NUMBER 45.\n-NATS- reporter question\nMel Manternach/Monticello, Iowa Resident: "Trump pulled the wool over their eyes. They have. But his base has not recognized it. And he has really pulled it over their eyes."\n-NATS- reporter question \nMel Manternach/Monticello, Iowa Resident: "They are so ingrained with the crotch grabbing liar."\nGerald Retzlaff/Monticello, Iowa Resident: "Trump wasn't my first choice. However he is doing a hell of a good job.//He's playing three level chess versus everybody else playing checkers."\nGary Fisher/Monticello, Iowa Resident: "The ones that supporting are either greedy or bigots or just don't see it yet.//If the vote were taken today I think things would be different." \n-NATS-\nVoice of Renee Adams/Hog Farmer: "We run about we run 800 acres of corn and beans and then we do bale some hay.//Our kids actually buy their own 4-H animals. //They pay for all the feed vet bills they do the chores for them. (reporter q) That teaches. Yeah yeah."\nOUT AT THE ADAMS FARM…\n-NATS-\nTHE FAMILY OF REPUBLICANS SHOWS LITTLE VOTER'S REMORSE.\nNo Font Provided: "I think he's doing a decent job. I think we ought to give him a chance."\nRenee Adams/Hog Farmer: "He went to the American Farm Bureau Federation meeting // You know I haven't seen that from other presidents.\nPresident Trump/January 8 (no font necessary): "And throughout our history, farmers have always, always, always led the way."\nBill Weir/Monticello, IA: "That words played really well around here…but his actions could could end up hurting these folks. His nominee for head scientist at the Department of Agriculture wasn't a scientist and got tangled in the Russia investigation. He scrapped an Obama rule that would have protected family farms against unfair corporate meatpackers…and he is threatening to tear up NAFTA, the free trade agreement that keeps a lot of these folks alive." \nRenee Adams/Hog Farmer: "Now with NAFTA. That's another story. You know that does scare us pretty bad. (reporter q) We would go bankrupt. Yes. Every producer would go. Yes. I mean every every pork producer when there's just no way."\nNo Font Provided: "I'm sure he has a plan if he just pull out. I don't know what that plan is."\n-NATS-\nAND THERE ARE WORRIES AT OAK STREET MANUFACTURING, A MOM-AND-POP MAKER OF RESTAURANT FURNISHINGS.\nCindy Bagge/President, Oak Street Manufacturing: "We're hopeful as far as the tax reform // so we're we're we're positive about that.We have grave concerns about other facets of his administration and his actions verbally. (reporter q) Some of the some of the statements that he makes. (long silence) There's just there's just a lot of disrespect. For a large number of people."\n-NATS- \nLou Holly/Republican Voter: "As a Republican, he was supposed to be worried about his grandchildren and the national debt. It just seemed to be a damn bit of difference anymore."\n--QUICK CROSSTALK--\nMel Manternach/Monticello, Iowa Resident: "We'll have to have another Obama come in and clean it up."\nGerald Retzlaff/Monticello, Iowa Resident: "Yeah he can double our debt!"\nMel Manternach/Monticello, Iowa Resident: "He got you into the prosperity that you're having now." \nGerald Retzlaff/Monticello, Iowa Resident: "Oh yeah, give him credit for the markets. Yeah get you're head out of your butt, man."\nJerry Hahn/Monticello, Iowa Resident: "When it's a good time to cut your rosebushes? (reporter q) They got into it one day and I was worried so that's the safe word.\nSO ONE YEAR INTO TRUMP, THE STATE HE WON BY ALMOST TEN POINTS IS PRODUCING A BUMPER CROP OF WORRY…EVEN AMONG THOSE WHO LOVE HIM MOST.\n --TAG--\nA LOCAL POLL CONDUCTED IN DECEMBER BY THE DES MOINES REGISTER-MEDIACOM IOWA FOUND THAT TRUMP'S APPROVAL AMONG IOWANS WAS 35-PERCENT WITH 60-PERCENT DISAPPROVAL.\n -----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----\n\n --KEYWORD TAGS--\nIOWA MONTICELLO U.S. POLITICS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP POLLS APPROVAL\n\n