Karl Rove, who served as a senior adviser to former President George W. Bush, said that President Donald Trump is in “bad shape” when it comes to the economy.

“When it gets to the economy, he is in very bad shape,” Rove said Saturday on Fox News. “And it’s not only that in the short term, he’s in bad shape, there’s also evidence in the poll that even if he gets his way on certain things, like tariffs, that he’s not good in the long run.”

Wednesday will mark Trump’s first 100 days in his second term and according to a poll from Washington Post-ABC News Ipsos, his approval rating is 39%, reportedly the lowest for a president in his first 100 days since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s third term. Americans gave Trump about a 38% approval rating on the economy, and Rove said there is “deep-seated skepticism among ordinary Americans” regarding the economy.

According to a Fox News poll, Americans rated Trump the lowest when it came to inflation (33% approval), tariffs (33% approval), foreign policy (40% approval), taxes (38% approval) and guns (41% approval).

Rove said Trump is “off to a good start” only on border security. The Washington Post-ABC News Ipsos poll scores Trump at 46% approval on immigration, while the Fox News poll scores him at 55% on border security.

Rove added he believes Americans voted for Trump and his economic plans because of “hope” — and not “based upon an explicit understanding of what he was going to do.”

“They just hoped that he would do better on inflation and jobs and economic growth,” Rove said on Fox News.

Instead, the Trump administration has shown an inability to explain what they are doing and why, which Rove said has “hurt them very much.”

H/T Mediaite