CNN reporter Chris Cillizza embarrassed himself after openly speculating about the psychology of Americans who feel fondly about country's time under former President Donald Trump.

The reporter, who infamously once boasted about the “unbiased” nature of news coverage at his network, recently reacted to a New York Times / Sienna College poll which shows large numbers of Americans approve of Trump's tenure compared to that of President Joe Biden. Overall, 42% of respondents described Trump's four years as “mostly good” for the country while only 25% could say the same about Biden stewardship, according to the Western Journal.

That left Cillizza stunned and sputtering, at one point comparing the rose-colored glasses of voters to his college girlfriend.

“It speaks to the power of nostalgia — and how we as humans tend to remember the good stuff and block out the bad,” he wrote in a thread on X, describing the Trump years as “very tough” on Americans due to Covid-19 and the 2020 election.

“How to understand it? I think of it in terms of dating. In college I dated a girl for 2 years. We broke up. For plenty of good reasons,” he continued. “But a few months later, I found myself reminiscing about all the good times we had together. I couldn't even remember why we broke up in the first place.”

“I think Donald Trump is the country's ex in that regard. People are nostalgic about how things were four year ago — even if the actual record of how things were is not so good!”

The CNN reporter then framed Biden's biggest challenge as trying to “convince people they are misremembering the past.”

Predictably, the internet roasted him.

“You're utterly out of touch,” wrote one follower, with another calling his analysis “just f****** weird, man.”

Others were quick to list the drastic increases in food and gas prices under Biden, a sticker shock that even allies of the Democrat, like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), recognize when she talks about “shrinkflation.”

Someone else dug up a previous post by Cillizza where he claims reporters should not “root for a side.”

In his faltering comparisons, Cillizza said Americans' lives were “tough” under President Trump in part due to J6, an historic event though one that did not directly affect most. Instead, the real-world pain of inflation, interest rates, and an explosion of migrants in major urban centers are far more evident under President Biden.

The 80-year-old has acknowledged his predicament, curtailing his use of the term “Bidenomics” as Republicans have repurposed it to insult his economic policies. He is reportedly exploring whether he has the unilateral “power” to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border, according to Axios, an acknowledgement of how badly the issue of illegal immigration has damaged his brand.

“Some are suggesting that I should just go ahead and try it,” Biden told the outlet. “And if I get shut down by the court, I get shut down by the court.”

Ironically, similar executive action was taken on student loans, even after some of Biden's orders were rejected by the courts.