Fuming Trump, 80, Melts Down Over Embarrassing Poll Numbers
President Donald Trump flew into a morning tantrum over his disastrous polling numbers.
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As Trump’s approval ratings plunge to record lows, the president, 80, pulled out one of his favorite defenses against humiliating poll figures: insisting they are simply made up.
“My REAL Polling Numbers, not those made up by the Fake News Media, are the best they have ever been,” he contested in a Monday morning meltdown, pointing to “the biggest tax cuts and employment numbers EVER, the biggest outside Investment in America in World history, a totally secure Border, a giant Victory in Venezuela, the Denuclearization of Iran, unparalleled respect and success throughout the World, and much more.”
He continued in a similar, ranty vein, “Don’t believe the Radical Left’s Fake Poll numbers. They are Crooked and Corrupt, just like the Country Destroying Dumocrats are Crooked and Corrupt. VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR GREATNESS IN AMERICA!”
It is unclear if a specific poll has rankled the president, or if he is annoyed by several negative surveys that have rocked the White House of late.
Fresh data from CNN puts his approval at a meager 34 percent, matching his post-Jan. 6 trough, while a new AP-NORC poll has him tied at a post-2017 low of 33 percent. Quinnipiac paints an even grimmer picture, dropping him to a career low of 32 percent.
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Historical Gallup surveys show Bill Clinton boasting a 64 percent approval rating at this point in his second term, with Ronald Reagan at 61 percent and Dwight D. Eisenhower at 58 percent.
Even second-term presidents who were underwater—Barack Obama at 43 percent, Harry S. Truman at 39 percent, and George W. Bush at 37 percent—were doing better, though all three went on to see their parties suffer midterm losses months later. In fact, the only leader in worse shape at this stage was Richard Nixon, who sat at 24 percent as he teetered on the brink of impeachment and resignation.
Trump had a similar meltdown after a spate of poor poll results earlier this summer. MY REAL POLL NUMBERS ARE THE HIGHEST THEY HAVE EVER BEEN. THANK YOU!!! President DJT,” he wrote on Truth Social.
Denying the obvious is part of Trump’s playbook. “He’s always going to project strength regardless what the numbers are, and he’ll say they’re fake anyway,” Douglas Heye, a veteran Republican strategist, told the New York Times over the weekend.
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