President Donald Trump has demanded that pollsters showing his approval ratings decreasing since he took office be investigated for “election fraud.” Polls from The New York Times (42%), ABC News/The Washington Post (39%), and Fox News (44%) were specifically cited by the President.
Trump responded to these polls via Truth Social on April 28th, saying: “They are negative criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I win elections big, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose (the typo was included in the post) a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse.”
The ABC/Washington Post poll shows that Trump’s approval rating has dropped to the lowest level of any president from the last 80 years at this point in their presidencies. The New York Times poll shows that only 31% of participants approve of how Trump has handled the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and only 43% approve of how he’s handled the economy.
In response to the pollsters, Trump wrote on Truth Social: “Great pollster John McLaughlin, one of the most highly respected in the industry, has just stated that The Failing New York Times poll, and the ABC/Washington Post poll, about a person named DONALD J. TRUMP, ME, are FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS. They suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and there is nothing that anyone, or anything, can do about it. THEY ARE SICK, almost only write negative stories about me no matter how well I am doing (99.9% at the Border, BEST NUMBER EVER!), AND ARE TRULY THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! I wish them well, but will continue to fight to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
When contacted, the aforementioned John McLaughlin, Trump’s campaign pollster, gave this statement: “When President Trump received 50 percent of the popular vote, but The New York Times includes only 37 percent of his voters in their poll and ABC/Washington Post has only 34 percent Trump supporters, it seems that they deliberately biased their polls against President Trump.”
