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Jilly_in_VA

(11,856 posts) Mon Apr 28, 2025, 12:25 PM Monday

Trump Demands Investigations After Humiliating Poll Results

Faced with record-low approval ratings, President Donald Trump is calling for “FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS” to be investigated for fraud.

The latest New York Times/Siena Poll found just 42 percent of registered voters approved of the job Trump is doing, while 54 percent disapproved.

His approval rating was even lower—just 39 percent—in a new poll from ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos. It was a new low for a president’s first 100 days in office.

“These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in response to the polling numbers. “THEY ARE SICK, almost only write negative stories about me no matter how well I am doing.”

During his diatribe, the president referenced a social media post from the MAGA-friendly polling “expert” John McLaughlin, who pointed out that only 37 percent of the New York Times survey respondents and 34 percent of the ABC poll respondents had voted for Trump.

“Didn’t we win popular vote with 50 percent?” he wrote, tagging Trump’s communications director.

Trump then wrote that, according to McLaughlin, “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.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-demands-investigations-into-pollsters-after-humiliating-results-they-are-sick/

AWWW, is the widdle boy's fee-fees hurted?

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Trump Demands Investigations After Humiliating Poll Results (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Monday OP

Didn't he laugh at Biden's approval rating when it dip under 50%? imanamerican63 Monday #1

Love that he has to keep reminding himself..of who he is... MiHale Monday #2

Fuck Off spanone Monday #3

Maddow Blog-As his approval rating sinks, Trump wants investigations into pollsters LetMyPeopleVote Monday #4

imanamerican63

(14,987 posts)

1. Didn't he laugh at Biden's approval rating when it dip under 50%?

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Mon Apr 28, 2025, 12:27 PM

Monday

What’s wrong Donald?

MiHale

(11,600 posts)

2. Love that he has to keep reminding himself..of who he is...

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2025, 12:32 PM

Monday

DONALD J. TRUMP….ME!!…

You freaking idiot who else is named that…and admits it.

spanone

(138,909 posts)

3. Fuck Off

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2025, 12:35 PM

Monday

tiny man

LetMyPeopleVote

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4. Maddow Blog-As his approval rating sinks, Trump wants investigations into pollsters

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2025, 12:48 PM

Monday

Instead of dealing with the failures that have led to his drop in support, the president is blaming pollsters and news organizations.
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com/post/3lnuq3mvmts2c

Trump could deal with the failures that have made him so unpopular.

But he apparently finds it easier to call for investigations into "criminal" pollsters — rhetoric that's become difficult to simply shrug off.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/approval-rating-sinks-trump-wants-investigations-pollsters-rcna203262

For his part, Trump has seen the shift in public attitudes, and he’s ready to reassess the direction of his failing presidency.

No, I’m just kidding. He’s actually lashing out at pollsters in new and ridiculous ways. Newsweek noted:

President Donald Trump has said pollsters that have shown his approval ratings sliding in recent weeks should be investigated for “election fraud.” Trump cited recent polls from The New York Times, ABC News/The Washington Post, and Fox News, which put his approval rating on 42 percent, 39 percent, and 44 percent respectively.

As this week got underway, Trump, shortly before sunrise, published an item to his social media platform that read, “We don’t have a Free and Fair ‘Press’ in this Country anymore. We have a Press that writes BAD STORIES, and CHEATS, BIG, ON POLLS. IT IS COMPROMISED AND CORRUPT. SAD!”

That came shortly on the heels of a related item, in which he lashed out at “FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS.” The president added, “These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD, and add in the FoxNews Pollster while you’re at it.”.....

The hysterics were not altogether surprising. Trump did, after all, sue The Des Moines Register for publishing the results of a poll he didn’t like. So it stands to reason that he’d freak out in response to an avalanche of survey data showing his fading popularity.

But to the extent that reality has any bearing on this discussion, there are a few things to keep in mind here. The first is that there is no conspiracy: Polls show Trump struggling because Trump is failing and much of the public has noticed.

Second, the basis of the president’s weird conspiracy theory is absurd on its face: Pollsters can’t be engaged in “election interference” when there is no election, and the politician in question can’t run for re-election. (Even if there were an election, of course, there’s nothing improper about releasing public opinion research that one party doesn’t like.)

Third, and most importantly, some might feel the temptation to simply shrug off Trump’s call for an investigation into “criminal” polling, but given recent events, that seems inherently risky. This president has already a demonstrated a willingness to direct the Justice Department to go after his perceived foes, and there’s no reason to assume he’ll abandon these authoritarian-style tactics anytime soon.

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