As President Donald Trump prepares to hit the 100-day mark of his second term, he is pushing back against new polls from left-leaning media outlets focusing on his approval rating.
Surveys from the Washington Post, CNN, and the New York Times showed that Trump’s approval rating was below 40%. This is the lowest for any president at the 100-day mark of their first or second terms in office in roughly 80 years.
Trump cited who he called the “Great Pollster John McLaughlin” in a Truth Social post Monday, calling all the ratings “FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS.”
“The New York Times has only 37% Trump 2024 voters, and the ABC/Washington Post Poll has only 34% Trump Voters, unheard of numbers unless looking for a negative result, which they are. These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD, and add in the FoxNews Pollster while you’re at it,” Trump wrote. “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!”
The numbers have also split the party about the job Trump is doing. Among them was former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove.
“He gets reasonably good marks on immigration and handling of deportations, but even those he’s upside down on,” Rove said of the polling. “When it gets to the economy, he is in very bad shape. And it’s not only that he’s in the short term in bad shape, there’s also evidence in the poll that no matter — even if he gets his way on certain things like tariffs, that he’s not good in the long run,” Rove said on Fox News’s the Journal Editorial Report over the weekend.
Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) didn’t go as far as to disprove the polls but pointed out where Trump’s approval rating is strongest.
“Well, the president is doing exactly what he said he would do. And I think it‘s mixed. I think where he‘s done exceptional is on immigration,” Zinke said on CNN News’s The Situation Room Monday.
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Ahead of Trump’s election, the border was consistently among the top five concerns among voters. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, the “border czar” under then-President Joe Biden, largely lost voters on this issue and avoided it during her campaign.
April 29 will be the 100th day of Trump’s second term.