Trump Says The Approval Ratings Polls Are Rigged!

President-elect Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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After several polls showed Donald Trump receiving historically low approval ratings, the President-elect bashed the polls on Twitter, declaring them “rigged.”

A CNN/ORC poll published Tuesday morning shows Trump with a 40 percent approval rating. His approval rating is much lower than past presidents. Obama entered office in 2009 with an 84 percent approval rating, George W. Bush with a 61 percent approval rating, and Bill Clinton with a 67 percent approval rating, per CNN.

An ABC News/Washington Post poll published Tuesday morning also found that 40 percent of Americans approve of Trump

A Gallup poll released on Friday found that 44 percent of people approve of Trump, the lowest Gallup approval rating for a president-elect since 1993.

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  1. How long will we have to deal with this jackass?

  2. Avatar for tao tao says:

    Also, too, free tickets to the inauguration. A lot of people are going to miss their big chance to bow down before his biglyness.

  3. Barring death, at least four years.

    Oh, and the polls before the election were right. Trump lost the popular vote by pretty much what they predicted. Problem was, of course, that the US got screwed over by the Electoral College again.

  4. Given the current state of affairs with voter suppression, gerrymandering etc. I would say, either Trump’s death or 8 years. Trump is far far better than Pence/Ryan or other Koch minions.

  5. Of course they are rigged. In his mind. In Trump’s very, very unstable mind. All of the pundit’s efforts to normalize this guy, to await the “pivot” are about to prove fruitless. We have an unhinged, ignorant narcissist about to take the reins of the country, and of the “free world”. The emperor has no filter, no ethics, no critical mind. He’ll start at 40% and will only slide from there.

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