Trump Slams ‘Fake News’ Polls While Praising Them For ‘Very Positive Info’

United States President Donald J. Trump looks over the first of three Executive Orders concerning financial services at the Department of the Treasury in Washington, DC on April 21, 2017. Credit: Ron Sachs / Pool via... United States President Donald J. Trump looks over the first of three Executive Orders concerning financial services at the Department of the Treasury in Washington, DC on April 21, 2017. Credit: Ron Sachs / Pool via CNP - NO WIRE SERVICE - Photo by: Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS

President Donald Trump on Monday said surveys released over the weekend by NBC and ABC are “fake news polls,” then he went on to praise them for “containing some very positive info.”

Trump tweeted that both polls “were totally wrong” in the 2016 presidential election, but appeared to praise some of the data they collected.

Trump on Sunday cited the ABC-Washington Post poll as “very good,” though the poll reflected that only 42 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s performance as he approaches his 100th day in office, while 53 percent disapprove.

According to ABC’s writeup, Trump therefore has the lowest approval numbers of any president at this point in their term since 1945.

According to the other poll Trump cited, by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, only 40 percent of respondents approved of Trump’s performance, while 54 percent disapproved and 6 percent were not sure.

A plurality of respondents — 45 percent — said that Trump’s presidency is off to a “poor start.”

Nineteen percent of respondents, meanwhile, said that Trump has made “only a fair start,” while 21 percent replied that Trump has made a “good start” and 14 percent called it a “great start.” One percent of respondents to that question were not sure.

The NBC-Wall Street Journal poll was conducted by landline and cell phone from April 17–20 among a sample of 900 adults, and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.

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  1. Is it just me or is his incoherence getting worse?

  2. I came to this story to say exactly the same.

  3. Incoherence = incoherence
    Worse incoherence = incoherence
    The worst possible incoherence = incoherence

  4. His senility (and I do not mean it as an insult - it’s a fact) is getting worse, undoubtedly because of the stress of this job. His inability to formulate a coherent sentence, to use to more than a few words, to focus - these are all hallmarks of senility. If you watch any clips of him from even 10 years ago, there’s a big difference.

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