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.
The two fake news polls released yesterday, ABC & NBC, while containing some very positive info, were totally wrong in General E. Watch!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 24, 2017
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.
