WH Blames ‘Negative Coverage’ For Trump’s Rock-Bottom Approval Ratings

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during the news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, about the mass shooting in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during the news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, about the mass shooting in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday blamed the media’s focus on “negative coverage” for President Donald Trump’s poor approval rating, which is at a historic low for the December of a President’s first term.

“While the President and this administration has been very focused on how we can better help the American people, I think oftentimes the media is focused on other things,” Sanders said at her daily briefing.

She claimed that “90 percent of the coverage” about Trump “is negative” and claimed the media is “certainly not talking about the growing economy, certainly not talking about the crushing of ISIS, not talking about the creation of jobs.”

“If people were focused a lot more on those things in the media, I think that his numbers would be a lot higher,” Sanders said. “We anticipate that they’re going to go up as more and more of these things continue to happen.”

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  1. Avatar for sooner sooner says:

    White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday blamed the media’s focus on “negative coverage” for President Donald Trump’s poor approval rating, which is at a historic low for the December of a President’s first term.

    You’re Hope, Arkansas’ village idiot aren’t you Sarah?

    Come here, lean in close, (but not close enough for me to smell your sulfurous breath) and listen…

    The Free Media reports on the actions and words of the current occupant, not what you want them to report.

    You have state television to do that, don’t you?

  2. Avatar for johnrm johnrm says:

    She needs to understand that she too is part of and contributing to that “rock-bottom approval rating”… there on that same ship steering towards that same iceberg…bon voyage’ Sarah…

  3. You’re not as dumb as you sound sometimes, Sarah.

    Now if you bindlestiffs could figure out a way to deserve anything but the most negative coverage, you might even get somewhere.

  4. If only the Main Stream Media would focus on the positive aspects of Trump’s Presidency.

    Like, for example, so far no credible accusations of cannibalism have surfaced with regard to Mr. Trump. If people knew that, his approval rating would likely be much, much higher. They’d be the best approval ratings ever.

  5. Always somebody else’s fault. If this fish had a head, it would be rotting from it.

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