Trump Clearly Feels Betrayed By Latest Fox Poll: ‘I Don’t Know What’s Happening’

US President Donald Trump mocks former vice president Joe Biden by calling him "sleepy Joe Biden" at a "Keep America Great" campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 15, 2019. (Photo by... US President Donald Trump mocks former vice president Joe Biden by calling him "sleepy Joe Biden" at a "Keep America Great" campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 15, 2019. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Trump’s increasing vexation toward his favorite cable news network reached a new height over the weekend when he expressed genuine disbelief over Fox News’ latest poll, which featured him losing by head-to-head match up against four top Democrats.

While speaking to reporters on Sunday, Trump said “I don’t know what’s happening with Fox,” when asked about the poll and said he didn’t “believe” them.

“Fox is different, there’s no question about it,” he said, before adding he’s the one “calling the shots” on whether there’d be general election debates, according to a  transcript of the remarks.

The Fox News poll, which was released Thursday, showed Trump losing to top candidates like Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and former Vice President Joe Biden. As a longtime Fox News supporter, the honeymoon between the President and his once-favorite network has started to fade in recent months as Fox releases its own polling highlighting the President’s 2020 chances and his approval ratings.

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  1. “I don’t know what’s happening”… that’s been pretty obvious since he stepped into the job.

  2. Reality is a real bitch, eh, fatso?

  3. All he had to do was smile and say, “It’s a long time until the election and I think polls have been wrong before.” But no, he has to trash one of the few organizations in the world that want to help him. And he has to confuse its viewers—if he tells them not to trust FOX, there’s “something going on,” where do they go for teevee? Self-destructive as usual because he’s mentally ill. He has skills, we know that, but coping with reality isn’t one of them.

  4. As Hitler remarked in the Reichsbunker shortly before he pulled the plug:

    “Ach, when you’ve lost Der Stürmer, you’ve lost Middle Germany.”

  5. Maybe the Daily Stormer will conduct a “poll” that shows Trump at 90% approval…

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