Convicted Trump Wants Investigation Into Dismal Approval Poll Numbers


On Monday (April 28), President Donald Trump issued an attack via his Truth Social media platform. This time, it was directed at polls from The New York Times, ABC News/The Washington Post, and Fox News who reported underwater approval ratings for him. “They are negative criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I win elections big, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse,” he wrote.

The approval numbers were at 42 percent, 39 percent, and 44 percent respectively. The data comes as Trump is close to marking 100 days in office for his second term. In a poll by CNN, his approval rating was at 41%. The decline is historic – Trump’s current numbers are the worst for any president at the end of their first 100 days, even beating his own numbers in his first term.

“They suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and there is nothing that anyone, or anything, can do about it,” Trump concluded. “THEY ARE SICK, almost only write negative stories about me no matter how well I am doing (99.9 percent at the Border, BEST NUMBER EVER!), AND ARE TRULY THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! I wish them well, but will continue to fight to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Trump’s allegations come in the face of striking data from all the polls. In the ABC News poll, 6 percent of Trump’s own voters stated their regrets in voting for him. Concerning political independents, his approval rate has dropped to 31%, matching the low set in January 2021. Those polled also were disapproving of his handling of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and even disagreeing with his handling of immigration, with 45% approving now, down 6 points from March.

“It’s not only that he’s in the short term in bad shape, there’s also evidence in the poll that…even if he gets his way on certain things like tariffs, that he’s not good in the long run,” said conservative pundit and former Trump adviser Karl Rove in an interview with The Independent. Rove also declared that “Trump fatigue” has set in among the public in a recent op-ed with The Wall Street Journal.