President Donald Trump got here out swinging Monday on Fact Social, torching the “pretend polls” launched by The New York Instances, ABC/Washington Submit, and Fox Information and exposing the institution media’s relentless marketing campaign to demoralize him and his America First agenda, and urged they need to be investigated for “ELECTION FRAUD.”
Calling out the “FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS,” President Trump pointed to polling numbers that dramatically understate his actual help amongst voters.
“The Polls from the Faux Information are, just like the Information itself, FAKE! We’re doing GREAT, higher than ever earlier than,” Trump wrote on Fact Social.
Trump’s tirade was prompted by a string of latest polls from these identical pretend information shops that painted a dire and false image of his standing.
The New York Instances/Siena ballot, for instance, pegged his approval score at round 42%, and an ABC Information/Washington Submit survey went even decrease at 39% – allegedly the bottom 100-day approval of any president since World Battle II.
The Fox Information survey additionally famous 44% approval, down from earlier months.
Trump pointed to famend pollster John McLaughlin — “one of the extremely revered within the business,” in line with Trump — who flagged severe purple flags within the media polls’ methodology.
“When President Trump acquired 50 p.c of the favored vote, however The New York Instances contains solely 37 p.c of his voters of their ballot and ABC/Washington Submit has solely 34 p.c Trump supporters, it appears that evidently they intentionally biased their polls in opposition to President Trump,” McLaughlin informed Newsweek.
Getting inquiries about NYTimes n ABC/WashPost polls about @realDonaldTrump approval rankings NYTimes has solely 37% Trump 2024 voters ABC/WashPost solely 34% Didn’t we win fashionable vote with 50%? @DanScavino @JasonMiller @StevenCheung47 pic.twitter.com/6ikJPQKlev
— John McLaughlin (@jmclghln) April 27, 2025
Trump famous that the Instances ballot included “solely 37% Trump 2024 voters, and the ABC/Washington Submit Ballot has solely 34% Trump Voters” in its pattern – far beneath his precise share of the citizens.
Such skewed samples are “exceptional… until searching for a unfavourable consequence, which they’re,” Trump mentioned, implying the pollsters intentionally undercounted his base to supply an artificially unfavourable end result.
Newt Gingrich weighed in, stating, “John McLaughlin factors out that the NYTimes and ABC/Wash Submit polls about Donald Trump approval are pretend polls from pretend information. The NYTimes has solely 37% Trump 2024 voters and the ABC/WashPost had solely 34% Trump voters. Trump gout 50% of the vote so add 13 and 16 factors to his rankings and it’s fairly darned good.”
John McLaughlin factors out that the NYTimes and ABC/Wash Submit polls about @realDonaldTrump approval are pretend polls from pretend information. The NYTimes has solely 37% Trump 2024 voters and the ABC/WashPost had solely 34% Trump voters. Trump gout 50% of the vote so add 13 and 16 factors to his…
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) April 27, 2025
To President Trump, this isn’t simply unhealthy polling—it’s outright fraud, and he needs it investigated. Trump has known as for an investigation into the corrupt media shops and crooked pollsters chargeable for these rigged, anti-Trump surveys.
“Nice Pollster John McLaughlin, one of the extremely revered within the business, has simply said that The Failing New York Instances Ballot, and the ABC/Washington Submit Ballot, about an individual named DONALD J. TRUMP, ME, are FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS.
The New York Instances has solely 37% Trump 2024 voters, and the ABC/Washington Submit Ballot has solely 34% Trump Voters, exceptional numbers until searching for a unfavourable consequence, which they’re.
These folks must be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD, and add within the FoxNews Pollster whilst you’re at it. They’re Adverse Criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I WIN ELECTIONS BIG, a lot larger than their polls confirmed I might win, free a whole lot of credibility, after which go on dishonest and mendacity for the following cycle, solely worse.
They endure from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and there may be nothing that anybody, or something, can do about it. THEY ARE SICK, nearly solely write unfavourable tales about me irrespective of how effectively I’m doing (99.9% on the Border, BEST NUMBER EVER!), AND ARE TRULY THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! I want them effectively, however will proceed to battle to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
