WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump says the polls have it all wrong, soon Thursday he calculated his own popularity rating: 75 percent.
The Republican began reflecting on his approval numbers with an overnighttweet celebrating a new poll that gave him 50 percent.
“Working hard, thank you!” he wrote on a tweet featuring a huge “50%”superimposed over a picture of Trump clapping at a campaign rally.
The only problem is that the pollsters coming up with that number,Rasmussen, are serious outliers.
All other polling companies, like Gallup, give Trump considerably lowerratings, with an average of just 43 percent, according toRealClearPolitics.com.
The other problem is that 50 percent — which creeps up from Rasmussen’sprevious 49 percent — doesn’t exactly set the world on fire either.
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So early Thursday, Trump tweeted again, this time stating that his badnumbers are caused by the growing probe into alleged improper, or evencriminal, links between the president and Russia.
“Without the phony Russia Witch Hunt… my approval rating would be at 75%rather than the 50% just reported by Rasmussen,” he wrote. “It’s calledPresidential Harassment!”
Seventy-five percent would make Trump easily one of the most popularleaders on the planet.
He’d even streak ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose longsoaring ratings have taken a hit recently, despite being able to controlmost of his country’s media. – APP / AFP
