Trump repeatedly lies about his "approval rating"

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Fact check: Trump makes 3 false claims in 19 words about his approval rating
By Daniel Dale, CNN
Updated 1:04 PM ET, Mon July 15, 2019

Washington (CNN) - President Donald Trump made three false claims on Saturday in a single 19-word tweet.

The tweet: "94% Approval Rating in the Republican Party, an all time high. Ronald Reagan was 87%. Thank you!"

Facts First: Trump does not have a 94% approval rating among Republicans; he is at 90% in Gallup polling. Trump has not recorded the all-time high for Republican approval; his peak ranks sixth out of the seven Republican presidents after World War II. And Reagan's peak was 94%, not 87%.

Gallup had him at 90% with Republicans in its monthly approval poll in June. CNN's poll in late June had him at 89% with Republicans. His 44% overall approval in the Washington Post/ABC poll conducted in late June and early July was the highest overall number he has ever had in a poll by those media outlets -- but his approval with Republicans was 87% even there.

But Trump has rarely chosen nuanced truths over simple untruths.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/fact-check-trump-approval-record/index.html

[StarfishSaver]

1. He repeatedly lies about everything. Why is this any different?

[NNadir]

2. This is like announcing the ocean contains water.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. LOL! both replies are accurate

"We hold these truths to be self-evident that..."
This remainder of this quote isn't as funny, in light of Trump's comments and tweets.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. The same as claiming water is wet.

[Sticky]

5. He's lying because

when he loses the 2020 election he can challenge the election results. He will not go quietly and he's already begun a strategy for mayhem. IMHO

[Wellstone ruled]

6. At this point in the reelection cycle,

the hard numbers are more like 28% or maybe less. Best take is this,the Right Wingers are about 22% of the Republican Party.

The total failure of our Corporate Media to fully flesh out the truth is keeping the possibility of the modern Republican Party as a viable entity.


When you News Networks are begging for peoples I-Phone Video clips,folks, that is just hard evidence of ineptness on their part.