Last week, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a negative monthly jobs report, President Donald Trump promptly called the numbers fake and announced the firing of the agency’s head, who had released them.
This week, when confronted with bad poll numbers, Trump called the polls “fake.”
Trump was appearing for a phone-in interview on CNBC, where he stated, “I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had.” When anchor Joe Kernen pointed out that this isn’t quite the case.
Trump: “I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had.”
Host: “polls have you down in the 30s”
Trump: “They’re fake polls. I had a lot of fake polls”
pic.twitter.com/d9WDVdhjlH— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) August 5, 2025
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According to Mediaite’s transcript, Kernen said, “overall poll numbers, you don’t have the best you ever had, and overall poll numbers you do. I cited one of those,” and made it cl for going on the air and sharing positive Trump poll numbers, but on two occasions, he erronously, for going on the air and sharing positive Trump poll numbers, but on two occasions he erronenously referred to Enten as “Harry Emden.”
“No, no, no. Among Republicans, 94 and 95 percent. No, I’m talking about generally. Let me put it this way. There was a gentleman on Harry Emden yesterday on CNN, and he went crazy over how well Trump was doing,” Trump said. “Now, you know, you don’t put that on because I think CBS is a shade. Actually, CNN is a better shade than NBC. I think NBC is probably the worst of them all. But if you check CNN tomorrow, watch Harry Emden. And you’ll see about the numbers, but that’s okay. We have to defend ourselves, yeah.”
“Yeah, but they’re fake polls, Joe. I had a lot of fake polls. You also have me in the 70s. I have fake polls… Fox gives me terrible polls all the time, you know, they do nothing,” Trump added.
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— Tony Heller (@TonyClimate) July 16, 2025
The current RealClearPolling average has Trump with an average approval rating of 45.9% and a disapproval rating of 51.4%, resulting in a negative spread of 5.5 percentage points. It’s not the worst average of his presidency, as the spread reached a high of 7.2 percent on July 22, amid the bad headlines about Jeffrey Epstein.
But Trump has not been positive in the RCP average since mid-March. And no poll in the current average has him at 70 percent approval or anywhere close to it. A pair of polls known to be Trump-symapthetic, from Trafalgar and RMC Research, each had him most recently at 50 percent.
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