Trump: It’s Not ‘Fake News’ When It Makes Me Look Good
More Americans Want The Democrats In Congress To Set Policy
Ten days ago President Donald Trump for the first time called the media “the enemy of the American people.” He attacked five mainstream media news outlets as “fake news” – among them, NBC News.
But minutes ago President Trump posted a tweet linking to an NBC News poll that shows the Republican Party right now is slightly more popular than the Democratic party.
GOP now viewed more favorably than Dems, in Trump era (per NBC/WSJ poll) via @HotlineJosh:https://t.co/Soebxtg2Zd
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 27, 2017
Apparently, since it makes Trump look good, it’s not “fake news.”
And it was just three weeks ago that Trump announced that “any negative polls are fake news.”
Apparently no one told the President what’s inside the new NBC News poll.
While it shows the Republican Party beating the Democratic Party by five points since last month, it also shows that more Americans want the Democrats in Congress to set policy for the nation than they do Donald Trump or the GOP. And it shows that the largest group say they neither like the president personally, nor do they like his policies.
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