Tensions are rising…
Top White House adviser Stephen Miller told Fox News anchor John Roberts that the network needs to fire its pollster in an unforgettable moment that played out on the air.
Shortly after Roberts referenced a recent Fox News poll to Miller reporting President Trump getting higher marks on issues like immigration and the border than on the economy and tariffs, he asked Miller point blank: “A lot of people think he’s spending too much time on tariffs and not enough time on the economy and lowering prices. What do you say?”
“I don’t want to make things weird for you, John,” Miller responded. “But it is our opinion that Fox News needs to fire its pollster. And I won’t surprise you with that … but the Fox News pollster has always been wrong about President Trump.”
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Miller added that the White House “does not acknowledge any of that polling” from Fox.
Miller’s shot at Fox came a day after Trump posted on his Truth Social platform about his displeasure with a number of media outlets and pollsters who he suggested be investigated for results showing his approval ratings sagging and giving him low marks on economic issues.
“These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD,” Trump wrote, mentioning polling from The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC and Fox News in a post on his Truth Social website. “They are Negative Criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I WIN ELECTIONS BIG, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse.”
The Times noted in an article Friday that Trump’s approval rating stands at 42 percent, “historically low for a president this early in a term.”
Trump accused major pollsters and top media outlets of suffering “from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and there is nothing that anyone, or anything, can do about it.”
Trump and his top aides have regularly ridiculed Fox over its coverage of him, though the president and his aides have sat for numerous interviews with the network’s top hosts and journalists in recent months.
Earlier this month, Miller snapped at Fox News host Bill Hemmer’s framing of the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Trump administration must “facilitate” the return of a deported Maryland man indefinitely imprisoned in El Salvador, as he tried to argue the administration “won.”
What do you think of Fox News’ recent polling on Trump? Tell us what you think in the comments below!
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He is right , When was the last time FOX was right polling??
I think the polls are lower than they should be for Pres. Trump! It just makes the Dims happy!