Trump Rages at Brutal New Polling as Press Sec Rushes to Calm Him Down

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

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4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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President Trump is furious over a new poll from Fox News, and understandably so. It finds his approval upside down, with 54 percent disapproving. His standing is deeply underwater on many major issues, and remarkably, that includes immigration. So he erupted on Truth Social, fuming that Fox’s pollster is “crooked” and has been “discredited,” and even (gasp!) that “MAGA hates Fox News.” But the surest sign of Trump’s fury is that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt rushed to soothe the Audience of One with a ridiculous, gushing tirade designed to create the grotesquely false impression that he has the support of a very large majority of Americans. We talked to former U.S. attorney and podcaster Harry Litman, who has a good piece for The New Republic about Trump’s mounting losses and failures. He digs into the absurd disconnect between suggesting that Trump’s support reaches deep into all corners of American life, as Leavitt did, and waging an all-out war on Blue America—and how that war is only wounding him further. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent. President Donald Trump is feeling angry about his dwindling support in this country right now.
0:47.8	He's raging about a Fox News poll that found him underwater on many major issues.
0:52.9	He followed that up with a bunch of tweets
0:55.4	hyping other polls that he scrounged up, which miraculously found him with majority support.
1:01.8	But the surest guide to Trump's worries about this is that White House Press Secretary Caroline
1:07.1	Levitt went full North Korea with a long tirade designed to create the false and ridiculous
1:13.0	impression that Trump has the support of a very sizable majority of Americans.
1:18.8	What makes this so absurd is that Trump and Maga are waging war on an enormous chunk of the
1:24.3	American public right now, while simultaneously commanding us to think
1:28.8	that he's representing Americans in all walks of life. Former U.S. attorney and podcaster
1:34.6	Harry Littman has a good new piece for the New Republic arguing that the core fact about the
1:39.4	Trump presidency is that it's fundamentally hostile to blue America. So we're talking to Harry about all this.
1:46.3	Thanks for coming on, man. Hey, good to be here, Greg. Thanks.
1:49.6	So Trump is very angry about this new Fox News poll, and it is indeed very bad for him. It finds that
1:55.4	54% of respondents disapprove of his performance, while only 46% of voters approve.
2:02.2	Trump raged about this on truth social, saying Fox's pollster is crooked, that Fox polling
2:07.8	is always wrong and negative, that MAGA hates Fox News, and that Fox's pollster has been
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