Trump’s Fury at Bad Polls Goes Nuclear as Allies Rush to Calm Him Down

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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President Donald Trump is growing angrier over polls that keep showing him tanking. On Monday, he raged that polls sponsored by media outlets are “COMPROMISED AND CORRUPT.” He even quoted one of his own pollsters saying that surveys from The New York Times and The Washington Post are “FAKE POLLS,” something his pollster clearly hatched to calm his anger. So to what degree are the people around Trump simply lying to him about his disastrous reign? They’re deceiving him about the state of public opinion, and Stephen Miller is plainly seducing Trump into believing the Supreme Court sided with him on the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, when it didn’t. We talked to journalist Michael Cohen, author of a new piece for his Truth and Consequences Substack about this problem. He explains how we know Trump’s aides are keeping him in a state of delusion, and why that’s heading to an alarming place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.7	President Donald Trump is growing angrier and angrier over polls that keep showing him tanking.
1:13.7	On Monday, he erupted on truth social, raging that polls sponsored by media organizations are compromised and corrupt.
1:21.1	Then he went even further, quoting one of his own pollsters, saying that two major new surveys are fake polls.
1:30.1	All this raises a deeper question.
1:35.8	To what degree are the people around Trump simply lying to him about how things are going right now?
1:41.2	It's becoming clear that they're lying to him about the state of public opinion and even lying to him about the legality of his own policies.
1:47.5	Today we're talking about all this with journalist and author Michael Cohen, who has a new piece up on his substack, truth and consequences,
1:51.3	suggesting that it really does look as if Trump's aides are keeping him in a state of delusion right now.
1:56.5	Michael, thanks for coming on.
1:58.3	Great, great to be here. Thanks for having me.
2:00.8	So Trump is particularly upset over new polls from the New York Times and the Washington. Michael, thanks for coming on. Great, great to be here. Thanks for having me.
2:05.7	So Trump is particularly upset over new polls from the New York Times and the Washington Post. The Times has Trump's approval rating at 42 percent, and the new post poll has it at 39%.
2:12.4	Trump erupted on truth social and said the greatly respected pollster John McLaughlin has said that these are, quote, fake polls from fake news organizations.
2:23.6	Trump called these organizations sick and the enemy of the people.
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