Trump’s Rage at Fox News over Bad Poll Signals Coming Fiasco for MAGA

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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President Trump has recently been erupting at Fox News over its new poll finding him with 55 percent disapproval. Trump described Fox’s pollster as “Trump hating” and demanded that the firm be “investigated.” Stephen Miller subsequently called for the pollster’s firing. Guess what: Fox News has gotten the message. As Trump’s poll numbers for other news organizations have steadily worsened, Fox personalities have begun going to great lengths to deny what the numbers clearly show. This highlights a problem that is trending toward a fiasco for MAGA: As Trump’s tariffs and other policies take their toll on Trump voters and everyone else, his approval will slide further, forcing Fox News to deceive the network’s own viewers about what they themselves increasingly are experiencing from Trump’s presidency. We talked to Matt Gertz of Media Matters, who has been chronicling Fox’s poll denial. He explains what Trump’s anger at Fox means for the network, how Fox personalities are coping, and why all these dynamics will get much worse. 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. faced with President Donald Trump's sliding poll numbers, Fox News personalities have hatched a variety of
0:48.0	tactics to deceive their viewers about what's happening right at the end of their noses.
0:53.4	In some cases, Fox figures are making declarations about Trump's happening right at the end of their noses. In some cases, Fox figures are making
0:55.5	declarations about Trump's presidency that fly in the face of Fox News's own polling.
1:01.9	In case you needed more evidence that Trump is acting as if none of this is happening,
1:06.5	he's now rolled out a new budget blueprint that contains enormous cuts to the government.
1:11.7	The cuts are destined to be so unpopular that even Republicans are already expressing alarm about them.
1:18.1	We think we get the game here.
1:20.6	Everything is about keeping Trump's floor with the base from dropping too low,
1:25.0	so toward that end, Fox will go all in with the denial about what a disaster
1:29.3	this presidency has become. To parse how all this works, today we're talking to one of our
1:34.3	favorite guests, Matt Goertz of Media Matters. Always good to have you on, Matt. Always good to be back.
1:40.3	So some quick approval numbers, the Washington Post has Trump at 39 to 55.
1:46.9	Both the New York Times and Marist have its approval at 42%.
1:51.0	The Times polling averages show a net 17 point swing in Trump's approval against him since the start of his term.
1:59.9	Yet Fox News is telling a very different story.
2:02.3	Matt, can you recap what you're seeing there?
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