Trump Complains About ‘Fake Polls’ Showing Approval Rating Is Underwater at Angel Families Ceremony

President Donald Trump could not resist lamenting his poor polling during a solemn ceremony honoring angel families who have lost a loved one at the hands of illegal immigrants.

The moment came as Trump boasted about his “much more powerful” second term.

“I’m here now and it is a much more powerful term than my second term would be,” he told the audience of grieving families. “And much more powerful, And one of the reasons everybody sees how bad they were. And I had to go through and I still do — fake stories and fake polls.”

He added: “I have polls for the election that showed I was gonna get swamped and I won in a landslide. They were fake polls, because polls are tough. When you get a fake poll. I get ’em today. I saw one today that I’m at 40 percent. 40 percent. I’m not at 40 percent, I’m much higher than that.”

Trump’s full remarks on the matter can be beheld below:

You know, I was thinking as you were saying that running again for a third time after having gone through what we went through the second time, which was so horrible, so much cheating, so much deception, and viciousness. And you could see what they were going to do. And I’m here now and it is a much more powerful term than my second term would be. And much more powerful, And one of the reasons everybody sees how bad they were. And I had to go through and I still do — fake stories and fake polls. I have polls for the election that showed I was gonna get swamped and I won in a landslide. They were fake polls, because polls are tough. When you get a fake poll. I get ’em today. I saw one today that I’m at 40 percent. 40 percent. I’m not at 40 percent, I’m much higher than that. I mean, I would love to run against anybody. The real polls say you kill everybody and wouldn’t be close. But you go through the fake polls, you go through the fake stories, and I said you know, it was good because this is really a much more powerful term than I would have had if I had run because it was just one of those things. There would be nothing to compare it to. And now they compare it to Biden and that horrible, horrible administration. And I mean it, it is more powerful. Our military is much more powerful. We rebuilt it mostly in the first term and then they gave away a chunk of it. And as much as it was, it’s very small relatively, Tom, but we gave it to the Taliban. Just walked out. We could have taken it with us. They said, “Oh, I think it’s cheaper to leave the planes. Just put in a little jet fuel and fly it to a neighbor or fly it right home. Sir, I think it’s cheaper. I think we’ll save money by leaving 150 million jet on the runway.” These people are crazy.

Trump did not specify where the poll came from, but he was called out hours earlier by CNN data guru Harry Enten for a pre-State of the Union poll showing his approval rating has “never been weaker.”

“Look at that -27 points, my goodness gracious,” Enten exclaimed as he showed the numbers on the big board in-studio. “The snow is up to the knees here in New York City, and Trump seems to be well underneath it at this point.”

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