‘Not Even Close!’ CNN Anchor Abby Phillip Torpedoes Trump ‘Lies’ — Rubs Salt In Tanking Polls
CNN anchor Abby Phillip torpedoed President Donald Trump over several recent “lies” and noted new polling that shows Trump at historic levels of unpopularity at 100 days into his second presidency.
On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Phillip was joined by a panel comprised of Shermichael Singleton, Hillary Rosen, Joe Borelli, Congressman Jim Himes (D-CT), and Toure.
But Phillip began the show by deriding Trump as a failed “pitchman” who earned a rebuke from prominent donor and Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, knocking down several Trump “lies,” and name-checking a new Fox News poll that shows his approval cratering:
PHILLIP: America’s chosen pitchman has failed to make the sale. Trump is blinking in his self- inflicted trade wars. The artist of the deal may be blinking in those trade wars, but one of the richest supporters of the president says that the damage has already been done.
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GRIFFIN: The United States was more than just a nation. It’s a brand. It’s a universal brand.
We’re eroding that brand right now.
In the financial markets, no brand compared to the brand of the U.S. treasuries, U.S. treasury market, the strength of the U.S. dollar and the strength — the credit worthiness of U.S. treasuries, no brand came close. We put that brand.
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PHILLIP: Donald Trump was elected because of his economic prowess. New polls are showing that his support is, in fact, eroding, particularly among young men. And it’s lies like these that people aren’t buying anymore.
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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: $1.98 yesterday in a couple of states, you have gasoline’s way down.
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PHILLIP: That is false. No state had an average below $2.70 cents a gallon, and the national average, nearly a quarter, it’s above $3. Now, the lowest price that we were able to find was $2.19 cents at a gas station in Texas.
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TRUMP: The price of groceries are substantially down.
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PHILLIP: That is also not true. Average grocery prices in March were up from February in the biggest month-to-month jump since October, 2022. They were also up nearly 2.5 percent from last March, the biggest year-over-year jump un nearly two years.
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TRUMP: We had all eggs, and as you know, the cost of eggs have has come down like 93, 94 percent.
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PHILLIP: Not even close. The national average for a dozen eggs, as I’m sure you know, is above $6. That is a decline of 55 percent from their high, but not nearly 94 percent.
Trump has taken his biggest win and he’s essentially squandered it. And the polls are really showing that people are kind of fed up with it. They we’re giving him the benefit of the doubt for a while, but according to a new Fox poll just tonight, he is at the lowest marks for any president since George W. Bush for this point in his presidency.
Watch above via CNN NewsNight.
