Whoever their Pollster is, they suck

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Aw, it looks as if Trump and Fox have quarreled. Donnie two hours ago:

From the day I announced I was running for President, I have NEVER had a good @FoxNews
Poll. Whoever their Pollster is, they suck. But @FoxNews is also much different than it used to be in the good old days. With people like Andrew Napolitano, who wanted to be a Supreme…….Court Justice & I turned him down (he’s been terrible ever since), Shep Smith, @donnabrazile (who gave Crooked Hillary the debate questions & got fired from @CNN), & others, @FoxNews doesn’t deliver for US anymore. It is so different than it used to be. Oh well, I’m President!

First of all, it’s fascinating that he thinks polls are supposed to be massaged to be either good or bad as opposed to being, you know, accurate. It’s fascinating that he thinks Fox News is supposed to be giving him “good” polls, i.e. lying about the numbers.

It’s also of course fascinating but not surprising that he thinks Fox News is supposed to flatter him.

It’s fascinating and profoundly nauseating that he thinks all this is suitable for public exposure.

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6 responses to “Whoever their Pollster is, they suck”

  1. What a Maroon Avatar
    What a Maroon

    Another domino falls. Two business associates of Trump’s personal attorney Giuliani have been arrested on campaign finance charges

    Two associates of President Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani have been arrested on charges that they schemed to funnel foreign money to U.S. politicians in a bid to affect U.S.-Ukraine relations and launch a marijuana business, according to a newly unsealed indictment.

    …

    Prosecutors say Fruman and Parnas schemed to donate money to an unidentified U.S. congressman, at the same time they were asking that congressman to get the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed from her job.

    In the spring of 2018, Parnas met with the congressman seeking his “assistance in causing the U.S. government to remove or recall the then-U. S. Ambassador to Ukraine,” the indictment alleges. “Parnas’s efforts to remove the Ambassador were conducted, at least in part, at the request of one or more Ukrainian government officials.”

    Political donations to the congressman and other details described in the indictment match former Texas Republican Pete Sessions, who lost his reelection bid last year.

  2. Sastra Avatar
    Sastra

    First of all, it’s fascinating that he thinks polls are supposed to be massaged to be either good or bad as opposed to being, you know, accurate.

    Two other possibilities:1.) Trump knows polls have to be accurate and he’s down, but is trying to pull the wool over the eyes of his loyal sheep — or 2.) Trump honestly believes he’s loved by almost everyone ( I mean, look at the rallies!) and assumes a negative poll must be lying.

    Manipulative or deluded: either one seems plausible to me.

  3. iknklast Avatar
    iknklast

    Sastra, from my experience with other Trump-like personalities (they teem in my family, unfortunately), I’m guessing number 2. It also fits with his “fake news”. If the news says things he knows are true, but they report them as bad, that makes it “fake news” because he is not bad. (Of course, I’ve never met anyone who thinks they are bad. If they are seen as bad, it’s just because the world doesn’t understand them. I don’t credit Trump with enough insight or vocabulary to go with “they just misunderstand me”, so he goes with “lying”.

  4. Screechy Monkey Avatar
    Screechy Monkey

    Don’t worry, Trump has dispatched Bob Barr to meet with Rupert Murdoch. I’m sure Fox News will get back in line soon. (Actually, though, their polling is considered reputable as far as I know.)

    If you’re wondering what legitimate reason there is for the nation’s chief law enforcement officer to meet with the head of a cable news network…. well, your mistake involves the word “legitimate.”

  5. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    Yeesh – that’s really happening?

  6. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    Yes. Ken White…

    https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1182399000361631744

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