{"id":33970,"date":"2026-08-09T05:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T00:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=33970"},"modified":"2026-08-09T05:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T00:23:17","slug":"trump-brags-about-mysterious-great-poll-numbers-as-approval-rating-sinks-to-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=33970","title":{"rendered":"Trump Brags About Mysterious \u2018Great Poll Numbers\u2019\u2026 as Approval Rating Sinks to New Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5743463\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5743463\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5743463\" src=\"https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26142734165064-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump speaks at Rockland Community College, Friday, May 22, 2026, in Suffern, N.Y. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5743463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Brandon\/AP Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> bragged on Saturday about some &#8220;great poll numbers&#8221; he received&#8230; but there was just one problem: he didn&#8217;t mention which poll he was talking about.<\/p>\n<p>The president posted about the mysterious poll on<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117061633436594617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Truth Social<\/a> and added &#8220;Thank you!!!&#8221; \u2014 complete with three exclamation points \u2014 without sharing more details.<\/p>\n<p>And it would be worth knowing which one he was referring to, since the latest polls do <em>not<\/em> paint a rosy picture for the president. <em>The New York Times<\/em> on Saturday showed Trump has a 59% disapproval rating across its average from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/polls\/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozens of polls<\/a> \u2014 up 3% from where it was at the start of the Iran war. Similarly, his approval rating has dropped from 41% to 38% during that same time, according to the <em>NYT<\/em> average.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nate Silver<\/strong> drove home how ugly the numbers were for Trump in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natesilver.net\/p\/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Friday breakdown<\/a>, noting the president&#8217;s 38.1% approval rating was the lowest of his second term.<\/p>\n<p>Silver&#8217;s highlighted his two key takeaways at the top of his Substack post:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>After rebounding slightly earlier in the month,\u00a0<strong>Donald Trump\u2019s net approval rating has now hit a new second term low of -20.6<\/strong>. His disapproval rating is dangerously close to breaking 60 percent, while just 21 percent of Americans\u00a0<em>strongly approve<\/em>\u00a0of the job he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n<p>At this point in Trump\u2019s first term, his net approval rating was 9.3 points higher at -11.3. In fact, Trump\u2019s net approval rating is now lower than at\u00a0<em>any point<\/em> in his first term. Back then, he bottomed out at -19 after January 6th.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, CNN chief data analyst <strong>Harry Enten\u00a0<\/strong>let out several &#8220;woofs&#8221; on Saturday while reviewing Trump&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/woof-cnn-data-guru-breaks-down-trumps-top-5-biggest-drops-in-polling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> top five &#8220;biggest drops&#8221; in polling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The data guru said Trump has taken big hits on the Iran war and the economy lately, among other topics, with Enten at one point urging Trump to pick up a phone and call a random American to get their take on the war. Enten said there was a 75% shot the citizen would tell Trump he&#8217;s botched it.<\/p>\n<p>And when it came to the economy, Enten said things are even grimmer for the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went back through the history books\u2026 no president before President Trump had a negative 50 point or worse net approval\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-straight-up-says-i-love-the-inflation-when-pressed-on-latest-numbers\/\">rating on inflation,&#8221; <\/a>Enten said.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/trump-brags-about-mysterious-great-poll-numbers-as-approval-rating-sinks-to-new-low\/\">Trump Brags About Mysterious \u2018Great Poll Numbers\u2019\u2026 as Approval Rating Sinks to New Low<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Brandon\/AP Photo President Donald Trump bragged on Saturday about some &#8220;great poll numbers&#8221; he received&#8230; but there was just one problem: he didn&#8217;t mention which poll he was talking about. The president posted about the mysterious poll on Truth Social and added &#8220;Thank you!!!&#8221; \u2014 complete with three exclamation points \u2014 without sharing more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26142734165064-1-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}