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“But, I get 93-97% bad press, fake press, all fake,” Trump continued. “I won in a landslide. When you get 93-97 bad stories, bad press, and you win in a landslide, you know what that says? People don’t believe the press.”
Is he trying to convince himself or us? These comments are similar to a speech he gave in February. During an event on February 23, he almost acted baffled by his low approval rating…before going on to say that the polls must be “fake” and his supporters are just “silent.”
“I saw one today that I’m at 40 percent,” he said at the time. “40 percent. I’m not at 40 percent, I’m much higher than that.” In Trump’s mind, there are “real” polls and “fake” polls. Of course, all the unfavorable ones are “fake” to him, and the “real” ones say (he’d) kill everybody and it wouldn’t be close.”
Although the reports about people not supporting him are supposedly “fake,” Trump did add that he’s surprised that what he’s doing isn’t more popular. “It just amazes me that there’s not more support out there,” he said. “We actually have silent support. I think it’s silent. I think that’s how I won.”
It’s also not the first time he’s blamed his communications team.
During a White House press briefing on January 20, Trump acted confused about why Americans had complaints about the economy and the overall state of the country. If people aren’t satisfied, it’s not because he’s doing a bad job, he suggested. Instead, maybe his press team isn’t doing enough to communicate how amazing he’s doing.
“We’ve had the best stock market in history, the best 401Ks in history. And we inherited a mess,” he said. “The numbers that we inherited were way up. And now we brought them, almost all of them, way down. I mean, I’m not getting—maybe I have bad public relations people, but we’re not getting it across.”
Staying true to character, he also blamed the media. “I think a lot of people are listening to the fake news a little bit,” he added. “And I’m not blaming anybody. I think I blame ourselves. I think we’ve done a much better job than we’re able to promote. We’re not promoting. We’re doing a great job, and we’re sort of letting the promotion take care of itself.”
