Steve Watson
Prison Planet.com
February 6, 2017
President Trump took to Twitter Monday morning to slam media coverage that cites negative polls, saying that such surveys are all ‘fake news’.
Trump claimed that most Americans actually want ‘border security’ and ‘extreme vetting’ despite what the media and oversampled opinion polls suggest.
Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2017
Trump went on to slam the media, saying it has a marginalization agenda.
I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2017
Trump was most likely referring to a CNN/ORC poll released on Sunday which suggested that a majority of Americans oppose the President’s executive order to temporarily ban refugees from countries where extremism is rife.
CNN’s Brian Stelter believes that Trump must have watched CNN report on the poll, as it aired 30 minutes before the President began tweeting:
6:31am on @CNN‘s @NewDay: @DavidChalian showed CNN/ORC’s latest poll #’s about opposition to Trump’s travel ban. 7:01am: Trump tweeted this https://t.co/8YnTL5YjdP
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 6, 2017
Another poll, commissioned by CBS and released Friday, claimed that more than half of Americans disagree with the travel restriction order. The survey also noted a sharp division along party lines on the issue.
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The poll claimed that 51% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s immigration order, while 45 percent approve.
However, two polls released last week by Reuters and Rasmussen respectively, found the opposite. The Reuters survey claimed that a plurality of Americans, or 49%,…