President Donald Trump has dismissed recent opinion polls suggesting he has one of the worst initial approval ratings in US history, insisting that “any negative polls are fake news.”
A CNN/ORC International poll released on Friday showed that a majority, 53 percent, of Americans disapprove of Trump, while 44 percent approve.
Another survey conducted by Gallup over the weekend put Trump’s approval rating even lower, at 42 percent.
The findings mark the highest disapproval ratings for a new elected president since polls began tracking those results, making Trump the only president to hold net-negative ratings this early in his presidency.
“Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Monday.
In a second tweet, the president continued to hit out against the “FAKE NEWS media,” which he accused of spreading “lies.”
“I call my own…