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Topics: Donald Trump, Tariffs
Joe Yates
President Donald Trump has aimed at Fox News, slamming its latest polling data, which shows more than half of Americans think the economy has worsened under his administration.
Yesterday (September 18), Trump sat down with Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum, where he dismissed the network’s numbers as 'the worst polling I've ever had'.
The 79-year-old's approval ratings haven't been looking so good either, as US citizens across 24 states had a negative opinion of his presidency.
And in comparison to his predecessors, it's even bleaker, as Trump was staring at the bottom of the ladder when it came to approval rankings. However, the former businessman thinks it's going pretty well, as he told MacCallum that he'd 'inherited the worst inflation ever'.
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"We now have very low inflation, we have great production, and when these factories that are being built all over the country start opening up, we’re gonna have numbers like no one has ever seen before - including jobs.” he said.
But MacCallum wasn’t letting him off the hook so easily.
She asked: "We do see polling that doesn't poll well in the economy. The recent Fox polling said 52 per cent say the economy is worse under this administration. We've got unemployment at the highest rate in four years. Groceries made a big jump in the last term.
"You're looking forward with these plans that you just talked about, when will people feel that, President Trump?
Trump, unfazed, argued that the US's economic rebound is just around the corner, as he responded: “Well, when the factories start opening. I mean, right now, we're building them, you know, Fox polling, I have to tell you - I've told you before - it's the worst polling I've ever had."
He went on to claim that during the 2024 election, they estimated him 'winning by a little bit and not a massive amount', as he added: "I told Rupert Murdoch, go get yourself a new pollster because he stinks."
This isn't the first time Trump has had a problem with Fox's polls, as he wrote on Truth Social in April that Murdoch had apparently 'told me for years that he is going to get rid of his FoxNews, Trump-hating, Fake Pollster, but he has never done so'.
According to Variety, there's no indication that Murdoch had ever told Trump this, however.
Elsewhere in his interview, he then pivoted to tariffs, claiming they were the real reason for a supposed industrial resurgence, insisting that carmakers that are relocating to Mexico, Canada, China, Japan and Germany are 'all coming back now'.
"Without the tariffs, a different story, but they're coming back because of the tariffs, and you're gonna see that kick in probably in the year or so," he claimed.
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