Trump Lashes Out at Rupert Murdoch Over Fox News' 'Trump Hating, Fake Pollster' After Survey Reveals Record-Low Approval

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Source: Variety

Apr 24, 2025 8:12am PT

Trump Lashes Out at Rupert Murdoch Over Fox News’ ‘Trump Hating, Fake Pollster’ After Survey Reveals Record-Low Approval Ratings

President also calls on media mogul to make changes at Wall Street Journal: 'It sucks'

By Todd Spangler

President Trump is unhappy with Fox News Channel again over the conservative outlet’s poll finding that he has record-low approval ratings after the first 100 days of his second term in office.

“Rupert Murdoch has told me for years that he is going to get rid of his FoxNews, Trump Hating, Fake Pollster, but he has never done so,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. “This ‘pollster’ has gotten me, and MAGA, wrong for years.”

Trump added that Murdoch “should start making changes at the China Loving Wall Street Journal. It sucks!!!”

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Trump was evidently reacting to a new Fox News poll of American voters, released Wednesday, that found over approval of the president’s job performance was 44% — down 5 points from March and 1 point lower than his then-record 45% approval rating after the 100-day mark in 2017. Trump’s approval ratings in the first 100 days in office are lower than those for Biden (54%), Obama (62%) and George W. Bush (63%), per Fox News.

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Read more: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/trump-rupert-murdoch-fox-news-poll-record-low-approval-1236377066/

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. I say that Krasnov should strip Rupert of his citizenship

and ship him off to El Salvador.

How DARE he not love me 24 hours a day!

[PJMcK]

2. Trump hates facts

They upset the fake reality he lives within. Anything that doesn't portray him as the greatest MUST be fake news.

What a pathetic weakling!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Maddow Blog-New polls show Trump's approval rating sinking lower, weakening his power

Why should the public care about Trump's sinking approval rating? Because flailing presidents wield less power — domestically and abroad.
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Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-polls-show-trumps-approval-rating-sinking-lower-weakening-power-rcna202783

To hear Donald Trump tell it, the American people just love his presidency. In recent weeks, he’s insisted he has “the highest poll numbers of any Republican for the last 100 years.” Trump’s approval rating, he’s claimed, is in “the high 70s.”.....

Reality, however, continues to get in the way.

The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll found Trump’s backing down to just 42%, while just 37% support his handling of the economy.

The latest Pew Research Center poll found Trump’s approval rating down to 40%. It also found him underwater on every major policy area. What’s more, the Pew survey found the president’s support among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents down to 75% — noticeably lower than Joe Biden’s 93% support among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents at this point four years ago.

The latest poll by The Economist/YouGov found Trump’s approval rating down to 41%. It also showed him underwater on every issue.

The latest Fox News poll showed Trump with a 44% approval rating — down 5 points from March — and he’s underwater on nearly every issue. On the economy, his support is down to 38%, while on tariffs and inflation, the president’s support is down to 33%.

,,,,,,The answer is simple: Popular presidents wield more power; flailing presidents wield less.

This is true on the international stage — foreign officials are more likely to take seriously leaders who enjoy meaningful domestic backing — but it’s also true on Capitol Hill. As we’ve discussed, members of Congress — who, unlike the incumbent president, have to worry about re-election — care a great deal about the prevailing political winds.

If the public really were rallying behind Trump and he really did enjoy 70% support, Republican lawmakers might be that much more inclined to follow his lead, while Democratic lawmakers in competitive districts would be that much less inclined to put up a fight against the White House agenda.

But with Americans expressing their increasingly unambiguous dissatisfaction with Trump, it effectively creates a permission structure for Congress to defy the president’s wishes. In other words, the more voters turn against Trump, the harder it becomes for him to get his way — which helps explain why he and his allies are scrambling to create an alternate reality in which his support is “soaring” and “skyrocketing,” while his approval rating is in “the high 70s.”