Trump celebrates poll win over critics — but the numbers tell a different story
Massachusetts local news Mass Live reports President Donald Trump is taking a victory lap over a state poll showing respondents approve of him more than one of his latest critics, MAGA podcaster Tucker Carlson.“Only 31 percent of Republicans had a favorable view of the former Fox News host in the UMass Lowell poll, compared to 24 percent who viewed him unfavorably,” reports Mass Live. That same poll showed 77 percent of Republicans and 3 percent of Democrats indicating a favorable view of Trump. Trump was quick to suggest why.“It’s easy! Tucker is a Low IQ person - Always easy to beat, and highly overrated!!! So are Megyn Kelly,” Trump posted to Truth Social. “‘Candace’(Really Dumb and mentally ill!), and Bankrupt Alex Jones, who is completely ‘fried.’”“There are others, also!” Trump added. “Then we have some that are VERY GOOD, true MAGA all the way, and smart. I should do a list of good, bad, and somewhere in the middle. Wouldn’t that be fascinating???”Trump’s targets in the rent also included MAGA blogger Candace Owens, who responded to his taunting saying: “It may be time to put Grandpa up in a home.”Another Trump MAGA target, Alex Jones responded by calling Trump “a rotting husk” of his former self. The number of exclamation points in Trump’s post suggest the president considered the poll results a much welcomed boost after all the bad surveys dogging him and showing him underwater with nearly every demographic, except for a shrinking pool of dedicated Republican loyalists.But even that poll was far from good news for Trump, reports Mass Live. Just 39 percent of 1,000 respondents said they approved of the president’s job performance. And 57 percent said they believed their lives had become somewhat or much more difficult over the past six months.Additionally, that same poll identified that 65 percent of respondents believed the U.S. is spending too much on Trump’s war with Iran, and an overwhelming majority — 87 percent — support pursuing criminal investigations of American individuals named in the Epstein files.Trump’s name peppers the Epstein files, with more than 38,000 total references through the documents.