Trump’s morning rant backfires after he cites old poll that actually proves the opposite
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a dinner with the leaders of the C5+1Central Asian countries in the East Room of the White House (REUTERS)
Mediaite reports President Donald Trump kicked off his Saturday morning social media rant with a poll “defending” his war in Iran.
The problem: It’s old information — and he read it wrong.
“Very important. This is where our Nation stands!!! President DJT” Trump wrote, while posting a link to an article from a pro-Trump outlet.
But the outlet did not deliver the news he was probably looking for, despiteits nature as Trump-friendly propaganda.
The article, “Majority say preventing Iran from acquiring nukes more important than ending war: Poll,” used a single data point from a Rasmussen-affiliated poll claiming “a narrow majority of 53 percent of U.S. voters say it is more important to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon than it is to end the fighting, according to a Napolitan News survey” and that “a further 60 percent prioritize preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon on stabilizing energy prices in the U.S.”
But Mediaite reports both the article and the poll was from early April — and that the rest of that poll delivered no good news for Trump’s deeply unpopular war.
“Currently 39 percent of voters favor the attacks on Iran while 54 percent oppose them,” Mediaite reports, citing the poll. Additionally, Traditional GOP voters opposed Trump’s attacks on Iran by a margin of 51 percent to 40 percent.
Support for the war was near 40 percent since its onset, while opposition has fluctuated from a low of 46 percent, after the first missile strikes, to a high of 61 percent at the beginning of April as Iran’s retaliatory closure of the Strait of Hormuz and subsequent fuel and grocery costs increased.