President Donald Trump early Monday blasted “negative polls” as “fake news,” saying the public wants “border security and extreme vetting.”
“Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting,” he tweeted.
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Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2017
Trump also said that “everyone knows” he calls his own shots, “largely based on an accumulation of data.”
“I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!” he tweeted.
I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2017
A CNN/ORC poll released Sunday found that most Americans oppose an executive order signed by Trump that instated travel restrictions.
CNN’s Brian Stelter pointed out that the news network showed results from the poll around 30 minutes before Trump’s tweets.
6:31am on @CNN‘s @NewDay: @DavidChalian showed CNN/ORC’s latest poll #’s about opposition to Trump’s travel ban. 7:01am: Trump tweeted this https://t.co/8YnTL5YjdP
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 6, 2017
Trump signed an executive order in January that imposed a 90-day ban for visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries to the U.S. The order also prohibits refugees from war-torn Syria from entering the U.S. indefinitely and suspends all admissions for 120 days.
A federal judge halted the order late last Friday.Trump used Twitter over the weekend to slam the judge, who was appointed by former President Bush in 2003 and unanimously approved by the Senate.
Trump told Americans to blame the judge if something “bad” were to happen.
“Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and the court system. People are during in. Bad!” Trump tweeted Sunday.
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