Trump touts his 'real polling numbers' in paranoid 'fake news' rant

Donald Trump exploded at coverage of his job performance on Monday morning as his voter ID agenda continues to stall in Congress and the war with Iran pushes his numbers down more and more each day. The president penned an angry Truth Social rant aimed at media organizations he claimed were pushing fake polls to deride him as an unpopular president. 'My REAL Polling Numbers, not those made up by the Fake News Media, are the best they have ever been, and why wouldn't they be with the biggest tax cuts and employment numbers EVER,' claimed Trump. 'Don't believe the Radical Left's Fake Poll numbers. They are Crooked and Corrupt, just like the Country Destroying Dumocrats are Crooked and Corrupt,' he went on. The president provided no links, screenshots or data of any kind to back up his assertions. Meanwhile, respected polling outfits with histories of accurate predictions of all political stripes continue to paint roughly the same picture of his administration: one beset by the typical political consequences of economic pain and the anger of Americans, including many Trump voters, over America's participation in a lengthening military conflict after the president's promise to keep the U.S. out of such entanglements. Even in the latest polling by Trump-friendly Fox News, also taken in July, Trump's approval rating is only a few points higher - 39 percent. The president has long accused media outlets of faking his polling when it drops, only to turn around and embrace those same surveys when his approval rating rebounds.