Donald Trump devoted part of an event intended to honor families of people killed by undocumented immigrants — whom his administration has dubbed “Angel Families” — to regurgitating his 2020 election conspiracy theory and complaining about his sagging approval ratings, dismissing them as “fake.”
“I saw one today that I’m at 40%,” the president said.
“40%. I’m not at 40%, I’m much higher than that,” he continued.
Trump then pivoted into attacking polling and the media:
“I mean, I would love to run against anybody. The real polls say you kill everybody and wouldn’t be close but you go through the fake polls, you go through the fake stories and I said, you know, it was good because this is really a much more powerful term than I would have had if I had run because it was just one of those things. There would be nothing to compare it to. They compare it to Biden and that horrible, horrible administration.”
At another point, Trump said it “just amazes me that there is not more support out there.”
Then he pivoted to say, “We actually have a silent support. I think it’s silent.”
Critics on social media asked the president to show them the “real polls” he was talking about.