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Your Supreme leader claims he's a "Witch" again, still whining about Obama's popularity

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American Fabius

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Donald Trump was up and tweeting extra early Sunday morning, boasting that his approval ratings are higher than former President Barack Obama despite his being subjected to a “Witch Hunt.”

Trump was mostly silent on Twitter on Saturday, before starting off Father’s Day by extolling his accomplishments as president, writing:”The MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN agenda is doing very well despite the distraction of the Witch Hunt.”


“Many new jobs, high business enthusiasm, massive regulation cuts, 36 new legislative bills signed, great new S.C.Justice, and Infrastructure, Healthcare and Tax Cuts in works!” he added.


The president then cited conservative pollster Rasmussen, saying his approval ratings are booming at a solid 50 percent, which he claimed is “higher than O’s #’s!”


You can see his tweets below:


The MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN agenda is doing very well despite the distraction of the Witch Hunt. Many new jobs, high business enthusiasm,..


— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2017


…massive regulation cuts, 36 new legislative bills signed, great new S.C.Justice, and Infrastructure, Healthcare and Tax Cuts in works!


— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2017


The new Rasmussen Poll, one of the most accurate in the 2016 Election, just out with a Trump 50% Approval Rating.That’s higher than O’s #’s!


— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2017

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bamaEER

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They need to put a shock collar on him that zaps him whenever he tweets something.
 
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MountaineerWV

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This is the technique where you pick out one single month that he (Trump) was ahead of Obama's numbers, tweet that out, make it appear as if you are talking about the overall, and then defend it by......well.......he won't defend it with anything other than another stupid tweet. Here is the poll numbers explained (on how Trump is wrong....again).....

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tump-apos-brags-don-apos-171545111.html

So is Trump right? Are his Rasmussen numbers better than Obama’s? Let's take a look.

Rasmussen conducts its polls by surveying 500 likely voters by phone per night and the numbers are rolled into a three-day average, then released. CNN reported in April Rasmussen doesn’t release information on what it decides is a likely voter and only calls landline telephones, skewing the poll older and more conservative.

Obama’s Rasmussen approval ratings began at 62 percent when he first took office in January 2009. Trump had 59 percent in his first January. Trump’s approval slid to a low in May of 45 percent before climbing back up to 50 percent in Rasmussen’s latest three-day average. The month of June isn’t over, so the whole month can’t be fully tabulated, but so far he’s averaging a 46 percent approval rating, despite the 50 percent spike. Obama in June of his first term had a 54 percent approval rating.

From January until the start of June Obama’s approval rating average was 58 percent approval. Trump’s in that time had 50 percent approval. Obama’s approval rates just before Trump took power were 49 percent, 54 percent, 54 percent and 56 percent in September, October, November and December, respectively.

At points in his presidency, Obama’s approval rating using the Rasmussen poll fell below where Trump currently is, so in one sense, you could pull a random period of time in Obama’s presidency and Trump’s current numbers would be better. Even the beginnings of some years of Obama’s presidency had lower approval ratings, but you would have to compare the same start to a year like 2011, Obama’s third year in office to Trump’s first to make it work. The only way to make Trump’s tweet correct is to cherry pick information.
 
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