Maggie Haberman Calls BS On Trump Over Brutal 100-Day Poll Numbers: ‘He Does Care About The Polls’
CNN commentator and New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman told Anderson Cooper that despite his public dismissiveness, President Donald Trump “does care about the polls.”
Trump’s 100th day in office — a political benchmark that dates back to FDR — arrived Tuesday amid a raft of polls showing historic unpopularity and a PR offensive from the White House that included early morning briefings, MAGA media rap sessions, a Trump rally in Michigan, and a raft of contentious Trump interviews.
Haberman was a guest on Tuesday night’s edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, during which she delivered her well-sourced and educated insights into Trump’s second first hundred days.
Cooper noted that “The President says he doesn’t care about the poll showing his approval rating underwater,” but Haberman said that’s simply not the case:
COOPER: The President says he doesn’t care about the poll showing his approval rating underwater. He dismisses them as not credible.
The stock market, though, is something he’s often pointed to and that’s certainly, you know, worse first hundred-days of any presidential term on pace for that.
HABERMAN: Yes, although he has been less reactive to the stock market than he certainly was in his first term. And we saw that over and over and over again. His first term he did do tariffs, but they were much more targeted and they took place over time and they were more surgically implemented. He was reactive to the bond markets seeming like they were going to melt down. Bonds are something he understands pretty well because he was a borrower for a long time as a real estate developer.
I think that we will see where this goes over the next couple of weeks. But yes, he is — I know he says he doesn’t care about the polls. He does care about the polls. They do take comfort in the fact that they continue to maintain that public polling by media outlets and by universities and so forth, over sample Democrats. You heard him say that, that is something his advisers say, too. But it’s clearly the trajectory is not good right now.
Watch above via Anderson Cooper 360.
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