The View : Trump fumes on Twitter as polls show majority of Americans oppose

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President Trump and first lady Melania Trump before the Super Bowl on Sunday. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

President Trump trashed polls that show a majority of Americans oppose his executive order banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

Any negative polls are fake news, Trump tweeted from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.
7:01 AM - 6 Feb 2017

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Like many of Trumps early-morning Twitter missives, the broadside followed a cable news segment about the topic at hand. A panel on MSNBCs Morning Joe discussed a recent CNN/ORC poll that found that 53 percent of U.S. adults oppose Trumps executive order on immigration, compared with 47 percent who say they support it.

Two other national surveys, also released Friday, showed most Americans disapprove of the travel ban. A CBS poll found 51 percent of Americans disapprove of Trumps executive order, compared to 45 percent who approve. A similar survey conducted by Gallup found 55 percent of Americans disapprove of the travel ban, compared to 42 percent who approve. (The same poll also showed 60 percent of Americans disapprove of Trumps plan to construct a wall along the U.S. southern border with Mexico, compared to 38 percent who support it.)

The executive order, signed by Trump late last month, bars people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the United States for 90 days. It also prevents all refugees from entering the United States for 120 days and indefinitely suspends the entry of refugees from Syria. The order caused some people with current visas to be detained and led to widespread protests and legal challenges.

Over the weekend, a federal judge ordered the suspension of Trumps travel ban, and the Department of Homeland Security said it would comply with the ruling. (On Twitter, Trump ripped the opinion of this so-called judge and vowed the ruling would be overturned.) A federal appeals court declined to immediately reverse the ruling.

The CNN/ORC poll, released Friday, also showed that 53 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Trump is doing. This is a historic low among recently elected presidents since the advent of modern polling.

The president compared such surveys to national polls that showed Trump trailing Hillary Clinton by roughly 2 to 4 percentage points on the eve of the November election. However, those polls were largely correct: Trump won the presidency by capturing the Electoral College, but Clinton won the popular vote by almost 2.9 million votes, 65,853,625 to 62,985,106, a margin of 2.1 percent.

Nonetheless, a defiant Trump declared hes his own boss.

I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it, he tweeted. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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!
7:07 AM - 6 Feb 2017

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Trump has long exhibited an obsession with polls, as a candidate, then as president-elect and now as commander in chief.

During the primary, for example, Trump repeatedly complained that media outlets werent using a CNN Iowa poll that showed him in the lead before the Iowa caucuses. (Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won; Trump finished second.)

Last month, on the eve of his inauguration, Trump denounced as phony and rigged a pair of polls showing him to be the most unpopular newly elected president in at least 40 years.

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Oh the average I.Q. of the average "tweeter". probably lower than Nancy Pelosi and Sheila Jackson Lee combined! -pjpurple

Maybe she's on to something

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Oh the average I.Q. of the average "tweeter". probably lower than Nancy Pelosi and Sheila Jackson Lee combined! -pjpurple

Maybe she's on to something

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Facts are not liberals strong suit. Rhetoric is.

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requires thought, and not kneejerk emotions

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you obviously can only think in terms of black and white, like most Trump supporters.

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Trump fumes on Twitter as polls show majority of Americans oppose his travel ban

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Trump would love nothing more than for there to be a terror attack on American soil so he can jump & down while gleefully clapping his hands and saying, " SEE I TOLD YOU ALL SO!

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Do you recognize the irony

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