Posted on 01/22/2026 9:45:51 AM PST by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump declared that The New York Times must “pay a price” on Thursday after the Gray Lady and Siena University released a new poll suggesting that just 40% of registered voters approve of him.
In a write-up about the survey, the Times’ chief political analyst Nate Cohn observed that “The major demographic shifts of the last election have snapped back. In today’s poll, Mr. Trump’s approval rating by demographic group looks almost exactly as it did in Times/Siena polling in the run-up to his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. If anything, young and nonwhite voters are even likelier to disapprove of Mr. Trump than they were then, while he retains most of his support among older and white voters.”
“Voters have an unfavorable view of Mr. Trump’s performance on almost every issue tested in the poll, including his handling of immigration and the economy and his approach to Russia, Israel, and other foreign relations,” noted Cohn.
Trump did not take kindly to those results.
In his first Truth Social post about them, he declared that “The Times Siena Poll, which is always tremendously negative to me, especially just before the Election of 2024, where I won in a Landslide, will be added to my lawsuit against The Failing New York Times.”
“Our lawyers have demanded that they keep all Records, and how they ‘computed’ these fake results — Not just the fact that it was heavily skewed toward Democrats. They will be held fully responsible for all of their Radical Left lies and wrongdoing!” he added.
In second and third posts about the matter, the president escalated the matter even further, going so far as to suggest that publishing “Fake” polling ought to be a “criminal offense.”
Read the full text of Trump’s posts below:
Something has to be done about Fake Polls! They are truly OUT OF CONTROL. We have the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, we have the Strongest Border in History, nobody has ever done a job like I have done, and they have me in the low 40s. The Democrats destroyed Healthcare, I’m trying to fix it, and they give me FAKE low numbers. Fake Polls on the Economy, on the Border, on just about everything, are ridiculous and dangerous. The REAL Polls have been GREAT, but they refuse to print them. This is no different than a writer who is corrupt, of which there are many. The New York Times, and so many others, print Polls that are knowingly false. They have become deranged, and sick. They suffer from a major case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (TDS). Their 2024 Election coverage was so bad, and so wrong, and yet they never get called out for it — But I am calling them out with the lawsuit that I have filed which is making its way through the Courts. They have to pay a price for FAKE AND FRAUDULENT NEWS and, hopefully, in the not too distant future, they will!
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Fake and Fraudulent Polling should be, virtually, a criminal offense. As an example, all of the Anti Trump Media that covered me during the 2020 Election showed Polls that were knowingly wrong. They knew what they were doing, trying to influence the Election, but I won in a Landslide, including winning the Popular Vote, all 7 of the 7 Swing States, the Electoral College was a route, and 2,750 Counties to 525. You can’t do much better than that, and yet if people examined The Failing New York Times, ABC Fake News, NBC Fake News, CBS Fake News, Low Ratings CNN, or the now defunct MSDNC, Polls were all fraudulent, and bore nothing even close to the final results. Something has to be done about Fraudulent Polling. Even the Polls of FoxNews and The Wall Street Journal have been, over the years, terrible! There are great Pollsters that called the Election right, but the Media does not want to use them in any way, shape, or form. Isn’t it sad what has happened to American Journalism, but I am going to do everything possible to keep this Polling SCAM from moving forward!
It’s sad when people toss words like “fascist” and “commie” around without knowing their meanings.
As to the polls, feel free to visit realclearpoltics. Even Rasmussen isn’t looking good.
Beyond whether or not you like polls, the idea of suing a pollster for his results is nonsense.
That’s a weird takeaway.
I merely reported President Trump’s threat to sure. I didn’t weigh in on the validity of the poll.
I will go to my grave believing the reality is more like 70/30 in favor of conservatives and traditional values.
The Democrats and establishment press have been playing the long game to make the public believe we are a 50/50 split.
Democrats can't win fair elections, so they allowed millions of illegals in and gave them free stuff and a driver's license which is a pathway to voting in elections.
Since the SCAMdemic, hundreds of thousands of cheat-by-mail-in ballots are counted for weeks after election day until the Democrat "wins."
And fake Lamestream polls cover for the election fraud so the outcome lines up with what was "predicted."
He's right about a lot of it being fake, but I really wish he wouldn't talk about criminalizing people saying things like that. Makes it easy to hit him over the head with "haven't you heard of the First Amendment?"
Hilarious
NYT? The Economist? CNN? Rasmussen?
Kinda like the Politburo of the MSM
There’s not a single American to the right of Jamie Raskin who would bother answering a push poll from those propaganda outlets
And AI always regurgitates Leftist crap
Trump and MAGA focus their message internally. They preach to the choir. They do not preach to the many lost outside of MAGA.
The result is that outside of MAGA people o
nly see the anti-TRUMP side of things.
Everything about the economy is good...except inflation is less but still not where we wish it were.
Trump has medicated and stopped many small foreign wars.
Trump policies have been successful in many areas. But outside of MAGA, people never hear about it.
The left has been trained in how to control the headlines and narrative. Recent example: The headlines were .
Illegal immigrant Murderer, Rapist, DUI driver.
WELFARE FRAUD. POLITICAL CORRUPTION.
Renee Good was lead driver in the protest because she had been trained in how to change the headline. Mission Accomplished. The headline is now:
MOM OF 3 SHOT BY ICE.
Like TARBABY in the old nursery tale, we are suckers to swing at the wrong target.
NYT = Not Your Truth
I’d love to see the demographics of these MSM, east coast polls.
This might be helpful. Nate Silver is the guru of polling.
https://www.natesilver.net/p/pollster-ratings-silver-bulletin
Yeah that is your M.O. In order to, as you just did, claim deniability.
However, you only post articles that are clearly against Trump. I have yet to see a positive post from you about Trump's positives he has done for this nation. Admit that you hate Trump. My take is not weird at all. You're posting history creates the narrative. Just as you are what you eat, here you are what you post. I am not alone in recognizing you have an obvious case of TDS.
Is that you Ed McGinty? You live in the The Villages, a large, conservative retirement community in Orlando Florida, not Miami.
You are a rebel though, fighting against this nation. You only moved into a conservative seniors community in the hope of converting then into the TDS crowd. How is that working out for you? You really support Democrt politicians, which is a typical operation carried on by you vipers who serve Satan's agenda.
2020 “election”? You mean the one where Biden got 81,000,0000 votes sitting in his basement? The one that took days and days of 4 am ballot drops to steal? That one?
If the Slimes reported that there was a 100% chance of being sunny and without a cloud in the sky, I would pack my umbrella. Maybe two of them.
New York Times has been covering for the COMINTERN since the time of Stalin. This is known by everyone.
Obama, red diaper baby, and he and the Clintons are aristocratic Communists, raised since their youth as the real deal in Communism.
Walz: Trained in Red China, been there 30 times. Come on! Get real.
Mamdani and his Housing Director: Stone Commies.
So, so many of these people. Now emboldened because they no longer have to be closeted.
If anyone here doesn’t know what Commie means, it might be you.
“It’s not necessary to respond to every irritant.”
Oh, so you want Trump to follow the ways of George W Bush and be too noble to respond to lies and it resulted in the Republicans getting smashed.
You must be unaware that a lie unanswered become the truth by default in the public mind, especially in the world of politics. I would assume that if someone started a lie about you, you would respond quickly, and especially to your supporters -— your family.
Well…except that Trump WON the 2020…
TDSers, like the original poster.
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