(Washington) Donald Trump lost his temper Thursday after the publication by the New York Times of an unfavorable opinion survey, by attacking daily and more broadly “false polls”, which according to him should be considered “criminal acts. »
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The American president, from the plane which brought him back to the United States after a trip to Davos (Switzerland), dedicated three angry messages towards the polls on his Truth Social platform.
Visibly exasperated by an opinion survey carried out by the Siena Research Institute in collaboration with the New York Timeshe promised to “add” it to a complaint already filed against the major American daily.
SCREENSHOT FROM TRUTH SOCIAL
“The survey Times Siena, who has always been extraordinarily negative against me (…) will be added to my complaint against these failures of the New York Times “, wrote Donald Trump, adding: “They will have to be held accountable for all their radical left lies and malfeasance.”
In the fall, he filed a $15 billion defamation complaint against the New York Timestargeting the daily, three of its journalists and a publishing house.
“False and fraudulent polls should, theoretically, be criminal acts,” Donald Trump said in another message, then naming several newspapers and television channels guilty according to him of having published biased surveys.
He cited ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, but also the Wall Street Journal and even Fox News, the channel of choice for American administration officials.
“I will do everything possible to prevent this poll scam from continuing,” he added.
This outburst of anger from Donald Trump comes in the context of the mid-term legislative elections this fall, which are off to a bad start for the Republican Party if the discontent expressed by voters in all the polls materializes at the polls.
The investigation New York Times/Siena reveals, for example, that 56% of those surveyed are dissatisfied with the president’s action, compared to 40% declaring themselves satisfied.
Unfavorable opinions are also in the majority on customs duties, the cornerstone of its economic policy, as well as on the methods used by the immigration police, ICE.
The American president intends to get very involved in the campaign for the “midterms”, which could cost him control of Congress.
“He will campaign as if it were (the presidential election of) 2024,” assured his chief of staff Susie Wiles to New York Post.
