Donald Trump is citing a positive poll that doesn't appear to exist

[NewEnglandAutumn]

On Sunday night, as the political world was wondering whether he might offer a more fulsome celebration of the life of John McCain, President Donald Trump instead tweeted this:

"Over 90% approval rating for your all time favorite (I hope) President within the Republican Party and 52% overall. This despite all of the made up stories by the Fake News Media trying endlessly to make me look as bad and evil as possible. Look at the real villains please!"

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/27/politics/donald-trump-poll-fake/index.html

[alwaysinasnit]

1. Maybe one of agent orange's staff gave him this tidbit as a pacifier and figured that agent orange

would be too intellectually incurious to verify it.

[The Genealogist]

2. Sometimes coloring books and binkies don't work

Sometimes, you get an itch that can only be scratched by more ego fluffing.

[alwaysinasnit]

3. Funny, but it is awful to think that the occupier of the White House is a 3 year old inhabiting a 72

year old's body.

[stuffmatters]

4. Trump misread a 52% DISapproval in the WSJ/NBC poll as approval

That's the theory I go with on this one. Or he just, as is his habit, made it up. Anything to distract from news on coloring blue stripes on the flag (further proof of his mental deterioration) and/or his shocking disrespect (and obvious jealousy) for McCain.