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Fox News slams its own Trump polling, says Americans are just dumb



Don’t worry, Fox News is still keeping busy pretending that President Donald
Trump isn’t royally screwing up everything he touches.

On Thursday, the right-wing propaganda network minimized a recent poll showing
widespread dissatisfaction with Trump’s handling of the economy, with
contributor Charles Payne arguing that the public simply doesn’t understand
Trump’s brilliant work thus far.




 



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In the poll results released Wednesday, 54% of respondents said that the
country is worse off in January 2026 than it was a year ago, when former
President Joe Biden first left office. And 68% said that Trump hasn’t spent
enough time addressing economic issues.

During a “Fox & Friends” segment, co-host Ainsley Earhardt expressed
“surprise” at the poll and asked Payne—who was once fined by the Securities and
Exchange Commission for shady business practices—to explain the negative
sentiment in contrast to Trump’s purported economic successes.

“I think the poll really should be ‘Donald Trump’s not spending enough time
messaging on the economy,’ that’s because he spent the last year trying to put
the pieces in place,” Payne said. “That’s the behind-the-scenes stuff that most
folks don’t understand.”

Payne went on to reiterate that the public simply doesn’t understand how
“amazing that was” that Trump and congressional Republicans cobbled together
the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” which he argued would spark economic growth. The
bill kept in place tax breaks for the super wealthy and cut health care
coverage for millions.

“This is reigniting the greatness of America,” Payne insisted.

But Fox’s own poll shows that the public doesn’t agree with Payne’s spin, and
Democrats were happy to highlight the negative news.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee noted in a press release that
the Fox poll shows Trump underwater with independent voters by 60 percentage
points on the economy and cited the result as evidence that “the American
people are turning on Donald Trump.”

“Donald Trump and House Republicans are losing the American public, and they
will lose the House Majority,” said DCCC spokesperson Justin Chermol,
highlighting the possible fallout from the poor showing.





 



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After a year of pushing tariffs on multiple U.S. trading partners and
introducing a level of economic volatility and instability that previously did
not exist, Trump has seen his support steadily erode in multiple polls.

But Trump has refused to acknowledge this economic hardship and instead
falsely bragged this week that inflation had been “solved.”

An economic report released Thursday reinforced the disconnect, showing that
the trade deficit has increased despite Trump’s promise that tariffs would fix
the problem.

Fox’s decision to throw its own poll under the bus is just the latest example
of the network stretching the truth and spouting lies in service of Trump.

For nearly 30 years, the right has marched in lockstep with Fox to hold on to
power—and Fox’s willingness to ignore its own data reinforces that love affair.



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