Overview
- He posted the demand on Truth Social shortly after Air Force One landed in Japan for meetings with new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
- He claimed he is seeing his best polling numbers ever and pointed to economic and policy achievements as justification.
- He did not specify which ads or polls he called fake and offered no evidence to support the claims.
- An aggregation by Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin, drawing on surveys from Quinnipiac, Echelon Insights, Reuters/Ipsos, Emerson, The Economist/YouGov and ARG, shows little movement in approval.
- Coverage notes the shutdown has reached 22 days and that Americans are slightly more likely to blame Trump and Republicans, with that gap narrowing.