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This comes as multiple polls show his approval significantly lower, with one average at 38.8%.","category":"Politics","area":"United States","publishedAt":"2026-10-24T18:45:57.770Z","sourceReportedAt":"2026-10-24T17:33:06.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-24T18:45:57.770Z","readTime":"3 min read","scores":{"trust":50,"critic":60,"hype":41,"notes":{"trust":"Central claim attributed to Trump, with specific poll data cited from RealClearPolitics and Fox News.","critic":"Reports include direct quotes and specific poll data, but some rely on digests.","hype":"Headlines use strong language like 'crisis' and 'sinking polling' which is somewhat supported by the data."}},"tags":["#DonaldTrump","#ApprovalRating","#Polls","#Politics","#USPolitics"],"entities":["Donald Trump","The Washington Examiner","RealClearPolitics","Fox News","HuffPost","The Independent","Mediaite","The Record","Political Wire"],"body":[{"type":"key_takeaways","items":["President Donald Trump stated his job approval rating is 60%, a figure he believes he could achieve if needed.","He dismissed current poll numbers as 'fake', including a RealClearPolitics average showing his approval at 38.8%.","A Fox News poll indicated Trump's approval rating at 36%.","The RealClearPolitics average aggregates data from over a dozen polling organisations."]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"President Donald Trump has contested his job approval ratings, calling them 'fake'. During an interview with The Washington Examiner, Trump dismissed a RealClearPolitics poll average that placed his approval at 38.8%. He stated, 'I don’t believe I could be beaten by anybody' and suggested his own approval rating would be '60' if he needed it."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The RealClearPolitics average incorporates data from more than a dozen outlets, including Rasmussen Reports, Economist/YouGov, Reuters/Ipsos, and Fox News. This average shows Trump's net disapproval rating at 60.4%. A separate Fox News poll reported Trump's overall job approval rating at 36%."},{"type":"heading","text":"Disagreement on poll validity"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Trump described the approval poll numbers as 'fake'. He reportedly based this argument, in part, on the earlier inclusion of data from Wedgewood Polls by The New York Times, a company that had admitted to using fabricated numbers. However, the Times had noted it did not use Wedgewood for its own approval metrics."},{"type":"heading","text":"What the coverage left out"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"None of the reports printed below mention the specific details of the RealClearPolitics average's composition beyond stating it includes data from over a dozen outlets. 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