bdmetronews Desk ॥ Any negative polls are fake news, President Trump tweeted from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
President Trump trashed polls that show a majority of Americans oppose his executive order banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries. “Any negative polls are fake news,” Trump tweeted from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday. “Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.”
Like many of Trump’s early-morning Twitter missives, the broadside followed a cable news segment about the topic at hand. A panel on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” discussed a recent CNN/ORC poll that found that 53 percent of U.S. adults oppose Trump’s executive order on immigration, compared with 47 percent who say they support it.
Two other national surveys, also released Friday, showed most Americans disapprove of the travel ban. A CBS poll found 51 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s executive order, compared to 45 percent who approve. A similar survey conducted by Gallup found 55 percent of Americans disapprove of the travel ban, compared to 42 percent who approve.
The executive order, signed by Trump late last month, bars people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the United States for 90 days. It also prevents all refugees from entering the United States for 120 days and indefinitely suspends the entry of refugees from Syria. The order caused some people with current visas to be detained and led to widespread protests and legal challenges.
