Trump Jr. shares fake Trump approval rating on Instagram
BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 08/10/18 10:17 AM EDT
Donald Trump, Jr., on Friday shared a doctored image of a CNN graphic that inaccurately stated that his father had a 50 percent approval rating in a Gallup poll.
The graphic, which Trump Jr. posted on Instagram on Thursday, appears to come from a Monday segment on CNN during which host John King fact checked the president’s previous tweet claiming that Trump has “better numbers than Obama at this point, by far.”
The original graphic shows Trump with a 40 percent approval rating, compared to former President Obama’s 45 percent approval rating from the same point of his presidency. However, the one shared by Trump, Jr., is doctored to show a 50 percent approval rating.
Trump has never received a 50 percent job approval rating in the Gallup weekly tracker of the measurement.
He has reached a high of 45 percent twice, once just days after his inauguration and again in mid-June.
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