{"id":109228,"date":"2026-01-23T00:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109228\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T00:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:09:23","slug":"donald-trump-rages-over-his-poor-marks-in-new-york-times-siena-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109228\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Rages Over His Poor Marks In New York Times\/Siena Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUPDATED, with Times comment: Donald Trump<\/a> raged at the latest New York Times\/Siena Poll<\/a>, which shows him with low approval after a year in office, and said that he\u2019ll add what he called the \u201cfake results\u201d to his defamation claim against the Gray Lady.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump\u2019s Truth Social post on Thursday is only the latest threat to target pollsters with legal action. He sued pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register over a 2024 pre-election poll showing him behind in Iowa, yet he went on to win the state.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump posted on Truth Social, \u201cThe Times Siena Poll, which is always tremendously negative to me, especially just before the Election of 2024, where I won in a Landslide, will be added to my lawsuit against The Failing New York Times. Our lawyers have demanded that they keep all Records, and how they \u201ccomputed\u201d these fake results \u2014 Not just the fact that it was heavily skewed toward Democrats. They will be held fully responsible for all of their Radical Left lies and wrongdoing!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Times\/Siena Poll, published on Thursday, showed that 49% of those surveyed said that the country was worse off under Trump, versus 32% who said better. His job approval was at 40%, and disapproval at 56%. <\/p>\n

\n\tTrump sued the Times last year, claiming, among other things, that Susanne Craig and Ross Buettner, and their book\u00a0Lucky Loser, defamed him. Their article was headlined, \u201cThe Star-Making Machine That Created \u2018Donald Trump.\u2019\u201d The\u00a0lawsuit\u00a0<\/a>took particular issue with the notion that Trump\u2019s celebrity fame was due to Mark Burnett and NBC\u2019s\u00a0The Apprentice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tA judge tossed out the lawsuit shortly after it was filed, warning that \u201ca complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective \u2014 not a protected platform to rage against an adversary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump refiled the complaint, citing not just the claim that Burnett made Trump a star, but other passages. His lawsuit cited claims made in the book that Trump received \u201cthe equivalent of more than $400 million from his father, much of it through fraudulent tax evasion schemes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Times is challenging the filing of the case in Florida, and not New York, while arguing that Trump\u2019s claim \u201cfails to sufficiently allege the most basic element of a defamation claim: a false and defamatory statement of fact. It does not allege, as it must, how each statement in suit is false or what President Trump contends the truth to be, and it challenges statements that are not defamatory.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCharlie Stadtlander, a spokesman for the Times, said in a statement, \u201cPresident Trump likes polls that appear favorable to him and dislikes polls that do not. But whether a pill is good or bad for the president has no bearing on our methodology. We aim to produce the most reliable survey of public opinion possible, and our polls have been widely cited for their rigor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump\u2019s lawsuit against Selzer and the Register cited an Iowa consumer law. After dismissing the lawsuit in federal court, Trump filed it in state court, a day before a state anti-SLAPP statute took effect. Anti-SLAPP laws are designed to protect defendants from frivolous lawsuits meant to stifle speech. The state lawsuit is still pending.<\/p>\n

\n\tA class-action lawsuit over the Selzer poll was dismissed by a federal judge last year. The plaintiffs, the conservative group the Center for American Rights, is appealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATED, with Times comment: Donald Trump raged at the latest New York Times\/Siena Poll, which shows him with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,17397,9,11,10,49116,5489],"class_list":["post-109228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-donald-trump","tag-electionline","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-times-siena-poll","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}