President Donald Trump has targeted Fox News host Jessica Tarlov in his latest tirade against female journalists, as she revealed his negative poll numbers in a television segment.
Trump called Tarlov “one of the Least Attractive and Talented People on all of Television” in a fiery Truth Social post written as he was watching Fox News on Air Force One Thursday evening.
“Her voice is so grating and terrible, I had to ‘turn her off!’ Her Democrat soundbites are FAKE. She makes up ‘Poll Numbers,’ and nobody challenges her, because she is so boring,” the president said.
Tarlov, a former strategist and pollster for the Democratic Party, bashed Trump’s popularity during a round-table discussion with her co-hosts on The Five Thursday evening.
“He has a 35 percent approval rating in most polls,” Tarlov said, later adding, “No Americans wanted the tariffs, they didn’t want the war in Iran, and they don’t want the ballroom.”
A recent The Economist/YouGov poll found that just 38 percent of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, while 56 percent disapprove.
Most Americans don’t back the war that Trump and Israel waged against Iran, according to the poll. Just 32 percent of respondents said they support the Iran war, while 55 percent said they opposed it.
A majority of Americans also said they disapproved of how Trump was handling tariffs shortly before the Supreme Court struck most of them down.
A total of 64 percent of Americans disapproved of the way Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imported goods, while just 34 percent approved, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted in February.
Most Americans also opposed Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom in a poll released last October, when the project was estimated to cost $300 million.
A total of 56 percent of Americans opposed the ballroom and just 28 percent supported it, according to a poll conducted by The Washington Post, ABC News and Iposos.
Trump insisted in his Thursday Truth Social post that he has “among the best Poll Numbers I have ever had, and why shouldn’t I, ALL THE COUNTRY DOES IS WIN.”
Tarlov denied that the polling results she mentioned were fake and used the attention the president provided to promote her new book, which will be released in September.
“Guess I’ll take this opportunity to mention that my numbers are far from fake – Trump really is that unpopular. And you can pre order my book I Disagree as of today!!” she wrote on X, along with an image of the president’s rant.
Trump is known for attacking journalists, and mostly women reporters, calling them “stupid,” “incapable,” and referring to one as “piggy.”
In November, Trump told Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey, “quiet, piggy,” after she asked about the government files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump administration has faced fierce backlash over its handling of the files.
Trump also attacked former MAGA faithfuls Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens in his Thursday posts on Truth Social.
“I hear Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens are dying fast. Their numbers are terrible. Nobody believes them anymore. They were FAKE MAGA, and now they’ve been exposed!” he said, without providing any evidence to back up his claims.
Owens responded to one of Trump’s posts, calling it a “meltdown.”
“Looks like he may have accidentally heard the truth?” she wrote on X.
Last week, Trump issued a nearly 500-word Truth Social post railing against conservative media figures Kelly Carlson, Owens and Alex Jones, who have all criticized his war with Iran.
“They think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
