Elon Musk isn’t the only thing Trump is melting down over: ‘Corrupt as hell’

Donald Trump can’t let it go.

It’s been more than a month since two media giants last released polling showing the president is unpopular, but Trump tore into The New York Times and Washington Post on Friday, claiming the “corrupt as hell” media organizations’ surveys are “rigged.”

“The Failing New York Times and the Washington ComPost, two ‘papers’ that have ruthlessly fought me for years, have each done Polls where a vast majority of those sampled are Democrats. In other words, the Polls, just like their writings, are RIGGED – It is not possible for a Republican to do well in such a Poll!” Trump claimed in a Friday morning post on his Truth Social platform.

“They are ‘corrupt as hell.’ The real Polls out there have me doing better than ever before, JUST LIKE ELECTION DAY, 2024, where I WON seven out of seven Swing States, the Popular Vote, and Districts by 2,750 to 505. I won the Election in a landslide! The Fake News Media is Failing Our Nation at levels never seen before. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” the president continued.

The New York Times, in partnership with Siena College, last released a poll on Trump’s popularity April 25 — coinciding with the president’s first 100 days in office.

The poll found Trump underwater by 12 percentage points, with 54% of respondents disapproving of his job performance compared to 42% approving. Another 5% said they didn’t know how Trump was performing.

A day later, on April 26, the Washington Post, in partnership with ABC News and Ipsos, released a poll that revealed Trump had the lowest approval rating after the first 100 days in office of any president in the last 80 years.

According to the Real Clear Politics polling average, which combines the results of surveys from 15 different polling sources over the last month, Trump has a -2.5 approval rating.

Of the 15 sources, just four show Trump with a higher approval rating than disapproval rating: InsiderAdvantage (+11); Trafalgar Group (+8); and Rasmussen Reports and Quantus Insights (both +1.)

Trump’s rant came a day after he and Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO who donated nearly $300 million to help elect him, traded barbs as their relationship deteriorated over the president’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

Musk claimed the president would have never been elected in 2024 without him, while Trump threatened to cut the billions in government contracts awarded to Musk’s companies.

The tech billionaire then said he would decommission a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station.

It’s unclear how serious Musk’s threat was. But the capsule, developed with the help of government contracts, is an important part of keeping the space station running. NASA also relies heavily on SpaceX for other programs including launching science missions and, later this decade, returning astronauts to the surface of the moon.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.