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Greg Gutfeld denies Trump is a narcissist and claims he never worries about his poll numbers
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Fox News host Greg Gutfeld has claimed President Donald Trump is neither a narcissist, nor obsessed with his own poll numbers, despite how often he refers to them.
Speaking on The Five Monday, Gutfeld picked up a thread from co-host Charles Hurt who called the president: “The only politician we’ve ever had who is always willing to spend political capital on something other than just getting himself re-elected.”
“Yeah,” Gutfeld agreed. “It’s the complete opposite of how he’s painted, as this narcissist who is worried about his poll numbers, when, in fact, all he’s trying to do is build capital so he can spend it.”
Jessica Tarlov, the panel’s token liberal, could hardly contain her disbelief. “Not worried about his poll numbers?” she gasped. “He says everything is fake!”
“When they’re low, he’s like, eh, whatever,” Gutfeld insisted. “It doesn’t bother him.”
Tarlov then directly turned to the camera to express her shock her colleague’s comments, given Trump’s long history of complaining about unfavorable results.
It was only last week that the president called into the very same show and complained about his score in the latest Fox poll.
The network had found that 59 percent of registered voters now disapprove of the job Trump is doing in the White House, a second term low and an eight percentage point drop on the totals seen in an equivalent Fox poll from March 2025.
Calling into The Five Thursday, the president griped: “I hate Fox polls. Honestly, whoever does your polls is terrible.”
Tarvlov was absent for that episode but was nevertheless attacked by Trump, who said he was not “a fan” of hers and accused her of quoting “fake” statistics to his detriment: “She’ll give, ‘Well, he’s only polling 42 percent.’ That’s not right. I’m polling very high actually.”
He is not, and it is not only the Fox survey that currently finds the president under water.
As of Monday, Trump had an average approval rating of 39.9 percent and a net approval rating of -16.7, according to composite figures compiled by polling expert Nate Silver.
The proportion of Americans who strongly disapprove of the president has also hit a second-term high at 46.7 percent, Silver found.
The analyst concluded that rising gas prices, now north of $4 a gallon, as a consequence of the Iran war were a key factor but stressed that Trump was also facing “profound problems” that are likely to prove more lasting, not least a fracturing base torn by in-fighting over the validity of Operation Epic Fury.
Another Reuters poll last week put Trump’s favorability even lower, at just 36 percent, attributable to the same factors identified by Silver.
The president previously exploded at Fox over its polling last April when it found that voters were unhappy with his policies on nearly every issue other than border security and that his approval rating was, at that point, at an 80-year low.
“These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD, and add in the FoxNews Pollster while you’re at it,” Trump raged on Truth Social late at night.
“They are Negative Criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I WIN ELECTIONS BIG, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose [sic] a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse.
“They suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and there is nothing that anyone, or anything, can do about it. THEY ARE SICK, almost only write negative stories about me no matter how well I am doing (99.9 percent at the Border, BEST NUMBER EVER!), AND ARE TRULY THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”