Trump: ‘George Washington Would Have Had a Hard Time Beating Me Before the Plague’
President Donald Trump boasted this week that his poll numbers are surging to a point that former President George Washington would have had a difficult time beating him “before the plague came in.” In an interview with…
President Donald Trump boasted this week that his poll numbers are surging to a point that former President George Washington would have had a difficult time beating him “before the plague came in.”
In an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, the president declared, “And we’re doing very well. I don’t know if you’ve seen, the polls have been going up like a rocket ship.”
He added, “Hey, I was, George Washington would have had a hard time beating me before the plague came in — before the China plague.”
Here’s that clip (starting at 12:30):
The RealClearPolitics aggregated polling has not shown Trump ahead nationally since they started compiling polls in September of 2019. Currently, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has a roughly seven-point lead over Trump.
In the wide-ranging interview with Hewitt, Trump also laid into his former national security advisor John Bolton, who has since flipped on the president and written a tell-all.
Hewitt asked Trump about Bolton’s allegation that Trump gave the green light to Chinese president Xi Jinping on putting Muslim minorities in camps.