Snopes reports that CNN's chief national correspondent John King, who was fact checking an Aug. The image, however, “was a doctored version of a graphic that was originally used during a CNN fact-checking segment regarding a tweet posted by President Trump about his approval numbers,” according to Snopes. 13, 2018, President Trump’s oldest child, Donald Trump, Jr., shared the graphic in a now-deleted Instagram on Aug. Moreover, these figures lack meaning without considering the wider economic context in which they were recorded.Īs reported here by Snopes on Aug. In these later shares, no date for the figures being compared is given, which may have led some to conclude that the figures were recent. The post began to circulate again in late 2020, both leading up to the 2020 presidential election ( here) and following major news outlets’ decision to call the race for Joe Biden ( here, here and here ). At the time of this article’s publication, the post had been shared over 17,000 times. One such post, first shared on Facebook in Sept. The alleged 50% approval rating for President Trump, however, was altered from the original CNN graphic, which read 40%.

2018 CNN graphic comparing Trump and Obama about a year and a half into the presidency. Shared more two years after similar posts went viral, the numbers in the posts largely come from an Aug.

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