Patrick Bet-David weighs in on anti-Trump sentiment online that makes people think it exists among the general American public, concluding, “Twitter is not America.”

PATRICK BET-DAVID, PBD PODCAST, VALUETAINMENT: Let me get to this. While this is going on, Rob, can you pull up the hit piece on Trump, Wall Street Journal? Watch this, folks. This is supposed to be a hit piece on Trump that we’re talking about, okay? So they write this article, it’s Trump’s economy and voters are unhappy with it. WSJ poll finds, okay. Can you please go to the poll, Rob? Go all the way to the bottom of the poll and just show, you know which one I’m talking about? If you can go to the bottom, Rob. Watch this. So they’re asking him questions. When you look at the headline, you’re thinking they’re not happy with Trump. Now, when they asked him who they trust with the economy more, here’s what the answer in the reports came along. Watch this. Okay, so how many people at the top, Rob? Let me just kind of look at the number, 1,500 registered from the 8th to the 13th. It asked which party in Congress, Republican or Democrats, is better to handle various issues. Economy, Republicans 38, Democrats 32, Republicans plus six. Inflation and rising prices, Republicans 38, Democrats 32, plus six for Republicans. Tariffs, Republicans 36, Democrats 34, plus two for Republicans. Immigration, 44, 33, plus 11 for Republicans. Border security, look at this one. 48, 20. Republicans 28 plus. That’s worse than the Seattle Seahawks score. I mean, it’s almost there. Seattle Seahawks destroyed that team. But plus 28. Tom, how do you process this when you see a number like this? An article that’s supposed to be bad against Trump, but this is what the American people are saying. THOMAS ELLSWORTH, VALUETAINMENT: So friends of the podcast, we speak to a lot of people in polling. The Atlas Intel people, the Rasmussen people, Rich Baris. And what we have right now is a problem of personalization. The media has personalized the problems of the average American or the concerns of the average American and personalized that as Donald Trump’s problem. But when you back up and you start asking him things like this, this happens. If you go back literally 20 years ago, Jay Leno, tonight’s show, used to do a thing in Burbank called jaywalking. And Jay would go walk up and down the street and he would ask people like five questions. And he said, do you know that that’s exactly what Governor Gray Davis thinks? Oh, I don’t like Gray Davis. Well, wait a minute. You just pick five things and Gray Davis is trying to do that for your governor. Now, I didn’t particularly like Gray Davis at all, but when I was trying to make a point, it’s as true then as is true now. You ask people these things and it means like they would trust Republicans more issue by issue by issue, especially on keeping the border secure, number one, and controlling who comes across it. Immigration number two. Yet when you personalize it, oh, you know, don’t like Trump. But an interesting thing came out this weekend. Trump’s approval rating among Republicans, you know where it is right now, Pat? All time high. Okay. Last Friday came out Trump’s approval rating among Republicans, all time high for his administration. So there are people on the personalization side that are on the conservative side that are saying, I don’t like what everything’s going, but I really approve of my guy. CO-HOST:: What’s the number, Tom? Is it 90%? ELLSWORTH: 92, I think. 95. It crossed 90. BET-DAVID: Wow. That’s exceptional. 95% of Republicans still approve of Trump’s overall. By the way, you know what that means? You know what that means? That means talk, number, scream? No, that means the noise on Twitter is irrelevant. CO-HOST:: Doesn’t mean anything to noise online. BET-DAVID: That means the noise online nobody in America is following. I mean, it’s just purely noise if you think about it. ELLSWORTH: And by the way, you brought up something, Pat. You did this research and you shared with us on this podcast, I think a week ago, the research, I guess you and Rob, you dug up, you said 50% of the traffic online was bots. BET-DAVID: 51%. ELLSWORTH: There’s the noise. BET-DAVID: Yeah. It’s all noise. But that makes you think because America is not Twitter and Twitter is not America.

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