Trump describes Bush's post-9/11 actions as 'tiny period with a bullhorn'

Donald Trump said his popularity is not a record high only because of George W Bush's polling in the immediate aftermath of September 11.

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In an interview with Bloomberg, Trump argued he is "actually a very popular president".

"I guess the Republican poll came out, there’s one at 92 and one at 93 and one at 90, and they’re the highest numbers that have ever been, with the exception of a tiny period of time with a bullhorn," the president said.

"But that period lasted for about a week."

Trump was referencing the peak of Bush's popularity in September 2001, where he addressed a group of firefighters on the rubble of the World Trade Centre using a bullhorn, or loudspeaker.

At the time, Bush's approval rating skyrocketed to an unprecedented 90 percent among all Americans.

Trump's polling numbers remain extraordinarily high among Republicans in almost all recent polling, which is what he appears to be referencing in the Bloomberg interview.

But among all American voters, his disapproval ratings have been consistently higher than his approval ratings. The sitting president hasn't recorded a positive net rating in any poll since March last year.

Gallup, the company who represents the historical gold standard in polling, this week showed Trump with a net approval rating of -12.

In July Trump bragged that polling showed him more popular than Abraham Lincoln.

"You know, a poll just came out that I am the most popular person in the history of the Republican Party—92 percent. Beating Lincoln," Trump told The Sun.

"I beat our Honest Abe."

Lincoln died about 80 years before presidential polling began.