Trump puts on a smile as he arrives at one of his golf clubs but he is said to be increasingly isolated CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERSPresident Trump has lashed out at “fake polls” and defended the decisions taken by his administration amid claims that his chief strategist has become unusually influential. In a flurry of early-morning tweets that appear to have become a fixture of his day, Mr Trump railed against polls suggesting that a majority opposed his travel ban on seven majority Muslim nations, that was overturned by a federal judge at the weekend. “Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting,” he told his Twitter followers. Trump’s early-morning attack came after a CNN/ORC poll found six-in-ten people opposed Trump’s planned wall on the Mexican border and 53 per cent of respondents said…

Source: The Times February 06, 2017 17:03 UTC