Kevin Hassett dodged the question when asked whether Donald Trump was purposefully being fed only palatable polling data.

“I’m not the poll expert,” the National Economic Council director argued on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, when asked what information was being briefed to the president.

Host Jake Tapper confronted Hassett with a Trump Truth Social post percent about glowing poll results. Despite his enduring loyalty to the president, Hassett couldn’t quite reason out where Trump sourced his glowing approval figures from.

Tapper introduced the topic with one of Trump’s many social media outpourings from Saturday, reading in part: “I HAVE JUST GOTTEN THE HIGHEST POLL NUMBERS OF MY ‘POLITICAL CAREER.’ While my great work on the Economy has not yet been fully appreciated, it will be!

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