Donald Trump on Tuesday took aim at former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, accusing the spokeswoman of intentionally reporting inaccurate poll numbers.
McEnany served as Trump’s top spokesperson for most of the former president’s last year in office and by all accounts was among his most loyal aides before becoming a Fox News contributor.
“Kayleigh ‘Milktoast’ McEnany just gave out the wrong poll numbers on FoxNews,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social website.
“I am 34 points up on DeSanctimonious, not 25 up. While 25 is great, it’s not 34. She knew the number was corrected upwards by the group that did the poll. The RINOS & Globalists can have her. FoxNews should only use REAL Stars!!!”
McEnany supported Trump during his 2016 campaign when she was a paid CNN commentator while attending law school.
She was initially critical of Trump, describing his comments about Mexican immigrants as “racist,” and saying it was “unfortunate” and “inauthentic” to call him a Republican during appearances on CNN and Fox Business.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) appointed McEnany as its national spokesperson in August of 2017.
In her role at Fox, McEnany has sung Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ praises and earlier this year encouraged him to run.
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“I think it was very smart of [Nikki Haley] to declare right now because being the only person in the race against President Trump at this moment, she got a lot of media attention, we'll be talking about this now and for days to come, versus the stream of others who will come in after her, likely Pompeo, Pence, all of the others as we await for potentially the biggest name to come in, which is Ron DeSantis,” McEnany said during a Feb. 15 appearance on the Fox News show “Outnumbered.”
“I do think when you look at Nikki Haley's polling – she was at about 1%, now she's at 3% – she was the hottest name in Republican politics in 2011 to like 2015, I would say. This is the case, what you're watching right now polling at 3%, for Governor Ron DeSantis to get in now. People say, ‘Will he get in? Will he wait?’ How can you wait when you are currently the hottest governor in Republican politics, seeing how hard it is to regenerate that attention almost a decade later?”