tweeted about immigration reform, north korea, his approval wait rait iting, the c weather. the u.s. postal service. what does this all mean for the new year? outfront now, doformer communications director, brian lansa and form rer philadelphia mayor, michael nutter. brian, because you know the mind of the president, having been his communications drirector, help me understand what this all portends for the new year. this is what a high energy president means. they re working on a lot of things. working through a lot of items and that s obvious reflected in the last 36 hours. whether it s the polls, post office. post office? this is a very active president. he thinks amazon ripping off the post office. i think the post office has been a defunct government entity for a long time and it needs to fix itself. as a true business man, he s look at the model saying it
doesn t work. it s failing. we have pensions we are responsible for. how do we fund it going forward? this has nothing to do with amazon. everything to do with the post office that s been a ten, 15 year problem for government. he wrote about amazon in a tweet. mayor? how do you see it? thanks. nice try, brian. it would just be nice out of all of that, beyond public policy over twitter, if the president could actually work on some things that truly matter. to the american people. like unemployment. in many communities, like infrastructure. like trying to bring the country together. not just talking to the 30 or so percent of folks that represent his base. so you know, i mean it s kind of like a twitter machine. at this point. but it s all about distraction. all of it reflects back on him. so if it s not about him, it s not worth talk iing about in hi
this in the new year. let s weight. give the benefit of the doubt. see what happens. brian, to you. on the approval ratings. here s what the president tweeting today. my rating december 28th, 2017 was approximately the same at obama s, which was 47%. he s talking about a rasmussen poll does not meet cnn s polling standards. here are four that do. cnn s poll shows at n that same time, 35%. 54% for president obama. gallup. 38% for trump. 51% for obama. cbs, 36 for trump. 50% for obama. quinnipiac, 37% for trump. 46% for obama. you get where i m going here. those are the numbers. those meet our polling standards. my question to you, why this insistence on comparing himself to president obama? let s address the polls. rasmussen poll was probably the closest one that picked
mind. and his sickness. so you know, none of it makes any sense. i will say a lot of americans wanted tax reform. it happened. this isn t an overly popular bill. i will say that. but he did get tax. brian, in this interview with the new york times, he said something stunning. and let me read it to you. here s his words. another reason i m going to win in another four years is because newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if i m not there because without me, their ratings are going to go down the tube so basically, they have to let me win. it went on from there. he is saying that he thinks the media is going to throw the election to him. putting aside the fact that the media can t do that, doesn t do that. what do you make of that statement? yeah, i m in sacramento, california, where we had a celebrity governor, schwarzenegger. he learned something and i learned something from him early on. that the media loves these types of headlines with their celebrity politicia