President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday to tout achievements from his first year in office and rip "Fake News" and the U.S. Postal Service.

Repeating the claim that he is unfairly maligned by mainstream news outlets, the president said his approval rating was "approximately the same as President Obama on Dec. 28, 2009."

The president apparently was referring to polling by Rasmussen Reports, which reported an approval rating of 46 percent for Trump on Dec. 28, and 47 percent for former President Barack Obama on the same day in 2009.



Other polling services, such as Gallup, YouGov and Ipsos, put the president's approval rating at lower than 40 percent.



While the Fake News loves to talk about my so-called low approval rating, @foxandfriends just showed that my rating on Dec. 28, 2017, was approximately the same as President Obama on Dec. 28, 2009, which was 47%...and this despite massive negative Trump coverage & Russia hoax!