Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll, said on Monday he found it "disturbing" that President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE does not cite pertinent polling information in his tweets about public opinion surveys.

"I've been on the executive council of the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), our largest public opinion professional society, I was president of it a few years ago, and one of our core values in polling is transparency," Newport told Hill.TV's Joe Concha on "What America's Thinking."

"We even have a transparency initiative. In other words, if you report a poll result, the norm that we think should be in place is that you report the facts about it, who sponsored it, what was the question wording, what was the sample, what was the dates of interviewing and so forth," he added.