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The Public Is Growing Tired of Trump's Tweets, Says Voter Survey (arstechnica.com)
President Donald Trump is the tweeting president. His @realDonaldTrump handle has 31.8 million followers and "35K" tweets. While the president claims to use Twitter to "get the honest and unfiltered message out," many Americans aren't so fond of his favored form of communication. According to a new voter poll (PDF), the public is growing tired of Trump's tweets. Ars Technica reports: A Morning Consult, Politico survey published Wednesday found that 69 percent of voters who took the online survey said they thought Trump tweets too much. That's up from 56 percent from December, months before Trump took office. The survey said that 82 percent of Democrats polled thought Trump tweets too much, up from 75 percent in December. Republicans came in at 53 percent saying the president used Twitter too often, an 11-percent increase from December. Overall, 57 percent of voters who took the survey said Trump's tweets are hurting his presidency. Another 53 percent said his Twitter use undermines U.S. standing in the world. The poll found that 51 percent of all voters said Trump's tweets imperiled national security. What do you think of Trump's tweets? Do you think they are getting old, or do you find them particularly useful?
He does great at sabotaging his own schemes. It's really great that he lacks a filter.
I would love to be a fly on the wall on his lawyers' office. It's got to have a thick covering of hair of all over the floor.
I am getting to know better the person who is in the Oval Office. I feel as if he is talking directly to me, instead of being filtered by some media outlet.
This is a Politico poll, a known opponent of Trump. So one must see the questions, how they were presented and what the audience makeup was. Before giving any validity to the polling data.
Passionately Indifferent
Trump keeps making a fool of himself. Why would anyone opposed to his agenda want to muzzle him? Even with both feet in his mouth, he keeps proving that his mental faculties are questionable, that he doesn't understand how the real world works. and that Republicans nominated and elected the worst-qualified president in history.
The Saudis are now laughing at how easily he was manipulated.
Even William Henry Harrison, the 9th president, had a better first 100 days in office, and he died after one month.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
They have been particularly good at exposing how petty, dimwitted, bigoted and foolish he is, not just as a president but as a person. I think it's important for people to understand just kind of a person they vote for, even if it's after the fact.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
would be the public's tiredness of traditional media channels. Because less tweets could mean many things. The public could be less engaged in media OVERALL due to the constant barrage of negativity and fear-mongering.
Why do his tweets even exist? Have you ever asked that question? Because there's a need. People want to know what he's saying and thinking directly... without the insane amount of misquoting and mischaractorization the media keeps doing.
There was a time when a President could just make a damn conference. But the media both chops up his words, AND, runs 24/7 negative coverage of him. So the only way for people to hear him at a PACE that keeps up with the 24/7 press, is simple tweets.
It's not rocket science people. The guy won the election. That means there are over a hundred million people in the USA who want him there and want to hear what he has to say. It's too bad too. Because we all know the progressive thing is to hope our country completely collapses so we can "prove him those racists wrong."
Imagine if we had this kind of wall-to-wall negative coverage of Obama (You know, the first president to use a drones to kill an American citizen? So progressive!) you could be certain people would be defending him under "They just hate him because he's black!" mantra. But because he's a "FUCKING WHITE MALE" he's literally the devil, and there are no wrongs when the intent is righteous. Even insinuating his son if AUTISTIC, which even if you hate the man, is super fucked up to "armchair diagnose" someones CHILD and use a serious disability like a convenient political tactic. One guy somewhere said Obama's daughter was said to dress "slutty" and the WORLD STOPPED. How dare they slut shame her! But an 11-year old boy is being called AUTISTIC ON NATIONAL NEWS and you don't think that's going to fuck him over when he shows up to school the next day?
That's why people read his tweets. Because "the media" is a den of scum with no morals, no level they won't stoop to. (Even outing a gay manager in Google is "news"?!) People are sick of slants and angles. They want to hear what the president thinks, and they're going to the direct source instead of letting a bunch of armchair warriors slice it up to push an agenda.
Now, you can HATE trump all you want. Have at it. I hate plenty of stuff about him. (FCC? Global Warming? Net Neutrality? COAAAL?!?!?!) So understand that me EXPLAINING something does not mean I'm ENDORSING it. It's sad-as-hell that I even have to throw that disclaimer in, but here we are.
However, I am fed up with the foaming-at-the-mouth, frantic, OMG! reaction of the US news media to every tweet. Let President Trump Tweet away and shut down the news coverage of every tweet & I'd be happy.
People are getting tired of media coverage of Trump's tweets. Only insane nobody blue checks are paying attention to his actual tweets.
He does great at sabotaging his own schemes. It's really great that he lacks a filter.
I would love to be a fly on the wall on his lawyers' office. It's got to have a thick covering of hair of all over the floor.
And while everyone is running around with their hair on fire over "covfefe" and his other tweets, he's been quietly getting his agenda done.
For an example, Jeff Sessions rolled back the Obama-era drug sentencing guidelines, resulting in the harshest possible sentences for drug offenders... which went almost unnoticed by the MSM.
Trump withdrew from the Paris accord, and Covfefe was the more searched term than Paris Climate Agreement.
Your side thinks he sabotages his schemes by these tweets.
The rest of us know (and Trump himself knows) that the tweets are meaningless and valueless in and of themselves, but they distract the MSM from what is really going on, and in a way that makes the left look like gibbering imbeciles.
He's been doing this since about *a year* prior to the election, and your side hasn't caught on even yet!
Trump's tweets are awful, they embarrass America, they embarrass himself, they are tremendously unprofessional and demean the office he occupies. Republicans used to fume that Obama "demeaned" the office by not wearing an acceptable suit in the White House, yet let this guy act like a buffoon and with awful language? Please.
As much I love watching Trump self-destruct his own administration's policies with his tweets and his big mouth, demolish his own court cases because he can't help blurting things out on Twitter, and watching Sean Spicer and his staff try to twist themselves into logical knots trying to explain that Trump never makes mistakes or that those typos were just new words he invented intentionally, it's exhausting and at some point we have to stop him before he wrecks the office of president for good.
>" What do you think of Trump's tweets? Do you think they are getting old, or do you find them particularly useful?"
I don't have a Twitter account and don't read ANY tweets. Probably not the answer expected. Generally, I don't understand why people are attracted to that form of "communication".
It's not that he tweets too much, it's what he tweets. Twitter could be the modern fireside chat, except Trump has no sense of history, no communications skills, and no philosophical foundation for his political beliefs. He's more likely to have read John le Carre than John Locke.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
and he's still not particularly likely to have read le Carre.
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky
The same people who told you Trump had a 2% chance of winning now give you his approval polls. Proceed accordingly.
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See that "Preview" button?
The news media has been interested in every president, but it hasn't been this obsessed with a president since JFK, and perhaps not ever. CNN and MSNBC are, from what I can tell, 24/7 Trump coverage for the past 6 months. It's bizarre.
Trumps tweets are equally bizarre in that they're honest, as far as I can tell. Honest in a "yes, honey, that dress does make you look fat because you're fat" kind of way (socially dysfunctional, but honest). An honest politician is so outside my experience that it's almost hallucinatory.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Well, they're also obsessing as Trump is the most bizarre president too. He coul be more honest with himself, in the sense that he needs to realize that he's not the super genius that he thinks he is and that it's not always a good idea to say out loud whatever random thought crossed his mind at the moment.
Or as the saying goes, better to be quiet and let people think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Personally, I'm more tired of the way the media covers EVERY SINGLE LITTLE LAST TWEET as if each one announces an Arab/Israeli Peace Deal. We get it, he doesn't fit the exacting perfect image every president before him portrayed. A few times, they got caught; like when bush called that reporter "a major league ass-hole", or when Obama said "What I was suggesting-you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith".
The only difference is that this president doesn't seem to care about trying to portray himself one way or the other. Say all you want about Trump, but one thing is for certain, he doesn't shy away from who he really is.
I can't believe people actually attribute strategy to this guy.
You mean despite winning the election, being a multi-billionaire, being a successful TV star, having a gorgeous wife who's also smart, raising well-mannered kids, and having a cohesive, loving family?
He got all of that without having any strategy - is that what you're saying?
Yep, engaging in an online flame war with the Mayor of London for trying to reassure Londoners right after a terrorist attack really won us Brits over too, top notch communicator you have there. When we'd heard about how 48 people had been butchered, 8 of which were killed the first thing we thought was "You know what? It'd be great to hear Donald Trump's view on this, especially if he blames the Mayor of London and start slagging him off", so we're glad that he focus on a multi-day flame war, rather than just shut the fuck up or offer something nice, but obviously his mother failed as a parent and never taught him the adage that if you have nothing nice to say, then don't say anything at all.
I'm engaging in British sarcasm here if you didn't get that. He's probably the worst communicator of any world leader I've ever seen because his comments are ill thought through, often barely literate, and usually just objectively wrong. He's basically on par with the rhetoric filled drivel that spills out of fat Kim's mouth over in North Korea.
All hail King Covfefe, king of the uncommunicators.
People were and still are desperate and wanted something else than the establishment. With a lot of help from other people in his campaign he didn't mess up enough. And these people who voted for him clearly didn't believe someone would lie this much. Or most lilkely were desperate enough to have selective hearing. When trump said one thing one moment and an other an other moment they would say: ohh, he doesn't mean that about the second thing, because they like the first. That's not very rational.
New things are always on the horizon
It still is better to shut up and let people think you're a stuck-up asshole than to open your mouth and remove any shade of doubt.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Worse than either of them would be Pence. Pence could rally the Republicans in Congress to do serious damage whereas el Presidente Tweetie is too busy inhaling nitrous oxide in the hopes of inflating his ego just a bit more. And the end of a Pence presidency, he'd lead a Republican congress in prayer sessions to take away the last shred of freedom in the U.S.
Trump honest with himself? Do you realize how odd that sounds? He's shown he's incapable of distinguishing what he wants to believe from what is true. The concept of being honest with himself simply doesn't apply for people like him.
You can rage all you want, you Brits are getting slaughtered. Welcome to the world of properly worded political correctness and Genocide.
Bla bla, more people choke on fucking pen caps. Golf clap for the perpetually fearful such as you. Terrorists only exist because people who are cowed by them like you exist.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
He resonates with your voters because your voters are fucking idiotic mouth breathers.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
But the thing is if people really wanted something like that there was another choice, Bernie Sanders was basically the equivalent of trump in the sense of turning everything upside down but without the 100 scandal stories that followed him or the money. I almost feel as if the majority of people in this nation really believe that if someone has money that means they were very successful and to be that successful they must be really really smart! The American people really make no sense to me and I am 1 of them who still to this day wonder how people in this nation pick the candidates they pick because if they actually took 15 minutes to look at his life, and career, OR even listening to any number of the campaign speeches he made over the year of campaigning they should have seen clear as day this guy is a fucking nightmare who has never and will never care for the people he claims to care for. And here we are...
"The President of the Universe holds no real power. His sole purpose is to take attention away from where the power truly exists."
I used to agree, then I saw how many people he screwed with his 'Muslim ban', the industries he has thrown for a loop with his tweets, the pulling out of climate accords basically unilaterally, and I'm now amazed at how much power you put in the hands of one man.
Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
Trumps tweets are equally bizarre in that they're honest, as far as I can tell. Honest in a "yes, honey, that dress does make you look fat because you're fat" kind of way (socially dysfunctional, but honest).
They're more like saying "that dress does make you look fat" to a stick thin model because you have body image issues yourself.
They don't agree with reality, but no doubt accurately reflect what's in Trump's own mind.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Worse than either of them would be Pence. Pence could rally the Republicans in Congress to do serious damage whereas el Presidente Tweetie is too busy inhaling nitrous oxide in the hopes of inflating his ego just a bit more. And the end of a Pence presidency, he'd lead a Republican congress in prayer sessions to take away the last shred of freedom in the U.S.
No, they are already doing serious damage. The Financial Choice Act is one act they are going to try and sneak through the house during the Comey testimony today. Trump is the perfect distraction for them to push crap through. If anything Trump is going to help them sneak stuff through, now whether they are re-elected is a different story, but if they sneak through the garbage they want to then the people that are paying them off to push this garbage will make sure they are rewarded.