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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?
I find President Trump's tweets particularly useful.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I am quite willing to attack the data as biased garbage designed to generate the desired result.
IAAFP ( Iam a former pollster).
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
I don't pay attention to them, nor news stories about them. Didn't pay any attention to Obama's tweets, either. I also don't pay attention to rumors, hearsay, and "sources report" stories, which seem to be roughly 75% of reports about Trump.
I do pay attention to policy matters, and laws being enacted. A lot of it is bad. Some of it is good.
And so it goes.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
I can just hear him saying if he were asked to tone it down: "Why should I stop tweeting? Millions of people love my tweets, so they are really very popular. The people voted me in for president, and millions of people want to see what I'm going to tweet next, because you never know what I'll say or do next, and the people just love that about me! Are you sure your sources suggesting I tweet too often aren't fake news? Maybe I should tweet about that next."
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
The media has always been interested in whatever the current sitting president has to say. Even the most boring president ever becomes a news story just by saying something in public. So of course, if you have a twitterphiliac in office the press is going to be looking at them all.
Now, someone in the white house administration says she doesn't want the media to obsess over the tweets. Trump on the other hand does indeed want the press and the public to to read every single tweet, it's the reason he tweets. He's not tweeting something private like "Honey, I'll be home late tonight", he's tweeting stuff he wants you to see.
"Mom! It's private! Don't look at my twitter account!"
However, I am fed up with the foaming-at-the-mouth, frantic, OMG! reaction of the US news media to every tweet.
Why? They are official statements. The foaming-at-the-mouth, frantic, OMG! reaction is because of how incredibly misinformed and dangerous most of his official statements are.
I figure you must not live in the U.S. to be fed-up with that reaction. For the rest of us, it's incredibly concerning. (Well, the rest of us, except for Okian Warrior, because that glib son of a bitch has been drowning in his own smug before the election.)