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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?
100% of late night comedians think he tweets just the right amount or not enough.
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.
What do the Twitter stats say?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
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
I find President Trump's tweets particularly useful.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Definitely useful. He continues to sabotage his own plans by revealing his true motives and incompetence.
The other week, the "Word of the day" in Words with Friends was "Covfefe".
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
#Covfefe
Trump shouldn't trust this, or any other poll. We just saw how rigged they were in the election. Plus, this one was some "online survey", so there's no telling who spammed it full of crap this time. Lefty trolls? Righty trolls? Bots?
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.
Slashdot has joined the growing legion of #fakenews
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.
Attacking the data is attacking the argument you nincompoop. Also, that isn't what he did, he suggested that the methodology might have been biased and wanted to examine it, which is exactly what a rational person would do.
IAAS (I am a scientist).
Yeah, because polls are just so accurate these days.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
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.
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.
In the same way that an STD test saying you have syphilis is useful. :p
Freedom to fear. Freedom from thought. Freedom to kill.
I guess the War on Terror really is about freedom!
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.
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#MAGA
>" 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".
... because they work against him.
Reporters (and critics) who have been blocked are using Trump's own tweet to petition for equal access.
Bloomberg reports that White House spokesman Sean Spicer confirmed in a press conference that Trump's tweets should be considered official statements.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Newsweek claims that half of those 31 million followers are fake accounts:
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-twitter-followers-fake-617873
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.
Your side thinks he sabotages his schemes by these tweets.
You mean District Court Judges?
The tweets were used by the judges as justification to override his executive order - that's true.
At the same time, that justification was roundly decried as being inappropriate material to make a judicial decision on.
So sure, you could look at it as sabotaging his plans, but you could also look at it as cementing his case with the supreme court. It was highly likely that the District Court Judges would have overridden his orders anyway, but by using the tweets as justification it looks like partisan partiality.
And in any event, the issue isn't decided yet, since it's going to the supreme court.
What does it mater, what I think of it? I, for one, don't even have a Twitter account...
People annoyed by the tweets don't have to follow him. As long as such following is not mandatory (as subscription to "Pravda" once was in a galaxy far and far away), why is this question on Slashdot's front page?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
What's more, the recent "polls are bad" meme comes from the run-up to the 2016 election when polls showed Clinton winning, and then obviously did not. Polls are, in general, an estimate of opinion, and in that regard they were correct: in the final weeks her numbers were only decent, suggesting it would be a solid win but not a landslide, and in the end she did win the popular vote by approx 3 million.
What the pundits got wrong (which seemed a problem more with interpretation of polls than the polls themselves) was the distribution of that support, the actual likelihood of supporters to vote (vs. self-reported), or both, which is how Trump won the electoral vote (and, in the end, that's the only one that matters for choosing the President.)
of said tweets.
I would be pleased as punch if I never had to listen to another story about a tweet from anyone, ever.
Good god that sounds dangerous.
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The same people who told you Trump had a 2% chance of winning now give you his approval polls. Proceed accordingly.
https://i.redd.it/ujkzkpr6jf1z...
See that "Preview" button?
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 Public Is Growing Tired of Trump's Tweets, Says Voter Survey"
Yeah, no shit. I was tired of them before they even started.
I never dreamed I'd see the day when the president of the United States would spend his time tweeting away like a drunken teenage girl with a head injury. It's just embarrassing.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
On the one hand, his brain-dead bigoted drivel being vomited out so much got old well before he even ran for President. On the other hand, they are useful in that they A) provide a useful insight into his mentality, which helps in countering his shitty actions, and B) often undermines or outright contradicts is administration's efforts to get anything done, which helps a lot in countering his shitty actions.
The public was tired of Trump's tweets before he got elected. Trump got elected not because people liked him, but because they hated Hillary even more.
Then don't read them!
This is much more likely ....
https://www.realclearpolitics....
Is he really tweeting? Also, isn't this a security issue for the President?
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Looking at his burst tweets are how I know there's something he doesn't want people to notice.
So June 6th's seems to be a full on Twitter flurry. "Fake News of CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, washpost or nytimes, I would have had ZERO chance winning WH".
Oh dear, this is a president and yet he sounds like a whiney little bitch.
OK, so what was happening June 6th.
Well nytimes has an opinion piece on Trump's attempts at dividing Americans and general lawlessness. But I suspect he's trying to draw attention away from California and China agreeing to tackle climate-change.
Perhaps its the Qatar thing, that seems to be blowing up all fake Russiany propaganda with him as the main promoter. I guess well see if the US military base gets closed and Putin miraculously has another ally and another base in the middle east.
You don't know what he's distracting from, you only know its not worthwhile looking at the words, since they often contradict previous quotes. It's more that he wants attention paid to him at that particular time.
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?
I say let Donnie tweet. He's fulfilling his destiny, plus doing the only stuff he's good at -- shameless self-aggrandizement, fanning the flames of hatred, intolerance and fear. and demonstrating an awesome ability to misdirect the limited attention of the American public. He is the reincarnation of PT Barnum.
Is it harming his presidency? I don't know. Twitter has nothing to do with this -- it's Trump's own ability to shoot himself in the foot then cut off someone else's leg & keep on dancing. Is he damaging the office and image of the POTUS? Possibly. More than Bill Clinton did? Tough call. More will be revealed. Is he making America look like a bunch of feuding siblings? I would argue that non-conciliatory congressional cliques like the Freedom Caucus and Tea Partiers have already driven a wedge between Americans and demonstrated that hatred, intolerance, lack of compassion and disrespect is the American social contract of the future. The governed have take up these arms to attack friends, neighbors and family. Is Trump imperiling national security? Sure seems like it from here, But again, he's just doing what he's good at. Let him be. America will be great -- a great bonfire. Trumps just pouring on the gas.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
I'm pretty sure that if Clinton had been elected but Trump had won the popular vote by 3 millions you wouldn't be talking about it.
lucm, indeed.
Too bad you're wrong, and it's also irrelevant to the accuracy of polls either way.
I've been telling everyone who will put up with me for two minutes that our election system is woefully broken, not just the Electoral College but almost all elections in general. Some areas are lucky to have run-off voting (like the district down in Georgia). Maine only last year voted to implement preferential voting, and that still doesn't apply to the Presidential part of the ballot.
If the results had been reversed I wouldn't be as displeased (I only voted for Clinton because I thought all the other choices were worse), but I would still recognize that one person is in office with 49% of a vote that is pigeon-holed by tribalism and want to see greater change in the voting process. With proper reform perhaps we might elect someone who has a solid majority backing of the country.
It's a nice tool for his dementia doctors to judge how his brain slowly disintegrates.
I'm pretty sure that if Clinton had been elected but Trump had won the popular vote by 3 millions you wouldn't be talking about it.
Why wouldn't he? People have been discussing the accuracy and arguing the validity of polls since polls first started existing. This transcends red vs blue, and even transcends the absurdity of the candidates.
All of those Tweets are admissible as evidence in trials and Senate hearings.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Seriously, in the last election you had the choice between a total buffoon who would fuck the country up, both intentionally and due to his bumbling, and a double-dealing slick weasel that made even Nixon look reputable and trustworthy.
So if you're fucked either way, choose the one that makes you laugh at least.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It's the evil toupee, I tell you.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I'd rather have some sort of intelligence test to be allowed to vote. Nothing tricky. Like "what are we voting on today?".
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It might interest you that "Berliner" is a colloquial term for "cream filled donut" in some parts of Germany.
So I guess the guy(s) in Dallas just wanted to get to the the creamy center of JFK. Well, I give it a partial success.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
DJT reminds me more of a Wiener.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Did the survey limit itself to those who actually read Trump's tweets? Or was the survey a general poll of all voters?
I ask because if most respondents don't read Trump's tweets, are they saying they dislike Trump's tweets? Or are they saying they dislike the current level of media coverage of Trump's tweets? After all, if the media wasn't obsessed with reporting Trump's tweets, we wouldn't be talking about them, would we?
His tweets are useful as they provide an unfiltered view of his personality, which the more he tweets, the more appears as despicable, petty and narrow minded. In all other aspects, they are tiresome and generally unhelpful to the US or his own team, if there is such a thing.
The public is growing tired of the media's love affair with Trump's tweets. Because there is absolutely no reason for the public to ever see his tweets if they aren't following him or better yet have never had a twitter account. It's a voluntary opt-in service.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
"Polls" said: TRUMP CANNOT WIN its statistically proven
Yes, let us keep taking stock of "polls" in a world where "polls" have no accountability.
Meanwhile everyone is fighting each other while the wealthiest people are conspiring to enslave us as cattle - see economic manipulation, mass surveillance, corrupt academia, consolidated and corrupt media....you can finish the list for yourself
So if you're fucked either way, choose the one that makes you laugh at least.
There is a crucial difference between laughing with someone and laughing at them.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
As long as people/media pay attention the tweet creates the desired effect, regardless of people's opinion of the content or Trump. People don't like Kim Kardashian's tweets either, yet they keep coming because we keep listening one way or another.
For the one you laugh about maybe, but not for the one laughing.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I have this sneaky suspicion that the survey was wrongly worded. The majority of people have as much regard for Twitter as they do for shoe buttons.
People aren't tired of Trump's tweets but are tired of media wonks trying to sell the idea they actually have relevance.
NRRPT/RCT
We already knew republicans aren't smart. This shows it's not limited to one party.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
I have to imagine that the leader of the free world has better things to do with his time than use the internet, at any point whatsoever.
Whereas mere peons like you and me need to grovel through information on the web to discover something we're looking to find, POTUS says, "give me a 2 page memo on the Migratory Patterns of the European Swallow," and he has a top-notch report in his hands in an hour that is far better than anything you could find. Far more efficient to staff that sort of thing out.
And if he has time to surf the web for fun, well, then I could use some help over in my lab, 'cause I'm short-staffed and maybe he could use his downtime to lend a hand? None of my people have time for Twitter. (And yes, I get the irony of me posting on Slashdot; do you get the hyperbole in my message?)
Put my fist through my alarm clock with its ding-dong death inside my ear. - The Blackjacks.
So when you make wild accusations without providing any evidence, you're interested in the truth, while when I question your baseless statements, I'm just cheerleading?
If your shallow political views can't stand the test of heated discussion, maybe you should spend more time on Pinterest and less on Slashdot.
lucm, indeed.
Amazing that you cannot see that he is making a fool of your entire country ... that's what partisanship does for you I guess.
He's not making a fool of the country. And anyways, who cares? You're gonna stop buying iPhones because of him? You're gonna stop using Google, watch Netflix or eat Corn flakes? What's the actual, measurable impact of that alleged foolishness?
And he was perfectly within his rights for getting out of the Paris agreements; he's been elected in large parts on a platform of withdrawing from useless involvement in various international programs and from a disastrous foreign policy, so the administration can focus on the actual needs of the country.
As for partisanship: maybe it's a case of kettle calling a pot black. Maybe it's the people who relentlessly say that he's making a fool of himself and/or the country that are blinded by their political views.
lucm, indeed.
Don't waste your time. Even Trump has said that he likes his supporters to be semi-literate uneducated white trash, because he knows they are too stupid to realize when they are voting against their own interests. The see themselves in Trump - semi-literate, stupid, mentally deficient - and since he's all those things and more ...
First-rate people surround themselves with first-rate people. Second-rate people surround themselves with third-rate people. You know from which pool Trump supporters belong to. Electing a guy for his "business acumen" who went bankrupt 6 (not 4) times, a low-brow racist thug ... they really are like their leader - stupid.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.