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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
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!
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.
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.
>" 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".
I have no problem imagining it, I witnessed it. According to Fox News and every conservative media outlet he was the worst president in history and every single thing he did was the worst and most awful thing ever including things like trying to improve nutrition in schools.
That alone make the entire rest of your comment not even worth reading.Obama was treated worse than an president in history by the press, did you see him complaining as vociferously and stupidly as Trump does? You didn't because he's a fucking adult, not a man baby.
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.
Probably because he also represents the nation.
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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.
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?
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'
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.
It's a nice tool for his dementia doctors to judge how his brain slowly disintegrates.