Poll: A little thaw, but still no honeymoon for Trump
WASHINGTON — Newly elected presidents usually get a honeymoon period from the American public. Not Donald Trump.
People remain deeply concerned about Trump's volatile, unpredictable temperament, a new McClatchy-Marist poll finds. They're troubled by questions about his ethics. And they remain deeply divided over whether he'll be an effective president.
"People are not settling down to the fact he's president-elect," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion in New York, which conducted the survey. "They feel things are more divided."
Since winning the election, Trump has continued to court controversy. He's called credible reports that Russia tried to influence the election "ridiculous." He's tweeted his disdain for "Saturday Night Live" parodies of him. He tore into the cast of Broadway's "Hamilton" after cast members criticized the administration from the stage on a night when Vice President-elect Mike Pence attended.
Much of the public isn't pleased. "He tends to talk about things before he thinks them through," said Chris Donnelly, 42, a Greenville, S.C., construction engineer.
Seventy-two percent believe the country is more divided since the election; just 20 percent say it is more unified. Fifty-three percent said Trump would do more to divide the country than unite it.
"It's more divided than ever," said Eileen Mangino, 55, a postal worker from St. Augustine, Fla. "It seems like he's trying to make America white again."
But Scott Brown, 30, a Wickett, Texas, truck driver, saw Trump bringing the country together. "He's not like Obama. I like that," Brown said.
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