Poll: Americans think Trump should stop tweeting from personal account

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




More than 60 percent of registered voters believe President Donald Trump should stop using his personal Twitter account, according to a poll released on the same day that the president used his social media platform to attack MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski.

“I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore),” the president wrote online Thursday morning. “Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!”

The Quinnipiac University poll was conducted before the president’s latest Twitter outburst, but the 1,212 registered voters reached by the survey indicated that Trump should stop publishing such posts. Sixty-one percent of respondents said the president should abandon his preferred social media platform, compared with 32 percent who said he should continue tweeting.

Thursday’s flurry of Twitter attacks against Brzezinski prompted a fresh round of condemnation from Republicans and Democrats alike, and it is far from the first time that Trump has stirred controversy with his social media accounts. Prominent Republicans have publicly called on the president to tone down his online rhetoric, while his administration has insisted that Trump uses social media to circumnavigate the media and speak directly to the American people.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/29/poll-donald-trump-stop-tweeting-240096

[meadowlander]

1. Melania will sort it all out.

Isn't her First Lady pet project to stop online bullying?

[jovibennett]

2. No she stopped that before she even started. Someone must have explained to her the hypocrisy

[BumRushDaShow]

5. She is standing by her man

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"The first lady's communications director told reporters, "As the First Lady has stated publicly...when her husband gets attacked, he will punch back 10 times harder."

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/06/29/first-lady-melania-trump-defends-husbands-twitter-attack-on-msnbc-hosts/23008132/

[Canoe52]

3. Oh hell no, not me! Let him keep on tweeting!!!

Let him make a big mess for himself, a bigly mess, big enough to drag all the repugs into it with him.

[Bengus81]

6. Yeah...now they get to go home for the 4th with this along with trying to trash the ACA....

Wouldn't want to be in their shoes in many States.

[Bengus81]

4. The poll was taken days BEFORE his Tweet today. Now what would the poll be at--90%? nt

[DavidDvorkin]

7. I think he should tweet even more

24 hours a day, if possible.

It keeps him from doing other stuff, and with every tweet, my hopes for next year's election go up.

[marybourg]

8. Yep.

[LiberalLovinLug]

9. The thing that is scarey is that if he did heed the advice

Stopped tweeting, and hired a good PR coach, and actually listened to him/her. And hired a good writer to go along with the PR person to sound more "presidential", and only spoke in carefully managed pressers, I wouldn't be surprised if pundits like Van Jones etc. wouldn't be gushing all over him again.