Most Voters Want Trump To Shutter His Personal Twitter Account

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With the election over, most U.S. voters say that it’s time for @realDonaldTrump to retire from Twitter.

Fifty-nine percent of voters surveyed think Donald Trump should close his personal account on the social network now that he’s the president-elect, a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday shows.

The billionaire businessman used the social media tool extensively during his successful campaign for the White House, showcasing its power for both promotion and distraction. He’s continued to do so since winning the Nov. 8 election, bypassing news conferences and most media interviews.

Tim Malloy, the poll’s assistant director, summarized the findings this way: “You’ve got the job. Now be a leader, not a tweeter.”

President Barack Obama was the first U.S. chief executive to use Twitter, and his administration has outlined a transition plan for his handle — @POTUS, which stands for President of the United States — to be given to Trump on Jan. 20, the day the 45th president will be inaugurated.

The official presidential account has 12.1 million followers, fewer than the 15.7 million the incoming president has amassed for @realDonaldTrump.

During his one major media interview since winning the election, Trump suggested he has no intention of ditching Twitter as a tool for promoting his ideas and attacking the media and others who challenge him.

“I’m not saying I love it, but it does get the word out,” he said on CBS’s “60 Minutes” program. “If I use it at all, I’m going to do very restrained.”

The poll also shows a majority of U.S. voters are hopeful about Trump’s presidency, with 59 percent agreeing with the statement that they’re “optimistic about the next four years with Donald Trump as president.”

A majority of 52 percent say Trump’s policies will help the U.S. economy, while 31 percent say they will hurt the economy and 11 percent say they will make no difference. A plurality of 40 percent say his policies will help their personal financial situation, while 23 percent say his proposals will hurt them and 34 percent say they see no difference.

Voters are almost evenly split on whether Trump will worsen partisan divisions exposed by a bitter campaign, with 49 percent saying he’ll do more to divide the country and 47 percent saying he’ll unite the nation. Only 37 percent of American voters in the survey say Trump is a person to whom they can relate, while 61 percent say they can’t relate to him.

A 53 percent majority are “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” that Trump will veto a bill that’s good for the nation but bad for his business interests.

American voters have mixed views on Trump’s personal qualities, with 52 percent saying he’s not honest and 57 percent saying that he’s not level-headed. Almost three-quarters say he’s intelligent.

The survey was conducted Nov. 17-20 and included 1,071 voters nationwide who were interviewed via landlines and mobile phones. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

(c) 2016, Bloomberg · John McCormick 

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4 COMMENTS

  1. may i ask where this information is coming from—that “most voters want Trump to shutter his Twitter account”? is this another one of these phony, biased, unscientific polls? the same polls that were way off in this last election? if it is, then why i should i take this seriously. until the general media shapes up and reports news in an unbiased, objective manner, i really don’t blame Trump for getting the news out via Twitter. That way he can be sure that what he says won’t be twisted and spinned to satisfy the liberals out there.

  2. Why would Trump want to give up Twitter when the media is so dominated by leftist-socialist liberals? It helped him get elected and it will continue to help him get his message across, whether you like that message or not. And the mainstream media will continue to bash him. I can just see them sharing the spotlight 50-50 – 50% Israel-bashing and 50% Trump-bashing. There is no such thing as honest reporting anymore – not even frum websites such as this one. One must choose what to post or print among a plethora of potential news items and the particular slant that each item is reported. Sometimes the choice is based on the publication’s/website’s general agenda and sometimes it is bought with money (probably not only the ones labeled “communicated” that continue to be the second/third news item for a week or two). A personal Twitter account is also slanted, of course! But if you want to know that person’s slant – that’s where to get it, whether it’s called @realDonaldTrump or @POTUS.

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