Donald Trump is losing his fight with the media. And badly. It is heartening to see data that paints a clear picture that the majority of the American public believe the truth, that Trump is less credible than the media. That Trump is more often than not fabricating or twisting the truth.
Anyone really paying attention, reading several credible news sources daily, knows the alternate facts and fake news is coming out of the White House.
Trump Badly Losing His Fights With Media
PPP’s newest national poll finds that Donald Trump is losing all of his fights with the media- and voters really think he needs to reduce his cable news consumption.
62% of voters nationally think Trump should keep his cable watching to less than an hour a day, and 82% think he needs to keep it under 2 hours a day. Just 6% of voters in the country think it’s a good idea for Trump to spend more than 2 hours a day watching cable news.
Last week Trump declared that the news media was the ‘enemy of the American people’ but we find that only 35% of voters believe that, to 53% who say that isn’t the case. By a 48/44 spread they say it is actually Trump who is the greater threat to the American people than the media. We asked voters who they thought had more credibility between Trump and each of the outlets he singled out for attack last week, and Trump loses out to every one of them by double digits:
| Who do you think has more credibility: Donald Trump or… | Winner |
| New York Times | New York Times, 52/40 |
| NBC | NBC, 51/40 |
| CNN | CNN, 51/41 |
| ABC | ABC, 51/41 |
| CBS | CBS, 51/41 |
We also in general find that voters find the media outlets Trump considers hostile to him credible, while it finds the outlets more friendly to him less credible.
| Outlet | Seen as Credible/Not Credible | Net Credibility |
| CBS | 56/31 | +25 |
| ABC | 56/34 | +22 |
| NBC | 54/33 | +21 |
| New York Times | 53/34 | +19 |
| CNN | 52/37 | +15 |
| Fox News | 46/40 | +6 |
| Daily Caller | 6/37 | -31 |
| Info Wars | 7/41 | -34 |
| Breitbart | 12/48 | -36 |
All 5 of the outlets Trump singled out for attack last week are seen as credible by majorities of the public. Out of the Trump friendly outlets only Fox News comes out seen as more credible than not, but it is still seen as less credible than all the mainstream outlets Trump targeted in his media attack tweet last week. Meanwhile Daily Caller, Info Wars, and Breitbart clearly still just appeal to fringes of the population even with Trump in the White House- even within his base only 6-20% of voters consider each of those sources to be credible.
Of course the word out of the White Hose will be FAKE NEWS!
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