Donald Trump has done journalists a huge favor, inadvertently using his insane unpopularity to boost voters' trust in them. Apparently when you get attacked by a pr*sident who has the lowest approval ratings in the history of presidential approval ratings, people start to rethink their initial skepticism.
Similar to other polls, Quinnipiac found that Trump favorables are totally tanking, with only 39 percent of Americans viewing him in a favorable light to 55 percent who don't.
Meanwhile 90 percent of those polled said it was either "very important" or "somewhat important" for the media to hold public officials accountable, and a majority of voters said they trusted the media over Trump to tell “the truth about important issues," by a margin of 52 to 37 percent.
"The media, so demonized by the Trump Administration, is actually a good deal more popular than President Trump," Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said, adding that Trump's popularity is "sinking like a rock."
Judges fare even better, with 58 percent of American voters saying they trust them to do what is right "most of the time” or "almost all of the time” while only 38 percent said the same of Trump.
Notice the pattern in the numbers: 39 percent approve of Trump, 37 percent believe Trump over the media, and 38 percent say they generally trust Trump to do the right thing. It’s a rather blunt gauge, but generally speaking, thirty-something percent of Americans will follow Trump no matter what he says or does. Sad, indeed.
What that also means is Trump is pretty much losing everyone else but his diehard bitter-enders.