Even if the lede has a recency bias, in a YouGov poll, Trump is seen as the “worst president in US history”, the 370 page report tells us more about the current mass perception of the 2016 popular-vote loser.
It is more interesting that older Americans tend to think Trump cares about them, even as most polled don’t think he cares about anyone.
Even as GOP policies will rob the Treasury and dissolve the social safety net, even poorer people who voted for Trump don’t think he cares about them. Perhaps caring is overrated, even when raising/lowering flags.
But today Trump still searches for media enemies, and thinks even Google is “rigged” against him, since it might care about “liberal bias”, because doesn’t Google always hide “news that is good”, especially about Lord Dampnut.
The poll from YouGov/The Economist released last week asked "Who was the worst President in U.S. history?" Respondents could then choose every president ever.
Forty-one percent chose Trump, who far and away earned the most support for the undesirable honor.
It's worth noting there is likely some recency bias in these answers—meaning folks' views are skewed toward things that happened recently. Recent presidents were seemingly more likely to be rated as the "worst ever."
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In February, presidential scholars made their assessment, where even Republican scholars couldn’t rank him out of the bottom five.
Professors Brandon Rottinghaus and Justin S. Vaughn reached out, as they did in 2014 , to hundreds of political scientists to check in on this whole historical ranking of presidents thing and though the upper tier is unchanged the population of the lowest rung is a little bit bigger.
Donald Trump comes in dead last in his debut ranking. Among Democratic scholars, he’s far and away last. Among independent scholars, he’s second to last. Even among Republican scholars, he’s bottom five. (Read Kevin Drum on where he should rank.)
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In First Tweets, POTUS* parrots some media bias nonsense, since he probably can barely make a google search, accusing it of being rigged only shows his bot-supporters are less effective. Idiot Larry Kudlow thinks regulating Google news is worth looking at, darn that search engine.
The Trump administration is considering imposing regulations on Google and its search service, White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Tuesday. His comments follow President Donald Trump's complaints that the search giant "rigged" its search results to show negative news stories about him.
Mr. Trump on Tuesday took to Twitter to claim that Google is shutting out conservative news organizations. The internet company is "hiding information and news that is good," he wrote. "They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!"
Asked by reporters if Google needs to be regulated, Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, said that "We're taking a look at it."
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(CNN)The playbook, by now, is familiar. Faced with a negative story -- or stories -- President Donald Trump uses his Twitter feed to float a conspiracy theory of some sort designed to distract and deflect.
On Tuesday, after weathering a self-inflicted wound caused by his unwillingness to acknowledge in any meaningful way the death of the late Sen. John McCain, Trump took to Twitter at 5:24 a.m. to send
this message:
- "Google search results for 'Trump News' shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal? 96% of results on 'Trump News' are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!"
So. The President of the United States is alleging a broad-scale conspiracy to filter news by the largest search engine in the world. His "evidence"? That when he types "Trump News" into Google, it produces "only the viewing/reporting of "Fake News Media."
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(I'd point you to lots and lots of smart pieces about how the Google News algorithm works -- and why it has very little to do with ideology.)
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It appears that Trump couldn’t sleep after seeing a segment on a Fox News show presented by Lou Dobbs and aired on Monday evening related to exactly this issue — a report that was based on an article posted by conservative blog PJ Media that admitted its results were “not scientific.”
As New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman points out, we should have know it wasn’t Trump’s own online searches that led to his tweets, given he doesn’t use a computer.
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