Poll: Americans Don't Trust What They're Hearing From Trump On Coronavirus

[Formerly Once-Ler]

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/17/816680033/poll-americans-dont-trust-what-they-re-hearing-from-trump-on-coronavirus

Americans have little trust in the information they are hearing from President Trump about the novel coronavirus, and their confidence in the federal government's response to it is declining sharply, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.

Just 46% of Americans now say the federal government is doing enough to prevent the spread of coronavirus, down from 61% in February.

Just 37% of Americans now say they had a good amount or a great deal of trust in what they're hearing from the president, while 60% say they had not very much or no trust at all in what he's saying.

Public health officials got the highest level of trust at 84%, followed by those state and local leaders (72%). Americans were split 50% to 47% on whether they can trust information coming from the news media or not.

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[XenaLee]

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/17/816680033/poll-americans-dont-trust-what-they-re-hearing-from-trump-on-coronavirus

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Bullshit.   And.... by the way...

they left out the "x" there.   JS....   

NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll

[Sighlass]

Not only do I not trust Trump, but my fellow man... It will have to get worse before the average kid who thinks he is invincible starts to take this serious. I can't afford to be callous, not with my lungs and other ailments. I went to the local gas mart today, the lady cashier was laughing it up how dumb everyone is about this whole thing. The whole time she was coughing (while mopping) without even a thought about covering her mouth... All I could think of was washing my change with my pocket sanitizer when she handed it back to me. I almost didn't take it, but it seemed rude (and I waited until I was outside to do my business w/cleaners).

[XenaLee]

Not only do I not trust Trump, but my fellow man... It will have to get worse before the average kid who thinks he is invincible starts to take this serious. I can't afford to be callous, not with my lungs and other ailments. I went to the local gas mart today, the lady cashier was laughing it up how dumb everyone is about this whole thing. The whole time she was coughing (while mopping) without even a thought about covering her mouth... All I could think of was washing my change with my pocket sanitizer when she handed it back to me. I almost didn't take it, but it seemed rude (and I waited until I was outside to do my business w/cleaners).

She might have been coughing just to annoy you (paranoia).  It worked, if so.   

[Formerly Once-Ler]

“There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away." - Churchill

[LMAO]

Trump scored low on the trust issue even back in the 2016 election cycle so it’s unlikely that went away. That along with the “what is the government not telling us” feeling

Part of being a conservative is having a healthy skepticism of government regardless of who holds the reins of power

[skeeter]

Broadcast bullsh*t then take a poll.

Sounds like a plan.

[LMAO]

 It would be interesting to take a poll on this site to see how many believe that the Trump administration, specifically, and the federal government, in general, are telling us the  truth of everything they know?

Who considers Donald Trump an honest, trustworthy  person?  Would anybody here, based on his history,  be eager to do business with him?

I believe the poll is accurate. And I bet you would find every other poll showing the same thing. There’s no magic formula he could do when it comes to this virus, and his opposition is only sniping at the sidelines because they can. 

 
Like it or not, Trump does have credibility issues  according to the electorate. And this will probably be another election were both candidates score low on the trustworthiness issue.

[LMAO]

 
 The best bet for the president is let his public health officials speak OFTEN

[PeteS in CA]

I stopped believing opinion polls along about 1980; 2016 ratified my skepticism.

[LMAO]

I stopped believing opinion polls along about 1980; 2016 ratified my skepticism.

So do you believe everything the president is telling you? Do you find this president trust worthy?

 

[musiclady]

I stopped believing opinion polls along about 1980; 2016 ratified my skepticism.

1980??  Isn't that the year Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan??   

[txradioguy]

Important things left out of the NPR "reporting" on this...the media is to blame for the mistrust because of their panic based reporting.

[Cyber Liberty]

 The best bet for the president is let his public health officials speak OFTEN

I suspect this is why he prefers to be the warm-up act for Pence and company in the daily COVD-19 Pressers.  He comes in, makes a speech, takes few if any questions then hands it over to Pence.  Goodbye.

[Cyber Liberty]

So do you believe everything the president is telling you? Do you find this president trust worthy?

I believe neither Polls nor Politicians.  It's not a binary, one-or-the-other choice.

[Cyber Liberty]

1980??  Isn't that the year Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan??   

Yeah, I remember the polls from back then, too.

[Cyber Liberty]

I stopped believing opinion polls along about 1980; 2016 ratified my skepticism.

Rush Limbaugh put my finger on it in his early days on EIB Network.  Paraphrased, he said the Press reports on these polls as if they were just dropped on their desks, they never let on that they created the polls in the first place, engineered to give the desired results!

[libertybele]

Polls have been unreliable for quite awhile, why oh why should I believe this poll? 

[musiclady]

Yeah, I remember the polls from back then, too.

It’s when I realized that polls stink.

[Fishrrman]

Source:
npr.

That tells me all that I need to know...

[LMAO]

So the official position  is this poll is wrong?

[Cyber Liberty]

So the official position  is this poll is wrong?

No idea.  We need to find an Official.

[Hoodat]

Broadcast bullsh*t then take a poll.

Sounds like a plan.

The only purpose of the poll is to gauge the effectiveness of their propaganda.

[PeteS in CA]

So do you believe everything the president is telling you? Do you find this president trust worthy?

@LMAO, are irrelevant straw man arguments your favorite go-to?

[PeteS in CA]

1980??  Isn't that the year Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan??   

Yes. That is when I first noticed polling being skewed via loaded questions ("Push-polling") and gamed sampling. It was much more subtle then than it came to be in 2015 forward.