Here's Donald Trump's most lasting, damaging legacy
Here's Donald Trump's most lasting, damaging legacy
The Point with Chris Cillizza (email)
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Donald Trump has held very few consistent positions since he began running for president in 2015. The one that stands out? His relentless bashing of the media as "fake news" and insistence that Republicans tune out all forms of mainstream media.
"It is amazing what’s happening to the discredited media like CNN, MSDNC, New York Times, and Washington Post," Trump said in a statement released from his Save America PAC earlier this month. "Their businesses have dropped off a cliff, which is actually a very good thing for the American people, because they are Fake News (likewise the networks, ABC, NBC, CBS)."
His six years in public life are littered with just that sort of over-the-top rhetoric, with few actual facts to back his wild claims up.
No matter. A new Pew Research Center analysis shows that the number of Republicans who say they have "a lot" or "some" trust in national news organizations has been sliced in half over the last five years.
In 2016, 70% of self-identified Republicans said they had at least some trust in national news organizations. That number is now 35%.
And in 2020, trust in the national news media fell off a cliff. Almost half (49%) said they had a lot or some trust in the mainstream media in late 2019. That marks a 14-point drop on the question in less than two years.
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