Poll: More Americans Trust Trump Than The Media For Fair, Accurate Facts

A new YouGov survey finds that Americans’ trust in the media to state the facts fully, accurately, and fairly, is extremely low. Only 29% say they have a fair amount or a great deal of trust. More (44%) have at least a fair amount of trust in Donald Trump’s administration to state facts fully, accurately and fairly.

The survey also found that Americans are more likely to see the media’s coverage of Trump as too negative than to see it as too positive. Around four in 10 believe the media wants Trump to fail.

Trust in the media is low among Americans. 26% have no trust and confidence at all in the media to state the facts fully, accurately, and fairly. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say they have no trust and confidence in the media at all (35% vs. 13%).

42% of Democrats and 6% of Republicans think media coverage of Trump has been too positive. 12% of Democrats and 63% of Republicans think coverage has been too negative.

43% of Americans believe the media wants Trump to fail; far fewer think the media wants him to succeed (16%). Three-quarters (73%) of Republicans believe the media wants Trump to fail. 40% of Independents and 15% of Democrats agree. 7% of Republicans, 11% of Independents, and 32% of Democrats believe the media wants Trump to succeed.

These numbers should worry the mainstream media, considering that they have spent the last 10 years with near constant, and often inaccurate, negative coverage of Mr Trump.

While Trump himself is quite polarizing, unless the media start to report his actions more fairly, it is likely that Americans will continue to have more trust in Donald Trump than in the media to report facts to them fairly and accurately. If this is not reversed quickly, mainstream media might never recover its credibility.