Trump's best and worst tweets as president
We know President Trump loves to tweet. But how do the people reading his tweets feel about them?
Polling firm YouGov decided to find out, by conducting a daily poll asking a panel of respondents representing the general public what they think of Trump’s latest tweets. The firm has been doing this since Feb. 4, with ratings on more than 200 tweets, to date.
Respondents give each tweet one of five ratings—great, good, OK, bad or terrible—corresponding to a number ranging from 2 to -2. YouGov then takes the numerical average for each tweet and multiplies by 100, creating a kind of index. Possible scores range from 200 for a tweet everybody thinks is great to -200 for a tweet uniformly viewed as terrible. So far, the best rating for a Trump tweet is 56, while the worst is -81.
The tweet-raters seem to be more conflict-averse than Trump. Tweets rated highest tend to be milquetoasty mentions of meetings with dignitaries or others guests. Tweets critical of rivals tend to be poorly rated, as do Trump’s many complaints about “fake news.” Democrats, not surprisingly, rated virtually all of Trump’s tweets lower than Republicans did.
Here are Trump’s 10 lowest-rated tweets since Feb. 4:
And here are President Trump’s highest-rated tweets, so far:
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Rick Newman is the author of four books, including Rebounders: How Winners Pivot from Setback to Success. Follow him on Twitter: @rickjnewman
