Nearly Half Still Blame Trump for Bad Media
President-elect Donald Trump’s hostile relationship with the new media hasn’t changed, and many voters still see it as mainly Trump’s fault.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters say Trump is more to blame for his troubled relationship with traditional media outlets. Forty-four percent (46%) disagree and feel the media outlets are more at fault, and another 10% are not sure. In January 2017 – before Trump was inaugurated for his first term – 53% said he was more to blame for his bad relationship with the media. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,211 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on January 8-9 and 12, 2025 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.
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