--- title: Donald Trump Twitter Use Called 'Inappropriate,' 'Insulting' description: Many Americans seem to wish President Trump would stop tweeting, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. canonical: https://time.com/4860529/donald-trump-tweets-poll-approval/ author: Lucinda Shen article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-17T12:02:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:23:33.343Z article:section: Politics og:title: Americans Tell Trump: Please Stop Tweeting og:description: Most Americans disapprove of President Trump's Twitter use, a new poll finds og:url: https://time.com/4860529/donald-trump-tweets-poll-approval/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd942ef606f56d86/6988d5f7bc6cfc458f3e2447/gettyimages-814624590.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: U.S. Women's Open - Round Two og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Americans Tell Trump: Please Stop Tweeting twitter:description: Most Americans disapprove of President Trump's Twitter use, a new poll finds twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd942ef606f56d86/6988d5f7bc6cfc458f3e2447/gettyimages-814624590.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Inappropriate' and 'Insulting.' 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President Donald Trump posted a video to Twitter on Sunday that depicts him punching a physical representation of CNN in the face, the latest escalation in his ongoing war against the news media and one that raised the specter of actual violence_ by [Lucinda Shen](https://time.com/author/lucinda-shen/) ## Lucinda Shen Jul 17, 2017 12:02 PM UTC President Donald Trump posted a video to Twitter on Sunday that depicts him punching a physical representation of CNN in the face, the latest escalation in his ongoing war against the news media and one that raised the specter of actual violence by [Lucinda Shen](https://time.com/author/lucinda-shen/) ## Lucinda Shen Jul 17, 2017 12:02 PM UTC Twitter may be one of President Donald Trump’s favorite methods of communication, but many Americans seem to wish he would change his behavior on the platform, according to a new ABC News/Washington _Post_ poll. About 67% of Americans disapprove of the way Trump uses Twitter, [the poll found](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/public-trump-lay-off-twitter-poll/story?id=48641500). When asked to describe the President’s Twitter usage, about 68% found Trump’s tweets “inappropriate,” 65% described the tweets as “insulting,” while 52% called it “dangerous.” The poll comes one day after Trump spent Sunday morning on Twitter [attacking](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/us/politics/trump-twitter-russia.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news) the news media, former electoral rival Hillary Clinton, and the investigations into any possible connections between his presidential campaign and Russia. “HillaryClinton can illegally get the questions to the Debate & delete 33,000 emails but my son Don is being scorned by the Fake News media?,” Trump tweeted around 7 a.m. Sunday. He followed up shortly thereafter: “With all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting, #Fake News is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country.” The ABC/_Post_ poll also found that 57% of Americans like Trump less the more they heard about him. At the same time, Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 36%, [the lowest of any President in the past seven decades](http://time.com/4859984/donald-trump-poll-approval-ratings/). ## Transcript [00:39] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4860529/donald-trump-tweets-poll-approval/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4860529/donald-trump-tweets-poll-approval/"},"headline":"'Inappropriate' and 'Insulting.' 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