--- 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: 2026-02-23T16:34:56.670Z 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 acknowledges the patrons in the clubhouse as he leaves the U.S. Women's Open round two on July 14, 2017 at Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, New Jersey. Elsa—Getty Images 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/). ```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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