Thursday, March 28, 2024

#FakeNews! Trump Falsely Tweets That His Approval Among Blacks Has Doubled

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U.S. President Donald Trump talks with journalists after signing tax reform legislation into law in the Oval Office December 22, 2017 in Washington, DC.
U.S. President Donald Trump talks with journalists after signing tax reform legislation into law in the Oval Office December 22, 2017, in Washington, DC.

*Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to post that “unemployment for Black Americans is the lowest ever recorded” and “Trump approval ratings with black Americans has doubled.”

Even as controversy and debate continues on whether he used vulgar language to describe Haiti and African countries, Trump is claiming that black folks are supporting him because he’s delivering for black Americans

In his Twitter post, he appeared to credit comments about his approval to a segment on “Fox & Friends,” the morning program on Fox News (see below).

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The NY Times notes that Trump’s tweet — half misleading and half downright false — “demonstrates how inaccurate information can trickle to the president’s social media, which is then is viewed by millions of people on social media.

“Believe it or not, through all this negative coverage, they did a survey of 600,000 people about how black America views this president. His numbers have actually doubled,” Brian Kilmeade, a “Fox & Friends” host, said during the segment that was broadcast Tuesday morning.

Kilmeade was referring to a misleading SurveyMonkey report, an online polling company that has conducted 602,134 interviews with adults of every race group — not just “black America,” as Mr. Kilmeade said.

“The results, provided to The New York Times, show that Trump’s approval ratings among blacks actually declined from 20 percent in February 2017 to 15 percent in December.”

“SurveyMonkey explained the results to The Atlantic, telling the magazine in a report that was published last week that 23 percent of black men and 11 percent of black women approved of Trump’s performance.”

“Breitbart News followed with its own report, comparing the SurveyMonkey results with exit polls from the 2016 presidential campaign.”

‘That score averages out to 17 percent, or twice the 8 percent score he was given in the 2016 exit polls,” noted an article headlined, “Donald Trump’s Support Among Blacks Has Doubled Since 2016, Amid Racism Claims.

SurveyMonkey interviewed roughly 19,000 black men and 31,000 black women. It is inaccurate to simply take the average of two genders without taking into account the number of people who were actually interviewed for the poll, per NY Times, which also reports that the “6.8 percent unemployment rate for black Americans in December is indeed the lowest since 1972, but the rate has been in decline for several years, decreasing steadily from 16.4 percent in August 2011 to 7.8 percent in January 2017.”

 

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