Poll: Young Americans don't consider President Donald Trump the legitimate leader of the free world

[CousinIT]

A new poll released this weekend found that most young Americans don't consider President Donald Trump the legitimate leader of the free world.

A survey from the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago, conducted with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found that the majority—57 percent—of Americans age 18-30 thought Trump's presidency was illegitimate.

There is a stark divide on the legitimacy issue along racial lines. A small majority of young white Americans, 53 percent, felt Trump was a legitimate president, the poll found. Just 25 percent of African-Americans, 36 percent of Asian-Americans and 28 percent of Latinos felt Trump was a legitimate president.

In every racial group, however, a majority of respondents felt that both Trump's demeanor and policies were "somewhat bad" to "very bad." A far larger percent of people of color said Trump's demeanor and policies were bad. Fifty-eight percent of whites thought Trump's policies were bad to some degree and 67 percent thought his demeanor was bad to some degree. For African-Americans, though, 73 percent thought the president's policies were bad while 76 percent thought his demeanor was bad.

"Overall, we find that young people have negative views about Donald Trump and are pessimistic about the state of country, but there are crucial differences across race and ethnicity in current political evaluations," the survey noted in its conclusion. The poll conducted 1,833 interviews across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. from February 16 through March 6. The overall margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage points: It was 6.4 percentage points for the African -American subgroup, 7.6 percentage points for Asian-Americans, 6.3 percent points for Latinos and 5.9 percentage points for whites.

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-legitimate-president-poll-young-people-no-571066

[HughBeaumont]

1. Can't be a leader when you're all about yourself and all you do is divide.

Schtroumpf has never had any interest in country unity, the public good, education, infrastructure or a long-term agenda.

All he ever gave a shit about was accumulation of POWER . . . just like the cabal of wealthmongers he picked.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. not surprising

walls
travel bans
jacking up the military budget
gutting the State dept guts our influence around the world
insulting our allies
demeaning NATO
cutting foreign aid
conspiracy theories
nepotism, cronyism, self interested money grubbing on the Office of POTUS
and all but blowing Putin on national tv

his foreign policy is a reflection of his flawed character

erratic, dishonest, paranoid and isolationist

[Achilleaze]

3. He and the Republican Congress are illegitimate

Good to see that young people have such common sense and reject the Republican rip off of America

[Hoyt]

4. Some of us old folks don't either.

[Warpy]

5. Most of us old folks don't, either

In fact, of the people who bothered to get out and vote, a majority didn't consider him worthy of the office and we're furious that the EC didn't do their jobs and keep his lunatic ass out, like they were supposed to.

Now we're stuck with a colossal mess on our hands. His party is far too corrupt to get rid of him as long as they can use him to get richer.

I can see no legal way out of this. We have to hope for a flamout that doesn't get us all killed in a nuclear holocaust or something completely against the constitution and rule of law, and those are faint hopes, indeed, that we'd all rather not see come to pass.

[JHan]

6. #NotMyPresident

[cwydro]

7. I wonder how many of them voted...

and for whom.

[Jamaal510]

8. +1

[CousinIT]

9. Good question. Pfft. n/t

[JI7]

11. the ones who did vote went for hillary but younger voters always have low turnout

[Doreen]

10. There is NOTHING free about that bastard.