Poll: Americans don't think Trump is draining the swamp
Source: Politico
By LOUIS NELSON 05/24/2017 01:16 PM EDT
Less than a quarter of Americans surveyed in a new Monmouth University poll released Wednesday said President Donald Trump is making progress on his promise to drain the swamp of Washington corruption.
Thirty-two percent of those polled said Trump is actually making the "swamp worse, while just 24 percent said he is draining it. Thirty-five percent of respondents said the president has done nothing to change Washingtons culture.
Trumps promise to drain the swamp was one of his most popular campaign speech bits, a line that evolved into a call-and-response at many of his rallies. And while he has instituted some limitations on future lobbying for those working for his administration, Trump has also taken some steps that seem at odds with his anti-corruption message, including removing from public view the list of White House visitors and installing well-connected individuals within his administration, including several from Wall Street megabank Goldman Sachs.
Among those polled, 35 percent said the president has paid a lot of attention to the most important issues to average Americans, while 30 percent said he had paid a little attention and 32 percent said he had not been attentive to those issues. Sixty-two percent of participants said they wished the president would pay more attention to the issues that matter most to them, while 34 percent said Trump had paid adequate attention to their preferred issues.
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Gothmog
(145,489 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,878 posts)...
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Jan. 19: "Trump is going to drain the swamp. There are 25 six-foot alligators in there and he's going to remove them all."
May 19: "How do you even find a hundred 18-foot alligators?"
sinkingfeeling
(51,470 posts)Eugene
(61,939 posts)when Trump and Bannon are out to destroy everything
about this country that I deeply care about.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)He's widened it, lengthened it, made it ten times deeper, and dug a Panama Canal sized trench from it, that leads RIGHT INTO THE WHITE HOUSE!
'Drained the swamp", indeed!