Majority Agree: Trump Is Racist

Another major area that has been in the news has been racial tensions. 77% believe that racial tensions in this country are increasing. President Trump gets called out for this by 69%, who believe that he is helping to cause an increase in racial tensions. Only 31% decrease. Surprisingly, the news media is at 75%, higher than President Trump, as being a disruptor of race relations in the United States. The Democratic Party, 51%. Democratic presidential candidates, 50%. Taking substantial blame, but considerably less than Trump, and I think interestingly though, the role that the news media has played when there's been so little examination of what they're doing, and when the New York Times recently made race it's number one issue that it was going to discuss after the Trump, Russia collusion story is basically dead, it is interesting to see that the news media is specifically called out by the American public as doing too much to increase rather than decrease racial tensions.Do you think America today should be a society in which minorities receive special treatment to make up for racism and past discrimination? Or should people of all races receive equal treatment? Well, 81% believe that we should be a society in which minorities ... in which all races should receive equal treatment. And only 19% believe that some groups should receive special treatment. This is a pretty resounding endorsement of the notion that as a country, the primary goal should be to make sure that all people are treated equally, regardless of their race. And I was surprised at how strong that 81% was, given the discussions by the Democratic presidential candidates, and/or what you see in the media today.Now, bad news for President Trump, 55% do see him as a racist. 54% say that he's even potentially a white nationalist. So pretty high criticism of the president when it comes to issues of race. They do not think that publications, like the New York Times which had a debate about this, should refer to the president as a racist, they should just report what he says and not use words like that, 68% said that. And do you think racist is a fair label, or is one of political advantage? Pretty split country, 51% said they're just calling him that for political advantage. Do you think President Trump's comments at Baltimore as a crime and rat-infested mess were racist or not racist? 46% racist, 54% not racist. So, I think this polling gives you a pretty strong overview that President Trump received some pretty tough news here in terms of majority of people viewing him as a racist. But on the other hand, there is a very strong notion here that we should be a color-blind society, and that the news and media is even more at fault than President Trump. Quite surprising.