A new poll shows that about 6 in 10 Americans say they avoid news about President Trump.
The Media Insight Project survey released Wednesday found that 31 percent of respondents often actively avoid news stories about Trump, and 32 percent say they sometimes avoid Trump news.
Eighteen percent of those polled say they rarely avoid news stories about the president, while 17 percent say they never skip news stories about Trump.
Republicans are most likely to consume news about Trump, with 25 percent saying they rarely skip Trump stories and 24 percent saying they never avoid reporting on the president. But 33 percent say they occasionally skip news stories focused on Trump, and 17 percent say they often avoid Trump news.
“His fights with other people, his arguments — I don’t bother with that anymore,” 62-year-old Nicole Pratt of Torrance, Calif., told The Associated Press.
She told the outlet that she supports some aspects of the administration but has chosen to read less news, which she said she views as the president’s narcissism.
“It’s like, I have other things to do,” she said to the AP.
Democrats and independents share similar views toward news stories about the 47th president. Thirty-eight percent of each often avoid Trump news. Roughly one-third of respondents in both categories sometimes avoid news about Trump.
David Sterrett, a principal research scientist at The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, one of the partners on the survey, told the AP that Democrats “would like to avoid Trump news, but they’re probably not because most national politics news is somewhat connected to the president.”
Slightly more Democrats, at 15 percent each, rarely or never skip Trump news stories compared to independents; 14 percent say they rarely skip Trump news, while 13 percent never pass on Trump news.
The poll also found that 57 percent of respondents avoid news about national politics. Americans in both major parties differ from independents in the news topics they engage with. Eight in 10 Democrats and Republicans remain consistent in following various news topics, compared with 7 in 10 independents.
The Media Insight Project survey was conducted Feb. 5-8 and included 1,092 respondents in total. The margin of error for adults is 4.1 percentage points.
