Survey: Majority Pan President's Tweets on MSNBC's Brzezinski

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A majority (65%) of voters polled for a new Morning Consult/Politico survey say President Donald Trump's tweets about MSNBC's Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski were unacceptable.

The president tweeted about Brzezinski's face-lift and called her "dumb as a rock."

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A majority also said the president was reckless (59%), sexist (55%) and thin-skinned (53%).

The poll was conducted June 29-30 among 1,989 registered voters. The margin of error is plus or minus two percentage points.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.