Media treatment of recent U.S. presidents 2017

The statistic contains data from a survey on which U.S. president the news media has been toughest on in the United States in 2017. During the survey, 49 percent of respondents believed that the news media had been toughest on Donald Trump.

Which recent U.S. president has the news media been toughest on?

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Donald Trump	49
Barack Obama	20
George W. Bush	3
Bill Clinton	5
George H. W. Bush	1
Ronald Reagan	0
Jimmy Carter	2
Gerald Ford	0
Richard Nixon	4
Not sure	16

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Release date

May 2017

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United States

Survey time period

May 19, 2017

Number of respondents

8,262 respondents

Method of interview

Online survey

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