You’re not tweeter-in-chief, Americans tell next president

WASHINGTON— Fifty-nine per cent of American voters think Donald Trump should delete his Twitter account, according to a national poll from Quinnipiac University released Tuesday.

In the two weeks since the election, Trump has alternated between tweeting announcements about the transition and continuing to denounce perceived attacks from the cast of the musical Hamilton to Saturday Night Live to the New York Times.

On Tuesday, Trump fired off a string of tweets starting at 6 a.m., saying he had cancelled a planned meeting with the newspaper’s executives, reporters and columnists, complaining about their “nasty tone.”

The meeting was quickly rescheduled later that morning.

“Voters tell president-elect Donald Trump, ‘You’ve got the job. Now be a leader, not a tweeter,’ ” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.

“I’m going to be very restrained,” Trump said when he was asked about using Twitter as president. “If I use it at all, I’m going to be very restrained.”