LICE PRESIDENT
Twice as many would rather have head bugs than Trump in White House: poll
The people have spoken: We like lice! Creepy crawlies are a landslide winner over dastardly Don.
DONALD TRUMP is making America grate again.
An eye-popping poll released Tuesday showed that Americans found the presumptive GOP nominee more stomach-churning than lice, jury duty, root canals, traffic jams, the Department of Motor Vehicles and the reviled rock band Nickelback.
Voters also had a higher opinion of used car salesmen and hipsters than they did of Trump, according to the Public Policy Polling survey.
On the whole, only 34% of respondents had a favorable opinion of the temperamental tycoon, compared with a whopping 61% who had an unfavorable opinion of him.
But more striking were how many foul and filthy things they liked better than the big-mouthed mogul.
By vast margins, respondents said they had a higher opinion of lice (54% to 28%), jury duty (57% to 35%), root canals (49% to 38%), the DMV (50% to 40%), used car salesmen (47% to 41%) and Canadian band Nickelback (39% to 34%), whose drab 2001 hit, “How You Remind Me,” apparently reminded voters of how much they disliked Trump.
The news wasn’t all bad for Trump, though.
He won out against hemorrhoids (voters had a less favorable opinion of the swollen anal veins than they did of the mogul’s swollen ego, 39% to 45%) and were less bugged by cockroaches (42%
to 46%) than they were by the human vermin’s vitriol.
The poll’s astounding results suggest Trump’s never-ending slew of things he detests — women, Muslims, Latinos and countless other groups — could be backfiring.
While the never-mum magnate’s comments about women needing to be punished for having abortions, about illegal immigrants from Mexico being “rapists” and “criminals,” and his proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S., were enough to propel Trump to be the last man standing in the nomination contest, the survey indicates he’ll have his work cut out for him in resurrecting comprehensive public opinion ahead of a general election.
Trump’s supporters also fell for many of the wild conspiracy theories he has touted on the campaign trail.
Among voters with a favorable opinion of Trump, 65% said they thought President Obama was a Muslim, while only 13% said they thought he was a Christian, and 59% said they thought the commander-in-chief wasn’t born in the U.S., compared with 23% who said they thought he was.
Less prevalent, but still present were those (7%) who agreed with Trump’s claim last week that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the assassination plot of former President John F. Kennedy, compared with 55% who said Cruz’s dad wasn’t involved and 38% who said they weren’t sure either way.
Another 24% said they thought late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered, while only 42% said they thought he died of natural causes, as his autopsy showed. Another 34% said they were unsure on the matter.
But in spite of all the distaste for Trump, the billionaire still fared reasonably strong in a hypothetical general election matchup with Hillary Clinton.
The poll, taken May 6-9 among 1,222 registered voters, found that the likely Democratic nominee would beat Trump in a general election matchup 42% to 38% — barely outside the 3.2-percentage-point margin of error.