Poll: Nearly a third of Americans say news media is the enemy of the people

Almost one-third of Americans polled, 29 percent, said in a new survey that they agree that “the news media is the enemy of the ... people.” 

Twelve percent of Democrats polled, and 26 percent of independents, said they held that opinion in the Ipsos poll released Tuesday, as did 48 percent of Republicans surveyed, which constituted a plurality for that party.

President Trump first used the characterization for the news media in a tweet less than a month into his term, proclaiming that various media outlets are “not my enemy," but the "enemy of the American People!”