Only 27% Get Coronavirus Info From Trump's Briefings

The chart above is from the Knight Foundation / Gallup Poll -- done between April 14th and 20th of a national sample of 1,693 adults, with a 3 point margin of error.

Trump has been holding almost daily briefings on the Coronavirus pandemic. He's doing that because he knows he screwed up by delaying any action to stop the virus from spreading until it was too late. He's using those briefings to try and rehabilitate his image with the voters. And sadly, those briefings contain less information about the virus than self-congratulations from Trump on how good a job he has done.

But the people aren't stupid. They know that the briefings are just Trump's way of trying to rewrite history with lies. Only 27% say the briefings are a major source of Coronavirus information for them -- while 26% say they are a minor source and 46% say they are not a source at all.

Trump's lies are getting out to his base, but few others. While 64% of Republicans say his briefings are their major source of virus information, only 23% of Independents and 5% of Democrats say that.

The briefings are not accomplishing their goal -- to rehabilitate Trump's image. Other polls have repeatedly shown that the public does not trust Trump and don't approve of how he's handling the pandemic. That's why his aides are trying to get him to cut back on the briefings.