Estimating the Effects of President Trump’s Negative Twitter Rhetoric on Public Perception of Foreign Policy

• In Event: Elite Cues, Issue Framing, and Public Opinion

Brief Overview

This paper studies the effect of Trump's negative Twitter rhetoric on popular perception under different foreign policy topics. I find strong evidence that Trump’s negative Twitter rhetoric reduces all partisan groups’ perceptions of Trump’s tweets.

Author

• Hsuan-Yu Lin, University of Virginia