Donald Trump's off-the-cuff comments on Twitter are nothing new, but the majority of the American public has apparently had enough of his ranting and raving on social media. In a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday, 59 percent of voters said it was time for Trump to shut down his Twitter account, Bloomberg Politics reports.
"You've got the job. Now be a leader, not a tweeter," the poll's assistant director, Tim Malloy, summarized.
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