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On The Media
July 24, 2025 1159 replies Error Margin: + – 3%
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Marshall McLuhan wrote about human response to regular exposure to different types of media . Image via Winnipeg Free Press
Q1. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that in 2003 President Trump wrote a suggestive 50th birthday card for Jeffrey Epstein at the request of Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted accomplice in Epstein's sex trafficking operation.

Trump emphatically denied he wrote or sent such a card, and sued the WSJ and its Chairman Emeritus Rupert Murdoch for defamation, seeking $10b in damages.

Did Trump send such a card to Epstein, and if so would it mean a closer connection than previously published videos of Trump and Epstein together suggest?
(Image: Still image from video of Trump, Epstein at 1992 party, first published on news outlets in 2019)
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Group A

Trump sent the card

53%
40%
64%
8%
65%
92%
43%
64%
48%
54%

Did not

30%
37%
24%
65%
14%
0%
15%
28%
38%
28%

Don't know

17%
23%
12%
25%
21%
8%
42%
8%
13%
15%
Group B

Card would mean closer connection

52%
42%
61%
14%
66%
86%
45%
60%
49%
56%

Would not

32%
42%
24%
66%
16%
4%
14%
34%
42%
28%

Don't know

10%
13%
9%
14%
13%
6%
30%
7%
6%
7%

Don't care

8%
9%
7%
11%
6%
4%
11%
4%
6%
11%
Q2. Over the weekend, CBS parent company Paramount announced that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will go off the air next year. Colbert's show has been fiercely critical of the President since he entered the 2016 race.

The cancellation announcement came a week after Paramount settled with President Trump in a lawsuit he brought against the company for what he said was an unfairly edited 2024 60 Minutes interview of Kamala Harris. Paramount is seeking FCC approval for a merger with fellow entertainment giant Skydance.

The Colbert show was the top rated late-night network TV show, but lost $40m last year.

Your view?
(Image: Trump on Colbert show, NYC, 2015. Image via CBS )
male
female
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18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Group A

I like Colbert's show

47%
32%
60%
3%
51%
86%
33%
53%
46%
51%

Don't like

40%
52%
32%
83%
32%
3%
37%
27%
52%
41%

Don't know enough to say

12%
16%
9%
13%
17%
10%
28%
19%
2%
7%
Group B

Show was cancelled to please Trump

48%
35%
59%
6%
61%
84%
40%
55%
44%
53%

Was not

39%
51%
28%
83%
25%
1%
23%
28%
54%
39%

Don't know

12%
13%
11%
9%
12%
15%
37%
17%
1%
5%

Don't care

4%
2%
6%
6%
5%
3%
7%
0%
5%
7%
Q3. Over the weekend, President Trump posted on his social media network that the National Football League's Washington Commanders (fka Redskins) and Major League Baseball's Cleveland Guardians (fka Indians) should change back to their prior names, and threatened to block a new stadium deal the former is seeking in Washington, DC if they do not.

Are those names OK by you personally, and who should decide if those names are used?
(Image: Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians logos )
male
female
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18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Group A

"Indians" OK by me, personally

4%
5%
3%
3%
5%
4%
5%
0%
5%
5%

"Redskins" OK by me, personally

4%
4%
4%
7%
2%
1%
0%
0%
7%
6%

Both

48%
62%
36%
87%
41%
12%
43%
42%
53%
49%

Neither

40%
26%
52%
1%
46%
75%
37%
52%
34%
37%

Don't know

4%
3%
5%
3%
3%
6%
13%
3%
1%
2%
Group B

Decision s/b left to Native Americans

43%
24%
59%
21%
50%
62%
33%
44%
45%
47%

Politicians

0%
1%
0%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
1%
1%

Fans

14%
15%
14%
22%
12%
6%
8%
9%
19%
15%

Team owners

35%
52%
20%
49%
28%
24%
44%
39%
28%
32%

Other

3%
2%
3%
1%
4%
4%
7%
2%
2%
2%

Don't know

4%
5%
3%
5%
3%
3%
7%
6%
3%
2%

Don't care

2%
1%
2%
2%
3%
1%
1%
0%
2%
3%

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