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By Natalie Venegas
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Donald Trump seemingly leaned into a new voter poll from the Daily Mail that calls him "corrupt" as he shared it on social media on Tuesday.
Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been shown to be leading President Joe Biden in five out of the six key swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena College that was published last month. Multiple national polls also show the former president leading Biden despite Trump's legal troubles, as he faces a wave of indictments at both the state and federal levels. Trump has maintained his innocence in all cases against him.
The Daily Mail published a new voter poll on Tuesday in which 1,000 likely voters were asked to use one word to describe the political goals of Trump and Biden in a second term.
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The poll reveals what voters are saying about Trump and President Joe Biden in a word cloud graphic. The biggest words in Biden's word cloud—meaning the most frequently used—included "nothing," "economy," "peace," and "power."
Meanwhile, Trump's word cloud prominently featured the words "revenge," "power," "dictatorship," and "corruption."
On Tuesday, Trump took to his Truth social account to share his word cloud graphic from the Daily Mail.
Newsweek has reached out to Trump via email for comment.
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Although the former president did not say anything about the graphic, some on X, formerly Twitter, have pointed out that Trump is seemingly leaning into those words.
"That Trump is sharing this word cloud about a potential 2nd term as though it paints him in a positive light should alarm everyone," X user, The Tennessee Holler, wrote.
"Trump just posted this word cloud of what voters think a second Trump term would bring," podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen posted to X. "He's bragging about wanting 'dictatorship,' 'revenge,' 'corruption,' and 'chaos.'"
Journalist Aaron Rupar simply wrote on X, "Weird flex but ok."
However, this is not the first time many have raised the notion that the former president may significantly undermine American democracy if re-elected as Trump's use of language has been under criticism.
Mary Trump, Donald Trump's estranged niece, said in an interview with CNN earlier this month what a second Trump term could look like, warning that it would be "absolutely disastrous."
"It would be the end of American democracy. America would become a leading autocratic nation in the world and we would be, therefore, emboldening countries like some of those you mentioned earlier, North Korea, China, but also the pro-autocratic tendencies of countries that haven't entirely lost their way, but are well on their way to, like Hungary and Turkey," she said.
Meanwhile, Trump has been criticized for his continuous use of language. In early December, during a town hall with Fox News host Sean Hannity, the former president faced questions from Hannity about whether or not he'd be a "dictator" during a potential second term. Trump, after deflecting the question, said he would only be a dictator on "day one" to implement some of his policies, but would not abuse his power in the White House.
Meanwhile, in November, Trump vowed to "root out" his liberal opponents while calling them "vermin" in social media posts and in a speech that month in New Hampshire while on the campaign trail.
The remarks include a Veteran's Day post on Truth Social in which Trump pledged to "root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our Country." Critics have suggested the language used by the former president is reminiscent of that used by Hitler and Italian fascist Benito Mussolini against their enemies.
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