Some of those results may be ascribed to the recency effect. Trump has drawn lots of negative attention over the last three weeks in the wake of a Saturday morning tweet storm in which the president suggested — with no actual evidence — that Trump Tower had been wiretapped during the 2016 campaign by then President Obama.

But whatever the reason, there’s clearly some consternation among the public about the president’s tweeting habits. And for a president so aware of his polls, you might think that Trump would adapt his social media behavior accordingly.

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You’d think wrong. Here’s Trump explaining to Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night why Twitter is so important to him:

So the news is not honest. Much of the news. It’s not honest. And when I have close to 100 million people watching me on Twitter, including Facebook, including all of the Instagram, including POTUS, including lots of things — but we have — I guess pretty close to 100 million people. I have my own form of media.

“I have my own form of media.”

For Trump, Twitter is, essentially a news network all his own. He’s got tens of millions of followers across a variety of social media sites. He can broadcast a message to those millions of people at any hour of the night or day and be sure they are seeing it. It’s a direct line to the American public. It’s his megaphone and his “fact” checker.

Trump also believes it’s why he won the presidency. “I think that maybe I wouldn’t be here if it wasn't for Twitter, because I get such a fake press, such a dishonest press,” Trump told Carlson.