Donald Trump Is Breaking Up Marriages, Families: Latest Poll Shows President Dividing Country Even More

President Donald Trump promised to “Make America Great Again” and to put “America first” during his administration. Instead, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed the commander-in-chief may be slowly tearing the country apart, specifically families, friendships and even marriages, according to the results published Tuesday.

Prior to his victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton in November, the country was firmly divided on who it would vote for and who was better suited to run the White House. But that division became even wider when Trump was elected, the poll found.

With 6,426 people responding between Dec. 27 and Jan. 18, the poll showed six percent more respondents fighting or arguing with family or friends over Trump, a jump to 39 percent compared to 33 percent in a poll from October. The poll also showed 40 percent did not argue with a family member or friend and 21 percent actually made new friends because of the election, though party affiliations were not known.

While the poll only found a one percent increase – 15 percent to 16 percent – of respondents who stopped speaking to a family member or friend, that result was even higher when it came to Clinton voters. Twenty-two percent of those polled, who also voted for Clinton, said they had severed ties with a family member or close friend who opted for the Republican Trump.

There was also a one percent overall jump from 12 to 13 percent, compared to results in October, of respondents who completely cut out a family member or friend because of their decision to pick Trump.

And in one such case, a 73-year-old woman told Reuters she ended her marriage because her husband voted for the controversial Trump. Gayle McCormick, who is now separated from her husband of 22 years, said she is a more left-leaning Democrat and once she learned last year that her husband was going to vote for Trump things changed.

"I felt like I had been fooling myself," McCormick said. "It opened up areas between us I had not faced before. I realized how far I had gone in my life to accept things I would have never accepted when I was younger."

Leading up to Trump’s victory, it was widely reported that married couples were split over the election and the gender gap was especially pronounced following one of the most contentious election’s in the country’s history.

Trump took down 11 percent more male voters than female voters but he also garnered 15 percent more support from married voters compared to the unmarried, Bloomberg reported in December. Clinton in turn owned single Americans 55 percent to 37 percent.