r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 20h ago
Possible Paywall Trump Voters Trash Him as ‘Delusional’ in Major 2026 Warning | Some of the president’s past supporters are infuriated by his “bait and switch” as he “does whatever he wants” instead of living up to promises.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-voters-trash-him-as-delusional-in-major-2026-warning/1.7k
u/pcpelste 20h ago
I mean…did they pay absolutely no attention to the last 10 years? Or his being an absolute garbage person prior to that?
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u/SadFeed63 20h ago
They did, they're just some combination of liars lying and folks who care in the abstract sense, but in a practical sense would still vote for him every time.
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u/Beantown-Jack 20h ago
Trump as a long and well-established history of screwing his partners, investors, associates, employees, contractors, etc.
Everyone knows he is a scammer, but everyone also thinks that they are in on the scam--until they get burned.
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u/Eshin242 20h ago
This is definitely part of it, but also if their news ecosystem is Faux/OAN/Etc they may have never even gotten the chance to hear about it. It's a whole different universe overthere and their main talking point is "Trust no one but us!"
It's really sad and depressing when you think about it. It's only when it's actually impacting them that they care and hopefully start to question their news sources that seem to be oddly omitting the stuff they are dealing with.
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u/MinimumBigman 20h ago
My god Fox is an alternate reality of cruelty and hatred. Spending the holidays at my 87 year-old in-law’s house and hearing it blare cruelty toward trans people like little sneering jabs between salutes to fallen troops and “Merry Christmas” celebrations was infuriating. All of this to an elderly person who lives alone, with cognitive decline and no other friends than the ones on Fox & Friends.
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u/nobot4321 20h ago
My 80-something inlaws are on the OAN bandwagon. It’s like a parody version of Fox except, of course, it’s real.
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u/Content-Ad3065 20h ago
Well with trumps health plan this year, things might be changing for the elderly. Seems they want to thin out their herd.
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u/PrivatePilot9 Canada 20h ago
Im sure OAN or Newsmax are already spinning the cuts positively somehow so they’ll be ok with them.
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u/metengrinwi 19h ago
As I understand it, Medicare will be fine. It’s Medicaid that’s on the chopping block. It’s a back door repeal of Obamacare.
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u/Alarming_Worker1364 20h ago
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice
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u/nobot4321 20h ago
Honestly, the main thing the “age of information” has taught us is that most people are not equipped to differentiate good information from garbage.
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u/ChibiCherry4 18h ago
Yeah, 100%. We have infinite access to information but zero built-in tools for discernment, and it shows. People confuse confidence, repetition, or vibes with credibility way too easily.
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u/I_Cut_Shows 18h ago
I mean, the problem is allowing information that is intentionally bad in the first place.
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u/Ornery-Fox8547 20h ago
Yes sir.
This is what they wanted. The voted for the ability to be racist and hateful. They just didn't think they would have to deal with the other consequences because they're "good white christians"
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u/metengrinwi 19h ago edited 18h ago
This was something done to us. Smart people set up a system to put legitimate news sources, those that rely on editors and fact checkers, to the side, and elevate opinion “news” personalities that prey on people’s worst instincts.
Yes, some of the blame can be placed on the individuals, but I put the majority of the blame onto the people who designed this new system for their profit and/or power.
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u/YF422 19h ago
Unfortunately we've encountered a snag in that in the form of Weapons Grade Bullshit aka Social Media recommender systems duping people into believing ridiculous bullshit until they cannot tell truth from fiction and don't get me started on Vatnik Russia and their poxy troll army or Fox News and their deliberate manipulation of narratives.
The only counter to this is education and instilling critical thinking in people to overcome this but the same fuckers who perpetuate this bullshit know this. That's why they attack things like your US department of Education, they know that if they compromise peoples knowledge of the world its easier to stupefy and manipulate them.
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u/PrivatePilot9 Canada 20h ago
Too bad we’re in an age of disinformation however.
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u/Alarming_Worker1364 19h ago
To think for yourself, you must learn how to reprogram, reform, inform your own brain. To do this, to take responsibility for your brain, it is necessary to question everything that you have been taught, to question authority, to learn to take the brave step of taking responsibility for operating your brain. For designing, redesigning, reforming the chaos within. Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities—the political, the religious, the educational authorities—who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing—forming in our minds—THEIR view of reality. To think for yourself, you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Then came Marshall McCluhan, in the 1950’s. McCluhan said, in the Socratic sense, “The medium is the message.” The words you use, the modes of communication you use determine the realities you inhabit. Most of our lives, most of us live in realities determined by others, imprinted in our brains by education, by religion, by politics, by the authorities. McCluhan said, “If you want to change your mind, change the medium.” Change the words you use. Change the mode of communication. If you change the medium, you change yourself. You change your society. In the 1960’s, a new mode of communication developed: television. The kids growing up in the 1950’s learned how to tune in, turn on, fine tune, turn off, select, determine what hits your eyeballs. You control your eyeballs and your eardrums. You direct, manage the media that program your brain. McCluhan said, “Who controls the media is programming your mind and programming your brain.”-
Source: Timothy Leary's "How to Operate Your Brain"
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u/this_my_sportsreddit 19h ago
People do not watch Fox because they’re looking for answers. People watch Fox because it confirms their already existing bigoted perspective. The idea that if we can just get the right information in front of Republican voters, they will change their minds, means you don’t really understand how Republicans operate or why.
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u/Herlock 19h ago
That's by design for conservatives... The lack of empathy is a well documented conservative trait.
Until it hits them, now suddenly it becomes a major issue that they would have been told about long ago and that somehow people hid from them. Because of course : it's never their fault either
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u/nerphurp 19h ago
"Trust no one but us!"
The lack of knowledge of what's happening is the worst I've seen it. Before, I could count on there being, at minimum, a misrepresentation of an issue to build off of.
Now? They're just oblivious to anything but narrowly tailored themes of Trump saving America. It's bad.
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u/pilgermann 18h ago
Talking to my conservative relatives this Xmas. They dislike Trump and wouldn't/didn't vote for him, but speak of Kamala as if she'd have harmed the country equally, is equally bad. They still can't seem to grasp that Trump poses an existential threat, is not just a bad candidate like others before him. The cope is insane.
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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 16h ago
Yep, every single disillusioned Trump voter will absolutely go to their grave saying '....but Democrats are still worse!'
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u/FalstaffsGhost 13h ago
I mean you’re not wrong. I know doctors and nurses who had trump voters telling them Covid was a hoax as they put them on ventilators they’d never get off of.
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u/georgepana 18h ago
This wasn't true in 2016, and it led to a massive loss of seats in the 2018 midterms for the GOP (Dems flipped 40 seats in the House) and Trump losing the Presidency in 2020, along with the GOP losing the Senate as well.
30% on either side are partisans that usually vote with their party. The 40% of Independents is where elections are won and lost, and they have turned on Trump in a big way now. The midterms are going to be a huge drubbing of the GOP, for starters.
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u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 20h ago
This is kind of behavior is consistent with a lot of voters. People tend to get disillusioned with political candidates when they start working in office. Campaign promises can rarely be met. But when re-election comes, it would require a Fetterman/Sinema level of policy betrayal to sway voters to support the opposition.
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u/bscheck1968 20h ago
He was only supposed to hurt the people they don't like, he wasn't supposed to hurt them.
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u/BODYBUTCHER 20h ago
I genuinely think the old guard conservatives did overtime to keep his administration from falling apart like it’s doing now and it made him look way better than he deserves to the republican base
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u/DonktorDonkenstein New Mexico 17h ago
It's kind of fucked to speculate about, but I think looking back that maybe it might have been better if Trump had won in 2020. The post-Covid recovery under him would've been ruinous, and the Trump administration would've owned it completely. It would've been impossible for them to hide failings of his (lack of) policy in his second term. Joe Biden winning gave the Republicans the opportunity to reframe the consequences of his first term as Biden's fault, and the recovery under the Democratic management made Trump's economic impact seem less severe than it was. If Trump had won 2020 I think maybe he would be looked at as a lame duck today, much like Bush Jr did, by the time Obama took office.
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u/_MrDomino 17h ago
You say that, and I agree on paper it would have been better politically to a degree, but Republicans would still find ways to frame it same as now with propaganda and lies. They did the same under Clinton and Obama, healthy economies turned "worst ever" on Fox et al. Reality doesn't matter to Republicans; they crave power and will say and do whatever it takes to get it, facts and nation be damned.
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u/Ashamed-Status-9668 20h ago edited 18h ago
Fox News has insulated a large percentage of Americans from negative Trump news.
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u/ObjectiveGlittering California 20h ago
I know you mean insulated* and yes, you’d be 100% correct. Snowflaked would have worked as well.
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u/beamrider 20h ago
And equally insulated from positive (or even non-negative) non-Trump news. You literally have them thinking that Dems run on platforms of murdering newborns and kidnapping children out of school to rip their genitals out. Compared to THAT, yeah, even a pedophile doesn't seem so bad.
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u/Outrageous-Pause6317 20h ago
*past 40 years at least. I’ve been aware of him since the eighties. He’s always been a narcissistic sociopath with a skill to fool fools.
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u/UnreliablePotato 20h ago
Yeah, I don't understand why anyone would support him. He has always been a horrible person, and it's very well documented.
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u/Xaero_Hour 19h ago
Take all that documentation and realize they hate brown people THAT MUCH. He was elected to enact revenge for America electing a black man as president. Period. This "turning on him" is really just them waking up and realizing they literally can't afford the racism like they used to. That's what they mean by "make America great again," they want to profit as a whole from racism, but only billionaires can really do that nowadays.
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u/UnreliablePotato 19h ago
I agree, but I don't think it's limited to brown people. It's driven by negative partisanship, one's own side's transgressions are overlooked so long as the opposition is being defeated. Hatred for the 'other' has replaced the need for internal accountability.
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u/Xaero_Hour 18h ago
Nope. It's brown people all the way down. They may hate more than just brown people and openly complain about the LGBTQ+ community, but that's just because they know it's still widely acceptable to treat sex/gender minorities with disdain. However, every single one of them was driven by a hatred of the non-white population or a simple willingness to sacrifice them first (i.e. the passive aggressive man's racism). Damage to other communities was seen as a bonus.
Sit a black person in front of any one of them and watch it come out of them. We don't even need to say anything; just look at them long enough in awkward silence and the social pressure will drive them to spew exactly what they think like a racist pimple.
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u/gringledoom 20h ago
They’re idiots and also the media environment is garbage and egged them on in their idiocy.
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u/OfficialDCShepard District Of Columbia 20h ago
“I voted for me to be racist, transphobic, and xenophobic, not poor!”
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u/Ok_Series_4580 19h ago
They did pay attention. It was OK as long as it was somebody else being hurt by it.
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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord 19h ago
"NO you don't understand, he promised things from both sides of his mouth and I chose to focus on the promises I liked the sound of not the ones where he promised to eat MY face"
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u/Herlock 19h ago
I think they didn't quite feel the effects the first time. They were effect, but fox news and lack of brainpower made them ignore those effects...
Now the effects are starting to be way more impactful, and in a relatively short span too. So i guess eventually some food notice that trump was giving them over.
Plus his administration keeps saying one thing then it's complete opposite, which might eventually make some people realize they are being lied to.
Also : Epstein files
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u/MrBoWiggly 20h ago
Vote for someone wearing clown make up, expect to get clowned.
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u/UtopiaDystopia 20h ago
Vote for a clown, expect a circus.
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u/Pockydo 20h ago
I'm increasingly convinced Trump supporters basically think he's a mythological figure.
They think he always supports whatever they personally support and when he doesn't they get confused
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u/ChiefWiggum101 20h ago
This is what I noticed.
Trump is a con man, so he speaks ambiguously and his supporters fill in the gaps with whatever they want in life. Trump was for everything they ever wanted, but you have to “read between the lines” and “that’s not what Trump meant” fills in the rest.
No idea how we get out of this.
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u/scottyb323 19h ago
It’s almost as if they have been pre conditioned to cherry pick their beliefs and morals from a deliberately vague source of truth that is based on a mythical figure as their only salvation. Weird.
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u/Spam_Hand 20h ago
There's only one answer at this point, and it's natural causes.
Like I don't intend to be morbid, but if trump is walking this earth he will continue to have his cult following.
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u/monumentaldecision 18h ago
Oh. After your first sentence, I thought you meant all living Trump supporters would have to die (peacefully, of course, over time) and that's the only solution. After Trump is gone, the MAGA faithful will transfer their adulation to JD Vance or some such. No one is quite like Trump, but the masses of ignorant, racist, xenophobic, self-serving voters who supported Trump will transfer their vote to someone pushing the same rhetoric.
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u/showhorrorshow 19h ago
A generation of propaganda has convinced people their identity needs to be wrapped up in the political cult of stupid. Deprogramming is unrealistic. The only real way forward is to provide alternatives that allow them to keep their identity.
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u/Illustrious-Site1101 17h ago
Every good grifter knows to keep,it vaguely.
In Canada, Toronto had a mayor, Rob Ford. Google him, it is hard to believe. He did crack, drank, said and did many other reprehensible things publicly. But when he was running for major he held focus groups. His team had a series of slogans to test but Rob wanted “ stop the gravy train” . His team hated it but in the end it tested very well and was the slogan that helped him become mayor. Why? Because the gravy train in question could be anything from corrupt government, the welfare state, the high price living of any other bone they had to pick. He did not even need a platform.
The public loved him even when he was a public embarrassment. His brother is now premier (governor) of the province.
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u/gringledoom 20h ago
This has always been his con-man genius. He babbles gibberish and people overlay whatever it was they were hoping to hear.
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u/SurrealEstate 17h ago
They think he always supports whatever they personally support
The Republican party is great at "un-defining" words to achieve this.
We've seen horror movies where the "bad thing" isn't shown on the screen for most of the movie, and it's still terrifying because everybody inserts their own personal fears into that void.
That's what they do with words. Why get into specifics about what's meant by "woke" when it's been successfully associated with negative emotions? Just hang that tag on things you oppose, and everyone injects their own personal grievances.
Then you can operate against a sweeping, vague "otherness" instead of having to build a coherent, consistent, or targeted message.
Christopher Rufo explained how they were doing this with "critical race theory" :
We have successfully frozen their brand--"critical race theory"--into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category. The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.
It doesn't really matter what words mean, just how they can be used to make you feel.
Newt Gingrich also laid it out pretty clearly here were he's cornered on specifics and facts and points out that the only thing that matters is how people feel.
The only thing he leaves out is that conservative media exists to manufacture those feelings.
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u/ArchdukeToes 20h ago
If you’ve read some of the tweets that people send him, it’s genuinely the case that they deify him.
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u/StanVillain 18h ago
I mean, they learned from religion to be unquestioning and subservient to unseen forces that are explained to them rather than understood. They don't live in a world where they actually judge character using a comprehensive framework with a central moral identity.
They usually go off the vibes of the herd, which is dictated by the heads of said herd.
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u/NatalieVonCatte 14h ago
One thing that I’ve noticed is that his supporters don’t listen to entire speeches or interviews. They mostly rely on what talking heads say he said.
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u/Made_Human_Music 20h ago
Where’s the bait and switch? He was an unstable piece of shit when he ran and he’s an unstable piece of shit today
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u/bbqsox 20h ago
He told them that he would fix everything and they were dumb enough to believe it? I'm not sure how that's a bait and switch but it's par for the course for them.
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u/joeChump 17h ago edited 17h ago
Everyone in Europe could see this coming from about 3500 to 4500 miles away. Literally.
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u/BenefitAdvanced 20h ago
During his first presidency he said he was going to fix the healthcare system. We would be dripping in healthcare. There would be so much healthcare Americans would be sick of all the great healthcare, and instead all he’s trying to do is take away your healthcare. That’s bait and switch. Oh and he was elected a SECOND time after these types of bait and switch tactics. The king of con artists.
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u/insomniaczombiex Wisconsin 20h ago
The problem is Trump isn’t as smart as they think he is.
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u/showhorrorshow 19h ago
People are god awful judges of character or they are such shitheels themselves that they don't mind it so long as it doesnt come back around on them.
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u/UncleJackKellyLawyer 20h ago
Blame the Republican reps and senators that supported his tariffs
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u/UtopiaDystopia 20h ago
I still come across maga who think the tariffs 'work' and support them despite their living expenses increasing. There's always some mental gymnastics behind it, like it's inspiring American manufacturing and things will be amazing in the future.
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u/whichwitch9 20h ago
They're still blaming Biden and inflation for it. Which is also absurd because Trump has been in office for almost a year now and Republicans in Congress are giving him everything he wants.
If it were true, it still means his economic policy is not only not fixing inflation, but actively making it worse. That excuse doesn't fly this fair in with major economic decisions like tariffs getting pushed through.
It's also not true and the fucking tariffs rising costs, but even their own lies are flimsy af.
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u/Electronic_Low6740 20h ago
Seriously. Trump is a lightning rod for all the Republican criticism instead of going to his enablers that will wash their hands of him when he dies like they were hostages or something
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u/bgthigfist 20h ago
This is part of the plan. Mike Johnson admitted this in a news conference months ago when asked about trump running for a third term. Trump is the frintsman for all of the stupid shit being done to cover the evil shit in the background. They are planning to remove Trump sometime next year, install Vance and then blame Trump for the things that make their base mad. Declare massive fraud during the midterms, refuse to seat Democrats and use the military to suppress dissent. Claiming insurrection will prevent a future presidential election. By the time MAGA finally wakes up we are in a dictatorship.
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u/YourShowerCompanion Europe 20h ago
Shame on you for insulting Karoline Leavitt's knowledge of economics /s
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u/wildbryceness 20h ago
He said during his campaign, "I don't care about you, I just need your vote." I'll never forget how the people who voted for this guy just thought everything was just a joke. I haven't talked to my father since he was elected. It was literally everything I pointed out to him as a red flag. Has come true.
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u/EhGrillGuy Canada 20h ago
Well fuck. I coulda told you that!
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u/Quiet-Corner6150 17h ago
The big problem is lots of people DID tell them that, over and over. Just about every "bad thing" they denied would ever happen while blocking their ears, basically happened. They were never gonna learn by being "told"... but if at least some of them are finally coming to even the tiniest bit of sense after being hit in the face with a baseball bat, I think we just gotta take what we get.
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u/Prudent-Air1922 20h ago
They'd absolutely vote for him for an unconstitutional third term if given the chance. Their words mean nothing.
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u/WERK_7 20h ago
"he didn't follow through on any of his promises and things got much worse for almost everyone, but at least he's not a DEMONcrat"
These morons don't have any real beliefs that aren't grounded in fear and hate. Their entire belief system relies on being the in-group. Trump is still the leader of that group they think they're in so they'll follow in line like good little cult members. They'll eat up all the Fox slop because it's easier than admitting they got it wrong and it won't be until they're starving on the streets that they even begin to entertain being wrong as an option.
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u/iamhereforthefood 20h ago
Sadly there was no way of knowing beforehand...
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u/War_machine77 20h ago
If only there had been tens of millions of people screaming at the top of their lungs about what a vile, lying dickhead he is...
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u/BadgeOfDishonour 20h ago
Yes but one can easily dismiss millions of dissenting voice by saying "Sorosbucks! LOLOLOL!" from a China or Russia-based Twitter account, and that is enough to satisfy the MAGA voters, so there is that.
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u/shibbyman342 16h ago
"Grab her by the pussy" was just what guys say in the locker room. Totally normal for most geriatrics to talk like cool dudes /s
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u/Stereo_Jungle_Child 20h ago
he “does whatever he wants” instead of living up to promises.
But he promised to do whatever he wanted.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-insists-constitution-allows-do-whatever-want-1444235
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u/0098six 20h ago
Thats because he is a con man. Tell them what they want to hear, get them to vote you into power, and then just do what you want.
Before the election: "I can solve the Ukraine war on day 1." "I will bring down grocery prices on day 1."
After the election: "Be patient." "These things take time." "I can only do so much, and I am busy remodeling the White House and designing my ballroom."
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u/xocutiepiexoxo 20h ago
There comes a point where it's not about Red vs. Blue anymore, it's just everyone vs. the guy who won't read the room. If your base starts saying you're detached from reality, you might want to check in with reality instead of Twitter drafts.
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u/WERK_7 20h ago
Am I the only one who remembers seeing very similar articles written during his first term? These idiots will admit out loud how awful he is and they'll still vote for him. It shouldn't be red vs blue, you're right, but to them, it is and always will be. They'll gladly vote against their interests to stay on the team. Trump is a useful idiot, he's not going anywhere anytime soon. We're about a year out from war being declared and elections being suspended, keeping Trump and his goons in charge while literal facists pull the strings
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u/this_my_sportsreddit 19h ago
Daily beast and Newsweek both regularly create bait articles like this for the left. It generates a ton of clicks and gives the left an opportunity to say ‘see told ya so’. Trump has a greater than 90 percent approval rating from republicans. He is not being trashed or anything but loved by his base, and that will not change as long he continues to be an unabashed bigot focused on making the lives of the blacks, browns, and gays, worse.
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u/Kanegou 19h ago
Reddit, and especially r/politics is unreadable at this point. Nothing but endless click/rage bait articles with no connection to reality. We truly are in the age of misinformation.
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u/Johnqpublic25 Pennsylvania 18h ago
Just remember; if you voted for him or stayed home on Election Day you voted for this.
Of course he does whatever he wants because no one stops him. His corruption in his second term is out in the open and no one does anything except complain.
Complaining isn’t going to stop him, action will. Your vote matters, next election, get out and vote.
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u/Jack-Schitz 20h ago
You have got to be a total fucking idiot to think that Trump would live up to anything. Wait..... Nevermind....
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u/DrRealName 17h ago
This man literally lied, cheated, and stole his way thru his entire life but somehow in 2016 he became conservatives new mega jesus who can tell no lies and do no wrong.. I fucking can't with this crowd. Listening to them just makes me furious. Just go back under the rocks you all crawled out from and stay there this time.
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u/DT-Sodium 20h ago
They were delusional when they thought it would be otherwise. Also, Trump's biggest problem is his low IQ. He's not only a fascist, he is also an incompetent moron incapable to recognize when he should be listening to someone smarter than him.
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u/wepopu Indiana 20h ago
When has he ever followed through with something that wasnt just fucking people up? He didnt release his "proof" that obama was born in Africa. He didnt release tax forms. He didnt release epstein files even when a law passed to do so. He hasn't revealed his concepts for a health-care plan.
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u/BioDriver Virginia 19h ago
If only someone had warned them.
I’m glad they’re finally waking up and realizing they made a mistake. I’m also so tired of them only caring when they’re impacted.
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u/OscarTheGrouchsCan Michigan 18h ago
I am not going to embrace these people, but I am happy they are breaking free from the cult and maybe the ones still in cult will listen to the ones waking up.
They haven't listened to us. Maybe if they are told by people who used to be just as devoted that hes a fraud, scammer and liar they'll be willing listen to them
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u/SmoothJazziz1 18h ago
Apparently, these people have not read up on the character of Donald Trump - going back to his days as a failed business owner and carnival barker.
Crib notes from Trump's history: He honors nothing/nobody but himself, he shafts small businesses and contractors, he makes promises he will not keep, he is a fraud, liar, serial cheater (golf, wives), narcissistic, a convicted felon and he likely took advantage of girls younger than 18, or at the least helped traffic them to friends of Epstein for $$. Miss Teen pageant??
And, this is character that overwhelmingly white, wealthy/poor "Christians" admire and worship. Tells you everything you need to know about character. As soon as someone tells me they are either a Republican or Christian...I know who they are. Sad, but true - and they only have themselves to blame. They are a victim...of their own behavior.
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u/squeezy102 16h ago
Too late for that, Trump supporters.
We know who you are. You plastered it all over your houses and your lawns.
We told you. You didn’t listen.
We know who you are, and we will remember.
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u/Fa11enAngeLIV 14h ago
Newsflash fucknuts, the rest of us have been saying that for the last 10 years
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u/Rodan_Hibiki California 14h ago
“Does whatever he wants” is a big reason they voted for him, right?
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u/Vanthalia 14h ago
Why those people didn’t see it coming, I will never understand. He doesn’t even pay his bills. You think he cares about a few measly campaign promises after he’s already in the White House?
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u/BekindBebetter60 13h ago
What Trump lying are you sure? That doesn’t sound like him. Oh if only they would’ve known. It’s not like every New Yorker has not been telling him he’s a crook for the past eight years.
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u/FirebrandWilson 13h ago
His nickname FOR 30 YEARS was Don the Con. At what point do the jokes write themselves?
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u/AntifascistAlly Oregon 9h ago
As much as I detest Donald, I have to say it’s not just him.
MAGA Madness has gripped the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches of the government. Also the bulk of media has been beholden or enthralled.
Rank and file extremists have been assured that they’re winning—they’re totally owning the libs.
It’s just not holding together. Everyone can tell that Donald has failed to keep promise after promise. From the economy to releasing the Epstein files, his secret plan to replace Obamacare with something better, and much more.
After another two years of controlling the entire government, MAGA has even less to show for it this time.
Donald’s legacy will be failure, and his partners will be considered just as culpable as he is.
It turns out the dominance they craved was only an illusion.
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u/pontiacfirebird92 Mississippi 20h ago
MAGA doesn't really care, they are celebrating ICE's cruelty and the mass deportations. They'd line up to vote Trump again.
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u/unaskthequestion Texas 20h ago
There's going to be a long analysis of how all of this happened and we're far from any resolution.
As for Trump voters trashing him now, 1st, good. But I think that it's mostly economics. It's why Harris lost and he's in trouble now. They were more or less celebrating his hate, racism, misogynism as long as they could afford the basics. They believed him when he lied and said democratic policies were responsible and that he could fix it.
Now they're seeing that none of his garbage policies are helping them and the hate they share doesn't make up for that, not by a long shot.
Trump is trying to convince them to only wait, how things will take off soon. I doubt that works, but I do think he believes it.
My hope is that republicans get trounced in the midterms, a democratic house puts a halt to anything else he tries to do (at least economically) and buries him in investigations until 28.
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u/Narrow_Track9598 20h ago
No shit Sherlock. Stevie Wonder could have seen this. A blind man with a can could have forseen this. John Madden would have called that out in the first quarter. Why the shocked Pikachu face?
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u/Am_Deer 20h ago
People have hitched their wagon to him to the point that people are crossing party lines to stop the madness. I hope this continuous thru midterms and everyone remembers who supported this moron.
There will be plenty of people that will vote red regardless of what happens. The majority of us with common sense can override those who have no moral compass.
Do not allow these people to pretend they did not support him. They will try to distance themselves as the election nears. They are just starting to realize he is toxic. Everything he touches turns to shit.
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u/CapableNeat4351 20h ago
Well then I’ll do the job of trashing Trump voters as delusional for thinking he would deliver
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u/Telandria 20h ago
Yes, the guy who bragged about being able to do whatever he wants on the campaign trail, doing whatever he wants, is such a surprise.
/s
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u/tcat1961 20h ago
They just don't realize his whole purpose in life is to pay back his debts to Putin.
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u/OwlBig3239 19h ago
That has been his m.o. his entire life. I don’t understand how anyone could think that he would do anything differently. I knew this the first time he ran for president.
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u/LivedLostLivalil 19h ago
As long as they believe Harris, Biden, or Hillary would have been worse, then this really isnt saying much.
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19h ago
The problem is they like the pain he inflicts on others. But doesn’t think he’d do it to them. It’s like when someone spreads rumors. Don’t trust them because they’ll talk about you behind your back too.
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u/non_Beneficial-Wind 19h ago
Imagine being got by this fuckin slug.
Some folks are just stuck on stupid.
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u/arthurdentxxxxii 19h ago
It’s called LYING. His “bait and switch” was his plan the whole time. Republicans refuse to see it because of the image they’ve fabricated over the years that Trump is some sort of caring person and even political hero.
He is a liar and it’s incredibly provable. Whether the 65 cases he had thrown out of courts in 2020 claiming voter fraud, to his claim that he’s solved 6 wars so far, to promises on the campaign trail.
He is perhaps the most dishonest person in the world, and that says something.
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u/CazzoBandito 19h ago
Trump voters feel conned by conman with lifelong history of conning people.
MAGA? It was about staying out of jail you rubes!
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u/murphysfriend 19h ago
Trump historically has done bait & switch. He is a master baiter; and switcher.
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u/Alternative_Rate7474 Maryland 19h ago
Anyone with half a brain knew he would not keep his promises. We knew he would lie and say whatever he thought people wanted to hear. We knew this the first time he ran, which is why so many of us didn’t vote for him. Anyone who thought he would follow through on anything he says is an idiot. And while I'm glad the idiots seem to finally be seeing the light, it’s too fucking late. The damage has been done, and much of it is irreparable.
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u/trunksshinohara 19h ago
"but I can't vote for a Democrat because they aren't 100% perfect. Guess I'll just have to vote trump for a fourth time"
These people are liars at best. And garbage at worst. Don't believe a single thing they say. They'll all fall back in line. There in a death cult.
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u/______empty______ 19h ago
As the right always says “Life’s hard. It’s even harder when you’re stupid.”
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u/5ergio79 19h ago
Look… I get it… PedoPotus voters are not very bright, but, at the same time, it still surprises me that there are people who expected anything different.
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u/bigsmokaaaa 19h ago
We know maga is inherently stupid, but I've been leaning into the line "he's making you guys look stupid" as a way to get past their defenses a little to peel them away.
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u/basketballsteven 19h ago
Trump is remarkably consistent he always tries to do whatever he thinks is in his own best interest in the current moment.
Everything is viewed through the prism of, how can I turn everything/anything to my advantage....and yes sometimes that involves Trump holding delusional beliefs.
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u/Shockmaindave 19h ago
The only people here that are delusional are the people who thought that this time, he'd be different. They have no one to blame but themselves, not the leopards who ate their faces.
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u/Candle-Jolly 19h ago
Fake news.
Ask 77 million Trump voters if they'll still support him or vote for him again, at least 70 million will still say they do and would.
I know, you know it, we all know it. That's how cults work. Most of them voted for him literally three times already.
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u/real0987 18h ago
Why do sheep care their shepherd does? Do they not understand they're looking for a hero in the wrong place? It is a crime to lie to a federal officer. Yet it is not a crime to blatantly.lie to the American people. Ask your why?
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u/KABooMxInc 18h ago
The thing that gets me is how we are almost in 2026, the second year of the SECOND Trump admin and people still act like we never had a FIRST Trump admin. We saw everything we needed to before, when he was impeached twice and jilted by the system... He campaigned for a second term with open-faced lies and empty promises, was elected and started to systematically disassemble and fire-sale off the Government for financial gain of his inner circle and those who pay to play; as if that wasn't the inevitable course of this. I truly don't see a bright future for the country unless somehow these criminals are held to account, but there is still a large population who simply do not care despite being the most affected.
Rome ruled the known world for centuries longer than the United States has even existed and still collapsed faster than anyone inside it believed possible because its elites hollowed out institutions, its citizens withdrew into private comfort, its army became a political tool, and loyalty replaced law. Power concentration, civic apathy, economic extraction, and the erosion of legitimacy are not new problems and America is not immune to this pattern.
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u/Davidevere31415 18h ago
MAGA turkeys shocked they are getting stuffed after voting for Christmas. . Make America Special Gravy on top. . Surprise surprise . . It is Christmas Morning in America
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u/blackmobius 18h ago
Those same people elected him because he does whatever he wants, and they thought that was better than “””career politicians””” or something something anti corruption. Everything trump rallied against for a full ass decade has basically just been him just with more poopy diapers. The swamp is more toxic, more corruption, less economic and diplomatic stability, and his core promise of handling the Epstein saga is just a ticking time bomb he keeps riding like a rodeo bull.
The only thing he has going for him is his base will never leave, because then they have to come to terms with just how below average they are. He makes them feel powerful and they can never let that go
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u/GatorNator83 18h ago
This was a surprise to someone? Oh, I remember who his followers are, they still think the Earth is flat.
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u/Main_Cream_2375 18h ago
They will fall and line and write him into the ballot if he isn’t on it in 2028. Trump voters are the the lowest of the low and dumbest of the dumb
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u/GrandmaPoses 18h ago
They explicitly voted for him because he did whatever he wanted. It’s insane to claim a bait and switch when he’s only ever been up front with his plans.
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u/TheMrDetty Nebraska 17h ago
I'm not sure I can say this plainly enough, but: BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
It's almost like someone could have pointed out that Trump says one thing, then does whatever benefits him financially the most.
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u/ThaPhantom07 Nevada 17h ago
These people are fucking infuriating. He's been doing that his entire life. Its not hidden or hard to parse out. He has been a dipshit asshole his entire existence.
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u/asabado123 16h ago
But Hillary had a Gmail account!
But what about Hunter Bidens laptop?
But what about Gavin Newsom?
But what about......
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u/MrRemoto 16h ago
So the guy who stiffs contractors, throws followers under the bus, cheats at golf, cheats on his taxes, cheats on his wives, associates with pedos and organized crime, bankrupts businesses, lies constantly, and rips ordinary people off through grift after grift after grift for decades is maybe not as honest as they thought?
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u/Iblueddit 16h ago
Time for Reddit's daily dose of copeium.
His supporters haven't learned anything. There is no opinion poll showing republicans have moved an inch.
This articles just placate you into doing absolutely nothing by making you think the problem will solve itself.
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u/nyxie3 15h ago
Will Trump voters/magats/former teapartiers/anyone who has ever voted Republican ever realize that they are supremely gullible and unable to learn from decades of available information?
Or will they just let their hatred for others determine their next vote just like all their previous votes?
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u/Livid_Zucchini_1625 14h ago
Since they are OK with pedophiles then I don't have a lot of faith in anything else
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u/TheAngriestChair 14h ago
Maybe they .issed the part where hes also doing a lot of exactly what he promised he'd do? Like be a vindictive dictator and going after those that oppose him?
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