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To wonder what US Trump voters think now

527 replies

Indiependant · 04/01/2026 08:55

Their country's reputation trashed. The man they voted for heavily implicated in the Epstein scandal. Contempt shown to them abroad.
About to completely shift Ukraine. Enabling Netanyahu to commit mass murder of children with their tax dollars. No roaring economy. The environment fucked probbaky beyond saving due to their inaction.
What, in all honesty, do the 75 million who have caused this catastrophe think?

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ThatCyanCat · 05/01/2026 14:43

Cgar2018 · 05/01/2026 14:22

I will never, ever understand women voting for a man convicted of sexually abusing a woman. Ever. (Waiting for MAGA sympathisers to tell me the jury were corrupt, she was older than 10 etc.).

Women are conditioned everywhere to downplay it. Whatever issue sexual abuse complicates is always held to be more important.

JHound · 05/01/2026 14:43

SuperbMum1 · 05/01/2026 13:16

@24kPalamino Trump secured less than 50% of votes cast (49.8% to be specific).

But I believe he won 31states out of 50 (that is 62%!) and Kamala only won 19. 12 of those 19 states with no document requirement. Only 2 of Trumps 31 states with no document required.

Do you know how many people actually voted for Labour in last elections? Labour secured only 33.7 % of the national vote. Yet it ended up with 411 out of 650 seats in the House of Commons, roughly 63 % of the seats!

Kamala won more votes where ID and photo ID was not required.

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Which changes nothing from what I said.

It is patently false that “the vast majority of US voters” supported Trump

(I also don’t see the relevance of the FPTP system in the UK in terms of correcting an inaccurate statement nor voter ID requirements.
I am discussing actual hard data not supposition and conspiracy theories.)

Sartre · 05/01/2026 14:45

ThatCyanCat · 05/01/2026 14:43

Women are conditioned everywhere to downplay it. Whatever issue sexual abuse complicates is always held to be more important.

There’s a good docu on BBC about this. A lot is due to religion and the rise in ‘Trad wives’. Democrats have been plugging LGBTQ+ for a while which has upset many Christians. Trump has rejected trans rights in particular, this makes many of them happy.

Goldenbear · 05/01/2026 14:46

RingoJuice · 05/01/2026 14:37

Idk sounds like you prefer it if America was more insular. Well I do too tbh

I thought you lived in the UK?

RingoJuice · 05/01/2026 15:06

Goldenbear · 05/01/2026 14:46

I thought you lived in the UK?

How is this contradictory? But all the same I do wish Trump would focus more on American domestic issues.

DdraigGoch · 05/01/2026 15:20

RingoJuice · 05/01/2026 13:58

My stock portfolio says otherwise. Wages were rising with none of the inflation at the time (though yes, COVID measures were to blame for that one). Used to go home with empty bags, fill it up with cheap stuff; I no longer do that for the most part because it’s all got so expensive. Now I just buy more niche items you can’t get elsewhere.

What other Republican presidents do is immaterial to me. I never voted for any GOP prior to Trump. They were shit too.

You don't turn an economy around (for better or for worse) overnight. Trump inherited the strong economy Obama had built up. Trump's policies gradually weakened it and the cracks were showing in 2019. Then Covid happened which makes it really difficult to tell what was down to Trump's policies and what was down to the pandemic.

Post-covid, Biden managed to get inflation in the US down faster than any other major economy.

You don't care what previous republicans have done? You should, those who don't learn history are condemned to repeat it. The last time that the Republicans tried to implement swingeing protectionist tariffs the result was the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression.

DdraigGoch · 05/01/2026 15:23

RingoJuice · 05/01/2026 15:06

How is this contradictory? But all the same I do wish Trump would focus more on American domestic issues.

On the basis that "you can't be 'America-first' and pro-Russia", I might agree.

Trump however is pro-Russia. "No new wars" Trump has also been bombing quite a few different countries.

Goldenbear · 05/01/2026 15:27

RingoJuice · 05/01/2026 15:06

How is this contradictory? But all the same I do wish Trump would focus more on American domestic issues.

It's a bit of a head scratch isn't it- you are an immigrant then?

RingoJuice · 05/01/2026 15:43

Goldenbear · 05/01/2026 15:27

It's a bit of a head scratch isn't it- you are an immigrant then?

The correct term is expat

24kPalamino · 05/01/2026 15:48

HamptonPlace · 05/01/2026 12:29

"vast"?

2.2 million people are still a lot of people.

RingoJuice · 05/01/2026 15:49

DdraigGoch · 05/01/2026 15:23

On the basis that "you can't be 'America-first' and pro-Russia", I might agree.

Trump however is pro-Russia. "No new wars" Trump has also been bombing quite a few different countries.

I don’t perceive him as pro-Russia. But we aren’t going to fight Europe’s war, because to the average European, it seems we are somehow pro-Russia because we aren’t ‘all in’ on Ukraine?? (but you could still yet snooker us in, I obviously hope this doesn’t happen)

24kPalamino · 05/01/2026 15:54

loosestrife · 05/01/2026 13:36

This poster's syntax and punctuation isn't even slightly American so evidently a bot or paid stooge.

I’ve already said I’m Welsh. South Wales to be exact. I wish I was paid to post. As it happens I just genuinely think that people should get who people vote for.
You think Trump is awful, I don’t. I think Starmer and the Labour Party are awful, perhaps you don’t. I am pleased Trump won the US election by 2.2 million (genuine) votes. I spend a lot of time there, mostly in the Southern states and people don’t generally regret their vote. Which was what the thread asked and I contributed to.

24kPalamino · 05/01/2026 15:56

HamptonPlace · 05/01/2026 13:54

centre right tends to mean... eugenics isn't all that bad, is it? I mean, eating pork is a MINIMUM commitment one has to have to live in this country...

Why so immature?

24kPalamino · 05/01/2026 16:01

HamptonPlace · 05/01/2026 14:05

do humans not have rights?

It seems to depend now.
Women, for example, were losing their rights quite quickly not so long ago, and that just wasn’t a popular issue to pick up for a long while.
People genuinely don’t feel safe in the UK at the moment, but the rights of illegal migrants trump them according to the human rights lawyers. So you haven’t convinced me I’m afraid.

24kPalamino · 05/01/2026 16:02

SabrinaThwaite · 05/01/2026 14:22

Harris didn’t get much time to campaign - if Biden had stepped down sooner she would have been a stronger candidate.

Nothing…absolutely nothing, could have made Kamala a stronger candidate 🤣🤣🤣

EasternStandard · 05/01/2026 16:08

SabrinaThwaite · 05/01/2026 14:22

Harris didn’t get much time to campaign - if Biden had stepped down sooner she would have been a stronger candidate.

I don’t think it was time for her. More a tactical error which meant all that funding had to go to her running. They thought Biden could cover up health issues for longer, but it backfired.

Goldenbear · 05/01/2026 16:11

RingoJuice · 05/01/2026 15:43

The correct term is expat

What's the difference?

Goldenbear · 05/01/2026 16:18

24kPalamino · 05/01/2026 16:02

Nothing…absolutely nothing, could have made Kamala a stronger candidate 🤣🤣🤣

Anyone with an ounce of nous would know that her being a woman was the main issue!

My10centsworth · 05/01/2026 16:24

I think your first mistake was putting the words Trump and think in the same sentence.

ChattyCatty25 · 05/01/2026 16:36

Remember that there are only two viable choices in the USA, so many people who voted for him are not dyed in the wool Trump acolytes, but people trying to pick the least worst option. I don’t blame them because there was a lot of hysteria about Trump during his first term, but nothing much out of the ordinary happened.

Also Kamala Harris wasn’t seen a great alternative, and wasn’t popular even among her own voters.

Some who voted for Trump are doubling down, and assuming because Trump has done these things, there must be a good reason or some long term plan behind it. They like some of the things he’s doing, which retains their trust in the rest of his actions, even if they can’t see a reason for it right now. These are his true fans and are gullible.

Others feel openly let down, especially because he promised “America first” and to end wars, but instead is continuing to fund Israel, has bombed Iran and might do more, failed to end the Ukraine war, is attacking Venezuela, threatening Greenland, bombing Nigeria and on and on. Also he promised to bring prices down but instead has cause global economic chaos with his aggressive tariffs.

The people who feel let down are mostly those least worst option voters, but even many of his MAGA fans aren’t happy.

SuperbMum1 · 05/01/2026 16:41

24kPalamino · 05/01/2026 16:02

Nothing…absolutely nothing, could have made Kamala a stronger candidate 🤣🤣🤣

Totally agree. Nothing, absolutely nothing could have made her a stronger candidate not even over $1 billion her and her team spent on her election campaign !!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

38thparallel · 05/01/2026 16:47

Lots of reasons for still supporting Trump. What he did in Venezuela was clearly illegal but Maduro is also a criminal and dictator who has plunged the country into poverty - he won’t be missed.

Thats what I thought, but on another thread about Venezuela a poster has shown evidence that apparently Maduro did win the last election, beating the opposition leader Edmundo Gonzales.
It’s hard to know who or what to believe.
I have to say I am surprised that the Venezuelans want to be ruled by Maduro.

24kPalamino · 05/01/2026 16:49

Goldenbear · 05/01/2026 16:18

Anyone with an ounce of nous would know that her being a woman was the main issue!

Did you watch any of her interviews?

HamptonPlace · 05/01/2026 16:56

24kPalamino · 05/01/2026 16:01

It seems to depend now.
Women, for example, were losing their rights quite quickly not so long ago, and that just wasn’t a popular issue to pick up for a long while.
People genuinely don’t feel safe in the UK at the moment, but the rights of illegal migrants trump them according to the human rights lawyers. So you haven’t convinced me I’m afraid.

your ‘logic’ speaks for itself. Good luck in your life.

SabrinaThwaite · 05/01/2026 17:04

‘Expat’ is a loaded term generally used for educated, middle class, privileged people on temporary assignments to achieve particular career goals. Immigrants tend to stay much longer - they usually intend to stay permanently.

But somehow, expats are good and immigrants are bad.

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