To wonder what US Trump voters think now

[Indiependant]

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?

that reply wasn’t about Greenland fyi

I agree they should expand the hold to red states, because the fraud is rampant there too.

But we are not going to endlessly throw money to state governments that refuse to perform their due diligence (or worse, actually benefit from the fraud via campaign donations).

It would be better to stop disbursing these funds on a federal level, since (blue AND red) states are utterly incapable of policing themselves

How do you in the immediate future propose to help families in urgent need of services so that they can go to work and earn money to feed their families?

We have a Venezuelan neighbour who in the past has been dreadfully worried about her elderly parents - the currency in freefall and many foods so appallingly expensive.

I don’t see her often to speak to, but will certainly ask how she feels next time. I’m sure she’ll be very glad about the removal of brutal dictator Maduro - how she’s going to feel about Trump’s intervention is another matter…

Unfortunately needy families will get hurt. But they shouldn’t blame the federal government, but the scammers that were blatantly ripping off the government.

DOJ is saying that more than half of Medicaid funding in Minnesota is fraudulent: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-12-18/medicaid-18-billion-claims-minnesota-programs-may-be-fraudulent-official-says

Sorry, but any program where half the money ends up in the pockets of scammers should be ended. The mistake is that this should be extended nationwide

US President Donald Trump has said Venezuela "will be turning over" up to 50 million barrels of oil - worth about $2.8bn (£2.1bn) - to the US, after a military operation to remove President Nicolás Maduro from power.

The oil will be sold at its market price, Trump posted on social media, adding he would control the money raised and use it to benefit the people of Venezuela and the US.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4grxzxjjd8o

I wonder what the split will be?

I think you don't seem to understand how either taxation or the US system of government or representation works.

I wonder what the stamer voters think now.

Labour and Conservative politicians need to stop this Special Relationship bollocks. The USA only has one Special Relationship and it is with Israel.
As for Nigel ....he is just a microbe in Trumps rectum.

These were federal funds.

Why ended and not improved? If there are issues with the way the programmes are run, address them rather than bin the entire principle. Shouldn't it have been the professed aim of DOGE (improving government efficiency rather than acting like a demented slasher in a horror flick)?

And guess which states the biggest contributions to federal funds come from...

Ooh ooh ooh! I know! Pick me, Miss!

Yes I understand that. But that doesn’t mean these funds can be continually lost to scammers, with zero accountability?

And then have the cheek to say that they need more (because it’s not going to where it needs to go … )

Given how politicised the DoJ has become, I'm going to take anything it says with more salt than Trump's arteries.

The split will be 0:0. The money will go straight into the pockets of Trump and his fellow oligarchs.

But it does mean the funds can be lost to changing the name of the DoF to the DoW ($2 billion), DOGE cuts (up to $135 billion), ice deportations (estimated at $315 billion), and refurbishing Trump's grift jet (nearly $1 billion), just to name a few instances of this government's wasteful spending?

I'm afraid the rot in you has blinded you to reason.

Evidence seems to be something they have no use for.

Because they’d actually had warnings and whistleblowers come out prior in Minnesota, and nothing was done. How long do you just allow it to continue? The Somali daycare scam was brought to attention as early as 2014.

It was mentioned the fraud could have amounted to 100 million dollars even then (let alone now). Nothing was done about it

Well I totally 1000% support the deportation measures. Worth it.

But yeah pls go challenge some of the other stuff, you won’t find me complaining if you do

I agree, but like others said, I don’t think MAGAs care about the rest of the world or what they think. I have a cousin married to a staunch Trump voter and they live in Florida. They don’t think the rest of the world is necessary to their success and they don’t care what the rest of the world thinks. E.g. they don’t think Americans should be going abroad for tourism, they think Americans should only be spending money in the USA not elsewhere. They want domestic tourism and not foreign visitors. My cousin’s wife hangs on every word Trump says and believes everything he says

How do you feel about Greenland though @RingoJuice and all the tariffs and the Canada becoming a state stuff.

You know the bits that affect the rest of the world and how the rest of the world views the US.

The whole idea of a Presidency wasn’t that one man had all the power and could make the decisions it was that the power was with the people for the people. That they had a say in who ran the country and were not simply given a leader by his birthright.

A beautiful notion (even if the people didn’t mean the people and still doesn’t really given all but one of those who have been President are white men.

Doesnt it bother you that the principles for which America does see itself as being great for are being eroded - certainly in the eyes of the rest of the world?

The US is currently the high school jock whose days of being the one everyone admired and wanted to be or be with have long since gone but they are still wearing their letter(man) jacket with not only pride but a belief that everyone wants to wear it as well

Trump is using his presidential position to personally enrich himself and his family as much as he can and while he has the absolute immunity from criminal prosecution that the presidency provides him. His oil company buddies will profit hugely from Venezuelan oil and I’m sure they’re very grateful to him. I’m sure many of his inner circle are profiting from their loyalty too. The American voters have made their choice and I’ll doubt they’ll ever get so much as a crumb from Trump’s leadership table filtering down to them. but as they seem happy let’s leave them to it. It won’t be the first time a country has found itself in this position and it won’t be the last. The rest of the world just needs to adjust as necessary to be able to survive and thrive without the USA and focus on other alliances, resilience and self sufficiency. There’s 3 more years of this to go… at the very least…

Who's 'stamer'?

Starmer.
Stupid autocorrect even my phone dont like him.

But im sure you knew who I was on about 🙂.