Trump thinks his supporters are the most gullible people on earth. Are they really?
Ive got the perfect slogan for President Trumps reelection campaign: Promises Made, Promises Not Kept, But Im Betting My Voters Are Too Stupid to Notice.
Lets take stock:
Trump promised to build a wall along the 2,000-mile southern border, with the cost of the big, beautiful barrier to be borne by Mexico. Trump made this pledge dozens of times in a call-and-response ritual at his campaign rallies. Whos going to pay for the wall? he would demand, and the cheering crowds would yell the answer: Mexico!
Result: Not a single mile of Trumps wall has been built. When Mexican officials made clear they would never pay a cent toward construction, Trump asked Congress for the money. Even with Republicans in control of both the House and the Senate for two full years, Congress declined to waste taxpayer dollars on the project. When Democrats took the House, Trump declared a national emergency in an attempt to steal funds from other projects. Still, despite what he claims, Trump has built no new wall.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-thinks-his-supporters-are-the-most-gullible-people-on-earth-are-they-really/2019/03/07/1e79a4c4-4119-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html
Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)Dulcinea
(6,509 posts)Facts be damned. Dolt 45 says things are great. That's all they need to know.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)It is because he is punishing the people they hate.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-hes-not-hurting-the-people-he-needs-be-hurting
Ive seen plenty of memorable quotes from Trump voters over the last couple of years, but hes not hurting the people he needs to be hurting is among the most striking.
It captures an amazing perspective: some Trump voters expected the Republican to punish some people if elected, but they assumed theyd be spared. Trump would hurt those people, the sentiment went, but not us.
Paladin
(28,204 posts)There's your answer, unfortunately.