Why, seriously why do people that hate Trump HATE him?

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We only get the same old stupid answers like how he told a guy that you can get any woman you want when you are rich.
He had orange hair.
He's fat.
He's a liar but I'm not sure what he has lied about. Now, if you want to give the trophy 🏆 to the biggest liar in the Nation, the trophy goes to Biden - hands down!
Strange how so many started hating him all at the same time, just like a cult does.

nightdrot · Accepted Answer

Several factors are at play.

Part of it is simply disagreement on policy issues. Though that is perhaps the least important factor. Particularly when, in actual practice, the difference between Mr. Trump and his political opponents on policy issues is not that wide.

See also Mr. Trump's supporters beating up on Governor DeSantis for his vote to reduce Social Security benefits back when the latter was a Member of Congress. Suffice to say, Mr. Trump is hardly taking a controversial stand.

The other factor is the impact of media. The media back in the day - movies, radio, television - intensified the scrutiny of a candidate, to be sure. However, it is nothing like the impact of today's social media. This tends to focus the individual on the things that they like or least like about a candidate and intensify that image with almost laser-like intensity. Thus, emotional reactions are now even more intense than they were a mere 20 years ago.

However, these factors - and there are others - pale in comparison to the main reason. Mr. Trump wants that intensity and hatred. He is a populist and that hatred directed towards himself is interpreted by his supporters as the opposition's loathing of the man they support.

A man who expresses himself in highly vitriolic terms toward those he opposes because it echoes the populist belief that the elites loathe the common man. The common man, for his part, wants to support an individual who will reciprocate with equal intensity the common man's loathing of the elites.

The result is a vitriolic spiral. On the one hand, Mr. Trump so antagonizes his opponents that they fire at him a loathing that Mr. Trump then points to as evidence of the elite's disdain for the common man. On the other hand, by antagonizing his opponents in such an open and vitriolic way, Mr. Trump satisfies, among his own supporters, their desire to "tell the man off," so to speak.

Ironically, it is why Mr. Trump, notwithstanding having a reasonably good - though not as brilliant as his supporters claim - track record in office, could not be re-elected. Mr. Trump's style precluded, in effect, the chance that a consensus could be built around him and his policies.

The striking contrast is with the late former President Reagan. For his time, Reagan's views were fairly controversial. Yet Reagan's style was agreeable and friendly. This being caught by a cartoon published during his tenure:

First panel: A pollster asks a voter what he thinks of Reagan's policies - #@*!! is the response. Next panel the pollster asks the same voter what he thinks of Reagan personally. The reply: "Oh nice guy, friendly, jovial'"

To be sure, Reagan's policies were successful - even more then Trump's. (Reagan's best economic growth rate - an eye watering 7.4%. Trump's: 3.1%. Reagan's best inflation rate: 1.1%. Trump's: 2.1%... and so on.)

Yet because Reagan's style was so affable and generous, a general consensus formed around his policy agenda that remained dominant in the country until, ironically, the Trump years. In effect, Reagan calmed and soothed the nation as well as making it prosperous.

By contrast, although the objective conditions in the country under Mr. Trump were reasonably good, he nurtured the populist anger that is now so much a part of the tone of the culture. In effect, in order to satiate the populist anger of his supporters, Mr. Trump antagonized the larger society.

The net result is that is that Mr. Trump has come - even though, again, reasonably successful as measured in policy terms - to be cordially loathed by a large segment of the population. The irony being that, in many ways, that loathing has served Mr. Trump well.

Stoner710 · Accepted Answer

Mainly because he beat Hillary Clinton in 2016, His mouth get him into trouble with independents, the grab her by the pussy joke is one example. The legacy media also tried painting trump in a bad light, like when they said he subjected injecting bleach to cure Covid which he never said.

my beef with Trump right now is the fact that he lost in 2018 and 2020 and the candidates he picked for 2022 mid terms all lost. Trump is hilarious there is not a more entertaining human on earth than trump. But I want to win in 2024 if it comes to the general and trump is the nominee I will vote for trump a 3rd time but in the primaries I’m voting for Ron DeSantis.

Ron DeSantis bucked the conventional wisdom on COVID-19 opened up his state and the state of Florida has thrived he turned a purple state to a deep red state he’s not letting Disney get away with promoting homosexuality and transgenderism in schools he’s passed a 6 week abortion ban and he gave parents the right to control what there kids are being taught in the call room with the parental protection in education at (what the left termed as the don’t say gay bill) and he doesn’t piss off independents so against joe Biden DeSantis is likely to win, trump vs Biden I’m not sure if trump can win.

I don’t hate trump but I don’t think he’s the right choice for 2024

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

propaganda gets people to think how THEY want them to think.

I once was against trump as I listened to mainstream media that repeated the same thing and tell you what trump said instead of listening to what he actually said and why he wants to do certain things, I would let the news dictate what supposedly trump meant. OMG he's so racist he said "HOMBRES" 😱!! I remember this part being repeated on Spanish news so much and people like OMG he's so racist he said "HOMBRES" .. and now I think back on it like WTF? how is that racist.. Fucking ridiculous. Most of what he says is true but people want to feel offended for everything and I'm not even republican or democrat but I see democrats use propaganda a LOT to skew people's thinking and it's powerful it really works. Most people don't care much about politics and just go on about their day but listen to whatever news is out there because 'how can they lie to us', 'they would't do that', it can't be a lie when it's everywhere, right? duh! that's how most people think and it's really everywhere, even on this site, it's all mostly against trump, likely because the admins are part of the propaganda consumers who believe what they were brainwashed to believe and delete questions that don't go along with the narrative that trump is not actually how the propaganda potrays him to be.

I am hispanic and I myself KNOW that hispanics and blacks are the ones that destroy cities and make them into ghettos, is that racist? absolutely not, it's just a fact. While many people come to this country to get better, there's also many people who just come here to make money and send back to their homes and don't actually give a fuck about this country that's giving them the opportunity and those are the people that trash the cities, they con't care to fix up their homes here because they are too busy making money to fix their home back in their own countries, and then they have kids and they join gangs and those people's kids are the ones that further continue to ruin the cities. I have many cousins like that, it's sickening, yet voicing that TRUTH will only achieve one thing, being called a racist against my own people. How fucking annoying,

Once I realized this I realized the media twists trumps word's around and makes a truth come out as a RACIST remark, therefore turning people against him...

ohhh so scary he hurt my feelings I hate him now he's so evil and racist and horrible and stupid etc etc, so rather go vote for an shriveled old man who loves bombs and initiated wars in other countries for his own greed, biden. That sick old man, most who voted for him were under the impression that trump was a racist and still are under that impression so rather go vote for another who starts wars and kills people, so disgusting.

biden initiated the war in ukraine 9 years ago and continued his genocide when he became president and still today he continues his disgusting massacre there, but placing blame on russia using media to tell you stories that make you angry and mad seeing death and telling who to blame without telling you exactly why it started and why it's still going. sick of this bs. but we can't do much when majority are easily fooled people because how can it all be lies if it's everywhere right? Grand ignorance.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Because the left-wing media tells them to. The democrat party has successfully taken over most of the media in the USA. MSNBC is the worst, followed by CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, virtually EVERY major newspaper in the nation. The also control most social media. Yeah, they recently lost full control of Twitter, but they are still allowed an equal voice on there. The democrats are still having a meltdown over Elon Musk allowing free speech. Democrats want to label any speech that is not approved by the party as "hate speech". In some of the deep blue states, they are passing laws to this effect.

Why are the democrats doing this? They are literally copying the work done by Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels. He was able to pacify an entire nation of Germans and control their thoughts and opinions by controlling all media. This is the goal of the democrat party. Goebbels also took control of the schools and replaced the teachers with loyal Nazis so they could indoctrinate the kids with Nazi ideology. The democrats have done the exact same thing. Do you think it is coincidence that nearly every teacher in the USA is "woke" and is pushing all of this gay and trans stuff on kids starting in kindergarten and elementary schools? Teaching reading, math, English, science, history, is not even on these teacher's agenda. They are hyper-focused on teaching woke ideology. Generation Z has been destroyed by these evil indoctrinators disguised as teachers. Go to twitter and look up "Libs of Tiktok". You will see acrual videos posted by these woke teachers, bragging about indoctrinating kids and pressuring them into being gay or trans. They are giving them pornographic graphic novels and sexualizing them. The democrat parry is even going beyond the methods of the Nazis and the result will be much worse. As I said, go to Twitter and check it out for yourself the proof on video is there. Now lets see how long this stays up before the left-wing moderators pull it down.

Sixgunsound · Answer

Because the brainwashing/outrage machine behind every media or entertainment or news or social media outlet on earth told them orange man big bad and if you don't take that as religious truth they will get big mad abd destroy your life. It's essentially cowardice that makes people fall for that crap. Wokeism is essentially a paper tiger or glass cannon that loses its destructive power once you stop believing it has any. If the world collectively said no, or even just the west collectively said no we aren't going to live a lie or be afraid anymore, wokeism would find its rightful place on the ash heap of history.

richardcory · Answer

I feel like he degraded the office of the president. Other people may have thought the things he said, but saying them openly helped weaken the public's faith in the office. He also make a lot of divisive statements that increased the liberal / conservative tension in the us.

It looked to me like he not only openly questioned the results of the election but tried to take that questioning beyond the US legal processes. This country only works if people believe it works. Once we start questioning elections we are on a path to civil war. Legal challenges are one thing, but inciting a mob is entirely different.

Anpu23 · Answer

I can tell you why I dislike him. His assault on my business partner. His bodyguards hemmed up my good friend and business partner for no reason. His words to him "nobody cares what the poor think." The fact that he used public funds. My money, to pay off his own debt.  The fact that he has ran a much better con than I could have possibly imagined (yes there's some jealousy there, can you imagine conning enough of the US population to get elected president?) The fact that he has undermined the US electoral process.  The fact that he stole US secrets and probably sold them to our enemies. Putting friends lives in jeopardy.  The fact that he has made the entire Republican party virtually unelectable.  The fact he ran up the national debt, which puts us in the situation that we are in now.

call_me_scar · Answer

Well let's see he raped a women, friends with Epstein even being quoted saying "oh you know Epstein he likes them young", he's corrupt taking in lots of big money so he can vote in favor of them, tried to overthrow the election, he killed a bill that would have helped stop the genocide in Yemen, we lost 200k jobs because of him, he scams everyone he does business with as well as his very scam able audience like with those nfts made from google images, he stole documents relating to nukes and a few months afterwards a lot of our spys ended up dead, and he cheats on his property taxes

Surely · Answer

I can’t speak for the Anti-Trumpers.. But my measly retirement fund was doing just fine. I just hated being able to fill up my gas tank with taking out a mortgage. NOT!!! So nice not to hear that businesses have staffing shortages and that you would need to wait for service. No shortage of food on store shelves.
And it also seemed that at least one half of the citizens of the United States walked around having a smile on their face. Not like now. When no one is happy!
I agree. We need someone who can continue Trumps policies. But I am afraid that the Trump Derangement Syndrome people will find away to prevent him from being elected!

Lliam · Answer

1. They are Democrats and the Democratic leadership has been making hysterical claims about Trump ever since he beat Killary in 2016.
2. They consume (liberal) mainstream media exclusively. It tells them what to think and that's what they internalize. They want to be told what to think rather than thinking for themselves. They don't use their own powers of perception or reason. They are guided by emotion, not logic.

exitseven · Answer

I was never a big fan of his and I never watched the Apprentice. I was skeptical of his presidency but voted for him anyway because the alternative was much worse.
However his policies were what America needed and America needs them again. People that hate him are either illegal aliens, the Taliban, NATO deadbeats, China, North Korea, Russia and Mexico or else brainwashed idiots that have had a steady diet of academia and CNN.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

THEY don't know!! Ask them!! All you'll get is that he's got an orange face (I thought we were SUPPOSED to be NICE to "coloured" people!) or that he's racist, and they have NOTHING to back that up with!! On the other hand, I can show a number of things that PROVE that he's NOT racist!!

BeMuse · Answer

Because the media told them to hate him. People that gravitate toward collectivist authoritarianism want to fit in with the crowd and obey what they think is acceptable behavior. They see the news as an authority source that spreads the voice of the people.

Pudsmucker · Answer

I have anything against former president Donald Trump. He is a very shrewd businessman he gets things done and gets to the point. He does not skirt around questions that pertain to the security of the nation. I thought he was pulling us out of a good recession cause by democrats from the former administration. He did not allow foreign dictators to walk all over the US. He seemed to be stable.

inhua · Answer

Trump Derangement Syndrome is an incurable disease

also we now live in a society where nobody truly understands how leadership works and that being liked is more important than being competent as it pertains to leading

zagor · Answer

He's a bombastic self-promoting ass, he lies relentlessly, he picks petty fights that would embarrass a 6 year old, he destroyed women's freedom of choice with his SCOTUS picks, most of the people he works with despise him and tell how ignorant he is of world affairs, and, oh yes, he instigated a riot to try and overturn a legitimate election.

Billlewis · Answer

They hate him because that's the way they've been programmed. The other big reason is because they're so terrified of not being with the 'in' crowd. Popularity is everything for some people.

Kaneki05 · Answer

That's the opposite of a cult smh. A cult would be the other-way around, loving him so much you are blinded by his very obvious flaws and lies like you clearly are.
And the thing is once blind, no fact will change that.
Not even the fact that cult is opposite of what you described lmao.

runnerboy · Answer

He does not tell the truth... fact check his stuff, he seems to be in this world for just himself not the rest of us non billionaires. I don't hate him I just do not trust or respect him and I think thee are better leaders out there. I turn 18 in September and can't register to vote. I will always evaluate every candidate on their values... I do not give a shit what party they belong to

Ptrmbrs88 · Answer

I don't understand this either. It makes  no  sense at all. The only conclusion I can reach is that TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) is an actual mental malady, and should go in the next edition of the DSM.

Dargil · Answer

These people believe  IN NOTHING.  They believe  AGAINST Trump . Like Global Warming, it's a religious belief.

LiamJHayden · Answer

Some because he can be a total blowhard and a jerk. Many because they were told to. The latter goes for those who loved the guy till he decided to run for office.

Likes2drive · Answer

They think he is just a womanizer I guess or what he believes in. I don’t hate him, he is the type of guy the country needs again

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

I can list many things. Major skill issue Mentally ill  They hate good old American values Definitely Satanic, L + ratio to the 10th power + fatherless + maidenless with an 80 times multiplier

Why, seriously why do people that hate Trump HATE him?

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