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

[sage2021]

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]

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]

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

[sage2021]

@Stoner710
DeSantis may have quilled wokisim in the state of Florida. However, One state is not the entire United States. And he hasn't even told us HOW he's going to keep them out. I'd love to see this go down! It's not gonna happen.

[Stoner710]

Maybe (DeSantis is also weak on foreign policy). DeSantis record in Florida can translate into the entire country with the exception of the west coast and New York. (Frankly, if you got rid of Washington, Oregon, and California and just dealt with New York, harshly you would get rid of 90% of the social issues in the country)

But we need someone who can win and not piss off independents. People like me and you are going to be voting Republican no matter what but our vote isn’t going to bring trump over the finish line. With DeSantis who is less controversial then trump knows how to govern and isn’t stuck on the 2020 election. Also why the hell is Trump running to DeSantis left? Trump has spoken out against the Bud Light boycott. He is in favor of leaving and Disney alone to help trans the kids.

Trump is also start on the 2020 election, claiming that it was stolen from it and voting fraud was the soul reason he lost. Well. How is he going to stop it? If Democratic got away with it in 2020 when make you think trump can do anything about it in 2024?

Also me and you are going to vote for the republican nominee anyway whether is Trump or DeSantis. It’s independents that will decide the general so we need someone who can appeals to independents DeSantis is that’s guy Trump isn’t.

[Anonymous]

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]

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]

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.

[Surely]

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!

[richardcory]

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]

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.

[BillyBalls]

Don't forget... The Durham report proved the Russian interefered with the 2016 election to install Trump as emperor... oh wait!!! The report found no trace of Russian collusion.

[Anpu23]

@BillyBalls I didn't mention that one at all, did I?

[sage2021]

@Anpu23
Who brainwashed you into believing Trump ran up the debt ceiling? That is not true and you sound foolish if you believe that.

[Anpu23]

www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump the truth is that Trump ran up a huge national debt. As a fiscal conservative it was one of the reasons why I have pulled away from the Republican party.

[sage2021]

@Anpu23
Apparently you don't recall that Obama left our military stockpile completely EMPTY! Trump had to spend money to build up our military forces with top of the line equipment in case the US was ever attacked like Pearl Harbor was.
So, when Obama didn't spend any money on military equipment, it made him look like he made the debt ceiling look good.
Now Trump is the only one out of everyone in the United States that seems to have run up the debt. That's the democrats lying through their ugly teeth again.
Over and over again at different interviews, etc. I have heard Trump say that the one thing he is still pissed at Obama for was for leaving American's and America without military protection and put our country in a place where our National Security wasn't able to keep us safe. So, he fixed that!
Then the stupid democrats left all of that expensive equipment in Afghanistan! Apparently ice cream joe won't buy new equipment to protect the United States. Which blends right in with them trying to lower the population by killing people in America.
WHATEVER!!!

[1073sucks]

so basically repeating all the propaganda you consumed are the basis for you hating trump lol. Enough said.

[Anpu23]

It takes goods and services to buy goods and services. You don't cut taxes AND spend. That is a recipe for disaster. We didn't give him a blank check, but he used the treasury and ran up a crazy amount of debt. Yes we shouldn't have left equipment behind, that's another issue all together. And I don't give Obama a pass for that.

[1073sucks]

so basically you hate him because the of propaganda "fact checks' lol

[call_me_scar]

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

[sage2021]

@call_me_scar
Now tell me all the bad things Biden has done. You can start with that he took showers with his daughter Ashley when she was just a girl.
Go ahead... your turn.

[call_me_scar]

Oh don't get me wrong I hate corrupt bastards on both sides of the parties he's a corrupt taking big money from rich assholes who only care about their bank account, we are still in multiple other wars, he's definitely not all here mentally I still laugh at the lick the world speech, he doesn't give a fuck about the environment, and he doesn't push for big corporations to pay their fair share in taxes as they the big companies price gouge the American people

[sage2021]

The most despicable thing that the Biden administration is guilty of isn't even his direct fault! It's whoever is pulling his strings. Whoever's in charge was not elected.

[call_me_scar]

Yes though he like the rest are a willing participant in the corruption and he is weeping the benefits of it at the cost of not just the American people but people in general. Evil wins when good men fail to act and Biden like trump is failing to act which is no surprise given both of their pasts. At the end of the day I'd say throw them both in jail as well as the big money donors who are supporting them if it's shown those donors are expecting something in return

[exitseven]

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]

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!!

[Lliam]

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]

This is what public schools are doing to our kids.

[Lliam]

@exitseven. Public schools, Operation Mockingbird mainstream media, manipulation of websites and social media, and an army of paid propagandists.

[sage2021]

@Lliam
You said "They consume 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".
This is exactly CULT behavior!! I said many years ago that the democrats were a cult.
What other President has behaved in such a manor? None! Because they weren't in a cult.
Years ago when Biden was running against Trump I was on a website and asked the question "What does Biden stand for"?
I swear, I had at least six answers to that question, and all six people answered it with the same answer "Google it". I knew early on that it was cult behavior when I saw every answer from each one of them was the same.
Everything the democrats do and say is coming from a cult leader. Who is that leader? Seriously? Is it some billionaire maybe?
How can millions of people all of a sudden get WOKE Mind Virus? Because there aren't very many true cases of the medical condition known as gender dysphoria. That is a medical condition that needs voluntary surgery. ☮️

[Lliam]

Hi Sage. My original answer was to the question: Why do some people HATE Trump? And, obviously, the people who have severe TDS are loyal Democrats.

But Democrats aren't the only people who are brainwashed.

America's national security state apparatus; FBI; the Zionist regime of Israel; and the CIA (Operation Mockingbird being only one of the CIA's programs to control the American people). The establishment media, as well as on-line search engines and social media giants, schools and universities, are the means of Jim Jonesing the masses.
All of these forces act at the behest of the supranational, cross-generational, arch-criminal globalist confederacy that’s been directing world affairs behind the scenes for decades.

[Pudsmucker]

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.

[BeMuse]

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.

[sage2021]

@BeMuse
You seem to be a relatively intelligent man, so I ask that you re-read your answer and end up with the recipe for a cult? Than that "somebody" is their leader!

[BeMuse]

I don't known that they have uniformity in philosophy necessarily. They generally do have particular personality traits that promote adoption of collectivism and authoritarian obedience. That said, those sorts of people are more malleable… They are smooth brains... From the beginning of radio, then television, and eventually the internet the primary goal was control. It was no secret that CIA psychologists were from the get go exploring hypnosis and mind control via communication. At one point they claimed they outlawed it. That eventually evolved into later projects like Bluebird, Artichoke, MKUltra, Monarch, and Operation Mockingbird. It’s a control matrix... If you actually go back and read the declassified history of some of those programs what they CIA always does to break a mind is utilize isolation. What happened during COVID leading up to the election? They locked people down in isolation in many states where you see the strongest hate for Trump. They told those people to stay in their homes, avoid other people, and turn on the news. Then through repetition and fear they programmed broken minds utilizing tactics from Operation Mockingbird on television, and leverage Lifelog (FaceBook), The GOOG (Google), and Twitter to reinforce that message. So technically they worship the CIA, but I don't really think they grasp that yet...

[BeMuse]

*the

[BeMuse]

I wonder if they will catch on this time around...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-5d7V4Sbqk

[inhua]

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

[sage2021]

@inhua
WOKE Mind Virus 🦠 is an incurable disease!

[zagor]

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.

[sage2021]

@zagor
I just had to laugh when you commented how you said he destroyed women's freedom of choice.
Biden's pick when on her interview, was asked "What is a woman". She answered "I don't know".
And you think Trump picked bad SCOTUS'?
She doesn't even know what a woman is. Oh brother. What an idiot!
At least when Trump chose Any Comey Barrett, she has 7 children, so she definitely knows what a woman is.

[zagor]

And now I guess every woman will have to have 7 children.

Trump had his choices vetted by right-wing nutcases. While I agree the Democratic presidents make too big a deal placating their supporters by making ethnicity and gender primary considerations, at least they weren't tied to their views on a single issue.

[Billlewis]

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.

[Billlewis]

You want to have a good laugh, ask someone who hates Trump why they hate him, or what they think he did wrong, and they literally have nothing, just the stubborn belief that if they were told he's a bad guy, then he's a bad guy... lol

[Kaneki05]

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.

[Ptrmbrs88]

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.

[runnerboy]

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

[Likes2drive]

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

[Dargil]

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

[sage2021]

@Dargil
You are free to believe it's a religious belief when actually it's a cult!

[Dargil]

Like JW or Mormons. A belief system that is a cult. No issue here.

[LiamJHayden]

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.

[exitseven]

Yes, he is a blowhard and a jerk. He also got a lot of stuff done that was good for America, Imagine if Biden was president when we got Covid. He would still be looking for a minority owned pharmaceutical company to develop a vaccine.

[LiamJHayden]

@exitseven I have no problem with his personality. Anyone who wants to be POTUS is pretty conceited, even if he or she is better at hiding it than DJT.

[Dinosaursandanime65]

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