[Bruce Campbells Chin]

My wife and I spent last week at our cottage in Michigan with another conservative couple. The husband, a hunting buddy, was one of the first people I ever saw wearing a MAGA hat back in 2015. Didn't have the TV on the entire week so we weren't being saturated by the media.

Despite that, both of them had a very negative reaction to the whole "Lake America" thing, and the guy said that he wished Trump would just "shut the hell up" sometimes and not keep running his mouth because it made him sound "like an idiot". He actually said "I can't even listen to him talk anymore".

That overall attitude is pretty representative of most Trump voters I personally know. We/they like his policies, but think he says a lot of stupid, cringe-worthy stuff. That said, we'd all still vote for him again, and still support most of his policies.

I'm sure there are other Trump voters who love all the "trolling" stuff he says, so I'm certainly not claiming my/our attitude is how all - or even a majority - of Trump voters think. But it is bogus to think the only reason anyone thinks that way is because of media brainwashing.

We certainly were able to use our own judgement to reject the tidal wave of anti-Trump media propaganda in 2016, 2020, and 2024. We all made our own decisions about him based on our own independent judgments about what he said and did, and that still applies. To the extent some of us who voted for us don't like every single thing he says and does, those are our own judgement, not the media's.

[USS Alaska]

Despite that, both of them had a very negative reaction to the whole "Lake America" thing, and the guy said that he wished Trump would just "shut the hell up" sometimes and not keep running his mouth because it made him sound "like an idiot". He actually said "I can't even listen to him talk anymore".

...and the snake said to the lady, "You knew I was a snake when you took me in".

I have a couple of friends like this and I ask them if they were OK with Trump "grabben them by the pussy" but are now embarrassed by the the Gulf of America.

Hypocrites are such sensitive cry babies, get over it, grow a pair.

[DIRTYSECRET]

**We/they like his policies, but think he says a lot of stupid, cringe-worthy stuff. That said, we’d all still vote for him again, and still support most of his policies.**

The left hates him with a passion and it does have a negative effect on his popularity. Trump brings that hatred to a head while engaging in the theory of diminishing returns. They foam at the mouth so bad that people start tuning them out. That’s his plan. He’s having a good time while his enemies want him dead, making it easier to choose. sides.