Sorry, but he did run on those things.
The bleeding started with the bombing in Iran and after that he recovered somewhat because he didn’t get us in deeper. But he has managed to make the bleeding far worse now. He needs to pay attention to what his coalition of voters are saying unless he wants 2 years and then it is over.
The Epstein issue was a self inflicted blunder that his own people managed to blunder into so badly that it has turned bleeding into a hemorrhage. He then made it worse by telling voters to shut up and move on while belittling and scolding them. Whenever his admin messes up, the voters get called names and accused of disloyalty for going WTF? Some overly ardent supporters have even said they need to make lists of anyone who has criticized a policy decision. This is ridiculous and sounds like RAT think. It is almost like the admin has a team that works to take an unfortunate situation and make it more damaging.
He had deportation going really great, then he turns around and says some will get to stay.
He has not taken those covid death shots off the market, they have been okayed to shoot into babes.
Endorsing people like Lindsay Graham. Lindsay is an immoral POS and war whore. Trump stood there while Trump supporters booed the hell out of Lindsay at a rally. Those people booed that creep for a reason. Trump can’t rehabilitate that creature and make us like him. He is a blur on Trump’s record.
Trump has great success and each time he sabotages them with another 180 on something else lately. He is getting really bad advice from somewhere. If he wants to float an idea and see the reaction, he should let the idea come from someone other than himself so he can see first how people react before he owns it.
Telling us Melania has told him to do things is not what I want to hear. I didn’t vote for her. She is one vote in the midterms. I like her better in classy fashion and speaking for kids. I like her when she didn’t have a ball hat covering her eyes all the time while sporting drab masculine clothing. I don’t care if fancy fashion magazines never had her all over the cover. We liked her and we didn’t like them. So now we get Dark Melania as a result.
I took POTUS at his word. I watched most of his rallies and always defended him. I even got people to vote for him because he was for transparency and disclosure. I never expected him to be something he never claimed to be. What most of us did not want was George W Bush on foreign policy. Foreign policy is a loser in midterm elections. I can honestly say he came out of the gate in spectacular fashion. People were awed by it. And then...the unnecessary for the moment foreign intervention cooked up by the neocons to derail it all came out of nowhere and appears to be dominating and destroying.
If we lose in midterms, the 💩 is going to hit the fan in MAGA. It was so important in the first half of this term to keep voters on board.
FR isn’t a good place to get the pulse on younger than boomer voters. Many have different viewpoints than people here do.
Sorry, but he did not run on those things. I know a lot of people online talked as if he did and have encouraged each other to see things that way, because of the way they wanted to interpret his positions. But he was never pro-Russia; he bragged about how tough he actually was against Russia. He never ran on cutting off Ukraine; he ran on pressuring both sides to the negotiating table. He’s pressured Ukraine; now he’s trying Russia. He is doing this to try to force a peace in the fashion that he said he would (although as everyone already knew, it was always going to take more than one day).
And of course Melania didn’t tell him to do things; she merely pointed out Putin’s words and actions didn’t match. He absolutely never promised to remove the COVID shot for those who want it, and he’s always been buddies with Lindsay Graham. Yes, the Epstein thing has been handled badly and he said he’d release the files so there is that, though he sort of qualified it a bit, but he hardly ran on it like a campaign issue as some pretend.
His Iran strike was 100% consistent with what he actually ran on. He said over and over and over again that he would not allow Iran to have nuclear weapons and made it clear he would do what was needed to take out their nuclear capabilities if they did not agree to stop themselves. He ran on not starting new unncessary wars and nation building, and he kept his word. He did quick surgical strikes, far less extensive than his multiple bombings of Syria in his first term or even his bombing of Yemen earlier this year. This was more in line with his bombings of known terrorists in Somalia earlier this year or his Soleimani strike in his first term.
It was only a bunch of online influencers who were stirring people up into fantasies of World War III, ground invasions, 20-year occupations that had people falsely believing that Trump was not doing exactly what he said he would, even though there was never any possibility of Trump doing any of the things that the influencers were pretending. This was only people attacking him over things that simply were not real. His foreign policy right now is extremely consistent with his first-term foreign policy.
I am very aware that there are lots of people online especially young ones who have hallucinated all sorts of facutally inaccurate or at least unproven things about Trump and have combined those things with completely unrealistic expectations of what is possible. This has convinced many that Trump is not keeping his campaign promises, when he is doing so better than any president at least in our lifetimes. Of course, it will hurt him, but he shouldn’t allow himself to drop the possitions he’s always held, weaken America’s safety or power, take radical positions antithetical to standard conservatism, or make his administration focus on the latest online conspiracy theories because of it.
Once his policies have time to get the economy booming and the huge ICE funding from the Big Beautiful Bill allows for a big ramp up in deportations, I think he’ll make up for any discontent on the farther edges of the right (although mid-terms are always tricky for the party in power anyway—who the next president is is much more important).
I’m a millenial by the way, not a boomer.