Every day, I receive text messages and emails from people who are as terrified as I am about a trump win. They’re as bewildered as I am about why this guy has any supporters at all. Trump is a convicted felon – that alone should disqualify him from running for president – a perpetual liar, a sex offender who has been ordered to pay E Jean Carrol millions.
He’s also a grifter who has tried at various times to sell a trump bible (printed in China), golden sneakers with his name blazed across the sides, trump watches. And those are just the items that caught my attention. Google it. There were more grifter trump items.
My first intro to this guy was some years ago, when a yoga student of Rob’s invited us over to her place to have a bite of supper and find out about a new kind of phone. It was a a new type of video phone popularized by ACN, a marketing company that paid trump millions to promote.
I remember watching this stupid video and thinking, Huh? Who is this jerk? I’d never lived in NY or watched The Apprentice so this trump dude was new to me.
Then he became president, but only because he won the electoral college, which seems to be the main way that republicans win the presidency. And he’s still up to the same grifter stuff. Buy this, buy that, my stuff, my treasures can also be yours. Sure, gold sneakers with his name on the side for 300 bucks. A trump bible printed in China: yeah, sign me up.
I’m so bewildered by why anyone at any point in time supports this guy. I’m particularly interested in why Cubans seem to support him. They fled a brutal dictatorship under Castro, but are pro trump? Why? Project 2025 offers the same dictatorship, Trump himself disparages Latinos from every country – and apparently really pissed off Puerto Ricans with the latest display in Madison Square Gardens.
I taught English to Marielitos in the late 1980s. I heard their horror stories. I got to know many of them. They hated Castro. But now…are these supporters the children of those Marielitos? The grandchildren? If you speak Spanish, if you are brown or black or anything other than white, trump trashes you.
And then there’s women- brown women, black women, white women, every woman- whose right to make decisions about her own body was stripped from her with the overturn of Roe v. Wade. It means our daughter and granddaughters will be growing up with fewer rights than we had. So take note, people. If trump wins, he’s going to have the most extreme and hateful VP candidate in JD Vance as a VP, who probably will step into prez power at some point in the next four years.
And then we are really fucked.
Add me to the list of those terrified Trump might win.
I am from NY and grew up in the same era as him. He was basically just a spoiled rich playboy. He got out of having to go to Vietnam because he had “heel spurs”. He was frequently in the newspaper society pages partying and when he married his first wife, cheated on her, married wife #2 and cheated on her. He cheated many people with his fake Trump University, bought casino in Atlantic City and it went to hell, But he always managed to have a lot of money. He was always obnoxious and New Yorkers can’t stand him. I can’t understand how a criminal traitor like him was even allowed to run for president. There is no company on earth that would hire someone with his history. The orange man is nothing but a carnival barker but for some reason he knows how to sway people. Praying for America
I hope prayers help.
Great insight here, Caren.