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kentuck

(111,103 posts)
Mon Feb 26, 2018, 01:45 PM Feb 2018

What do Trump supporters find most admiring about their "Leader"?

Is it his business acumen? Is it his ability to divide our country and to continue to piss off liberals? Is it his charming personality? What appeals most to his adoring supporters?
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Thank you, President Trump! I tell my son that if he dreams that he had a rich father, numerous failed businesses, dull intellect, the speech capabilities of a fifth grader, and even bad hair, that he too could be President someday. Thank you, President Trump, for setting the bar so low.

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What do Trump supporters find most admiring about their "Leader"? (Original Post) kentuck Feb 2018 OP
One I work with says he is a "man's man", tough as nails, won't take any crap from anyone. redstatebluegirl Feb 2018 #1
"man's man?..... ollie10 Feb 2018 #4
I guess, the first time I laughed out loud. redstatebluegirl Feb 2018 #6
They believe this, in real life he is the biggest chickenshit who ever lived, has NEVER Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 #5
Amen to that. redstatebluegirl Feb 2018 #7
Yup....and he chickened out of Vietnam..... ollie10 Feb 2018 #10
or too greedy to care lunasun Feb 2018 #16
Then why is he so frightened of Putin he won't implement sinkingfeeling Feb 2018 #14
He is scared of a bunch of high school students! redstatebluegirl Feb 2018 #15
I've heard that too, and I always tell them.... mreilly Feb 2018 #20
well said! fierywoman Feb 2018 #22
+1000 smirkymonkey Feb 2018 #24
He infuriates liberals. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #2
They love him for hurling insults. Its no more complex than that. poboy2 Feb 2018 #3
He promised to hurt people maxrandb Feb 2018 #8
He "thinks" like them. Glamrock Feb 2018 #9
His racism with his idiocy being next. LonePirate Feb 2018 #11
They like that Ohiogal Feb 2018 #12
He says what he thinks and makes people on the left furious. It's that simple. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2018 #13
That he "tells it like it is." Yeah right. nt sweetroxie Feb 2018 #17
That he shares their delusions. onenote Feb 2018 #18
I think some of it is they know he isn't very smart and neither are they. redstatebluegirl Feb 2018 #19
Dang I thought this was a poll completed by his supporters! Corvo Bianco Feb 2018 #21
It's really just that he pizzles folk like you and me struggle4progress Feb 2018 #23

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
1. One I work with says he is a "man's man", tough as nails, won't take any crap from anyone.
Mon Feb 26, 2018, 01:48 PM
Feb 2018

Now, if you believe that one, i have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
6. I guess, the first time I laughed out loud.
Mon Feb 26, 2018, 01:53 PM
Feb 2018

It wasn't taken well, he said it again this morning and I just rolled my eyes and walked away. He is a nut, owns a ton of guns, has been married 3 times (go figure). He is a 50ish aged man who goes straight home from work and sits in front of Fox until he goes to sleep. I give up on him.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
5. They believe this, in real life he is the biggest chickenshit who ever lived, has NEVER
Mon Feb 26, 2018, 01:52 PM
Feb 2018

fired someone face to face, afraid to.

People who support him are not mature or educated enough to know better.

 

ollie10

(2,091 posts)
10. Yup....and he chickened out of Vietnam.....
Mon Feb 26, 2018, 01:58 PM
Feb 2018

....didn't stop him from making fun of real war heroes and parents of same.....

Chickenshit....a becoming description

 

mreilly

(2,120 posts)
20. I've heard that too, and I always tell them....
Mon Feb 26, 2018, 02:21 PM
Feb 2018

.... go right to Twitter and read almost any one of his tweets. He doesn't act like a man, let alone a "man's man" (I swear, some Trump supporters seem to have an unhealthy homerotic obsession with their hero).

He sobs. He cries. He WHINES. My God, so much infantile WHINING. Everyone is being mean. Everyone is picking on him. Everyone is lying about him. He can do no wrong and life is just so unfair. Poor little me. MOMMMMMYYYYYY!

THAT'S being a big tough guy? The scared little crying coward who won't even go to England because oooh, someone might protest him being there.

Just like everything else, reality disagrees with these people continuously.

 

poboy2

(2,078 posts)
3. They love him for hurling insults. Its no more complex than that.
Mon Feb 26, 2018, 01:50 PM
Feb 2018

Hateful maggots. Let him lie, cheat, and steal, so long as he inflicts pain and misery for his ignorant followers to eat up.

Glamrock

(11,802 posts)
9. He "thinks" like them.
Mon Feb 26, 2018, 01:55 PM
Feb 2018

Every time he regurgitates whatever intellectual abortion Sean Hannity vomits up, his followers go, "he gets it." That's it. He reinforces the racist bubble of ignorance they live in.

Ohiogal

(32,006 posts)
12. They like that
Mon Feb 26, 2018, 01:59 PM
Feb 2018

He is vulgar, rude, and racist, and unapologetic about being all three. The Deplorables find these traits admirable. Trump has given them validation to utter their hate.

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
19. I think some of it is they know he isn't very smart and neither are they.
Mon Feb 26, 2018, 02:13 PM
Feb 2018

They hate being talked down to because they don't read, can't comprehend information, can't understand basic information given to them, that makes him just like them, deplorable.

Corvo Bianco

(1,148 posts)
21. Dang I thought this was a poll completed by his supporters!
Mon Feb 26, 2018, 02:21 PM
Feb 2018

I wager that 60% would admire his hate of women and minorities most

struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
23. It's really just that he pizzles folk like you and me
Mon Feb 26, 2018, 02:56 PM
Feb 2018

A lot of our country went off-track and is now sunk up-to-the-fenders in some stinky middle-schoolish troll-muck

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