Pittsburgh focus group shows frustration at Trump

[DonViejo]

BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE - 08/30/17 09:46 AM EDT

Voters in the Pittsburgh, Pa. area have descried frustration with President Trump and his ability to lead the country, according to a new focus group conducted by Emory University and reported by NBC News.

The words used to describe Trump include “dishonest,” “narcissistic,” “off the scale,” “an abject disappointment,” “contemptible,” and “unbelievable.” Out of the 12 participants, five cast a vote for Trump in last year’s November election. Each participant who backed Trump reportedly spoke of worries about the president’s inability to break the deadlock in Washington, D.C.

“What most disappoints me is he’s such an incredibly flawed individual who has articulated so many of the values that I hold dear,” Tony Sciullo said, according to NBC. Sciullo voted for Trump and is the participant who described him as “an abject disappointment.”

Peter Hart, a Democratic pollster who conducted the focus group on Tuesday for Emory University, said Trump is “supposed to be the voice of hope.”

“What everybody said, either directly or indirectly, was that his presidency is about him and it’s not about us,” Hart said.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/348521-pittsburgh-focus-group-shows-frustration-at-trump

[writes3000]

1. They must have been so delighted with his bigotry that they missed his endless narcissism

During the campaign. How else could any of this be a surprise now?

When he told everyone he could be more Presidential than anyone ever, did they actually believe that?

[dalton99a]

2. Nobody told us he would be like this

We had no fucking idea

[SharonClark]

3. Politico has a more detailed story about the same focus group.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/29/trump-pittsburgh-focus-group-242158

[Docreed2003]

4. "He articulated so many of the values I hold dear"

What values are those I wonder? It's seems like many of these people projected what they wanted rather than hearing what the actual message was. That or they're just willing to overlook or participate in his overt bigotry!

[exboyfil]

7. Lock her up

We finally got that nig... I mean Communist Muslim out of the White House.

[world wide wally]

5. I'm just wondering whch of Trumps expressions made him the "voice of hope"

Was it the one about "The carnage in the streets" or the "The American Dream is dead" line?

[procon]

6. These people are delusional.

They heard a few tidbits that they wanted to believe, and chose to ignore everything else that Trump has said or done. Its like they would buy a car because you really like the fuzzy dice hanging off the mirror, but ignoring the milage, safety and performance issues that make it a loser.

They made a bad decision, but my question is; How did remorseful Trump voters fail to see the same glaringly obvious negative things that the rest of us saw?

[Orrex]

8. Pittsburgh may be seeing the light...

but the outlying counties in western PA (such as mine) still like and trust the idiot racist fuckhead that they elected.

Regardless, it's still true that if anyone is taken aback by Trump's actions since taking office, then they simply refused to accept the obvious when they voted for him. Nothing he's done is at all surprising based on everything that we already knew about his "character," yet these people still voted for him.