Several Trump voters spoke with USA Today and told the paper what they how his return to power will improve their lives. First up is David Rose, a 43 year-old steelworker in Pennsylvania:
What is the first thing you’d like President Trump to do when in office to make your life better? The first thing I would like to see happen is mass deportations of illegals, and finish building the wall.
How do you expect your financial situation will improve with Trump in office? I expect my situation to improve with lower taxes and no tax on overtime which is a game-changer to working class people.
How do you expect your community will improve with him in office? My community has came together under the results of the election everyone is happy to see the woke agenda ending.
How do you expect the country will improve with him in office? I expect the entire country to be safer, he will improve our military and the USA to again take the lead on world stage by peace thru [sic] strength.
USA Today describes Rose as a guy who “enjoys deer hunting and fishing. He and his wife try to take a few vacations a year, including weeklong cruise in the Caribbean. He drives a Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck and listens to classic rock.” They didn’t say what model year the Ram 1500 is.
Next up is Pensacola, Florida restaurant manager Juan Paredes, a Latino immigrant:
What specific ways do you expect your life will improve under a Trump administration? First, I am expecting the economy to start getting better. I am not an economist, but I am a person who wakes up early every day. I go to work, I work hard, I do what a US citizen has to do, pays taxes. The economy is not moving. I am not going out as much as I used to. We can’t afford it. I don’t spend as much money as I used to because everything is way more expensive.
How do you expect your community will improve with him in office? If the economy improves, there are going to be jobs. In Pensacola there are no jobs. A few years ago, literally every single body was hiring. You could not even walk three blocks and you already have two jobs. But right now, it’s hard to find a job. If that construction economy starts moving, there will be jobs for everybody.
Skipping numbers three and four, who were a California real estate investor and a Wyoming oil speculator something, jumping down to 35 year-old Rob Moore, a former coal miner in Kentucky who now works as a salesman at a GM dealership, who voted for the first time this month:
What specific ways do you expect your life will improve under a Trump administration? President Trump is going to run the country like a business, that’s what we needed anyway. He’s a successful man. Yeah, he’s had his bumps in the road as president and in his life, but he ran this country and supported the blue-collar folks like me who make this country go. He’s for the oil rig workers and coal miners. He’s here for us.
How do you expect your financial situation will improve with Trump in office? It already has a bit, I’ve already sold nine cars since Trump won. Last month I sold 25 cars, I was the top GM salesman for my dealership. Folks were talking to me before Election Day and worried that if Harris won, they’d have to hold on to their money a bit more. But there’s a sense of relief now that Trump won. We can breathe again. I definitely think gas prices will go down and interest rates will fall. And our cost of living will be reduced, instead of everything going up, up, up, maybe we’ll be able to save five bucks here, five bucks there, that’s $10. There are things you can do with that. Whatever he can do to help make prices lower and our overall cost of living. You go to Walmart these days and spend $100 and you look at your bag and say ‘What did I just buy?’ You used to be able to go there and come home with many more bags. My wife, Niki, took a step back from working to raise our children, she knows how to make $40 stretch sometimes. We come from a really humble family and sometimes we struggle, but there is always food on the table. We feel blessed.
How do you expect your community will improve with him in office? Right now, my community is pretty strong. I believe we’ll be even stronger, more resilient with Trump back in office to help lower our costs of living and that will help everybody. Nobody on our block, in our town, is going to go hungry. If we have something, they have something. Yeah, times are tough, they’ve been tough, but I believe it’s going to get better. It’s got to. It can’t get any worse.
How do you expect the country will improve with him in office? He’s going to be straightforward with us and tell us as Americans, we need to be more self-reliant. He’s going to be tougher on those countries who do business with us, too, with the tariffs. We need to start relying more on our energy resources than anywhere else. For far too long, we’ve been relying on other countries. We need to be reliant on what we have here.
Last up is James Jones, a 43 year-old Black Detroit resident who owns a “handyman business,” and also voted for Trump in 2020 because of the economy something something:
What is the first thing you’d like President Trump to do when in office to make your life better? I expect him to do what he said he was going to do when he was campaigning. He’s not new to this, stand on what you said and what you are here for, to run this country. Keep your word. Please. Do what you promised. Find a way to lower our costs, the food prices, for gas, and our utilities. End those wars like you said you would do.
How do you expect your financial situation will improve with Trump in office? I know it will take some time, but I don’t want it to take four years. I want to build my business and add a couple of contractors to help me share the workload, so that way we can all work, eat, and take care of our families. Make sure our money is spent in America first and not elsewhere unless necessary so that we all have a chance to make it. Create a positive domino effect, especially for small businesses.
How do you expect your community will improve with him in office? To be honest with you, it’s all on everybody … It’s going to take a lot. I love my community and if we want to improve, we have to do it ourselves. There are a lot of people who go against the grain. Some will believe in a well-dressed-up lie before they see the naked ugly truth. I know quite a lot of people who are down with Trump, they went with what he said, what was on their minds and what they were going through. They didn’t take what the Democrats were saying at face value and still taking our votes for granted. That’s why people, especially Blacks in Detroit, voted for Trump. And it wasn’t just me. Look at what happened. People made individual choices and weighed the odds that would benefit them. I’m sure it wasn’t easy. Times are hard.
How do you expect the country will improve with him in office? Trump is direct and to the point. No sugarcoating, for better or worse. I do not doubt that he will make the US better than where we are financially. I don’t think he will take any shit from other countries, either.
Has your life improved under previous presidential administrations? Which ones and how? I had more money when Trump was president, plain and simple. I guess lots of Americans feel just like me.
Now much of the above has been trimmed but 1200+ words clipped from the USA Today piece was still a lot to be copy-pasting. Still, it feels like more of the full context of their answers were needed than simply “The first thing I would like to see happen is mass deportations of illegals, and finish building the wall,” on how the first guy expects Trump to make his life better, and “Our cost of living will be reduced, instead of everything going up, up, up… Yeah, times are tough, they’ve been tough, but I believe it’s going to get better. It’s got to. It can’t get any worse,” from the third guy, and the last guy saying “Keep your word. Please. Do what you promised. Find a way to lower our costs, the food prices, for gas, and our utilities. End those wars like you said you would do.”
But either way, what else were we actually going to add here? What the fuck wasn’t written in late 2016/early 2017 about the same exact dipshits being suckered into the cult of the Orange God Emperor? These quotes tell that story better than any tedious Atlantic piece ever could have, with these clowns even seeming to be justifying their vote to themselves and to the reporter at times.
It’s one way to fill space during this dull, depressing interregnum as we wait for these spiritually and morally weak men to become disappointed and disgusted with the horseshit they bought into, if they even bother tuning into political news a year from now when – provided he actually moves forward with mass deportations and tariffs – Trump’s approval ratings are deep in the shitter and Dems absolutely crush Republicans in the New Jersey and Virginia elections.
But that’s all we have now. A lot of waiting for Trump to fuck everything up and for the public to turn against him. A lot of these chuds praying anxiously for the salvation that won’t come for them.