Hey everyone.
I have a bit of a question and was hoping you could help me out. I'm Australian, but I follow American politics because it has global consequences and they are our closest ally. But....does anyone really like Trump? I mean for real? I feel like its turning into a big troll memer movement where all these people are propping him up just because they hate "the liberals" and "the s-j-dubbyahs" so much. I mean...even if you agree with all his policies, how can you want him there? How can you in good conscience support him? It's also really confusing because the same people who crucify Bill Clinton for having an affair in the oval office, and Hillary for emails, turn a blind eye when Trump was no-condom boning a pornstar, talking on an unsecure phone that is apparently watched by China and Russia, his daughter sends and uses private emails for white house business and he seems to be actively trying to fire people and re-organise prosecutors to stack investigations in his favour.
And there's the narcissism. Sending someone to pay 60,000 dollars for a portrait of yourself at an auction, just so you can say it was the best selling item. Then hanging the portrait in your golf club, and paying back the bidder with funds from a -charity-.
And that his son eric apparently funneled money from a children's cancer charity fund and used it for non-charity purposes.
And there's the constant need to make racial charged statements (Like Pocahontas, or the charlottesville nazi thing, or pointing to the crowd in his rally and saying "where's my african american man, where is he?" or calling Mexicos rapers, or using an index system in the 70's to keep black people out of his apartment buildings) and he seems to always be butting heads with allies (including my own country, Australia, who have fought alongside America in -every- war they ever asked us to). While at the same time he beleives Putin over his own intelligence people (who are sworn to protect the nation and give their lives for it) and has an odd bromance with Kim Jong Un, who literally gorges himself on rich foods while his people are starving.
And there's the constant drama, and all these people he knows are getting arrested and ending up in jail, and he passed tax cuts that mostly help rich people but will end up drowning their economy so deep in debt, and now he's trying to just bulldoze over congress and senate to force funding for a border wall.
So I guess...in summary...how does anyone support this man? And if the answer is "because what he can do for them" isn't that an incredibly immoral and ethically bankrupt choice to make?
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