If Trump could run again, he'd be re-elected for the pure entertainment value.

[LAS14]

That's how stupid a majority of the American electorate are.

[mr715]

1. No.

I refuse to accept that.

[RandomNumbers]

13. I refused to believe it in 2024,

But reality smacked me upside the head.

Unless this is all a nightmare and I'm about to wake up ...

[Aristus]

15. I'm with you.

Until 2024, I had hope that we weren’t really so utterly debased and immoral as to put him in the White House a second time.

I no longer have any hope at all. We are a malfunctioning septic tank of a country, and we’re not likely to ever change.

[yankee87]

33. With you

Until it happens to them personally, they’ll never change. I’m not even sure about that anymore.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

56. Being 70, I noticed a change when Reagan and Gingrich took over.

That’s when the propaganda and psy-ops started by Republicans. It turned from the hippies being popular and “don’t trust anyone under 30” and the younger population being idealistic and listened to. Then, Reagan and “greed is good” became popular.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. He wasn't elected by a majority of the electorate either time

A significant portion stayed home.

[whathehell]

4. ...along with a significant portion who

voted against him.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. Yup.

A year from now, nobody will be finding entertainment value in the widespread misery sure to come from a collapsing economy and skyrocketing healthcare premiums.

Trump may leave a legacy as The Great Unifier, the president who united the nation (well 80% anyway) against him.

[whathehell]

7. Correct. n/t.

[Frasier Balzov]

31. That's the infuriating thing about the mandate he claims.

He won with 49.8% of the popular vote.

That's probationary, not a mandate.

Then abusing the power of the office from hour one.

The People should be vigorously kicking his butt and those around him.

A Democratic Congress is the last best hope for the future of the nation.

[walkingman]

3. Is is sad, it is scary, it is White America.

[whathehell]

6. Oh please..

It's hardly "White America" in toto or even
"White America" only, so can we lose the group scapegoating?.. I hope so, because if you go that route, you'll have to include "Male America" too.

[walkingman]

9. No offense intended. I'm white but I accept the fact that in '24 about 80% of GOP voters are white.

Over 70% of total US voters are white, so the number mean something.

[Stacey Grove]

39. "Oh please," indeed

White people, however, could stop this nonsense any time they chose to. They choose not to.

Funny that, innit?

[whathehell]

47. Lol...So "white people" are a monolithic group?

Of course they are...Maybe they should hold a "White People's Convention" to straighten it all out...After that, we might eliminate Misogyny by holding a "Male People's Conference".

[Stacey Grove]

48. For the purposes and context of this interaction and for the damage they cause?

Yes, they are monolithic.

We might not view the MAGAtry the same way. I concede that.

[whathehell]

49. No, a premise so patently false..

can't be used for any 'purpose or context' that mildly resembles reality...Try again.

[Keepthesoulalive]

57. You won't win this

White people are individuals. They become very upset if you try to blame the election of trump on the group. 65% of white men that voted , voted for trump and many young white men voted for trump. But everyone else belongs to a group like Hispanics, blacks and Pacific Islanders. You would not believe the conversations I’ve had about how could black men vote for trump.

[markodochartaigh]

10. Old, White, evangelical protestant, rural, poorly educated

America, to be more precise. Although really the only group which stands out like a beacon in these dark days for democracy is Black women.



https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/

[LAS14]

19. Stop with the generalizations. nt

[BannonsLiver]

21. "Stop with the generalizations"

Also:

“ That's how stupid a majority of the American electorate are.”

[walkingman]

22. If you replace stupid with ignorant is that more palatable? Because you have to have

serious problems to vote for this Republican Party. Maybe better to say "That is how immoral, unethical, deplorable the plurality of the American electorate is"? Is that more accurate?

[BannonsLiver]

23. I'm not interested in palatable.

I’m noting the irony. It’s not that deep. That being said, the OP seems to be very offended about someone pointing out the objective fact that a majority of white voters voted for Trump. Not sure why that simple fact is so upsetting to them. Kinda weird.

[LAS14]

35. That's not labeling an identifiable group. nt

[Torchlight]

53. Moving the goalposts is so.... fetch. nt

[markodochartaigh]

8. Well one third of the electorate didn't even bother to vote.

And Greg Palast has shown that more than three million people were disenfranchised through Republican skullduggery.

So really I think that it is about one third of the electorate who are either enthusiastic about authoritarianism (80%) or willing to accept it (20%) if it what is necessary to keep them in charge.

The problem for the Democratic party is that when the apathetic and ignorant third start to wake up they won't understand how things have gotten so bad. The Republican propaganda machine will be ready to spew hateful lies. The Democratic party needs to be ready with the truth.


https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

[thought crime]

32. Spot on.

Both voter suppression and the effects of the right wing propaganda machine are greatly underestimated by most.

[Prairie Gates]

11. How much longer is this going to be allowed?

[LoisB]

12. I don't find anything at all "entertaining" about him.

[PeaceWave]

14. Agreed. Nor do I think a majority of American find this "entertaining."

[LoisB]

17. You are right.

[sop]

29. "Entertaining" in the way people can't help but looking at serious traffic accidents or other tragedies..

[LAS14]

36. Exactly. nt

[Stacey Grove]

40. Only a sick fuck would find accidents or tragedies "entertaining."

There is no shortage of sick fucks.

[J_William_Ryan]

16. 'I don't find anything at all "entertaining" about him.'

Trump’s moronic supporters do.

Trump Cult members think he’s ‘funny,’ they adore him because he’s not like any other politician, they respect that he says what’s on his mind, no matter how idiotic, wrong, or dangerous.

As to the OP – agree somewhat, in that the likes of Trump is the consequence of the voters’ ignorance, fear, and stupidity, where it could indeed happen again.

[Jack Valentino]

18. I believe that even a significant percentage of MAGGOTS are now less 'entertained',

when he is now significantly FUCKING WITH THEIR WALLETS.....


I am only 'entertained' now, in a manner of speaking, by his incredibly stupid 'incompetence'
in all manners of governance.... and how he believes that the majority
will continue to believe his continuous blatant lies,
when it is now becoming clear that the majority does NOT.....!

[LudwigPastorius]

20. Maybe...maybe not...

But, the fact that it would even be close, no matter who he was running against, is fucking insane.

[iemanja]

24. His disapproval rating is 60%

He'd win only if he rigged the election.

[biocube]

25. Honesly, I'm sick of the blaming of voters for Democratic electoral woes

If you want to learn how to win, take notes from Zohran Mamdani.

Dems are still campaigning like it's 2004, while Trump caught up with the times 9 years ago.

[walkingman]

34. Trump didn't have to "catch up", he has been a lying grifter his entire life. He has failed at everything

he has ever done (exception being POTUS - he has made more money with his corruption that anytime in his life). He does understand that a large segment of the US population is just like him and know how to tap into the "victim" mentality.

I do think that Mamdani more represents the progressive wing of the Dem party but the reality is that in the Bible Belt and Flyover country people are just not as progressive (more moderate) and because white America makes up over 70% of the electorate it will take a united coalition in order for us to win.

I think the biggest thing we have going for us will be similar to what happened after the George W Bush administration....he was so bad that whomever is the Dem candidate will win. That is if we are actually able to have free and fair elections in another 3 years - that is a big if.

Meanwhile......

[wcmagumba]

26. He wasn't elected in 2024, he was installed...imho

[yankee87]

27. MAGA Family

My MAGA family would 100% vote for him again. My friends also. Unfortunately family in Georgia, a swing state. Friends in New York, so don’t matter.
We are underestimating how deep tribalism is in this country.

[CMell]

28. He may yet try to make himself president for life. n/t

[Ping Tung]

30. Considering the intellictual proficiency of half the electtorate.......

r

[Groundhawg]

54. Of course that isn't quite true. 1/4 of the rest of them are stupider, and 1/4 of them are smarter.

[ornotna]

37. Your idea of what is entertaining and mine

are light years apart.

[LAS14]

41. Why would your read my post as if I think Trump is entertaining????? nt

[ornotna]

44. I read them as they're written.

[LAS14]

45. You don't seem to. Read the content, not just the subject. nt

[John Farmer]

38. I'm not entertained by horror shows.

[Torchlight]

42. Sounds serious

Good luck!

[LAS14]

43. To those of you who seem to think that I find Trump entertaining.

Read the body of the post. I don't include myself in the half of the electorate that I think are stupid.

[peggysue2]

46. Would that be for the 'pure' entertainment value of . . .

Watching America commit political and national suicide? We're going to have a tough enough time rousting this bastard from his golden perch, purging MAGA from the public square, and then recovering, rebuilding.

Agent Orange has never been entertaining. Pure nonsense pushed by a complicit media.

[Initech]

50. This is literally what happens when propaganda is viewed as entertainment.

Yes, government is boring. Yes, facts are boring. Yes, democracy is boring. But you know what? Congress is not supposed to be a fucking WWE steel cage death match, and the president is *NOT* supposed to be a blundering buffoonish reality TV show host who may be a serial pedophile. Stop watching garbage sources and boycott all mass media. It's what is currently ruining this country. People watch Fox. They believe it.

[Irish_Dem]

51. Right Americans think it is an entertaining reality show.

They love the shenanigans and drama.

[CMell]

52. Trump does not rule out seeking third term - but says he will not use VP loophole (BBC)

Trump does not rule out seeking third term - but says he will not use VP loophole (BBC)

US President Donald Trump has not ruled out the possibility of seeking a third term for the White House, saying he would "love to do it".

But Trump rejected the possibility of running for vice-president in 2028 - an idea floated by some supporters as a way for him to circumvent the US constitution that bars the president from running for a third term.

Speaking to reporters during his trip to Asia, Trump described the idea as "too cute" and said it "wouldn't be right".

It is unclear what method he would use to run again. Last week, former Trump strategist Steve Bannon said that a "plan" was in place to secure the 79-year-old president another term.

(more)

[riversedge]

55. I certainly do NOT find Trump to be entertaining. Not one bit!