# How Negatively do you view Trump? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 29, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544 "2017-01-29T23:24:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/21 "2017-01-30T05:04:53Z")
I didn’t like him much on _The Apprentice_ but he seems much better suited to the role of President Mxyzptlk he’s playing in his new show. I think it’s really clever the way it is presented as though it’s all real life. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/22 "2017-01-30T05:05:14Z")
I have literally had to increase my blood pressure medications, thanks to that abomination. > [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > 1. To be an 8 he would literally have to be Hitler. > > At the end of the day, Trump is just a symptom of something deeply wrong with our democracy and the people in it. In a more **informed, sane, civilized society** someone like Trump never would have gotten enough votes to become president. Germany had been an informed, sane, civilized society. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/23 "2017-01-30T05:11:39Z")
> [@JerrySTL](#): > > Evidently -5. This poll is so bias that there’s nothing about how positively some of us view Trump especially when compared to Hillary. Oh, absolutely! Using a private email server. Shocking! ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/24 "2017-01-30T11:30:53Z")
You didn’t have a positive choice in your poll, so I chose zero. I have learned to isolate my life from political and economic changes, so I wasn’t concerned about the election that much. As I posted elsewhere, on election night mizPullin and I actually hit the sack early figuring we’d find out the winner at breakfast. Now that the dust has settled, I’m pretty pleased with his actions. I like most of his political appointments, and I’m in favor of severely limiting immigration (with both a wall and a ban on troublesome countries). I despise dynasties, and am glad we’re no longer trading our nation’s high offices among Bushes and Clintons. I often say (with apologies to Diderot) America’s greatest day will be when the last Bush is strangled in the entrails of the last Clinton. Although I voted Libertarian, I’m pleased with Trump overall, so no negative view from me. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/25 "2017-01-30T12:16:36Z")
Trump. I can’t stand the guy. Didn’t vote for him. But I think much of the criticism of him lately is partisan bullocks. Had Obama temporarily banned travel from these seven countries, everyone on the left would have support him. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/26 "2017-01-30T13:47:17Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Trump. > > I can’t stand the guy. Didn’t vote for him. > > But I think much of the criticism of him lately is partisan bullocks. Had Obama temporarily banned travel from these seven countries, everyone on the left would have support him. Who cares about your hypothetical? What is partisan is that, in the face of something you ought to have an opinion about, you can’t manage to deliver a real criticism without spending twice as much time criticizing liberals who criticize Trump (by making up a fictitious scenario in which liberals act just as hypocritically as you write them to be). Some choice words from Trump’s party: > [@](#): > > “I’m a Leninist,” Bannon proudly proclaimed. > > Shocked, I asked him what he meant. > > “Lenin,” he answered, “wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” > [@](#): > > “Better to get your news directly from the president. In fact, it might be the only way to get the unvarnished truth.” - Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), the chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. > [@](#): > > The Onion: @SeanSpicer’s role in the Trump administration will be to provide the American public with robust and clearly articulated misinformation. > > Sean Spicer: You nailed it. Period! So whatever. Go ahead and make this about liberal hypocrites (made up, no less) over-reacting, but if you think that’s what is worth talking about here, you are in effect standing up for Trump, his administration, and every major fuck-up that they manage to pull off. Trump et al are not joking around here, and the stakes are high. Pick a position; partisan pot-shots are inappropriate when someone is holding a match to Rome. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/27 "2017-01-30T14:33:25Z")
Your poll only goes up to 8? I would have said 1,749,322. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/28 "2017-01-30T14:45:06Z")
I voted 6, as I’m pretty sanguine by nature. Also, it’s only been a week. The way things are going, I expect he’ll get me up to level 8 by at least Memorial Day. ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/29 "2017-01-30T14:47:52Z")
I came in here expecting to peg the meter but I can’t vote because I am not at all outraged, upset, annoyed, etc. I am disappointed, though. But I view him quite negatively. I cannot ever imagine having any respect for the guy. He’s a fuckin’ buffoon. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/30 "2017-01-30T15:03:22Z")
a little bit more every day. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/31 "2017-01-30T15:31:01Z")
I voted 8, but really, I think I feel that more towards everyone who voted for him, than him. The only difference between Hitler and Trump is Trump doesn’t want to conquer the world, and Hitler genuinely hated Jews. Trump would happily open up concentration camps and gas ovens not because he genuinely hates people, or feels anything for human beings one way or the other, but because his voters keep chanting his name. There is literally nothing he wouldn’t do to hear his name chanted. He’s a narcissistic sociopath accustomed to living in gold-plated palaces completely walled off from reality. His voters OTOH, genuinely want death and destruction and suffering and to see America burned to the ground because they know that they themselves, will never be kings. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/32 "2017-01-30T15:55:07Z")
I’m 50 and I think he represents the greatest crisis our nation has faced in my lifetime, much worse than 9/11 or Nixon. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/33 "2017-01-30T16:00:21Z")
I’ll just quote [this asshole](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19233214&postcount=13). ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/34 "2017-01-30T16:52:43Z")
I opted for 7 (utterly) and not 8 only because he hasn’t declared war on anybody…yet. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/35 "2017-01-30T17:49:35Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > 7 but im praying there is method to the madness. > [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > I voted 7 because while I truly feel 8, I think tomorrow I’ll somehow be even angrier and more negative. Gotta leave some room to expand for future acts of insanity. This and this. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/36 "2017-01-30T20:00:48Z")
How about a poll that asks how people now view the USA, because you are the guys that elected him. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/37 "2017-01-30T20:48:04Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > . . . Had Obama temporarily banned travel from these seven countries, everyone on the left would have support him. Wrong. (The technical term is “hogwash.”) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/38 "2017-01-30T21:18:09Z")
How many of you 4 or higher voted for Clinton? How many voted for Trump? How many stayed home or voted 3rd PP? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/39 "2017-01-30T21:32:23Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Trump. > > I can’t stand the guy. Didn’t vote for him. > > But I think much of the criticism of him lately is partisan bullocks. Had Obama temporarily banned travel from these seven countries, everyone on the left would have support him. Maybe, how temporary? Like say a month, while new security measures were put in place? Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544/40 "2017-01-30T21:39:02Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I’m 50 and I think he represents the greatest crisis our nation has faced in my lifetime, much worse than 9/11 or Nixon. This ^. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-negatively-do-you-view-trump/778544.md?page=3)