This honestly baffles me. I can understand voting against Hillary for what ever reason. I can understand voting for trump, again for what ever reason. What I can’t wrap my head around is liking him as a human being. Blatant narcissism and proud anti-intellectualism aren’t attractive traits. Having the big bucks, and marrying hot blondes and trading them in when they start to sag might be enviable, but (imho) not particularly likable. Has he ever even shown so much as a glimmer of self-deprecation?
Well, as a coworker said when I was complaining about an evil HR person many years ago, even he has family and friends. We should never assume that someone we dislike is so loathsome that they cannot possibly have friends.
I have heard that he’s quite personable and likable in a small group or one-on-one. Many people respond to other people based on how they feel with them in that type of situation and not an objective assessment of their values. He is also charismatic to a particular niche audience. So, yeah, no surprise that he would have friends, and lots of them.
They way they were raised, would even his own children go anywhere near him if he wasn’t rich and powerful?
I’m talking about people who never met him in person. His “constituency”
For some (many) people, his wealth and his contempt and disrespect for anyone who isn’t a rich white man is a feature and not a bug.
Even though the people who support this tend to not be rich.
Trump lets his ex-wives raise the kids. Apparently his current wife has most of the responsibility for the youngest.
He pays. When they are old enough, they know where more money may be obtained. Better than actually “getting a job.”
You may not find them attractive, but many people do. That’s the whole appeal of a strongman.
I know many people who think those who think the whole point of power is to use it to abuse your enemies and put you and yours ahead. They’ll argue that if you’re not getting everything you can, you don’t really have power and are actually weak.
And yeah, those people will go ahead and make fun of anyone who has the gumption to do anything except work with their hands or collect welfare.
Doctors? Lawyers? Teachers? Buncha uppity people who’d be better off dead.
I wonder what it takes to get through to people that Trump and his ilk didn’t get that way by sharing with people like them-he got that way by taking from people like them.
Time. About 4 years. Maybe longer.
Here’s a link to a recent Reddit thread that asked people who have personally met/worked for Mr. Trump what their opinions were of him, and the responses were overwhelmingly positive:
All the way back to the '70s, when I first became aware of him, I’ve always considered Trump to be the most repugnant and reprehensible human being on the planet. For someone to actually like someone like that … they’d have to be, on some level, the same type of person.
I’ve been rewatching The Sopranos. I hate every last character in that show, except for maybe Adrianna.
But they aren’t entirely unlikeable, even if they are psychopaths and narcissists. I can laugh along with them and cringe when they’re upset. They all have a certain flare that under a certain light could reasonably be perceived as appealing. They have vulnerabilities that make me feel for them. Sometimes I find myself in absolute agreement with them. Sometimes I find myself wondering if they would be my friend, if I was in their world.
So I’m guessing some people see Trump like I see Tony Soprano.
At any rate, no one except for a few people really know Trump. When we see Trump, we see the real thing plus our own personal baggage. When I see Trump, I see every overly entitled spoiled ignorant loudmouth I’ve ever encountered in my life. Perhaps when someone else sees Trump, they see something not so negative–like their best buddy from college who was loud and obnoxious sometimes, but with a good heart.
Really? Even more than the dudes in North Korea?
Yeah, I don’t get it, either. I know people like the strongman persona. But that persona doesn’t whine all the time about how people don’t like him. They aren’t weaselly, using trickery to get what they want–they use raw power. That’s the appeal–seeing the strong guy mow down his opponents.
The assholes I’ve seen that actually get people to like them are all charismatic. They make other people feel better about themselves. You know they support horrible things, but you can’t help but find them charming. But Trump isn’t like that.
Maybe you can argue he’s different in person. But the OP is apparently talking about voters, and they only see his public persona.
There’s a difference between someone who is evil and someone who has a reprehensible personality.
I don’t think you can judge someone’s likability as a person based on what the media reports about them. *Especially *a Republican, who will always get a bum rap from the media. You need to assume that everything you “know” about him is a lie.
Trump has had decades in the public eye in which he has had the opportunity to present himself in a favorable light. If he tried, he failed miserably.
Was Trump’s voice dubbed in the Access Hollywood tape? In the tapes showing him flirting with 12-year old girls?
To several of the accusations of bad behavior against him, Trump responded by bragging about the bad behavior on live TV! Were those all dubbed?
Is the real, likable Donald Trump being held prisoner in a dungeon somewhere, while the despicable impostor we’ve seen on TV prepares to serve as U.S. President? Are his wife and kids in on it? — is that why daughter Tiffany doesn’t let the impostor kiss her?
I would say the very opposite.
I can’t respect a trump vote. He’s unqualified to lead in just about every conceivable way, he’s a terrible person and on every issue I can think of it’s simply a question of whether you believe his lies or bother to actually research the issue.
OTOH yeah I can see why some might find him charismatic or captivating.
There is something there in the delivery, and he knows how to sell ideas. And it can be entertaining watching him “shoot from the hip”, especially in an environment where one stupid statement was thought to be disqualifying.
The apprentice would not have been so successful with just a generic rich guy. And his rallies wouldn’t be so popular if the guy at the mic were just any old ignorant bigot.