# What emotion best describes your feelings about Trump's victory/presidency? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 3, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237 "2017-01-03T16:53:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/21 "2017-01-03T19:32:51Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > . . . I put Anger first. . . . > > Bits of Fear (for others more than for myself), Horror & Disappointment, too. Pretty much this: 65% anger, 30% grave sorrow and concern and worry, 5% outright fear. (And, yes, mostly for others; I’m a white male in California, about as safe as anyone can be.) ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/22 "2017-01-03T19:36:29Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Anger. The bad guy who inherited everything he has and spent his life cheating and lying is not supposed to win. I’m hoping this all ends badly for Trump, but not badly for the country. Kindly cite how Trump managed to inherit two multi-billion dollar fortunes from a father who was only worth $200 to $300 million. When he died. In 1999. As for me, cautious optimism. I didn’t vote for Trump and have always been troubled by the fact of his unpredictability, but I’m encouraged by the take-charge way he’s been making things happen. Trump Tower is now the de facto power center of the U.S. And this just in: Ford has announced it’s cancelling its plans to build a new $1.6 billion dollar plant in Mexico and will invest in expanding its existing plant in Michigan instead, stating that the decision represents a vote of confidence in the pro-business environment being created by Trump. [Cite](http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/03/news/economy/ford-700-jobs-trump/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/23 "2017-01-03T19:41:26Z")
Since everything I predicted about Trump has so far proven wrong, I’m going with “curiosity”, because, honestly, that’s the default I can’t get away from at this point. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/24 "2017-01-03T20:04:39Z")
I’m tired of people saying they’re “horrified”. Get out from under the bed and grow a pair – and while you’re at it fetch me a six pack. ---
**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 3, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/25 "2017-01-03T20:06:41Z")
I went with horror… because it’s the closest to that feeling you get when you’re having a nightmare, and remind yourself that you’re not asleep. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/26 "2017-01-03T20:20:07Z")
Looking past the man, as well as business he is also an oldskool New York Democrat - meaning his instincts aren’t anywhere near the rhetoric. The whole situation is obscene and I hope it causes Americans to think more about the systems that govern them because this _unusual_ democratic model does not best serve the people, it serves firstly the owners of capital. I’m a big believer in the Law of Unexpected Consequences - a whole lot is going to change that couldn’t change before because of the constrictions of conventional practice and narrow parameters of behaviour. Some of that will be good change. I didn’t vote but would have gone with ‘trepidation’. ---
**Author:** ![CatandMouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@CatandMouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatandMouse)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/27 "2017-01-03T20:22:54Z")
I went with worry, but it’s really a combination of worry, shame, horror, anger, & fear. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/28 "2017-01-03T20:34:48Z")
I went with “Schadenfreude”, which is probably a surprise to no one here. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/29 "2017-01-03T20:44:07Z")
> [@CatandMouse](#): > > I went with worry, but it’s really a combination of worry, shame, horror, anger, & fear. This sums it up for me perfectly. I’m seeing a level of anger-- from supporters of the \*winning \*side, mind you-- that is pretty worrisome, but also shameful and it makes me angry that we’re letting fear drive our nation these days. I’m worried that the world I leave my kids will be unrecognizable in horrible, horrible ways. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/30 "2017-01-03T20:54:25Z")
Hard to pick between hilarity and worry. If not for the global consequences of the Trump presidency it would definitely be hilarity. If the US electorate is foolish enough to elect Trump then they should have to suffer the consequence and let the rest of the world laugh as he betrays those who voted for him and wrecks their country. The irony that the uber-patriotic have elected a man who will cause such damage to a country they supposedly love. Unfortunately, the world has the potential to suffer from Trump as much as the US will and so ultimately I picked worry. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/31 "2017-01-03T21:47:05Z")
I had to go with hilarity because I am known for laughing inappropriately. I must stay away from the dark emotions, for they lead only to despair. We will get through this, somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/32 "2017-01-03T22:57:36Z")
Extreme elation! ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/33 "2017-01-03T23:08:38Z")
I picked Schadenfreude. I’ve long said that a casino owner is by nature unfit to be President, and Trump’s staff picks are proving that criticism true - that somebody who was literally in the business of selling the plebs false hope cannot be trusted to keep their campaign promises. On the other hand, Trump is a mundane evil, despite the cries of the regressives who keep screaming that he’s literally Hitler. He’s no Dick Cheney - if he does something corrupt, it’s going to be using his own hotel to host a convention, not using his own oil company to pillage the country he just invaded. And he’s only going to be President because the left made it happen. The Clinton campaign literally conspired with the media to make Trump a thing, because they thought that whatever mainstream Republican candidate emerged victorious from their primaries would be weakened by his defense against the likes of Trump. They conspired with the DNC to make sure Clinton won their primaries, despite being under investigation by the FBI, _citing brain damage as an excuse_ for not remembering the rules she supposed to be following, and having a history of getting thousands of people killed and paving the way for Islamist extremists with regime change, and planning to continue performing another if she won. And despite being such a repulsive candidate, she still attracted the support of the cult of the regressive left. Sucker-punching a tresspasser who was trying to disrupt a Trump rally is not good, but it is not a threat to democracy. Committing a crime against someone just for supporting Trump’s candidacy in public _is_. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/34 "2017-01-03T23:17:46Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > Extreme elation! Because it’s a giant “fuck you” to the left (and the country) or because you think great things will happen under his watch? ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/35 "2017-01-04T01:00:12Z")
I kind of feel like I would want to change my answer to hilarity because it is going to awesome watching the Trump supporters try to twist his betrayals and incompetence into positives. It has already started and it is already funny. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/36 "2017-01-04T01:22:59Z")
No “despair” or “disbelief”? I guess helplessness. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/37 "2017-01-04T02:52:08Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > I picked Schadenfreude. I’ve long said that a casino owner is by nature unfit to be President, and Trump’s staff picks are proving that criticism true - that somebody who was literally in the business of selling the plebs false hope cannot be trusted to keep their campaign promises. > > On the other hand, Trump is a mundane evil, despite the cries of the regressives who keep screaming that he’s literally Hitler. He’s no Dick Cheney - if he does something corrupt, it’s going to be using his own hotel to host a convention, not using his own oil company to pillage the country he just invaded. Oh, it will depend on what country gives them a better deal or what to with a country that tries to get out of a bad deal. He will very likely help the oil company of his new secretary of state. > **[The Rachel Maddow Show, Transcript 12/13/2016](https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/rachel-maddow-show/2016-12-13-msna936066)** > > Guests: Loretta Lynch > [@](#): > > Chad is also officially considered to be a failed state. Chad remains one > of the ten poorest nations on earth, remains one of the most corrupt > nations on earth. In fact, the single poorest inhabited region on earth is > a part of Chad. A region in Chad that`s called Salamat. See down in the > lower east, southeast corner there? > > Salamat, the poorest region on the face of the globe that is inhabited by > humans. Salamat is just a hop, skip and a jump from Exxon`s largest oil field in Chad. But Exxon is doing great in Chad. Their latest corporate report says that just in that one field in Chad that`s next to the poorest > region on the face of the earth, they`re producing 29 million barrels of > oil. > > And under the new deal that Exxon cut, that oil flow out of the ground in > Chad, which has been so good for Exxon, it has led to Chad`s dictator > spending at least $4 billion on weapons. And that is something that the > United States government saw coming and tried to prevent because it is not > in the interest of the United States. The reason it happened, anyway, is > because it was in the interest of Exxon. > > And Exxon has its own foreign policy that is frequently at odds with the > United States. And that foreign policy is the only foreign policy with > which our new nominee for secretary of state has any experience whatsoever. > Today, the transition made it official that the president-elect has chosen > Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as his nominee to be the next secretary of state of > America. There was this hilarious period today when there was all this > breathless reporting that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and > former Defense Secretary Bob Gates were both vocally onboard with this > controversial nomination. > > Wow, maybe it`s not that controversial after all. Maybe it`s not that > weird that the CEO of Exxon would get a job like this. After all, Condi > Rice and Bob Gates say they are on board. > > This hilarious period today between the start of the reporting and the > moment when everybody finally Googled it and noticed, oh, yes, Condoleezza > Rice and Bob Gates are both consultants for Exxon now. They`re both on the > Exxon payroll. > > In fact, “Politico” reported not long ago that the whole reason the Exxon > CEO even got a first look from the Trump transition, even got his first > introduction to President-elect Donald Trump is because Condoleezza Rice > and Bob Gates made that introduction. They work for Exxon. > **[The Rachel Maddow Show, Transcript 12/7/2016](https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/rachel-maddow-show/2016-12-07-msna935266)** > > Guests: Xavier Becerra > [@](#): > > And then what happened is those two giant companies, the mother of all oil > companies and the mother of mother of all oil companies, those two giants > got together to do a joint exploration deal, the biggest oil deal in the > history of deals. It was so big, it was expected to change the historical > trajectory of Russia. It was the deal that got the Exxon CEO Russia`s > highest award. > > That deal between Exxon and Rosneft was said to be a $500 billion deal. > And that was before they discovered a brand new oil field in the Kara Sea, > just north of Siberia. > > So, $500 billion deal between two of the largest companies in modern > history, the two largest oil companies ever, half trillion deal. And that > was before they discovered a new billion barrels of oil they weren`t > expecting. > > And then the whole thing fell apart. Right after they discovered the > billion barrel field, the whole thing got stopped in its tracks because of > sanctions. That messed with Ukraine and Putin invading Crimea, the Obama > administration punched them in the face with sanctions. And the biggest > deal anybody had ever heard of, one of the biggest commercial deals in the > history of deals was stopped. > > You know who would be in an excellent position to undo those sanctions? > Well, you would expect the American secretary of state to be in a good > position to do that. Rex Tillerson, the CEO of Exxon, personally holds > more than $150 million in Exxon shares. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/38 "2017-01-04T02:52:54Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I mostly feel embarrassed. It’s a four year long fart. I went fro feeling embarrassed to feeling doomed ! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/39 "2017-01-04T03:59:25Z")
Nausea and incredulity weren’t among the choices, so I went with horror. Shame and anger work too. ---
**Author:** ![Univarsedivide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7ab992/32.png) [@Univarsedivide](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Univarsedivide)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/40 "2017-01-04T04:42:18Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > You really need to learn more about the US. Check out Trump’s choices for the Cabinet. Check out the Republican Congress’s plans–they aren’t good for The People. > > Bernie lost to Hillary because he got fewer votes in the primaries. Why would he get more _votes_ in the general election? > > What fears drove you to this opinion? Already answered the first part in another thread on this site, the democrats ( PARTY ) backed Hillary in the primaries ( Leaked E-mails ). And the fear that drove me to this opinion is that Hillary would have continued OBAMAS legacy. WATCH (CITIZEN 4) to see what his legacy to the world is. EDWARD THE SNOWMAN was a patriot of the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE. And know that the AI in PERSON OF INTEREST is a very real possibility because of this tech. For the first time in my memory NO CORPORATIONS OWN THE POTUS. Oh by the way if you watch that film you will probably be placed on the watch list. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237.md?page=3)