# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/41 "2017-01-04T04:49:41Z")
> [@Univarsedivide](#): > > 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. What the hell do you think The Trump Organization is? He’s more beholden to that than any corporation. ---
**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/42 "2017-01-04T05:12:11Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > 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. Since I do not think that “suck it up, buttercup” is the right way to respond to your fellow human beings’ well-justified fears about the future, I went with “horror.” Also because this jackass (to be clear, I mean the Prezelect, not asahi) is already a total horror show. ---
**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, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/43 "2017-01-04T06:18:24Z")
> [@Univarsedivide](#): > > For the first time in my memory NO CORPORATIONS OWN THE POTUS. Trump tweeted once that Obama was in the pockets of Exxon (Not by much and not very effective for them), now Exxon has Trump in the sack. (Or at least the Exxon view of the world) ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/44 "2017-01-04T13:16:30Z")
I feel all of the negative ones, the bottom six, but shames wins out today. Once he starts exercising power, that will probably change. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/45 "2017-01-04T14:28:23Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > Extreme elation! Which of these do you find the most elating: The prospect of millions of people losing their health insurance? Enormous tax cuts for the rich resulting in multi-trillion dollar deficits? Sending our youth into battle over a tweet that hurt the man-child’s feelings? Acceleration of global warming and the destruction of the ecosystem? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/46 "2017-01-04T14:39:50Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Bernie lost to Hillary because he got fewer votes in the primaries. Why would he get more _votes_ in the general election? Because he would not have been running against Mrs. Clinton in the general election. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/47 "2017-01-04T15:02:50Z")
> [@Univarsedivide](#): > > 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. No, I’m not going to watch any nutcase conspiracy theory film. (You didn’t supply a link because it’s _so seekrit_?) I quite enjoyed _Person of Interest_–but it’s _fiction_. Your fear of President Obama & Ms Clinton is ridiculous. Your trust in Trump is pitiable. Hint: Learn to use _italics_ or **boldface** or underlining. They’re easy here–no HTML required. ALL CAPS will not improve the power of your message. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/48 "2017-01-04T15:16:25Z")
His election was embarrassing. His repeated full-puckered [kissing of Putin’s Ass](http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/19/opinions/trump-bromance-russia-europe-opinion/index.html) is shameful. \*[MIME version](http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170104085908-01-trump-t1-overlay-tease.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/49 "2017-01-04T15:32:12Z")
> [@Univarsedivide](#): > > For the first time in my memory NO CORPORATIONS OWN THE POTUS. What kind of bizarro world are you living in? Trump has been a corporate executive his entire adult life. There’s probably never been an administration that was more owned by corporate interests. ---
**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 4, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/50 "2017-01-04T16:29:20Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > What kind of bizarro world are you living in? Trump has been a corporate executive his entire adult life. There’s probably never been an administration that was more owned by corporate interests. Correct. A better way to put it would be that there has probably never been an administration that was less owned by outside corporate interests. But that said, why do you care? Trump doesn’t deal in arms and he isn’t polluting any rivers. He isn’t financing mortgages or dealing in arms or cutting down trees or drilling for oil or any of the other things that make life as we know it possible but liberals rail against. Do you really think the country or its economy is going to be damaged somehow because of Trump might put up more office buildings, hotels and golf courses? It’s worth noting also that there’s probably never been an administration less owned or controlled by either party’s power brokers. ---
**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 4, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/51 "2017-01-04T16:38:40Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > It’s worth noting also that there’s probably never been an administration less owned or controlled by either party’s power brokers. Since he’s pretty indifferent to governing and policy, the assumption is the power brokers will actually run the show while he “makes America great again.” We’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/52 "2017-01-04T17:43:02Z")
I selected “worry” but not because of the Trump administration. I think we can weather a bad president or two (conceding the worst fears about him). I’m worried about this recent election being the model for future ones. Heavy manipulation via social media either by direct lies or lies of omission. Textbook confirmation bias in resistance to debunking the stories. Worst case, government by the ones who tell their lies first. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/53 "2017-01-04T17:58:25Z")
Trump worries me. Seriously worries me. The reaction of the American left worries me even more. They simply don’t appear to respect democracy any more - unless the Democrat wins, of course. > [@tim-n-va](#): > > I’m worried about this recent election being the model for future ones. Yes, but not in the way you meant. If Americans no longer respect their democracy then America is doomed. American Democrats need to learn tolerance. ---
**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 4, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/54 "2017-01-04T18:07:35Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Trump worries me. Seriously worries me. The reaction of the American left worries me even more. They simply don’t appear to respect democracy any more - unless the Democrat wins, of course. > > Yes, but not in the way you meant. If Americans no longer respect their democracy then America is doomed. American Democrats need to learn tolerance. Stupid voters have been a concern since the founding of our great nation. The founders called it “mob rule.” We call them deplorable. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/55 "2017-01-04T18:09:02Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Trump worries me. Seriously worries me. The reaction of the American left worries me even more. They simply don’t appear to respect democracy any more - unless the Democrat wins, of course. > > Yes, but not in the way you meant. If Americans no longer respect their democracy then America is doomed. American Democrats need to learn tolerance. I disagree. We would have been fine if Romney had beaten Obama in 2012. Romney preached from the orthodox Bible about tax cuts and trickle down and all, but at least he wasn’t fundamentally evil and he was competent. Now we’ve elected a five year old ADHD boy with proven deep flaws in his character. It isn’t that a Democrat didn’t win, it’s that we’re getting someone more evil than Nixon, more corrupt than Reagan, and dumber than W. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/56 "2017-01-04T18:12:35Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Trump worries me. Seriously worries me. The reaction of the American left worries me even more. They simply don’t appear to respect democracy any more - unless the Democrat wins, of course. > > Yes, but not in the way you meant. If Americans no longer respect their democracy then America is doomed. American Democrats need to learn tolerance. Next thing you know the Democrats will try be making up stories about how Trump wasn’t born in America or they’ll try to impeach him. ---
**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 4, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/57 "2017-01-04T18:13:40Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Trump worries me. Seriously worries me. The reaction of the American left worries me even more. They simply don’t appear to respect democracy any more - unless the Democrat wins, of course. > > Yes, but not in the way you meant. If Americans no longer respect their democracy then America is doomed. American Democrats need to learn tolerance. Exactly. And yet virtually every Democrat or liberal who has spoken out on the issue so far has declared their intention to double down on their intolerance, because intolerance toward other opinions and viewpoints is the only good, true, non-moronic and non-evil way to proceed apparently. (As on preview is perfectly illustrated by **BobLibDem’s** post. :p) ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/58 "2017-01-04T19:35:47Z")
I clicked _Horror_. My family lives in Thailand and my own life is down to its final decade(s), so Fear and Worry are reduced for us. _Anger_? Who should I be angry at? Hillary’s campaign managers who could have done a better job? Not Trump himself, who ran as a publicity stunt, never imagining that he was qualified or that he would be called upon to serve — remember when many of us were _thanking Trump_ for making Democrat victory more likely? :smack: I would have picked _Sadness_ or _Grief_ if one those was an option. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/59 "2017-01-05T02:51:43Z")
I wanted to vote for worried but it’s really shame. Ashamed that the American electorate could be so messed up that they thought The Circus Peanut was the better alternative. Disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237/60 "2017-01-05T03:18:00Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Exactly. And yet virtually every Democrat or liberal who has spoken out on the issue so far has declared their intention to double down on their intolerance, because intolerance toward other opinions and viewpoints is the only good, true, non-moronic and non-evil way to proceed apparently. (As on preview is perfectly illustrated by **BobLibDem’s** post. :p) Hey, you should be cheering this outcome. For years, conservatives have been mocking the concept of tolerance as a virtue. Well, good news: you convinced us you were right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-emotion-best-describes-your-feelings-about-trumps-victory-presidency/776237.md?page=4)