The Things You Have To Tell Yourself If You’re A Donald Trump Supporter

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:15 pm

It’s not easy supporting Donald Trump.

I don’t say that out of experience – I certainly don’t support one of the most unqualified and unstable candidates to ever seek the presidency – but I say it because the list of reasons people have for supporting Donald Trump is mind-boggling.

When broken down, these reasons unravel quickly.

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He’ll surround himself with people much smarter and more level-headed than he is. 

If you bring up the fact that Donald Trump is erratic, childish, reckless and doesn’t really know much (or care to) about foreign or domestic policy, the defense you’ll hear from the diehard Trumpites is that he will surround himself with people that know better.

Don’t worry about Trump having access to the nuclear codes, they say, because those around him will actually be the folks in charge.

Let me get this straight: Trump is so irresponsible that we shouldn’t trust him to be commander-in-chief, but we should trust him to surround himself with the right people?

Not to mention the fact that, when we cast our votes in November, we are voting for the candidate at the top of the ticket – not some nameless list of advisers that will supposedly keep the president in line.

This decades-old video clip shows who Trump really is.

There have been no shortage of inflammatory comments and dangerous policy proposals put forward by Donald Trump throughout this campaign. He has insulted minority groups, proposed barring an entire religion from entering the country, and mocked a reporter with a disability – to name only a few.

Ask a Trump supporter about these things and they’ll somehow work their way to blaming the media for it. It’s not fair to characterize him based on what he has said and proposed in this campaign, you’ll be told.

Instead, they’ll show you some decades-old video clip of Donald Trump acting semi-normal and even somewhat appealing in an interview with Oprah. They’ll say that is the real Trump.

So that must mean Trump is either pretending to be a buffoonish bigot now or he really is one. Neither of those options should be acceptable to voters.

If he’s elected, he won’t really do what he has promised to.

The big wall on the Mexican border? A sweeping ban of Muslims? Bombing innocent family members of terrorists? Torturing our enemies?

These ideas range from ridiculous to offensive to illegal, but it’s okay because Trump supporters truly believe he won’t really do anything of those things if he’s elected president. It’s essentially just for show, and they’re okay with that.

So either Trump is lying to win votes or he really will act on the promises he’s made in this campaign. Again, neither should be acceptable.

It’s okay – Congress will stop him if he tries to do anything insane.

Trump supporters have become huge lovers of our system of checks and balances, because you have to be in order to support a man who can’t be trusted with any level of power.

It’s okay that the GOP nominee is unstable – Congress won’t let him do anything too crazy, the argument goes.

It’s sort of like leaving a toddler and a gun in the same room and claiming that everything will be okay because the little tike doesn’t know how to pull the trigger.

All of these silly reasons speak volumes about the man the Republican Party has nominated for president, and they only underscore just how important it is to keep him out of the White House.

Sean Colarossi

Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.