Raw Story: 'They'll turn quickly': Trump warned voters won't be tricked by empty promises

[Dennis Donovan]

Raw Story - 'They'll turn quickly': Trump warned voters won't be tricked by empty promises

Brad Reed
February 4, 2025 6:52AM ET

Jonathan Kott, a former senior adviser to Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Chris Coons (D-DE), predicted that President Donald Trump's love of spectacle will come back to bite him when voters realize he's not making their lives better.

Appearing on CNN Tuesday, Kott said that Trump was good at getting publicity for appearing to take bold actions, even if the substance of those actions was minimal.

"People believe he's doing something," he said. "The executive orders he's signing, 90 percent of them mean absolutely nothing. They don't do anything. but he's showing them that he's doing something."

However, he also predicted voters would quickly run out of patience with his empty stunts.

"I think what's going to happen is when they start realizing their prices aren't going down, the government programs that a state like West Virginia relies on desperately are going away, you're going to see a turn from him and they're going to say, 'Wait, you promised us all of these things, and now we're just getting this,'" he said.

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Feb 4, 2025
'They'll turn quickly': Dem operative says voters will grow sick of Trump's empty promises

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[Lovie777]

1. shithole's die hard base worshippers will....

never leave him even tho they may lose everything.

[atreides1]

3. Yep

Even when Berlin was all but destroyed, Hitler hiding in a bunker, old men and children dying while fighting Russian forces, there were those that still believed!

Hell, 20 years after the war there were still those that believed in what Hitler had done and blamed everyone else for his fall!

Look at our situation, descendants of southern traitors still believe!

[rampartd]

2. they are overestimating trump voters

many of whom eagerly await the end times which their god emperor is delivering

[Cheezoholic]

4. This may apply to half who voted for him, the "regular" repukes, but the others will require mass deprogramming

The diehards are in a cult and would probably kill themselves if he instructed them to.

[kerouac2]

5. Again. They forgot to include the word "again" at the end.

They have been tricked repeatedly already. So of course they will. And then they will buy more coins or shirts or whatever.

And let's not forget, they aren't all tricked at all. Many are a-ok with everything he does.

[4catsmom]

6. Oh bullshit

they've been lied to by Trump for years and they'll keep lapping it up

[eppur_se_muova]

7. As so often happens, "Yes (Prime) Minister" explained it best.

Not going to search for the literal quote, but the idea was that "The important is not that one is doing something, or trying to do something, or appearing to do something, but that one is at least trying to appear to be doing something." A for Apparent effort, not results.