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3. I think the thoughtless cruel ways he's going about his agenda is getting noticed by supporters
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 07:34 AM
Apr 6

the gleeful way he talks about federal workforce cuts.

Federal workers given 15 min to clean out, etc. reclassifies thousands of federal employees, making them easier to fire. Terminating for performance issues when they've been having stellar performance reviews before, so they can't collect unemployment, makes it harder to find another job

The sudden cutting of foreign aid -- leaving clinical trial test gear in people, people developing immunity to antiviral drugs they were on.. (same thing happening with cutting health programs in the U.S.)

His cut aid / cut workers / cut programs / cut agencies are being done all of a sudden without any preplanning first, and then has to backtrack on some of that and having to try to rehire, e.g. cuts of nuclear security personnel

Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Panama - we didn't have this conquest mentality in the first term

Clueless blaise reactions to people's 401k's and retirement hopes being eviscerated --

"This is a great time to get rich" (in all caps on Social media Fri morning 4/4)

Wednesday or Thur 4/3: “I think it’s going very well. We have an operation, like when a patient gets operated on and it’s a big thing. I said this would exactly be the way it is,” he said, an apparent reference to the selloff. https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-going-very-well-a3b863fb7879878552bda48098c31b50

Treasury Secretary Bessent said, Sunday, March 16, ""corrections are healthy.".


This is a lot different than the campaign rhetoric of lowering prices "on day one", and a golden age

Adding to the list from the OP -
They are seeing Social Security and health care getting cut. They are seeing they will have to pay tons of $$$ to make up for trade wars/tarriffs.

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