30 Questions to Ask Yourself If You Support Trump for President

This Should Not Be Close, Yet Some Luddites Out There Want Trump-- WHY? WTF?

Apr 30, 2024

This is not a close call America. It shouldn’t even be as close as it is now. This should be a monumental landslide where the winner gets over 400 Electoral Votes. It’s embarrassing to me as an American that Trump is one of our major party candidates (AGAIN!) and its completely ruined the perceptions most thoughtful Americans have of the intelligence level in this country.

Ask a Republican why on Earth they would choose Donald Trump for President and it boils down to one line: “He is the Republican Party’s nominee and that makes him better than Joe Biden.” Uhmm, no. Sure, he is the GOP nominee but you still have a choice, and this utter fraud and failure of a previous President is not better than Biden, he wasn’t even better than any of the other GOP contenders, and that includes Doug Borghum. In a way I get it, there is a brand identity there that many Republicans find hard to break; they identify themselves as Republicans and to vote against that is heresy. Thing is then, when people compare Republicans walking in lockstep to brownshirt Nazis, or mindless lemmings going off a cliff, those comparisons are all the more apt if that’s the thoughtless course they choose to take.

I do know a number of thoughtful Republicans who read PurpleAmerica. Many are Never Trumpers and still others are tried and true Republicans who will vote for Trump out of sheer voting habit, some of whom offer their sincere criticisms and thoughts. This is in addition to the number of Democrats who regularly read these posts.1 To those Republicans out there, I want to ask you some questions that I hope will get you to if not reconsider your choice, at least give you pause to vote for such an unqualified individual.

Questions to ask a Trump Supporter

Would you trust Donald Trump with your 18 year old daughter?
You’re a contractor, hired to create a new clubhouse at Mar-a-lago for Trump. Would his history of not paying contractors or paying substantially less than what was agreed to give you any pause?
Even though he brands himself as a winner and a successful businessman, do his numerous bankrupcies and convinction for fraud, which also prohibits him from running a business in NY, make you think that maybe he’s not as successful as many think?
Do you agree 100% with every position Trump has?
1. If yes, how do you reconcile that with his constant changing of some major positions on major issues?
2. If no, does the fact that he has had protesters gassed and also advocated to have protesters of his positions actually shot bother you at all?
If you are an evangelical christian, how does his constant infidelity and obvious lying impact your support? How does the fact that he has repeatedly broken pretty much every Commandment and daily trods within the 7 deadly sins impact your thoughts?
Does it concern you at all that as a billionaire he has turned the fundraising arm of the RNC into his personal piggy bank to pay his legal fees, leaving other downballot candidates underfunded?
Are you concerned he would try another insurrection if he loses?
Are you concerned if he actually wins, that he would undermine our American institutions further to the point that they are no longer functional, including democratic ones like elections?
Is there anything Trump would say or do that would lose your vote?
Does it bother you that every person who has ever worked for him in government, including many of the most die hard Republican ones, have called him unfit for the Presidency? Would it make you think twice that the guardrails which barely held last time with his appointments would not be there in a second Trump term, and that those new appointments he would make would look as incompetent and marauding as his election team currently indicted in a half dozen states?
Do his ties to Jeffrey Epstein bother you?

Do you think it was prudent for the Commander in Chief of the United States to sacrifice U.S. interests to leverage another country to manufacture false testimony against his political opponent, which Trump did with Ukraine leading to his first impeachment?
Do you think trying to leverage his position against the state of Georgia pressuring them to manufacture 14k votes out of thin air in order to win an election was “a perfect phone call.”
Do you think when the Capitol was attacked on 1/6 it was prudent for the President to do nothing and just let it keep going?
1. Do you think it was prudent when he fielded calls from Representatives under siege at the Capitol to respond, “I guess they are just more upset about it than you are.”
2. Do you think the crowd chanting “Hang Mike Pence” was “perfectly fine” as Trump has claimed?
3. Do you think the 1/6 insurrectionists should be pardoned?
4. Should the people who trashed our nation’s Capitol be praised as Trump has done?
Do you think it is wise to side with Russia as it works to undermine our allies in Europe and destabilize American institutions?
Do you think it is wise to give the nuclear codes to someone who at one point thought it would work to nuke a hurricane to make it disappear?
Do you really think Trump could get a border bill through Congress that was better than the Biden bill was, after Biden gave Republicans everything they were asking for, and they had the Democratic votes to pass it before Trump pulled his supporters for it? Do you think one Democrat would vote for a Trump Border Bill?
Do you think neo-Nazis are “very fine people” and are people you would want to associate with?
Do you think eliminating the pandemic response team at the CDC was a smart management decision when Trump did it 2 years before COVID hit?
Do you really think the four years from 2017 to 2021 would have really been worse had Hillary Clinton won election?
Do you believe for one second that Donald Trump can calm down the tensions in the Middle East?
Does it make you feel safer knowing Iran and North Korea are now closer to nuclear weapons, since Trump took us out of the Nuclear Deal with Iran and made friendly overtures to Kim Jong Un in North Korea?
Does it make you proud of our military when Trump refuses to meet with wounded veterans and asks his Chief of Staff “I don’t get it, what was in it for them?”
Do you think he was a political mastermind when it took him 16 months to get a tax cut out of the House of Representatives, where he had an overwhelming majority at the time?
Would you trust Trump alone in a room with your wallet? Would you loan him your credit card?
If another pandemic or major crisis were to hit, would you trust Trump to handle it?
Does four more years of a milquetoast Joe Biden, who has regularly demonstrated bipartisanship and achievement in getting needed legislation passed, and has been more of a pragmatic manager rather than a raging ideologue, really sound that awful?
If Trump should win and our elections turn into banana republic level jokes, would you regret your vote for Trump? Could you feel confident that you wouldn’t have to apologize to your grandchildren for ruining the American experiment?
Does it concern you that Trump never takes responsibility for anything? Isn’t the standard for the position Harry Truman’s “The Buck Stops with Me?”
Do you really think that a billionaire who grew up in wealth, who was raised within the ivory towers of Manhattan, who routinely mocks those less well off than he is, who funds his campaign with automatic withdrawls through senior citizens’ savings accounts and hawking bibles, who would never let you into Mar-a-lago and goes out of his way not to spend more than a minute with someone he doesn’t see as his peer, do you really, I mean REALLY, think he gives a shit about you at all?

If you really have any second thoughts about Trump after ANY of these questions, or felt uncomfortable about any of them at all, let me offer one more aspect about every one of these questions; Joe Biden is on the right side of all of them. He’s demonstrated the responsibility and quality that the job requires. If you take away the labels, of republican, democrat, liberal, conservative, whatever, it boils down basically to character. Joe Biden has the character to lead this country to its best days and strengthen our standing in the world, Donald Trump not only doesn’t, he would do the exact opposite.

Come November, think about those things.

PurpleAmerica’s Obscure Fact of the Day

When Trump was the owner of the New Jersey Generals in the USFL (United States Football League) the other owners disliked him immensely, but he was a big draw, one of the wealthiest owners of the league and he maintained a level of leverage with the other owners. The USFL actually had a lot going for it, including some excellent players who avoided the NFL due to it’s labor issues at the time; players such as Reggie White, Jim Kelly and Herschel Walker. However, Trump actually pushed things that helped sabotage the league, and when it eventually folded, he did what he always does— sue. He got the USFL to sue the NFL on antitrust grounds.

Surprisingly, the USFL won, but the six person jury agreed with the NFL that the USFL failed because of its own poor decisions, many of which were caused by Trump. The USFL was awarded a nominal $1 award. With interest and after it was “trebled for antitrust law,” it was raised to a total of $3.76. The NFL cut a check to the USFL right there, and the USFL never cashed it.

To this day, in my mind, nothing demonstrates Trump’s lack of business savvy as this debacle.

PurpleAmerica’s Final Word on the Subject

Let’s give it to former General and Former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly, who sums up Trump perfectly here:

Footnotes and Fun Stuff

I’m not one to describe my readers in too much detail, they tend to run the gamut from left to right. The bulk of my subscribers are definitely middle of the road, both GOP and Dem, but I do get casual readers who go out to the fringes more. Those tend to be more Democratic, probably because I don’t post on Truth Social or push to GOP websites more often. Nonetheless, I get emails from Trump supporters all the time.