To start, this isn't a thread to bash Trump. Although I lean left, I can acknowledge that he has done a lot of good things. If nothing else, he is decisive and gets things accomplished, which is a lot more than I can say for the previous administration.

From my observation, it seems to me his supporters are fiercely loyal - not to America, or the Constitution, or to the Republican Party, but to Donald Trump himself. I genuinely believe that Trump could molest a 12-year-old prostitute on camera and then sign a confession that he did it, and a large contingent of his supporters would claim that Joe Biden did something similar so why should they care, or that it was a deep-state hoax, or that it was God's will, or that it was clearly consensual, or "insert excuse here".

I was curious if there were any die-hard Trump supporters on here (or that you know of) who changed their mind? Not necessarily even changing parties - just making the decision that you no longer supported him. If so, what was your breaking point? What changed your mind?

3/29/2026 9:47:23 PM

I started changing around his first month of 2nd term. I saw how he flouted the constitution, and something just kinda got me hard.

When the tariff stuff was coming in April of 2025, the way he just so arbitrarily fucked with other countries, I was like "this is my guy"

I'm totally for some kind of American dominated world order. The ends justify the means

[Edited on March 29, 2026 at 10:00 PM. Reason : Oh and venezuela was the shit imo]

3/29/2026 9:59:16 PM

I’ll bite.

I voted for him for the first term. I honestly thought a political outsider could come in with the right cabinet and affect some much-needed change in Washington. I didn’t buy into “drain the swamp” but still, some change might be good.

I wasn’t excited at the end of his term, although I thought Biden to be an extremely anemic person in terms of policy AND presence. Yes he was old, but it was more than that.

Fast forward to today. I can’t stand to look at the man. The way he has gone about everything this term has been all wrong in my opinion. Do I think it’s a bad thing to return illegal aliens to their home countries? No, not at all. But the way ICE has been conducting themselves is really embarrassing. Do I think a path to citizenship would be much easier, humane and quicker? Absolutely.

I think the East Wing demolition is a travesty. Where is the replacement ballroom? Huh? Still waiting……. This fucking arch? Trump Tower library?

The man doesn’t do a thing unless it is either going to line his pockets or solidify his name somewhere.

After this war is over, someone needs to investigate Hegseth for war crimes. Even before the war, the targeting of these “drug boats”? Perhaps they are running drugs. They are still sovereign citizens of another country. I try to think about how I’d feel if Cuba killed a couple of Americans trying to run meth down to Cuba. I’d probably be kinda pissed.

There has been very little that has gone the way I thought it should for this second administration. Trump has surrounded himself with bumbling idiot yes-men and our country has suffered for it.

I do feel like JFK has done a few good things, but they have been overshadowed by his other whackadoodle ideas.

I could keep going. And going. And going.

3/31/2026 1:51:47 PM

JFK has kind of lost his head if you ask me. . .

3/31/2026 8:12:27 PM

Again?

Damn!

3/31/2026 8:13:54 PM

All these years, I'm still trying to figure if any of texan is a bit

3/31/2026 8:50:38 PM

Thanks for the replies. I clearly don't get on much anymore but I do enjoy occasionally logging in. I can honestly say that in my 20's, TWW actually changed a lot of my views on major topics (politics and religion mainly), so it's very cool that it still exists in some capacity.

4/1/2026 7:30:39 AM

They are not a homogenous group, especially in 2024. The way you framed it sounds like a standard boomer conservative watching 10 hours of Ozempic commercials on Fox News a day. The general boomer conservative group as a whole, at least in my circle, still support him.

The online conservative crowd that supported him in 2016 even shows some cracks. Even Alex Jones. The disappointment is largely the Epstein stuff and the Iran war. Tucker would be the media ring leader of that group, but Megyn Kelly is in the group now too. Massie and MTG are emblematic of the group but they certainly didn't start it. Within the fold of 2016 online populist conservatives their views vary a lot in the degree apologetics towards Trump. "maybe Trump is just getting bad information." vs "Yeah he really sucks and is more vile and self-serving than we thought which was already bad."

The tech crowd that got brought in from the ideas of Thiel, Vance, Elon, and of course Yarvin (though Yarvin was never pro Trump) in 2024 have also broken. I guess the further from the grift and fraud the more unhappy they are. At the top the tech group is sidelined, Elon being the most famous example. They get to sit at a table when they give Trump a trophy in return for some favorable regulation. I don't know anyone that voted for him in 2024 in this camp that is now happy with the outcome, including me. I did not vote for him in 2016 and I can't really justify voting for him in 2020. He obviously handled covid like shit and the BLM protests were handled like shit too. Which he has now repeated and handled poorly when it was Tesla dealerships and then the ICE in Minneapolis situation. He seems to fairly regularly talk big, get into a no win situation, and then TACO. In the 2016 admin you could say, well I guess it's the courts and he didn't have a lot of popular support. Something something deep state. But the Chevron Doctrine got overturned and he had a "mandate."



[Edited on April 1, 2026 at 10:27 AM. Reason : a]

4/1/2026 10:25:51 AM

You seem too smart to have been this easily duped. There was never any possibility that a second Trump term was going to be better than the first (which was already an unmitigated disaster). It was always going to be much worse.

4/2/2026 7:06:55 AM

I figured Trump would die in office from
mcD or Elon would have neuralinked them all and been defacto president. The level of cucked Elon got is really something for the history books.

FWIW even if either did happen now they seem to have fucked up so bad it wouldn't matter. And the forces keeping the status quo wouldn't let it happen anyway.

[Edited on April 2, 2026 at 7:56 AM. Reason : A]

4/2/2026 7:54:47 AM

"I figured Trump would die in office from"

...are you saying THAT is why you voted for him?

4/2/2026 10:05:37 AM

^

4/2/2026 10:30:04 AM

I can't tell if Cael is an elaborate troll or sincere in his beliefs

4/2/2026 10:30:26 AM

Same, TBH.

4/2/2026 10:41:24 AM

As a matter of fact, it’s time for the 25th.

Been time. Long overdue.

4/2/2026 12:28:13 PM

good luck with that

4/2/2026 1:37:12 PM

Quote :

""I figured Trump would die in office from" ...are you saying THAT is why you voted for him?"

I have enumerated why in other places so I won't repeat it. The blowback Trump got for "purging neocons" seemed like he was sincere in the "no more wars" promises. Hegseth was even parroting this a few places pre 2024 campaign, and obviously Vance and having Tulsi who also made that central to their political platforms. Trump said over and over "we are going to focus on the home front and get out of these dumb quagmires in the middle east." He went after Bolton and had a public spat. During the campaign when he almost picked a neocon and everyone protested, he chose another person for the job.

All that was apparently moot given Miriam Adelson gave him $250 million.

[Edited on April 7, 2026 at 11:32 AM. Reason : a]

4/7/2026 11:31:46 AM

So you actually thought he would keep his "promises"?

4/7/2026 11:36:31 AM

I thought the people around him would, he would die, or he would just be happy being elected again. There were plenty of possibilities he could have focused on.

Obviously him being a fucking tool bag makes it so when all the other stuff fails and he gets push back for things he is focusing on I guess we get to fucking nuke Iran.

4/7/2026 11:43:35 AM

If this is your concern, when is the last time a Democratic President STARTED an armed conflict that became a quagmire?

4/7/2026 11:48:20 AM

it’d be embarrassing enough to fall for it in 2016

exponentially more embarrassing to fall for it in 2020

2024? jesus christ, man

4/7/2026 11:56:12 AM

^^the war on pronouns!!!1

4/7/2026 12:08:45 PM

Syria and Libya. Ultimately my defection was the continued bombing and droning after Obama took office. And the bailout stuff.

No matter who you vote for the debt keeps rising and the bombs keep dropping.

4/7/2026 12:10:27 PM

^^
LOL! I guess there is that. . .

^
Syria and Libya were not U.S. wars.

Conflicts typically don't get nearly tied off when administrations change. It just seems more instructive to look at who starts this stuff.

4/7/2026 12:23:42 PM

^ https://reason.com/video/2026/03/07/is-it-war/

He's lost Alex Jones too:


https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/2041502734268903820

Quote :

"????WAR CRIME ALERT!!????- Trump on Iran: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. The definition of genocide is destroying an entire civilization/people! Trump literally sounds like an unhinged super villain from a Marvel comic movie."

4/7/2026 12:30:28 PM

I read something once that Bob Dole in like 1976 made some comment like "if it wasn't for democrats, there'd have been no world wars"...ppl didn't like that if i recall

[Edited on April 7, 2026 at 12:32 PM. Reason : ^dictators gonna dictate]

4/7/2026 12:31:01 PM

^^^
*NEATLY tied off. . .

4/7/2026 1:34:36 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/netw3rk.bsky.social/post/3miwmxuwkzk2d

Quote :

" it cant be said enough that all tech smart guys and billionaires thought this guy would be great and now the world economy is fucked we're like a week from gas rationing and their guy is threatening nukes."

4/7/2026 4:48:05 PM

He’s lost Josh barro too— not that he had him but barro is being more blunt about the Netanyahoo influence

4/7/2026 5:31:30 PM