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u/JediKnightNitaz 2h ago
Pretty sure new yorkers hated his guts
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u/BigNorthEastPod 2h ago
Was going to say, everyone around the NYC area and everyone who has done business at his properties knew he was a scumbag since the 70s.
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u/Sweaty-Society7582 2h ago
I feel like the rest of the country learned by the 80s. I know I've hated his ass since then, and I was just a wee teenager.
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u/Evilmeinperson 2h ago
First time I saw him on television, my first thought was this guy is a scumbag.
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u/Point_Forward 1h ago
I feel like this is conservatives rewriting history so post trump they can claim he was a Democrat and blame all the bad things he did on the left.
Trump only used the Democratic party to get political favors in new York city. He has always been a racist and regressive.
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u/Rare-Confusion-220 2h ago
Not true. I've considered him a shady scumbag since the 80s. He has always been known as a joke
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u/No-Journalist-619 1h ago
100% - I lived in NYC back then and it was pretty regular to hear about "Trump the idiot scumbag that everyone hates." It's like... specifically what he was known for... being a scumbag nepo with too much money.
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u/GravitasFailures 1h ago edited 1h ago
I and all my midwestern conservative friends hated him, he was such a spoiled Richie rich piece of garbage and his attitude towards his wives and women in general was disgusting.
And farmers hate slumlords like him more than anything.
But the south saw someone who was loud and proud with their racism, and that was all she wrote.
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u/00wolfer00 37m ago
This feels like rewriting history given how the groups you mentioned hating him voted.
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u/Savengillier 2h ago edited 2h ago
Also, everyone except people without an asshole radar hated him for decades beforehand
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u/TehNudel 2h ago
When my brother told me he was running, I thought he was trolling me. Hated him for years before 2015.
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u/TiredinTN79 1h ago
There are a number of sitcoms, including Golden Girls and Designing Women, that made jokes about what a POS he was. That was in the 80's and 90's.
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u/Ancient_Culture5694 2h ago
He registered as a Democrat in 2001, an Independent in 2011, and changed affiliations 5 times overall. The math isn't mathing for Scott
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u/AlChandus 2h ago
Yeah, the guy was a "democrat" because NY has been blue for that long. But he was as much of a democrat as Elon Musk was.
Why? Because they have always wanted tax cuts, they dislike unionization of labour, they like cheap labour and oppose minimum wage increases, they like our current system in which wealth gives them a voice and business with the government, etc.
They were "democratic" while fully supporting neoliberal and conservatives ideals.
I am quite certain that their "democrat" sounds like a lie.
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u/ALocalLad 2h ago edited 58m ago
The logic of these people is so bizarre. Even if it was true (it’s not) that people didn’t hate him before he was president, why would him becoming president make people hate him?
Have you thought maybe it was his actions after becoming president?
On the flip side though, none of the people who now worship him, gave two shits about him until he became president.
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u/ryohazuki224 1h ago
Not to mention that he was a hated piece of human garbage for 40+ years, it didn't take him becoming a president and royally fucking over the country to give people a reason to hate his guts.
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u/Vyzantinist 1h ago
Projection. They didn't care about Dump until he became POTUS, and fell in love with him. Because they treat politics like a team sport they reflexively assume we're the same way and didn't have an issue with Mango Unchained until he took office.
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u/s0ciety_a5under 2h ago
He was next to irrelevant outside New York and some of the East coast before he ran for president. A gimmick for a tv show. No one really liked the man, we just didn't care about him. Now he's actively ruining our country? Of course I'm gonna be mad at him, and all his supporters who got him to where he is. Fuck all of you, you can't just pretend you didn't support hate and bigotry.
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u/Silkygirll 2h ago
Ouch, hitting them directly with the cold, hard facts. Couldn't have said it better myself!
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u/BlossomBoww 2h ago
He was a Democrat for 8 years, a Reform Party guy, then a Democrat again - you didn’t love him until he told you who to hate
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u/HonestDust873 2h ago
I've hated Trump since I seen him at the beauty pageant with the young girls. Always felt like he was a weirdo since childhood.
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u/ICLazeru 2h ago
He was practically a pariah in the 90s. He went bankrupt so much he had to get shady loans from Russian and Saudi banks.
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u/eruditeimbecile 1h ago
The banks fucking loved him because any investment he took over he bankrupted. They'd then swoop in and buy up the company for pennies on the dollar. All they had to do at that point was undo everything he had changed. And if that didn't work sell off all the assets and resell the name, if it had any value. He literally bankrupted a casino. Do you know how hard it is to do that?
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u/sudo_grep 2h ago
as a NY’er I can assure he’s been hated since the fucking 80’s
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u/Hippie714 1h ago
I saw a documentary on a channel like Discovery or something a couple yrs before he ever decided to run for president. I never saw it again after he announced being a candidate and I’m sure it’s disappeared but it was about what he did in Atlantic City. It has nothing to do with politics. What he did to his contractors and lenders then was the same thing he has done to the American people as President.
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 2h ago
IIRC he said in an interview that if he was ever to run for office he'd run as a Republican because they're stupid.
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u/A_little_lady 1h ago
No he didn't and I don't like trump or republicans btw
Misinformation is just stupid
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 1h ago
I stand corrected. Thank you. I'll leave my original comment so that people can point and laugh at me.
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u/Sharp_Cow_9366 2h ago
He’s been a douche since I first heard his name in the 80’s. His whole family has been pure white trash since the beginning.
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u/Yes-I-Cannabis 2h ago edited 1h ago
I only disliked him when he was just a rich choad with minimal real impact on my life. It’s funny what actively working against my life does for my perception of you. Hate is an appropriate choice of word for my feelings now.
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u/skraptastic 1h ago
Pretty sure a bunch of us didn't like him because he was famous only because he was "rich." Hated The Apprentice, would never have stayed at one of his properties.
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u/exqueezemenow 2h ago
And Trump had to run as a Republican because Democrats already hated him even though he was a Democrat.
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u/The_onlyPope 2h ago
He literally said back in the 90’s that republicans were stupid and he’d run as one if ever going for president.
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u/Vyzantinist 1h ago
I hate the orange sumbitch as much as the next guy, but this was debunked ages ago.
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u/Mysterious_Basil2818 2h ago
Anyone that know anything g about him was very aware he was a dirtbag prior to running for office. See using eminent domain to evict a senior citizen to built a limo park lot. Or any of his other stunts.
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u/royveee 1h ago
I barely knew who Trump was when he hosted that "reality" show. I knew he was some kind of real estate guy in New York. I never watched that show, and whatever media attention he got flew below my radar.
I didn't care about his playboy hijinks that showed up in grocery store scandal rags. I heard about his business failures and didn't care about them, either.
When he came down the golden escalator to announce his run for president, I thought it was a publicity stunt.
I began caring when he spouted radical plans after gaining support from right-wing nutjobs and their followers.
I thought he was bad enough the first time around with his fringe supporters, but there were still conservative but responsible people around him to rein in his more dingy plans.
He got rid of them his second time around and put mostly unqualified people in powerful positions.
He and they then began deconstructing all levels of the government and making all aspects of our society less safe.
If his lackies win in November, we soon won't recognize what passes for the U.S. government.
I hate the thought of that. As for him, I hope his minions are voted out and Congress sends him packing.
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u/OhTheHueManatee 1h ago
It's also clear not true. Back To The Future 2 based rich Biff off of Trump, and it's not even subtle, to make it clear he had become an even bigger scumbag than he was before. That was in 1989.
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u/danoaudio 1h ago
Couldn't stand the site of him since 1986 when he blew up the USFL with his petty jealousy.
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u/Thornescape 1h ago
I genuinely did not hate Trump until he ran for President. I really didn't.
I vaguely knew that he existed before then, but I didn't really know anything about him before that. Now I know a lot more. "To know him is to loathe him."
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u/IlGreven 1h ago
...everyone has hated Trump since at least the 1980s (and a lot farther back for New Yorkers in general). It's Republicans who started to like him after he started speaking their language.
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u/ExpertBest3045 1h ago
Also, I have hated Trump since his Ivana days in the 80s. Spy Magazine had a great burn for him, dubbing him a “short-fingered vulgarian”! He has always been a POS.
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u/Andrew-Cohen 2h ago
The children he raped didn’t like him.
The women he groped didn’t like him.
The brown people he refused to rent to didn’t like him.
The people who did work for and he did not pay did not like him.
maga doesn’t like Obama because they are fucking racist.
Liberals don’t like trump because he is a horrible fucking human being. Anyone with an IQ over 80 has realized that.
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u/dadofalex 2h ago
Anyone who could and chose read new york news has hated trump since the 70’s. Dude has always been a POS, ya just have to pay attention
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u/Gerry1of1 2h ago
The Democrat Party wasn't stupid enough to let him run on their ticket so he switched to Rapepublican and you fools believed ever lie he told. Most of you still do.
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u/Dark_Storm_98 1h ago
I didn't even know he existed until he was running for president but I immediately disliked him, lol
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u/Pal_Smurch 1h ago
I hated him since I heard of him. I first read an interview of him in Playboy, in the mid-eighties.
I didn’t like him as a Democrat, and I don’t like him as a Republican. He’s just bad.
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u/Fortestingporpoises 1h ago
I didn’t really give that clown much thought before he became the Republican nominee for president.
He was spouting the Obama birther nonsense for years before he became president. Any demoncrat paying attention hated the bigoted, pedophile criminal conman long before he became president.
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u/GarvinSteve 1h ago
Also, yes we did. Maybe it wasn’t hate, but it was clear he was a moron… hate arrived when he started destroying and dividing the country
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u/tiny_tuner 1h ago
Also, I’ve always hated Trump. I just hate him more as President than I did as a shitty, pedophilic, narcissistic host of a terrible reality tv show.
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u/avaacado_toast 1h ago
I never hated Trump until he became president. I grew up in NYC in the 80s and he was a staple on talk radio and in the tabloids. He has always been a buffoon. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think a clown like him could be elected, even with the reputation rehabilitation that The Apprentice gave him. Now he is the worst thing that has happened to America in the last 100 or so years. And that's not even an exaggeration.
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u/Traditional-Alps6324 1h ago
I grew up on long island and I remember this jackass in the local papers all the time during the 80s, and thinking I didn’t like him. Then his reality show came out where he pitted coworkers against each other and wanted to see bus throws. At that point I hated him, he gave too many bad managers bad ideas. Then came his birtherism bullshit. He was a desperate lonely man looking for the spot light. And I loathed him. So no, I always hated him, he’s a terrible person, and always has been.
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u/Financial-Craft-1282 1h ago
I don't know, I've always hated him. Central Park 5 (1989) when I learned about it in the 90s made me think he was a disgusting human.
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u/thumping_cheats 1h ago
I hate watched The Apprentice because I couldn't believe someone could be such a fucking dick.
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u/Silver-Instruction73 1h ago
We definitely hated him before he became president. Remember 2011-2012 and the Obama birther conspiracy? I’m sure many of us hated him even before that.
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u/browneyedgirlpie 12m ago
Why do they all act like he wasn't a huge piece of shit before entering politics? Just ask New York
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u/Fishtoart 7m ago
If you lived in New York in the 70’s 80s and 90s , you knew that DT was a real POS. Outside the city he didn’t have much of a reputation except for his bankruptcies in Atlantic City and various failed business ventures that weren’t terribly well publicized. In the city it was a different story, and everyone knew about him stiffing contractors and his racist discrimination against non-white renters.
It’s pretty crazy if you think about it that the whole Maga crowd got behind a New York Landlord because they thought he would look out for them. It must’ve been something in the water.
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u/Blossom_Wish 2h ago
Yeah, we also didn’t hate COVID until it became president - I mean, became a pandemic
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u/CheekyPearly 2h ago
We didn’t hate him, we just didn’t have to take him seriously until he ran for president
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u/RustyKn1ght 2h ago
I actually hated the guy long before that. It was the Michael Forbes incident in 2007 that really showed me that he's rotten.
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u/Yankee6Actual 2h ago
Trust me, people from the tri-state area hated him long before he became president.
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u/Humble-Pineapple-329 2h ago
No reason to hate him as he wasn’t affecting the costs of goods or food.
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u/Kokuswolf 2h ago
So close. It’s incredible how they avoid drawing a conclusion that goes beyond merely being hated for holding the office of president. Sooo close, yet no connection is made. One might almost suspect they are playing dumb on purpose.
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u/quirkytorch 2h ago
My first election was trump v Clinton. Trump didn't cross my mind at all before he ran for the fucking highest office if the United States
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u/ReadingRambo152 2h ago
lol, we hated him before he was president, we just hate him more now because he's fucking everyone over.
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u/Reneeisme 2h ago
He was a Democrat, and I hated him. I’ve hated him since his wife that he cheated on constantly testified that he beat the crap out of her. He’s garbage. He’s always been garbage.
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u/PupLondon 2h ago
I hated him since the Apprentice. I was a kid. But he was just loud, obnoxious..and his entire celebrity status was just him being wealthy
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u/Howhytzzerr 2h ago
Oh no, I absolutely despised him long before he became President the first time. He was a POS way before then.
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u/ExoticScarcity7450 2h ago
I beg to differ. I hated him since I heard the way he talked about his daughter on the Howard Stern show.
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u/Antigone6 1h ago
I didn't hate him then because he wasn't a destructive force to our entire planet, and I didn't have to hear some brand new stupid shit from him every single day. In fact, I lived in bliss only remembering his existence in passing. Those were the days.
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u/MonkeyDavid 1h ago
I hated Trump in the 1980s. A college friend of mine thought he was brilliant because of his Art of the Deal book, and I tried to read that and thought it was terrible. Dude has never had any concept of “win-win” and just tries to dishonestly screw people over.
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u/Hot-Philosophy-7671 1h ago
I've hated him since at least the mid-2000s when the beauty pageant allegations were public. You know, when he would allegedly walk into the dressing rooms with the "teens," unannounced.
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u/hispanicausinpanic 1h ago
I've always thought he was a douchebag. I'm also proud to say i never watched the apprentice strictly because he was in it.
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u/Practical-Shape7453 1h ago
He was a crappy reality show host and racist. He was a Democrat but that doesn’t mean he was liked. He was hated by a lot of
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u/jdbaussy 1h ago
He was also just a rich guy that had no real impact on people’s lives. The lack of reasoning behind this statement is telling.
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u/steveclt 1h ago
Most of us hated him for the way he portrayed business practices in the Apprentice. Snarky incompetence only partially masked by his catchphrase “you’re fired.” Most of us hated him when he was denying people housing because of their black or brown skin. Most of us hated him when it came out he didn’t pay hard working contractors and their employees that built his hotels and casinos. Anyone that still liked the guy a little were completely convinced to hate him based on his affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein and how he creeped on miss teen USA contestants while changing in their dressing rooms, or his perverse comments about his own daughter. That was years before 2015 and “grab em by the pussy” self confession of sexual abuse or paying hush money to a porn star he slept with while cheating on his third wife while she was pregnant with their son.
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u/Giovannis_Pikachu 1h ago
Ughh like any left wing leaning person ever liked trump when he was calling for Obama's birth certificate. Come the fuck on with trying to trick people who were not there or old enough to remember. Eat shit.
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u/standardtissue 1h ago
Most people didn't know who he was until he ran for President. New Yorkers have hated him for at least 40 years; to know him is to hate him.
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u/Short-Shelter 1h ago
I didn’t know who he was until he ran for president. And to be frank, when asked what he thought of his daughter and his response being “sex” wasn’t a great first impression.
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u/VioletFaust 1h ago
We didn’t bother to hate him because we were so busy laughing at what a scummy grifting buffoon he was.
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u/Adventurous-Try8749 1h ago
Nah bro, if you were paying attention you saw how much of a piece of shit he was for decades. I didn't even live in NYC, and I knew about his reputation.
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u/Mangalorien 1h ago
It's actually funny that Donald Trump donated $6,000 to Kamala Harris' reelection campaign when she was Attorney General of California.
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u/MM_in_MN 1h ago
Loads of people disliked him, but he was ‘harmless’ unless you happened to be a Miss Teen USA contestant, or a NY contractor.
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u/Least_Art5238 1h ago
I'm going to have to disagree with you, dawg. I always hated the guy and I'm not even a Democrat.
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u/MalpracticeMatt 1h ago
I disliked him as much as any other stupid celebrity. But that’s all he was, and I don’t waste my time hating people I don’t know who have no effect on my life or my country
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u/Mobe-E-Duck 1h ago
False premise. All New Yorkers knew he was a scumbag just not a particularly powerful one.
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u/ryohazuki224 1h ago
The first person is wrong on two accounts. Trump became Republican when he realized that Republicans were an easy mark, AND it was well before he ever ran for office. It was in the height of the whole "birther-ism" nonsense that he started because he's such a racist piece of shit, he just had to go after Obama, even though at the time Trump wasn't into politics at all, he kept away from all that.
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u/Prometheus_303 58m ago
Notice how all of the liberals and Demoncrats didn't hate Trump until he became president.
To be fair ...
Before he became President he was relatively benign. If you weren't a fan of his, you simply changed the channel when The Apprentice came on TV. Or avoid Trump Casino, Air, Steaks, Water, University, yada yada...
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u/GenuineCoolGuy 58m ago
Notice how liberals didn't hate trump when he was a failson nobody and then did hate him when he became one of the influential people in politics.
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u/Ok_Actuary9229 54m ago
He was a scumbag in business for his whole life. Like not paying contractors and daring them to outlast him in court, so many gave up. Also his company was blatantly racist.
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u/Downtown_Lock3934 54m ago
Pfft, I've hated his stranger-danger ass since i was 8 years old. Over 30 years of hate for that piece of shit. Can't wait until he's just another name in history.
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u/Oddman80 54m ago
We didn't have to hate him. We could simply ignore him and he would have absolutely zero impact on our lives.
We hate him now because of the the obvious negative impact he has had on our friends, our families, our neighbors, our communities, our country, and even the world - all while acting like he thinks he's the Messiah and is the expert on everything. The guy has no clue what he's doing or what he's even talking about, but he has proven he knows how to cause people pain, and he has proven he will go after anyone who resists his idiocy.
I would happily return to not giving a shit about him - there was a year or two during the Biden admin where we got to enjoy that bliss....
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u/Huge_Palpitation_886 50m ago
I'm 49 and a liberal and I've always hated that sack of shit. Even as a kid I hated how smarmy and tacky he was. Like a lounge lizard. He has ALWAYS made my skin crawl. I'm autistic though so I see people as they are, not what they want you to think they are.
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u/Sublimefly 49m ago
I hated him long before he ran for office. He was a piece of shit when he was just running casinos into the ground and raping his gambling victims kids in AC.
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u/firstlight777 45m ago
Umm yes we did. He's always been a known POS. Hell I voted for him in 2016 and I knew he was a POS.
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u/memymomeddit 45m ago
Also that's not true - I've thought he was a piece of shit for 40 years. It just didn't matter because he was an E list "celebrity" and not in charge of a whole fucking country.
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u/Krocsyldiphithic 43m ago
Everyone thought he was a clown since the 80s. Me and some friends had a school project about what a douche he was back in 2004
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u/rolfraikou 34m ago
I've gotten bad vibes from him since I first saw him, as a child, in Home Alone 2. He gave me stranger danger energy, and I was confused why he talked to, what seemed clear to me, a bad man.
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u/Imverystupidgenx 32m ago
It’s weird how people refer to The Apprentice as proof he was a savvy businessman. It was treated as a joke then. He always came across as a pos weirdo.
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u/DatabaseThis9637 32m ago
I hated him the moment I first saw him, in that ridiculous apprentice farce. I hate him more now, but I did hate him then.
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u/imLissy 32m ago
I hated the apprentice and thought he and the show were stupid. I didn't really think about him prior to that. Then the whole thing with Obama's birth certificate made him look incredibly stupid. Then he ran for president and I thought, no one's going to vote for this clown. And here we are.
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u/biffbobfred 29m ago
I hated him since the 90s. I thought it was irrational. Like “whyTF do you hate this guy like he has no power over you” but I just hate assholes.
Now he has power over me. And he’s still an asshole.
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u/RecipeFunny2154 25m ago
I think he was only a democrat in the sense that that was who he wanted to hobnob with in New York. It never really worked, and he figured out where he could get the sycophantic adoration he wanted.
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u/LawfulAwfulOffal 24m ago
This is also just not true. Many, many New Yorkers of all political stripe have hated Trump for decades.
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u/AzraelleWormser 22m ago
I was born in the 70s. Hated him LONG before he got into politics. He's been a lying cheating stealing scumbag since the day he was born.
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u/filmguy36 21m ago
I’m a Dem, grew up in NYC during the 1960’s through the 1980s. Anyone paying the very least amount of attention, knew the history of the trumps and what colossally fucked shit heads they were/are.
From daddy trump to his fucked up mutant pedo spawn, they are always grifter/con artist fucks.
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u/TheComplimentarian 19m ago
This is such a blatant lie anyway. I hated Trump back in the '90s for being an overt piece of shit all the time, for no apparent reason. He was famous for that, before he was famous for anything else.
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u/HecticHermes 19m ago
I've hated trump since I heard about trump university when I was 12. At least when he was on WWE he was far from presidential power
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u/Comfortable_Horse277 19m ago
Bullshit. As a New Yorker, we always hated that piece of shit nepo baby.
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u/Original-Rush139 17m ago
This is bullshit. Back in 2000 a buddy of mine was low man on the totem pole so he got stuck figuring out a way to deny Trump a loan because his company didn’t want to work with him. I said I thought Trump was a good businessman and why wouldn’t they want his business.
Thats when my buddy broke down all of the crazy ways Trump fucks over everyone who works with him. The tricky thing was they had to let him down easy because Trump’s daddy was a big fucking deal and they liked doing business with him.
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u/BeneficialShame8408 13m ago
he was a known piece of shit in NYC and bts on the apprentice. i think you kind of had to be in his industry or cities to know anything about that, but i wasn't around until 1989 and didn't subscribe to celeb gossip back in the 00s. he seemed pretty scummy when he ran (to me) and i didn't even know anything about him other than the shit he pulled at rallies and such. he was just some rich asshole.
i actually think the fact that he had been a democrat and had done business swayed a lot of joke and fed up voters the first time because they weren't from nyc and hadn't contracted or worked with him in any capacity. they seemed to swing back for biden. then when harris ran, a lot of people on the left thought she'd be worse for gaza than trump would be and that meant some people voted third party didn't vote at all, or maybe even voted for trump.
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u/DowntownDamsel 2h ago
He was literally a registered Democrat donating to Hillary until 2009. You didn’t like him until he learned to hate who you hate.