I don’t have hard data on this beyond my own experience and hearing others speak about this issue and what drove them to vote Trump in 2024. Issues of censorship, thought-policing, and the intolerance of dissenting opinion were huge factors in pushing people (ironically) to the right. This issue has only gotten worse, where now some of the biggest and most popular subs on this site will ban huge swaths of users just for having posted any pro-Trump opinion, or even more insane, any opinion critical of the modern American left. I’m genuinely open to having my view on this changed, but I also think this is just an objectively true statement and will defend it until convinced otherwise.

I’m not native to the US. My mom is half US and grew up in Mexico, came to the US to raise her family. My dad was raised in the US. So even though technically I was raised in the US I hold strong roots to my native culture (Mexico).

Regardless of that, and regardless of Trumps policies or his ethics regarding moral conduct, he’s an objectively bad leader.

Presidents job is to fairly be EVERYONES president in the US including; immigrants, dems, leftists, commies, everyone.

The US Is a melting pot, it shouldn’t be one uniform group calling for everyone to fit their political agenda or leave.

I think it’s honestly weird that MAGA supports a leader like this, “Make America Great Again”, by polorizing our country?

Of course this leads into policies and trumps unprofessional character. But that is my view on him, if there’s a Trump supporter reading this then I wanna challenge myself, why should I or any other democracy (I’m personally centrist) support a man like that?

What qualities does he bring to the table? What policies do you support? What about his character do you like?

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later edit: honestly dont know if this is getting any more views but theres 500+ comments and I only made this post as a sort of pastime. I dont have the time to reply or read all the replies. if anything has been posted after the 23rd of December I simply dont have the time to read, but thank you to all who offered perspective :)

Source - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-01-09/trump-on-greenland-we-ll-make-deal-easy-way-or-hard-way-video

President Donald Trump said his administration will take action on Greenland “whether they like it or not.”

“I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way,” Trump said at the White House.

The Trump administration has recently said it is weighing a range of options on Greenland, including utilizing the U.S. military or cutting a deal to purchase it from Denmark.

Denmark has warned that its troops are under standing orders to "shoot first and ask questions later" if Greenland comes under attack, as anxiety grows in Europe over the United States under President Donald Trump openly weighing military action to seize the Arctic territory.

This just broke and it feels like a massive geopolitical shift is being signaled. While the headlines focus on the "purchase" or "military" aspect, as investors, we should be looking at the long-term Arctic play.

Greenland is effectively a massive, untapped vault of rare earth minerals and strategic shipping lanes. If the US moves to "hard way" tactics, we aren't just looking at a headline; we’re looking at a fundamental shift in several sectors.

Trump weighs $10k-$100k payouts to Greenlanders in US takeover bid.

How this affects the market:

• Rare Earth & Mining: If the US secures Greenland, it’s a direct move to break the monopoly on minerals needed for EV batteries and tech. Watch for volatility in the REMX ETF or individual Arctic mining tickers.

• Defense & Infrastructure: "Utilizing the military" usually means massive contracts for logistics, cold-weather tech, and base construction. Names like Lockheed Martin (LMT) and Raytheon (RTX) are the obvious first movers here.

• The Danish Krone (DKK) & EU Stability: Denmark has already signaled they will "shoot first." Any friction with a NATO ally usually triggers a "flight to safety" in the USD, but could put serious pressure on Danish-linked assets like Novo Nordisk (NVO).

It’s impossible to scroll through any subreddit without every other post or comment turning into a Trump rant, relevant or not. People just can’t help themselves.

You can’t even check news or memes subreddits without the comments filling up with whataboutism and endless Orange Man bashing on totally unrelated topics.

Go to law subreddits and it’s packed with Trump “news” disguised as legal talk, overshadowing everything else.

I miss the old Reddit.

Update: They’re obsessed and keep flooding the comments even here. 90% of the responses are cursing me about trump but this post has an 82% ratio. What does that say about the small minority who are just angrily typing away on their keyboards?

I think just 18% of you make all the noise.

I don’t mean this as a rant - I’m genuinely trying to test whether I’m wrong here. Every president has had scandals or major screw-ups: Nixon had Watergate, Clinton lied under oath, Bush had Iraq, Obama had drone strikes and surveillance overreach. But with Trump (especially now, during his second term), it feels like the entire idea of presidential standards has collapsed.

Here’s what I mean:

1. Truth basically stopped mattering. During his first term, he flooded the news cycle with half-truths and straight-up falsehoods until fact-checking became useless noise. In his second term, it feels like even his supporters don’t expect honesty - they just see politics as team loyalty. That’s not healthy for democracy.

2. He surrounds himself only with “yes men.” Almost everyone who’s disagreed with him - even loyal early allies - eventually got fired, attacked online, or replaced with someone whose main qualification is loyalty. That’s not leadership; it’s an echo chamber. Presidents are supposed to hear hard truths, not filter them out.

3. The self-interest is out in the open now. He’s still holding events at properties his family profits from, still blurring public service and private business, and still treating the presidency like a personal brand. I can’t think of another modern president who made the office feel this transactional.

4. He normalizes attacking democratic institutions. The constant feuds with the Justice Department, judges, the press, and even the military undermine trust in everything that’s supposed to keep the government balanced. You can’t run a republic on personality loyalty alone.

5. The new leaks (like those Epstein-related emails) Even if you take them with a grain of salt, the fact that this kind of thing keeps surfacing says a lot about the circles he keeps and the lack of basic vetting or judgment. It feeds the perception that nothing is off-limits anymore.

At some point, it stops being about “policy disagreements” and starts being about whether the office itself means anything beyond a political weapon.

What might change my view:

If you can show that earlier presidents were just as bad but we’ve forgotten.

If you think the media or opponents have exaggerated Trump’s behavior and it’s really not that unusual.

Or if you think the presidency was already broken before him, and he’s just the symptom, not the cause.

CMV.

It's hard for me to care if most everyone else doesn't care. I'm tired of being told I'm hysterical, or forecasting, or dividing the country by not thinking about the other side. I'm tired of having to explain why the big beautiful bill is bad or why tarriffs are a tax on people or why ICE violating people's rights is a problem.

I know there are lots of people that are fighting against the administration but they're clearly not showing up. Two large protests 5 months apart clearly shows people aren't THAT angry. Sure Trump's numbers are down and I think things will swing back to the democrats but I know that no matter what democrats do, even if they really fight to help working people (a big if) youre not going to meaningfully change the DNA of the voter base-a base that will throw their vote to any liar because of "men in womens sports".

So you know what, I don't care anymore. I actually start to get a little happy when I see how rural hospitals are going to close and how healthcare premiums are going to start to take off. Red states, including my own will have their kids start getting measles and all sorts of awful stuff..sucks to suck. I will check out and be glad that I'm a white man that's probably going to weather the storm. I'm tired of getting worked up and surrounded by people who "have no idea what to believe" or who think this is all ok because "they're all corrupt". So the only lesson I'll take away from all of this is that I'll take care of myself, my family and friends. What else is there? What are my country men going to do, not vote for a Trump guy in the next 3 to 7 years? Don't make me laugh.