Why on earth did they support him in the first place then? His hair? :P
Because they hate Hillary. That was the problem with this election. Almost everyone voted AGAINST the opposition instead of FOR their candidate.
Exactly this.
I voted for my candidate (who lost the primary), then had to make do with the choices I was given. Knowing Trump would flip on most of his policies, I went ahead with him, and he's flipping on his policies as expected.
When I first moved overseas 13.5 years ago I was still proud to call myself American.
It’s been slowly dwindling since then. America has no longer been seen as a welcoming force. Literally exactly as Osama wanted.
The wall was so ridiculous I only took it as rhetoric, but rhetoric that lets people know what is on his mind.
This time I voted for my guy, but my guy got kicked out unjustly thanks to the system.
How small we all are.
I try to fight with words, but words can’t reach those who need to be fixed.
I used to think well of my home country. The world relies on our movies and our music. If our Wall Street goes down then so does the rest of the world. At least I had these small victories.
As I grew to appreciate other cultures more I lost some importance in my own, but I never thought my culture would be an insult to myself and everything I had tried to be.
My coworkers assure me that people from the UK can distinguish between those of us who got caught up in a bad vote, similar to Brexit.
But this weekend I stood outside catching Pokémon only to be approached by drunken wanderers who first asked me where the best club was and then asked, “Oh, your accent, from where are you?”
“OH, oh, OH, did you vote for Trump?”
Americans are being pocketed into one camp or the other. From now on you’re just a Trump voter or not.
But, I’ve just tried to be myself. Always.
I feel as if my identity has been stripped away.
I’ve always done what I love but now I am just a Trump voter or not.
But if this is the direction my country wants to go, I am small and can’t do anything about it.
But it’s the worst possible time for it to happen, because it is the time when I am most ready to dedicate myself to another.
She is my everything. I’ve only done things in my life so that she could marry a good man and be proud of her choice.
I can’t feel as if I am making her proud of her choice.
My country has gone into disgrace and I feel helpless trying to separate myself from it.
I’ve just accepted a job in America at Apple. But living in America only makes it harder for me to separate myself from Americans, and I can’t ask my Japanese fiancé to live in a racist country.
The wall he wanted exists whether we want to acknowledge it or not.
I feel a wall in my self-worth. I feel I have to strongly go out and reassert my own individuality to make sure I am not grouped among the other.
The wall exists and it is already tearing people apart.
Even if everyone here agrees that I am on the right side of it, my fiancé has to repeat and reiterate that I am not “that kind of American” for the rest of her life.
It’s a burden I bear upon her just by being born in Kansas.
I don’t know many husbands whose wives make excuses for them just for being.
What I can do is introduce her into this racist culture, or I can marry her but keep her from America, and always leave her wondering why I turned down money.
Or I can randomly call off our wedding and let her wonder why for the rest of her life.
Or I can fall prey to a random accident and solve all the problems at once.
I don’t know what is in the future for America. And I just don’t care anymore.
I just want her to have a great future.
I can’t give it to her anymore. I can’t give her the safe place I used to think was my country.
This is Trump’s wall.
L. Spiro
