Trump opponents: Did you "give him a chance"?

[Sir Mohamed]

Yes, I gave him a chance, right after the election. And I wrote about it: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=252631.msg5395070#msg5395070

But it became evident very quickly that this dude will just never change. And never even try to improve, admit any mistakes or show some human decency.

[ProudModerate2]

No. I might be naive, but I'm not THAT naive.

LMAO.
Short, but to the point .... and very funny.

[The Dowager Mod]

Nope, I assumed he would be a clusterfark from the beginning.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I tried to talk myself into making peace with the idea of a President Trump the first week after the election, yes.

Then he tapped Sessions for AG

[TDAS04]

I was never optimistic. 

[RINO Tom]

During the primaries?  Not really.  With several options to choose from, I wasn't going to willingly throw my support behind someone who seemed to be openly promoting bigotry.  During the general elction?  No.  I felt the only way my voice could be heard/I could protest my party making that choice was to not support his election bid, so I was never going to vote for him.  It ended up doing nothing, as I knew it would, but I felt I had no other option.  Once he was elected?  Absolutely.  He is my President, and I agreed with President Obama that "if he succeeds, we succeed."  His comments and actions while in office are, IMO, well below the office of the Presidency, and I would for sure support a primary challenger.  However, I have never had a "take it or leave it" attitude about much in life, and I will commend President Trump when he does good things and "not support him" (whatever that means) when he doesn't.  So far, it has been mostly the latter, unfortunately.

[Holmes]

No, he never gave me a reason to 

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

He's President, whether or not anyone here "gives him a chance".

I've voted Democratic 7 times for President; Republican 3 times.  I'm a RINO,  but a social conservative.

I gave Trump a chance to be something other than a Bush Republican.  So I'm happy (to a point) with some of his foreign policy; he might finally be stopping the creeping neoconia infecting the White House.  I don't know that I'm happy with the tax cuts.

I have not made up my mind to vote for Trump in 2020.  It would depend very much on the Democratic candidate.

[Green Line]

Yes.  I have been very fair to him.  Some would say too fair.  He blew his chance.

[Mr. Smith]

Sure.

Flirted with voting for him tactically a few times [he did advocate for single-payer in the GOP debates a few times to applause AND he picked the heads off the old GOP Establishment, but especially Jeb! and Ted Cruz] then he picked Mike Pence and the whole Khan thing ended that bit.

[The Mikado]

I don't see giving policies I'm strongly opposed to "a chance" as a reasonable request. Trump's first week in office featured a travel ban that I was strongly opposed to on every level. Why on Earth would I give him the benefit of a doubt?

[Rookie Yinzer]

No. He has been a terrible person for years. Winning an election wasn't going to change that.

[Virginiá]

No, not really. I'm not giving a sexual predator whose idea of governing is sitting on Twitter all day riling up bigots a chance. Of course I always hope he'll do something good, but I never expect it. I just think he's a fundamentally disturbed person who has probably never truly cared for anyone else in his entire life. His entire world view seems to be measuring people and groups, seeing what he can take from them and thinking about what lies he will need to tell to do it.

Oh and this too:

I don't see giving policies I'm strongly opposed to "a chance" as a reasonable request. Trump's first week in office featured a travel ban that I was strongly opposed to on every level. Why on Earth would I give him the benefit of a doubt?

[Pericles]

I actually did. I didn't really believe he'd succeed, but I held out hope that the country would be alright and he would end up doing fine. Perhaps it was just as a coping mechanism but I entertained the thought that maybe, just maybe he was right and wouldn't be the disaster I had feared. Within days of his inauguration whatever hope I'd had disappeared and turned into contempt and loathing.

[Person Man]

I actually did. I didn't really believe he'd succeed, but I held out hope that the country would be alright and he would end up doing fine. Perhaps it was just as a coping mechanism but I entertained the thought that maybe, just maybe he was right and wouldn't be the disaster I had feared. Within days of his inauguration whatever hope I'd had disappeared and turned into contempt and loathing.

"Only Nixon could go to China."

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

No.

[DC Al Fine]

Sure. It's not like giving him a chance cost money or anything

[Bojack Horseman]

I gave him exactly as much a chance as the racist conservatives gave Obama.

[Maxwell]

what does that even mean?

I don't give out respect to someone unless they do something respectable. Trump has shown throughout his life he is utterly incapable of doing such a thing.

[HillGoose]

No, I'm a #NeverTrump Republican and I could tell what he was from the start.

An entitled, rude, immoral playboy who used to be a Democrat then changed to the Republican party when it was convenient for him.

He's no Republican. If he was a Republican, he wouldn't have spouted anti-vax, anti-science conspiracy theories, or flirted with 9/11 conspiracy theories. If he was a Republican, he would have continued supporting the Iraq War, and he would have supported arming Ukraine. If he was a Republican, he would have supported privatizing social security. In my opinion, he's no Republican.

What he is, is an opportunist Democrat who saw that he could exploit disaffected workers in the midwest who refuse to realize that their job is GONE and NEVER COMING BACK, because technology replaced it. Instead of going and getting retrained to get a new job, they've spent several years complaining about the "elite" while living off government money. These people are not Republicans.

Also, he's not a good person. If he was a good person, he wouldn't be bragging about sexual assault.

[Thank you for being a friend...]

He never asked me to give him a chance.  He has been a hard-right screwup of a President who could care less what the majority of Americans that voted against him want and I hope he pays the price in 2020.

[fluffypanther19]

No, I'm a #NeverTrump Republican and I could tell what he was from the start.

An entitled, rude, immoral playboy who used to be a Democrat then changed to the Republican party when it was convenient for him.

He's no Republican. If he was a Republican, he wouldn't have spouted anti-vax, anti-science conspiracy theories, or flirted with 9/11 conspiracy theories. If he was a Republican, he would have continued supporting the Iraq War, and he would have supported arming Ukraine. If he was a Republican, he would have supported privatizing social security. In my opinion, he's no Republican.

What he is, is an opportunist Democrat who saw that he could exploit disaffected workers in the midwest who refuse to realize that their job is GONE and NEVER COMING BACK, because technology replaced it. Instead of going and getting retrained to get a new job, they've spent several years complaining about the "elite" while living off government money. These people are not Republicans.

Also, he's not a good person. If he was a good person, he wouldn't be bragging about sexual assault.

/thread. im serious, this perfectly encapsulates trump and his followers

[cvparty]

He's President, whether or not anyone here "gives him a chance".

I agree, I’m not sure what “giving him a chance” means really

[Catholics vs. Convicts]

He never gave me a chance to give him a chance. He's been unhinged nonstop since he first started talking about Obama.

[politicallefty]

Sort of. My grandma (who has hated Trump for a long time and voted for Hillary) basically said after the election that he's the president and we should give him a chance. I was completely despondent after the election, but in my heart, I knew she was right.

Unfortunately with Trump, there is no giving him a chance. I'm a Democrat and I believe in government, so I would have liked to have seen sometime like Trump's massive infrastructure proposal. If Trump somehow came to support some version of single-payer, I would have gladly supported it. I'm not cutting off the nose to spite the face. Unfortunately, as we've seen with this Administration so far, we're not getting anything good accomplished.