And to think there are people who would vote for him again is even more shocking.

I felt the same when Bush jr was being elected and he’s a good boy compared to Trumps. It just proves there’s always a bigger nutcase ready to take control.

I lost respect for the US when that happened, Covid aside, I don't even have any desire to visit the country anymore.

Instantly every president in history became "pretty bad, but not the worst"

Not that this makes any excuses, but this is what happens when you have a "2 party system". Your choices are limited and if your ideals do not align with the other party.... what do you do?!?. America needs to restructure our election policies, our party choices and most importantly, the amount of time ANY person is in Congress.

This was the moment I was convinced I lived on an alternate earth and not "Earth Prime".

People! Please get and read a book that isn't that long, so it's an easy read. It's a "your stomach drops" kind of read. It's called "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder. As you read, Remember what went on during the Trump administration and examine closely what he is saying and doing now. What Republican State Senate's are doing now. After you have read the book and get to the last page, it lists the steps they take. Get out a red marker and see how many points you can tick. You'll be scary surprised.

Nobody who'd paid attention in the 1970's and 1980's would have voted for him. Even the other billionaires in New York shunned him as a con man.

It's not that that's shocking, it's that tens of millions of people voted for him.

I will always believe he ran just for fun and never intended to win.

That was a Nightmare.

Is there a Million Upvotes option?

As an American I can say you are definitely not alone. The flag used to be representative of the freedoms we take for granted. Now all I hear are his "MAGA" speeches, lies & complete bullshit. The fact people I USED to respect support this asshat, baffles me.

Sociopath. All the classic symptoms.

He bought off the EC and I will die on that hill.

that this was a shock to many people is part of the problem. no one took him seriously as the media and late night shows gave him PR, ignoring the past history of insane conspiracy theories and bubbling hatred that he tapped into. he exposed a lot of what people, including your neighbors, coworkers, family, etc really think, but those have always been there.

We live in a timeline that produced a genocidal dictator from a failed artist who also used underhanded tactics to gain power. I think it's safe to say that we have something of a precedent as a species for making obviously bad choices...

It sure affected the way I think of the US. It seemed (to an outsider) that the lunatics finally got to run the asylum.

Same. It was 4 years of hell for me. It's not about political party for me. It's the fact that THIS was the choice regardless of party. Feeling some relief now.

tRump wants to be dictator, so he can rule with impunity..

I used to think so many people I knew were rational, intelligent humans. I've cut so many people out of my life in the last 5 years, even family. There's absolutely no justification for having supported that garbage excuse for a human. I used to think I knew what hate was, I have never in my life hated anything or anyone like I hate him and his family.

idk...once you've lived in the mid-west, the south or Texas you can understand the type of people that are drawn to him. I'm not surprised he was elected.

The US should never recover from this travesty. It should be forever tainted in the eyes of the rest of the world.

At least it only happened once!!!

don't go far away he could be re-elected in few year... would be the end of the world

I'm not American, but when someone told me that Trump had put in his candidacy for POTUS, I laughed and laughed and laughed. I thought no-one in their right mind would let him become the head of the Republican party, let alone win the national election. (and I'm a Conservative. If I lived in the US, I'd be a moderate Republican.) It disturbs me how he managed to bring out the wood lice in the firewood, and now that they're "out of the pile," so to speak, it will be hard to put them back in. The US is doomed, because they're about to vote him back in.

Amen baby! The biggest joke of our entire history.

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I love the fact that for a time some of the most powerful world leaders were called Donald, Boris and Kim...

My President!

As it will the whole world

NOT ONLY YOU!

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Funny- here I m shocked, appalled and dismayed there is a senile old hair-smelling pedophile in the White House as we speak.

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and he made America great just for biden to ruin it.

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Wish we had his border and energy policies back. Biden’s crapping bed 🙈.

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Really? I lived through Obama, 2 Bush's, f*****g bubba Clinton and his chud of a wife, the crazy-ass Reagan's and a f*****g psychic, Gerald Ford, and a whole bunch of lesser state regimes, and you're f****n surprised that the prevalent ignorance that is our nation elected trump. Wow.

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It was actually not surprising for real people living in the real world with real problems. Only privileged oblivious brats who live in their own fantasy world would have been shocked.

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The fact that a party outsider made it to the White House (and that it took the Dems both creating/aiding a pandemic and working with the Chinese to rig things to get him out) is a significant situation in itself. Trump was the first party outsider (on either party) since Reagan. once-in-a-lifetime.. Doesn't matter if you like him or hate him, he was equally disruptive to both parties.

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It kills me how people ignore all the positive changes made under Trump just to dunk on him.