Shocker! My Trumper father told me he's "greatly disappointed" in Trump.

[SunSeeker]

He said he will no longer wear his Trump hat.

Apparently the last straw for him was Trump saying he will kick out all of the Palestinians from Gaza and take over the land.

I am in shock.

[struggle4progress]

1. Well, really, who could have known that a guy -- who ran a fake charity and a fake university

and who sexually assaulted women and stole classified documents and lied constantly and falsified business records -- just couldn't be trusted? Live and learn!

[SunSeeker]

2. Thing is, he believes Trump about his Gaza plans, so it really bothers him.

And Trump never said he had such plans during his campaign, in fact, he said just the opposite, that he would end war and foreign entanglement.

Me, I am more bothered by what Trump does than what he says, since I just assume everything Trump says is a lie.

[lonely bird]

17. Well, good he is pissed

But it is sad that it took Gaza to see what an azzhat Trump is.

[allegorical oracle]

23. He was actually praising the potential of a developed Gaza's beautiful beach along with

Jared during his campaign. But you're right -- he didn't bring it up on the campaign trail per se.

And that's a problem. The majority of Trumpers I've met watch/attend rallies but don't watch or read what's going on behind the curtain. Can't blame media for that because it was a news broadcast where I watched him gushing over how Gaza's potential could make it "more beautiful than Monaco." Obviously, he decided the French Riviera sounded better than Monaco in his new ideation.

[Luz]

24. He said he'd end the war in Gaza, he just didn't

say he'd use genocide to do it. Most magats think it's a grand idea.

[femmedem]

3. As Joyce Vance says to folks who've recently seen the light

"Welcome to the fight."
Kudos to him. It's hard to admit when you've been wrong.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220000794

[Irish_Dem]

4. Would he still vote for Trump? Would he vote for a Dem?

Or stay home?

[SunSeeker]

5. He's 86. I don't think he'll live to see another election. nt

[lonely bird]

18. Well, I hope he does

He is still your dad. I hope your relationship outside of Trump is good.

I lost my mom in 1983 at 58 due to cancer. My dad was an abuser.

[malaise]

6. Good news

Rec

[COL Mustard]

7. Too bad he didn't get there sooner.

But I'm glad he did, eventually.

[Hugin]

8. You can always tell when the Retrumplicans step on a rake...

They send out the mouthpieces to walk it back. Defunding the VA. The Gaza clearances. So many.

This has been a feature all along.

[SunSeeker]

9. Trump did not take back what he said about taking over Gaza.

And although Rubio may have "clarified" that removing the Palestinians would only be "temporary," Leavitt, like Trump, refused to rule out sending American troops into Gaza, saying of Trump, “he wants to preserve that leverage in negotiations.” https://apnews.com/article/rubio-immigration-guatemala-trump-border-deportation-f928f64eec96b46a880069cbd5580d34

[Hugin]

11. Trump never does...

His handlers have been out in force sanewashing and massaging the message. Trying to make his toxic slurs palatable.

Normalizing the abnormal.

I believe that this is the number one reason his entire staff in this do-over is a maximum of third string.

I expect there to be some big diversion flash-bang to get any media attention away from this foreign policy blunder. Probably the Super Bowl.

It would be nice if the Democrats would latch on to something that people like your father have a visceral reaction to and keep pounding on it. Make Trump own it. That’s what Trump and the Retrumplicans fear the most and that’s why they are purging all of the venues where someone could ask Trump the hard questions.

[Takket]

10. Oh great.

Millions of people are going to die. Disease is going to run rampant over the globe. The economy is going to collapse.

But your dad isn’t going to wear his hat anymore. Well thanks a fucking lot. That makes the end of democracy in America all worth it.

[SunSeeker]

12. Any loss of support for Trump is great.

I didn't say my dad not wearing his Trump hat makes the end of democracy worth it. Come on.

The point is, if my dad could grow disillusioned with Trump, any MAGAt could. And that to me is shocking and a sign of hope...that we can turn the MAGAt adulation of Trump around.

[Magoo48]

13. Celebrate victories great and small. If your dad is discarding his hat then so are thousands of others.

[SunSeeker]

15. Exactly. nt

[Cosmocat]

14. That is all fine and well

But IF we have an election in three years, the right will crank up its hate machine against whoever tge D is, doesn't matter who, the "liberal" press will enable that and he and all the others who may be there now will gobble up the bullshit and vote for him cause the dems put up the only person worse than him.

[SunSeeker]

16. Nobody should curl up in a fetal position. Republicans and Trump are not invincible.

Even with all the bullshit they pull, there are way more of us than them. We can do this. I am optimistic we will have a great candidate in 2028, and Trump will have done even more repulsive shit by then.

[Scrivener7]

20. I agree that they're not invincible, but the world we wrest back from them will be fundamentally

different than the world they took. And I have no sense of what the differences will be when they are finally stopped.

[stillcool]

19. first steps are such signs of hope

especially for a Dad. It's a lifetime of beliefs stuck between those two ears. A lot of falsehoods to disavow. That wall of reality can be a hard hit. Good for him, and you!

[hamsterjill]

21. As the old Tanya Tucker song says...

“It’s a little too late to do the right thing now/“

These people can live with their decision to vote for the orange turd. They knew what they were voting for. I refuse to forget that.

[La Coliniere]

22. Hopefully a trend