America First? Some Trump Supporters Worry That's No Longer the Case.

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/us/politics/trump-supporters-america-first-concerns.html

https://archive.ph/Bjisp

America First? Some Trump Supporters Worry That’s No Longer the Case.
President Trump has been dining with billionaires and has taken a keen interest in crises overseas, leading to fears that he is drifting away from his more populist stances.
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Tyler Pager
Nov. 14, 2025

President Trump has been dining with Wall Street bigwigs. He has embarked on an opulent revamp of the White House at a time when Americans are struggling to pay their bills. He has expressed support for granting visas to skilled foreigners to take jobs in the United States. He approved a $20 billion bailout for Argentina, helping a foreign government and wealthy investors at a moment when the U.S. government was shut down.

For a president who returned to office promising to avoid foreign entanglements, make life more affordable and ensure that available jobs go to American citizens, it has been a significant departure from the expectations of his loyal base. And it is starting to open a rift with his supporters who were counting on a more aggressively populist agenda.

The divisions within Mr. Trump’s movement, spawned by his own actions, have been only amplified by the latest developments on a story that he has been doing his best to quash: his relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Much of the president’s MAGA movement, and many of his top aides, pushed for years for all the investigative files on the Epstein case to be made public, insisting that a rich and well-connected man — and his network of wealthy and powerful friends — needed to be held accountable for any abuse of young women.

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[tanyev]

1. Newsflash, Trump supporters. It was NEVER the case.

[dalton99a]

2. +1

[Johonny]

12. Yup, Trump first, Trump second, Trump third . . .

It's all about Trump

[Katcat]

17. Took the words

Right out if my mouth

[Beartracks]

23. Right? I'm confused how they ever thought it was.

Republican voters live in a blinders-on, cherry-picking, see-what-you-want-to-see kind of fantasy land.

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[newdeal2]

3. He raised taxes and prices (tariffs) on Americans

Cut food benefits and healthcare for Americans.

And is obsessed with starting wars against Americans and a gilded ballroom.

Wake up!

[Lovie777]

4. It was never the case..............

only one priority for that absolute number one, himself.

[Scrivener7]

5. God, they must all be dumber than a box of rocks.

[yardwork]

7. Dumb, blinded with greed, blinded with resentments...

It's quite a toxic brew they're sipping.

[Scrivener7]

8. Yes, and egos so fragile that it is impossible for them to admit they were wrong.

I suspect a lot of them know they've been had but can't admit it.

[yardwork]

9. I think you're right.

Unfortunately they will vote for the next Republican loser who runs. If only to assure themselves that they were never wrong.

[Scrivener7]

10. Paradoxically, I think it's making the core just dig in deeper, despite knowing what they've done.

[mdbl]

6. To those supporters I say,, DUH!

Stupid is as stupid thinks.

[Clouds Passing]

11. But my pastor told me that Dump is my Savior 😩

[Happy Hoosier]

13. It was never the case. Trump believes in ABC

Always Be Conning.

[Dulcinea]

14. When was it ever America First with the Fascist Felon?

Trump first, last, & always. Bless their hearts.

[RainCaster]

15. He only came back to stay out of jail

That's all

[live love laugh]

16. Argentina First is more like it.

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. Argentina has a history of accepting Nazis. Gotta keep those ratlines open.

(Google "argentina ratlines" for context.)

[LR3]

18. Trump supporters

starting to think he didn't get their nose and maybe that's just his thumb that he is saying is their nose...but they're not sure yet.

[SWBTATTReg]

20. Never was America First. It's Billionaires First.

Sickening and pathetic. We're not even in the equations.

[BattleRow]

21. America worst..not first.

[BlueWavePsych]

22. Kick