I was detained for protesting Trump. Heres what the Secret Service asked me

[YoungDemCA]

74. Yes, half of the country despises Trump. So how would SS possibly keep track of half of the country?

Are they supposed to assume that not one of the well over 100 million Americans who do indeed despise Trump - who IS the President of the United States, as much as I hate it, you hate it, and everyone else here hates it along with so many others in this country and outside of this country - is a potential threat to him?

Presidents get death threats all the time, and they and the Secret Service have plenty of historical reason to take such threats seriously. Obama got plenty of death threats, obviously. But so did George W. Bush. So did Bill Clinton, and George H.W. Bush. Ronald Reagan was literally shot and very seriously wounded at close range (and his Press Secretary James Brady was paralyzed for the rest of his life), and Gerald Ford came close to being assassinated on TWO separate occasions. And of course, JFK...

It doesn't matter who the President is; the Secret Service's job is the same. Protect every President (and ex-President) and their families, along with Ambassadors and embassies (and a few other functions that escape me at the moment). This is all the more important in these deeply polarizing political times, since there is a TON of anger out there and there are plenty of crazies in this country with access to firearms and other lethal weapons in some cases, and you can bet that not all of them are right-wing in their views or are Trump supporters. Wasn't a far-right Republican Congressman seriously wounded by a gunman a few months ago?

The Secret Service really can't take any chances, especially considering that Congress has reduced their funding several times in recent years and that the current POTUS and his extended family aren't exactly making the Secret Service's job any easier...