A Maryland hairdresser who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 after believing his promises to lower living costs said she has since lost her home and car, struggled to pay her credit cards, and watched customers disappear from her business. Now, she bitterly regrets helping return him to the White House, declaring that only the devil could govern with such cruelty.

Celia Salmerón, 58, accused the Trump administration of bringing hardship rather than the financial relief he promised voters. She immigrated from El Salvador as a child, and now runs a hair salon in a working-class Maryland neighbourhood with a large Hispanic population.

‘He promised to give us money. But he didn’t give us anything. What he gave us this time were problems,’ Salmerón recently told a media outlet, adding that she had been unable to keep up with her debts and had lost almost everything she worked to build.

‘Ever since Trump came in, I have been bankrupt. I have lost everything: my house, my car. I can’t pay my credit cards,’ she said.

    • daddycool@lemmy.world
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      Very much. If it had been Trumps first term, I might have felt sorry for her. But voting him in a second time. Nah, you’re an idiot.

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    ‘If I had known this man was going to behave this way, I would not have voted for him. And I regret voting for him,’ she added.

    in other words, “if I had been paying the slightest bit of attention to the past decade, I would not have voted for him”

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    I don’t even understand how anyone could have watched him and think, yeah, he’ll be totally great for America.

    Especially if you are non-white and/or immigrated here.

    What do they think signs like “Mass Deportation Now” even mean?

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      There’s a statistic I saw the other day that something like 90% of Trump voters have never actually listened to him speak. Like, not properly. They see him in clips and soundbites. Part of a sentence, that sort of thing. When you cherry pick, you can find the stuff that sounds good, and they just fill in the rest. It’s only when you hear him for a solid minute that you really get that awful sense that this is not a remotely cogent or intelligent human being.

      They’re not voting for Donald Trump, they’re voting for the guy from The Apprentice. They’re voting for a character, and that character sounds like someone who knows how to solve money problems and make deals. They figure, that’s all politics really is, right?

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      I especially don’t understand how a hairdresser could watch him and think, yeah, that’s the hair of a sane person with good priorities.

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    Have the day you voted for dumbass. Those people never had a problem with Trump doing evil things. They only have a problem if it affects them.