Een zelfbeschreven "3-time Trump voter" schreef op X dat ze ontevreden is over het beleid van president Donald Trump, terwijl ze ook weigert te zeggen dat ze in de verkiezing van 2024 verkeerd heeft gestemd.

"I say this as a 3-time Trump voter, a lifelong Republican who spent an embarrassing amount of money on merch and travel to Trump rallies and DC," schreef Lucy Riles op X. "I was duped. The past 14 months have been betrayal after betrayal. It sucks admitting I got it wrong. No, I’m not saying Kamala [Harris] would have been better. But Trump is a politician, a glorified snake oil salesman. He is not God nor should he be worshiped as one. And we need to hold our politicians accountable. Especially the ones we voted for and sacrificed friendships, jobs and family over."

Riles voegde daaraan toe: "Trump is now attempting to bully his base into supporting another reckless foreign war, ignore the Epstein files and now, accept data centers or else you want to be 'backwards and poor.' I’ve never been in an emotionally abusive relationship[,] and I’m not about to start now."

Ze besloot met: "Thank you for your attention to this matter."

De post verscheen te midden van een reeks recente klachten van andere Trump-stemmers aan MS NOW, wat erop wijst dat de frustratie binnen delen van de achterban van de president niet beperkt is gebleven tot één bericht op sociale media. Eerder in augustus zei een andere Trump-stemmer drie keer op Trump te hebben gestemd dat, hoewel de president had beloofd de inflatie te verlagen zodra hij aan de macht was, "the prices haven't gone down. I don't know, I'm just, I'm over it, I think, over the Trump thing, the Trump wagon — whatever you want to call it."

Een andere Trump-stemmer zei: "It's hard. It makes me feel like I'm a horrible mother sometimes because I'm stressing about what I'm going to do — do I have enough money to put gas in, or do I need to buy eggs and milk for my child? Or do I need to not go to work every day to make that money because gas prices are so expensive?"

Die kiezer vervolgde: "And mind you, it could be my fault — I do work in cleaning, but still, that's a 45-minute drive. We're putting 80 bucks in every three days, tops, maybe. It's just hard to feel good when everything's going downhill, I feel like. It's supposed to be going up, and sometimes, yes, it is up, and then all of a sudden it just goes down. And then we're always told, you know, ‘this is going to change’ or ‘I'm going to make this better’ or ‘we're going to make this better’ — but where's it at? We're not seeing it at all."

Ook eerder in augustus vertelde een Trump-stemmer en inwoner van Iowa, Stephen Foot, aan MS NOW dat "the prices haven't gone down. I don't know, I'm just, I'm over it, I think, over the Trump thing, the Trump wagon — whatever you want to call it."

Nog een andere Trump-stemmer zei eerder in augustus, met verwijzing naar de oorlog in Iran: "Enough! Bring our guys and girls home. I don't want to see it — I don't like seeing war, that's all. We need to protect our borders and keep our family here safe."

Recenteerder, en ook op maandag, beschuldigde voormalig MAGA-wetgever oud-afgevaardigde Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Trump van "disloyalty" aan zijn eigen achterban.

"I hear this from people literally every single day," schreef Greene op X. "There is absolutely nothing wrong with saying this and demanding your elected leaders deliver exactly what they promised you when you voted, donated, and supported them. The disloyalty comes from Trump, not people like this."