Osoba określająca się jako „3-time Trump voter” napisała na X, że jest niezadowolona z polityki prezydenta Donalda Trumpa, jednocześnie odmawiając przyznania, że zagłosowała błędnie w wyborach w 2024 roku.

„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,” Lucy Riles wrote on 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 added, „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.”

She concluded, „Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

Wpis pojawił się na tle serii niedawnych, publicznie składanych skarg innych wyborców Trumpa dla MS NOW, co sugeruje, że frustracja w części zaplecza prezydenta nie ogranicza się do jednego wpisu w mediach społecznościowych. Na początku sierpnia inny trzykrotny wyborca Trumpa powiedział, że mimo obietnicy prezydenta o obniżeniu inflacji po objęciu urzędu, „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.”

Inny wyborca Trumpa powiedział: „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?”

Ten wyborca dodał: „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.”

Również na początku sierpnia wyborca Trumpa z Iowy, Stephen Foot, powiedział do MS NOW, że „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.”

Jeszcze inny wyborca Trumpa powiedział wcześniej w sierpniu, odnosząc się do wojny w Iranie: „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.”

Niedawno, także w poniedziałek, była kongresmenka Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), wcześniej związana z ruchem MAGA, oskarżyła Trumpa o „disloyalty” wobec własnego zaplecza.

„I hear this from people literally every single day,” Greene posted on 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.”