Am I the only person still in shock that Trump of all people is President?

[JonLP24]

My first memory of him is in the 90s when Jay Leno or maybe it was Letterman made fun of his hair in the 90s just to give you my first impressions.

I don't know if I could put into words but I'm in shock whenever someone mentions they like him. He lies 5 seconds in every time he speaks.

I can't stop laughing reading this article knowing that John Baron is Trump.

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/02/sports/trump-asks-help-in-paying-flutie.html

I still can't believe that same person is President.

[hlthe2b]

1. At a minimum, it makes it quite difficult to "respect" ones fellow American...

Even knowing they are bot the majority hardly makes it any better. That much ignorance, that much hatred, that many adopting the cult behavior that has propelled so many horrific figures to power-- is beyond frightening.

[murielm99]

2. I think we are all in shock.

It seems like an eternity has passed since the Obama administration. It will be an eternity until we get rid of him - if we do.

[BlueTsunami2018]

3. I'm appalled every day when I wake up and realize it's all really happening.

There’s no way we should be in this situation and I’ll never be convinced that this wasn’t a coup. Hillary Clinton won and had it stolen from her.

[MyOwnPeace]

6. I agree with you......

Stolen?

Absolutely!

[Skittles]

4. it's a fucking DISGRACE

seriously, it is SICKENING

[dewsgirl]

5. You are not alone. My first memories of him was

very early 90's,Howard Stern/Hard Copy they had lots of Ivana/Marla Maples, related content. I was 12 or 13 and loved that kind of crap.

[Fyrefox]

7. Uncomfortably numb

Shock occasionally gives way to numbness as the ongoing Trump outrages overload my system. It still boggles the mind to consider the number of stupid, mean-spirited, and deluded people who support him.

[Scarsdale]

8. The gop proved themselves

completely incapable of choosing a president. One who commands respect. Who can respect this big orange blob of total ignorance, low class, crude, rude disgusting unqualified slime? We are a worldwide laughingstock, with a moron as president. First time I knew of him was from a "60 Minutes" segment, when we were taken on a tour of the hideous gold painted fake palace in tRump Tower. First wife Ivana tottered all around in heels, wearing a skin tight dress, hair piled two feet high. The two of them resembled a carnival act. Never, ever in a million years imagined HE would some day be in the WH. Still can not accept this joke of a president. Thanks, Vlad, you have completely destroyed all credibility in the WH.

[lostnfound]

10. He's a parody of all that Europeans dislike about stereotypical Americans

Now, instead of thinking of a certain well-read Harvard-educated open-minded, self-disciplined and graceful man of character and integrity

The world pictures a vulgar low-class illiterate buffoon with no redeeming virtues.

[Scarsdale]

13. tRump and his "piece" gave a Christmas

message. He could barely read what had been written for him, and sounded as though he was someplace else. In her broken English, she got through the message. All I think when I see her is "How many men watching this paid for her "services" from when she was a "top model"? Disgracing the WH. Thanks to the gop and of course Putin. Only in America could a former sex worker (Jeffrey Epstein introduced tRump to her) make it into the WH. Franklin Graham thinks she is the classiest first lady - ever!! Nothing says "class" like having nude photos splashed all over the internet for anyone to google. All the plastic surgery she has had can not clean up her reputation.

[RVN VET71]

18. She's had ample time to clean that reputation up.

But her message to the world, one that should be her epitaph, was and always will be "I really don't care. Do you?"

I harbor no serious animus towards her. A hot body that scored big with the rich guy -- it was her one and only ambition, after all, one shared by every bimbo in a Las Vegas chorus line and every street-walker who's ever seen Pretty Woman. But I do have to force down a spew of vomit when I hear Graham and others speak of her as if she were the return of the Madonna -- only with boob-implants.

(It is true that, thanks to the right wing Moloch-money worshipping hypocrites on the "Christian" right, the last thread of the worn out rope that moored me to christianity has frayed, at last.)

[smirkymonkey]

36. +1000

This!

[samnsara]

9. disgusted is more the word for me..

[GoCubsGo]

19. Yep.

And, that's understatement. I wish I could say I was shocked, but nothing surprises me anymore. If this country didn't learn after Reagan and two Bushes, they never will.

[mdbl]

11. I can't believe we have a complicit senate majority leader willing to disregard crimes

Who would have thought that the senate would turn into a bunch of crooked enablers. Trump in the white house was bad enough but this makes it a really weird time. It's like bizarro world with Bif as president.

[Norbert]

12. I'm more in shock that the RWNJs think he's the greatest pResident ever

and is God's chosen president.

They all need their final few brain cells examined.

[bonniebgood]

14. Because Russia did more hacking our voting machines than Our Government

is admitting. Dtrump and Russia has the goods on most GOP $enators.
WE HAVE BEEN OVERTHROWN FROM WITHIN.

[Sherman A1]

15. Not shocked at all

I had a very low opinion of him since I first heard of him in the 1980's, knew he was a horse's behind then and he has only gotten worse. I likewise knew that the GOP was becoming more and more brazen throughout those same decades that lead to today, so sprinkle in the loss of the fairness doctrine, talk (hate) radio and cable noise infotainment (that far too many folks mistake as journalism) and here we are.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Not me. I thought Trump was entirely predictable.

I've read Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry. I watched Ronald Reagan take the Oath of Office twice. I remember Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority. And I've watched A Face In The Crowd several times. Not to mention being a student of Weimar Germany, followed by the Third Reich.

There are large numbers of people, of any nationality, who are susceptible to demagogues and easy answers, not to mention resentment against those they believe are "lesser" than they are succeeding beyond their status, such as owning homes in their neighborhoods, holding better jobs (let alone, being fired by an inferior), etc. Just being equal to them is enough to make them start ranting. And a longing to let an authoritarian abrogate their rights as citizens.

During the Obama years, I pondered over who could have such an effect and I came up with Donald Trump, with his TV persona on The Apprentice. And asked how much of the population would lend their support to him and what would he do with this power.

Sadly, I have been proved correct and then some.

[BuffaloJackalope]

17. The GOP's descent into madness knows no limits.

The fact is - and has been for a while - that they can put up any corrupt criminal psychopath for any office and the rank-and-file herd will vote for them.

[uponit7771]

21. Unnnnn, Im more in shock I didn't see it coming. What other choices do kGOP have?!

A plurality if the country doesn't want there policies for the last 30 years

[moondust]

22. It's a farce.

I have no doubt that there are millions of people--many of them Americans--better qualified and fit for the office.

[lambchopp59]

23. You are far from alone about this. I've been a mess, along with

over 60 percent of the U.S. population. Read all about it:
https://psmag.com/news/research-suggests-trumps-election-has-been-detrimental-to-many-americans-mental-health
When I watched the clips of Donny Dipshit's election campaign videos, I noticed something that has smacked a few of the less hateful Trumpers right in the ass. They were cheering, overcome with fanaticism, they became part of the mindless mob mentality, chanting back the slogans without in realization of the depth. Many were not actively listening, much less thinking about the consequences of the worst of the propositions.
When the fever died down and some began to truly digest the horrific company with whom they have aligned themselves. These few, had they engaged just about two more neurons in the process, probably would not have allowed this travesty to occur.
Recently I saw a video of an ex-Trumper who admitted to exactly this.
There are still hoardes of racist, hateful creeps in Trump's rally attendees, and I suspect it's getting refined down to the only the worst of them left.
My neighbor was one of the brain-not-engaged Trump supporters. Only recently I showed her an article (I had intentionally pulled up on Fox Noise website) about the horrible woman in Iowa who ran over a teenager in her car because "She was a mexican". That did it. She's been glazed, totally turned against Trump and Trumpism, and I believe she'll vote against him this round.

[wendyb-NC]

24. Definitely,

In his first words of the inauguration speech sent shivers through me, I sensed a snide darkness, meant shock some and draw others.
It hasn't stopped.

I am now baffled, and outraged that anyone who lives here and has the basic understanding of the Constitution, laws inherent in our democracy society, societal norms, basic etiquette,or understands right from wrong, and has any exposure to the news media, such as internet, radio, television, newspapers magazines, can think Trump is normal.

The red flags started with me when he said, "Russia if you are listening". Then on to negative,crude, statements. He had nothing beneficial to offer in summer of 2016, and his record is is a continuous assault on our democratic way of life. He's a liar, and I think he must be proud of it. He especially lies to misinform his base, during is ugly, crass "rallies" He is not worthy of the position he stole.

[CousinIT]

25. No. I've been sick since it happened.

Totally distracted and in constant worry. He's destroying the US, its government, the economy and the natural environment ie: THE PLANET we all rely on for air, water, food and survival.

He's a psychopath.

[Guilded Lilly]

26. I have yet to get over it.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

27. I can't believe it

I've said it several times since 2016, but I feel like Marty McFly in Back To The Future Part 2, when he and Doc wind up in an alternate dystopian reality, where their town and their lives were controlled by a Donald Trump-like Biff Tannen. Except that that was a movie where they were able to resolve that problem with a time machine, which, unfortunately, we don't have.

[Johonny]

28. That he lost his home state, where he's considered a joke, is very telling

Most of the blame is on the media that gave him billions in free air time and now get to listen to him call them fake all the time.

[bronxiteforever]

29. Idiocracy, not just a movie anymore. N/T

[magicarpet]

30. It is,...

Clear,
It is Present,
It is Dangerous,

And it is On Going.

Who is the next clown the Republican Party offers up as presidential material ? Gaetz, Gym Jordan, or Gomert ?

[Aristus]

31. No. Still in shock here.

It's a little numbing. A little bruising. Every single day, I feel like I went eighteen rounds with Mike Tyson, and I wonder how we got here.

[dalton99a]

32. ''Everybody asked Trump to go out and sign Flutie. . .for the good of the league,'' said Barron.

Everybody!!!

[treestar]

33. I generally am used to it but every once in a while

when he does something particularly reprehensible I think of how this might not be happening and Hillary could be President; why did this happen?

[eissa]

34. It's been a surreal nightmare

I also remember trump from the days he would be featured on entertainment shows, particularly during the whole Ivana/Marla mess, which he seemed to blissfully enjoy. I specifically remember one interview that took place in a limo. I don’t remember the year, but he was married to the Third Lady by then. He was asked about his political ambitions and said he wasn’t considering a run for the presidency, but if he ever did he would “definitely win.” While Moronia sat there silently he praised her and said she “would be the best First Lady ever.” I recall just rolling my eyes and wondering how anyone could take that buffoon seriously. I did the same when he announced his candidacy. I laughed through the primaries, wondering how the GOP could be so stupid as to make this clown their nominee. And here we are. And I’m still in disbelief.

[MoonRiver]

35. Every morning I wake up in disbelief.

[Tom_Foolery]

37. My first memory of him was in the '80s...

When he appeared on an episode of This Old House. He and Ivana took Bob Vila on a tour of Trump Tower. I want to say that it was in the early '80s. I can't wait for this nightmare to end.

[raccoon]

38. No, you're not the only one. Nt