Ask HN: Why are people angry about Trump?

1 points by nowayyeah 9 years ago

So Trump has always been a racist and now it comes out he talked badly about women and people start to hate him? Why now?

PaulHoule 9 years ago |

I think it is just a matter of degree. Many people hated Trump (or at least Trump as a presidential candidate) three weeks ago, now a few more people do.

People who have long hated Trump have more ammunition now, and also many mainstream Republicans are embarrassed by what he says.

Trump has revealed that the Republican Party is an alliance of (i) whites who feel racial resentment, (ii) evangelical Christians, and (iii) pro-business people.

When these conflicts are brought out in the open, we find that group (i) is not compatible with (ii) and (iii).

No matter what you say about (some of) his followers and the old testament, Jesus did not preach hate. In fact he took a religion based on the idea that one group of people was chosen and made it into a true universal religion where God offers salvation to everyone.

Similarly, hate is bad for business. If you hate your customers or your employees or your suppliers or investors or vice versa there is no profit in that.

davelnewton 9 years ago |

If it makes you feel any better, I've disliked him for years.

Ultimately the answers are obvious: he was never a presidential candidate before. He's never had this kind of scrutiny and exposure before.

It's one thing to be a dick when you're a real estate mogul and reality TV personality. It's a wholly different issue when you're running for the highest office in the land.

chinese_dan 9 years ago |

"So Trump has always been a racist "

How has he 'always been a racist'? I've never heard him say anything 'racist' before the accusations in the last year. The press also lied about what he said. There is mistaken belief that he said he wants to kick out all Muslims and that Mexicans are all rapists.

I heard many of his speeches. He said we need to have a better filtration system before accepting people from countries like Syria (which every President has done in almost every war, including Obama).

In terms of Mexico, he said that we need to make it harder for illegal immigrants to come into the country and that many (not all) illegal immigrants are criminals, which is true. Almost every Mexico/US border town in the US agrees with Trump.

Since the press and the 'fact checkers' can't get the above correct, I can't really believe anything they say.

Too many people get their political news from political entertainment shows like 'The Daily Show'.

The real question is why aren't they angry about Hillary?

She's a criminal (she should have been prosecuted for emails), defends her sexual-abusing husband, and is an all around despicable human being.

I had a thought today that I'm going to keep a secret camera on me at all times. I do business all the time with many people and have very interesting and personal conversations. If they ever decide to get into politics, I can use it to destroy their career by releasing it to the press 'anonymously'. Hell, there are people on my Facebook friends list that I know will eventually get into politics in 20 years. Now is the time to bust out the web scrapers and save anything they post.

This campaign has taught me that privacy doesn't matter anymore. As illegal as it is, as long as I release it anonymously to the press, I won't get into any legal trouble.

matt4077 9 years ago | |

You are lying. Nobody claimed that he wanted to "kick out" all muslims. He merely wanted to ban them from entering, including re-entering after leaving. Here is the Wall Street Journal, of all places:

    In December, days after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., Mr. Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S. until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”

    His first television ad in January depicted images of the suspects in the San Bernardino attacks and of Islamic State militants and said, “That’s why he’s calling for a temporary shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

Link: http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-back-pedals-on-bann....

HC is not a criminal because the law requires intent to divulge secrets for prosecution and there's no evidence that secrets even were leaked, less alone that it was intentional.

In December, days after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., Mr. Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S. until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.” His first television ad in January depicted images of the suspects in the San Bernardino attacks and of Islamic State militants and said, “That’s why he’s calling for a temporary shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”