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.
Celia sounds like a dumbass
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.
How did Trump make her clients go away? Did she have a MAGA flag in her business or something?
Very funny thing to do in Maryland.
She’s from El Salvador. ICE has probably scared all her customers away.
Another leopard eating faces of those voting for the leopard eating faces party.
I mean she had 3 chances in 10 years to not vote for him
I really hope the hairdresser does the right thing and voting for the Democrats this Election Day.
Leopard, meet face.
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.
And they see a problem with Trump, not republicans in general. They’ll be right back to voting republican again next election (and probably the current election too)
Because abortion
And those forced trans surgeries on kids
I wish humans were smarter :(
I wish they had more empathy more than anything else.
Fun Fact: Conservatives are biologiclly unable to experience empathy. It is not possible to hold conservative views and experience empathy simultaneously.
Conservatives are limited by ingroup/outgroup thinking when it comes to empathy, the Epstein class simply lost their empathy altogether. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/
Conservatives and Capitalism are what is killing us AND the planet we live on.
Granted. One person is now insanely smart, enough so that the average human intelligence is significantly raised, but in practice nobody ever listens to the smart person because they’re too dumb.
Wait, I’ve seen this movie.
Alex, give me “How every midwit in the universe feels for $300”.
They are, but they need adequate education rather than evil indoctrination. They need social media without misinformation algorithms that prey on their tribal instincts. They need proper guidance and love as children to develop healthy coping skills. They need to be kept away from dark triad people.
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?
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.
Oh my word, that’s a very good point.
🤣
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?
Of all the memeplexes out there, the one about how America and rugged individualism is best exemplified as “small business owners” and/or businessmen, and that this country ought to be run by these types, i.e, as a business, meaning a “CEO President”.
Just the most incorrect and toxic set of ideas, all intertwined.
Jesus fucking christ that’s bleak. Explains a lot though
He bragged about assaulting women and they said that’s for me!! They fall for the propaganda blaming minorities and join the bad team to feel belonging, it’s really sad, they could join the good team to belong as well but choose bad.
These people are religious single issue voters
A lot of the ones I meet/talk to believe that he is the billionaire business genius that his marketing sells.
So stupid people that have no business voting in the first place, got it.
First time, you’re gullible. Second time, you’re malicious.
First time was malice too
After January 6th, your a insurrectionist supporting traitor.
I hate it when articles like this don’t include the person’s voting history
her phrasing implies that she voted for him before, but it’s not stated.
‘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”
Decade? She’s 58, he’s been a fucking joke for her entire life.
You should have listened to all the people that fucking told you so
voted for Donald Trump in 2024 after believing his promises to lower living costs
No she didn’t.
immigrated from El Salvador as a child,
Implying she had any say in the matter as a child. Her parent(s) made the decision and dragged her along regardless of her feelings on the matter.
Celia Salmerón, 58, accused the Trump administration of bringing hardship
She willingly voted for a guy who said he’ll be deporting her Mexican ass back to Mexico. As well as how Mexicao isn’t sending their best. She thought that the Orange Pedo knows El Salvador isn’t Mexico and she’s special since she’s not Mexican and Trump isn’t talking about her and her totally-not-Mexican family.
only the devil could govern with such cruelty.
He told everyone in the world about his intent to unleash cruelty and she thought it won’t affect her because she’s not Mexican or “black” or Haitian. She’s special and “an American”. Forgetting where her El Salvadorian ass came from.
Many of Salmerón’s clients are undocumented immigrants, including some with pending asylum claims, making her neighbourhood particularly vulnerable to the administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement.
He told everyone he’ll be cruel and you chose to vote for him and his cruelty because you’re too stupid and self centred to realize you’ll be affected and targeted as well.
Tough titties, Celia Salmerón from Not-Mexico.
Trump’s economic promises and immigration policies are alienating voters who helped deliver his return to the White House.
Lol. At least 30% are still singing “aye vil woat for Donol Tromp” and joining ICE to dish out cruelty.
Bon Voyage, Latinos for Trump.
I’ve always wondered how people got fooled by such obvious lies. Now I’m getting the picture of someone who probably based their decision on nothing but a couple of ads. The mediocre honest promises have no chance against grandiose lies if they believe both.
I have family that fell into this. Blame things confidently on one or two big bad outgroups, DARVO anything to the contrary, and make the other group plenty-othered. Bonus points if they’re non-christian or “fake” christians (catholics, LDS, whatever).
It’s never that simple, but news bubbles and social media can sure make it look like that to people, especially those who may have declining faculties in age.
Single issue voters, hand wave/ignore the rest
My parent voted for RFK Jr :/
My mother in law was going to vote for him, she’s otherwise reasonable and intelligent. Her low media literacy coupled with addiction to social media convinced her that was the best choice. She knew nothing about snake oil or heroin or lack of belief in germ theory. The guy said he’d put her grandson in a camp and she didn’t know about that either. If I hadn’t been there to explain she would have happily voted because Kennedy means good. There are millions not as lucky and voted exactly like that, or voted for Trump when Kennedy joined him.
Yes, someone was so sure fraud is easy with various voter registration methods, those two guys got busted for it too lol. If there was a legit issue a lawsuit would have been won by now to change it, but decades later the truth prevails. They believe it so much, but won’t try to bring a case themselves. All talk no action.
