The Worst Trumper Ever

I can’t tell if it’s behind a paywall (I subscribe), but here’s the opener. What lovely people.

WILMINGTON, Mass. — Nick Rocco went into Election Day amped up. A 26-year-old hair stylist, he spent the past few months campaigning for President Trump, taking special satisfaction in offending Biden supporters.

It was still summer when he got kicked off his town’s community Facebook page for his pugnacious pro-Trump posts. When someone stole the Trump sign from his yard, he replaced it with half a dozen new ones, one featuring an expletive.

At his wedding last month, guests sauntered out in oversize Donald and Melania masks, and he savored the discomfort of his wife’s Democratic relatives.

“The thing is, we don’t care,” Mr. Rocco said. He is looking forward to many years of Trump presidencies. “I hope Don, Ivanka and Eric all run eventually,” he said last week.

Mr. Rocco represents a notable category: young voters drawn into politics for the first time by Mr. Trump. He did not go to college and prides himself on his independent thinking; he puts himself in the category of street smart, not book smart.

He had never bothered to register to vote until 2016, when he first heard Mr. Trump debate on television, and saw a political figure who reminded him of himself.

“He doesn’t speak like a politician, he speaks like I do,” he said. “I can understand what this guy is saying. He’s talking like an American person talks. He’s not talking like a robot.”

He and his wife, Jenna, a 27-year-old nurse, went all in, organizing rallies and standing on roadsides. As the election and vote counting neared an end, daily check-ins with the Roccos found their moods shifting from excitement to foreboding.

“Hair stylist”? What is with all of these closet cases?!

Here’s the worst part:

“When Fox News began reporting polls showing Mr. Biden in the lead, Ms. Rocco tried tuning into One America News, the right-wing cable network, which predicted a convincing victory for the president. The Roccos got news from a variety of sources — TikTok, QAnon, the pro-Trump comedian Terrence K. Williams, the YouTube mystic Clif High. “I’m a conspiracy theorist, I guess, if you want to call it that,” Ms. Rocco said.”

Excuse me while I vomit.

He sounds genuinely retarded.

He won $1 million by playing scratch-off lottery cards.

There is no justice in this world.

[quote]He did not go to college and prides himself on his independent thinking; he puts himself in the category of street smart, not book smart.

[quote]Mr. Rocco, she complains, sits on Facebook and argues with strangers for hours.

I guess that is what passes for "street smarts" in the glittering world of republican'ts these days.

R2

Which 20th century decade are you posting from, kind time-traveler?

Yes, straight men are permitted to cut hair in today's world.

We also have lady police officers and the blacks are allowed to study science too!

His last name told me all that I needed to know.

Mr. Rocco has tried to do the same. His older brother, who he describes as the brainy one, took the other path, winning a scholarship to college. (He is the Biden voter.) But Mr. Rocco’s aspirations were staunchly blue-collar; he chose trade school and went to work at 17.

When he won $1 million in the lottery in 2018 — his scratch-ticket hobby cost him $200 to $300 a day at its peak — he channeled his winnings, a lump sum of $650,000, into low-cost multifamily rental properties that he hopes will allow him to retire at 40.

(He won 650K but had a 300 a day lottery habit? And he spent the 650K and goes to work on shifts at a hair salon? Quite a bizarre young man. No GRINDR pics? Otherwise, who would read this entire article? I just scanned for the good parts. I need size verificatia to spend another 15 seconds here.)

R2 I've known straight men into doing hair, but you never know I guess.

R5 I find it ironic that once details about the outspoken supporters come out, 9/10 they have money from somewhere. I know DL likes to believe they're all drug addict hicks with missing teeth, but I've noticed the complete opposite. (Addicts aren't passionate about politics either. Trump also restricted opiates further, following the typical Republican "war on drugs".)

On NPR they interviewed a Mexican man for Trump (from Texas). Only at the end of it did it come to light that he's been doing better than ever, due to covid, because his restaurant has a drive-thru.

All the Trump signs in my area were attached to the 300-500k (on up) homes/ neighborhoods.

Instead of polls asking race, sex, or whatever demographic, how about asking their CLASS for once? I'm sure there's a good amount that fit the DL stereotypes, but I am willing to bet that's only a partial picture being presented. It also doesn't help that stereotypes are usually off looks alone -- but look at the millionaires that had the guns! They looked like trailer trash, but they weren't. Look at how many minorities went red. Bet the % would align with the wealth divide.

I can't wait for the David Attenborough limited series on this species!

If you look to Trump for your voice, you are a white supremacist. Haven't we had enough of these jits already? I get it, he won't be part of the solutions and actions we'll need. That's why we need a national lockdown and/or a mask mandate, because people like this will just go off and endanger everyone else unless there's real consequences.

I'd love to see this bitch get his 500 dollar fine. Baker just mandated fines for not wearing a mask EVERYWHERE in public and they ARE enforcing them. Thanks to some silly church having services, we got a cluster of 150 in a small town nearby. Again, we have competent leadership and we were able to quarantine those people after contact tracing. THIS IS WHAT IS NEEDED NATIONALLY.

Thanks, OP, but the worst ever is the original version.

A red neck hair stylist in MA not afraid of offending liberal clients? Then I read about the lottery winnings. Well, he’ll be broke again soon enough.

I enjoyed reading that. For me, this was the scariest part, the part the showed that Trumpers live in a cult:

“He could imagine suspending elections so Mr. Trump and his family could rule without interruption for 20 years.

“I guarantee you, Trump supporters would not care,” he said. “I guarantee you, if you got 69 million Trump supporters, and you said, ‘Would you be good with Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump as president?’ a lot of people would be 100 percent behind that.”

R14 That quote sent a chill up my spine.

There we go with the NYT articles again about the poor misunderstood Trump voter.

R14 that's why the whole Republican schtick about being the Uber Patriots kills me. They only defend the parts of the constitution they prefer.

I don't know if anyone here has watched "what would you do?" But there was a really good one that demonstrated this perfectly. A man wearing pro Trump gear is (fake) kicked out of a restaurant. All the people defending his right to wear it, even if they disagreed. Even the black family defended him.

Well, they tried that experiment the other way around -- nothing like that. The Conservative customers were totally okay seeing the fake patron be kicked. They claimed it's the right of the business to kick someone out for their views.

It's not a surprise that as long as it's a Republican leader, they don't give a shit about what's right.

It’s insane with all the lying, bullying, racism, division, incompetence and wanting to be a dictator, a lot of people don’t see this clown for who he is. It just boggles my mind he came as close as he did. But a win is win for Biden. I chalk it up to half that voted for him you can just write off as insane like the one in the article. The other half just hold their nose and vote for him to get their Republican bullshit through.

Amazing that theses Trumpers are willing to completely destroy democracy to give this guy and his family 20 years as president.

Behold the power of demogoguery. Behold the power of white supremacy

R16 I agree. How about some articles on the people who’ve been traumatized for the past 4 years by this cruel and inept administration?

Most of them are dead, R20.

From the article:

[quote] “He doesn’t speak like a politician, he speaks like I do,” he said. “I can understand what this guy is saying."

What ever happened to the idea that presidents should actually be smart and know more than the average person? And when did it become a crime for politicians to be politicians? I'll never understand the mindset of "I don't want a president who's smart and understands politics. I want someone who's dumb as dirt, just like me."

R17, the vast majority of Republicans are sociopaths. They've been telling us and proving this for 40 years, but for whatever reason, a lot of Democrats make excuses for them/don't want to see it.

I’m surprised he’s wearing a mask.

R24 naturally he's wearing it wrong

That's "26-year-old FORMER hair stylist", you sad MAGA bitch.

He's about to find out the hard way how being exposed as a Trumpista in crimson blue Massachusetts will affect his business.

The irony is that he didn't necessarily support any of Dump's policies; he just longed for the good old days when the average (or below average, in his case) White Guy was king and women & minorities knew their place. He's genuinely a moron, but I bet he has addiction issues beyond gambling (buying lottery tickets); his fanaticism for Dump is just an excuse to be on the internet all day (and probably jerk off). His wife seemed incredibly dim, but I feel sorry for those kids.

I get the "all perspectives" thing, but if the NYTimes wanted to do something useful, why don't they interview hispanics (and not those asshole Cubans) who voted for Dump when he's demonized the point that psychos are traveling to TX to kill them off instead of interviewing this pathetic jerk off

why come here and post this shit OP, unless you're just a cunt looking to strip up hate?

If he was spending $200 to $300 per day on lottery tickets (before he won $1 million), he probably still gambles. Unlikely that he won $1 million ($650,000) and said: "I'm stopping now while I'm ahead."

$200 to $300 per day is like a drug habit.

When this guy claims he like Trump because Trump speaks like he does—it means he thinks minorities are the cause of America’s problems

I actually understand the speaking part. John Kerry was really awful at speaking to communicate. Trump was overly simple (and full of shit), but people could understand.

Why is The Times giving space to this clearly mentally ill person?

A red neck hairstylist who can't get a gun permit. I think we're missing some background details here.

Because it sells newspapers, and the delusional snob journalists who write this crap are all gunning for journalism awards for their 'objectivity,' which is really a five-year ass-kissing enablement of a deranged rightwing (and unfortunately large) part of our population.

It's interesting that his sweatshirt says "Trump 2020, Deal with It." That was the real attitude of the Trumpists--give him 4 more years and fuck your feelings about how he's ruining this country and its people. But now that they've lost (while still whining they were cheated), we're supposed to show them empathy? Fuck that. We have work to do getting the country back to normal after the DayGlo toddler and his minions nearly drove the whole thing over a cliff.

I know he's in a mask but he is thin and Italian American so probably hawt!

[quote] The Conservative customers were totally okay seeing the fake patron be kicked. They claimed it's the right of the business to kick someone out for their views.

Yeah, if you’re a restaurant or a bakery who won’t make a cake for a gay couple. They freak out though but I think that Facebook and Twitter are censoring them. They’re so deluded that they think those platforms are news providers.

Somebody the connection between Trump supporters and addiction issues will be better explored.

[quote] taking special satisfaction in offending Biden supporters.

That’s when I stopped reading. I’m going to cancel my subscription to the Times if it spends the next year or so writing articles like this.

How are you all reading this Times article as sympathetic to the guy? To me, it's a very upfront takedown and shaming of a textbook-deplorable Trumpster.

They just don't inject commentary, but let his own words do the damage. Nothing sympathetic there -- it's just depressing that there are so many people like this. Including his wife, who let her own wedding be turned into a Trumpalooza.

Just like the media let Trump dig his own political grave by shooting his mouth off r40. You are so right.

[quote]“I like to be the center of attention,” [Mr. Rocco] explained.

Says so much, not only about the guy in the article but about the world in general

He sounds mentally ill.

I wonder why he was denied a gun permit. Felonies? Psych ward?

And I love how he thinks Donald won the election and is wearing a "DEAL WITH IT" shirt.

Maybe someone has a restraining order against him. In my jurisdiction, you can't have a firearm if you're the respondent in a TRO.

The NY Times is not the reasont tRump got elected, r41 -- his voters don't read the Times. In fact, they don't read.

Articles like this just remind me and other rational people that at least 40% of the US is populated by incomprehensibly delusional and toxic people. I, for one, tend to forget that and then get caught out by things like teh 2016 election, and scratch my head. So stories like this keep my bubble from inflating.

He spends hours a day arguing with strangers online - Jesus, get a life kid.

I love that there is evidence online of all these Trumpers’ support so years down the road when they try to deny it they won’t be able to.

THIS is why Winning the Election is just the Beginning. The Democrats CANNOT afford to be Merciful AT ALL. Every. Single. Offense. Every single crime, and every single illegality perpetrated by Trump and his family, not to mention their cronies Barr, Giuliani, Bannon, et al, has to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Expose every single corruption to the light of day, and give no shelter to the perpetrators. Only in this way, will Democrats truly be able to cut-off the possibility of a future like the *nightmare* that whackjob in the NYT piece ( and unfortunately many like him) seek to make a reality. For once in their lives, Dems have to be ruthless- and not the typical pacifistic bullshit they usually play at.

He sounds mentally ill.

I was kind of thinking that too, though I know people like him (though not as extreme); they *are* like Dump in that they hate themselves, hate their lives & lash out (illogically) at people they perceive as disrespecting them. All that "owning the libs" shit - that is very common in MAGA parlance - I think is really just about a hug inferiority complex. This guy is an extreme example, but there are a lot of people out there that share these characteristics

Every time I look at the final results of the election, I get wood.

He's also worked with our favorite methed out donkey, David Bromstad!

[quote] He could imagine the United States splitting into two countries, one governed by Mr. Trump and one not. He could imagine suspending elections so Mr. Trump and his family could rule without interruption for 20 years.

So he won a million dollars in the lottery and brags about not going to college. But this is what happens when you are undereducated and you get your news from social media. You don't understand democracy, you don't understand the laws and ideology upon which the country was founded, and you don't understand the instigator of civil war always loses.

Can anyone explain the mindset or reason for standing on a corner with a Trump sign? Do they think they are changing minds, Like oh look I think I will vote for Trump now because that guy is holding a sign!. It makes zero sense to me.

Left, right, or center, making your wedding day about politics is fucking WEIRD. And the guy was enjoying making his liberal in-laws squirm. Yeah, what a happy day.

My family is very purple and even my MAGA relatives wouldn't start shit at a wedding.

R36, meh. He is barely even average. A dime a dozen face.

The article says that he's never met a Biden voter other than his brother yet it also says he spent his wedding day making his wife's Democratic relatives uncomfortable. This is the kind of shitty reporting that I expect of the NYT.

Meanwhile, Megan Kelly is whining about how mean we've all been to Trump supporters.

[quote] You have zero understanding of the mood of 70 million Americans who have been unfairly attacked relentlessly for the past four years as awful ppl just for supporting their president.

Nobody cares, Megyn. Let them marinade in their anger and bitterness. What a joyous thing it has been to see those losers melt down!

I wish The NY Times would profile black women in Philly and Atlanta instead. Enough of these “deep dives” into trump supporters.

Poor Trumpers -- I fear all of their combined tears are creating the earth's sixth ocean.

I don't believe he won $1 million in a lottery ticket. No way did he spend $300 a day on that shit - that's over 100,000 dollars a year AFTER taxes.

If you think this fool had that amount of money to spend on scratchers, there's a bridge I'd like to sell you.

Based on his name and his probably cash-only business as a 'hair stylist' , he is MAFIA.

Another Italian grifter. And no, not all Italians are grifters or part of the mafia, but this guy fits like a glove.

Megyn Kelly would never allow a Trumper anywhere near her or her house. Truth.

Let's try not to insult people who are mentally retarded by describing this douche as retarded. I have been a special education teacher for 20 years and people like my former and future students do not deserve to be associated in any fashion with this kind of putrid humanity.

R56 came here to post that. Can’t believe I ever felt any sympathy for her after Trump demeaned her. MAGAts are like snakes, don’t try to help them or they’ll bite you.

I wish someone like Steve Schmidt or another Republican would tackle her.

"independent thinking"

is a stretch for describing

one functioning brain cell in the medulla oblongata

slaving away in the autonomic system

He has BDF at R50's link. SUBSET: Big Dick Crazy Face.

I'd still do him.

I'm not getting a sympathetic vibe from this piece at all. It's the little details, like the Trump themed wedding, the delight at offending his wife's relatives, the aside about his daughter mouthing Trump support at school, his shitty real estate empire of slum properties, then the long bit at the end where he expresses unbridled support for suspending future elections and installing a monarchal Trump family dictatorship. NYT picked a real winner, and they got him to tell on himself quite easily.

Trumpism isn't going away. He'll likely never be President again, but these people are with us for a long time.

Nah they are fickle. They though he was the great white hope who would get rid of brown people. Trump never wanted to be President. He'll retire to Mara-La-Go and tweet for a while but will lose interest because he won't be able to go for his EGO Rallies. These people have short attention spans.

Pump/Trans

[quote]my MAGA relatives wouldn't start shit at a wedding.

You should probably check the toilets again.

R56. She had the cynical, cold look of an old call girl

[quote]These people have short attention spans.

No they don't, actually. Scoff all you want, but they've been here forever and aren't going anywhere. Remember the tea party? Remember them as the narrative that Trump is pushing about the election being "stolen" and the vote count being a "fraud" takes hold. They will be the new Tea Party, because they never stopped being the old one.

I mostly agree with r71. However, the fuel for the Tea Party engine was racism directed at a Black president. As things normalize with an old white man as President, will there be the same anger, unease and preoccupation among Deplorables or will they resume living what's left of their lives?

R72, did you happen to notice who we elected vice president?

Trump was not the disease he was just a symptom.

Since there’s no precedent for a sitting President to leave office when his time is up, Biden should have no problem with forcibly removing Trump and Pence. I mean, there’s no precedent, right?

R74, your babbling doesn't make any sense, but the Secret Service and the US Military are sworn to serve the President, and as of noon on January 20th, that person will be Joe Biden. Nothing Twitler says before or after that, on Twitter or on TV, changes that fact.

The results of this election are clear and there is no evidence of fraud. Trump can't change the fact that he lost, and no one except his own lunatic base will support him staying in power. He will be removed on January 20th if he doesn't remove himself.

Fuck off r75. You answered the question despite it being “babbling.Shut your whore mouth.

Apparently, this type of voter thinks "being President" is being a racist wannabe-thug. No notion in this guy's brain about geopolitics or the Social Contract or anything beyond "Yeah? Whattaya gonna DO about it?!"

He's a loyal viewer of that popular Reality show, "That's Our Trump!"

[quote]You answered the question despite it being “babbling.Shut your whore mouth.

So I should shut my "whore mouth" even though I'm capable of expressing myself clearly and also answered your stupid question? You wrote this, idiot:

[quote]Since there’s [bold]no precedent for a sitting President to leave office when his time is up[/bold]

The precedent is a peaceful transition of power, which means the precedent is "for a sitting President to leave office when his time is up."

So maybe it is you who should shut their whore mouth? Or are you too busy using it to breathe through?

Idiot.

Also, a space belongs after a period. Cunt.

Shut up you prostitution whore.

I just can't get over the part with the wedding. THis kind of assholery is just beyond the pale.

What is up with his wife? Her family was horrified at the wedding. How did she wind up with this idiot and how did she become a Trumper if her family are Democrats? And look, I know a lot of Trumpers and Democrats in my own family, but even the Trumpers wouldn't do something like politicizing their own wedding and reveling in the horrified reactions from family members.

There is always a possibility that he could get run over on the street while holding that sign, just saying.

Troll alert at R82. The right wing runs protestors over, not the left, dear.

Who gives a shit about Megyn Kelly anyway? She's not even a has-been at this point.

I read the article at OP's link and concluded that this guy will be up to his eyeballs in debt and have to sell the house in due course.

[quote]He sounds genuinely retarded.

Or, as people would say in this part of eastern Massachusetts, "retahded."

[quote]Meanwhile, Megan Kelly is whining about how mean we've all been to Trump supporters.

I like Jon Favreau's response: "You are truly pathetic."

College teaches students to evaluate and think critically. This guy would realize that everything he reads on the internet isn't true.

What do people think he's going to do. lock himself in The Oval Office? He'll go to Mara-a-Lago, you know the "Winter White House" (barf) for Thanksgiving and never return to town.

I wonder how his own Jet is doing. He's losing AF1 soon. I bet he doesn't have the cash to fly his own jet. I bet his credit even for the small stuff has dried up. He won't be able to buy fuel and pay airport fees. Is he going to do an IPO for his new media channel? And steal all that money? I doubt he can get an IPO off the ground. And nobody is going to give him cash.

If he tries to blackmail the Middle East or Russia with the secrets he now knows, to get loans, they will kill him.

oops sorry that was meant for another thread

[quote]NYT picked a real winner, and they got him to tell on himself quite easily.

I agree. I don’t think they’re glorifying this loser at all. The subtext reads more like a cautionary tale.

This guy is very immature and reeks of attention seeking. The masks at the wedding just to get a reaction from the bride's family? He's a real version of an online troll.

R93 he's an AMATEUR!

[quote]This guy is very immature and reeks of attention seeking. The masks at the wedding just to get a reaction from the bride's family? He's a real version of an online troll.

He's also a hair dresser. Do we know if he posts here? He sounds like one of our right wing loonies.

My kingdom for a flame thrower.

R94, my God, this is truly an awful cult.

Can you imagine ANYONE throwing a Biden-themed wedding??

I wonder how many of the couple’s wedding guests quietly reclaimed their gifts from the gift table and slipped out the door. I sure as hell would not have felt bound by any form of etiquette after a grotesque, in-your-face MAGA display.

If I walked into a MAGA wedding, I would walk right back out again, taking my present with me. Who cares if the bride and groom are offended? Who would want these weirdos in their lives?

This is not much different from how young Islam men become radicalized into terrorists.

R100 lol don't tell them that. "We're white and speak English, it's TOTALLY different"

These people literally believe that white Americans can't possibly be terrorists. They're a "militia," big difference donchaknow. Terrorists are black/brown and/or "foreigners" (aka not white).

R66, don’t forget he and his equally dim then-fiancée had two kids out of wedlock starting at least 6-7 years ago (at least one kid is already in school and old enough to talk politics.)

This means he and dumb fiancée were still uneducated teenagers when they had not one but two kids.

So he’s an uneducated, gambling addicted, father of two illegitimate kids in his early twenties when his lottery winnings (snort) saved him.

That’s.... not a prescription for success.

[quote]That’s.... not a prescription for success.

No, but it's certainly a prescription for a dumbass Trump lover.

Apparently there's a militia, including white supremacists, coming to DC for a March this weekend. How are these people not embarrassed to be seen in public?

Trump made them unashamed, sadly. The worst legacy of his Presidency is his legitimizing of all these fringe groups.

Because they have guns and obvious mental disorders, R105.

One of the worst things about Trump is he made it seem legit to use one’s vote to spite other people— not to try to look out for yourself or your loved ones.

This guy is a self-employed father of two young girls. Wonder what their health insurance looks like? Are they on the Massachusetts public option insurance?

I guess his wife could have insurance through work. But, they’re only recently married and I’d be surprised if she’s working full time. Plus, she’s probably an LVN at best, so not making much.

Is he worried about his daughters’ access to birth control and / or reproductive rights?

Would he like for his daughters to be able to afford college?

No, he doesn’t care about any of this. He’s using his vote to garner negative attention for himself (!!!) and to spite other people.

[quote]Is he worried about his daughters’ access to birth control and / or reproductive rights?

Does he strike you as a feminist, or even remotely concerned with women's rights?

[quote]Would he like for his daughters to be able to afford college?

He clearly looks down on his brother who went to college, while he went to trade school and got a little lucky playing the lottery. Does he seem like the type to care about his daughters' educations or opportunities? He'd probably discourage them from college.

He'll be a grandfather by 36.

It's really very simple. All Trump voters are racist shit. White, gay, black, Cuban. They are all hateful and evil.

[quote]He'll be a grandfather by 36.

And will look like a grandfather by 36.

[quote]legit to use one’s vote to spite other people

Amen to this. A huge proportion of the Republican voter base does exactly this. It's depressing when you think about how much they hold this country back out of a personal sense of resentment.

typical trumpkin

dumb as a rock/retarded crazy as shit total abusive asshole

Why do I feel like this is a 70 million-way tie for first place as worst trumper ever?