What percentage of Trump supporters know he is a shitty president and that's why they like him?

[Dr. Jack]

I have to imagine that there are a decent number of people who support trump because they know how much he annoys people and trolls groups they don't like. I don't necessarily think Trump is trying to troll people with his weird shit and actions. I think Trump genuinely believes he is speaking for the majority of the country and is a brilliant leader and a beloved president. I think he is blinded by narcissism and delusion. But are there people who back trump and egg him on precisely because he is pissing off "politically correct" people and causing destruction to institutions that they think are liberal hippie nonsense? And when Trump says something and then immediately contradicts it, they like pretending that him taking both positions makes sense because again it "triggers" people? And also they don't care what Trump says, as long as it causes chaos?

Again in this theory, Trump isn't aware or in on any of this. He's just a destructive idiot they shoved into an office that he is in way over his head for and that's the point.

[LonePirate]

1. Certainly not the deplorables and racists as they think he is the best president ever.

If anyone exists who likes him but thinks he is a bad president, it would be someone with deep Russian ties or possibly some selfish 1%er who still supports him for the tax cuts, money and corruption even though they know he's awful.

[Laelth]

2. I have every reason to believe that a significant number of people like him ...

... PRECISELY BECAUSE ...

he’s an a**hole.

-Laelth

[dchill]

3. Possibly 100.

[The Genealogist]

4. To many, Trump is what strength looks like

Take what you want, and fuck everyone else. Fuck literally everyone else.

[Nexus2]

5. Yeah, I can see both.

I've seen and met some of the first group in person and seen such interviewed. The 2nd seem bound to exist given part of what got him to office was the promise of shaking and changing/trashing the system. I'd put Bannon in the second group.

[Initech]

6. They know, and they don't care. They like him because he pisses us off.

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Which really says more about them than it does about us. They're raging assholes who elected a raging asshole.

[Laelth]

7. +1 n/t

-Laelth

[JI7]

8. bitter incel types that want to see other people get hurt

becsuse their own life sucks .

[COLGATE4]

9. 95%

[struggle4progress]

10. "Wow! He's an asshole, just like me! I gotta respect that"