From economic turbulence to controversial foreign policy decisions, we examine why some former supporters are having second thoughts. Join us as we explore the key factors that have led some voters to question their previous support, including policy shifts, cabinet controversies, and international relations challenges.
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00:00How do you feel about your vote for Donald Trump now?
00:03Well, I feel like perhaps I should have considered some other options.
00:07Welcome to WatchMojo.
00:08And today, we're counting down our picks for reasons why some of the folks who voted for President Donald Trump are starting to have buyer's remorse.
00:16Ripping me off. You're ripping me off. You're ripping me off. I'm running a trade deficit.
00:21That is the level of understanding of the President of the United States.
00:26Number 10. Stock Market Volatility.
00:30My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day.
00:36April 2nd, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America's destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make America wealthy again.
00:51We'll get into the specifics and devastating consequences of Trump's tariffs and their accompanying trade wars, not to mention their effects on America's allies.
01:00For now, let's zoom in on their after effects.
01:03As a result of President Trump's quote-unquote Liberation Day reciprocal tariffs issued on April 2nd, 2025, global stock markets were immediately sent into disarray and experienced increased volatility.
01:14The Dow today falling more than 300 points. It began the day down about 1,200 points, only to rise briefly this morning and then drop again.
01:24According to the administration, that rally was based on a false social media post claiming that there could be a 90-day pause on all tariffs except for China.
01:33Largely owing to panic selling of investments due to the economic protectionist policies put into place by the U.S., the stock market crash had some of Trump's staunchest supporters questioning the tariffs' effectiveness.
01:45Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, for example, claimed that he had lost $7 million in stocks and crypto, but stopped short of totally pulling his support for the President.
01:55Trump has put his tariffs all over the place. I've been trying to understand them. I don't. Like, it's more a trade deficit tariff to me. Like, hey, we get this much shit from you and you get this much from us. Let's even that up. Let's get some wacky formula and do tariffs. And everything's in the shitter because of it.
02:19Number nine, he isn't the cryptocurrency messiah some expected.
02:22He's calling it a move to elevate the industry after what the president described as years of corrupt attacks under the Biden administration.
02:30Now, unlike traditional reserves of gold, petroleum or grain commodities accumulated for strategic security, this reserve would more closely resemble an active portfolio of speculative assets.
02:40On the campaign trail for his 2024 presidential run, Trump positioned himself as the exact right candidate to turn the United States into the cryptocurrency capital of the world.
02:51Promising extensive deregulation in the financial sector, Trump ensured that the SEC has eliminated its crypto enforcement program, dismissing, closing or pausing nearly every crypto-related lawsuit, appeal and investigation.
03:06Now, President Trump has become the crypto president. And we want to help him with this. This would be something good for everybody. Diversify. This is a free country. Do what you want with your money. But the Biden administration, they didn't want anything to do with crypto.
03:23While that might sound promising for enthusiasts, Trump and his family's ventures into crypto have introduced problematic conflicts of interest.
03:31And some have accused him of delegitimizing the burgeoning digital currency's potential.
03:36Said Amit Saru for Barron's, quote,
03:38And there are definitely concerns about conflicts of interest as well, because just right now, for instance, there's a lot of work being done in Congress on stablecoin legislation and the Trump family is working on a stablecoin as well.
04:03Number eight, his Iran strategy.
04:05I'm not in a rush to do it, because I think that Iran has a chance to have a great country and to live happily without death. And I'd like to see that. That's my first option.
04:19If there's a second option, I think it would be very bad for Iran. And I think Iran is wanting to talk.
04:27As noted by the independents' John Bowden, few could have expected the direction that President Trump has so far taken with regard to Iran.
04:35In April 2025, Trump and U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff headed to Oman to engage in talks with Iranian leadership about scaling back their nuclear program.
04:47President Trump says this country cannot develop a nuclear weapon, and Iran says it might do that if the talks are unsuccessful.
04:56So they are they are critical for Iran. They are critical for stability of the region, and they are moving very quickly.
05:01They began a week ago, and they are resuming again today in Rome with President Trump's envoy Witkoff and the Iranian foreign minister.
05:11Witkoff and Iranian foreign minister Abbas Aradji initially released conflicting statements as to the degree that Iran would denuclearize.
05:21But that was still more progress than some establishment neoconservatives like Senator Lindsey Graham and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are comfortable with.
05:30Said Graham, any American deal with Iran, quote, must include the total dismantling of Iran's nuclear infrastructure and include not only U.S. but worldwide supervision.
05:40The prime minister said the biggest threat in the state of Israel is a nuclear arm to run because they will kill all the Jews with a nuke if they get it.
05:50I believe that. So they can't get one and they could use it if they had more than one against Arabs, against us.
05:58Number seven, the issue of birthright citizenship.
06:00The Supreme Court, we know, is set to hear arguments over President Trump's executive order that ends birthright citizenship.
06:07The move sets the stage for a decision by the summer on three separate injunctions blocking the administration from creating a new standard for citizenship, excuse me.
06:16To Trump, ending the longstanding American policy of guaranteeing citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil is a facet of the larger issue of immigration.
06:26As such, an executive order signed on his first day back in office has been met with significant controversy over its legal implications.
06:34Lower courts have blocked the president's order, ruling that it violates the 14th Amendment.
06:38But the case before the justices on May 15 is not expected to focus on birthright citizenship, but on whether judges have the authority to block the president's initiatives like birthright citizenship nationwide.
06:50The president's, quote-unquote, protecting the meaning and value of American citizenship, executive order, would deny citizenship to those born to undocumented immigrants.
07:01While intended to discourage illegal border crossings, Alabama-based law firm Maynard-Nexon has pointed out that this may have an unfortunate side effect.
07:10That of impacting eligibility for TN visas available to Canadians and Mexican citizens, and may have impacts on other treaty-based non-immigration visa categories.
07:22What we're learning right now is that students and universities, they're all really learning and finding out in real time.
07:27Basically, Phil, with little to no warning.
07:29Essentially, the State Department is deciding what country's visas to revoke, and they're doing so immediately.
07:34And look, yesterday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on social media that he is, quote, taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and effective immediately.
07:45Number six, immigration woes.
07:47New details tonight about the Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador and why Kilmar Abrego-Garcia says he is traumatized by his time at the notorious Seacott Prison.
07:57Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland spoke out today after meeting with Abrego-Garcia yesterday and revealed he has been moved to a different detention center.
08:07Speaking of immigration, it's worth noting that the ongoing Mexico-United States border crisis is a major focus for Trump.
08:14That owes to the fact that it's one of the issues that got him re-elected to the presidency in the first place.
08:19However, the president's scorched-earth approach to handling the issue has garnered backlash from both sides of the political aisle.
08:26NBC News has uncovered concerning details about some of the claims the Trump administration is making in its immigration case against Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.
08:36Now, he's the Columbia University grad student who was arrested last month.
08:39He's facing deportation after playing a key role in pro-Palestinian protests on campus last year.
08:46Just some of the unpopular measures Trump has taken include allowing ICE greater access and broadening their scope of power
08:53and reopening Guantanamo Bay to potentially detain thousands of migrants.
08:58An unintended consequence of Trump's war on undocumented immigrants?
09:02Putting a severe dent in sectors of the economy that rely on migrant labor, like construction, agriculture, and childcare.
09:10Nearly 82% of Trump voters said immigration was a very important issue.
09:14I understand they're not citizens, but they've also been productive members of society, and they haven't been convicted of a felony.
09:24Can't we figure out a way to have a legal pathway?
09:27Number five, controversial cabinet picks.
09:29There may be new trouble for President-elect Trump's pick for Defense Secretary Pete Hexth.
09:34The Washington Post broke the news on Saturday that Hexth paid a woman for her silence years after a sexual encounter at a Republican conference back in 2017.
09:44President Trump's political career has largely been defined by the company he keeps, and how loyal they are to him.
09:51As such, his second cabinet is mostly an eclectic coalition of the extremely wealthy with no political experience.
09:58A number of his cabinet picks have also grappled with public and private battles.
10:02During the hearing, of course, she was pressed numerous times as to whether or not she believed Edward Snowden, the former NSA leaguer, was a traitor, you know, and her positions on Russia, of course, as well as her visit to Syria when she was a member of Congress.
10:17These include Defense Secretary Pete Hexth's reported treatment of women, as well as National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard's accusation of being a Russian asset.
10:26Most controversial of all, though, would be Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
10:33Kennedy's widely publicized anti-vaccine activism and promulgation of conspiracy theories were criticized as having led to unnecessary deaths in the 2025 measles outbreak.
10:44In a Fox News interview, Kennedy suggested measles vaccine injuries were more common than known, contrary to extensive research and facts.
10:56He claimed natural immunity to measles gained through infection, also protected against cancer and heart disease.
11:04Another claim that is completely not supported by any research.
11:09Number four, his attitude towards America's allies.
11:13What I'd like to see Canada become our 51st state.
11:16We give them protection, military protection.
11:19We don't need them to build our cars.
11:22I'd rather see Detroit or South Carolina or any one of our, Tennessee, any one of our states build the cars.
11:29They could do it very easily.
11:30We don't need them for the cars.
11:32We don't need them for lumber.
11:33Almost no other action President Trump has taken while in office has been as confounding as his insistence on antagonizing countries that the U.S. has historically been friends with.
11:43This has been most pronounced in his repeated calls to annex Canada and turn it into the 51st state.
11:49We can stand up for ourselves.
11:53It's Canada strong.
11:53We can stand up for ourselves.
11:55We've called out those comments.
11:57They're disrespectful.
11:59They're not helpful.
12:01And they need to stop before, and they will have to stop before we sit down and have a conversation about our broader partnership with the United States.
12:09In Canada, Trump's comments, which appeared to start as jokes before turning serious, have been overwhelmingly condemned.
12:16With both former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his successor Mark Carney rejecting them.
12:22This goes hand in hand with Trump's comments about taking over Greenland from Denmark, which has been met with a similarly hostile response from the autonomous territory, both its leaders and its general population.
12:34What do you feel about Trump?
12:35What stupid human in the world like a Trump.
12:41That's what you feel?
12:42I mean, we think about U.S. and Trump.
12:47This is different.
12:48We need to maybe work together with U.S., not Trump.
12:53Number three, Doge chaos.
12:55In our politics lead, a whistleblower is coming forward with claims that Doge not only accessed data from his agency,
13:02but also took a substantial amount of sensitive data with them.
13:05According to a disclosure shared with Congress, quote, around 10 gigabytes of data or, quote,
13:11the equivalent of a full stack of encyclopedias worth if someone printed these files as hardcopy documents, unquote.
13:16Admittedly, billionaire Elon Musk's proposed plan to cut up to $1 trillion from the federal budget is not the worst idea on paper.
13:26That said, in actual execution, Musk's seemingly indiscriminate chainsawing away at the inner workings of the American government has been harshly criticized.
13:35That's been largely attributed to how the world's wealthiest man has gone about it.
13:40Supporters, applauding the careers of the USAID workers who have been fired.
13:48These former employees were given Thursday and Friday to clear their desks.
13:56And ostensibly to never return to this building again.
13:58With his Department of Government Efficiency firing and rehiring career civil servants,
14:03recruitment of men as young as 19 years old to build its infrastructure,
14:06and almost total lack of transparency, contrary to Musk's claims.
14:11The billionaire's attempts to insert himself into politics,
14:14such as pumping money into a crucial Wisconsin Supreme Court race that conservatives lost,
14:20has drawn mass ire and invited the increasingly common vandalism of Teslas.
14:25The pressure is mounting as activists in cities across the world prepare to take to the picket lines for day two of the so-called Tesla takedown,
14:33calling for a boycott of Tesla and an end to CEO Elon Musk's role in those sweeping federal layoffs.
14:39Tell me what democracy looks like.
14:42Number two, unpredictability on a global stage.
14:45I have to see, my whole life has been one big negotiation,
14:49and I know when people are playing us, and I know when they're not,
14:52and I have to see an enthusiasm to want to end it.
14:56And I think I see that enthusiasm.
14:58I think I see it from both sides.
15:00But you're going to know soon.
15:03Above all, Trump's supporters and detractors alike await with bated breath to see what the president's next move will be.
15:10Trump's impulsiveness and penchant for quick turnarounds have been his most consistent trait across his two terms.
15:16For example, just look at President Trump's actions on the world's two most prominent geopolitical crises,
15:22the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
15:24Well, you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip.
15:26I think it's an incredible piece of important real estate.
15:31The level of death on the Gaza Strip is just incredible.
15:35And I've said it.
15:37I don't understand why Israel ever gave it up.
15:40Israel owned it.
15:41It wasn't this man, so I can say it.
15:43He wouldn't have given it up.
15:44I know him very well.
15:45In Ukraine, Trump has broken with tradition by spurning the country in favor of talks with Russia,
15:51and by threatening to abandon his mediation of the conflict altogether.
15:54Meanwhile, in Gaza, Trump's proposed solution may sound familiar.
15:59He has suggested that the U.S. take ownership of the Gaza Strip,
16:02much to the chagrin of pretty much everyone but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
16:07I do see a long-term ownership position, and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East
16:15and maybe the entire Middle East.
16:18And everybody I've spoken to, this was not a decision made lightly,
16:22everybody I've spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land.
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16:43Number one, trade wars and tariffs.
16:46How do you feel about paying more for things?
16:48Well, you know, if you find someone who says,
16:50I'm happy about paying more for something, you point them out to me.
16:53People who already couldn't afford fresh vegetables,
16:57who couldn't already afford to put good food on their plate,
17:02are the ones that are really going to be hurt by this.
17:05Ah, the moment you've all been waiting for.
17:08Since even before his re-election to the presidency,
17:11Trump has often spoke of tariffs as the cure-all for economic issues plaguing the United States.
17:17Early reactions from experts cautioned against this approach,
17:20with some warning that increased costs would be passed down to the consumer.
17:24But Trump went his own way.
17:25The real rub is he wants these, our allies, so to speak,
17:30to align their policies towards China with ours.
17:33That would mean they would be ceding to us, you know,
17:37their sovereignty to negotiate their own deals.
17:39That's an awful tough, that's an awful tough ask.
17:42In the months since, Trump has escalated tariffs on global rival China
17:46to a whopping, virtually unprecedented 145 percent,
17:51while imposing a baseline 10 percent tariff on all U.S. imports.
17:55While some have suggested that Trump has a long-term plan for the tariffs,
17:59that's hilarious,
18:00that will result in a new age of American prosperity,
18:03increasing fears of a recession are hard to overlook.
18:06You've got China announcing it's raising retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods from 84 percent to 25 percent,
18:12that coming after President Trump hiked the rate of Chinese goods,
18:16the rate on Chinese goods coming into America from 104 percent now to 145 percent.
18:24All of that creating so much uncertainty.
18:27What do you think of President Trump's performance thus far?
18:30Is there anything we missed?
18:32Be sure to let us know in the comments below.
18:36We'll see you next time.