Stephen Colbert Baffled by the 22% of Americans Who Still ‘Strongly Approve’ Trump: ‘I Want Gas to Be Expensive! I Want the Kennedy Center Blown Up!’

20% of adult Americans are also illiterate. I'm almost certain that Venn diagram is a complete circle.

Now we know just what percentage of Americans are uneducated and addicted to Fox “News”

The moron line is one in four. You're not going to get lower than that. Nixon before he resigned still had a 25% approval rating.

For all our talk of American ideals and empathy, a significant chunk of humanity, not even just American, simply do not care about suffering if it does not personally affect them. Even for all the problems we face now, many people are still insulated from harm and enjoying their precious little lives regardless of anyone else's suffering. Hey, it was true before Trump and it will be true after. Unless things get SO bad everyone is starving or getting bombed, natch.

These are the same people that supported Joseph McCarthy and Ron Cohn back in the 50s. They supported Nixon and didn’t think he did anything wrong. These are the people that supported Jim Crow laws,. They are abusers and arrogant people, and they’ve been around since the dawn of the country. Sadly, there’s a disease in this country and it’s been there since the beginning. That’s why we don’t have universal healthcare and we don’t help the American people economically. There’s a greed in the USA that cannot be satisfied.

You can’t rationalize with people who want to be free to hate and hurt anyone they see as other. The people who project all of their toxicity onto everyone around them. These are his people. He spoke to the fringe, the sick, the empty.

These are the culture warriors; tribe first, ride or die folks. They will back Trump no matter the situation.

The lower 1/4 of functioning American adults has an IQ of 90, cannot read beyond middle school level, likely does not following news beyond possibly some Faux News headlines and just recalls Trump is the celebrity they love.

I live in a small Appalachian town and run a gas station. When prices started going up I’ve had sadly more than one person say “Look what that damn Biden caused. “ The saddest part is these people also live off many of the programs his administration has dismantled. Yet they still declare him the best president of their lifetime. It’s madness.

The 22% are the ones who’ll happily down a bowl of shit just because someone else will have to smell them.

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

They are scared traitors who only care about themselves… and are also racist.

These people are ride or die. No matter what Trump does, they’ll back him. And I doubt the people abandoning Trumpism are that sincere either. Come election time, they’re lockstep because Democrats according to them are woke and gay.

honestly.. this whole situation is kinda wild, im not sure what to even think about it anymore. it makes me kinda sad though :)

Some people will never admit their choices backfired.

There's a percentage of MAGA, usually about 30%, who just spot the Pro-Trump answer to each poll question and will pick that one. The average person's day to day life involves *very little* of the stuff we're constantly mad about. The MAGA are even *less involved*. All they know is that they're mad at the world, their lives are miserable, and it's someone else's fault.

Racists. 22% of of the country are dyed in the wool racists.

22% are so convinced/brainwashed that Democrat=Evil that the notion of slipping into that world would be the absolute end of everything in their lives.

I'll be baffled until the day I die how a f****** sliver spoon titbaby grifter has managed to enthrall SO MANY Americans.

Those people worship him like a literal god.

The ones I know only watch local news and are happy with ice and the removal of immigrants. When presented with the negative effects of this administration, they don’t much care because they’re not personally affected.

Just look at the bell curve distribution of IQ and you can see why. There are millions of people in the world who are not very smart.

“I want my tax dollars used for a Kid Rock video “

Those 22% probably have no idea what the Kennedy Center is, and they'll blame expensive gas on Democrats not allowing drilling in national parks. They're as demented as Trump himself

I once took a test to get a state job. Now, you have to sign up for this test, and the actual test practice packet is available online. I didn’t bother reviewing. Anyway I show up to the facility on test day and there are 128 other people taking this thing. I get seated at a table with like 6 other people and we get to chatting. Most everyone at the table told me that this is their second or even third time taking this test. And that it is REALLY hard. One woman told me if she fails this time, she has to wait an entire year before she can make another attempt. Anyway, the test gets handed out, with a scantron answer sheet. One of those fill in the ABCD or E bubble with pencil things. The test givers tell us we have 90 minutes to complete the test and to begin. This test… is like six job related stories. Each story being no more than five paragraphs, with three to five questions under them. I am done in less than twenty minutes, only taking that because I double checked everything. My 10 year old probably could have finished faster. I raise my hand and sit in silence the next 70 minutes. After what feels like a decade, the test givers start calling out names and I perk up waiting to be called for the next part of the testing (physical). They call out the first ten names. Then twenty, then fifty. Around seventy I tell the person next to me that I am afraid I must have messed something up since my name had yet to be called. He told me that “Nah, bro. The people being called are the ones who failed.” I was dumbfounded. Of the 128 people who took this test that a third grader could have passed, only 29 people passed. Two others failed the physical, and one was dismissed because they had gang tattoos. A bit of my naive faith in humanity died that day.

Over in the their sublistnook they are saying they voted for Trump to put boots on the ground in Iran. They love this.

Not baffling. They’re racists.

It’s the Christian nationalists.

The "Always Trumpers". They don't even watch the news or keep up on anything, but they support DJT no matter what.

Their lives were already completely miserable so they don't know the difference

Put it into the lens of it being a cult and everything else makes sense...

Kennedy Center = Libruls

One of those 22% is my son-in-law. It’s pretty much cut me off from my grandchildren. it’s devastating. At first I thought that if I could keep my mouth shut and stay small- I try to outlast Trump so that wherever this presidency took us -at least we’d be facing it together and I would still be connected with my family. He’d already ended so many of my friendships I didn’t want to give him the power to break up my family too. It’s just heartbreaking and I don’t even know how we will ever be able to overcome it and reunite as a family.

Head over to the religion subs, because that's where you will find them. I had to block two pro-Trump posters over there today.

They think it’s God’s plan.

that 22% is the culmination of leaded gasoline and the systemic damage to education

Simple, they care about one thing deeply that trump supports (whatever that is) and don’t care about the other things and how it affects anyone else.

I went to the conservative sublistnook the other day and this was one of the comments: > I don't think it will hurt most people. I'm pretty broke and would gladly pay $10 a gallon for gas. Higher prices should mean less people just driving to drive or being inefficient with trips. Less people on the road would be wonderful. >If you have a job where you're commuting far enough to work every day for gas prices to matter you can probably afford it.

I’m baffled too . He lies so much .

Part of America is beyond hope or redemption. We all should have learned that by now.

My parents are liberals who belong n to a country club full of conservatives. Last month my husband and I were at a dinner there with him and there was a man who said, without a trace of an irony, that no one said anything when Biden was president and gas prices were high. My husband, who had been doing a really good job of trying to ignore the dumb stuff this guy was saying, couldn’t let this one go and point blank asked him if he remembered the “I did that” stickers. The guy said those were just a joke and people didn’t really care, but now they’re straight up vilifying Trump and it’s not fair. I thought I was taking crazy pills. The mental gymnastics is insane.

Fortunately a lot of them are very old.

[South Park explained this years ago.](https://youtu.be/d7lxwFEB6FI?si=xy8kGjW9aJr20QOE)

22% will never admit they were wrong.

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"I don't agree with everything, but at least he's doing something!" November can't come soon enough

Some people (voters) are so desperate to belong to a group that will include them and give them the perception of power that is absent in their own lives that they will vote against their own interests to be able to point fingers at the “outsiders” of their “in-group” (cult)

A part of his base is poor, under-educated, struggle with finding decent work, and can't afford to live. Even if things are demonstrably worse under Trump. Nothing meaningful has changed for those people. They still can't afford life, but he is hurting the people identifed as the ones causing their pain. In their mind, it's a vote well cast.

Oddly it’s the same exact percentage and population that believe professional wrestling real.

Not a Trumper by any means, but I bet 95% of Americans do not care about The Kennedy Center

It's the only way that the 78% will ever know I exist!

It’s way more than that. Wake up!

The number is wayyyyyy more than that.

Isn't that guy losing CBS like 40 million a year

It’s like the people that approved of Biden with high gas and war too. Lol

Colbert is an idiot. Nobody cares what he thinks.

I love that Dems ask us to join them in their fictional reality lmao. Gas is still not as expensive as during Biden’s term. And unlike Biden, Trump waived the Jones Act for the next 60 days to get them back down. I know yar politics is more about cult vibes, but some of us actually read his executive orders and follow the news