Voters in several deep-red military towns said they are done with President Donald Trump after his latest "disturbing" threat, according to a new report.
Reporters with The New York Times spoke with more than three dozen people in military towns ranging from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Fayetteville, North Carolina, about Trump's handling of the war in Iran. Many of the voters expressed concern about the war and its broader economic impacts.
“I don’t think Trump is making wise decisions,” Emmelia Lorenzen, a Trump voter from Fayetteville, told the Times. She added that she was "disturbed" by Trump's threat to annihilate the Iranian civilization to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that accounts for 20% of global energy traffic.
"One of Trump’s biggest campaign motives was that he is not a man of war,” Lorenzen told the outlet. “And then you see us moving to war so quickly after saying that. It just doesn’t really make sense.”
Mark Nelson, a farmer in Iowa who voted for Trump, said he was concerned about Trump's rationale for starting the war in the first place.
"The amount of money and resources that have gone into this war is ridiculous,” Nelson told the Times. “I don’t think there was any imminent danger.”