I am not an American. I am British and I live in the UK. However, I am able to read and I am able to watch television.
Looking back through Donald Trump’s tenure as 45th U.S. President, I don’t think I ever read a single good thing about him. Not being an American residing in the U.S. I’m sure that for the most part, this was down to media bias, however there’s the old saying “there’s no smoke without fire”, right?
I do on the odd occasion watch U.S. chat shows and programmes like Saturday Night Live. Even on U.S. television, nobody had a good thing to say about Donald J. Trump, 45th U.S. President. In fact, quite the opposite. Everything I saw, watched and read, either criticised or took the piss out of him something rotten. And I don’t remember that happening for Barack Obama.
Um… Really?
And yet, there we were. There was so much negativity around about Trump that I thought the 2020 U.S. Elections would be a landslide victory for Joe Biden. But it wasn’t.
Biden (obviously) won, but by a 52% majority vote. Which means Trump had 48% of the Country’s votes. Given that there’s never a 100% turn out for voting, there are an estimated 214 million people in America that vote. The total population of the U.S. estimated at 332 million people in 2020 at the time of the election.
So if Trump had 48% of the voters, that’s in excess of 103 million people that voted for Trump.
And that’s the bit that blows my mind!