What was the first thing that turned you off of Trump? For me, it was when

[patricia92243]

he said the families of terrorists should be tortured. I assume families of other criminals would be next.

I have a close family member who was a pedophile. I'd hate to think me or any other members of our family would be held responsible for his horrible deeds.

Anyway, that was my first turn-off of Trump - many more to follow that are too numerous to list.

[Thinkingabout]

2. When he announced his apparent hate for Muslims and Latinos.

[treestar]

6. Me too

The wall and the stuff he said about Muslims, even refugees!

[gopiscrap]

3. when he said he was a republican

I have no use for republicans in my life, they can cease to exist as far as I am concerned.

[Freddie]

78. 100%

Was all downhill from there.

[Glamrock]

4. When he sent his "team of private dicks" to Hawaii to investigatr

the big O's birth certificate.

[Johnyawl]

47. Yup. When he joined the "birther" crowd.

I was a construction project manager from the mid eighties until my retirement last year, and in that industry in those years everybody knew who "The Donald" was. Big time wheeler-dealer with a flamboyant lifestyle. Never paid that much attention to him, never read his book, never watched his TV show. When he started with the birth certificate I realized he was just another racist piece of shit.

[emulatorloo]

93. Yeah, The Birther in Chief: Trump

That was it for me as well.

[Emilybemily]

5. I hated him decades ago

He has always been a faker and a prick.

[spiderpig]

16. Me too.

The first time I recall seeing him was on a 60 Minutes interview 30+ years ago. I thought "Who is this asshole?"

[Leghorn21]

33. Me too.

When he first hit the scene ages ago, and I saw him on my teevee, I thought, whoa, this cretin here is hands down the most u n i n t e r e s t i n g carbon-based lifeform I have ever beheld in my entire life.
Today, of course, I have a variety of other responses to the Republican nominee for President, but a dullard is a dullard.
Uck just uck -

[prairierose]

37. me too..

I always thought he was phony but being such a misogynist was even worse.

[rickford66]

71. Ditto

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

86. Same here... it was back in the 80's

Seeing him on TV. I think probably Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous. Never liked him, but I despise him now.

[bellmartin]

90. Enough decades ago that when I heard about one of his bankruptcies I was delighted, and hoped...

...never to have to hear about him again. And that was with the insulation of being way out here in the midwest. What a cancer he's been on the American scene.

[workinclasszero]

7. He is a birther POS and an obvious racist

So I couldn't stand him years ago

[Frustratedlady]

8. It has been SO many years ago, I can't remember.

I believe his ego was dripping all over his face and he made me ill. I think I must have the same powers as various dogs that have been shown on social media going crazy when they see Trump appear on TV. He does the same thing with me. I simply can't watch or listen to him. Perhaps it's survival mode?

[madamesilverspurs]

10. Way back

when he tried to get Congress to change the rules on Native American gaming. He claimed the rules were unfair to privileged white casino owners.


.

[RKP5637]

11. First time I saw and heard about him, years and years ago! n/t

[sarae]

12. When he first accused Obama of not being born here.

It became obvious very quickly that he was a racist POS.

I didn't even know about his housing discrimination in the `70s, or the Central Park Five in the early`90s, but if I had it would have been obvious even earlier.

[OldHippieChick]

15. Ditto

eom

[canetoad]

13. More a slowly dawning realisation of the horror

of his character and positions.

Before the primaries, I knew who he was but don't watch TV so had never seen The Apprentice. Didn't really follow stories about him until he emerged as a potential candidate.

I honestly thought that at some stage he would metaphorically leap out of a cake and yell, 'Fooled you all.' That his unspeakable rhetoric was a stunt; a way of demonstrating how repulsive the GOP attitudes are. Never, ever bought into the CT that he'd been put up to it by the Clintons - that was too far-fetched.

Well, I waited for the denoument, and waited and it never came. Then I knew he was a monster in an orange skin.

[qwlauren35]

105. Wow.

That really sums it up for me. I almost could have written what you said verbatim.

I still think he's going to jump out of a cake.

But at that candidates' dinner when he talked about how most of the people in the room had invited him into his homes until he started running for office, I wondered who had changed - them or him. And had they really changed or had he gotten too outrageous for them to be associated with him.

[Sorceress]

19. The Birther stuff was what set me off.

But his absolute refusal to admit he is wrong or, heaven forbid apologize for anything ever, alerted me to what kind of disturbed person he really was. I knew then that this wasn't just a hateful person, this was a person who was suffering from some sort of personality or psychological disorder. In other words, he was a crazy pants.

[Historic NY]

20. I live in NY He turns most people off here....

once you find out it always been about him. I live 3 miles from where he went to school and had a personal connection to the school. They asked him to help out and he refuse offering to build a building they didn't need with his name on it. In the end he used it to stage a campaign event.

[leftynyc]

21. It's hard to remember back that far

NYers have hated him for decades.

[eissa]

23. Decades ago during the whole Marla/Ivana affair

A smug, arrogant rich guy reveling in two women fighting over him. He seemed to bask in the publicity and almost seemed proud of all the lurid details being spilled out. I thought he was an even bigger prick during the whole shaming of Alicia Machado. He's always struck me as a very sexist, shallow piece of shit, and he's only gotten worse over the years.

[aaaaaa5a]

27. Birtherism.

[katmondoo]

28. He was always a nothing to me

[manicraven]

29. There's been so much that I can barely remember, but I think it was his relentless birtherism.

[vlyons]

30. His incompetence

Remember when he hired people to attend his first presser - as tho no reporter would inquire?

Or when he went thru endless chief of staffs? One stumble after another.

[cyberswede]

31. I was turned off the instant I learned of his existence years ago.

He's morally bankrupt.

[appleannie1]

32. I never even watched his dumb reality show. There was something about him that made

my teeth grind while my hair stood on end. Since long before his TV days. I call that instinctive behavior my pervert alert.

[SeattleVet]

34. When he destroyed 2 huge Art Deco friezes to speed up building tRump Tower.

They were on the side of the Bonwit Teller building that tRump demolished to build his temple to opulence. The Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted to preserve them. When he discovered that this would delay demolition by 2 weeks, he had workers destroy them.

Mother Jones had a good summary of it. I remember how hated he was among New Yorkers when he pulled this crappy stunt.

Here's a better article, with a LOT more detail:

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/03/18/trumps-first-media-controversy-is-a-really-great-story/

He's been an unliked, irredeemable asshole for a LONG time.

[GWC58]

35. When he made his "grand" appearance

down the TRUMP Tower escalator, then made his Mexican speech. Pretty much from the get go.

[HipChick]

36. Birtherism...outwardly racist and disrespectful..

[hamsterjill]

38. When he declared he was running as a Republican.

I don't vote for Republicans. End of story.

Everything else that he has done has been no surprise, although it is still disgusting. It is the culmination of years of hate, greed, fear mongering and sexism that IS the Republican party.

[Eugene]

39. Central Park jogger case and his ad calling for the death penalty.

That was beyond the pale even before the Central Park Five were cleared.

The Trump Taj Mahal fiasco and his other financial blunders
only sealed the deal for me.

[patsimp]

40. when is evil idiot sons were killing big game animals

trying to compensate for their tiny dicks, tiny minds, and ugly faces.

[MoonRiver]

41. The one that most stands out to me is when he mocked the disabled reporter.

That was just so unnecessary and flat out cruel I could not believe it.

[Lifelong Protester]

79. Me too!

Although I'm pretty sure there were others before that, but that image sealed the deal for me.

[gratefultobelib]

104. Agree--that was stunning.

[MoonRiver]

106. Seriously what kind of person does that???

[Egnever]

42. He opened his mouth

It was all down hill from there.

[Downtown Hound]

43. Years ago when a teacher forced us to watch an episode of The Apprentice

I thought he was a douche bag then, and he has only made me lower my opinion of him ever since.

[tallahasseedem]

44. When he came down the escalator...

I have always hated that man.

[Awsi Dooger]

46. New Jersey Generals

I was betting the USFL heavily in the mid '80s. Trump made one idiotic comment and proposal after another. Very similar to today. He suckered some people, threw huge chunks of cash into a league that badly needed money and exposure, and initially it was viewed as a positive.

I was telling friends in Las Vegas it couldn't work, that Trump's involvement was a negative. The USFL had a nice niche in spring as a moderate league. Trump conned the other owners into voting to switch to fall. That was essentially the end. Trump assumed he could replicate the AFL success and bully his way into the NFL, with the Generals even if the league as a whole didn't transfer.

What a fool. I still remember where I was when the court ruling was announced, with the $1 verdict tripled. The jurors were stupid but not moreso than Trump and his inept assumptions.

There are many related articles online, with astute comments from Charley Steiner, among others.

I still miss the USFL.

[Jimbo S]

65. I miss the USFL as well.

Ever notice NFL commentators are not allowed to mention USFL?

[Awsi Dooger]

81. Correct

It never happens

[CajunBlazer]

50. Trump turned me off with his arrogence and self promotion many years ago

Long before he started challenging President Obama's legitimacy as President

[kimbutgar]

51. I have never liked cheeto

From as long as I remember something about him bugged me. What he did to Ivana bringing his mistress to Aspen and humiliating his wife and mother of his children told me all I needed to know about him. I watched maybe 5 minutes iof the apprentice and thought it was a stupid contrived show.

[True Dough]

53. His speech patterns have always turned me off

Yes, the content of his many of statements is utterly disgusting, but the way he expresses it, especially with his repetition of the final phrase and the hand gestures is enough to make me turn the channel.

[BlueProgressive]

54. His announcement of candidacy as a REPUBLICAN

was enough for me. I hate ALL those guys.

[Pacifist Patriot]

56. His utter lack of political experience.

And the first time I saw him open his mouth he spewed incomprehensible gibberish. Can't even remember what it was about, but it made no sense whatsoever. Knew immediately he was not presidential material even though I knew next to nothing else about him since I have had no interest in his marital history, reality tv show, or business dealings.

1) No experience 2) Can't speak. Everything else has simply compounded the horror.

[Libby2]

57. The exchange with Rosie O'Donnell

Until then I was barely aware of him.

[northoftheborder]

58. His stupid hairdo said it all, except what comes out of his mouth.

Don't remember when he became totally repulsive to me - never admired his lifestyle or watched his stupid show; probably when he started in on Obama's heritage.

[arely staircase]

59. I have found him gross since I was first exposed to him in the 80s

He embodied the whole Lifestyles of the Rich and famous zeitgeist od the awful decade.

[anoNY42]

63. Lol, the "R" next to his name...

[Jimbo S]

67. 2012 - his involvement in the birther movement. eom

[Mad_Dem_X]

68. Probably the whole "birther" thing

But, truthfully, I've always found him repugnant. That hair...that orange tan...that sense of entitlement...just a big walking pile of NOPE.

[Hoyt]

70. When he started his bigoted rant against immigrants. I think that is when he attracted

the Deplorables. Before that, I thought he was just in it for publicity and he was much like most rich guys, a braggart. But that bigotry caught on with ignorant white wingers.

[jcgoldie]

72. I just thought he was a conceited douchebag until the birther stuff...

He has done nothing but plunge in my estimation of his character ever since.

[CentralMass]

73. One key offense is when he mocked reporter Serge Kovaleski's disabilty.

[Squinch]

74. In the '80s when he obviously lied and bragged his way around the NYC tabloid papers.

He was obviously a liar and a cheat, and yet everyone seemed to believe him. Then that book came out - the art of the deal - when it was public knowledge that he had inherited all his money and sucked at business.

Just a distasteful slug for four decades. In all that time, there has always been a large part of the population that believed him, and it has always flummoxed me.

[CanonRay]

75. I never thought anything other than that he is an asshole.

He passed me off 20+ years ago.

[jzodda]

76. Birther

That got me incensed then and I still am.

[LisaM]

80. Back when he used to tussle with Merv Griffin.

He just seemed like a creepy thug with no taste. I guess the next time would be when I got a load of one of his ugly buildings.

[Wounded Bear]

82. I cannot think of a time I thought he would be an acceptable president...

never, since years ago when the idea first surfaced. And I'm not even from NY/NJ.

[C_U_L8R]

83. Ego

Never liked him.
Thought he was a creepy tacky self-promoter.
An empty suit.

[TrishaJ]

84. Me? When he violated NCAA rules in 1982 and

had an agent contact Herschel Walker during his junior season at UGA because the Donald had a yuuuuuuge idea to start a new pro football league and he wanted Walker to sign with the New Jersey Generals. Aaaaand, like all Trump's other great ideas, it flopped. Walker had to forfeit his senior season at Georgia and go play with Donald Trump.

On edit: this was before the NFL started drafting underclassmen. So Walker had one more year of eligibility at Georgia.

[LAS14]

87. When I saw him for the first time. It was on Celebrity Apprentice.

[CrispyQ]

88. The video of him mocking the disabled reporter. After that, nothing was shocking.

He is the the republican party without a filter. The GOP has courted the zealots, racists & loons for 30 years & now they've lost control & are surprised. Stupid shits. They created this monster & the media feeds it.

[ramapo]

89. Always thought he was a scumbag

"You're fired" was confirmation.

[Raine1967]

92. His announcement speech.

I had more respect for Lindsey Graham at one of the early debates than I ever had for t-Rump This is something that for all that I despise about him, I think he made an intriguing point:

[malchickiwick]

95. On Tuesday, October 16, 1973, when his racism as a landlord was first exposed...

...should have been when EVERYBODY turned off of the turd for all time (of course, myself, I was 4 years old at the time).

[Funtatlaguy]

96. Not sure about first. But, WORST MOMENT was mocking disabled reporter.

[GoneOffShore]

98. The first time I read about him 35 years ago.

Short fingered vulgarian.

Oh, and working as a sub-contractor/strolling entertainer at a Trump casino in Atlantic City. A chill ran through the staff every time he showed his ugly mug.

[brooklynite]

100. "Give Those Nymphs Some Hooters!" -- Doonesbury, 1989

Some things never change.

[Chemisse]

101. I was literally agape when he said 'blood coming out of her whereever'.

Silly me, I thought his candidacy was over that very minute.

[lanlady]

103. every since the 80s - I always had him pegged as a con artist

I cheered when I heard about his bankruptcies in Atlantic City. Thought he'd go away & we'd never have to see his smug face again. Boy was I wrong!

[Jamaal510]

107. Birtherism. nt

[JHan]

108. I have a vague memory of hearing Trump while in my mother's womb...

She was probably watching TV.

I knew then and there I could never vote for this man.

[Raine]

109. Birther crap, then his disgusting imitation of that reporter...

so repulsive!