Why do people still support Trump?

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Trump ordered the magazine/newspaper Stars and Stripes to close.

Banana republic stuff.

Not even in the bad old days of the Alien and Sedition Acts did a President order a press entity to shut down.

He’s stretching the limits of the power of the Executive....

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Friday that he won't allow the Pentagon to cut funding for the military's independent newspaper, Stars and Stripes, effectively halting Defense leader's plan to shut the paper down this month.

“The United States of America will NOT be cutting funding to @starsandstripes magazine under my watch,” Trump tweeted. “It will continue to be a wonderful source of information to our Great Military!”

Trump's tweet came as he fought off new accusations that he called service members killed in World War I “losers” and “suckers” during an event in France in 2018. The comments, first reported by The Atlantic and confirmed by The Associated Press, are shining a fresh light on Trump’s previous public disparaging of American troops and military families and they delivered a new campaign issue to his Democratic rival Joe Biden, less than two months from Election Day.

The Defense Department has ordered the paper to halt publication by Sept. 30, and dissolve the organization by the end of January. The order, in a recent memo to Stripes, follows the Pentagon's move earlier this year to cut the $15.5 million in funding for the paper from the Defense Department budget.

Thank you, Brictoria. I had said earlier, people call Trump a tyrant / dictator...

but then all their complaints seem to be that he wasn't tyrannical enough.

You clearly don't know me well enough to realize that I'm too cynical for any kind of hero worship.

But the Trump base is a cult. They're the ones who believe 100% that he can do no wrong and you will never see a Trump supporter say anything bad about him, ever (and maybe the left thinks he can do no right, which is precisely why I believe we are headed towards war).

It was the "it must have come from somewhere" stance that made me question your logic. Even without Trump (or Trump's backing) there would be people who believe it's a hoax. I can't blame that squarely on Trump, or says he's the SOURCE of the hoax movement. Amplified it, perhaps.

I agree Trump has a cult of personality, and a cult following. Which is bad. Doesn't mean his whole base is a cult. I also thing he has his staunch haters. Also bad. Don't know why either side puts so much faith (or lack thereof) in ONE fallible human being.

Because he is of the "wrong" party..."Their" party would be so much better at being tyranical.

I suppose Americans are just stupid enough to allow this to happen. This isn't the first time in our nation's history that half the country was angry enough and wanted to kill the other half.

What they mean is that there were black folks who collaborated with Edison in the promulgation of his inventions—but that he, alone, reaped the benefits of the patents and of the subsequent fame.

Fair points. I'm neither a Trump lover or hater. I think people here get polarized. But if I play devil's advocate, suddenly I'm a Trump-lover (in this case), or Trump-hater (if I'm talking to a staunch Trumpite).

I think Trump has said many things that are silly or downright incorrect. But there seems to be this push to blame it solely on him. He was wrong to say the virus would magically disappear in the summer. But he never actually said it was a hoax. More importantly, from the get-go, individual states were already implementing their own response (or lack thereof) as they saw fit even before Trump (or other countries) were implementing theirs.

I think I agree with you, Trump should have been a better leader. But I disagree on the course of action. Trump should have said, "Be safe, don't panic. Common sense, and we'll get through this." BUT EVEN IF HE DID THAT, the individual states still would have done whatever they wanted. Maybe his persuasion would have allowed more conservative leaders to take the virus more seriously earlier. But then again, Trump was slammed for restricting travel initially by his opponents, who are now saying he didn't lock-down fast enough. <Which ties in to this broader argument that whatever Trump does or doesn't do = BAD>. Even if Trump had done what you're suggesting, the response at the state and local levels would still have been polarized and the outcome nearly identical.

What I'm saying is that even if Trump had done what you suggest from the get-go, the early onset, his political opponents still would have slammed him for it. Either way, states would still act as they saw fit.

The Federal System of the USA is somewhat unique.

I've been through much of Canada (never made it to Labrador or the NWT, but I've seen more Canada than most Canadians). While large and technically a confederation, I've noticed the commonwealth government there has much wider control and the localized provincial/territorial governments don't exercise the same authority as states do in the USA.

Russia takes it a step further. A federation in name only.

Point is, I think many outside the USA fail to comprehend the whole state vs. federal dynamic and respond to the actions of the President as if he's a king. Checks and balances at the federal level. A separation of powers between federal and state governments. An unprecedented virus. Non-Americans who don't understand (and even a lot of Americans who don't seem to understand).

There are people who will slavishly defend Trump—despite evidence stating one in the face that he shouldn’t be defended.

Just because one is a conservative does not make one an automatic Trump supporter.

If Trump did, indeed, make the statement that people who died in war are “losers” (I feel like he was misquoted, somehow), he is doomed.