For all my Trump-supporting friends out there…

john ater
4 min readAug 4, 2022

You are my friends because I like you. You are interesting, you are intelligent and you are blinded by your rigid beliefs. If you trust me (and many of you won’t after this), there once was a man who was president. He was and is still a flim flam man.

An art installation depicts a child peeking over the border wall in the town of Tecate, Mexico, on the U.S.-Mexico border. © Paul Buck / European Pressphoto Agency

Webster’s defines a flim flam man as “a criminal who steals money from people by tricking them…”

If we apply that to Donald Trump, what exactly has he stolen from YOU personally? He stole your common sense, he stole and continues to steal your money, he stole your belief we are all in this together, he stole your confidence in a governing system our fathers and grandfathers fought and died to defend.

I struggled for the longest time to understand your fanatical belief in this man despite the obvious lies, the treasonous relationships with the Russians, his contempt of anyone “beneath” him. No, he is not going to come to your house for supper and friendly conversation unless, of course, you give him a couple of million.

Frantz Fanon, the French philosopher and psychiatrist provided the only explanation I can find for your rigid support of this charlatan.

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are
presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
evidence cannot be accepted

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john ater

author / street photographer / writer / editor / iconoclast / anarchist