C-SPAN Republican caller: Donald Trump is “taking a 180-degree turn on his priorities from what he promised us”
Caller: “I don't feel as though that the economy has improved, gas prices are out of whack, and the fact that we're in a war, and he said we'd never be in wars again. ... I'm just very disappointed.”
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From the May 9, 2026, edition of C-SPAN's Washington Journal
JASMINE WRIGHT (HOST): Edgar from Connecticut, a Republican. Good morning, Edgar. It's open forum.
CALLER: Hey, good morning. Thank you for taking my call.
WRIGHT: Of course.
CALLER: I'm just a little confused because I followed Donald Trump for the last 10 years, and I was definitely in line and agreement with a lot of the stuff that he spoke about, you know, especially with the things that were being implemented into our country, especially with our children and public schools and things like that, and healthcare and the pandemic and the whole nine.
But I feel as though he's taking a 180-degree turn on his priorities from what he promised us. We were expecting a golden age and all these positive things to happen. And I don't feel as though that the economy has improved, gas prices are out of whack, and the fact that we're in a war, and he said we'd never be in wars again.
He made a lot of promises and he's changed.
And he's also attacked a lot of the people that helped put him in office, like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and all these people that really put him where he is right now. And I just feel as though that he's not the same Donald Trump that he was, and I'm just very disappointed. And I'm not really happy with the state of the country right now where we're at and with the way things are going. So that's how I feel right now.
And I'm just hoping, I don't know, that there's some reason to what's going on and it's really going to help us. But I don't see war and killing innocent children and people like that, bombings and stuff like that. It's going to solve anything. So that's all I had to say.