A Georgia couple that voted for President Donald Trump says they feel duped and that the president has not made good on his promises, according to a report in the Washington Post.
Jessie and Carter Meadows tell the WaPo that this is not what they voted for.
"“Is there anybody that can go up there and stay what they ran on?” she asked, saying she voted for Trump on his promises of "draining the swamp," among other things.
"“It seems like [he] went up there and just made himself the king frog of the swamp,” she said.
The Meadows' says business at their family shop has been greatly impacted by Trump's tariffs: "A box of faux berries from China recently arrived at the shop with a note explaining that they cost 17 percent more because of Trump’s tariffs," reports the WaPo.
"Fruit's getting outrageous now," Meadows said, adding that it's not just Trump's economy on which she is souring. She isn't the only one. A quarter of conservative voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy according to the most recent polls.
Meadows' other big issue with Trump is one he is desperately trying to evade.
Meadows also says that she isn't happy with the president's "dismissive attitude toward MAGA Republicans who wanted to see the government’s full files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, after Trump said last year that he was “inclined” to release that information."
It is because of this that Meadows plans to vote against her local Congressman in the upcoming GOP primary. Vice President JD Vance, she says, is another she is leery about.
"Jessie said she planned to oppose her local congressman in next year’s GOP primary, upset by his stance on the Epstein files, and she wasn’t sure she could trust Trump’s vice president, JD Vance, whom many believe will run to succeed Trump," the WaPo reports.
Her husband, who runs the local funeral home, is struggling as well, saying he's having a hard time avoiding raising prices and blames Trump's policies for that, too, calling the tariffs "unplanned and childish.”
Jessie, who voted for President Barack Obama "because she liked what he said about free community college," says she and Carter were "quickly drawn, in 2016, to Trump’s pitch that he was a political outsider who would run the country like a business."
While they did well during Trump's first term and point to rising inflation during President Joe Biden's term, this time around, things are bleak.
Carter says Trump is "too focused on immigration," and told WaPo he was "ashamed"' of his vote after seeing a Trump Truth Social tirade about what the president deemed as the "Epstein hoax."
Jessie was angry, says the WaPo. "She was MAGA, she decided, but MAGA wasn’t synonymous with Trump."
Make America Great Again “does not depend on one man,” Jessie added. “And if he abandons the movement, then we can continue on without him.”