Maryland hairdresser Celia Salmerón regrets voting for Donald Trump after losing her home and car, seeing business decline and fearing immigration enforcement.

A Maryland hairdresser who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 after believing his promises to lower living costs said she has since lost her home and car, struggled to pay her credit cards, and watched customers disappear from her business. Now, she bitterly regrets helping return him to the White House, declaring that only the devil could govern with such cruelty.

Celia Salmerón, 58, accused the Trump administration of bringing hardship rather than the financial relief he promised voters. She immigrated from El Salvador as a child, and now runs a hair salon in a working-class Maryland neighbourhood with a large Hispanic population.

‘He promised to give us money. But he didn’t give us anything. What he gave us this time were problems,’ Salmerón recently told a media outlet, adding that she had been unable to keep up with her debts and had lost almost everything she worked to build.

‘Ever since Trump came in, I have been bankrupt. I have lost everything: my house, my car. I can’t pay my credit cards,’ she said.

  • potatomuncher@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    voted for Donald Trump in 2024 after believing his promises to lower living costs

    No she didn’t.

    immigrated from El Salvador as a child,

    Implying she had any say in the matter as a child. Her parent(s) made the decision and dragged her along regardless of her feelings on the matter.

    Celia Salmerón, 58, accused the Trump administration of bringing hardship

    She willingly voted for a guy who said he’ll be deporting her Mexican ass back to Mexico. As well as how Mexicao isn’t sending their best. She thought that the Orange Pedo knows El Salvador isn’t Mexico and she’s special since she’s not Mexican and Trump isn’t talking about her and her totally-not-Mexican family.

    only the devil could govern with such cruelty.

    He told everyone in the world about his intent to unleash cruelty and she thought it won’t affect her because she’s not Mexican or “black” or Haitian. She’s special and “an American”. Forgetting where her El Salvadorian ass came from.

    Many of Salmerón’s clients are undocumented immigrants, including some with pending asylum claims, making her neighbourhood particularly vulnerable to the administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement.

    He told everyone he’ll be cruel and you chose to vote for him and his cruelty because you’re too stupid and self centred to realize you’ll be affected and targeted as well.

    Tough titties, Celia Salmerón from Not-Mexico.

    Trump’s economic promises and immigration policies are alienating voters who helped deliver his return to the White House.

    Lol. At least 30% are still singing “aye vil woat for Donol Tromp” and joining ICE to dish out cruelty.

    Bon Voyage, Latinos for Trump.