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.

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    4 hours ago

    I don’t even understand how anyone could have watched him and think, yeah, he’ll be totally great for America.

    Especially if you are non-white and/or immigrated here.

    What do they think signs like “Mass Deportation Now” even mean?

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      3 hours ago

      I especially don’t understand how a hairdresser could watch him and think, yeah, that’s the hair of a sane person with good priorities.

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      He bragged about assaulting women and they said that’s for me!! They fall for the propaganda blaming minorities and join the bad team to feel belonging, it’s really sad, they could join the good team to belong as well but choose bad.