Trump Voters: One Year On Panorama

Donald Trump's first year in office

has been one of the most

controversial in American history.

This American carnage stops right

here right now. We're going to have

a strict ban and have extreme

vetting.

Donald Trump has bombed the

hell out of Isis.

He declared

terrorists losers.

Rocket man.

Why

have you been retweeting anti-Muslim

videos.

Don't be rude.

President

Trump firing FBI director James

Comey.

You are a fake news. Nobody

knew that health care could be so

complicated.

Employment is up the

stock market is soaring.

President

Trump referred to Africa as a

shithole.

In a series of tweets the

president said he is very smart and

a genius.

If he doesn't call himself

a genius, no one else will.

But I'm

president and they're not.

But what

do his voters make of his first

year, Panorama have been following

four of them to find out.

I think

Trump has made America better,

despite half the country does bts

realise that.

If they try to get

Trump out of office illegally I

believe there will be a revolt in

America.

I voted for Trump, but it's

been a hard year to be a Trump

voters.

He is sometimes racist, but

if he gets agitated I think he will

turn out to be the greatest

president we have ever had.

I have always been big into

politics. I love it. I like watching

it. Understanding it. I believe

Trump is there for me as an

individual. He don't know me, but I

believe he's here for me.

believe he's here for me. I voted

for Donald Trump because he was

saying everything that I have been

wanting to see in a president for a

long time and he come across genuine

and it resonated with me.

We will

make America great again!

Travis runs a community web-site in

the steel town of Lone Star.

Most of

these homes was built in the 50s by

steel factory workers. It was a very

nice neighbourhood. It was small

town America back then, but it ain't

no more. You could just tell by how

run down it is now. Back when I grew

up in the 70s, I'm a 70s kid, that

is how our parents stopped us, we

didn't have seat belts. Now we have

got a law, you're got to wear a seat

belt and all that crap.

belt and all that crap. Down here we

support our police and fire

departments. They do a dangerous

job. They're the protectors you

know. The thing I'm most afraid of

for my country is the illegals

coming across the border without

being checked to see if they have

ties with Islam. Radical Islam.

Because you never know what is going

to come across that border.

Over the last decade, hundreds of

steel workers have been laid off

here. But by April, Travis thinks

Donald Trump is beginning to turn

things around.

There is more

optimism in the air. Like things is

looking up. Since he won, he has

done something that no other

politicians has ever done - he is

keeping his promises to the people.

Immigration's down. Illegal aliens

is down to 40%. They're not flooding

America like they used to be.

America like they used to be. Do I

think he is great at everything? So

far, yes.

far, yes.

Tonight the rusher

investigation has reached President

Trump's inner-most circle.

Trump

knows he is in trouble and he is

vulnerable.

Throughout the year the

president's had to fight off

allegation that his election team

colluded with rusher.

There has been

no collusion between the Trump

campaign and Russians or Trump and

Russians. No collusion.

I think it's

just a witch-hunt. It's been a year.

If there was Russian collusion as

hated as Trump is they would already

have exposed it. The Russians didn't

get him elected. The American people

elected Donald Trump.

Christen and

Frank are experts in Republican

voting, who have been tracking Trump

voters over the last year.

The idea

that rusher will be the thing that

brings down Trump's presidency is

almost an accepted fact among a lot

of Democrats. Whereas if I do a

focus group of Republican voters,

the word rusher will not even come

up. It is not on their radar.

If you love Donald Trump he is

innocent, if you hate him he is

guilty. Trump voters look at this as

pay back for the Clinton people for

losing.

The Democrats are a bunch of

spoiled brats. They remind me of

fourth grade little kids that don't

get their way and they fall on the

ground kicking and crying and...

They lost the election. They don't

care about the country. The only

time they care about people is when

it is election time and they want

them to vote. They tried everything.

One minute they say he is unstable.

They try to say he was a sexual

predator. All unfounded. This new

hoopla about Me Too and I was

touched, well I was... The American

people's been raped for 30 years

under the Clintons, can I raise my

hand and say me too?

The third time I want a Canary

diamond. Oh, my gosh. This is the

size ring I want. I'm Lynne and I am

a Donald Trump voter. I think the

rich will definitely get richer with

Trump in office.

Are you rich?

No. I

would love to be rich though. I

would love to be rich. But no, I'm

not anywhere near rich.

What about

the poor?

I think the poor will get

richer with Trump in office for

sure. Yes. I think that is his

strong point. That and keeping us

safe.

safe.

Lynne, a former professional

cheerleader, now runs a PR company

in west Palm Beach. Not far from

Donald Trump's private club.

I have

met him a few times. I had a great

rapport with him. I liked him. He

remembered my name. Friendly guy.

She is a big fan of Donald Trump's

tax reforms.

The biggest tax cut,

the biggest reform of all time.

I

like the new tax reforms Bill. As a

small business owner I think it will

help me with tax cuts so, the

companies that hire me have more

money and my small business will

grow and I can hire people.

But some

of Donald Trump's biggest promises

haven't yet been fulfilled.

We are

going to build that wall, it's going

to be a great wall and let me tell

you, Mexico's going to pay for the

wall. Rebuild the country's

infrastructure. Nobody can do that

like me. Repealing and replacing the

disaster known as Obamacare.

There

have been some really significant

successes. And some pretty easily

identifiable failures. Donald Trump

was elected to repeal and replace

Obamacare. It did not happen.

President Trump's plans to replace

Obama's health care famed to get

past congress. But few Trump voters

blame the president.

He has done a very savvy thing in

that he set up a sort of no lose

scenario for himself. If things go

well, he takes credit for them. If

things go poorly, he is able to

blame it on somebody else - the

media, on gress.

I do blame a lot of

Republicans in congress for not

supporting him and having his back.

They probably bother me the most.

When people realise he is in fact

our president and he is not going

anywhere and if we want to make

anything happen, we are going to

have to work together.

But America

is deeply divide over Donald Trump.

Especially on social media.

Being

very open and vocal about Donald

Trump notice an easy thing. What I

started to do when I get hate mail,

I would screen shot it and post it

on social media. And show people how

you know cyberbullying happens not

only to kids, but to adults. It is

not OK. The people who do like

Donald Trump, they stick up for me

and the irony is me, the groups of

people don't know me and have no

idea of who I am. It is based on

their love or hate for Donald Trump.

One of things that Lynne loves about

Donald Trump is his unorthodox

style.

style.

Everything all his tweets,

autumn his name call like rocket

man, I support all of that. I like

how he tweets. I'm in the business

of public relations and I think he

is communicating directly to the

masses via Twitter and I like it.

This ills not how he planned to

start, but President Trump has

tweeted and it almost a

bombshell.

Donald Trump berated London's mayor.

Why have you been retweeting

anti-Muslim videos.

The president

said he is very smart and a stable

genius.

I said at the start of year

what would upset is if he changes

and becomes this polished tanned

politician and doesn't stay true to

himself and he has not done that.

But this style and temperament

divides American voters.

Many of his

supporters still like that he is

combative. But it is preventing him

from building that majority

coalition from winning the voters in

the middle who may not have liked

him, but voted for him. He has not

given them a reason to stick with

him by continuing to stay in this

kind of childish campaign mode for

the entire is first year of his

presidency.

My name is Mike. I'm a Muslim that

voted for Donald Trump.

voted for Donald Trump.

24-year-old

Mike runs a business selling hover

boards imported from China.

This is

the Rolls-Royce of hoverboards. If

this was made in America, this would

cost $200. But this is made in China

and only costs $20. The moment I

thought he was capable of becoming

President was when I attended his

rally here in Michigan.

We are going

to win back the White House.

The

atmosphere, just the energy in the

crowd was, you know, amazing. And

you could just feel it like this guy

was talking to you like he knows

you.

And that's what we need, we need a

guy that actually gets his hands

dirty. Not just a nice, well spoken

person, nice and shiny for the

cameras. We need a person who will

say it like it is.

Mike was born in

the USA. But his family came from

Lebanon.

I'm one of the odd people

that you'd find from a religious

background from, a Muslim background

that voted for Trump.

Many other

Muslim voters were put off by his

so-called Muslim ban.

A total and

complete shutdown of Muslims

entering the United States until our

country's representatives can figure

out what the hell is going on.

When

the President first tried to push

the ban through, Mike joined the

protests.

At the end of the day, I

don't follow like a sheep. If my

leader, you know, messes up on

something, I'm going to call him

out. I'm going to protest. I'm going

to use my freedom of speech to call

him out on it. And it's healthy to

stand against your leader. It's

healthy to tell your leader, look,

you must look here.

But in December, a watered down

version of the ban was implemented

and now Mike supports it.

Why are we crying in this country

that it's a Muslim ban? It's a ban

on countries where there is likely

to have, and has, terrorist

activity. The Muslim ban was created

by the media. The original name of

it. You know, Trump is going to stop

all Muslims coming to this country.

I mean, that's impossible. That's

impossible to do. And Trump really

never meant it that way.

Detroit was

once the economic envy of the world.

When we abandoned the policy of

America first, the skyscrapers went

up in Beijing, while the factories

and neighbourhoods crumbled right

here in Detroit.

Detroit has lived

through decades of decline. In 2013,

the city filed for bankruptcy.

This

area used to be one of the first

places where immigrants flocked to,

to find work and find the American

dream. And now the factory is

abandoned. It's been abandoned for

about 15 years.

And it is our time now to start

rebuilding as millennials, as young

people.

The US economy started to improve

under President Obama, but the trend

has continued under President Trump.

Unemployment is at its lowest rate

for 17 years.

You know, we're seeing

development. We're seeing some

construction going on here. And I

think we're on the right path. We're

going to come back. Detroit's going

to come back.

The economy is very important to

Trump supporters. If you ask people

what their number one issue is, they

will tell you that it's the economy.

If you own a house today, its value

has gone up since Donald Trump was

elected. If you own shares of stock,

which a majority of people do, you

are worth more than 10% more than

when Donald Trump was elected. If

you are unemployed, you are more

likely to have a job. Trump tries to

take credit for it. I'm not sure.

But whatever was set in motion under

Barack Obama has continued under

Donald Trump. He does deserve credit

for that.

Gillette is a tight-knit, close

community. We take care of each

other. We like it that way. I'm

Stacey Moller. I'm a Democrat and I

voted for Donald Trump.

It was just a few people, but it's

such a bad...

Stacey's daughter is a

Republican, but couldn't bring

herself to vote for Donald Trump.

You are still you. You just voted

for Trump.

Thanks for loving me,

even though I voted for Trump. I

forgave you for Bush.

Stacey voted for Donald Trump

because of his promise to get coal

miners back to work.

I love being a

miner and I'm proud to be a miner. I

raised two children as a single

mother and I could not have done it

without the job I had at the coal

mine.

And that's our mine. That's where I

work. There's a lot of issues as a

Democrat that were important to me.

But none more important than this

state and these people that I work

with. It was bigger than me. It was

bigger than the issues I had with

him personally. He's not my kind of

guy. But this is, this wasn't about

me. It was about the people that I

care about and the people that I

work with. And the state that I love

and will defend even if that means I

have to set aside what I feel for

one vote. I'd do that.

A year on, does Stacey have any

regrets?

Our first year with Trump

has been good for Wyoming.

I have

ended the Obama administration's war

on coal and we're putting our

wonderful coal miners back to work,

producing beautiful, clean coal.

We're busy in the coal mine. The

demand for US coal is up. Our

economy has stabilised. So it's been

good for Wyoming. It's been

difficult for me because I find him

to be disrespectful, a little bit. I

would like him to be quiet and work.

You know, he screams about hypocrisy

and fake news and people coming, you

know, there's a conspiracy against

him. But his stories have changed

from, it could be one month to the

next. So, I just don't trust

anything he says because I think it

could change tomorrow. Depending on

which way the wind blew. I think it

just depends on what day it is and

what fire he's starting that day.

It feels like he's still

campaigning. I didn't expect that to

continue on after he was elected. I

hoped it would level out and he

would stop trying to speak to that

faction of his base and realise that

there's people like me that demand a

little bit more decorum from the

President of the free world.

President Trump has been just as

controversial on the world stage as

he's been at home.

23 of the 28

member nations are still not paying

what they should be paying, and what

they're supposed to be paying for

their defence.

The fundamental question of our time

is whether the West has the will to

survive. Rocket man is on a suicide

mission for himself. And for his

regime.

To Trump voters, the niceties of

diplomacy don't matter. It is

whether you're putting America

first.

I think for his supporters,

they would view America's standing

in the world as being stronger

because President Trump uses

stronger rhetoric when he speaks.

Donald Trump would say that

America's being stronger, that we're

not apologising any more.

The single

biggest wake-up call for me is when

I showed Trump voters a video of

Trump pushing aside world leaders,

as he walked to the front of this

economic conference. And I thought

it was a very bad display of

arrogance. To the Trump voters, they

loved it. They embraced it. They

cheered. Finally America's taking

its rightful place in the front of

the room n the front of the line.

He's the President. That was

President Trump moving somebody

aside to get into the, to get in

front. That was arrogant, but it's

showing that, hey, I'm the American

President.

Of course we've got to put America

first. Trump has every American's

back, whether here in America or

abroad. If you're trying to

dis-America, Trump -- disrupt

America, Trump will disrupt you. We

have seen America come back to being

a shining country, that all other

countries respect.

He's paved a new path for our

presidency. What's presidential?

He's redefined what it is. People

are often saying, he's not

Presidential, what is Presidential,

he's the President, that therefore

is Presidential.

At the end of Donald Trump's

turbulent first year in office, most

of his voters appear as enthusiastic

as ever.

It is felt like every day there is

some new story, some new tweet from

the President, something that seems

like this will be the thing. Is this

the thing that will cause his

supporters to abandon him? What has

been the most surprising in a way is

just how stable Donald Trump's

polling numbers have been in a year

which has felt anything but stable.

I can't imagine what he could do to

actually turn them off. They're not

weakening. They're not changing.

Donald Trump is here for four years.

Congress is not going to throw him

out. He's not going to quit. People

need to get used to it. But we're

going to have this for another three

years, so, sit back, cuddle up with

a nice blanket

a nice blanket and your favourite

drink and enjoy the show.

More than

half Americans don't approve of

their President's performance and at

this point in his term he's the most

unpopular President in America

history. But Donald Trump has defied

the opinion polls before.

Donald

Trump could absolutely win

re-election. It was surprising to so

many when he initially won. And

people would do well to not let

themselves be caught off guard

again.

Would you vote for him again?

I

would vote for him again in a heart

beat.

Would you vote for Donald

Trump again?

At this point, I

definitely would vote for him again.

He has three more years, so we will

see how it goes.

Would you vote for him again?

No.

No, I could never vote for Trump

again. It was hard the first time.

But I couldn't make that choice

again.

Would I vote for him today? Of

course I would, two more times,

three more times, 100 more times.

I'd vote for Trump until Trump is no

longer there.