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I'm morbidly curious whether Trump supporters actually believe this kind of shit, but ultimately I don't think that question even has an answer.
Yes and no. It's a loyalty test and a demonstration of power. The more obviously stupid the bullshit that you can get your followers to believe, the more powerful you must be, and the followers need a powerful ~~daddy~~ leader, so they buy it. It's also a way to signal that you're part of the in-group to others in the group.
So they believe it, without concept of objective truth even being involved.
They do.
My old man was going around telling people Trump cut $50m for condoms for Gaza.
Its so obviously bullshit, but when your head is so far up the bulls ass, you can't see it.
My neighbor is a Trump supporter. When Trump is in office, most of the time they don't know about it when it's relevant because Trump just floods the news zone with shit. Either Fox doesn't cover it at all or they take so long developing talking points, that it's no longer part of public conversation.
If it was in the(Fox) news they will be primed with some insane talking points that range from "he was talking metaphorically to it's actually Bidens fault or more than 4 years ago Obama's fault"
They'd eat the actual shit out of his actual asshole and enjoy it, being thankful for the opportunity from their cult leader.