Suckers for Trump

About a month ago, I came up with a scene I could maybe use in a story.  Basically, a character is walking down the sidewalk, and they see some guy wearing a “I voted for the felon,” t-shirt.  The main character makes a face or something, and this asshole asks, “Does my shirt bother you?” And the main character replies, “Oh, I hear there’s one of you born every minute.” This is a take on the saying, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” often attributed to P. T. Barnum.  I was thinking about this the other night – I still haven’t figured out a story for it – and I wondered how many suckers there really were to vote for Trump?

If a sucker is born every minute, and there are sixty minutes each hour, and twenty-four hours in a day, and 365 days a year, that means there are 525,600 suckers born each year.  If we take 80 years’ worth of suckers to be voters in an election (I know there are people over 98 who vote, but this is all just a quick calculation) that means there were over 42,000,000 suckers who probably voted for Trump.  Since he got over 77,000,000 votes, that means there are some 35,000,000 assholes who actually wanted the racist, treasonous, pedophile to be President.