Staten Island Trump Voters: This Is Our Molotov Cocktail

Scott LoBaido, artist, 51.Who are you going to be voting for? Hillary Clinton. Nah, I'm kidding. I am voting for Donald J. Trump.Why Trump? I just think he's what we need. He's what we all wanted. We all wanted something outside the box. Both Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, we all wanted to get the fucking establishment—we're done with it. The status quo establishment, money-whoring lobbyist bullshit that's been going on.Trump, that's as outside as you can get. That's why everybody jumped into this election, even these young millennials that have no concept and weren't ready to get into the political game. I believe the election has already been done. Us folk in the city, city folk, we have nothing to do with this election. This is about middle America. This is about the machine. The coal miners, the truck drivers, the ass-busting people that have been pissed on by this establishment with regulations and political correctness and taxes and Obamacare. They just have had it.This is their Molotov Cocktail, by going into that booth and pulling for Trump. They don't care what he says, or what he does, they just believe in his heart. I believe in his heart. I really feel this time around, the polls aren't mattering. The people know what they want. They know they have been so decimated. I'm giving him a chance. Is he out of his fucking mind sometimes? Yeah. But so am I. So are a lot of people I know that are very successful. He wants to give people incentive. This administration, and Hillary if she gets in, it's the same carry down. "You just sit right there. Don't you worry. Uncle Sam's going to fucking take care of you." You don't need to get up off your ass and open up a hot dog stand that you always wanted to do. Or become an astronaut. Become a politician. Nobody's got incentive. It's the taxpayers, the hard-working man, the man in the fucking middle is paying for these lazy fucking people. What are your views on Hillary? She's a fucking mess. What Nixon did was like me pissing in the street and getting a summons for it compared to what she's going through. It's out of control. It's insane. And we're all like "eh." "Well Donald Trump said this about grabbing some girl's pussy 10, 15 years ago. Ahhh!" But you'll have your kids watch Miley Cyrus ride a giant fucking dildo. It's just mind boggling. It's mind boggling.What will you do if Hillary wins?If Hillary wins, tomorrow morning I wake up in a pile of my alcohol-induced vomit. If Trump wins, I wake up in a pile of alcohol-induced vomit. Either way I'm celebrating. This is America,This is what it is. It happens every four years. This one's a little uglier. But this is democracy. It gets ugly sometimes for it to get better. It will get better. That's what makes us great. That's why I love this country, that's why I love this flag. You're not always right, but we are right more than we are wrong. — Gothamist

Raphael Pope-Sussman

Published Nov 8, 2016

Modified Nov 8, 2016

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With the Day of Reckoning upon us, we headed to the neighborhoods of Randall Manor and Grasmere in Staten Island, New York's Real America, to ask local residents in leaving the polls who they voted for, why, and how they plan to deal with the results of the election.