Nicole Buffong
Atlanta by way of Columbus
“I have done my best to protect my energy right now, so I hadn’t been paying attention until a blurb came across that I decided to look into, and that was when they canceled federal funding. I’m on disability right now. It’s my only income, so that scared me and drove me to make sure I understood how it would affect me… I’m grateful that he couldn’t just do that with the swipe of a pen, but here we are… Everything else, I think, is going by his plan. This is exactly what he wanted. Half the country voted for this man, and they will find out. Good luck to them. But I’m doing my best to protect my energy right now, stay in my healing space.”
Ra Sanders, 15
Atlanta
“Overall, Donald Trump should not be in the presidency whatsoever because the rights and or nonrights that he has given are beyond me. The fact that he is [deporting] all Mexicans that are not supposed to be here, in his words, is outrageous… As far as the DEI goes, he’s saying that… [the plane crash]is their fault. He says that it is because of their lack of mental capacity that the plane crashed. That’s not right… He’s been an abomination. He shouldn’t even have made it to the election. I don’t know how. I don’t.”
Gisell Morgan
Stockbridge
“… I work in therapy. I work with children who have autism, and the families that bring their children to our facility are dependent on state funding. When we were hearing that they were trying to put a hold on that, it was devastating… So, I think many things going on right now are based on a selfish platform. And I think a lot of the decisions that are being made are to continue to elevate the wealthy. So, it’s going to affect us badly. And we just had to be prepared. How do we get prepared? I don’t know. Somebody help me.”
Marc Smith
Atlanta
“So far, he’s doing exactly what he promised to do, which is make a mess. He promised that, and he’s doing exactly that. He’s enacting Project 2025, and Project 2025 is one in which you throw a lot of crap against the wall and see what sticks. Make people uncomfortable. Make people scatter. Make people self-deport. Not having to deport them yourself and just making the entire democracy unstable so that you can make a profit.”
