THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY

25 BAY AREA VOICES

Bob Jackson Age: 65 San Jose Occupation: Retired letter carrier Party: Democratic, but “not dyed in the wool anything” Quote: “Trump’s keeping up with his promises, and I’m going to support him until he does something so far off the wall that it turns to be something crazy.”

Jennifer Thomas Age: 41 Sunnyvale Occupation: Educator Party: Democratic Quote: “Trump’s lack of experience and lack of competent advisers and how to navigate these complex issues have created the kind of chaos you might expect.”

Troy Worden Age: 20 Pittsburg Occupation: Student at UC Berkeley Party: Republican Quote: “He has attempted to make good on a good portion of his primary campaign promises. I think that was an incredibly smart move.”

Claire Mack Age: 80 San Mateo Occupation: Was first black mayor of San Mateo; now has a cake-baking business and volunteers Party: Democratic Quote: “This is the saddest point in history I have seen in the United States of America.”

Eric Goldman Age: 48 Mountain View Occupation: Law professor Party: Independent Quote: “All my fears appear to have been realized, in pretty much every way.”

Jan Soule Age: 67 San Jose Occupation: Retired from high tech; president of Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women Quote: “I don’t have to tell you the media is all in for the left. Trump’s thumbing his nose at them and he’s tweeting and, oh wow, he’s getting his message out.”

Rocco Biale Age: 55 Walnut Creek Occupation: Restaurant owner Party: Independent Quote: “The swiftness of how fast he has followed up with what he said he was going to do on the campaign trail — good, bad or indifferent — has been most surprising.”

Cesar Zepeda Age: 36 Richmond Occupation: President of Hilltop District Neighborhood Council Party: Democratic Quote: “He’s doing what he said he would . ... Everyone said ‘I don’t think he’ll do that — it’s too crazy.’ But he did it.”

Peter Kuo Age: 48 Santa Clara Occupation: Insurance agent; past regional director of Trump campaign Party: Republican Quote: “Mr. Trump is doing all he can to keep this country safe.”

Ignacio Velazquez Age: 51 Hollister Occupation: Mayor Party: Republican Quote: “The key to the success of our communities is giving us our own dollars to spend locally, rather than at the federal level or the state level.”

Roy Matsuzaki Age: 83 San Jose Occupation: Retired, computer operations Party: Democratic Quote: “I’m sure back then, when (President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s) executive order was issued against us, if we had somebody to help us out, maybe it would never have occurred.”

Kristina Teves Age: 30 San Ramon Occupation: Freelance actor, artist Party: Democratic Quote: “It’s not the healthy way to bring the country together. You can’t give 40 percent of the people what they want, and 60 percent what they don’t want.”

Samved Sangameswara Age: 25 Oakland Occupation: High school teacher Party: Democratic

Quote: “He has more or less delivered on the awful things he promised; it was expected. I just didn’t think it would go down that quickly.”

Lori Drake Age: 52 Manteca Occupation: Works in commercial real estate; past chairwoman of Alameda County GOP Quote: “I like what Trump’s doing right now, to be honest with you. I didn’t expect him to do all these things.

Loc Vu Age: 85 San Jose Occupation: Director of refugee resettlement agency Party: Independent Quote: “He has no experience in the regular life of the common people, no experience in American politics nor foreign affairs.”

Laura Wolford Age: 51 San Jose Occupation: Homemaker Party: Democratic Quote: “I would think everyone is just laughing at us, to be honest. I can’t believe they would take this guy seriously, but he has the weight of the United States behind him. I’m embarrassed. I’m totally embarrassed.”

John Hansen Age: 79 Castro Valley Occupation: Attorney Party: Democratic Quote: “He has surrounded himself with White House people that have all these very weird views of the world and a Cabinet full of the most extreme people he could select.”

Kari Medina Age: 53 Santa Clara Occupation: Preschool teacher Party: Democratic, but will likely turn independent Quote: “I’m terrified. Quite frankly, I don’t want to live in this country. He’s not my president.”

Tim Draper Age: 58 San Mateo Occupation: Venture capitalist Party: Independent Quote: “Our country needs growth, jobs and money to pay for all the debt we have accrued.”

Jewel Taylor Age: 65 Santa Clara Occupation: Body shop owner Party: Democratic Quote: “We’ve churned up our own community because of Trump’s stupidity.”

Rick Rogers Age: 60 La Honda Occupation: Trucker Party: Republican Quote: “When Trump says we’ve got to stop everybody until we can get a handle on this, that sounds reasonable, especially when we know how creepy and cruel these ISIS people are.”

Moina Shaiq Age: 57 Fremont Occupation: Community activist Party: Democratic Quote: “I thought he was going to be uncertain and that he’d get advice from his advisers. But he started bombarding from day one. That took us a little off guard.”

Claudia Corona Age: 25 Oakland Occupation: Scientist Party: Democratic, but “unhappy” Quote: “Everything that he has done has affected me or my family or some part of my life in one way or another.”

Tess Byler Age: 57 Palo Alto Occupation: Hydrologist Party: Republican Quote: “If you don’t believe climate change is real and that activities we do aren’t going to affect it, that’s going to be a bigger deal.”

Paula Orrego Age: 23 Santa Clara Occupation: College student Party: Democratic Quote: “I’m disappointed in the direction the country has gone in.”