--- title: Woman Leaves Date After Finding Out Man Voted for Trump description: A woman left a date after finding out that the man she was talking to had voted for Donald Trump for president. canonical: https://time.com/5017535/woman-ends-date-with-trump-voter/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-09T19:08:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:52.120Z og:title: Woman Leaves Date After Finding Out Man Voted for Trump og:description: The course of true love never did run smooth og:url: https://time.com/5017535/woman-ends-date-with-trump-voter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte92c236307a925be/6988e53d4ee26267fd30fb81/women-leaves-date-with-trump-voter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Dating app available on Apple TV og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Leaves Date After Finding Out Man Voted for Trump twitter:description: The course of true love never did run smooth twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte92c236307a925be/6988e53d4ee26267fd30fb81/women-leaves-date-with-trump-voter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Woman Abruptly Ends Her Date After She Found Out the Guy Voted for Trump > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto—NurPhoto via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 9, 2017 7:08 PM UTC [Dating apps](http://time.com/4888864/tinder-tiger-selfies-ban/) can be a tricky way to find your one true love and [the current political climate](http://time.com/4388138/donald-trump-singles-dating-site/) is only upping the ante for singles looking to mingle. Take for instance, the saga of a long-suffering woman who went on a date with a man she met on a dating app, only to discover that he was a Trump voter, something she found so unsavory that she had to end their date immediately. Her Trump supporter date, a man by the name of Bryan Leib, who also happens to be the treasurer for the Philadelphia Young Republicans, spoke to Philadelphia’s[ _The Inquirer_](http://www.philly.com/philly/living/sex%5Flove%5Fdating/donald-trump-election-dating-sex-year-change-anniversary-20171107.html)to muse on where the date went downhill. According to Leib, the date had been going well until she asked who he voted for in the past election; when Leib revealed that he had voted for Trump, the date came to an abrupt close. “She stopped in her tracks and said, ‘You know what, Bryan? This has been a lot of fun, but I think we’re two completely different people,’” he said. “And she literally got up and left.” The course of true love never did run smooth. ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Do you want to include the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional [ CROSSTALK ] Well, I would. I tell you what. Do you want to set up the meeting? Do you want to set up the meeting? No, no, no. I'm just a reporter. Are they friends of yours? No, set up the meeting. I know some of them. [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] The past 17 years Obamacare has wreaked havoc on the lives of innocent hard- working Americans. [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] Best not make anymore threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. I think there's blame on both sides, and I have no doubt about it. And you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were Very fine people on both sides. The only people giving a platform to these hate groups is the media itself and the fake news. Sheriff Joe, he's done a great job for the people of Arizona. He is very strong on borders. [ MUSIC ] I thought he was treated unbelievably unfairly. Wouldn't you love to see one these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say get that son of a [ BLEEP ] off the field right now. Out. He's fired. He's fired. If you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died. Now what is your death count as of this moment? 17. 16 certified. Sixteen people certified. 16 people versus in the thousands. Obamacare's finished, it's dead, it's gone. It's no longer, you shouldn't even mention it. Mention it, it's gone. There is no such thing as Obamacare anymore. If you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls, a lot of them didn't make calls. I like to call when it's appropriate, when I think I am able to do it. Earlier you said that President Obama never called the families of fallen soldiers, how can you make that claim? I don't know if he did did, no, no, no. Between 1 and 10, how would you grade the White House response so far to [ UNKNOWN ] I'd say it was a 10. This is a mental health problem at the highest level. This isn't a guns situation, I mean we could go into it, but it's a little bit soon to go into it, but Fortunately somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction. Otherwise it wouldn't have been as bad as it was, it would have been much worse. 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