“I think a lot of people don’t like him and are out to get him any way they can,” said Tammy Napier, 53, a cashier in Hartville, Mo., when asked about the Daniels news. “I’m from Missouri, the ‘Show-Me State,’ and I’m like, ‘Show me the proof.’”

Allen Cannon, who lives in Ovettt, Miss., and works for the county transportation department, said Trump needs to be held to a human standard.

“I’m not saying he didn’t do it,” Cannon, 38, said of the president’s alleged affair. “I don’t agree with it if he did. But after all, he’s not God. So if he was God and was president, then I’d have a problem. That is the only being who is sin-free: God.”