I'm not sure if you mean in general or with regard to my original comment, but in general I think supporting a guy who personally claimed to have molested women

I'm not sure if you mean in general or with regard to my original comment, but in general I think supporting a guy who personally claimed to have molested women and who was in the middle of several fraud lawsuits to run the country is absurd in my book. Maybe you have a different definition of absurdity. Trump was also making absurd comments about our 2 biggest trade allies Mexico and China saying that he was going to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it (aside from being an idiotic idea for a number of reasons - there was no way he was/is ever going to get Mexico to pay for the wall) and stating as a matter of fact that China was manipulating our currency and created the "hoax" of global warming. All absurd and senseless in my book. Secondly for Thiel, there's the whole question of why on earth he would go on national TV to support Trump when he is completely outside the general demographic that Trump caters to. Trump's biggest supporters were some combination of baby-boomers (and to some extent their children), gun owners and Christians. Some of the ultra-rich may have been his biggest financial supporters and the ones that stand to gain the most from his presidency - but they are only a sliver of his actual voter base and an even smaller percentage of the American populous. By speaking out the way he did - he essentially put a spotlight on himself as someone willing to sacrifice the welfare of the people if it helps his own bottom line. He could have supported Trump indirectly and it wouldn't have changed the outcome of the election. I would say the way Thiel supported Trump was especially absurd.