BAY CITY, MI -- Earlier this year, Bay County resident Jason DeFrain appeared on national TV saying he was proud to have voted for Donald J. Trump, cheering during the 45th president's first address to Congress.

A couple of months later, DeFrain again appeared on TV, this time saying he feels he was swindled.

"I feel like I was bamboozled. I really do," he said while sitting on a bench in Wenonah Park. "Jeez, he fooled me, and I kinda feel dumb. I feel mad and I kinda feel dumb, honestly."

Both of DeFrain's TV appearances were on NBC's Today show, speaking with political analyst Nicolle Wallace who has been touring the nation as part of a project entitled "In Trump They Trust." Wallace first visited Bay City on Feb. 28 and interviewed four Trump supporters -- DeFrain; Brad Kloska, a UAW member; Dustin Denham, a technician for Nexteer Automotive; and Brandon DeFrain, chairman of the Bay County Republican Party and Jason DeFrain's brother.

In the initial segment, the 29-year-old DeFrain says he cast his first vote in a presidential election in 2016. Before voting for Trump, he was a Bernie Sanders supporter.

Jason DeFrain is interviewed for an NBC 'Today' show segment.

"He has answers," DeFrain says in the first segment. "We don't always like them. Sometimes he offends the crap out of people, but he has an answer."

He adds that he has seen the economy decline in Bay County, with more businesses closing than opening in his lifetime. To that, Wallace asks if him if Trump tapped into a desire for a comeback.

"Oh, Jesus, yes," DeFrain says. "I think that's where the majority of his votes came from."

In the second segment, Wallace asks DeFrain when and why his enthusiasm for Trump dropped.

"Four days after that, maybe," he says, referring to the Feb. 28 interview. "More Russia stuff started piling up, he talks about being wiretapped, he's on Twitter saying this about this person."

The deal-breakers, though, were the U.S. bombing of Syria, Trump's tough talk on North Korea, and the dropping of the so-called "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan.

"I don't want to see the news special of another local Saginaw teenager brought home in a casket with a flag over it," DeFrain says. "We're gonna invade another country. There's no way around it. The way he's acting now, it's gonna happen. There are going to be boots on ground. That's what he said wasn't going to happen. It's one of the reasons I voted for him."

Before Democrats get too optimistic, DeFrain adds they aren't doing anything to sway him to their side.

"There's no middle anymore," he tells NBC. "Nobody wants to work together, it doesn't seem. It's disappointing."

The Today show took an interest in Bay County as it has voted Democrat since the Reagan era.

In 2008, Barack Obama garnered 32,589 votes (57 percent) cast in Bay County, compared to John McCain's 23,795 (41 percent). Four years later, Obama received 27,877 votes (52 percent) in Bay County, while challenger Mitt Romney received 24,911 (46 percent).

The tides turned in November, however, when Trump received 28,328 votes (53 percent) in Bay County, compared to Hillary Clinton's 21,642 (40 percent).

During her April return to Bay County, Wallace also spoke with Kloska again.

In the initial segment, Kloska described himself as a third-generation union member who had uniformly voted for Democrat candidates in prior elections, even casting his ballot for Sanders in the primary.

"He talks like a normal guy," Kloska said in the first segment. "I like him 'cause he talks like me."

He added it was "an easy switch" for him to go from supporting Sanders to Trump, as they had similar views on trade.

Come April, Kloska's tone has softened somewhat, but he says he's sticking by the president.

"I have to give the man some time to get things done," he tells Wallace. "There's no way I could flip after 100 days and say, 'He's a terrible president.'"

Kloska adds he doesn't support further U.S. involvement in Syria and wants Trump to focus more on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He also expressed disillusion with Democrats, saying they're motivated by pure hate for Trump.

Near the segment's end, Wallace asks DeFrain what he would say to Trump if he had the opportunity.

"Delete your Twitter account until you can act like a grownup and stop trying to kill people in other countires,'" DeFrain says. "Fix America. America first, Donald."