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Statistics in this article are so misleading it's hard to see it as anything other then deliberate.

From the raw data, 4.95% of democrats are on welfare compared to 3.48% of republicans (Total number of people on welfare in the poll is 54, so the margin of error is large).

You get the 65% number only if you don't account for the fact that there are more democrats in the poll (almost twice as many). The same goes for the 22% republican number in appendix.

This is propaganda.

Public housing, medicaid, food stamps aren't the only form of government assistance. It's better to not make comments that tell your story that depend on partial statistics. It's easy to respond that states voting for Trump on a whole receive more federal aid than ones that didn't. The situation is likely more complex than what you've described.

You'll note those numbers are not 100%.

Of course it isn't 100%. That's why I said "most".

I think skewing 80% Democrat is more than enough to show that the OP's characterization of welfare recipients as "Trump voters" is ridiculous.