I owe all you Trumpers an apology.
I’ve been critical of him from day one, and I’m still exhausted from the experience. But to be fair, he wasn’t that bad. Other than when he...
- Incited an insurrection against the government.
- Mismanaged a pandemic that's killed nearly 1 million Americans
- Mismanaged a pandemic that's killed nearly 1 million Americans
- Separated hundreds of children from their families
- Lost those children in the bureaucracy
- Tear gassed peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square for a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church
- Tried to ban Muslims from entering the country
- Tried to ban Muslims from entering the country
- Got impeached
- Got impeached again
- Had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history
- Tried to extort President Zelenskyy/Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden
- Fired FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia
- Bragged about firing FBI director on TV
- Bragged about firing FBI director on TV
- Took Putin’s word over the US intelligence community's
- Diverted military funding to build his wall
- Caused the longest government shutdown in US history
- Called BLM a symbol of hate
- Called BLM a symbol of hate
- Lied nearly 30,000 times
- Ejected reporters who asked tough questions from White House briefings
- Vetoed defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers
- Refused to release his tax returns
- Refused to release his tax returns
- Increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion
- Had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history
- Called veterans & soldiers who died in combat losers & suckers
- Coddled leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution & dismemberment of a US-based journalist
- Coddled leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution & dismemberment of a US-based journalist
- Refused to concede the 2020 election
- Hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House
- Walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl
- Called neo-Nazis “very fine people”
- Suggested people should inject bleach to fight COVID
- Abandoned our allies, the Kurds, to Turkey
- Pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest but balked at helping working Americans
- Incited anti lock down protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic
- Incited anti lock down protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic
- Withdrew US from Paris climate accords
- Withdrew US from Iranian nuclear deal
- Withdrew US from Trans Pacific Partnership, which was designed to block China’s advances
- Insulted his own Cabinet on Twitter
- Pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op
- Refused to reaffirm US commitment to defending NATO allies
- Called Haiti & African nations “shithole” countries
- Called Haiti & African nations shithole countries
- Called the city of Baltimore the “worst in the nation”
- Claimed he single handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas” even though it hadn’t gone anywhere
- Forced his Cabinet to praise him publicly like some cult leader
- Tried to cheat to get himself nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
- Berated & belittled his hand-picked Attorney General when he recused himself from Russia probe
- Suggested US should buy Greenland
- Colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through fed judges & 2 SCOTUS justices after supporting efforts to prevent Obama from appointing judges
- Repeatedly called the press “enemies of the people”
- Claimed if we tested fewer people for COVID, we’d have fewer cases
- Claimed if we tested fewer people for COVID, we’d have fewer cases
- Violated the emoluments clause
- Thought Africa was a country
- Told Bob Woodward in private that COVID was a big deal but downplayed it in public
- Called his exceedingly faithful Vice President a “pussy” for following the Constitution
- Nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet
- Nominated a corrupt head of EPA
- Nominated a corrupt head of HHS
- Nominated a corrupt head of Interior Department
- Nominated a corrupt head of USDA
- Nominated a corrupt head of USDA
- Praised dictators & authoritarians while criticizing allies
- Refused to allow presidential transition to begin
- Insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death
- Spent obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing President Obama for playing far less golf
- Falsely claimed he won 2016 popular vote
- Falsely claimed he won 2016 popular vote
- Called Muslim mayor of London a stone cold loser
- Falsely claimed he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year
- Falsely claimed he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year
- Repeatedly tried to fire Special Counsel Mueller
- Mocked wearing masks during COVID
- Locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones
- Used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the China virus
- Hired shady figures eventually convicted of federal offenses including campaign managers and National Security Advisors
- Pardoned several of his shady associates
- Pardoned several of his shady associates
- Gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressman who amplified his batshit crazy conspiracy theories
- Got into a telephone fight with the leader of Australia (!)
- Had a Secretary of State who called him a fucking moron
- Forced his press secretary to claim, without merit, that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history
- Botched COVID vaccine rollout
- Botched COVID vaccine rollout
- Tweeted so much dangerous propaganda Twitter banned him
- Charged Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties
- Charged Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties
- Constantly interrupted Joe Biden in the first presidential debate
- Claimed COVID would “magically disappear"
- Called a U.S. Senator “Pocahontas”
- Used Twitter to blast Nordstrom when it stopped selling Ivanka’s merchandise
- Opened up pristine federal lands to development & drilling Started a losing tariff war w/China, forcing US taxpayers to bail out farmers
- Claimed his losing tariff war was a win for the US
- Ignored or didn’t even take part in daily intelligence briefings
- Ignored or didn’t even take part in daily intelligence briefings
- Blew off honoring American war dead in France because it was raining
- Redesigned Air Force One to look like the Trump Shuttle
- Got played by Kim Jong Un and his love letters
- Threatened to go after social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution
- Botched response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
- Threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them
- Pressured Georgia's governor and the Secretary of State to “find” him votes
- Pressured Georgia's governor and the Secretary of State to “find” him votes
- Thought the Virgin Islands had a president Drew on a map with a Sharpie to justify his inaccurate tweet that Alabama was threatened by a hurricane
- Allowed WH staff to use personal email accounts for official business after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing
- Rolled back regulations that protected the public from mercury & asbestos
- Pushed regulators to waste time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID
- Rolled back regulations that stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers
- Held blatant campaign rallies at the White House
- Tried to take away millions of Americans’ health insurance because the law was named for a black man
- Refused to attend his successor's inauguration
- Nominated worst Education Secretary in history
- Nominated worst Education Secretary in history
- Threatened judges who didn’t do what he wanted
- Attacked Dr. Fauci
- Promised Mexico would pay for the wall (it didn’t)
- Allowed political hacks to overrule govt scientists in major reports on climate change & other issues
- Struggled to navigate a ramp after calling his opponent feeble
- Struggled to navigate a ramp after calling his opponent feeble
- Called an AA Congresswoman low IQ Threatened to withhold federal aid from states, and cities with Democratic leaders, and states that didn’t vote for him
- Held rallies filled with maskless supporters in the middle of a pandemic & made them sign a waiver
- Claimed legitimate investigations of his wrongdoing were witch hunts
- Claimed there were airports during the American Revolution
- Demanded total loyalty from the FBI director
- Praised conspiracy theory that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles
- Placed a corrupt political hack in charge of the USPS
- Claimed without evidence the Obama administration bugged Trump Tower
- Suggested the US should allow more people from places like Norway into the country
- Suggested COVID wasn’t that bad because he recovered (with help of top government doctors, and treatments not available to the public)
- Overturned energy conservation standards that even industry supported
- Reduced number of refugees the US accepts
- Insulted various members of Congress and the media with infantile nicknames
- Gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address
- Named as Director of US Office of Personnel Management a 29 year old who’d previously been fired from the WH for allegations of financial improprieties
- Named as Director of US Office of Personnel Management a 29 year old who’d previously been fired from the WH for allegations of financial improprieties
- Eliminated the White House office of pandemic response
- Used soldiers as campaign props
- Used soldiers as campaign props
- Fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him
- Demanded the Pentagon throw him a Soviet style military parade
- Hired a shit ton of white supremacists
- Politicized the civil service
- Did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked the United States
- Falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts
- Claimed black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won
- Insulted reporters of color
- Insulted women reporters
- Insulted women reporters of color
- Suggested he was fine with China’s oppression of the Uyghurs
- Attacked SCOTUS when it ruled against him
- Summoned PA state legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the 2020 election
- Spent countless hours every day watching Fox News
- Refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas
- Hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer
- Tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him
- Acted as if the United States Attorney General was his personal attorney
- Held private meetings with Putin without staff present, and stole the notes
- Didn’t disclose private meetings with Putin, so the US had to find out via Russian media
- Stopped holding press briefings for months at a time
- “Ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power
- Led a political party that couldn’t be bothered to draft a policy platform
- Preposterously claimed Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute power
- Tried to pressure the UK to hold the British Open at his golf course
- Suggested the government should nuke hurricanes
- Suggested wind turbines cause cancer
- Suggested wind turbines cause cancer
- Said he had a special aptitude for science
- Fired the head of election cyber security after he called 2020 election the most secure in US history
- Blurted out classified info to Russian officials
- Tried to force G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in FL
- Fired the acting AG when she refused to go along with his Muslim ban
- Hired Stephen Miller Openly discussed national security issues in dining room at Mar-a-Lago where everyone could hear
- Interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel
- Interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel
- Abandoned Iraqi refugees who helped the US during the war
- Tried to get Russia back into G7
- Held COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden
- Seemed to believe Frederick Douglass is still alive
- Lost 60 election fraud cases in court, including before judges he'd nominated
- Seemed to believe Frederick Douglass is still alive
- Lost 60 election fraud cases in court, including before judges he'd nominated
- Falsely claimed factories were reopening when they weren’t
- Shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies
- Shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies
- Never came up with a healthcare plan
- Never came up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated Infrastructure Weeks
- Forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID
- Told Proud Boys to stand back and stand by
- Deliberately fucked up the Census
- Deliberately fucked up the Census
- Withdrew the US from the WHO in the middle of a pandemic
- Did so few of his duties, his press staff were forced to state on his daily schedule “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings.”
- Allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act
- Seemed not to know Abraham Lincoln was a Republican
- Stood before the sacred CIA wall of heroes & bragged about his election win
- Constantly claimed he was treated worse than any president, which includes 4 who were assassinated and his predecessor, whose legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV star named Donald Trump
- Claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened
- Said any opinion poll showing him behind was fake
- Claimed other countries laughed at America before he was president, when several world leaders were literally laughing at him
- Claimed other countries laughed at America before he was president, when several world leaders were literally laughing at him
- Claimed the military was out of ammunition before he became president
- Created commission to whitewash American history
- Retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain
- Retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain
- Hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims
- Had press secretary who claimed Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they gassed 6 million Jews
- Tried to start boycott of Goodyear because of an internet hoax
- Apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House
- Apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House
- Stripped protected status from 59,000 Haitians
- Nominated a climate change skeptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy
- Accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address
- Claimed FBI failed to capture Parkland shooter because they were spending too much time on Russia
- Mocked testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault
- Obsessed over low-flow toilets
- Obsessed over low-flow toilets
- Ordered release of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release
- Hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebration to give partisan speech
- Took advice from the My Pillow guy
- Called migrants seeking a better life dangerous caravans of dealers and rapists
- Said nothing when Putin poisoned his leading opposition
- Never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s "Be Best" (!) campaign
- Falsely claimed mail-in voting is fraudulent
- Announced a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria, which not only handed Russia and ISIS a win, but also prompted his defense secretary to resign in protest
- Insulted the leader of Canada
- Insulted the leader of France
- Insulted the leader of Britain
- Insulted the leader of Germany
- Insulted the leader of Sweden (Sweden!!)
- Falsely took credit for getting NATO members to increase dues
- Blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually
- Continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders
- Continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders
- Said Japanese would sit back and watch their Sony TVs if the US were attacked
- Left NATO summit early in a huff
- Stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that
- Called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence otherwise
- Got indicted four times
- Was found liable for massive, decades long fraud
- Refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power...
- Refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power...
... And a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment.
But other than that… *shrugs* This is how history books will read because these are provable facts.
But other than that… *shrugs* This is how history books will read because these are provable facts.
* Editorial note: long overdue blog page, meant to be published when Rindie first had this in a very long string on Threads! What's due, is due. Thank you, Rindie!
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