Action:
Implemented the “zero tolerance” policy in 2018, leading to the separation of thousands of migrant children from their parents at the U.S.–Mexico border.
Instituted travel bans on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries (originally called the “Muslim Ban”).
Why liberals were upset:
Seen as cruel, inhumane, and discriminatory, especially toward vulnerable asylum seekers and Muslim populations.
Climate Change Denial
2. Action: Tariffs
Withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord in 2017, a global pact to reduce carbon emissions.
Rolled back over 100 environmental rules, including limits on methane emissions, fuel efficiency standards, and protections for wetlands.
Why liberals were upset:
They believe climate change is an urgent threat, and saw these moves as reckless and harmful to the planet.
3. Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Action:
Passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, lowering the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% and cutting taxes for the wealthy more than the middle class.
Why liberals were upset: They saw it as a giveaway to the rich and corporations that increased income inequality and ballooned the national deficit
4. Handling of COVID-19
Downplayed the virus early on, saying it would “disappear like a miracle.”
Publicly undermined scientists like Dr. Fauci, often contradicting CDC advice.
Suggested unproven or dangerous treatments (e.g., injecting disinfectant, hydroxychloroquine).
Held large rallies and events without masks or distancing, even after outbreaks.
Why liberals were upset:
They believed his actions cost lives, spread misinformation, and politicized a public health crisis.
5. Rhetoric and Behavior FAction:
Called Mexican immigrants “rapists” during his 2015 campaign launch.
Mocked a disabled New York Times reporter.
Frequently used inflammatory language on Twitter and in speeches.
Repeatedly refused to clearly denounce white supremacist groups (e.g., “Proud Boys—stand back and stand by”).
Why liberals were upset:
They saw him as promoting racism, sexism, and division, and violating presidential norms.
6. Supreme Court Appointments Action:
Nominated and confirmed three conservative justices: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.
Barrett’s confirmation came just weeks before the 2020 election, despite Republicans blocking Obama’s 2016 nominee for being “too close” to the election.
Why liberals were upset:
They feared this shifted the Court rightward for decades and viewed the process as hypocritical and unfair.
7. Election DenialAction:
Refused to concede after losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
Spread false claims of widespread voter fraud.
Pressured officials in key states (e.g., Georgia) to “find votes.”
His rhetoric helped fuel the January 6th insurrection, when a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Why liberals were upset:
They saw this as a direct attack on democracy and the peaceful transfer of power.
8. Response to Protests Action:
Called racial justice protesters “thugs” and threatened them with violence.
In June 2020, had peaceful protesters tear-gassed in Lafayette Square so he could take a photo with a Bible in front of a church.
Opposed police reform bills and defended aggressive policing.
Why liberals were upset:
They felt he showed more support for law enforcement than for Black Americans demanding justice, and suppressed free speech.
9. Media Attacks
Action:
Routinely called major media outlets “fake news” and labeled journalists “the enemy of the people.”
Retweeted conspiracy theories and spread misinformation.
Revoked press credentials of journalists who challenged him (e.g., Jim Acosta of CNN).
Why liberals were upset:
They viewed it as an attack on the free press and truth, and dangerous for democratic accountability.
10. Foreign Policy
Action:
Praised authoritarian leaders like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Held historic summits with North Korea but gained little in terms of nuclear disarmament.
Pulled out of global alliances and agreements (e.g., Iran nuclear deal, Paris Accord).
Criticized NATO and cozied up to adversaries while alienating allies.
Why liberals were upset:
They believed he undermined global stability, weakened U.S. leadership, and emboldened dictators.
11. Rollback of LGBTQ+ Protections
Action:
Banned transgender individuals from serving in the military.
Rolled back Obama-era protections for transgender students and patients in healthcare.
Supported religious exemptions that allowed businesses to refuse service to LGBTQ+ people.
Why liberals were upset:
They saw it as regressive, discriminatory, and harmful to LGBTQ+ rights.
12. Criminal Justice Action:
Opposed efforts to reform policing and federal oversight of law enforcement.
Called for the death penalty for drug dealers and praised harsh policing tactics.
Criticized NFL players like Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the national anthem.
Why liberals were upset: They viewed him as ignoring systemic racism and stoking “law and order” rhetoric without addressing root causes.
13. Tariffs and Trade Wars
Action:
Imposed steep tariffs on China, the EU, Mexico, and Canada, sparking retaliatory tariffs.
Sparked a U.S.-China trade war, hitting farmers and manufacturers especially hard.
Gave billions in bailouts to U.S. farmers hurt by the tariffs.
Why liberals were upset:
They saw it as economically self-destructive, hurting American consumers and businesses while failing to meaningfully change Chinese trade practices.
14. Censorship and “Word Bans”
Action:
In 2017, CDC officials were reportedly told not to use words like “fetus,” “transgender,” and “science-based” in budget documents.
Promoted the 1776 Commission, an attempt to promote “patriotic education” that critics saw as rewriting history to downplay slavery and racism.
Why liberals were upset:
They viewed it as political censorship and a suppression of science and truth, particularly around marginalized communities and history.
15. Economic Inequality & Breaks for the Rich
Action:
Pushed tax breaks and loopholes that mainly benefited wealthy individuals and corporations (e.g., pass-through tax cuts, real estate write-offs).
Repealed parts of Dodd-Frank, the financial regulation law meant to prevent another 2008-style crash.
His company and allies reportedly took advantage of pandemic relief funds meant for small businesses
Don't stop here, there are a hundred more below
Claiming that Donald Trump is a sociopath has become so common it’s pretty much a cliché these days. That said, most people don’t know what sociopathy is or what they can expect from — or how to identify — a sociopath.
I did a deep dive into Trump’s childhood and history to discover the roots of his behavior — and how we can deal with it and repair America from it — in my newest book The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink.
What I found was fascinating and provides an easy way for people with no training in psychology to identify not only Trump’s problem but to figure out who else in their lives may incline toward sociopathy (CEOs are particularly notorious; some suggest it’s what makes them ruthless but successful).
The easy way to describe sociopathy to a lay person is to explain that if young children were tested for the condition they’d often test positive for the disorder, which is referred to by professionals (and the DSM) as “Antisocial Personality Disorder” (ASPD).
That’s because their personalities are still developing and they haven’t yet fully developed empathy, impulse control, or a stable sense of morality, traits that are still emerging during childhood and adolescence.
This is why clinicians are careful not to diagnose children with sociopathy or ASPD outright; instead, they may diagnose Conduct Disorder, especially if the child shows persistent patterns of aggression, deceit, or cruelty. If these behaviors continue into adulthood, and particularly if they begin before age 15, the diagnosis may later shift to ASPD/sociopathy.
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), adults with ASPD or sociopathy display a consistent and persistent set of characteristics. Those include a pervasive pattern of disregard for the rights of others; chronic violation of social norms, rules, and laws; deceitfulness, impulsivity, and aggression; and a near-complete lack of remorse or empathy.
But the simplest way to explain this is to simply note that adult sociopaths usually tend to act like young children. Consider Trump’s public behavior. He:
— Ignores or apparently doesn’t care about the rights of other people or the impact of his actions on others. He’ll send non-criminals to a hellhole concentration camp in El Salvador or deport them to South Sudan, even though it may be a death sentence — and is certainly an open door to torture — apparently without a second thought or twinge of conscience.
— Defies social norms, bragging about sexually assaulting women and how he could murder somebody on Fifth Avenue and get away with it.
— Ignores or tries to get around laws and court orders with apparent delight.
— Lies about those actions and decisions that hurt others or even damage our nation.
— Makes things up on the fly, chronically lying when it’s not even remotely necessary.
— Bullies judges, lawmakers, people who work for him, and anybody he considers disloyal.
— Almost never, ever admits errors or wrongdoing and is so constantly wrapped up in himself that he doesn’t know how to experience what others are feeling.
This is the behavior of a child who’s not yet been socialized, and in Trump’s case it’s rooted deep in his childhood, having been raised by a troubled father and a distant mother.
The leaders of Europe’s NATO countries appear to have figured this out (as did Putin, Musk, and the Saudis, Emiratis, and Qataris before them); when Trump showed up in The Netherlands this week, they lavished him with praise and positive attention, instead of shunning and implicitly or subtly ridiculing him like they did five years ago.
His response was exactly what they wanted; reconsidering aid to Ukraine and suddenly changing his position to embrace the US’s commitment to the mutual defense provisions embodied in Article 5 of the organization’s charter.
This doesn’t mean that Americans should coddle Trump’s tantrums, demands for revenge, and petty grievances. He will always and obsessively be preoccupied with getting his own childish needs met, and at the top of that list is avoiding discomfort and complexity.
Like the bully he is, when he’s seriously confronted — at least so far — he’ll back down (TACO) if the confrontation threatens to consume lots of his time, trouble, or money. This is why consistent and ferocious opposition to his most puerile actions is absolutely necessary.
History teaches us that when self-centered national leaders aren’t constrained by their own people, the results are usually tragic. During his first presidency, Trump had largely surrounded himself with normal adults who succeeded in moderating his behavior and restraining his worst impulses.
This time, however, he’s succeeded in surrounding himself with people just as pathetically child-like, morally and developmentally, as he is. They’ll lie, cheat, or bully on his behalf, as we’ve recently seen with the public statements of many of his most senior officials.
As we’ve seen with their attacks on and arrests of a state judge, member of Congress, US Senator, and Newark’s Mayor, among others, when a troubled man like Trump succeeds in surrounding himself with other people who share his developmental stunting — and has disposed of “the adults in the room” — the results can be horrific.
The next three-and-a-half years will be both critical and dangerous for the future of democracy in our republic both because of Trump’s psychopathology and the willingness (or even enthusiasm) of the people around him to facilitate his infantile rages and desires.
In the book — and in future articles here — I lay out a variety of ways Americans can deal with this national mental health crisis and the consequences with which it hits average working class people. The first and most important step, though, is to identify his disability and spread the word.
Not only is that the first step toward constraining him and those around him, but it’ll also help voters avoid electing more troubled man-babies to public office in the future.
May I share some facts?
64 Times Mentioned In Epstein (he is the pedophile whose life ended in jail) Report.
97 Times Pleaded The Fifth.
34 Felony Convictions.
91 Criminal Charges.
26 Sexual Assault Allegations.
6 Bankruptcies .
5 Draft Deferments.
4 Indictments.
2 Impeachments.
2 Convicted Companies.
1 Fake University Shut Down.
1 Fake Charity Shut Down
30,000 + lies
$25 Million Fraud Settlement.
$5 Million Sexual Abuse Verdict.
$2 Million Fake Charity Abuse Judgment.
$93 Million Sexual Abuse Judgements.
$400+ Million Fraud Judgment.The
First President in history to serve a full term, he increased the deficit every year he was in office.
First President in history to maintain a debt to GDP ratio over 100% for his entire term.
The highest annual budget deficit.
Most added to the national debt in a single term.
Most new unemployment claims.
Largest single-day point drop in the history of the Dow.
First major party candidate in half a century to lose the popular vote twice.
Longest government shutdown in history (and he did that while his own party controlled both chambers of Congress).
First President in the history of approval ratings to maintain a net negative approval rating for his entire term.
First President to be impeached twice.
First President to have bipartisan support for his conviction after impeachment (which happened both times).
Most indictments, guilty pleas, and criminal convictions of members of an administration.
First president to have a mug shot.
.... and over 74 million people think this is what makes a great leader.
Manu of these are well within the scope of his powers and are applauded by his Minions, but very few are very presidential.
1. he incited an insurrection against the government,
2. mismanaged a pandemic that killed a million Americans,
3. separated children from their families, lost those children in the bureaucracy,
4. tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church,
5. tried to block all Muslims from entering the country,
6. got impeached,
7. got impeached again,
8. had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history,
9. pressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden,
10. fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia,
11. bragged about firing the FBI director on TV,
12. took Vladimir Putin’s word over the US intelligence community,
13. diverted military funding to build his wall,
14. caused the longest government shutdown in US history,
15. called Black Lives Matter a “symbol of hate,”
16. lied nearly 30,000 times,
17. banned transgender people from serving in the military,
18. ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions,
19. vetoed the defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers,
20. refused to release his tax returns,
21. increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion,
22. had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history,
23. called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers,
24. coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist,
25. refused to concede the 2020 election,
26. hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House,
27. walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl,
28. called neo-Nazis “very fine people,”
29. suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID,
30. abandoned our allies, the Kurds to Turkey,
31. pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest but balked at helping working Americans,
32. incited anti-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic,
33. withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords,
34. withdrew the US from the Iranian nuclear deal,
35. withdrew the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership which was designed to block China’s advances,
36. insulted his own Cabinet members on Twitter,
37. pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op,
38. failed to reiterate US commitment to defending NATO allies,
39. called Haiti and African nations “shithole” countries,
40. called the city of Baltimore the “worst in the nation,”
41. claimed that he single-handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas” even though it hadn’t gone anywhere,
42. forced his Cabinet members to praise him publicly like some cult leader,
43. believed he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,
44. berated and belittled his hand-picked Attorney General when he recused himself from the Russia probe,
45. suggested the US should buy Greenland,
46. colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme Court justices after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judges,
47. repeatedly called the media “enemies of the people,”
48. claimed that if we tested fewer people for COVID we’d have fewer cases,
49. violated the emoluments clause,
50. thought that Nambia was a country,
51. told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then downplayed it in public,
52. called his exceedingly faithful vice president a “p---y” for following the Constitution,
53. nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet,
54. nominated a corrupt head of the EPA,
55. nominated a corrupt head of HHS,
56. nominated a corrupt head of the Interior Department,
57. nominated a corrupt head of the USDA,
58. praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies,
59. refused to allow the presidential transition to begin,
60. insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death,
61. spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president,
62. falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote,
63. called the Muslim mayor of London a “stone-cold loser,”
64. falsely claimed that he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year,
65. considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions,
66. mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID,
67. locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones,
68. used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the “China virus,”
69. hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security adviser,
70. pardoned several of his shady associates,
71. gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressmen who amplified his batshit crazy conspiracy theories,
72. got into a telephone fight with the leader of Australia(!),
73. had a Secretary of State who called him a moron,
74. forced his press secretary to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history,
75. botched the COVID vaccine rollout,
76. tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him,
77. charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties,
78. constantly interrupted Joe Biden in their first presidential debate,
79. claimed that COVID would “magically” disappear,
80. called a U.S. Senator “Pocahontas,”
81. used his Twitter account to blast Nordstrom when it stopped selling Ivanka’s merchandise,
82. opened up millions of pristine federal lands to development and drilling,
83. got into a losing tariff war with China that forced US taxpayers to bail out farmers,
84. claimed that his losing tariff war was a win for the US,
85. ignored or didn’t even take part in daily intelligence briefings,
86. blew off honoring American war dead in France because it was raining,
87. redesigned Air Force One to look like the Trump Shuttle,
88. got played by Kim Jung Un and his “love letters,”
89. threatened to go after social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution,
90. botched the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico,
91. threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them,
92. pressured the governor and secretary of state of Georgia to “find” him votes,
93. thought that the Virgin islands had a President,
94. drew on a map with a Sharpie to justify his inaccurate tweet that Alabama was threatened by a hurricane,
95. allowed White House staff to use personal email accounts for official businesses after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing,
96. rolled back regulations that protected the public from mercury and asbestos,
97. pushed regulators to waste time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID,
98. rolled back regulations that stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers,
99. held blatant campaign rallies at the White House,
100. tried to take away millions of Americans’ health insurance because the law was named after a Black man,
101. refused to attend his successor's inauguration,
102. nominated the worst Education Secretary in history,
103. threatened judges who didn’t do what he wanted,
104. attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci,
105. promised that Mexico would pay for the wall (it didn’t),
106. allowed political hacks to overrule government scientists on major reports on climate change and other issues,
107. struggled to navigate a ramp after claiming his opponent was feeble,
108. called an African-American Congresswoman “low IQ,”
109. threatened to withhold federal aid from states and cities with Democratic leaders,
110. went ahead with rallies filled with maskless supporters in the middle of a pandemic,
111. claimed that legitimate investigations of his wrongdoing were “witch hunts,”
112. seemed to demonstrate a belief that there were airports during the American Revolution,
113. demanded “total loyalty” from the FBI director,
114. praised a conspiracy theory that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles,
115. completely gutted the Voice of America,
116. placed a political hack in charge of the Postal Service,
117. claimed without evidence that the Obama administration bugged Trump Tower,
118. suggested that the US should allow more people from places like Norway into the country,
119. suggested that COVID wasn’t that bad because he recovered with the help of top government doctors and treatments not available to the public,
120. overturned energy conservation standards that even industry supported,
121. reduced the number of refugees the US accepts,
122. insulted various members of Congress and the media with infantile nicknames,
123. gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential Medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address,
124. named as head of federal personnel a 29-year-old who’d previously been fired from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties,
125. eliminated the White House Office of pandemic response,
126. used soldiers as campaign props,
127. fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him,
128. demanded the Pentagon throw him a Soviet-style military parade,
129. hired a shit ton of white nationalists,
130. politicized the civil service,
131. did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked the U.S. government,
132. falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts,
133. claimed that Black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won,
134. insulted reporters of color,
135. insulted women reporters,
136. insulted women reporters of color,
137. suggested he was fine with China’s oppression of the Uighurs,
138. attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him,
139. summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the election,
140. spent countless hours every day watching Fox News,
141. refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas,
142. hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer,
143. tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him,
144. acted as if the Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney,
145. attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a prominent lady who accused him of sexual assault,
146. held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present,
147. didn’t disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so the US had to find out via Russian media,
148. stopped holding press briefings for months at a time,
149. “ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power,
150. led a political party that couldn’t even be bothered to draft a policy platform,
151. claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers,
152. tried to pressure the U.K. to hold the British Open at his golf course,
153. suggested that the government nuke hurricanes,
154. suggested that wind turbines cause cancer,
155. said that he had a special aptitude for science,
156. fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure,
157. blurted out classified information to Russian officials,
158. tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida,
159. fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban,
160. hired notorious racist Stephen Miller,
161. openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Lago where everyone could hear them,
162. interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel,
163. abandoned Iraqi refugees who’d helped the U.S. during the war,
164. tried to get Russia back into the G7,
165. held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden,
166. seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive,
167. lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated,
168. falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they weren’t,
169. shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies,
170. still hasn’t come up with a healthcare plan,
171. still hasn’t come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated “Infrastructure Weeks,”
172. forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID,
173. told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,”
174. fucked up the Census,
175. withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic,
176. did so few of his duties that 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,”
177. allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act,
178. seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican,
179. stood before the sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win,
180. constantly claimed he was treated worse than any president which presumably includes four that were assassinated and his predecessor whose legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV show star named Donald Trump,
181. claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened,
182. said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake,
183. claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him,
184. claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President,
185. created a commission to whitewash American history,
186. retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain,
187. claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn’t have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard there,
188. hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims,
189. had a press secretary who claimed that Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they used gas to kill millions of Jews and others,
190. bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties,
191. apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House,
192. stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians,
193. falsely claimed Biden wanted to defund the police,
194. said that the head of the CDC didn’t know what he was talking about,
195. tried to rescind protection from DREAMers,
196. gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic,
197. tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax,
198. said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states,
199. deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented,
200. claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln,
201. touted a “super-duper” secret “hydrosonic” missile which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile or may not exist at all,
202. retweeted a gif calling Biden a pedophile,
203. forced through security clearances for his family,
204. suggested that police officers should rough up suspects,
205. suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs,
206. tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender,
207. suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher,
208. nominated a climate change skeptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy,
209. retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden
210. had played a song called “Fuck tha Police” at a campaign event,
211. hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags,
212. accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address,
213. claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter because they were “spending too much time” on Russia,
214. mocked the testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault,
215. obsessed over low-flow toilets,
216. ordered the rerelease of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release,
217. called for the construction of a bizarre garden of heroes with statutes of famous dead Americans as well as at least one Canadian (Alex Trebek),
218. hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech,
219. took advice from the MyPillow guy,
220. claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists,
221. said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure,
222. never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign,
223. falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent,
224. 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,
225. insulted the leader of Canada,
226. insulted the leader of France,
227. insulted the leader of Britain,
228. insulted the leader of Germany,
229. insulted the leader of Sweden (Sweden!!),
230. falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues,
231. blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually,
232. continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders,
233. said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked,
234. left a NATO summit early in a huff,
235. stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that,
236. called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary,
237. refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise.
238. Don’t forget that he took many classified & top-secret documents with him when he left the White House, many of which have not been recovered & may have been compromised.
I’m sure there are a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment. I'm sure none of the above comes close to whatever is on Hunter Biden's laptop.
But other than that. . .
In order to mark Trump’s first 100 days in office, I took the liberty of sharing 100 reports of corruption he’s responsible for.
Take a look below — one example of corruption for every single day he’s been in office.
I refuse to accept this as our new normal. Americans deserve accountability. Period. We need to fight back — all of us. That’s what I’m going to do in the Senate. If you’re able to pitch in $3 or anything you can, you’ll help strengthen our work to hold this administration accountable and limit the damage Trump is doing to our government, our economy, and our democracy.
Count with me now: In just one hundred days, Donald Trump, his family, and his Administration have:
1. Turned the White House into a Tesla dealership.
2. Fired independent commissioners at the FTC.
3. Punished former officials who opposed his 2020 election lies.
4. Paid for the White House Easter Egg roll by soliciting corporate sponsors who have business pending with the government.
5. Helped Trump’s son set up a club — pay $500,000 for access to Trump’s cabinet.
6. Declared that there would be NO tariff exceptions. Then permitted Apple’s CEO “behind the scenes” access — and poof, iPhone tariffs were cut.
7. Created an opening for insider trading by reportedly giving Wall Street exclusive information about trade talks.
8. Hosted million-dollar dinners between Big Pharma CEOs and their regulator RFK Jr.
9. Launched crypto memecoin right before inauguration to make millions of dollars, then increased the value of those coins by signing executive orders making crypto a priority.
10. Launched a meme coin for Melania, too.
11. Promised his "rich-as-hell" donors a giant tax handout, and is working to deliver.
12. Weakened rules insulating government workers from politics.
13. Limited corporate foreign bribery investigations.
14. Halted enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act.
15. Offered a private dinner with Trump himself—and a special tour of the White House—for the top 220 holders of his memecoin, permitting Trump and his family to profit both from the run up in the value of the coin AND the increase in trading on the Trump platform.
16. Accepted $40 million for First Lady Melania's documentary from Jeff Bezos – way above the market rate.
17. Pointed to Bezos’s multi-million-dollar documentary payment as a model, when Warner Bros. asked Trump's team how to improve its own relationship with the White House.
18. Struck a deal with Amazon to stream Trump’s old show The Apprentice, which will mean more money for Trump as Amazon seeks tax breaks and other federal benefits.
19. Started undermining Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices after Big Pharma companies gave millions to Trump’s inauguration.
20. Filed a meritless lawsuit against 60 Minutes and launched a baseless FCC investigation.
21. Tried to get the AP to bend the knee and kicked them out of the White House briefing room when they refused.
22. Hired Defense Secretary Hegseth’s younger brother to serve in a key role.
23. Hired a longtime former partner of Don Jr. to serve as Ambassador to Greece.
24. Nominated Jared Kushner’s father to serve as Ambassador to France.
25. Selected Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law to serve as an adviser.
26. Appointed an oil and gas executive to lead the Department of Energy.
27. Selected a Chief of Staff who was a big-time lobbyist for clients like tobacco and mining companies.
28. Named officials who had recently lobbied for oil and chemical giants to help write E-P-A rules.
29. Appointed Mehmet Oz, who has close ties to Medicare Advantage insurers, to lead CMS to set payment rates and otherwise help out Medicare Advantage insurers.
30. Appointed John Phelan, a major donor with no military or government experience, to lead the Navy and hand out Navy construction contracts.
31. Appointed Pam Bondi, a former lobbyist for a federal detention contractor, to lead the DOJ.
32. Announced the DOJ would stop prioritizing enforcement of restrictions on foreign lobbyists, under the leadership of Bondi, who herself is a former foreign lobbyist for Qatar.
33. Appointed Howard Lutnick, who has billions invested in companies accused of illegally facilitating crypto money laundering, to lead the Commerce Department.
34. Appointed Marty Makary, the former executive of a company selling weight-loss drugs, to lead the FDA, which would regulate his company.
35. Appointed Sean Duffy, who lobbied for the airline industry, to Transportation Secretary.
36. Tapped Pete Hegseth, whose wife owns stock in large defense contractors, to lead the Defense Department.
37. Tapped Doug Burgum — who made money from leasing land to Big Oil — to lead the Interior Department.
38. Nominated a Big Oil lobbyist to run the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
39. Nominated as IRS head Billy Long, an aggressive salesman for a fraud-riddled tax credit, who received donations after being nominated to clear old campaign debts.
40. Tapped Paul Atkins, a former crypto lobbyist, to lead the SEC.
41. Appointed a former tax lobbyist, to lead tax policy.
42. Appointed RFK Jr., who planned to get paid for anti-vax lawsuits while heading up HHS.
43. Appointed a top Pentagon official who led a firm investing in defense contractors and has directed D-O-D to outsource as much as it can.
44. Appointed someone who lobbied to privatize Medicare to lead OMB’s healthcare budget.
45. Installed Steve Davis to effectively lead DOGE while also leading a Musk company.
46. Installed another DOGE leader to control the Treasury's payment system while still holding down his day job as a software CEO.
47. Handed power over crypto policy to a White House crypto czar who leads a venture capital firm that heavily invests in crypto.
48. Selected a border czar who led a firm that got tens of millions of dollars of federal contracts for homeland security companies.
49. Appointed Treasury Secretary Bessent who is gutting the IRS so that it can’t audit rich tax cheats — he’s a tax-dodging mega-millionaire.
50. Pardoned Rod Blagojevich, former Illinois governor convicted for corruption, after his vocal support for Trump.
51. Pardoned January 6 insurrectionists who tried to overturn an election he lost.
52. Pardoned a Trump loyalist found guilty of wire fraud.
53. Pardoned the son of a longtime Republican donor.
54. Pardoned a corporation that had been fined $100 million for money laundering.
55. Launched his own stablecoin while preparing to sign legislation that will help the stablecoin and let him oversee it.
56. Sold merch with presidential branding.
57. Disbanded DOJ’s crypto unit after business talks between Binance and a Trump-backed crypto company ramped up.
58. Halted SEC enforcement actions against crypto companies that enriched Trump.
59. Met with crypto executives who are asking Treasury to back off of oversight of their companies — all while exploring a deal to list a Trump-linked crypto company’s new stablecoin.
60. Maintained financial ties between Trump officials and Trump’s media company. That includes FBI Director Kash Patel, who was gifted a huge award of Trump media company stock.
61. Nominated Attorney General Bondi who owned $2 million in DJT shares.
62. Paid the Education Secretary almost $1 million in Trump Media company shares.
63. Intelligence Board nominees who have millions in Trump Media company shares.
64. Selected a Special Envoy to the Middle East who wants to develop real estate in Gaza while running his own real estate firm.
65. Appointed an FBI Director who consulted for the Qatari government.
66. Picked that FBI Director even though he also received millions from a Cayman Island holding company with ties to China.
67. Decided to cancel the Direct File program, which will help the bottom line of Intuit, which gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.
68. Took its largest inauguration donation from a poultry company under DOJ scrutiny. After the donation, the SEC approved its parent company for the New York Stock Exchange.
69. Dropped a probe into sexual misconduct allegations against Trump’s Education Secretary’s husband.
70. Hosted dozens of foreign, federal, and state officials at Mar-a-Lago, helping enrich Trump.
71. Hosted a GOP retreat at another one of Trump’s resorts.
72. Circumvented the normal contracting process to pick a company with close ties to Trump’s former campaign manager.
73. Awarded a $30 million ICE contract to Trump insider Peter Thiel.
74. Continued developing new Trump properties overseas, including in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
75. Hatched a plan for the State Department to pay Tesla $400 million dollars.
76. Accepted a $4 million inauguration donation from a GOP megadonor and nominated him as UK ambassador the same day.
And Donald Trump took actions that could advance the personal interests of his co-president Elon Musk:
77. Fired EEOC leaders investigating and suing Tesla.
78. Illegally fired the NLRB Chair, which filed a complaint against SpaceX.
79. Gutted CFPB staff and fired the Director after they investigated complaints against Musk’s companies.
80. Gutted the Department of Labor office investigating Tesla and Space X.
81. Fired the USAID Inspector General, who launched a probe into satellite terminals made by Musk’s Starlink.
82. Targeted the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration staff who were reportedly, quote, a “thorn in Tesla's side.”
83. Said Musk would self-police his conflicts of interest. Yeah, right…
84. Pressured the Administrator of the FAA, which fined Musk’s SpaceX, to resign.
85. Permitted Musk to keep his financial disclosure hidden. I’ve got a new bill to fix that!
86. Allowed Musk’s Starlink to start working with the FAA after Musk criticized the FAA’s air traffic telecom system.
87. Made Musk’s SpaceX the frontrunner for a new lucrative Golden Dome contract.
88. Stood by Musk when his X executives told an advertising firm to increase ad revenue — threatening that Musk could interfere with a pending merger.
89. Permitted Musk to join Trump's interview with the Air Force secretary nominee while SpaceX held billions of dollars in contracts with the Air Force.
90. Permitted the National Transportation Safety Board to share news related to the airplane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia only on Musk-owned X.
91. Permitted the Social Security Administration to only share important public communication on X.
92. Dropped DOJ’s anti-discrimination complaint against Musk’s SpaceX.
93. Fired FDA staffers reviewing Elon Musk’s Neuralink clinical trial applications.
94. Coercing law firms to offer almost $1 billion in free legal work in an arrangement that experts say could run afoul of anti-bribery laws.
And for our closing six moves that make every bit of this corruption even harder to root out, Trump got rid of cops on the beat:
95. Fired 18 Inspectors General who make sure the federal agencies follow the law
96. Fired the head of the Office of Special Counsel who protects whistleblowers and makes sure that civil service laws are fired.
97. Fired the head of the Office of Government Ethics who watches to see that the President and his Administration follow the laws on conflicts of interest, bribery and other ethics issues.
98. Fired DOJ prosecutors who worked on January 6th investigations.
99. Sidelined DOJ’s office that reviews the legality of executive orders.
100. Gutted DOJ’s office that prosecutes misconduct by public officials.
I’m going to do everything in my power and use every tool I’ve got to hold this administration accountable and root corruption out of our government. Your support makes this critical work possible.
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Elizabeth
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