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Ive been critical of the Trump presidency from the first day he was in office. To be fair, he wasn't a bad president overall, except
when he incited an insurrection against the government, mismanaged a pandemic that killed nearly half a million Americans, separated children from their families, lost those children in the bureaucracy, tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church, tried to block all Muslims from entering the country, got impeached, got impeached again, had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history, pressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden, fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia, bragged about firing the FBI director on TV, took Vladimir Putins word over the US intelligence community, diverted military funding to build his wall, caused the longest government shutdown in US history, called Black Lives Matter a symbol of hate, lied nearly 30,000 times, banned transgender people from serving in the military, ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions, vetoed the defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers, 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 and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers, coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering 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 that people should inject bleach into their bodies 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-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic, withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords, withdrew the US from the Iranian nuclear deal, withdrew the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership which was designed to block Chinas advances, insulted his own Cabinet members on Twitter, pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op, failed to reiterate US commitment to defending NATO allies, called Haiti and African nations shithole countries, called the city of Baltimore the worst in the nation, claimed that he single handedly brought back the phrase Merry Christmas even though it hadnt gone anywhere, forced his Cabinet members to praise him publicly like some cult leader, believed he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, berated and belittled his hand-picked Attorney General when he recused himself from the Russia probe, suggested the US should buy Greenland, colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme Court justices after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judges, repeatedly called the media enemies of the people, claimed that if we tested fewer people for COVID wed have fewer cases, violated the emoluments clause, thought that Nambia was a country, told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then downplayed it in public, called his exceedingly faithful vice president a p---y for following the Constitution, nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet, nominated a corrupt head of the EPA, nominated a corrupt head of HHS, nominated a corrupt head of the Interior Department, nominated a corrupt head of the USDA, praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies, refused to allow the presidential transition to begin, insulted war hero John McCain even after his death, spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president, falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote, called the Muslim mayor of London a stone cold loser, falsely claimed that he turned down being Times Man of the Year, considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions, mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting 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 and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security adviser, pardoned several of his shady associates, gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressman who amplified his batshit crazy conspiracy theories, got into telephone fight with the leader of Australia(!), had a Secretary of State who called him a moron, forced his press secretary to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history, botched the COVID vaccine rollout, tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him, charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties, constantly interrupted Joe Biden in their first presidential debate, claimed that COVID would magically disappear, called a U.S. Senator Pocahontas, used his Twitter account to blast Nordstrom when it stopped selling Ivankas merchandise, opened up millions of pristine federal lands to development and drilling, got into a losing tariff war with China that forced US taxpayers to bail out farmers, claimed that his losing tariff war was a win for the US, ignored or didnt 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 Jung Un and his love letters, threatened to go after social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution, botched the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them, pressured the governor and secretary of state of Georgia to find him votes, thought that 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 White House staff to use personal email accounts for official businesses after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing, rolled back regulations that protected the public from mercury and 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 successors inauguration, nominated the worst Education Secretary in history, threatened judges who didnt do what he wanted, attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci, promised that Mexico would pay for the wall (it didnt), allowed political hacks to overrule government scientists on major reports on climate change and other issues, struggled navigating a ramp after claiming his opponent was feeble, called an African-American Congresswoman low IQ, threatened to withhold federal aid from states and cities with Democratic leaders, went ahead with rallies filled with maskless supporters in the middle of a pandemic, claimed that legitimate investigations of his wrongdoing were witch hunts, seemed to demonstrate a belief that there were airports during the American Revolution, demanded total loyalty from the FBI director, praised a conspiracy theory that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles, completely gutted the Voice of America, placed a political hack in charge of the Postal Service, claimed without evidence that the Obama administration bugged Trump Tower, suggested that the US should allow more people from places like Norway into the country, suggested that COVID wasnt that bad because he recovered with the help of top government doctors and treatments not available to the public, overturned energy conservation standards that even industry supported, reduced the 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 head of federal personnel a 29-year old whod previously been fired from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties, eliminated the White House office of pandemic response, 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 nationalists, politicized the civil service, did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked the U.S. government, falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts, claimed that 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 Chinas oppression of the Uighurs, attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him, summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the 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 Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney, attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a women who accused him of sexual assault, held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present, didnt disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that 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 couldnt even be bothered to draft a policy platform, claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers, tried to pressure the U.K. to hold the British Open at his golf course, suggested that the government nuke hurricanes, suggested that wind turbines cause cancer, said that he had a special aptitude for science, fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure, blurted out classified information to Russian officials, tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida, fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban, hired Stephen Miller, openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Lago where everyone could hear them, interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel, abandoned Iraqi refugees whod helped the U.S. during the war, tried to get Russia back into the G7, held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden, seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive, lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated, falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they werent, shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies, still hasnt come up with a healthcare plan, still hasnt come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated Infrastructure Weeks, forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID, told the Proud Boys to stand back and stand by, fucked up the Census, withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic, 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, allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act, seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, stood before sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win, 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, claimed Andrew Jackson couldve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened, said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake, claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him, claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President, created a commission to whitewash American history, retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain, claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldnt have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard there, hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims, 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, bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties, apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House, stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians, falsely claimed Biden wanted to defund the police, said that the head of the CDC didnt know what he was talking about, tried to rescind protection from DREAMers, gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic, tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax, said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didnt count blue states, deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented, claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln, touted a super-duper secret hydrosonic missile which may or may not be a new hypersonic missile or may not exist at all, retweeted a gif calling Biden a pedophile, forced through security clearances for his family, suggested that police officers should rough up suspects, suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs, tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender, suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher, nominated a climate change sceptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy, retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden had played a song called Fuck tha Police at a campaign event, hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags, accused Democrats of treason for not applauding his State of the Union address, claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter because they were spending too much time on Russia, mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, obsessed over low-flow toilets, ordered the rerelease of more COVID vaccines when there werent any to release, 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), hijacked Washingtons July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech, took advice from the MyPillow guy, claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists, said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure, never seemed to heed the advice of his wifes Be Best campaign, falsely claimed that 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 claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of 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, said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their Sony televisions if the US were ever attacked, left a 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 to the contrary, refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise, and a whole bunch of other things I cant remember at the moment.
But other than that he wasn't too bad.
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)Truth.
Thank you Johnny.
pandr32
(11,588 posts)BunnyMcGee
(463 posts)and it took a while, since I had a mental picture of each to ponder. A couple of things I almost forgot about.
Damn, that's a lot of stupid or malevolent crap of what'shisface!
calimary
(81,321 posts)DAYUM, I don't know how we survived all that.
But we're nowhere near out of the woods yet.
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,672 posts)he makes me sick and the people who blindly follow him are worse.
Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)I thought there was more.
Tuck Frump!
In It to Win It
(8,254 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)Blue Owl
(50,425 posts)Suck it, tRump-humpers!
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dchill
(38,505 posts)Nambia is a Trumped up word. Nothing else.
My dyslexia threw me off - My brain stuck that *i* in there.
THANKS!!
dchill
(38,505 posts)Heh.
PurgedVoter
(2,218 posts)JohnnyRingo just earned my respect for all time. Hand patting heart as I nod and and say, "Word."
Mr. Evil
(2,845 posts)Epic effort from JohnnyRingo! An amazing collection of facts and a perfect reminder of what an
epic failure President 'Everything he touches dies' was.
Yes, this definitely belongs on the Greatest Page!
John1956PA
(2,655 posts)Some items on you list sparked my recollection of additional details, such as when he repeated his untoward Native-American reference to a group of Native-American veterans who were being honored for their service during World War II.
Thank you for your well-done compilation of his misdeeds.
SheilaAnn
(9,708 posts)birdographer
(1,331 posts)OverBurn
(951 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Yes, I didn't even bother. Paragraphs would have been great or even a nice bullleted list. Either one would have made it much easier on the eyes.
lamp_shade
(14,836 posts)Jim__
(14,077 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)Comprehensive
jpak
(41,758 posts)Robb is a Dingbat
Yup
All hail
ecstatic
(32,712 posts)Didn't see anything about his abuse and attacks on the gold star families of Sgt LaDavid Johnson and Captain Humayun Khan. Also his treatment of Alexander Vindman. SMH. tRump is human scum.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Solomon
(12,311 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,163 posts)Response to JohnnyRingo (Original post)
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niyad
(113,344 posts)KS Toronado
(17,259 posts)Is that there's a large percentage of R's who think Qrump is innocent of all these crimes
Aussie105
(5,401 posts)That's what those R's say about a no good relative.
Every time he gets reported for wife beating, animal cruelty, DUI, conning relatives out of money, stealing candy from little kids . . .
Every time it's 'Trump? He ain't all that bad!'
Much easier than thinking your earlier judgment may have been wrong.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)usaf-vet
(6,189 posts)..... a good printed document was. WHITE SPACE is important to make the document readable.
No offense to the DU poster but this post breaks my dad's rule.
JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)It's meant to show massive volume, and in that regard, it's impressive. Like someone talking fast to get everything into a limited time frame.
You are correct though, if you want someone to actually read and retain something, paragraph spacing is key
Paladin
(28,264 posts)It's the sheer massive VOLUME of trump's transgressions, in fine print, un-spaced, that give the listing its power. Will look forward to a multi-page, easily-readable version of it in the future.
Paladin
(28,264 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Sabotaged a 10 year plan to swap current FBI headquarters with a large campus in N Virginia because it would add a competitive hotel next to his
In order to bypass the House to install illegal import tarrifs on Canadian steel he had Canada labelled a threat to US security.
Attempted to bribe Ukrainian PM to manufacture lies against Biden
And a hundred more
MiHale
(9,734 posts)From what was said to the reason it was written the way it was.
Epic!
samsingh
(17,599 posts)and also except for trying to eliminate American Democracy.
lastlib
(23,248 posts)yeah, other than this, he wasn't so bad.......
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Outside of that, he did confirm that God does watch out for drunks, fools and the USA.
judesedit
(4,439 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)We should examine his pResidency with the clarity of hindsight. I'm sure the great value in his administration will shine through, once some haters can get over the occasional faux pas.
Jetheels
(991 posts)I know everyone probably familiar with this website but in case you didnt...its a list of all the crimes....organized by date.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-atrocities-1-1-056
LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)Aussie105
(5,401 posts)to know that 'person' has no soul.
Vinca
(50,278 posts)Marcuse
(7,488 posts)CharlieTuneA1
(2 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)I'll sign this apology
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)TeamProg
(6,143 posts)observe, oversee and respond to any new virus that appeared in China.
samplegirl
(11,480 posts)Non thing out!
Evolve Dammit
(16,743 posts)Smackdown2019
(1,188 posts)It is funny to see all the azz kissing still under the GOP Flag. After all, the GOP mascot is the elephant and it to has a large azz.
Serious note;
Trumpers are misguided baffoons. Enough said!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I love going through a day without him tweeting something insane. I sleep better at night and get up looking forward to the day now.