Overheard

Why do you let this jerk hang around?

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I’ve been critical of the Trump presidency before and I still am.

But to be fair, President Trump wasn’t that bad, other than when he incited an insurrection against the government, and ...

1. Mismanaged a pandemic that killed over a million Americans
2. Called neo-Nazis “very fine people”
3. Separated children from their families
4. Lost those children in the bureaucracy
5. Tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church
6. Tried to block all Muslims from entering the country
7. Got impeached
8. Got impeached again
9. Had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history
10. Pressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden
11. Fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia
12. Bragged about firing the FBI director on TV
13. Took Vladimir Putin’s word over the US intelligence community
14. Diverted military funding to build his wall
15. Caused the longest government shutdown in US history
16. Called Black Lives Matter a “symbol of hate"
17. Lied over 30,000 times
18. Banned transgender people from serving in the military
19. Ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions
20. Vetoed the defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers
21. Refused to release his tax returns
22. Increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion
23. Had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history
24. Called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers
25. Coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist
26. Refused to concede the 2020 election
27. Hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House
28. Walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl
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 “pussy” 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 congressman who amplified his bat shit crazy conspiracy theories
72. Got into 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's 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 for a Black man
101. Refused to attend his successors’ 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 navigating 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, insulted women reporters of color
136. Suggested he was fine with China’s oppression of the Uighurs
137. Attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him
138. Summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House, to pressure them to overturn the election
139. Spent countless hours every day watching Fox News
140. Refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas
141. Hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer
142. Tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him
143. Acted as if the Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney,
144. Attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a women who accused him of sexual assault
145. Held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present
146. Didn’t disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian media
147. Stopped holding press briefings for months at a time
148. “Ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power
149. Led a political party that couldn’t even be bothered to draft a policy platform
150. Claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers
151. Tried to pressure the U.K. to hold the British Open at his golf course
152. Suggested that the government nuke hurricanes
153. Suggested that wind turbines cause cancer
154. Said that he had a special aptitude for science
155. Fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure
156. Blurted out classified information to Russian officials
157. Tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida
158. Fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban
159. Hired Stephen Miller
160. Openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Lago where everyone could hear them
161. Interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel
162. Abandoned Iraqi refugees who’d helped the U.S. during the war
163. Tried to get Russia back into the G7
164. Held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden
165. Seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive
166. Lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated
167. Falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they weren’t
168. Shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies
169. Still hasn’t come up with a healthcare plan
170. Still hasn’t come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated “Infrastructure Weeks”
171. Forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID
172. Told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by”
173. Screwed up the Census wording
174. Withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic
175. 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”
176. Allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act
177. Seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican
178. Stood before sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win
179. 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)
180. Claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened
181. Said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake
182. Claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him
183. Claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President
184. Created a commission to whitewash American history
185. Retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain
186. 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
187. Hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent "Bowling Green Massacre" as a reason to ban Muslims
188. 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
189. Bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties
190. Apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House
191. Stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians
192. Falsely claimed Biden wanted to de-fund the police
193. Said that the head of the CDC didn’t know what he was talking about
194. Tried to rescind protection from DREAMers
195. Gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic
196. Tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax
197. Said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states
198. Deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented
199. Claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln
200. Touted a “super-duper” secret “hydrosonic” missile, which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile, or may not exist at all
201. Retweeted a gif calling Biden a pedophile
202. Forced through security clearances for his family
203. Suggested that police officers should rough up suspects
204. Suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs
205. Tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender identification
206. Suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher
207. Nominated a climate change skeptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy
208. Retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden had played a song called “Fuck tha Police” at a campaign event
209. Hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags
210. Accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address
211. Claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter
212. because they were “spending too much time” on Russia
213. Mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault
214. Obsessed over low-flow toilets
215. Ordered the re-release of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release
216. 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)
217. Hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech
218. Took advice from the MyPillow guy
219. Claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists
220. Said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure
221. Never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign
222. Falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent, though he (himself) votes by mail
223. 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
224. Insulted the leader of Canada
225. Insulted the leader of France
226. Insulted the leader of Britain
227. Insulted the leader of Germany
228. Insulted the leader of Sweden (Sweden!?!)
229. Falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues
230. Blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually
231. Continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders,
232. Said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked
233. Left a NATO summit early in a huff
234. Stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that
235. Called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary
236. 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 - yeah, hey - great guy - great President.