A Litany of Trumpian Accomplishments

I owe the Trump-supporting MAGA sycophants out there an apology.

I’ve been critical of the Trump presidency and am still exhausted from the experience. But to be fair, President Trump wasn’t that bad, other than when:

  1. He incited an insurrection against the government
  2. Mismanaged a pandemic that killed nearly half a million Americans
  3. Separated children from their families, and 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, got impeached again
  7. Had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history
  8. Pressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden
  9. Fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia
  10. Bragged about firing the FBI director on TV
  11. Took Vladimir Putin’s word over the US intelligence community
  12. Diverted military funding to build his wall
  13. Caused the longest government shutdown in US history
  14. Called Black Lives Matter a “symbol of hate"
  15. Lied 30,000 times
  16. Banned transgender people from serving in the military
  17. Ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions
  18. Vetoed the defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers
  19. Refused to release his tax returns
  20. Increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion
  21. Had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history
  22. Called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers
  23. Coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist
  24. Refused to concede the 2020 election
  25. Hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House
  26. Walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl
  27. Called neo-Nazis “very fine people”
  28. Suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID
  29. Abandoned our allies the Kurds to Turkey
  30. Pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest but balked at helping working Americans
  31. Incited anti-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic
  32. Withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords
  33. Withdrew the US from the Iranian nuclear deal
  34. Withdrew the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership which was designed to block China’s advances
  35. Insulted his own Cabinet members on Twitter
  36. Pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op
  37. Failed to reiterate US commitment to defending NATO allies
  38. Called Haiti and African nations “shithole” countries
  39. Called the city of Baltimore the “worst in the nation"
  40. Claimed that he single handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas” even though it hadn’t gone anywhere
  41. Forced his Cabinet members to praise him publicly like some cult leader
  42. Believed he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
  43. Berated and belittled his hand-picked Attorney General when he recused himself from the Russia probe
  44. Suggested the US should buy Greenland
  45. Colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme Court justices after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judges
  46. Repeatedly called the media “enemies of the people"
  47. Claimed that if we tested fewer people for COVID we’d have fewer cases
  48. Violated the emoluments clause
  49. Thought that Nambia was a country
  50. Told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then downplayed it in public
  51. Called his exceedingly faithful vice president a “p---y” for following the Constitution
  52. Nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet
  53. Nominated a corrupt head of the EPA
  54. Nominated a corrupt head of HHS
  55. Nominated a corrupt head of the Interior Department
  56. Nominated a corrupt head of the USDA
  57. Praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies
  58. Refused to allow the presidential transition to begin
  59. Insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death
  60. Spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president
  61. Falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote
  62. Falsely claimed that he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year
  63. Considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions
  64. Mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID
  65. Locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones
  66. Used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the “China virus"
  67. Hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security adviser
  68. Pardoned several of his shady associates
  69. Gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressman who amplified his batshit crazy conspiracy theories
  70. Got into telephone fight with the leader of Australia(!)
  71. Had a Secretary of State who called him a moron
  72. Forced his press secretary to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history
  73. Botched the COVID vaccine rollout
  74. Tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him
  75. Charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties
  76. Constantly interrupted Joe Biden in their first presidential debate
  77. Claimed that COVID would “magically” disappear
  78. Called a U.S. Senator “Pocahontas"
  79. Used his Twitter account to blast Nordstrom when it stopped selling Ivanka’s merchandise
  80. Opened up millions of pristine federal lands to development and drilling
  81. Got into a losing tariff war with China that forced US taxpayers to bail out farmers
  82. Claimed that his losing tariff war was a win for the US
  83. Ignored or didn’t even take part in daily intelligence briefings
  84. Blew off honoring American war dead in France because it was raining
  85. Redesigned Air Force One to look like the Trump Shuttle
  86. Got played by Kim Jung Un and his “love letters"
  87. Threatened to go after social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution
  88. Botched the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
  89. Threw paper towels and toilet paper at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them
  90. Pressured the governor and secretary of state of Georgia to “find” him votes
  91. Thought that the Virgin islands had a President
  92. Drew on a map with a Sharpie to justify his inaccurate tweet that Alabama was threatened by a hurricane
  93. Allowed White House staff to use personal email accounts for official businesses after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing
  94. Rolled back regulations that protected the public from mercury and asbestos
  95. Pushed regulators to waste time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID
  96. Rolled back regulations that stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers
  97. Held blatant campaign rallies at the White House
  98. Tried to take away millions of Americans’ health insurance because the law was named for a Black man
  99. Refused to attend his successors’ inauguration
  100. Nominated the worst Education Secretary in history
  101. Threatened judges who didn’t do what he wanted
  102. Attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci
  103. Ppromised that Mexico would pay for the wall (it didn’t)
  104. Allowed political hacks to overrule government scientists on major reports on climate change and other issues
  105. Struggled navigating a ramp after claiming his opponent was feeble
  106. Called an African-American Congresswoman “low IQ"
  107. Threatened to withhold federal aid from states and cities with Democratic leaders
  108. Went ahead with rallies filled with maskless supporters in the middle of a pandemic
  109. Claimed that legitimate investigations of his wrongdoing were “witch hunts"
  110. Seemed to demonstrate a belief that there were airports during the American Revolution
  111. Demanded “total loyalty” from the FBI director
  112. Praised a conspiracy theory that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles
  113. Completely gutted the Voice of America
  114. Placed a political hack in charge of the Postal Service
  115. Claimed without evidence that the Obama administration bugged Trump Tower
  116. Suggested that the US should allow more people from places like Norway into the country
  117. Suggested that COVID wasn’t that bad because he recovered with the help of top government doctors and treatments not available to the public
  118. Overturned energy conservation standards that even industry supported
  119. Reduced the number of refugees the US accepts
  120. Insulted various members of Congress and the media with infantile nicknames
  121. Gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address
  122. Named as head of federal personnel a 29-year old who’d previously been fired from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties
  123. Eliminated the White House office of pandemic response
  124. Used soldiers as campaign props
  125. Fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him
  126. Demanded the Pentagon throw him a Soviet-style military parade
  127. Hired a ton of white nationalists
  128. Politicized the civil service
  129. Did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked the U.S. government
  130. Falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts
  131. Claimed that Black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won
  132. Insulted reporters of color and women reporters and women reporters of color
  133. Suggested he was fine with China’s oppression of the Uighurs
  134. Attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him
  135. Summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the election
  136. Spent countless hours every day watching Fox News
  137. Refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas
  138. Hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer
  139. Tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him
  140. Acted as if the Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney
  141. Attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a women who accused him of sexual assault
  142. Held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present
  143. Didn’t disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian media
  144. Stopped holding press briefings for months at a time
  145. "Ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power
  146. Led a political party that couldn’t even be bothered to draft a policy platform
  147. Claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers
  148. Tried to pressure the U.K. to hold the British Open at his golf course
  149. Suggested that the government nuke hurricanes
  150. Suggested that wind turbines cause cancer
  151. Said that he had a special aptitude for science
  152. Fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure
  153. Blurted out classified information to Russian officials
  154. Tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida
  155. Fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban
  156. Hired Stephen Miller
  157. Openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Lago where everyone could hear them
  158. Interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel
  159. Abandoned Iraqi refugees who’d helped the U.S. during the war
  160. Tried to get Russia back into the G7
  161. Held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden
  162. Seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive
  163. Lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated
  164. Falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they weren’t
  165. Shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies
  166. Still hasn’t come up with a healthcare plan
  167. Still hasn’t come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated “Infrastructure Weeks"
  168. Forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID
  169. Told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by"
  170. F***ed up the Census
  171. Withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic
  172. 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"
  173. Allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act
  174. Seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican
  175. Stood before sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win
  176. 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
  177. Claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened
  178. Said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake
  179. Claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him
  180. Claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President
  181. Created a commission to whitewash American history
  182. Retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain
  183. 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
  184. Hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims
  185. 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
  186. Bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties
  187. Apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House
  188. Stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians
  189. Falsely claimed Biden wanted to defund the police
  190. Said that the head of the CDC didn’t know what he was talking about
  191. Tried to rescind protection from DREAMers,
  192. Gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic
  193. Tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax
  194. Said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states
  195. Deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented
  196. Claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln
  197. Touted a “super-duper” secret “hydrosonic” missile which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile or may not exist at all
  198. Retweeted a gif calling Biden a pedophile
  199. Forced through security clearances for his family
  200. Suggested that police officers should rough up suspects
  201. Suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs
  202. Tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender
  203. Suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher
  204. Nominated a climate change sceptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy
  205. Retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden had played a song called “F**k tha Police” at a campaign event
  206. Hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags
  207. Accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address
  208. Claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter because they were “spending too much time” on Russia
  209. Mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault
  210. Was proven to be close friends with the biggest sexual predictor of young girls
  211. Obsessed over low-flow toilets
  212. Ordered the rerelease of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release
  213. 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)
  214. Hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech
  215. Took advice from the MyPillow guy
  216. Claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists
  217. Said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure
  218. Never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign
  219. Falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent
  220. 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
  221. Insulted the leaders of Canada, France, Britain, imGermany, and Sweden!!
  222. Falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues
  223. Blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually
  224. Continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders
  225. Said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked
  226. Left a NATO summit early in a huff
  227. Stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that
  228. Called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary
  229. Refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise, and a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment.
  230. Blocked the investigation of the killings of two U.S. Citizens in Minneapolis by agents of his ICE quasi-military army
  231. Blocked and obstructed the investigation of his involvement in the Epstein investigation by the DoJ

But other than that. . . I mean Best president ever, deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize -- am I right?

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