Trump complaints

This is a list of complaints I have about Donald Trump.

Military

Trump salutes the military.

Disrespecting Casualties

Trump has very little respect for soldiers who are killed in action, wounded in action, or become prisoners of war:

He referred to US soldiers who were killed in battle as "suckers" [1].
He asked why he should visit a military cemetery since it's "filled with losers" [2].
He got into fights with the surviving family members of Gold Star recipients [3].
When Army Captain Luis Avila, who was maimed in combat, sung "God Bless America," Trump complained, "Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded." [4]
He mocked US prisoners of war saying he preferred soldiers who didn't get captured [5].
Said that the Presidential Medal of Freedom he gave to someone simply for giving him a lot of money was better than the US military's Medal of Honor because a person doesn't have to get shot or killed to receive it [6].
Trump went to Arlington National Cemetery for a photo-op in a section where photography is prohibited by federal law to prevent people from using the death of soldiers for political gain. When a cemetery worker confronted them about their trespassing, Trump's campaign managers got into an argument with them, and eventually shoved them out of the way. Trump's team initially claimed it never happened, then claimed the Army's worker must have had mental health problems [7]. The US Army later defended the Arlington worker saying they did the right thing, because Trump's group broke the law [8]. Trump's campaign team then used the footage to make a political advertisement, which is also illegal, where Trump lied about US soldiers [9]. Although the cemetery worker refused to press charges, possibly fearing reprisal from Trump supporters, an official report of the attack was made and released, but Trump still lied and said it never happened [10].
When asked about the US soldiers who were close to a missile explosion and suffered brain injuries, Trump said they weren't injured at all, "So first of all, injured. What does injured mean? Injured means — you mean because they had a headache? Because the bombs never hit the fort." [11]
In order to try and look good, Trump offered to pay for the funeral for Sargent Vanessa Guillén. However, when the bill arrived, Trump became furious at the cost and said, "it doesn't cost $60k to bury a fucking Mexican!" He initially refused to pay, but, after he was told how bad he would look if he didn't, he eventually did [12].
Trump didn't want to share a stage with "any wounded guys" because "it doesn't look good for me." [13]
Trump authorized the firing of telephone operators for the military's suicide prevention hotline [14].

Loyalty to Trump

Trump demands soldiers be loyal, not to the USA or the Constitution, but to him:

Annoyed that US soldiers weren't blindly obedient to him, Trump said, "I need the kind of generals Hitler had." [15]
He called for US soldiers critical of him to be executed [16].
He wanted the military to protect his followers as they prepared to storm the Capitol on January 6th [17].
Trump wanted to be honored with an extremely expensive military parade to show off the nation's destructive capabilities, just like he saw with military dictators like Kim Jong Un [18].
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman rightly reported Trump's 2019 call to Ukraine, as it was later identified as Trump demanded a quid pro quo. Trump initially verbally attacked Vindman [19], and ultimately led to him feeling he needed to resign [20].
Trump described Vietnam veteran William Taylor as "human scum" for testifying against him about his quid pro quo with Ukraine [21].
Trump's former Chief of Staff, Marine General John Kelly said Trump fits the definition of a fascist and was never able to understand why US soldiers risked their lives for their country [22].

Minority Soldiers

Trump is particularly disrespectful to soldiers who aren't white men:

After the parents of Army Captain Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier who was killed in Iraq, spoke out against Trump's Muslim ban, Trump mocked them saying his mother may not have been allowed to speak because she was Muslim. Initially, several Republicans spoke out against Trump for speaking ill against the family of a KIA soldier, but eventually fell in line. After the mother gave a statement for herself, Trump said she shouldn't have been allowed to speak, demonstrating the same misogyny he accused of the Muslim, although he had it, and they didn't [23].
In order to satisfy Trump's anti-DEI rhetoric, the Air Force scrapped their training course which honored the black and female pilots of World War II [24].
Like the bigots before him who banned gay troops, Trump banned transgender troops from serving in the military [25] [26].

General Disrespect

Trump doesn't respect the military in general:

During his second term, in his first six weeks in office, Trump fired more US military veterans than any president in history [27].
Trump tried to reduce the pay rate of US soldiers, but, after Congress prevented him, he lied and said he gave them their biggest raise when it was actually one of the smallest raise they had ever had since 1961.
Trump appointed Pete Hegseth, a Fox weekend co-host to run the Department of Defense [28] and oversee the entire US military, the largest organization in the country. While Hegseth may have a lot of Christian nationalist tattoos [29], he has no military leadership experience, and, while he did serve as a soldier, his unit was plagued with accusations of war crimes [30]. As he was investigated by journalists, it was discovered that Hegseth paid off a woman to cover-up sexually assaulting her [31] and that he defrauded a veteran's charity by using funds to pay for strippers [32], frequently showed up for work drunk [33], abused women so frequently even his own mother said he is a serial abuser of women who needed help [34], one of his three wives said she was afraid he would murder here [35], and he defended soldiers who committed war crimes by killing civilians [36]. After all these failures and more [37] came to light, Trump and other Republicans still insisted that Hegseth was right for the job [38], and eventually confirmed him [39]. Shortly thereafter, Hegseth invited noted antisemite and white supremacist Jack Posobiec, who also promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy, to travel along with the Department of Defense to Europe [40].
Trump authorized the firing of 2,400 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the people who help veterans with their retirement, insurance, education, home loans, and the like [41]. This resulted in five former defense secretaries denouncing Trump including his own former defense secretary four-star general James Norman Mattis and four-star general Lloyd James Austin III [42]. But that didn't impress Trump much, because he then authorized the firing of 80,000 more [43]. As you can expect, the gutting of the VA has had a significant impact on the mental health of veterans [44].
Trump authorized canceling over 875 contracts with agencies that provide aid to veterans in matters of health care, disability compensation, home loans, burial services, cancer screening, financial planning, and more [45].
Despite all his blustering about how important the military is to him, Trump never served and used his family's wealth to dodge the draft. His family paid a doctor to claim he had bone spurs in a foot. When asked about it later, Trump couldn't remember which foot was affected and couldn't provided any evidence for a diagnosis or treatment [46].
While bragging about the number of women he had sex with, Trump said he deserved the Medal of Honor because women are more dangerous than being a soldier in the Vietnam War [47].
Trump's military purge was expansive that it required the Marine's website of military photographs to removed 26,000 photos of honored soldiers if they were female or people of color. They were even ordered to remove a picture of the plane which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II because it was called the "Enola Gay." [48]

National security

Lady "Just-us."

Trump gave security clearance to 25 people the US Department of Defense said should not have security clearance. Some of these people included his own family members [49], people with criminal pasts, and people with questionable foreign connections. None of these people were trained in the proper handling of secret information [50]. Some of them had to have their clearance revoked when it became clear they were too involved with Russia to be trusted [51]. When he took office in 2025, he signed an executive order allowing him to give anyone Top Secret clearance without background checks or approval [52].
Trump took Top Secret documents out of secure areas and left them in unlocked rooms of a public building [53] where they were seen by any number of unknown persons [54], he bragged that he had them [55], lied to FBI about having them [56], and ordered his lawyers to lie about them [57], and then told people to hide them from the FBI [58]. More classified documents were found in his bedroom months later [59]. He then said Biden did the same thing, but Biden's documents were only Classified, not Top Secret. After an investigation was conducted on him, Trump fought to keep the results of the investigation completely hidden [60]. After the conclusion of the report, Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon blocked the release of the report in order to keep the facts hidden [61].
Several times Trump revealed military secrets to foreign diplomats [62] [63], to foreign business owners [64], and even to the entire world by posting them to the Internet, including the capabilities of our spy satellites [65] and the location and faces of Seal Team Five [66].
In order to justify revealing so many state secrets, Trump said any secrets a president says out loud are automatically declassifies [67].
More examples of revealed state secrets [68].
Refused to stop using his existing smartphone after becoming president despite various security agencies explaining to him that it could be easily hacked for foreign spies [69].
Said he would put in charge of the USA's missile defense program, not a military general, but a retired football player [70].
Urged Americans to fire guns into the air in densely populated urban cities in an attempt to shoot down drones which the FBI and DHS said were not a threat, and the FAA said were most likely legally registered [71].
In 2020, Trump issued an executive order to ban TikTok in the USA, not because the company was breaking any laws, but because they are a Chinese company, and Trump doesn't trust the Chinese [72]. Biden initially reversed Trump's order because he didn't feel the federal government should have the right to ban private companies simply they are from another country [73], but ordered further investigation. After the review concluded TikTok was a national security threat, Biden reinforced the ban [74]. After Trump won re-election in 2024, he was told that TikTok users made up a sizeable percentage of his voters, so he decided that national security wasn't all that important after all and promised to reverse the decision [75].
In 2025 he chose Kristi Noem, former Governor of South Dakota, to lead the Department of Homeland security. While her skill in shooting puppies is without question, she lacked any experience with the DHS [76]. One of her very first acts after getting confirmed was to call Venezuelan refugees "dirtbags." [77]
Despite claiming he wanted to decrease illegal drugs from entering the USA, Trump cut over $340,000,000 from the budget of the Office of National Drug Control and Policy [78].
Despite having no experience in the field, Trump picked Tulsi Gabbard to head the Department of National Intelligence [79], and Republicans confirmed her [80]. Her first action as DNI head was to fire 100 employees in the CIA, NSA, and other intelligence agencies. She said it was for "egregious violation of trust," "corruption," and "horrific behavior," but, when journalists looked at what the employees said, they were actually fired for talking about gender affirming care and making statements critical of Trump [81].
Through Hegseth, Trump ordered U.S. Cyber Command to halt cyber operations and information gathering against Russia [82], opening the USA, and especially Ukraine to serious cyber attacks.
Trump has actively reworked US foreign policy to aid Russia while at the same time, selling out US ally, Ukraine [83]. Even Russia says that Trump's changes in foreign policy have re-aligned the USA to suit Russia's goals [84].

Border wall

How to save money.

Trump claimed he would build around 1,000 miles of 35-foot-tall border wall between Mexico and the USA. That never happened. By the end of Trump's term, he had only built about 50 miles of new wall and reinforced 458 miles of existing fence [85].
Trump claimed 1,000 miles of border wall would only cost $12,000,000,000. This was considered extremely underestimated as a Senate report estimated the cost at $70,000,000,000 [86] and that was just the cost of construction, not years of maintenance.
He claimed Mexico would pay for the wall, which he had no ability to enforce, and, as such, they never did. Initially, he tried to justify his claim by saying Mexico had a large debt to the USA which he would use to pay for the wall, but the debt he described was between private companies, it was not owed to the US government, so he couldn't use it. He later claimed that Mexico was paying for the wall, even though it wasn't. When it was made clear that Mexico didn't pay for the wall and never would, Trump then claimed he never said Mexico would pay for the entire thing, just a piece of it, which was also a lie [87]. Since Mexico didn't pay for any of the wall, and Congress wouldn't approve funds for it, Trump had to take money from US taxpayers. The total cost was around $14,000,000,000, of which about $10,000,000,000 was taken from the US military [88].
After being forced to resign after a woman was murdered at the Charlottesville Nazi rally, Trump's former chief of strategy Steve Bannon went on to defraud investors out of over $1,000,000 telling them they were helping to build Trump's border wall, but he actually spent the donations on himself [89]. At the 2025 CPAC, after mentioning the cities of Moscow, Berlin, and Beijing, Bannon said "fight, fight, fight," gave a Nazi salute, then said, "amen!" [90]
Every US agency in charge of preventing undocumented migrants from entering the country said such a wall would not be effective and would just be a waste of money. [91] [92]
In order to build the wall as Trump wanted, the US government had to steal 5,275 acres of private land from US citizens through eminent domain [93].
Prior to construction, the Trump administration commissioned eight different prototype walls. All eight were show to be easily breached or climbed over, but they continued to use their designs anyway [94].
When it was clear that there was no way he could complete 1,000 miles of border wall, Trump later decreased the number to 500, then again to 450 miles, and claimed he finished building it. However, the real number of miles of new border fence was only around 50 miles . With a total of $14,000,000,000 spent on the border wall project, that means the new border wall erected during the Trump administration cost about $53,000 per foot.
Far from being impregnable, the sections of wall built during the Trump administration had been breached 3,272 times by 2022 according to a report by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and that's only the ones they knew about [95]. One section of it was even blown over by the wind [96].
While running for president in 2024, Trump stood in front of the border wall and talked about how strong and secure he made it, however, he was standing in front of a section of wall built during the Obama administration. [97]

Corruption

Pants on fire.

Much of his White House staff was and is made up of personal friends, large donors, reality TV stars, and Trump's family members resulting in huge amounts of nepotism and cronyism. Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner personally made $82,000,000 while in office, but not from their White House salary [98]. He chose Kimberly Guilfoyle, his son's one-time fiance to be the ambassador to Greece, despite having no experience whatsoever [99].
The majority of his White House staff lacked any experience in the positions he placed them in which resulted in the worst turn-over of any White House [100].
Had the least loyal White House in living memory, many of who leaked his corruption and gross incompetence to the media [101].
Despite claiming he would "drain the swamp," implying he would get rid of government corruption, he had the most corrupt White House staff in living memory, with a large percentage of his cabinet being fired or arrested for corruption. Many of whom he later pardoned. Here is an incomplete list of some of his associates who were charged and convicted: Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Michael Cohen, Roger Stone, Peter Navarro, George Papadopoulos, Allen Weisselberg, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Tom Barrack, Elliot Broidy, Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, Donald Trump. For his 2025 cabinet, Trump chose more billionaires than ever before [102].
Trump used his hotels for personal gain at the cost of the American people and democracy. He did this by forcing the Secret Service to stay at his hotels [103], charged them higher than usual fees [104], and sometimes even over-charged them [105]. Every time he did this, hundreds of thousands of dollars of US taxpayer money was dumped right into Trump's pockets. In fact, looking after the Trumps and their very frequent vacations bankrupted the Secret Service and they ran a deficit before they even reached halfway through Trump's term [106]. Trump's administration also encouraged political visitors to stay at Trump properties in exchange for potential access to him and political favors [107].
Trump never put his businesses into a blind trust like he said he would, but put his children in charge of them, then, in a publicity stunt to prove he was divesting his interests from his companies, Trump produced many folders full of paper. It was later shown that all the paper was blank [108]. As a result of remaining involved in his businesses, Trump personally made around $550,000,000 from them while in office [109].
Blackmailed an allied government to get dirt on his political rivals by holding up promised military funds to Ukraine while they were being invaded by Russia [110].
When the whistleblower who reported Trump's quid pro quo was identified, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, Trump put so much pressure on him he was forced to retire [111].
Often included the language of Adolf Hitler in his speeches [112] and campaign slogans [113] and privately praised Hitler [114].
Said, if reelected, he would become a dictator [115] and weaponize the FBI and Department of Justice to criminally investigate his political rivals [116] [117]. By October 2024, he had said that over 100 times in public [118].
Trump was found guilty of using charities as slush funds and was ordered to pay $2,000,000 in fees [119].
Frequently praised authoritarian dictators like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un [120], and Vicktor Orban [121]. Showed deference to dictatorial militaries by saluting the North Korean general, a sign of respect typically given to military superiors or equals [122]. He even invited Chinese dictator Xi Jinping to his 2025 inauguration [123].
Told his followers, if they voted for him, he would fix things so they would never have to vote again [124].
His budget reform temporarily reduced taxes for everyone, but the tax cuts to the extremely wealthy were permanent [125]. In fact, many working class families saw their taxes go up because they could no longer write off their working expenses [126]. Also, by cutting taxes to the rich without also decreasing government spending, Trump ballooned the deficit to the largest it had ever been in our nation's history [127].
Of the over 100 judges he appointed, most were unqualified, some were so unqualified that even their own colleagues said they shouldn't be allowed to serve [128].
Following his 2020 loss, Trump called Arizona Governor Doug Ducey and urged him to overturn his state's votes [129], then urged Mike Pence to do the same [130].
Was found guilty by a jury of his peers in New York on 34 different political crimes [131] where he illegally used a private business to pay $130,000 in hush money without disclosing it to keep a negative, but true, sex scandal story out of the press where he cheated on his wife with Stormy Daniels [132]. This made him the first former president in US history to be found guilty of crimes, specifically political crimes. He tried many times to get the case dismissed and prevent sentencing, but kept getting denied because the evidence against him was so obvious [133]. He even tried petitioning the US Supreme Court [134] and failed [135].
After years of chanting "lock her up," in regards to Hillary Clinton and famously telling her directly in a televised presidential debate that, if he were president, he would have put Hillary Clinton in jail, Trump later claimed (after being convicted of 34 crimes with the possibility of jail time), that he didn't want Clinton locked up, never said "lock her up[136]," and personally told people not to pursue legal action against her.
Admitted to participating in government corruption by bribing politicians through donations so they would "kiss his ass". [137]
Despite complaining about Hillary Clinton's use of a private communication server, at least seven members of his own staff, in addition to Trump himself, conducted official White House business through private communication servers [138].
During the 2020 election night, Trump tried to stop the vote-counting process early while he was ahead rather than wait for mail-in votes to be counted [139].
The Trump team orchestrated false electors in each swing state to pretend to be official electors and submit fake results in favor of Trump [140].
Trump and many of his associates blamed the electronic voting systems for being tampered with, but subsequent audits of the voting systems proved they were working correctly and several individuals and right-wing media outlets were sued and lost for defaming the voting companies. Fox alone had to pay $787,000,000 in damages [141]. It came out during discovery that they knew there wasn't any evidence of voter tampering and Tucker Carlson was also fired over this. Several other right-wing entities are still in the process of lawsuits [142], including a billion-dollar lawsuit against Newsmax [143].
Actively tried to destroy the United States Post Office to help for-profit parcel companies like FedEx and removed many protections for people of color [144].
After losing the 2020 election, Trump called the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and asked him to help overturn his state's election [145].
Admitted that, if elected as president in 2024, he would rule as a dictator [146].
Upon learning that many Democrats were expected to vote through mail-in voting because of COVID-19, he said mail-in voting shouldn't be allowed [147], even though he personally mailed in his own votes [148]. Then, after it was discovered that many Republicans would be using mail-in voting in 2024, urged them to use mail-in voting to vote for him [149].
After he was injured by a bullet shot by a registered Republican voter, he blamed the shooting on Biden and Harris [150].
Unlike every president in modern history before him, Trump refused to divest his interests in his company [151].
Frequently destroyed documents ignoring federal law which required them to be preserved for legal reasons [152].
Bragged that the authoritarian dictator of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, who severely crippled his nation's judiciary and freedom of press and assembly, told people Trump was the strongest most feared man in the world [153].
Used the most honored and revered political position of the US government to peddle such trash as digital trading cards [154], cryptocurrency [155] [156], vanity coins [157], T-shirts, shoes [158], flags of himself, and much much more [159]. Because he sells so much cheap junk at ridiculous prices, scammers have taken advantage of it [160]. Also, after Elon Musk's Nazi salute caused Tesla sales to crash, Trump used the office of the US Presidency to tell people to buy Musk's cars [161]. Musk even gave Trump an advertisement script to read [162], but Trump botched the name referring to it as "Tesler" (an interesting mash-up of Tesla and Hitler [163]), then declared any violence against the Tesla company specifically would be considered an act of terrorism [164], and even boycotting Tesla is now a crime [165].
Trump publicly claimed he wanted the FBI to perform a full investigation of sexual assault accusations against his Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, but, behind the scenes, he actually stymied their investigation by refusing to authorize them to investigate the accusations of sexual assault, purposely withheld evidence, gave the FBI an extremely short deadline, and limited them to only 10 witnesses [166]. Now that he's on the bench, it is unlikely that he will ever be held accountable.
During the 2024 campaign, Trump took over $100,000,000 in political contributions and used it to pay his many legal fees [167].
Unlike all other presidential candidates in the modern era, Trump refused to release his medical records to the public [168].
Even though he was flush with cash from all the campaign contributions, Trump refused to pay for many of the locations where he held his rallies, and still owed around $750,000 by the election [169]. Most of these bills eventually had to be paid by taxpayers [170].
As president, Trump made it easier for employers to cheat workers out of overtime pay [171].
Trump tried to block disaster aide to the states which didn't vote for him [172].
Trump frequently refused to do background checks on his cabinet appointments [173]. Because of this, many of his appointments resigned from predictable scandals or were later convicted on various charges like corruptions, embezzlement, collusion, etc.
Most of his picks for cabinet positions and ambassadorships were people with no qualifications for their jobs, just people who donated large sums of money to his campaign [174].
Trump had over 3,400 conflicts of interest while in office [175].
If a president aims to prevent corruption, they're supposed to pick an attorney general with whom they don't already have a relationship, that way, they will be more interested in upholding the Constitution rather than helping out a friend. Trump instead picked his personal attorney Pam Bondi. When asked if she would uphold the Constitution, in particular the 14th amendment, Bondi admitted she hadn't studied the amendment, and ultimately refused to say she would [176]. Despite her complete lack of knowledge of the Constitution she is expected to uphold, she was still confirmed [177].
Trump suggested that Elon Musk helped him rig the Pennsylvania voting machines for a landslide victory [178], but he really only won by a slim margin of 1.7% [179].
To ensure nobody could report his crimes or corruption, Trump fired 17 independent government watchdogs [180]. Many of these were fired illegally, so judges rules that Trump broke the law and reinstated them [181].
Upon taking office in 2025, Trump had everyone in the Justice Department who investigated his many crimes fired [182].
After only a few days in office in 2025, Trump had already racked up so much debt Republicans needed to increase the debt ceiling. Republican Chip Roy refused saying the Republican party should be fiscally responsible, so Trump said Roy should be eliminated at the next election [183].
Not even a month into his second term, Republicans again began spending huge sums of taxpayer money at Trump properties so US dollars would funnel directly into Trump's pocket [184].
Tesla was doing poorly because of Elon Musk's poor leadership and highly controversial actions, but his Nazi salute at a Trump rally really set the company floundering. Rather than have private companies compete for a government contract, Trump ordered the US State Department to buy $400,000,000 worth of Tesla vehicles as a personal favor to Musk, all paid for by US taxpayers [185]. The Trump administration then tried to blame the purchase on Biden [186]. But the government perks didn't stop with Tesla, Trump also let Musk rewrite US laws to favor his company Starlink [187].
Trump routinely said he should be totally above the law [188] [189].
Trump signed an executive order putting himself in charge of independent government agencies like the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission [190]. This is illegal, and these agencies were purposely designed to be independent, but Trump wants to control them so he can also control the media and private businesses.
Trump's 2016 pick to run the Treasury Department was Steve Mnuchin [191], an private hedge fund manager who became particularly wealthy due to his role in causing the 2008 financial crisis where he was known as the "foreclosure king," for aggressively foreclosing on homeowners [192].
During his second term, Trump charged businessmen $1,000,000 to have dinner with him, or $5,000,000 for a personal meeting with him [193]. This is tantamount to bribery.
After a judge ruled that Trump couldn't simply end all USAID contracts, and ordered him to pay their debts [194], Trump ordered USAID workers to destroy their own records to make that impossible [195].

Term Limits / Royalty

For years, Trump repeatedly said he should be allowed to run for more than two terms, despite it being explicitly forbidden in the US Constitution [196] [197] [198] [199].
Trump said he thinks it's great the some countries like China have altered their government to let their presidents have lifetime authority, and suggested that the US might do the same [200].
After preventing a state's right to make their own local transportation laws, Trump described himself as a king [201].

Law Enforcement

Pardoned thousands of violent convicted felons [202].
Picked Kash Patel to run the FBI even after Patel openly said he would use his authority to seek retribution against critics of Trump [203]. And, since running the entire FBI Trump leaves a person with a lot of free time, Trump also put Patel in charge of the ATF [204].
Picked Dan Bongino (podcaster and former Fox and NRATV contributor) as the Deputy Director of the FBI [205]. Bongino at least had some experience in law enforcement, though hadn't worked in the field for 13 years. But he also supported Trump's mob in their overthrow of the US Capitol and their eventual pardons, was suspended by Twitter for promoting the violent overthrow of the USA [206] and banned from YouTube for promoting medical misinformation, and said it would be wrong to punish police who use unnecessary brutality [207]. Bongino explained his life philosophy as, "owning the libs. That's it." [208]
Ordered a violent police raid on a peaceful protest in order to have a photo-op of him holding a bible in front of a church [209].
Urged police to use their authority to injure, not convicted criminals, but innocent suspects [210].
Said we should give police "one day, like one real rough, nasty day ... and I mean real rough," to violate all civil rights laws against US citizens in the hopes it will decrease crime [211]. Pundits have compared his desires to The Purge and the Kristallnacht [212].
Suggested militarizing the police to crack down on the homeless and drug users [213].
Trump deleted the federal database which tracked police officer misconduct [214].
Despite the first amendment granting the right to protest, Trump said school protesters will be arrested, expelled, and deported, and their colleges will be defunded [215].

Lying

Trump is, by far, the most dishonest president in recorded history. During his first four-year presidency, he is documented to have lied over 30,000 times, and has plenty of more recorded lies before and after [216]. In his first 100 days in office, Trump broke 80 campaign promises [217].
After a substantial loss to Biden, and the failure of his fake electors, Trump claimed, without evidence, that every swing state which had a Biden majority cheated. All of his lies were debunked [218].
While campaigning in 2016, Trump promised to release his tax records. Then he refused claiming he was under an IRS audit (which wouldn't prevent him from releasing them), then claimed for the next four years that the audit was still taking place [219]. After being impeached a second time, Trump's tax records for the past six years were released which showed, not only was he lying about the IRS audit, he also had a very good reason to keep his tax records hidden: they showed he paid almost no taxes at all for a six year span, largely because he had been losing huge amounts of money [220].
During his 2024 campaign, Trump repeatedly said reducing the price of groceries was one of his main concerns. Shortly after winning the election, he admitted he wasn't actually going to [221], and, at the beginning of his second tariff war, he even admitted Americans would feel pain, but it would be worth it to him [222]. Then, after getting fed up with asking why the price of eggs only got worse after he took office, he posted online, "Shut up about egg prices!" [223]
During his 2020 campaign, Trump lied and said Democrats spent all the hurricane relief money on buying the votes of illegal immigrants. This is wrong on every level, as the government was indeed funding hurricane relief, they weren't giving the money to immigrants, and undocumented immigrants can't vote [224].
For weeks he continued to claim he had the largest presidential inauguration turn out, even though it was clearly smaller than Obama's second inauguration [225].
Trump had to pay $25,000,000 after he was caught lying to students about the accreditation and quality of the education they would receive from Trump "University." [226]
In both the 2016 and 2024 elections, Trump described his victories as a "mandate," (meaning approval by a large majority). However, in the 2024 election, he didn't even reach 50% of the vote [227], and in the 2016 election, he lost the popular vote [228].
Trump mocked Obama for signing executive orders saying if he were president he wouldn't need to use them because he would negotiate deals in Congress [229]. Obama signed 276 over a span of eight years [230], but Trump signed 220 in his first term [231], and has already signed another 28 in his second term [232], so he is on track to greatly surpass Obama.
Trump claimed he stopped the USA from sending $50,000,00 worth of condoms to the terrorist organization Hamas. Obviously, that never happened [233].
Under the Biden administration, the US Department of Agriculture offered grant money to farmers to invest in their farms. The farmers had to buy the investments with their own money, but would be paid back over the next few years. Farmers became fearful of accepting these grants because, while campaigning, Trump said he was going to make massive cuts to all areas of the US government, but Trump reassured them saying his cuts wouldn't affect individual farmers. So, a lot of farmers put themselves into debt trusting his promise that they would be paid back. But, when he took office, Trump ordered the USDA to stop paying out grant money, and now many of these farmers can't pay their loans and might have their farms repossessed [234].
The Trump administration said it saved $55,000,000,000 by canceling government contracts and firing workers. The actual confirmed number was only $2,000,000,000 [235], and even this couldn't fairly be considered "saving" money, in the same sense that a person might claim they "saved" money by skipping tune-ups on their vehicle. In reality, 40% of the contracts Musk canceled would not save the country money because the government already paid for them [236].
Trump frequently takes credit for inventing things that already existed, popularizing things that were already popular, and so forth [237]. He claimed he invented the 1930s term "priming the pump." [238]
Trump threatened Mark Zuckerberg with life in prison if he ever used independent fact checkers to verify Trump's lies [239].
In a failed attempt to justify demanding mining rights from Ukraine before helping them defend themselves from the invading Russia, Trump claimed Europe was only granting Ukraine loans, while the USA was giving them gifts. He had to be corrected, to his face, by Emmanuel Macron [240] and Keir Starmer [241].
While campaigning, Trump promised the would release the Jeffery Epstein documents. While he did give documents to right-wing podcasters in hopes they would sensationalize them, the documents they received had already been released years ago, anything new was completely redacted [242].
Trump's 2025 speech to Congress was almost entirely lies [243].
Trump repeatedly lied about people receiving Social Security benefits saying there were 16,000,000 people over the age of 100 and even one person over the age of 360. In addition to his outright lies (the actual number of people over 99 years old is 89,106), a lot of this is just the result of Elon Musk's team of teenagers who extracted the data simply not understanding how it was stored in the database, why dead people are maintained in the database, and how to determine who is receiving benefits or not [244].

Foreign policy

Trump called for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza [245] (a permanent and forced displacement of the natives [246]) so that he could "own it," "do a number on it," and turn into a beach resort "like the Rivera." [247]
Trump told the leaders of US-allied nations that, if they didn't pay the US protection money, not only would he not help them if they were invaded by Russia, but he would encourage Russia to do whatever the hell they wanted to them [248].
Called for the execution of entire families if someone in that family was discovered to be a terrorist [249].
Despite all his blustering for America First and claiming to love American labor, nearly all of the products which bear his name are made overseas [250].
Trump openly called for a ban on Muslims from entering the USA, which was ruled unconstitutional several times because, per the first amendment, it's illegal to ban people from American because of their religion [251]. After this failed several times, he switched the terminology to a "travel ban" which listed the exact same nations included in his Muslim ban. However, despite Trump claiming he was doing it to keep out terrorists, the list didn't include the nations where the 9/11 terrorist actually came from [252]. The "travel ban" was allowed, but Americans responded to his unconstitutional ban by protesting in airports causing severe travel delays, which Trump lied about claiming they were all computer delays [253]. He later claimed his Muslim ban was successful at stopping terrorism in the USA, which was quite untrue, not just because white supremacist terrorism increased significantly during his administration, but also because there were still militant Islamic terrorist attacks in the USA during his administration [254].
After every intelligence agency in the USA collected evidence to demonstrate Putin ordered a campaign to influence the US election (without stating which candidate he favored), Trump refused to believe them [255], then fired various US intelligence agents for bringing the cyber attack to light [256].
During his first term, economists warned Trump against starting tariff wars, but he did anyway, particularly with countries where we get the bulk of our imports, like China. After his presidential term, there wasn't any noticeable shift toward American manufacturing (actually a slight decrease) [257], the tariff war did not help the US economy, and it ended up costing Americans over $230,000,000,000 [258]. In his second term, he threatened massive 25% tariffs on nearly all goods from Mexico and Canada, and a 10% tariff on China [259], but ended up pausing them just before they were to take effect [260]. While he claimed he got significant concessions out of each country, all he really got from them, at the cost of damaging our ally status, was to agree to promises they had already made to the Biden administration [261]. He started them up again in March, saying they were necessary to protect the soul of America [262] only to almost immediately pause the tariffs again in Mexico [263] and Canada [264]. I guess he sold our soul. A few days later he implemented a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum imports from all countries, resulting in the European Union issuing retaliatory tariffs [265], and a 50% steel and aluminum tariff on the USA's closest ally, Canada [266]. By March of 2025, economist estimated that Trump's tariff wars had cost US stocks $4,000,000,000,000 [267].
Upon becoming president, Trump rewarded Russia by ending US sanctions for their criminal annexation of Crimea [268] eliminating a major obstacle to them controlling the region.
Made a lot of policy decisions which were very beneficial to Russia throughout his presidency [269].
Frequently praised Russian dictator Vladimir Putin [270] even after learning Putin murdered numerous journalists and politicians for opposing him.
Despite claiming to support American workers, Trump's tax plan actually rewarded companies for moving overseas [271], and, as a result of this, companies continued to leave the USA during the Trump administration [272].
All of his many horrible policies caused the USA as a whole to lose status world wide [273].
After learning that Israel was killing Gazan civilians, particularly women and children at an alarming rate using US-provided bombs, Trump said Israel should, "finish the problem." [274] After a ceasefire was finally reached at the end of the Biden administration, Trump said the survivors should be forced into neighboring countries so Israel could "clean out" the Palestinians [275].
Trump threatened to invade Denmark and Panama in order to control Greenland and the Panama Canal [276]. In order to justify his invasion, he lied about the Canal being controlled by one of the nations he hates [277]. A few days later, Trump's transition team later asked how far they should take an invasion of Mexico [278]. When asked if we would use the US military to invade Denmark or Panama, Trump said he wouldn't rule it out [279]. Trump then sent his son to Greenland for a photo op with the citizens, and, unable to find anyone who actually wanted to sell their country to Trump, he offered homeless people food if they would pose with him in a picture wearing Trump hats [280].
In an attempt to denigrate Mexico, Trump demanded the Gulf of Mexico be renamed to the "Gulf of America," [281] which would be a meaningless gesture since a US presidential order has no binding to other countries around the world, but it also exposes his ignorance since Mexico is part of the Americas. If he intended to appropriate the Gulf, he should have demanded it be renamed to the "Gulf of the USA."
After Israel bombed Gaza into rubble, Trump said he wanted to help Israel finish the genocide by permanently kicking the survivors out of their homeland so he could keep the land for himself [282]. And, if they won't go willingly, he might send in the US military to forcibly remove them [283]. His son in law said the land would be very valuable after its redeveloped and turned into the next Riviera [284]. Forcibly displacing refugees is a war crime [285], but Trump said he is committed to buying and owning Gaza [286].
Trump said "if [I] had the legal right to do it," he would send US citizens to foreign countries where their human rights would likely be violated "in a heartbeat." [287]
Trump spent years campaigning on the concept of keeping the USA out of foreign wars and "nation building," however, in the first week of his second term he talked about invading, occupying, or displacing the citizens of Mexico, Canada, Panama, Greenland, and Palestine [288].
Upon taking office in 2025, Trump ended the investigations into Russian oligarchs, despite Russia's continued invasion into Ukraine [289] [290] [291].
Trump said he would end Russia's invasion of Ukraine even before taking office. Not only did he fail to do so [292], he instead made a huge failure of a prisoner swap by trading a very clever Russian cyber criminal who stole an estimated $4,000,000,000 for a public school teacher who was arrested in Russia for minor possession of marijuana [293]. Later, Trump's Pentagon leader, the hugely unqualified Pete Hegseth, told Ukraine, even before attempting to bargain with Russia, they should not only give up any hope of joining NATO, but shouldn't even expect to regain control of their own land and give it up to Russia [294]. Trump reiterated this when he held a talk with Putin about what to do about Russia without even consulting Ukraine [295] and said Ukraine will have to make concessions, but not necessarily Russia [296]. He then reestablished the Russian-American embassy [297]. And stopped sharing life-saving military intelligence to Ukraine [298].
After Russia's military invaded Ukraine, bombed civilians, and cut off access to energy in the winter, Trump blamed Ukraine for starting the war [299] and called Zelensky, not Putin, a dictator [300]. This was so blatant of a lie that even Republican Mike Pence denounced Trump over it [301], but the Trump administration still blocked a G7 statement calling Russia the aggressor [302], and had the UN side with Russia in a vote denouncing their invasion of Ukraine [303].
After Trump cut nearly all funding to USAID, Inspector General Paul Martin, released a report detailing how the decision was causing about $500,000,000 worth of food to rot in warehouses. Trump responded to this by firing Martin [304].
Trump posted an AI video of Gaza being replaced by a Trump tower and a giant golden statue of himself [305].
Trump said he would allow Russian oligarchs to buy US citizenship [306].
Even though his own party voted in favor of it, Trump halted military aid to Ukraine [307].
Trump's personal lawyer turned Attorney General, Pam Bondi, ended the program to stop foreign political influence [308], including all the Russian influence.
Trump's illegal ending of USAID was so unconstitutional, even Republican Supreme Court justices Roberts and Barrett said he couldn't do it [309].
After being unable to properly pronounce Lesotho, Trump said nobody has ever heard of the nation, even though his right-hand man Elon Musk had applied for a business license there [310].

Freedom of the press

Enemy of the people.

Like many despots before him, Trump frequently referred to journalists as the "enemy of the people." [311]
Trump promoted violence against journalists, and, by proxy, on our the first amendment rights of all Americans [312].
He kicked multiple reporters out of the White House for not publishing articles in his favor [313], and eventually decided that his White House would be the sole decision maker for which news outlets are allowed at press event, upending the first amendment entirely [314].
The Trump administration actively tracked, detained, and interrogated US journalists who were trying to cover Trump's illegal immigration policies [315]
Trump implied the Fox network worked for the Republican party [316].
Did nothing to punish Saudi Arabia after they tortured to death journalist Jamal Khashoggi [317].
After losing his first and only debate to Kamala Harris on ABC, Trump said everyone at ABC should be fired and their station should have their broadcast license revoked because they fact-checked his lies [318]. This prompted the FCC to reaffirm that news stations cannot be taken off the air simply because a political figure doesn't like being fact-checked, and warned that such demands are dangerous to the first amendment [319].
Threatened to weaponize the White House to shut down various media outlets, television stations, and even individual journalists for being critical of him [320].
Trump said he wouldn't mind if someone shot bullets through the journalists at his rally [321].
Said he would hire Kash Patel to run the FBI. Patel said one of his primary targets would be journalists, presumably those who investigated Trump's crimes [322].
Trump raped E. Jean Carroll, but, for legal reasons, he was only found guilty of sexually assaulting her. Journalist George Stephanopoulos misspoke and said Trump raped her, which he did, but, because he wasn't technically convicted of rape, Trump sued ABC News [323].
In 2024, the Des Moines Register published the results of the same election poll they conduct every year which showed a slight victory by Kamala Harris. However, she ended up losing Iowa, so Trump sued them for reporting the results of their poll [324].
After Trump backed out of his public debate with Kamala Harris, not wanting a repeat of the first debate, 60 Minutes decided to interview Harris by herself. Trump sued CBS because he felt they made Harris look too good. Typically, such a frivolous lawsuit wouldn't go anywhere, but, after Trump won the 2025 election, he weaponized the FCC to his personal benefit, and CBS agreed to turn over their raw transcript to help Trump win his lawsuit [325]. After getting the footage, he sued CBS for $20,000,000,000, claiming they deceptively edited the video, but was unable to provide any evidence of such [326]. Regardless, Trump's number two, Elon Musk, said the journalists involved should be punished with a long prison sentence [327].
Trump revoked the press pass for journalists who won't go along with his stupid idea to try and rename the Gulf of Mexico [328].
In addition to kicking journalists out of the White House, Trump has promoted and praised cranks and conspiracy nuts like 9/11 "truther" Alex Jones [329] (who went bankrupt after leading an army of trolls to attack the families of murdered children), and Lara Logan [330], who was banned from Fox and Newsmax for claiming world leaders eat children [331]. Trump even invited Logan to a White House, possibly because she's pro-Putin [332].

Violence and domestic terrorism

January 6th Insurrection

Headlines the day after the failed insurrection.

Trump Incited a mob to storm the US Capitol on January 6th [333] [334]. Leading up to the insurrection, on December 18th, Trump posted online, "FIGHT FOR IT. Don’t let them take it away!" On December 12th, he posted, "WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!!!" On December 19th, he posted, "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" On December 26th, he posted, "History will remember. Never give up. See everyone in D.C. on January 6th." On January 4th, he posted, "If the liberal Democrats take the Senate and the White House — and they're not taking this White House — we're going to fight like hell, I'll tell you right now." At a Trump rally, Trump's lawyer , Republican Rudy Giuliani, warmed up the crowd for Trump saying of January 6th, "Let's have trial by combat!" [335] At the January 6th rally, Trump told his supporters, "Unbelievable, what we have to go through, what we have to go through and you have to get your people to fight." and "We're going to have to fight much harder, and Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us. And if he doesn't, that will be a sad day for our country because you're sworn to uphold our constitution. Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy." "And after this ...We're going to walk down to the Capitol... because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong." [336]
Just prior to Biden's election victory being certified, Trump pressured Vice President Mike Pence to decertify the results of the election [337], telling him he had the authority to do so in several ways, however, Trump's own lawyer had told him that it was illegal [338]. Pence also knew Trump was lying and refused to do it, saying the US Constitution didn't give him such authority [339]. Trump later publicly blamed Mike Pence for not doing his bidding, and, after Trump supporters breached the Capitol, they began chanting "hang Mike Pence." When Trump learned that his followers intended to publicly murder Pence, Trump said Pence deserved it [340]. FBI informants later testified that members of the Proud Boys did indeed plan on murdering Mike Pence (and other politicians disloyal to Trump) as an example [341], and they got shockingly close to doing so. Trump would later blame the whole of the January 6th insurrection on Mike Pence [342].
As the mob began to grow more hostile, Trump was warned by the Secret Service that many of his followers were carrying weapons, and several were carrying concealed guns, but still demanded they be allowed to march with their weapons [343] telling security, "I don't fucking care that they have weapons... They're not here to hurt me. Take the fucking [metal detectors] away." [344] [345] The vast assortment of weapons helped the mob violently overpower the police.
During the attack, Officer Brian Sicknick pepper sprayed twice and engaged in combat while defending the Capitol from Trump's mob. Sicknick died hours later after multiple internal blood clots caused two strokes. Because Sicknick didn't have any severe external injuries, Republicans tried to claim his death wasn't related to the attack [346], but, at only 42-years-old, it is unlikely that Sicknick would have developed blood clots from anything other than physical injury [347].
In the next few days, officers Howard Liebengood and Jeffrey Smith both committed suicide with family members saying their deaths were directly related to the trauma from the attack [348] [349].
Another 140 police officers sustained injuries [350].
Four Trump supporters also died: Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed by police as she tried to break down a Capitol door, Kevin Greeson and Benjamin Phillips both died from heart attacks leading up to the attack, and Rosanne Boyland died of an amphetamine overdose [351].
During the insurrection, various Republicans called Trump to beg him to call off the attack saying it would ruin his legacy, but Trump refused their pleas for hours [352] until he learned Congress had already certified the election and he had no chance of stopping it. After which, he finally told the mob, despite claiming he won in a landslide (he actually lost significantly [353]) they needed to go home, but he loved them and the were very special [354].
The next day, several prominent fellow Republicans admitted Trump was directly to blame for the attack [355] [356] and claimed he could have stopped the attack, but refused [357].
In the following months and years, Trump later lied about every aspect of the attack. He initially admitted it was a horrible and violent insurrection, but blamed everything on the Democrats [358]. Then he said it wasn't violent, nobody had guns (several were arrested with guns [359]), and nobody died (several died [360]). Finally, he called the violent coup a "day of love" [361].
While Trump was still in office prior to Biden being inaugurated, he had the authority to pardon the insurrectionists. However, at the time, he was still claiming they weren't really his supporters, so he didn't. This left many of them feeling betrayed because they believed he wanted them to overthrow the Capitol in order to prevent Biden from being confirmed [362]. Over the next couple years, as law enforcement identified and arrested the attackers, it became clear that they were indeed ardent Trump supporters, but Trump continued to say they weren't, well into 2022 [363]. However, in 2023 Trump changed his mind and appeared on a recording of twenty of the insurrectionists who recorded themselves singing the Star Spangled Banner from prison and Trump even used it to open one of his campaign rallies [364]. By then, Trump was finally admitting that the insurrectionists were his supporters and doing his will, described them as "hostages" [365] and said he intended to pardon the criminals if reelected [366] [367]. As you can imagine, this has made the Capitol police who survived the insurrection feel betrayed and asked why they risked their lives [368].
As Trump became his party's front runner, the same Republicans who accused him of causing the insurrection began supported him again [369].
An investigation and a criminal case was brought forward regarding Trump's crimes related to the insurrection, but upon winning re-election in 2024, all criminal charges were dropped [370] since the Republicans on the US Supreme Court ruled that presidents can't be held accountable for crimes they commit while in office. However, the investigation results were still planned to be made public. Trump fought to keep the results of the investigation completely hidden [371], petitioning Attorney General Merrick Garland to block the report [372], and convincing the inexperienced judge he appointed, Judge Aileen Cannon, to temporarily block its release [373]. However, an appeals court unblocked the release [374]. In his final report Special Council Jack Smith concluded that there was ample evidence to convict Trump [375].
Just prior to being inaugurated, Trump blamed the insurrection on Hezbollah [376].
On the first day of office in 2025, Trump pardoned, dismissed, or commuted the sentences of over 1,500 insurrectionists who tried to overthrow the country on January 6th, including 169 who were pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers [377]. The original plan was to review each of the convicted criminals on a case-by-case basis, but, after becoming annoyed with how long it was taking, Trump said, "Fuck it, release 'em all!" [378] When asked why he would release men who were filmed beating police officers, Trump admitted that he didn't actually know who he pardoned or what they were found guilty of. This decision caused many other Republicans to have to immediately change tack and agree with Trump even after having just previously said violent criminals should not be pardoned [379].
Some of the convicted criminals pardoned include:
- Theodore Middendorf was previously imprisoned for raping a 7-year-old girl and is a lifetime registered sex offender [380].
- Andrew Taake, hit police officers with a metal whip and used bear spray on them. After he was pardoned, a new warrant was issued for him for trying to have sex with a minor [381].
- Dillon Herrington, who came to be known as the MAGA lumberjack for throwing lumber at police, was arrested only a few days after his pardon for raping an unconscious woman [382].
- Guy Reffitt, who threatened to murder his family if they reported him [383].
- Taylor James Johnatakis, who helped organize a breach of the Capitol gate, and, recorded himself saying, if they found any politicians inside who opposed Trump, "we probably would have murdered a few of them." [384]
- Kasey Hopkins had been previously arrested for violently beating and raping a woman and sentenced to seven years in prison. He was later arrested for assaulting a police officer and drug possession [385].
- Elias N. Costianes, who, after being arrested was discovered to be a cocaine dealer whose home was filled with illegal guns and drugs. Trump's Justice Department agreed that Trump's pardon also included all the drugs and weapons found afterward [386].
- Edward Richmond, Jr. had previously served three years in military prison and was court-martialed and dishonorably discharged from the US Army for murdering an Iraqi sheep herder by shooting him in the head with his rifle even though he was unarmed and in handcuffs. He was also arrested for drunk driving and domestic abuse [387].
- Matthew Huttle, who previously served over two years in prison for beating a child and who was on probation for drunk driving when he broke into the Capitol [388], was pardoned, and only a few days later, he got into a fight with law enforcement while in possession of a gun and was shot to death [389].
- Peter Schwartz, who threw a chair at police and pepper sprayed them, also had 38 prior felony convictions over a span of four decades including assault with a deadly weapon, making terror threats, and punching a woman and biting her in the face [390].
- David Daniel, who pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers, had previous charges for the possession and production of child pornography with a child under 12-years-old, but those charges may be thrown out because of Trump's blanket pardon [391].
- Benjamin Martin was previously arrested for beating a 14-year-old child, choking his girlfriend and preventing her from fleeing, and, after being arrested for his role in January 6th, charged for possession of eight illegal firearms with ammunition, and telling his then-girlfriend to lie to police and say they were hers in order to protect him [392].
- Daniel Ball was arrested for throwing explosive devices at police on January 6th, but he also had a criminal history of trying to strangle his domestic partner and assaulting an officer. After being pardoned, he was immediately re-arrested on prior illegal gun charges [393], however, these subsequent charges were also dropped, probably due to pressure from the Trump administration [394].
- Edward Hemenway was previously convicted of criminal confinement and sexual battery and served five years in prison [395].
- Jonathan Gennaro Mellis was previously convicted of making and selling methamphetamine, money laundering, and domestic assault [396].
- Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, head of the US-based terrorist organization The Proud Boys [397].
- Stewart Rhodes, head ofthe US-based terrorist organization Oath Keepers [398]. He was later invited to a Trump rally and given a front row seat [399], and his ban from the US Capitol he tried to overthrow was lifted [400].
- Pamela Hemphill refused the pardon admitting that she did try to overturn the election, and, because she was guilty, she deserved the punishment she received [401].
- Jason Riddle also rejected the pardon, admitting guilt, and trying to recover from his crimes [402].

Support for American terrorists

When asked to denounce the American terrorist organization The Proud Boys, Trump instead shouted for them to "Stand back and stand by!" [403] The Proud Boys personally interpreted this, not as a denouncement, but as an encouragement to commit more acts of violence [404].
After a man drove his car into a crowd of protesters at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, North Carolina, murdering one woman and injuring several others, Trump described the white supremacists as "very fine people." [405]
After Trump supporters tried to drive a Biden campaign bus off the rode and even purposely hit one of the cars in the convoy, Trump said the drivers did nothing wrong. [406]
After Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of murdering the two Black Lives Matter protesters he shot to death, Trump met with him and called him a "a nice young man." [407]

Promoting government-sanctioned violence

Trump supports police brutality.

Trump said he would use the National Guard and the US Military to attack Democrats [408].
He refused to accept a peaceful transition of power if he were to lose the 2020 presidential election [409], and, after he lost, he suggested employing the US military and invoking martial law to remain in power [410].
Trump ask his Defense Secretary why he couldn't order police to just shoot peaceful protesters [411].
Urged police to use their authority to injure, not convicted criminals, but innocent suspects [412].
Said we should give police "one day, like one real rough, nasty day ... and I mean real rough," to violate all civil rights laws against US citizens in the hopes it will decrease crime [413]. Pundits have compared his desires to The Purge and the Kristallnacht [414].
Suggested militarizing the police to crack down on the homeless and drug users [415].
Trump said, if re-elected, he would use his authority to jail everyone who investigated his various crimes [416]

General calls to violence

Trump promoting violence.

During the 2016-2020 Trump administration, violent threats against political officials increased by 178%, nearly all of which came from Republicans emboldened by Trump [417].
Routinely encouraged violence against protesters by telling his supporters if they injured protesters and were sued, he would defend them in court [418].
Described Democrats as the "enemy from within," and said they are "sick lunatics" who are more dangerous to America than Russia or China [419].
Said that fellow Republican Liz Cheney is "a deranged person," "a very dumb individual," and should have "nine barrels shooting at her" with "guns trained on her face." [420]
Trump was cited as the inspiration for at least 54 criminal acts of violence, including mass-murder [421].
Cut funds for the legal protection of victims of human trafficking [422].

Immigration / Refugees / Asylum

Trump employed undocumented workers.

He railed against immigration, saying, "No, they're not humans, they're not humans, they're animals." [423] and saying "I don't know if you call them people. In some cases, they're not people, in my opinion." [424]
He railed against undocumented workers only to have it revealed that his family employed undocumented workers for years [425].
He used his authority as president to cut his in-laws to the front of the line to grant them nearly instant immigration status through "chain migration," which he complained about for other people [426].
Actively worked to eliminate the USA's refugee program [427], something that all other developed nations have. In his second term, simply ended the program, not just for new refuge seekers, but even for those who had already been approved [428]. A judge ruled that his actions were illegal and he had to reinstate it [429], but he instead said it would take months to restart it [430].
He explicitly tried to ban everyone of a specific religion from entering the country [431]. Then, when that was declared a violation of the Constitution, said it was just a travel ban from majority Muslim nations [432].
He wrongly implied that undocumented immigrants are draining Social Security and Medicare. Because they are undocumented, they can't apply for either [433]. However, an influx of workers would actually bolster Social Security and Medicare by making them more stable [434].
Despite all his hatred, he employed undocumented immigrant workers for his housekeepers [435]. He only paid them $10 an hour, all under the table, and they were responsible for all his cleaning like having to wash his makeup out of his shirts [436].
In order to scare away asylum seekers, Trump created a child-separation program and purposely took over 5,000 children away from their parents and put them into make-shift jails [437]. Then, after a federal judge ruled that Republicans couldn't incarcerate children, they were sent to random foster families all around the country and, in the process, since they didn't maintain proper records, lost an unknown amount of them [438]. Many of the parents were deported, but the Trump administration kept their children [439]. To this day, many have still not been reunited with their parents [440].
Repeated the lie that immigrants were stealing people's pets and eating them [441].
Trump claimed that Aurora, Colorado had been overrun by Venezuelan gangs. The Republican mayor of the city said it wasn't true [442], and, right after claiming it was extremely violent and not safe for anyone to go to, Trump went there to hold a rally which was open to the public [443]!
Said he would use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to perform mass-deportations. Throughout America's history this Act was always used for racist reasons. The last time it was used was during World War II when Franklin Roosevelt placed over 100,000 Americans of Japanese or German descent into interment camps [444].
Trump said immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country," which is very similar to what Hitler said [445].
Trump lied and said there were 13,099 illegal immigrants who were convicted murderers roaming free in the USA. The reality is the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that there were 13,099 illegal immigrants who were convicted of murder and not in their custody... because they were in prisons [446].
Even after it was discovered that the New Orleans terrorist was a US citizen from Texas and veteran of the US Army, Trump blamed immigrants [447].
After violating the traditional sanctity of churches by ordering law enforcement to infiltrate them in search of refugees, the Trump administration was sued by 27 religious groups [448].
Trump constantly lies about the number of undocumented workers in the USA. In 2024, he hugely exaggerated the number lying that it increased 21,000,000 in the past three years alone [449]. He said he would employ the US military to get rid of all illegal immigrants, promising between 15 and 20 million deportations [450], pointing to what he viewed as a successful past initiative, the 1954 Republican-led, and racistly named, Operation Wetback [451]. However, because the actual number of undocumented workers in the USA is only around 11,000,000 [452], law enforcement had a hard time finding enough people to satisfy Trump's lies. Rather than admit he greatly exaggerated, the Trump administration instead blamed ICE and reassigned or demoted people [453].
Tom Homan, the man Trump put in charge of mass-deportations because he was one of the first to suggest separating parents from their children as a refugee deterrent, tried to get Democrats arrested for the "crime" of teaching refugees and immigrants their civil rights under US law [454].
Trump sent refugees and immigrants to be imprisoned in the super-maximum security military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba [455]. The cost associated with this is around $13,000,000 per prisoner [456]. Than, after only a few days, sent them all back to the USA [457].
Trump wanted to sell US citizenship to wealthy foreigners [458].
Trump tried to end the USA's refugee program, but was stopped by a judge because his act violated the Constitution. The Executive Branch doesn't have the authority to end the Legislative Branch's laws [459].
Trump asked the US Supreme Court to let him violate the 14th amendment of the US Constitution [460].

Racism

Trump "condemns" racists.

After a man drove his car into a crowd of protesters at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, North Carolina, Trump described the white supremacists as "very fine people." [461]
Refused to rent his apartments to black people, designating their applications "C" for "colored." After this was found out, he had to settle with the Justice Department and promise to stop discriminating against black families [462].
Had to pay a huge fine for forcing black employees to leave when rich white men wanted to gamble in his casino [463].
Trump called for the execution of the Central Park Five (five black teens). He didn't just want the teen-aged boys killed, he said they should forced to suffer. The teens were eventually exonerated after it was discovered the police tortured the boys and forced them to give false confessions. They successfully sued the state for $41,000,000 and were acquitted of all charges. Trump, rather than apologize and realize that his quick-to-execution mentality would have resulted in the murder of five innocent boys while the real criminal ran free, continued to demand their execution saying they never should have been exonerated [464].
Trump posted a video online where one of his supporters shouted the phrase "white power!" When asked about it, a spokesperson for Trump said he didn't hear the racist remark [465]. The fact that white supremacists were turning up in droves at his rally didn't seem to bother him at all.
Trump personally shared a post made by a person who went by the name "WhiteGenocideTM" who's account page linked to a pro-Adolf Hitler documentary, described himself as living in "Jewmerica," and had a photo of George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party [466].
Trump frequently used the racist "birther" argument, which suggests people of color couldn't have been born in the USA, against Barack Obama [467], Nikki Haley [468], and Kamala Harris [469]. To defend his racist comments against Obama, he accused Hillary Clinton for initially making the comment, which is also a lie [470].
Trump was endorsed by the KKK both in their newspaper [471] and by their former grand wizard, David Duke [472]. When asked if he denounced David Duke and the KKK, Trump initially refused, saying he hadn't personally met the leader of the KKK, so he couldn't denounce him, but eventually did after receiving enough negative press, finally said the KKK was bad [473].
Has been endorsed by neo-Nazis [474], many of whom see his rise to power as their moment to engage in acts of terrorism to purge the USA of black people and Jews [475].
Has endorsed by other white supremacists [476].
Often has white supremacists working for him [477].
Signed the executive order for the 1776 Commission which required public school children to get a "patriotic education," which meant the severe reduction of education on slavery and racism, and the complete elimination of any mention of systemic racism which Trump described as "child abuse." [478] In addition to the history curriculum he promoted being completely white-washed, historians described it as being "filled with errors." [479]
Referred to Black Lives Matters protesters as "thugs," a term frequently used as a pejorative against black men [480].
Said black people understand him better now that he's been arrested [481].
When wanting to show the media he was supported by black people addressed him by shouting, "look at my African American!" The man is no longer a Trump supporter [482].
Trump has a long history of referring to black people using dehumanizing language [483].
After Hurricane Maria in 2017, Trump blocked $20,000,000 in aide from reaching US territory Puerto Rico. Then blocked an investigation as to why he was blocking aide to them [484].
One of his most-used attorneys, Alina Habba, was recorded singing the N-word to rap music, and said of New York Attorney General, Letitia James, "I hate that black bitch." [485] Trump continued to employ Habba after she was exposed.
Frequently questioned the race of Kamala Harris saying that, when it was beneficial for her political career, "she happened to turn Black." [486] Kalama Harris was born in the USA to a black Jamaican father and an Indian mother. She always identified as both black and Indian, attended a historically black university, and was a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Trump either didn't know anything about her life, or lied about her. When asked to justify his outrageous comments, he said he read about it "somewhere," though he couldn't say where, and said the he doesn't care what her race is, it's up to her to decide [487], as if people can simply decide the color of their skin.
Invited open white supremacist Nick Fuentes and Kanye West (after he said he "liked Hitler") to dine with him in the White House [488].
Because she is Muslim, Trump frequently lied about Ilhan Omar's political allegiance [489].
Said that immigrants who commit crimes have "bad genes" [490], a common phrase used by white supremacists.
Said the undocumented workers and refugee seekers entering the USA were turning it into a "dumping ground" and the "garbage can for the world." [491]
Trump said Judge Gonzalo Curiel couldn't give him a fair ruling, not because of a conflict of interest (there wasn't any), but simply because Judge Curiel, who was born and raised in Indiana, was Mexican [492].
Hired Tony Hinchcliffe to warm up his crowd. Hinchcliffe said Latinos have too many babies, said the American territory of Puerto Rico is a floating island of garbage, and made further racist comments about black men and watermelons [493]. In response to this, Trump's vice president pick J.D. Vance, said Americans need to stop getting so offended by racist jokes [494].
Trump claimed many times, that he saw thousands of Arab-Americans cheering about the September 11th terrorist attack. That never happened, and Trump was told numerous times that it never happened, but he kept repeating the lie [495].
Trump said the NFL should fire any players who protest the National Anthem for Black Lives Matter [496], first amendment be damned.
Trump gave a full pardon to Sheriff Joe Arpaio who had warned so many times about deliberately targeting and arresting people of color that he had to be arrested over it [497].
Former employee Omarosa Manigault said Trump is "indeed a racist, a bigot, and a misogynist," who used the N-word around her [498].
Complaining about immigrants who give birth in the USA which automatically makes their children US citizens, Trump said he would repeal the 14th amendment on his first day in office [499]. This, of course, isn't possible since changing the constitutional is quite difficult [500]. Trump also incorrectly stated that USA is the only country in the world with birthright citizenship (also known as jus soli), but 36 nations have unrestricted birthright citizenship (meaning simply being born on their soil makes you a citizen), and 38 more have restricted birthright citizenship (usually requiring at least one parent to be a citizen) [501]. Trump did sign an executive order rewriting the 14th amendment on his first day in office, it even excluded Native Americans from birthright citizenship [502], but it was immediately blocked by a judge for being blatantly unconstitutional [503].
On Trump's first day in office in 2025, the White House's entire Spanish language website was taken offline [504].
The most important person int Trump's 2025 cabinet, Elon Musk, twice made an arm gesture that resembled a Nazi salute. While Musk himself didn't admit it was a Nazi salute [505], the actual Nazis who support Trump viewed it as a call to arms [506]. Musk responded with a post filled with the names of several prominent Nazis butchers including Goebbels, Gőring, Hess, and Himmler [507]. A few days later, Musk spoke at a far-right Germany political rally where he told a crowd (some of whom were Nazi-sympathizers) to move past any "past guilt." [508]
In 2025, Trump ordered the National Science Foundation to cancel funding any research into the affects of diversity, equity, or inclusion [509].
During Trump's first term, he endorsed a diversity program in the Education Department. By his second term, Trump had become so anti-diversity that he laid off any federal employees who were previously involved in diversity programs. This meant that those employees who worked on Trump's own diversity program during his first term, and were still there for his second term, were laid off for participating in a program that Trump himself endorsed [510].
In order to comply with Trump's executive orders, various federal agencies have been barred from celebrating Black History Month and Martin Luther King Jr. Day [511] [512].
In 2018, Trump's speech writer, Darren Beattie, was caught speaking at a white nationalist rally, so Trump reluctantly fired him [513]. In 2019, Beattie was hired as an advisor for disgraced child-sex-trafficker Matt Gaetz [514]. In 2020, despite his racist ties, Trump appointed Beattie to head the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, a major part of the job is protecting Jewish-American heritage, which resulted in condemnation from American Jews [515]. In 2025, Trump appointed him to the State Department [516], and, while serving as the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, he posted online, "Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work," and "130+ IQ white males under the age of 20 is pretty much the only demographic that matters." [517]
Although Trump's anti-DEI executive orders can only directly be applied to federal agencies, indirectly, Trump can pressure private and state institutions to remove DEI messaging. One example is the NFL removing the phrase "end racism," from their field, perhaps after learning Trump would attend the Super Bowl [518].
Trump's pick to run the Department of Education, Linda McMahon (former executive of World Wrestling Entertainment), who wants to abolish the Department of Education [519], said she wasn't sure if she would let public schools teach Black history, and might make it illegal [520].
In 2020, the Trump campaign released an advertisement with Nazi symbolism. It featured a red triangle, the symbol used by the Nazis in concentration camps to mark violent protesters, with a statement by Trump claiming that protesters who try to stop fascism are terrorists. The Trump administration also purposely bought 88 ad spaces, with 88 being Nazi code for "heil Hitler." Facebook eventually removed the ads [521] [522].

Christianity

Trump's true devotion.

While he frequently talks about the importance of Christianity, Trump almost never prays, asks for forgiveness, or even attends church [523].
Trump claimed the bible was his favorite book, but, when asked for his favorite passage, he couldn't name a single one [524]. He did eventually give a partial verse, saying "eye for and eye" was his favorite [525]. When asked to read a bible verse, Trump flubbed the reading by naming the book "Two Corinthians" instead of "Second Corinthians." [526]
Said he has never asked the Christian god for forgiveness [527].
Made a lot of money shilling bibles that are made in China [528].
Ordered a violent police raid on a peaceful protest in order to have a photo-op of him holding a bible in front of a church. It was not his bible, and he didn't attend church service [529]. He was later condemned by various Christian organizations for doing so [530].
Trump mistook a communion plate for an offering plate and tried to put money in it [531].
Refers to the Eucharist as "my little cracker," and believes taking communion is a form of asking forgiveness [532].
Despite his complete lack of piety or understanding of the Christianity, Trump supporters still think he's more religious than his political contemporaries, including Mike Pence and Mitt Romney [533].
Although Trump tried to distance himself from the Christian nationalist Project 2025, hadn't read it, didn't know what it was, and didn't know who created it, many of the project's board members were from Trump's first term cabinet [534] [535], and Trump personally appointed many of project's other authors to his 2024 cabinet [536]. After winning the 2024 election, Trump began instituting many of its policies [537] [538].
Claimed, in a Dr. Phil interview no less, that the Christian god wants him to win the 2024 presidency [539].
During his 2025 inauguration, Trump did not place his hand on a bible for his swearing in [540].
After Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde gave a sermon about how the bible paints a clear message that people should love and care for foreigners, Trump described her as "nasty," "not smart," and "not very good at her job," and demanded an apology from her and her entire church [541]. After Trump's statement, she received death threats [542].
Although churches have, for thousands of years, been seen as holy sanctuaries and safe havens, Trump signed an executive order which allowed law enforcement to arrest people even if it meant breaking into churches [543].
Trump was happy to put his signature on a statue of a goat covered in fake $100 Trump bucks, each boasting the phrase, "In Trump We Trust." [544] This was reminiscent of the giant golden Trump statue at CPAC which nobody noticed the parallels between it and the golden calf in the Exodus story of Moses and the Ten Commandments [545].

Assaulting women

Trump's assault.

Has been accused by 27 different women of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment [546].
Was found guilty of sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll and ordered to pay her $5,000,000 [547]. Then, after making many public lies about her, Carroll sued him for defamation, and Trump was found guilty and ordered to pay her another $83,300,000 [548].
Bragged about walking into dressing rooms to see nude teenage girls in the Miss USA pageant without their consent [549]. Trump later claimed he was only joking, but numerous former contestants have since admitted that Trump did indeed walk into their dressing rooms when they were teens and saw them naked [550].
Admitted to sexually assaulting women numerous times [551] [552]. He claimed he was lying and that it was locker room talk, the kind made by insecure teenage boys, as if that excuses it.
After billionaire Jeffery Epstein was convicted of child sex-trafficking and Trump was seen in numerous videos partying with him, Trump claimed he never flew on his private jet [553]. But flight records showed that Trump was actually one of the most frequent fliers of his jet, at least seven times [554]. During his 2024 campaign, Trump chartered the plane again to fly to rallies [555].
In a Howard Stern interview when Trump was 60-years-old, Trump was asked if he would "bang 24-year-olds," to which Trump replied, "I'd have no problem." He was then asked if he had a younger age limit, Trump responded, "No," but clarified, he "I don't want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds." [556] (Republican Mark Foley was caught soliciting sex from a 16-year-old boy). Trump, while next to his daughter, later said he was a sexual predator, though he later said this was a joke [557].
Appointed Republican Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general despite Gaetz having been investigated multiple times for paying for sex with minors [558][559], buying and using drugs during sex parties [560], and bragging about both in Congress to his fellow Republicans [561]. His fellow Republicans helped cover-up the investigation so it couldn't be made public [562], but even that wasn't enough when so many women brought up such serious allegations that Gaetz not only withdrew his nomination, but resigned from Congress altogether [563]. This amount of evidence forced Republicans to release their ethics report on him which showed that he did indeed pay thousands of dollars to have sex with under-aged girls [564]. Since Trump had won the presidency, he had access to this report before it was published, but he still appointed him!
Told Howard Stern it is okay to refer to his daughter Ivanka as "a piece of ass." [565]
Has a very long detailed history of saying terrible things about women [566].
While in the White House, Trump described in detail his daughter's breasts, butt, and talked about how nice it would be to have sex with her [567].
Trump frequently responds to his many rape allegations by claiming he doesn't find the women sexy enough to rape [568].
After saying he would be the "protector" of women, he explained he would protect them, "whether they like it or not!" [569]
The Trump administration published their Title IX rules which made it harder for women who have been raped or sexually assaulted on college campuses to seek justice [570].
Trump repealed the law which required large companies to pay women an equal rate as men [571].
Referred to Nancy Pelosi as a "sick, crazy, bitch." [572]
On Trump's first day in office in 2025, the federal government's web site for women's reproductive rights was taken offline [573].
In order to comply with Trump's executive orders, various federal agencies have been barred from celebrating Women's History Month [574] and women who have excelled in their field [575].
Linda Fagan is a four-star admiral and the first female commandant of the US Coast Guard. Trump not only fired her, but gave her only three hours to before she was evicted from her home [576].
Trump signed an executive order which would send all incarcerated transgender women to men's prisons. This order would have had disastrous consequences, and was thankfully blocked after even a Reagan-appointed judge wouldn't allow it [577].
In his effort to eliminate any scientific research from the government he didn't like, the Trump administration included a list of over 100 words that would automatically get a grant proposal flagged. These words include "female" and "women," but not "male" and "man." Because of this, all medical research designed to treat women was flagged, but any research that only treated men was allowed [578].
Andrew Tate has been credibly accused of rape and human trafficking by several people in Romania and the UK. Trump pressured Romania to allow Tate to travel out of the country which would allow him to flee extradition [579].

Healthcare

Claimed he would replace the Affordable Care Act with something that would give better coverage and be cheaper, and it would be so easy to do it would be completed on the first day of his presidency [580]. However, he failed to come up with a replacement and just tried to eliminate it without any replacement at all, but failed to get the votes in Congress, even from some Republican Congressmen. Even while campaigning for the 2024 election, he still claimed he would replace it with something great, but still hadn't come up with anything [581].
In 2018, Trump disbanded the National Security Council for global health and security and bio-defense, and tried to assuage dissenters by saying it could always be brought back if there was a need. After the COVID-19 pandemic began a year later, Trump made no efforts to reassemble the Council [582].
Trump said COVID-19 would disappear like magic [583].
Trump's team thought COVID-19 was so-named because it was the 19th strain of the virus and didn't know its name came from the year of its discovery [584].
Trump refused to push for a national lock down. While he eventually said states should take precautions after thousands had died, his hesitance and lies about the disease caused many Americans to think it was less dangerous than it was so, unlike most other nations, no state ever fully locked down [585]. As a result, the USA had, by far, the largest death rate of all developed nations [586]. When asked to comment on all the deaths, Trump said, "It is what it is." [587]
Pushed scientists to endorse a variety of untested drugs to cure or prevent COVID-19 [588] including a vaccine for the unrelated disease influenza [589], unrelated drugs like Ivermectin [590] and Hydroxychloroquine [591], cleaning fluid injections [592], and UV light used internally [593], which led to deaths, poisonings, and permanent health problems to those foolish enough to follow his advice.
Put together a COVID-19 relief program that was so poorly-executed and so badly monitored a large percentage of the money meant for relief was instead stolen and squandered [594].
Gave COVID-19 test kits and medical equipment to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in the early stages of the pandemic before most Americans had access to them [595].
Said repeatedly that if we would just stop administering COVID tests, we wouldn't have so many cases of the disease [596].
Trump rolled back medical protections that prevented hospitals from discriminating against LGBT people [597].
The Trump administration made it legal for companies to not cover contraception for their employees [598].
Trump cut funding and authority to the FDA and USDA which caused food-borne illness to spike considerably [599].
Trump said he would put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of women's health care, as well as the FDA, USDA, and NIH and "let him go wild," but Trump said he would personally oversee anything related to "liquid gold." [600] RFK Jr. said, on his first day in office he would push for a nationwide ban on fluoridated water and vaccines [601] (even though he made sure his own children were fully vaccinated [602]), and also criminalize abortion for all people [603]. RFK Jr argued for the safety of raw milk, even as it was being investigated for spreading bird flu to humans [604]. Trump later said RFK Jr would investigate conspiracy beliefs about vaccines even though they've already been disproved, even though RFK Jr doesn't know how to investigate anything [605]. A letter signed by 77 Nobel prize winners urged the Senate not to approve RFK Jr warning he would be a serious threat to public health [606]. Even his own family said he is a predator and incapable of running the office without massive corruption [607]. RFK Jr also has a history of making racist claims about medicine claiming that COVID-19 was specifically engineered to kill white people while not the Jews [608]. Despite all of that, Republicans confirmed him as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services [609]. Despite wanting vaccines banned, and possibly canceling the 2025 flu vaccine [610], the moment a measles outbreak in Texas started killing children, he began endorsing vaccines again [611], but still had to be told by the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics that his idea for a vitamin-based approach to treating measles "is not only dangerous and ineffective, but it puts children at serious risk." [612]. RFK Jr then decided to waste taxpayer money trying to find a link between autism and vaccines, which has long since been debunked [613], while also cutting all funding to studying why Americans aren't getting vaccines as frequently [614], and lying about conflicts of interest with doctors who promote vaccines [615]. He later claimed that measles could be cured by fish oil, steroids, or antibiotics [616], none of which is true or even remotely possible.
Signed an executive order saying the US government will no longer acknowledge the existence of transgender people or even intersex people [617].
Pulled the USA out of the World Health Organization making it harder for US doctors to understand and follow epidemics around the world and therefore unprepared for when the reach the USA [618], and ordered the CDC to stop sharing any medical information with the WHO [619].
Upon taking office in 2025, Trump told the National Institute of Health to end all communication with other organizations, so they had to cancel all their medical research meetings [620]. He then cut NIH funding by a staggering 15%, which resulted in the end of medical research all over the country [621].
As part of Trump's massive purge of federal workers, he also fired the people responsible for monitoring and containing Avian Influenza just as it started infecting humans. The USDA had to struggling to rehire them [622].
Trump's federal spending freeze caused outages for the Medicare portals in all 50 states [623].
With Trump's authorization, Elon Musk cut funding to study, track, and prevent Ebola, then, after backlash restored it and lied that he didn't cause any problems [624].
The Trump administration delete educational content designed to help people with HIV to treat and monitor their illness, though it was eventually restored. The mix-up appears to have been because Trump wanted all content that could help transgender people to be deleted, and his team still thought only LGBT people could get HIV [625].
During his 2024 campaign, Trump said he would eliminate surprise medical bills, but he instead fired a large percentage of the department in charge of preventing surprise bills [626].
The National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods and the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection help keep food-borne illness to a minimum. Trump disbanded them [627].

Abortion

Despite abortion rights being desired by the majority of the country, he falsely stated everyone loved him eliminating federal protections on abortion [628].
Repeatedly lied that Democrats want to execute babies after they're born [629], and even claimed that Democrat states passed laws to allow killing babies after they're born [630].
Said women who have abortions must be punished [631].
Falsely claimed doctors rip babies out of women the day before they were expected to give birth as a form of abortion. There is no evidence for this ever happening [632].
Said he would be open to states criminalizing contraception. [633]

Pollution / Environment

Trump rolled back over 125 anti-pollution laws [634], and even more in his second term [635].
Called the entire scientific consensus of climate change a hoax created by the Chinese [636].
Made up various outlandish lies to prevent clean energy like claiming that the sound of windmills somehow causes cancer [637] [638] and somehow kills whales [639] as if he cared about them.
During Hurricane Dorian, he took a chart of possible course created by meteorologists and used a marker to draw a new path so it would match his previous ridiculous statement that it would hit Alabama [640].
Allowed coal mines to dump their waste into public rivers [641].
Allowed coal plants to put more toxic mercury into the atmosphere [642].
Had the words "climate change" removed from nearly every government web site, including those meant to inform the public about the changing climate [643].
Said that wildfires aren't related to climate change and could be solved simply by raking up dried leaves in forests [644], not comprehending the USA has around 384,000,000 acres of forest land.
Pretty much everything Trump said about the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires was a lie. FEMA was properly funded, there was no such thing as the "water restoration declaration," the cities did have and use firefighter planes to drop water, etc. [645] After 24 Americans died in the fires, Trump posted a picture online of Hollywood in flames with a sign reading "Trump was right." [646] A couple weeks into his presidency, Trump signed an executive order draining two reservoirs in a failed attempt to divert the water to the wildfires. Water control experts said doing so would not affect the fires [647], but Trump did it anyway at a huge cost and, because he ordered the reservoirs to be drained as fast as possible, almost flooded homes along the way [648]. And, because he drained so much water in an area that sees little rain, it's unlikely that the reservoirs will be refilled by the time they're needed for farming. When asked if this was a wise decision, a longtime manager of the state's water said, "This decision was clearly made by someone with no understanding of the system or the impacts that come from knee-jerk political actions." [649]. Colonel Chad W. Caldwell of the Army Corps of Engineers, who oversees the reservoir even told the White House, the water "could not be delivered to Southern California directly," but Trump didn't care [650].
In 2016, Trump picked climate change denier Scott Pruitt to run the Environmental Protection Agency because of his history of suing the EPA 14 times [651] on behalf of companies who wanted to pollute more. While EPA secretary, Pruitt eliminated many protections which allowed companies to increased the amount of pollution they dumped [652], but he was also so corrupt his term was plagued with non-stop scandals. After 13 investigations [653], Pruitt was forced to resign [654]. In 2025, Trump picked Lee Zeldin to run the Environmental Protection Agency. Like Pruitt before him, Zeldin's goals were to downsize the EPA, eliminate regulations in order to allow companies to pollute more [655], and increase fracking [656].
In 2017, Trump pulled the USA out of the Paris Climate Agreement, a very low bar to reach where member countries agreed to reduce pollution a small amount in order to not make the planet inhospitable quite as quickly [657]. Biden rejoined it in 2021, but Trump pulled out again in 2025 [658].
In 20205, Trump ordered the National Science Foundation to cancel all research grants researching the benefits of green energy [659].
Trump rolled back an initiative to reduce plastic pollution [660].
Even as visitation was increasing, Trump approved of massive firings for the National Park Service causing severe problems at parks all around the country [661], then prepared to close down 34 buildings across various parks including visitor centers, rangers offices, and museums [662].
Trump halted funding and hiring to the USA's wildfire prevention program [663].
Trump's USDA deleted all research results on climate change. Farmers need this data to decided what and when to plant crops, so they sued [664].
Ordered the Department of the Interior to stop penalizing companies whose dumped pollution or chemical disasters kill migratory birds [665].

Antisemitism

During Rosh Hashanah, he blamed the destruction of American on "Liberal Jews." [666]
He said, "Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion." [667]
Was accused of making Holocaust jokes to Jews [668].* Said Hillary Clinton worked with "international banks" (a dog whistle used by Nazis to refer to Jews) to plot the destruction of America [669].
Was called out by many Jewish leaders for increasing violence against Jewish people with his antisemitic statements [670].
Said 100% of Jews should be voting for him, and those who don't should have their head examined, or they have had a curse put on them by the Democrats. He also said, if Jews don't vote for him, Israel will be eradicated, and the Jewish people would have a lot to do with the loss [671].
In order to comply with Trump's executive orders, various federal agencies have been barred from observing Holocaust Remembrance Day [672].
Trump's right-hand man, Elon Musk, spoke at Trump's inauguration and gave two Nazi salutes [673]. He then tried to downplay the act by writing a post filled with Nazi puns [674]. A couple days later he endorsed Germany's fascist party telling Germans to stop feeling guilty about the nation's "past guilt," [675] presumably the Nazis and the Holocaust.
Because Chuck Schumer didn't support Trump and Israel's genocide in Palestine, Trump said Schumer is no longer Jewish, but a Palestinian [676].

Indecency

After the 9/11 terrorist attack which destroyed both World Trade Center buildings, Trump bragged that he now had the tallest building in New York [677].
Trump said disabled people cost too much money to keep alive, and should just die [678]. He even said this about his own nephew [679].
Mocked New York Times journalist Serge Kovaleski's physical disability [680] [681], and despite being filmed while doing so, said he never did, then demanded an apology from the New York Times [682].
Mocked an old man collapsing in injury [683].
Had sex with an adult film actress while his wife was at home with their newborn son [684]. His lawyer Michael Cohen paid $130,000 to keep the story quiet and ended up taking the rap [685].
Trump has a long history of not paying hired workers [686] [687].
Trump said, several times, anyone who takes the fifth in a legal defense is guilty [688]. Then, in his own criminal deposition, took the fifth 440 times [689].
Spoke at the Boy Scouts Jamboree and told stories about rich yacht sex parties and went on a political rant for so long the head of the Boy Scouts had to apologize to the parents of the children and tell them Trump would never be invited back to speak [690].
Said many times that he wouldn't cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, but his 2020 budget proposal would have cut all three [691].
Invited Laura Loomer, a 9/11 conspiracy pusher, to a ceremony honoring the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks [692].
After refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election, Trump became the first president in 152 years to refuse to attend their successor's inauguration [693].
Repeatedly described the fictional murderous cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, as a "wonderful man" and "great" [694].
Routinely refused to pay the contractors he hired [695].
Referred to Kamala Harris as "mentally disabled." [696]
Made several lies about disaster relief for Hurricane Helene claiming Republicans weren't being helped, even when Republican governors said they were, and that FEMA spent all their money on immigrants [697].
Told US autoworkers that their job was so easy they could be replaced by a child [698].
Trump lied about winning "Man of the Year." [699]
A Trump golf course made up a fake Civil War battle to try and steal fame [700].
In a Thanksgiving speech, Trump said the thing he is most thankful for is himself [701].
Trump buried his ex-wife on one of his golf courses [702].
Trump used every one of his holiday posts to hates people. For Christmas, he said hoped a large number of Americans would "rot in hell!" [703].
Complained that President Jimmy Carter's death caused flags to be flown at half mast during his inauguration, whining, "Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it." [704] Republicans Mike Johnson [705] and Greg Abbott [706] broke flag code and ordered them flow at full height for Trump.
Said of the people who lost their homes to the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, in an insulting voice, "that's interesting." [707]
A few days after Trump took office in 2025, he invalidated the passports for all transgender, non-binary, and intersex Americans and they were barred from leaving or entering the USA [708].
Without warning he halted all federal grants to student aid, foreign aid, and even non-governmental aid, disrupting the lives of millions of people [709].
Trump severed ties with the United Nations Human Rights Council, an organization which promotes basic human rights for all people [710].
In order to destroy workers unions across the USA to pay back the billionaire donors who funded his campaign, Trump illegally fired Gwynne Wilcox, the head of the National Labor Relations Board [711]. With the chair seat left vacant, the organization couldn't rule on laws to protect workers, an Amazon used it as an argument to eliminate workers unions [712].
In 2025, Trump fired most of the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and replaced them with people who would appoint him as the new chairman [713]. I guess US presidents have a lot of extra free time to be making decisions about stage performances. Trump still holds a grudge against the previous actors who received honors from the Center but refused to meet him. As chairman, Trump said he will block anything featuring transgender actors [714], but, with him as chairman, many of the planned events are being canceling [715].
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau exists to ensure for-profit corporations don't use predatory tactics to trick US citizens into loans which will keep them in debt for the rest of their lives. Trump, who profits off people remaining in perpetual debt, and whose campaign was financed by similar people, shut it down [716].
In order to eliminate all government research on topics Trump doesn't like, a list of over 100 terms was made. If any of these terms existed in a research grant, it would be automatically flagged for audit to see if it should be canceled. The terms in the list made it clear what Trump was trying to eliminate from science and includes "hate speech, disability, women, racism, prejudice, and LGBT." However, because the list was so poorly assembled, it also includes a lot of terms that are very common in scientific studies of all subjects like "status, excluded, female, and barrier." Because of this, a large percentage of all research grants were flagged unnecessarily [717].
Trump said he wanted the country to be merit-based, but most of the hires in his administration are through nepotism and cronyism. The bulk of his cabinet has no experience in the departments they're running [718] [719].
Trump cut funding to the 9/11 first-responders medical program [720].
Trump fired over 1,000 National Park workers [721].
Only three months into his second term, Trump was able to increase unemployment by a staggering 245%, which was on par with the pandemic levels from his first term [722].

Laziness

Despite having majority control of the White House, Senate, House of Representatives, state Governors, and the US Supreme Court for two years from 2017-2019, Trump still didn't manage to get much done [723]. He didn't repeal or replace the Affordable Care Act, he didn't build a border wall, he didn't even increase arrests at the border, and there wasn't any economic growth. The only thing he really accomplished was to cut taxes for the wealthy.
Complained the Obama played too much golf, and promised that when he became president he would work so hard he wouldn't have time to play golf. However, he not only played over three times more games of golf than Obama [724] (one golf vacation was 17 days long [725]), he played golf more than any president since 1952! In his four years as president, he made 285 visits to golf courses (an average of one visit every 5.13 days) [726] with an estimated cost to US taxpayers of $142,000,000 [727].
He spent almost a full third of his first year visiting his own vacation resorts and charging the Secret Service room and board [728]. By 2019, he visited Mar-a-Lago over 100 times [729], entirely at the expense of the US tax payer. At the end of four years, Trump spent an average of 95 days on vacation each year [730]. The only two presidents who averaged even more vacation time were George W. Bush (128 days) and George H. W. Bush (136 days) [731].
Spent over half of his work day on "executive time" which various aids described as watching television, scrolling on his phone, and posting on Twitter [732]. The actual number of working hours that Trump spent while in office was the lowest amount of any documented president averaging only 6 hours a day [733].

Incompetence

Rather than be a competent leader, Trump had the worst turnover of any White House in living memory, even worse than Ronald Reagan [734], and nearly every former employee became a severe critic of Trump exposing the things he said and did in private.
Trump claimed he would pay off the $19,000,000,000,000 nation debt in only eight years, a staggeringly ridiculous claim that would require him to not only stop all new debt, but use about $2 trillion from the country's $4 trillion income for eight years to pay off the debt [735]. Trump claimed it could be done by renegotiating all trade agreements with foreign nations, but, the last time he tried this, he got into a very costly trade war with China and lost Americans money.
Despite claiming fiscal responsibility, the Trump administration had reckless spending, cut the already historically low taxes for the wealthy, and incurred a tremendous debt of $7,800,000,000,000, the third largest of any president in US history [736]. Before his second term started, he demanded the removal of the debt ceiling so he could plunge the nation further into debt [737].
The longest government shutdown in US history, 35 days, occurred during the Trump administration because Trump tied funding the government to him receiving $5,000,000,000 of taxpayer money to waste on his border wall which he said Mexico would pay for. He eventually capitulated and funded the government without the border wall money [738].
Repeatedly claimed that Americans need to show identification in order to buy groceries [739]
During his Independence Day speech said the Continental Army, during the American Revolutionary War in the 1770s, took over British airports. [740]
Trump's cabinet frequently said that he won't sit through briefings and prefers documents with few words and lots of illustrations and graphs instead.
After accidentally referring to CEO of Apple Tim Cook as "Tim Apple," he claimed he never made such a statement [741].
Claimed that public schools are performing gender-affirming surgeries on children without the knowledge of the parents or the students [742].
He was warned many times by the Secret Service to stop being so predictable with his golfing [743] because it made things much easier for would-be assassins, but he refused to listen. Then, when Secret Service thwarted the exact type of assassination attempt they predicted, Trump still refused to take responsibility and, without any evidence, blamed his political rivals [744].
Trump told the press he met with the president of the Virgin Islands, not knowing that the Virgin Islands are a US territory, so he was actually their president [745].
Told the press he knew Mayor Willie Brown very well because he was in a helicopter with him that almost crashed. Trump insisted multiple times it was Brown, but it was actually Nate Holden [746].
Trump believes exercise actually kills people faster than being lazy because he thinks humans are born with a finite amount of energy [747].
Trump appointed Omarosa Manigault, a former reality TV star, to director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the White House [748]. This was widely regarded as a poor choice since she had very little experience in White House affairs. As expected, she only succeeded in creating a lot of chaos and drama and was fired by Trump within a year. In 2018, Manigault released a book where she described Trump as racist, unhinged, and in mental decline. Trump tried suing her and lost, and was ordered to personally pay her $1,300,000 [749]. She was later convicted of violating White House ethics and had to pay a fine of $60,000 [750].
Appointed Linda McMahon, wife of World Wrestling Entertainment Vince McMahon, to Secretary of Education. McMahon had no history in teaching or education administration, but she did once lie that she did [751]. Shortly after Republicans in Congress approved her, she fired half her department's workers [752].
Because his 2016 transition team, led by his son-in-law Jared Kushner, was so unqualified they didn't even realize they had to replace the bulk of the White House staff, and had no plans to do so [753]. Because of this, most of the White House staff positions were vacant for the first six months of his presidency and very little got done [754].
Despite having no experience, Trump appointed retired football player Herschel Walker as ambassador to the Bahamas [755].
Trump campaigned on the promise that he would decrease the size of the federal government, but, once elected, he said he would create a whole new department of government to handle all the tariffs he planned on instituting, the External Revenue Service. However, tariffs are already handled by the Department of Commerce, so this would be completely redundant [756].
Picked Ben Carson, a surgeon, to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Even though Carson admitted he had no experience with HUD whatsoever and feared he would make a mess of it [757], he accepted the position anyway and embarrassed himself repeatedly through the process [758]. Over time, Carson did indeed go on to make a mess of it [759] and was caught embezzling money for his furniture [760]. For his second term as president, Trump picked Scott Turner, a former football player turned preacher to run HUD [761].
Recreating his Georgia mugshot as his official 2025 president portrait is not the choice of someone who take seriously the office of the president [762].
When asked how he would decrease interest rates throughout the nation, Trump said he would demand they be lowered [763]. However, presidents are not allowed to change the interest rates of the Federal Reserve, because it's supposed to be run by economists who desire to put the country's interests ahead of the president's interest.
Trump's initial 2025 White House cabinet consisted of 19 talking heads from Fox [764].
Trump ordered the dismantling of the entire Department of Education [765].
Trump hired Elon Musk to cut federal jobs. Musk has a history of taking over companies and firing workers before he understands what they do and crippling his own companies as a result [766]. He ended up doing the same thing with the US government, except, instead of having to beg software engineers to come back after firing them, he has had to beg the engineers to build and maintain the USA's stockpile of nuclear bombs [767] and land airplanes [768]. Firing everyone at the National Nuclear Security Administration was such an embarrassing blunder, The Trump administration lied to try and cover up their mistake [769], but they haven't been very successful at rehiring the people they fired, because it seems they also deleted all their contact information, so they can't even get word to them to beg them to come back to work [770]
Trump's unofficial organization, DOGE, was run primarily by employees in their 20s and late teens including Edward Coristine, who just graduated high school, was fired from his previous job for leaking company secrets to a competitor [771], and goes by the name "Big Balls." [772] Another is Marko Elez, who had to quit after it turned out he is a white supremacist who posted online, "I was racist before it was cool," "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," "Normalize Indian hate," and "I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth." [773] These barely adults were given direct access to the previously secure data of nearly every secure government agency. This lack of experience was brought to light when, within a week, their hastily thrown-together website was hacked shortly after coming online [774], one of their workers was accidentally given the ability to completely alter the payment system of the entire US Treasury [775], and they accidentally released classified US intelligence to the public [776]. These continued lapses in judgment caused 21 employees to resign in protest saying they couldn't, with a clear conscience continue to "jeopardize Americans' sensitive data." [777]
In 2025, the Trump administration wanted to replace the head of the FAA with someone loyal to themselves, so they told Michael Whitaker to resign or be fired, so he quit [778]. Trump also signed an executive order placing a hiring freeze on all federal workers, including air traffic controllers [779], which wasn't a wise decision because they were already understaffed [780]. Then, Trump disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee [781]. Despite the firings, unfilled positions, and elimination of the safety committee, the White House issued a press release congratulating Trump on restoring "safety and excellence" in the FAA [782]. A few days later, there was a mid-flight collision between a passenger plane and a military helicopter which killed all 67 people on board both air crafts, the first large scale fatal plane crash in the USA in 15 years [783]. Rather than admit his meddling may have affected the quality of air traffic control, Trump blamed the DEI programs of Obama and Biden claiming they allowed the FAA to hire air traffic controllers who could barely see or hear, were completely paralyzed, and had severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities [784]. Obviously, that never happened as DEI programs require everyone to be physically and mentally capable to do the job for which they're hired [785]. When asked how he can be sure DEI hires caused the crash before any details were released, Trump concluded "Because I have common sense." [786] Apparently not, because, the FAA diversity program he was condemning was put in place during his first administration [787]. And, while it's typical for Trump to blame the nation's problems on diversity, all of the pilots involved were able-bodied experienced white men [788]. When later asked if he would visit the site of the tragedy, Trump cracked a joke and asked, "You want me to go swimming?" [789]. Later while his cabinet was fighting over further firing of firing air traffic controllers, Trump said they would replace the workers the fired with "geniuses from MIT." [790] This wouldn't be a very good idea since the Massachusetts Institute of Technology doesn't have an air traffic controller program.
Right in the middle of the 2025 tax season, Trump authorized the firing of 6,000 IRS employees [791], and closed down 110 IRS offices [792]. The experienced commissioner also retired because of Trump [793].
Trump ordered the deletion of around 3,400 research datasets. These were already bought and paid for by American taxes, and mostly included research used by doctors, biologists, farmers, and law enforcement agencies [794].
Trump fell for the Fort Knox missing gold conspiracy [795].
Trump repeatedly confused "rare-earth" elements with "raw earth." [796]