What is Trump’s greatest hit (upon America)? Find below a top-100 list. Vote for your selection, in the comments section. Feel free to add other items, since of course it would be humanly impossible to compile a full list. This one I just threw together quickly, in no particular order:
1. “Grab them by the pussy”
2. His “spygate” lie, falsely smearing the FBI and Department of Justice and undermining America’s institutions of accountability and rule of law
3. His “Obama wiretapped me” lie
4. His inauguration crowd size lie
5. His racism (“very fine people on both sides”) — aggravating America’s racial tensions and divisions
6. Refusal to release tax returns
7. Lying about the reason for not releasing tax returns. (“Can’t believe I got away with that,” he reportedly said)
8. His conflicts of interest
9. The show he put on faking resolution of his conflicts of interest — with a table full of document folders — filled with blank paper
10. Saying John McCain was not a war hero
11. Refusing to apologize for an aide who said McCain doesn’t matter because he’s dying
12. Sliming Khizr Khan (whose soldier son was killed in Iraq) and Khan’s family
13. Encouraging fans at his rallies to beat people up
14. His speech to the Suffolk County police, encouraging them to beat people up
15. Withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and thereby handing China a huge geopolitical/trade victory while outraging our allies
16. Withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and thereby hastening Iran’s getting the bomb while outraging our allies
17. Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords, outraging our allies
18. His comprehensive ignorance of history, world affairs, and economics
19. His severe narcissistic personality disorder
20. Canceling DACA
21. Falsely saying he hoped Congress would undo the damage of canceling DACA
22. Rejecting every Congressional effort to undo the damage of canceling DACA
23. Blaming Democrats for the DACA mess
24. Demanding to build a useless white elephant border wall
25. Lying that Mexico will pay for the border wall
26. Calling Mexicans rapists, etc. (And repeating it lately)
27. Saying a U.S. judge cannot be fair because of his Mexican ancestry
28. His Muslim travel ban
29. Denying it is a Muslim travel ban
30. Proposing to slash legal immigration (and lying about how the existing system works)
31. Questioning why we take immigrants from “shit hole countries”
32. Taking away children from asylum seekers— a vicious crime against humanity, violating internationally recognized rights
33. Falsely blaming Democrats for it
34. Supporting pedophile Roy Moore
35. Pardoning racist Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, convicted of defying court orders
36. Otherwise abusing his pardon power to favor political allies, like slimeball Dinesh D’Souza, an extremist Obama-hater convicted of an illegal campaign finance scheme
37. His rants against leakers
38. His leaking sensitive classified intelligence to the Russians
39. His infatuation with dictators like Putin, Erdogan, and Al Sisi
41. Congratulating Turkish strongman Erdogan for a referendum giving him virtually unchecked power
42. Congratulating Philippine President Duterte for his handling of the drug problem — by having thousands of people murdered
43. Calling the press “the enemy of the American people”
44. His Trump University fraud (case settled for $25 million)
45. Getting rich by consistently refusing to pay contractors and workers on his projects
46. His mocking Republican members of Congress for their obeisance to the NRA
47. His obeisance to the NRA
48. His starting an idiotic self-defeating trade war. Several of them in fact. Against our closest allies
49. His being prosecuted by the Feds in the 1970s for racial discrimination in 39 housing sites
50. Falsifying the height of his buildings
51. Employing 200 illegal immigrants in constructing Trump Tower
52. Found guilty by a federal judge in 1991 for conspiring to avoid payment of union pension contributions for those workers
53. Four bankruptcies, walking away with millions while investors got screwed
54. Siphoning money contributed to his own campaign, into his own pocket. (One example: the campaign spent $55,000 to buy, from Trump, copies of one of his own books)
56. Lying to Canada’s prime minister about America’s trade deficit with Canada
57. Lying about lying to Canada’s prime minister
58. Justifying hitting Canada with tariffs because Canadians burned down the White House. (They didn’t)
59. Saying he’d accept the 2016 election results only if he won
60. Falsely claiming he lost the popular vote only because millions voted fraudulently
61. Setting up a commission to investigate supposed voter fraud as a pretext for harsher vote suppression measures to keep poor and black people from voting
62. Denying Russian meddling had anything to do with the 2016 election outcome
63. Saying President Obama didn’t do enough about Russian election meddling
64. Doing nothing about forthcoming Russian election meddling
65. Firing FBI Director Comey to squelch the investigation of Russian election meddling
66. Denying that’s why he fired Comey (though he’d previously said it was)
67. Calling the investigation of Russian election meddling a “witch hunt”
68. Refusing to implement sanctions against Russia voted by Congress
69. Convening the cabinet for the purpose of showering praise on him
70. Falsely saying America is the highest taxed nation in the world (far from true)
71. Passing a tax bill giving the great bulk of benefits to the rich and corporations, worsening inequality
72. Lying that he would not personally benefit from the tax bill
73. Re-tweeting phony videos posted by a British hate group
74. Insulting the British prime minister when she upbraided him for that
75. Failing to provide adequate help to our Puerto Rican citizens after the hurricane
76. His disgraceful political speech to the Boy Scout convention
77. Spending most of his time in the White House watching television; while refusing to read briefing papers, or anything else
79. Birtherism Lie
80. Blaming birtherism on Hillary and claiming he was the one who ended it (yes, he actually did that)
81. Claiming he saw New Jersey Muslims celebrate 9/11
82. Going on whacko conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s radio show and saying Jones has a “great reputation”
83. Extramarital affair with porn star
84. Paying hush money to porn star
85. Falsely saying he knew nothing about the hush money
86. Falsely denying the affair
87. Calling liars all the numerous women who say he took unwanted sexual liberties with them; and calling some of their accounts implausible because those women were ugly
89. Insulting journalist Megyn Kelly (“blood coming out of her wherever”)
90. Insulting Mika Brzezinski, Justin Trudeau, Kristen Stewart, Arianna Huffington, Rosie O’Donnell, Gail Collins, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Katy Tur, Carly Fiorina, Meryl Streep, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, San Juan Mayor Carmen Cruz, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Anna Wintour, hero John Lewis, beauty pageant contestant Alicia Machado, Congressman Adam Schiff, Senators Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand and Elizabeth Warren, and all women journalists saying “it really doesn’t matter what they write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”
91. Wasting millions so he can preen at a vainglorious military parade
92. Appointing liar and criminal Michael Flynn national security advisor
93. Firing Michael Flynn for his lies, and then saying Flynn was treated very unfairly
94. Health care — “repeal and replace” — with what?
95. Calling America’s murder rate the highest in 47 years when in fact it’s gone down pretty much steadily since 1980
96. Repeatedly falsely claiming that the N.Y. Times apologized for incorrect reporting about him
97. Steve Bannon; Roy Cohn; Michael Cohen
98. In numerous additional ways degrading America’s dignity and political and civic culture, enflaming people’s worst instincts and tribal divisiveness, undermining our global leadership and network of international alliances, as well as the cooperative rules-based world order America hugely invested in building since World War II, which has been a bulwark of our national security and prosperity, and shredding the principles, ideals, and values America used to stand for
100. His hair
My own vote: #99
And remember, his term isn’t even half over.
Trump has responded in a tweet: “All fake news, folks. Very unfair. Lying Frank Robinson is a very ugly, short, old, very stupid has-been loser (failed writer — and only one wife!!). Weak on crime, weak on the border, weak on the military. But we’ll see what happens.”
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