APOLOGY TO TRUMP SUPPORTERS
I owe my Trump-supporting family and
friends an apology.
I’ve been critical of the Trump presidency and am still exhausted from
the experience.
But to be fair, President Trump wasn’t that bad, other than when:
He incited an insurrection
against the government
Mismanaged a pandemic that
killed nearly half a million Americans
Separated children from
their families, and lost those children in the bureaucracy
Tear-gassed peaceful
protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a
Bible in front of a church
Tried to block all Muslims
from entering the country
Got impeached, got impeached
again
Had the worst jobs record of
any president in modern history
Ppressured Ukraine to dig
dirt on Joe Biden
Fired the FBI director for
investigating his ties to Russia
Bragged about firing the FBI
director on TV
Took Vladimir Putin’s word
over the US intelligence community
Diverted military funding to
build his wall
Caused the longest
government shutdown in US history
Called Black Lives Matter a
“symbol of hate"
Lied 30,000 times
Banned transgender people
from serving in the military
Ejected reporters from the
White House briefing room who asked tough questions
Vetoed the defense funding
bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers
Refused to release his tax
returns
Increased the national debt
by nearly $8 trillion
Had three of the highest
annual trade deficits in U.S. history
Called veterans and soldiers
who died in combat losers and suckers
Coddled the leader of Saudi
Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based
journalist
Refused to concede the 2020
election
Hired his unqualified
daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House
Walked out of an interview
with Lesley Stahl
Called neo-Nazis “very fine
people”
Suggested that people should
inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID
Abandoned our allies the
Kurds to Turkey
Pushed through massive tax
cuts for the wealthiest but balked at helping working Americans
Incited anti-lockdown
protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic
Withdrew the US from the
Paris climate accords
Withdrew the US from the
Iranian nuclear deal
Withdrew the US from the
Trans Pacific Partnership which was designed to block China’s advances
Insulted his own Cabinet
members on Twitter
Pushed the leader of
Montenegro out of the way during a photo op
Failed to reiterate US
commitment to defending NATO allies
Called Haiti and African
nations “shithole” countries
Called the city of Baltimore
the “worst in the nation"
Claimed that he single
handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas” even though it
hadn’t gone anywhere
Forced his Cabinet members
to praise him publicly like some cult leader
Believed he should be
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Berated and belittled his
hand-picked Attorney General when he recused himself from the Russia
probe
Suggested the US should buy
Greenland
Colluded
with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme
Court justices after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from
appointing judges
Repeatedly called the media
“enemies of the people"
Claimed that if we tested
fewer people for COVID we’d have fewer cases
Violated the emoluments
clause
Thought that Nambia was a
country
Told Bob Woodward in private
that the coronavirus was a big deal but then downplayed it in public
Called his exceedingly
faithful vice president a “p---y” for following the Constitution
Nearly got us into a war
with Iran after threatening them by tweet
Nominated a corrupt head of
the EPA
Nominated a corrupt head of
HHS
Nominated a corrupt head of
the Interior Department
Nominated a corrupt head of
the USDA
Praised dictators and
authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies
Refused to allow the
presidential transition to begin
Insulted war hero John
McCain – even after his death
Spent an obscene amount of
time playing golf after criticizing Barack Obama for playing (far less)
golf while president
Falsely claimed that he won
the 2016 popular vote
Falsely claimed that he
turned down being Time’s Man of the Year
Considered firing special
counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions
Mocked wearing face masks to
guard against transmitting COVID
Locked Congress out of its
constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones
Used a racist dog whistle by
calling COVID the “China virus"
Hired
and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually
convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and
national security adviser
Pardoned several of his
shady associates
Gave the Presidential Medal
of Freedom to two congressman who amplified his batshit crazy
conspiracy theories
Got into telephone fight
with the leader of Australia(!)
Had a Secretary of State who
called him a moron
Forced his press secretary
to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in
history
Botched the COVID vaccine
rollout
Tweeted so much dangerous
propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him
Charged the Secret Service
jacked-up rates at his properties
Constantly interrupted Joe
Biden in their first presidential debate
Claimed that COVID would
“magically” disappear
Called a U.S. Senator
“Pocahontas"
Used his Twitter account to
blast Nordstrom when it stopped selling Ivanka’s merchandise
Opened up millions of
pristine federal lands to development and drilling
Got into a losing tariff war
with China that forced US taxpayers to bail out farmers
Claimed that his losing
tariff war was a win for the US
Ignored or didn’t even take
part in daily intelligence briefings
Blew off honoring American
war dead in France because it was raining
Redesigned Air Force One to
look like the Trump Shuttle
Got played by Kim Jung Un
and his “love letters"
Threatened to go after
social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution
Botched the response to
Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
Threw paper towels and
toilet paper at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them
Pressured the governor and
secretary of state of Georgia to “find” him votes
Thought that the Virgin
islands had a President
Drew on a map with a Sharpie
to justify his inaccurate tweet that Alabama was threatened by a
hurricane
Allowed
White House staff to use personal email accounts for official
businesses after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing
Rolled back regulations that
protected the public from mercury and asbestos
Pushed regulators to waste
time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID
Rolled back regulations that
stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers
Held blatant campaign
rallies at the White House
Tried to take away millions
of Americans’ health insurance because the law was named for a Black man
Refused to attend his
successors’ inauguration
Nominated the worst
Education Secretary in history
Threatened judges who didn’t
do what he wanted
Attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci
Promised that Mexico would
pay for the wall (it didn’t)
Allowed political hacks to
overrule government scientists on major reports on climate change and
other issues
Struggled navigating a ramp
after claiming his opponent was feeble
Called an African-American
Congresswoman “low IQ"
Threatened to withhold
federal aid from states and cities with Democratic leaders
Went ahead with rallies
filled with maskless supporters in the middle of a pandemic
Claimed that legitimate
investigations of his wrongdoing were “witch hunts"
Seemed to demonstrate a
belief that there were airports during the American Revolution
Demanded “total loyalty”
from the FBI director
Praised a conspiracy theory
that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles
Completely gutted the Voice
of America
Placed a political hack in
charge of the Postal Service
Claimed without evidence
that the Obama administration bugged Trump Tower
Suggested that the US should
allow more people from places like Norway into the country
Suggested
that COVID wasn’t that bad because he recovered with the help of top
government doctors and treatments not available to the public
Overturned energy
conservation standards that even industry supported
Reduced the number of
refugees the US accepts
Insulted various members of
Congress and the media with infantile nicknames
Gave Rush Limbaugh a
Presidential medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address
Named
as head of federal personnel a 29-year old who’d previously been fired
from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties
Eliminated the White House
office of pandemic response
Used soldiers as campaign
props
Fired any advisor who made
the mistake of disagreeing with him
Demanded the Pentagon throw
him a Soviet-style military parade
Hired a ton of white
nationalists
Politicized the civil service
Did absolutely nothing after
Russia hacked the U.S. government
Falsely said the Boy Scouts
called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever
given to the Scouts
Claimed that Black people
would overrun the suburbs if Biden won
Insulted reporters of color
and women reporters and women reporters of color
Suggested he was fine with
China’s oppression of the Uighurs
Attacked the Supreme Court
when it ruled against him
Summoned Pennsylvania state
legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the
election
Spent countless hours every
day watching Fox News
Refused to allow his
administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas
Hired Rudy Giuliani as his
lawyer
Tried to punish Amazon
because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories
about him
Acted as if the Attorney
General of the United States was his personal attorney
Attempted to get the federal
government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a women who accused
him of sexual assault
Held private meetings with
Vladimir Putin without staff present
Didn’t disclose his private
meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian
media
Stopped holding press
briefings for months at a time
"Ordered” US companies to
leave China even though he has no such power
Led a political party that
couldn’t even be bothered to draft a policy platform
Claimed preposterously that
Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers
Tried to pressure the U.K.
to hold the British Open at his golf course
Suggested that the
government nuke hurricanes
Suggested that wind turbines
cause cancer
Said that he had a special
aptitude for science
Fired the head of election
cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure
Blurted out classified
information to Russian officials
Tried to force the G7 to
hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida
Fired the acting attorney
general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim
travel ban
Hired Stephen Miller
Openly discussed national
security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Lago where everyone could
hear them
Interfered with plans to
relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his
hotel
Abandoned Iraqi refugees
who’d helped the U.S. during the war
Tried to get Russia back
into the G7
Held a COVID super spreader
event in the Rose Garden
Seemed to believe that
Frederick Douglass is still alive
Lost 60 election fraud cases
in court including before judges he had nominated
Falsely claimed that
factories were reopening when they weren’t
Shamelessly exploited terror
attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies
Still hasn’t come up with a
healthcare plan
Still hasn’t come up with an
infrastructure plan despite repeated “Infrastructure Weeks"
Forced Secret Service agents
to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID
Told the Proud Boys to
“stand back and stand by"
F***ed up the Census
Withdrew the U.S. from the
World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic
Did
so few of his duties that his press staff were forced to state on his
daily schedule “President Trump will work from early in the morning
until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many
meetings"
Allowed his staff to
repeatedly violate the Hatch Act
Seemed not to know that
Abraham Lincoln was a Republican
Stood before sacred CIA wall
of heroes and bragged about his election win
Constantly
claimed he was treated worse than any president which presumably
includes four that were assassinated and his predecessor whose
legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV show
star named Donald Trump
Claimed Andrew Jackson
could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it
happened
Said that any opinion poll
showing him behind was fake
Claimed that other countries
laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders
were literally laughing at him
Claimed that the military
was out of ammunition before he became President
Created a commission to
whitewash American history
Retweeted anti-Islam videos
from one of the most racist people in Britain
Claimed
ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn’t have happened if
someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard
there
Hired a senior staffer who
cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims
Had
a press secretary who claimed that Nazi Germany never used chemical
weapons even though every sane human being knows they used gas to kill
millions of Jews and others
Bilked the Secret Service
for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties
Apparently sold pardons on
his way out of the White House
Stripped protective status
from 59,000 Haitians
Falsely claimed Biden wanted
to defund the police
Said that the head of the
CDC didn’t know what he was talking about
Tried to rescind protection
from DREAMers,
Gave himself an A+ for his
handling of the pandemic
Said U.S. rates of COVID
would be lower if you didn’t count blue states
Deported U.S. veterans who
served their country but were undocumented
Claimed he did more for
African Americans than any president since Lincoln
Touted a “super-duper”
secret “hydrosonic” missile which may or may not be a new “hypersonic”
missile or may not exist at all
Retweeted a gif calling
Biden a pedophile
Forced through security
clearances for his family
Suggested that police
officers should rough up suspects
Suggested that Biden was on
performance-enhancing drugs
Tried to stop transgender
students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their
gender
Suggested the US not accept
COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look
higher
Nominated a climate change
sceptic to chair the committee advising the White House on
environmental policy
Retweeted a video doctored
to look like Biden had played a song called “F**k tha Police” at a
campaign event
Hugged a disturbingly large
number of U.S. flags
Accused Democrats of
“treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address
Claimed that the FBI failed
to capture the Parkland school shooter because they were “spending too
much time” on Russia
Mocked the testimony of Dr
Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault
Was proven to be close
friends with the biggest sexual predictor of young girls
Obsessed over low-flow
toilets
Ordered the rerelease of
more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release
Called
for the construction of a bizarre garden of heroes with statutes of
famous dead Americans as well as at least one Canadian (Alex Trebek)
Hijacked Washington’s July
4th celebrations to give a partisan speech
Took advice from the
MyPillow guy
Claimed that migrants
seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers
and rapists
Said nothing when Vladimir
Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure
Never seemed to heed the
advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign
Falsely claimed that mail-in
voting is fraudulent
Announced
a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria which not only handed
Russia and ISIS a win but also prompted his defense secretary to resign
in protest
Insulted the leaders of
Canada, France, Britain, in Germany, and Sweden!!
Falsely claimed credit for
getting NATO members to increase their share of dues
Blew off two Asia summits
even though they were held virtually
Continued lying about
spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders
Said that the Japanese would
sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked
Left a NATO summit early in
a huff
Stared directly into an
eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that
Called himself a very stable
genius despite significant evidence to the contrary
Refused
to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise, and a
whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment.
But other than that. . .
Whoever wrote this deserves
credit, but I don't know who it is...
~ Author unknown