Keeping Track of Why I Hate Donald T***p

• Claims that climate change is a hoax (it’s not)
• His economic policies are idiotic.
  • Claims that tariffs were “paid by China” rather than importers or U.S. consumers
  • Promoting fringe economic claims (e.g., trade deficit as singular metric of success)
• He believes the stupidest, debunked conspiracy theories.
  • Wouldn’t let go of the ridiculous and racist Obama Birtherism conspiracy theory after it was debunked time and time again.
  • Promoting conspiracy theories about vaccine tracking microchips
  • Claimed wind turbines cause cancer, but also ranted about how much he hated that they were being put in near his resorts.
  • Elevating fringe conspiracy theorists (QAnon-adjacent rhetoric) or giving them indirect validation — legitimizing baseless narratives among followers.
  • Misleading statements about the opioid crisis https://www.factcheck.org/2017/08/trumps-misleading-blame-opioids/and public-health responses — undercutting comprehensive policy needs.
  • Baselessly Accusing MN Governor Tim Walz of having Melissa Hortman murdered
• He has the most annoying and blatant case of Dunning-Krueger syndrome
  • Repeatedly attacked and disagreed with health experts baselessly instead of listening to them.
  • Repeatedly attacking the intelligence community and disputing its conclusions — sowed confusion on national-security risks.
  • Said he “knows more than the generals” which was not only a completely stupid and arrogant thing to say, it was completely disrespectful to our military leaders.
• Speaks at a 3rd grade level, behaves like a 3rd grade school yard bully.

• Publicly attacking officials who testified against or investigated him — intimidation of witnesses and critics. Has normalized blatant out in the open obstruction of justice and witness tampering.
• Pressuring the DOJ and law enforcement officials — attempts to influence investigations and prosecutions. Historically the DOJ has not been used as the President’s personal legal team to fight his legal battles. Uses projection about this toward previous leaders as propaganda to normalize when he does it.
• Seeking to alter or influence protected investigations (e.g., calling for FBI to drop probes) — dangerous for rule-of-law norms.
• Family members using White House access for private advantage — nepotism concerns and ethics questions about relatives in roles.
• Flouting norms of presidential transparency (tax returns, business records) — refusal to follow decades-old norms of release.
• Sidelining experienced diplomats and political appointees in favor of political loyalists — weakened institutional foreign-policy knowledge.
• Has normalized impeachment and undermined the seriousness of special counsel investigations
• Asserting near-absolute executive power claims (self-pardon theories, broad emergency powers) — constitutional scholars pushed back. Supreme Court has made it a lot easier for him to break laws with their “Presidential Immunity” rulings.
• Refusing to divest from business holdings, leaving potential conflicts unresolved — ethics concerns from day one.
• Using the presidency as a platform for personal grudges and vendettas — politicized law enforcement and policy.
• Encouraging loyalty tests and purges inside government (demanding loyalty over competence) — eroded bureaucracy professionalism.
• Repeated inflammatory tweets and unfiltered social-media behavior from presidential account — undermined decorum and predictability.
• Using marketing and branding tactics (e.g., “T***p” as trademark) from the Oval Office — commercialization of the presidency.
• Appointing judges whose records raised concern about impartiality and rights protections — long-term institutional impact on the courts.
• Allowing or encouraging aides to use personal email/Off-record channels for official business — transparency lapses. Why did personal email servers only matter when it was Hillary and now we no longer care?
• Weaponizing pardons and clemency for political allies — use of pardon power in ways critics called politically motivated.
• Instructs allies to ignore congressional subpeonas
  

• Anti-Education Policies (Addressed in Betsy DeVos section under appointments)
• Tariffs/Trade Wars that hurt U.S. manufacturers and farmers, increased consumer prices, and disrupted global supply chains.
• Ending Federal Funding for NPR & PBS
• Challenges to Birthright Citizenship
• Tax Cuts that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy and increased the federal deficit by $1–2 trillion.
• Opposition to Net Neutrality
• Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement
• Rollback of Environmental Protections
• Promotion of Fossil Fuels Over Renewables
• Family Separation Policy (“Zero Tolerance”)
• Travel Ban on Majority-Muslim Countries
• Attempts to End DACA and Limit Refugees
• Attempts to Repeal the Affordable Care Act
• COVID-19 Response (thoroughly addressed in bad leadership section)
• Voting rights
  • Restrictive Voter ID policies
  • Wants to eliminate mail-in voting
  • T***p appointed supreme court weakened the Voting Rights Act protections; disproportionately affecting minorities and historically marginalized voters.
  • T***p appointed supreme court in Moore vs Harper gives state legislatures unchecked power over elections, threatening democratic safeguards.
• Foreign Policy: Frequent criticism of NATO and EU allies strained longstanding relationships.
• Support for Authoritarian Leaders: Praised or aligned with leaders like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, and Rodrigo Duterte, raising concerns about undermining democratic norms.
• Aggressive policing and immigration detentions – Minneapolis has been under absolute attack with people’s rights being blatantly violated and undertrained agents causing nothing but problems
• Border Wall & Mexico Paying for It Lie – giant waste of money
• Dismantling Federal Agencies’ Authority – Some deregulation helped businesses, but often caused confusion, reduced safety oversight, and undermined scientific agencies.
• LGBTQ+ Rights – T***p’s supreme court weakened protections against discrimination in public accommodations.
• Roe Vs. Wade repeal – Massive rollback of reproductive rights; allowed states to severely restrict or ban abortion. Widely considered one of the most consequential and controversial rulings in decades.

Most appointments have been an attempt to tear down the pillars of our whole government. Many were ideologically extreme, grossly unqualified for the position, or embroiled in ethics scandals.

• Betsy Devos was an attack on our education system.
  • DeVos had no public school experience—she had only been involved in private school philanthropy.
  • Many of her proposals, like expanding vouchers, lacked strong evidence of improving outcomes, especially for the students who needed help most.
  • DeVos was a strong advocate for charter schools and private school vouchers, often at the expense of public schools. This diverted federal funding away from traditional public schools, which serve the majority of students, especially low-income and minority communities.
  • She weakened protections for students with disabilities and pushed to roll back Obama-era guidance on disability rights in education.
  • DeVos also scaled back civil rights enforcement in schools, including complaints about racial discrimination, sexual harassment, and bullying.
  • Her policies often emphasized market-style competition rather than improving teaching quality or student outcomes.
  • Critics say this treated education like a business, not a public service, which can worsen inequality: better-resourced families benefit from choices, while disadvantaged students get left behind.
  • DeVos reversed protections for students defrauded by for-profit colleges, making it harder for them to get loan forgiveness.
  • She also reduced oversight of for-profit institutions, which sometimes preyed on low-income students with high debt and low-quality programs.
• Jeff Sessions – Attorney General
  • Struggled with recusing himself from the Russia investigation, which led to a lot of political turmoil.
  • Immigration policies under him, like family separations at the border, were widely condemned.
• Scott Pruitt – EPA Administrator
  • Infamous for corruption, extravagant spending, and ethics scandals.
  • Dismantled major environmental protections, weakening regulations on pollution and climate change.
• Tom Price – Secretary of Health and Human Services
  • Resigned over lavish private jet travel at taxpayer expense.
  • Criticized for attempting to undermine the Affordable Care Act without a clear replacement plan.
• Alexander Acosta – Labor Secretary
  • Criticized for lenient plea deal in the Jeffrey Epstein case while he was U.S. Attorney.
  • Oversaw policies that rolled back workplace protections.
• Rick Perry – Energy Secretary
  • Previously called for eliminating the Department of Energy entirely.
  • Lacked expertise in energy policy, leading to ineffective management.
• Ben Carson – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
  • Criticized for ineffective leadership, gaffes, and proposals that seemed out of touch with housing policy realities.
  • HUD funding for low-income programs was cut under his watch.
• Kristi Noem — Secretary of Homeland Security
  • An immigration hardliner with a focus on aggressive enforcement over humanitarian border policy.
  • Told outright lies to the American people in the Minneapolis ICE situation
• Kimberly Guilfoyle — U.S. Ambassador to Greece (nominee)
  • Lacks diplomatic experience.
  • Past inflammatory remarks about Greek people and uncertainty about her commitment to core diplomatic principles.
• Tulsi Gabbard — Director of National Intelligence
  • She’s been widely identified as a Russian asset.
  • Shifted from being a Democratic member of Congress to a T***p pick; detractors question her national security credentials and view the choice as ideologically driven rather than based on expertise.
• Pete Hegseth – Secretary of Defense
  • Hegseth has never held high-level leadership roles comparable to leading the Department of Defense, which oversees ~3 million personnel and a near-trillion-dollar budget.
  • Critics say being a TV host, on top of a relatively junior National Guard career, does not prepare someone for this role.
  • At his confirmation hearing he acknowledged he “doesn’t have the typical credentials” that previous secretaries have had — a point opponents highlighted as disqualifying.
  • Senators like Tammy Duckworth noted Hegseth struggled to answer basic national security and military-policy questions, such as naming major defense agreements or ASEAN member states — problems she said showed a lack of grounding in strategic issues key to the job.
  • Hegseth has emphasized political and cultural issues (e.g., critiques of “woke” universities, kicking “woke” Boy Scouts of America out of military bases) rather than articulating a clear strategy for countering global threats like China or Russia. This has raised concerns that the Pentagon’s core mission could be overshadowed by ideology.
  • Introduced new restrictions governing how journalists can operate inside the Pentagon.
    • Most major media outlets left or gave up access to the Pentagon because they wouldn’t agree to Hegseth’s terms, so they’re no longer reporting from inside the Pentagon under the traditional press-credential system.
• Pam Bondi T***p’s personal lawyer as US attorney general
  • Problematic choice for U.S. Attorney General for three overlapping reasons: qualifications, conflicts of interest, and politicizing the DOJ
  • Not qualified
    • She has no experience running a large federal law-enforcement organization like DOJ (≈115,000 employees, national security + federal prosecutions).
    • She has never served as a federal judge, U.S. attorney, or senior DOJ official, which is typical for AGs.
    • Her record focuses heavily on state-level political litigation, not complex federal criminal law, counterterrorism, or constitutional enforcement.
  • Conflict of interest
    • Personal loyalty to Donald T***p
    • Bondi is a longtime T***p ally who:
      • Defended T***p during his first impeachment
      • Publicly supported false claims about the 2020 election
      • Has been a frequent political surrogate, not a neutral legal actor
    • Critics argue this creates an irreconcilable conflict if DOJ is asked to:
    • Investigate T***p
    • Drop cases involving T***p
    • Pursue T***p’s political opponents
  • DOJ as a political weapon, already seeing examples
    • Bondi has openly supported using law enforcement against political opponents, echoing T***p’s claims that:
    • Investigate or intimidate political rivals
    • Protect allies from prosecution
    • Pressure career prosecutors

• Repeated sexist comments and treatment of women (publicly and alleged misconduct) — pattern of disparaging remarks and multiple public allegations.
• Publicly praising past segregationist or racist symbols/comments by others — normalization of racist subtexts.\
• Failed to condemn the Nazis who marched in Charlottesville or the Proud Boys who violently attacked people, instead telling them to “Stand down and stand by” on a live debate stage.
  • “Very fine people on both sides” comment about Charlottesville: mischaracterizations and denials — Controversial statement; his later explanations contradicted contemporaneous reporting.
  • Central Park Five
  • Promoting birtherism about President Obama — a decade-long conspiracy campaign that targeted the first Black president.
• Downplaying or denying systemic racism while promoting policies critics say exacerbate disparities — polarizing racial rhetoric and policy choices, using “DEI programs” as a dogwhistle.
• Persistent racist remarks (e.g., “shithole countries”) — reported remarks demeaning African, Haitian, and Central American countries.
• Regarding immigration, he has used explicitly religious language in a way that suggests a religious test for belonging. For instance, he was quoted saying he’d turn away immigrants who “don’t like our religion,” in the context of his border/immigration stance.
• Uses immigration and Mexican culture as a dogwhistle to outrage people and divide people, and enacts policies that are dangerous.
  • Family-separation (“zero tolerance”) immigration policy — forcibly separated thousands of children from parents; found to be badly implemented and harmful.
  • Administering travel bans targeting majority-Muslim countries framed as national security — widely criticized on civil-rights and legal grounds.

• Disastrous pandemic response and dangerous leadership failures during the biggest national emergency in most of our lifetimes
• Downplaying the virus: President T***p repeatedly minimized the severity of the virus, comparing it to the common flu and predicting it would “disappear like a miracle”. He later admitted to journalist Bob Woodward he intentionally downplayed the threat to avoid creating a panic.
  • LIED that COVID-19 was a hoax or would disappear soon (early 2020 statements) — Fact-checked false; contradicted public-health data. Later heard on recording with journalist saying he purposely downplayed the pandemic.
  • Claim that COVID-19 testing made the disease appear worse (that testing caused cases) — Fact-checked false.
• Inadequate testing and PPE: The administration failed to ensure widespread testing availability in the critical early months and did not adequately stockpile or coordinate the procurement and deployment of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline workers.
• Undermining health experts and guidance: The administration repeatedly censored, attacked, and sidelined top government scientists, including Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, when their assessments contradicted the president’s optimistic messaging.
  • Repeatedly LIED about vaccine side effects or misstatements about vaccine effectiveness — Fact-checked false or misleading by public-health fact-checks.
• Politicizing masks: T***p refused to wear a mask publicly for a long period and mocked those who did, which contributed to mask-wearing becoming a partisan issue despite scientific evidence of its effectiveness.
  • Ridiculed reporters for asking questions or protecting themselves with masks in order to turn masking into a culture war device.
• Promoting unproven treatments: The president aggressively promoted unproven treatments like hydroxychloroquine, even suggesting the injection of disinfectants, against expert advice.
  • Claims about COVID-19 treatments (e.g., hydroxychloroquine endorsements) that lacked scientific support — Fact-checked dangerous or misleading health claims.
• Flouting expert guidance: The White House itself disregarded public health guidelines, hosting events like the Supreme Court nomination announcement that were described as “super spreader” events. 
  • Frequent conflicts with state and local leaders during crises (COVID, protests) — adversarial approach sometimes hampered coordination.
• Disbanded pandemic response team: In 2018, the National Security Council’s global health security team was disbanded, a move that critics argue left the U.S. less prepared for a pandemic.
• Manipulating CDC guidance: White House officials pressured the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to alter or delay public health guidelines related to testing, school reopenings, and mask-wearing.
• Sidelining the CDC on data: The administration ordered hospitals to stop reporting COVID-19 data directly to the CDC and instead submit it to a new database housed at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), raising transparency concerns and causing data lags.
• Thwarting state efforts: Rather than providing coordinated federal leadership, the administration pushed responsibility onto the states and, at times, encouraged protests against state-level lockdown measures.
• Pulling out of the WHO: The U.S. formally announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) during the crisis, which critics viewed as an isolationist move during a global health emergency. 
• Failure to protect workers: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) under the T***p administration refused to issue mandatory safety standards for workplaces and allowed meatpacking plants to remain open at the risk of workers’ health.
• Inadequate aid to states: The administration initially opposed additional aid to state and local governments, which resulted in significant job losses in the public sector.
• Weakening safety nets: Prior to and during the pandemic, the administration pursued policies that weakened critical safety nets, such as efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cuts to food assistance programs, increasing vulnerability for many Americans. 
• Frequent use of social media to make major announcements or attacks, sometimes contradicting his own administration.
• Chronic dishonesty for political advantage — using lies as a routine political tool. Using incendiary rhetoric that inflamed political polarization — constant combative language that widened political divides. As a strategy. Turned decent, christian people into radicals, dividing families, communities, states, etc.
  • Using federal law enforcement for political theatre (deploying forces for optics) — raised civil-liberties concerns.
  • Attacking the independence of the Federal Reserve when dissatisfied with rates — politicizing independent economic institutions.
  • Failed or chaotic rollouts of major policy initiatives (e.g., some healthcare and immigration rollbacks) — poor implementation and planning.
  • Pursuing tariffs that disrupted global supply chains and alienated trading partners — economic fallout and uncertainty.
  • Overuse of executive orders for sweeping policy changes without legislative buy-in — deepened polarization and legal challenges.
  • Caused the longest government shutdown in history while his party controlled the House, Senate, and even the Supreme Court.
  • Fostering a governing style that rewarded loyalty and punished dissent among staff — created churn and institutional instability.
  • Pushing sectarian or religious favoritism in policy statements and appointments — concerns about church-state boundaries.
• Ordering actions without clear legal or ethical grounding, e.g., the strike against Iranian-backed groups in Iraq or controversial Caribbean boat strike.
  

• Viewing institutions as extensions of himself
  • Refers to DOJ, FBI, military, courts as things that should:
    • “Protect” him
    • “Go after” his enemies
  • Sees loyalty to law or Constitution as secondary to loyalty to him
• This reflects authoritarian narcissism, where personal identity replaces institutional norms.
• Sending troops into blue cities as retribution for not voting for him, claiming it’s because they have the highest crime while ignoring red cities that actually literally have the highest statistical crime.
• Send an all out attack by ICE to go beyond their scope of duty to harass people in the streets and intimidate in my city of Minneapolis, as retribution and likely to help his friends like the Pillow Guy gain support in the state.
  • https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/2000-federal-agents-sent-to-minneapolis-area-to-carry-out-largest-immigration-operation-ever-ice-says
  • Immediately blamed Renee Good in shooting.
  • Immediately blamed Alex Pretti in his shooting.
• The use of executive orders to bypass legislative or judicial oversight in immigration policy is often cited as a sign of the impulse toward centralized, unchecked executive authority.
• According to analyses of “authoritarian playbooks,” T***p — and his allies — used rhetoric portraying media as “the enemy of the people,” threatened or intimidated media outlets and journalists, and sometimes used regulatory or legal pressure against outlets perceived as unfriendly. This undermines a core pillar of democracy: free press and independent oversight.
• After losing the 2020 election, T***p repeatedly challenged the result, promoted false claims of massive voter fraud, and encouraged efforts to overturn certified results. That included support for alternate “elector slates” in several states (the T***p fake electors plot) — a scheme to falsely claim Electoral College votes for himself. Legal and civil-society watchdogs have sounded alarms that such behavior undermines public trust in elections, which is a key foundation of democracy.
• T***p’s repeated baseless claims of election fraud has made the opposition skiddish about claiming the same against him so not to sound like him, making it easier for himself to get away with election fraud like the fake electors scheme that no one seems to talk about.
• Scholars of democratic backsliding argue that under T***p, long-standing norms — like respect for independent judicial and investigative institutions, neutrality of civil service, restraint of executive overreach — were challenged or eroded. That includes replacing or targeting officials who attempted to hold power to account, and centralizing decision-making authority in the executive branch rather than distributing it across institutions meant to balance each other.
• He has also criticized what he calls “anti-Christian bias” in government and created a “faith office” within the White House — moves critics worry signal a shift toward privileging a particular faith in federal institutions.
• Advocating for physically aggressive or extrajudicial actions (e.g., “get rid” of protesters with force) — rhetoric raising constitutional concerns.
• Chronic dishonesty for political advantage — using lies as a routine political tool.
• Using incendiary rhetoric that inflamed political polarization — constant combative language that widened political divides. As a strategy. Turned decent, christian people into radicals, dividing families, communities, states, etc. It’s not just “being tough” or “telling it how it is” it’s flat-out planned, orchestrated divisiveness as a strategy.

• Publicly (on video) said, when talking about POW and Senator John McCain, that he “prefers soldiers who weren’t captured” and that he’s “not a hero”.
• Brags that he knows more than American Military generals
• General John Kelly says he called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers”
• During a visit to Arlington National Cemetery, T***p’s campaign reportedly conflicted with cemetery staff over unauthorized filming in burial sections for recent war dead. Critics, including then–Vice President Harris, said he “disrespected sacred ground” by posing for political photos among headstones.
• T***p told the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed in Niger, “must have known what he signed up for,” which many viewed as callous toward a grieving military family.
• T***p has at times used military themes or veterans’ issues in political arguments (e.g., attacking opponents), drawing pushback that this instrumentalizes rather than honors service. For example, he posted politically charged messages on Memorial Day while honoring troops.
• T***p criticized actor Tom Hanks after the U.S. Military Academy at West Point canceled an award event honoring him, portraying Hanks as “destructive” and “woke”—even though Hanks has longstanding support for veterans and the military.
• While not always framed as disrespect, some policy actions (like debates over veteran benefits or cuts to veterans’ support systems) have been criticized by advocacy groups for failing to adequately support military families.
• T***p publicly said lawmakers advocating that military personnel refuse illegal orders were engaged in “seditious behavior” punishable by death, which raised concerns about rhetoric toward civil-military relations.

• Art. I, § 9, Cl. 7 – Diverting military funds to build the border wall violates the congressional power of the purse
• Art. I, § 9, Cl. 8 – Ignored emoluments clause of the Constitution. Hasn’t divested. Has allowed all kinds of conflicts of interest and grifts off the office to flourish unchecked. Huge secret service bills at his golf resorts. Article I, Section 9 (gifts / payments from foreign states to federal officials must be controlled by Congress)
• Art. II, § 1. – T***p pressured Georgia officials to “find votes” after the 2020 election. This led to criminal investigations (Fulton County, GA) for attempts to subvert the Constitutionally protected electoral process.
• Art. II, § 2 – Misuse of pardons. While presidents have broad pardon power, critics argued T***p may have violated the spirit of the Constitution when pardoning close allies (e.g., Roger Stone, Steve Bannon) to obstruct justice or retaliate politically. No court has overturned these pardons, but legal scholars debate the limits.
• Art. II, § 2 and 3, Refusal to Comply with Constitutional Powers of Congressional Oversight – T***p repeatedly refused subpoenas for documents and testimony from congressional committees (e.g., impeachment investigations, January 6 investigation).
• 1A – Creating government offices, policies, or guidance explicitly to promote or defend a specific faith (or type of faith-based expression) erodes institutional neutrality and opens the door for the state to favor some religions over others.
• 1A – T***p blocked critics on Twitter. Courts ruled this unconstitutional because his Twitter account was a public forum for official communications (Knight First Amendment Institute v. T***p, 2019).
• 1A – Incitement of Insurrection – T***p’s speech on January 6, 2021, was scrutinized as potentially inciting insurrection. The House impeached him, citing constitutional violation of the oath to “faithfully execute the office” and “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.”
• 2A – Says to “take the guns first, due process later”
• 2A – Says you can’t have guns at protests
• 10A – Undermines separation of powers / congressional authority through executive overreach
• 14A – Attempts to end birthright citizenship by executive order in violation of the 14th amendment.
• 14A – Equal Protection – Travel bans targeting majority-Muslim countries were challenged in courts. Some rulings upheld modified versions; critics argued the original ban violated equal protection and religious freedom.
• 14A – Role in and response to the January 6, 2021 United States Capitol attack — incitement, interference with certification, failure to act – 1st Amendment (incitement), Article II / 14th Amendment (insurrection clause), oath of office obligations

• Defrauded his own charity
  • Claim that he personally funded veterans’ charities when documents showed otherwise — Fact-checked misleading re: the T***p Foundation and related conduct.
  • The T***p Foundation conduct and dissolution after legal action — Civil judgment and settlement required dissolution of the foundation.
  • “Fake electors” scheme involvement and meetings with alternate electors — Documented behavior tied to post-2020 efforts to overturn results; part of Georgia & Jan. 6 probes.
  • Claiming he could personally pardon himself with absolute immunity — Legal scholars say self-pardon is constitutionally untested and widely disputed.
• Convicted by a jury of his peers of 34 felonies for paying hush money to a porn star in order to influence an election
• T***p’s fake electors scheme to try to steal our election
• Retention / mishandling of classified documents (Mar-a-Lago) — indicted in the classified-documents investigation for willful retention and obstruction.
• His criminal allies and outrageously corrupt pardons for them
  • Normalized pardoning / commutation of sentences of personal friends and allies, making it far more likely they commit crimes or break laws for him while and after he’s in office. T***p’s broader use of pardons favored allies, political donors, or media figures over average citizens or those with nonpolitical criminal cases. Critics argue this pattern reflects abuse of presidential pardon power for personal loyalty rather than justice.
  • Michael Flynn – National Security Advisor Convictions: Pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about contacts with the Russian ambassador. Outcome: Sentence delayed; later T***p pardoned him.
  • Paul Manafort – 2016 Campaign Chairman – 2018: Guilty of tax fraud, bank fraud, and failing to report foreign bank accounts (related to lobbying for pro-Russia Ukrainian politicians). 2020: Pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the U.S. and obstruction of justice in a separate D.C. case. T***p commuted his 7 year sentence.
  • Roger Stone – Political Advisor Convictions: Guilty of obstruction, witness tampering, and lying to Congress related to the Russia investigation. Sentence: 40 months in prison; sentence commuted by T***p before he began serving.
  • Steve Bannon – Former Chief Strategist Charges: Indicted for fraud and money laundering in a scheme involving the “We Build the Wall” campaign. Status: Pardoned by T***p before trial.
  • Rick Gates – Deputy Campaign Chair. Convictions: Pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the U.S. and lying to investigators. Sentence: 45 days in jail, plus probation.
  • George Papadopoulos – Foreign Policy Advisor Convictions: Guilty of making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Russians during the 2016 campaign. Sentence: 14 days in prison, plus probation.
  • Alex van der Zwaan – 1 month in prison for lying to investigators about Russia contacts.
  • Richard Pinedo – Guilty of identity fraud aiding Russian election interference.
  • Personal Lawyer Michael Cohen: Guilty of tax evasion, bank fraud, and campaign finance violations (2018).
• Using the presidency for personal business enrichment / conflicts of interest — blurred lines between official acts and business interests; multiple ethics complaints.
• Questionable campaign and personal finances; audits and reporting showing low tax payments — long-running controversy over tax returns and business accounting.
• Publicly attacking officials who testified against or investigated him — intimidation of witnesses and critics. Has normalized blatant out in the open obstruction of justice and witness tampering.
• Attempting to use federal resources to advance private properties/events — mixing presidency with personal brand.
• Delaying or undermining congressional subpoenas and oversight with legal fights — stonewalling accountability, had people ignore congressional subpoenas that would have put any one of us in jail which means he and his people are above the law and we should care about that.
• He is manipulating the stock market and insider trading by putting out tariff warnings and then walking them back.

• Led an insurrection against an active session of congress that was working to certify an American election.
  • Encouraging supporters to “fight like hell” after the 2020 election — rhetoric linked to the January 6 attack.
• Conspired with Russia to win the 2016 election.
  • LIED that the Mueller report exonerated him fully — Mischaracterization; Mueller did not exonerate on obstruction questions (per report summary).
  • Saying he had no business dealings with Russia when reporting shows contacts — Contradicted by reporting of campaign contacts and meetings (Mueller materials).
  • Saying Russia did not want him to win the 2016 election — Contradicted by intelligence community assessments and Mueller findings.
  • Saying “I never met” certain people later shown to have met or had contacts — Fact-checked contradictions (various meetings later documented).
  • Claims that he never colluded with Russia while evidence showed multiple campaign contacts — Mueller documented contacts and offers of assistance even if it stopped short of a criminal conspiracy finding.
  • Repeated false claims that the Mueller team had “spies” in the campaign planted by Democrats — Fact-checked false.
  • Many of his top advisors were convicted of crimes.
  • Co-opted the term “fake news” to distract from fabricated foreign-created websites and bots pretending to be real news organizations during the 2016 election and instead used it to lie about the free press and get his supporters to not listen to their reporting of his scandals and crimes. Doing this to cover up the problem that helped him instead of launching any kind of action against the information warfare and election interference that is actively attacking our elections, discourse, financial systems, etc is traitorous.
• Extorts, threats, and mistreats our allies causing serious conflict in our foreign policy
  • Insulting allied leaders and foreign partners publicly — damaged diplomatic relationships and credibility.
  • Saying that his phone call to Ukraine was “perfect” despite the impeachment article citing abuse of power — Impeached by the House in 2019 for abuse of power; Senate acquitted.
  • False or misleading statements about the existence or scale of ISIS ties to certain governments — Fact-checked by multiple outlets.
  • Claim that the U.S. had signed a peace deal making war obsolete in some theaters (oversold diplomatic outcomes) — Overstated diplomatic claims.
  • Misrepresenting U.S. relationships with NATO and allies for short-term political gain — strained alliances and unclear policy signals.
  • Personalizing diplomatic negotiations (e.g., dealing in personal flattery/insults) — inconsistent statecraft style.
• Cozies up to our adversaries
  • Repeated claims that he had an ongoing, huge, secret negotiation or exchange with North Korea’s leader that “will work out” — Overstated and contradicted by diplomatic outcomes.
  • Repeatedly praising dictators and authoritarian figures — normalization of anti-democratic styles and praise for strongmen.
  • Promotes authoritarianism and ending Presidential term limits.
  • Ignoring or disparaging intelligence-community findings when inconvenient (Russia, North Korea, etc.) — politicizing national-security briefs.
• Tried to steal the 2020 election.
  • Pressuring Georgia officials to “find 11,780 votes” — a documented phone call tied to election-interference allegations.

• 1. Rhetoric that inflames cultural or identity divisions
  • Immigration and border language: Calling undocumented immigrants “rapists,” “criminals,” or “invaders” during the 2016 campaign was widely seen as deliberately stirring fear and resentment along racial and ethnic lines. (nytimes.com)
  • Muslim ban: Advocating a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. framed an entire religion as a national threat, contributing to polarization. (cnn.com)
  • “Make America Great Again” messaging: The slogan implicitly suggested America had been “taken over” by groups T***p often portrayed as outsiders, which deepened identity-based divides.
• Attacks on political opponents and media
  Labeling mainstream media “the enemy of the people”: Repeatedly framing journalists as traitors delegitimized neutral reporting and encouraged distrust along partisan lines. (washingtonpost.com)
  • Targeting Democratic leaders personally: Calling opponents “crooked Hillary,” “sleepy Joe,” or other derogatory labels fostered a highly personalized, tribalized political climate.
• Exploiting racial tensions
  • Charlottesville comments (2017): After white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, T***p said there were “very fine people on both sides,” which critics saw as giving cover to extremists and deepening racial divides. (nytimes.com)
  • Frequent mentions of “inner city crime” or “suburban crime” linked to racialized messaging: Critics argue these comments were coded to provoke fear and resentment among white voters.
• Polarizing immigration policies
  • Family separation at the border (2018): Implementing “zero-tolerance” led to children being separated from parents; T***p defended the policy in ways that encouraged partisan debate and outrage. (cnn.com)
  • Targeting sanctuary cities: These moves were framed as cities versus the federal government, creating state/local polarization along political lines.
• Election and voting rhetoric
  • Claims of widespread voter fraud: Even without evidence, repeatedly asserting the 2020 election was “stolen” undermined trust in democratic institutions and split Americans into believers vs. skeptics. (apnews.com)
  • Encouraging state officials to overturn results: Pressuring Georgia and other states fueled national outrage and partisan divisions.
• Weaponizing culture wars
  • Attacks on “critical race theory” and schools: Framing educators as promoting anti-American ideas polarized parents and communities along ideological lines. (pbs.org)
  • Statements on LGBTQ+ rights: Often casting policies for transgender people in schools or the military as a societal threat inflamed cultural debates.
• Use of rallies and social media
  • Directly stoking anger at “the other side”: T***p’s rallies frequently portrayed Democrats, journalists, or protestors as enemies, encouraging supporters to view fellow Americans as adversaries.
  • Social media amplification: Tweets often simplified complex issues into combative narratives, increasing partisan engagement and hostility.
• International and geopolitical framing
  • Trade wars framed as “us vs. them”: Casting allies and China in oppositional terms energized domestic nationalist sentiments and framed foreign policy as a domestic culture battle.

I don’t know – it’s hard for me to see any T***p ties to Russia…except for the

• Flynn seeking immunity Thing
• his campaign manager Manafort being a former political lobbyist for a pro-Russia party in Ukraine Thing
• Tillerson, T***p’s own SoS saying T***p pressed Russia to hack the DNC Thing
• Sessions Having Undisclosed Meetings with Russians Thing
• Kushner Meeting with the Russians Thing
• Wray Thing
• Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius “Russian Law Firm of the Year” Thing
• Carter Page Thing
• Roger Stone Thing
• Felix Sater Thing
• Boris Epshteyn Thing
• Rosneft Thing
• Gazprom Thing (see above)
• Sergey Gorkov banker Thing
• Azerbaijan Thing
• “I Love Putin” Thing
• Lavrov Thing
• Sergey Kislyak Thing
• Oval Office Thing
• Gingrich Kislyak Phone Calls Thing
• Russian Business Interest Thing
• Emoluments Clause Thing
• Alex Schnaider Thing
• Hack of the DNC Thing
• Guccifer 2.0 Thing
• Mike Pence “I don’t know anything” Thing
• Russians Mysteriously Dying Thing
• T***p’s public request to Russia to hack Hillary’s email Thing
• T***p house sale for $100 million at the bottom of the housing bust to the Russian fertilizer king Thing
• Russian fertilizer king’s plane showing up in Concord, NC during T***p rally campaign Thing
• Nunes sudden flight to the White House in the night Thing
• Nunes personal investments in the Russian winery Thing
• Cyprus bank Thing
• T***p not Releasing his Tax Returns Thing
• the Republican Party’s rejection of an amendment to require T***p to show his taxes thing
• Election Hacking Thing
• GOP platform change to the Ukraine Thing
• Steele Dossier Thing
• Sally Yates Can’t Testify Thing
• Intelligence Community’s Investigative Reports Thing
• Blackwater founder Erik Prince secret back channel to Russia Thing
• T***p reassurance that the Russian connection is all “fake news” Thing
• Chaffetz not willing to start an Investigation Thing
• Chaffetz suddenly deciding to go back to private life in the middle of an investigation Thing
• Appointment of Pam Bondi who was bribed by T***p in the T***p University scandal appointed to head the investigation Thing The White House going into cover-up mode, refusing to turn over the documents related to the hiring and firing of Flynn Thing
• Chaffetz and White House blaming the poor vetting of Flynn on Obama Thing
  Poland and British intelligence gave information regarding the hacking back in 2015 to Paul Ryan and he didn’t do anything Thing
• Agent M16 following the money thing
• T***p team KNEW about Flynn’s involvement but hired him anyway Thing
• Let’s Fire Comey Thing
• Election night Russian trademark gifts Things
• Russian diplomatic compound electronic equipment destruction Thing
  let’s give back the diplomatic compounds back to the Russians Thing
• Let’s Back Away From Cuba Thing
• Donny Jr met with Russians Thing
• Donny Jr emails details “Russian Government’s support for T***p” Thing
• T***p’s secret second meeting with his boss Putin Thing 
• Not enforcing the Russian sanctions despite law passed by a huge majority of US Congress Thing.
• T***p is a criminal ex-president who extorted Ukraine with tax payer money to “announce” an investigation into a political opponent, who obstructed justice 10 times according to the Mueller report, who was labeled as “Individiual-1” and committed campaign finance felonies with Michael Cohen, who tried to force Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” to overturn the vote count in Georgia, who committed tax fraud according to the NYT, and who incited an insurrection on the Capitol with his constant lies and rhetoric. T***p paid a court-ordered $2M in fines for misusing and defrauding his own charity foundation. The foundation was shut down and liquidated by the State of New York.  His kids had to take court-ordered classes to make sure they don’t defraud charities again.
• This wasn’t just a witch hunt. These were court rulings. These are facts. That’s your guy. He’s a straight up criminal and so is his whole family.
• In addition, these are the other criminals that were hired or affiliated with this president related to the Russia conspiracy:
  • His National Security Advisor pled guilty twice
  • His campaign chairman was convicted on 8 counts. 10 counts were a mistrial. A T***p supporter on the jury, Paula Duncan, convicted Manafort on all 18 counts.
  • His deputy campaign chairman, Rick Gates, pled guilty
  • His personal lawyer pled guilty
  • His foreign policy advisor on his campaign has pled guilty
  • His long time advisor and associate, Mr Stone, was found guilty on 7 counts
  • His campaign advisor plead guilty for defrauding t***p supporters
• He attacks our allies and cozies up to our enemies, especially Russia.
• His hardassness against Iran is a dog and pony show.

• August 2019 – Epstein mysteriously died while T***p was President.
• ⁠February 2025 – Pam Bondi – “Epstein files are on my desk.”
• May 2025 – Bondi and Justice Dept tell T***p that his name is in the Epstein files.
• July 2025 – 3 Min. of footage from Epsteins death is reported missing.
• ⁠July 2025 – T***p: “Obama made it up.”
• November 2025 – T***p: “There are no files.”
• November 2025 – ⁠T***p: “It’s a democrat hoax.”
• T***p: “The files don’t exist.”
• Mike Johnson: “T***p needs space”.
• Democrats voted to release the files, twice.
• Republicans voted no on the release twice.
• Republicans take a recess to avoid any more votes.
• July 2025 – Trumps personal attorney meets with Maxwell.
• T***p avoids visiting victims.
• T***p wishes child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, “well”.
• T***p: “I never had the privilege” when asked if he had visited the island.
• T***p: “we have the files”
• T***p orders 1,000 FBI agents to review around 100,000 pages of records related to Jeffrey Epstein, and during this process, were instructed to identify any mentions of Donald T***p. 
• When T***p was asked specifically whether Epstein had stolen Giuffre (Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent abuse survivors led the charge calling for his arrest. Guiffre, who died by suicide in April, has said she met Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell while she was working at Mar-a-Lago as a teenager). T***p states:”I think she worked at the spa,” T***p said. “I think so. I think that was one of the people. He stole her, and by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever.”
• Reporter asks tump: Mr. President, you said Jeffrey Epstein was stealing young women from your spa. Did that raise alarm bells for you?” she asked. As he tried to listen to the other question, T***p interrupted sharply: “Be quiet!” When Collins repeated the question, T***p again replied: “Be quiet!”
• Joe Rogan, MTG, NIck Fuentes and many more right wing influencers flip and wont back down on epstein files.
• MAGA town halls bringing up Epstein non stop.
• ⁠T***p gives Maxwell work release.
• August 2025 – T***p moves Maxwell to minimum security
• Pam Bondi releases first batch of Epstein files which draw scrutiny due to largely consisting of previously public information and heavy redactions.
• ⁠Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President T***p signed into law, directing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release records related to Jeffrey Epstein by a deadline of December 19, 2025.
• Pam Bondi refuses to release remaining Epstein files despite congress order.
• T***p Declares Himself ‘Cleared’ as DOJ Dumps Millions of Epstein Records Listing Him Repeatedly. source
• Poland launches investigation into Epstein files because of how incompetent the US government is Source
• February 2026 – Batch of emails released contain emails with perpetrators sending explicit emails with their names redacted despite congress’s law saying only victims names can be redacted.

• T***p made over 30,000 false or misleading claims during his presidency according to fact-checkers.
• Lies about and threats toward the free press. Has used illusory truth effect propaganda to cause mistrust in our established press and in nonpartisan institutions like economics, health and environmental agencies and experts. This has made having honest and open minded debates in this country impossible and has led to deep radicalization
  • “Fake news” claims about mainstream outlets and fabricated conspiracies about reporting — Repeatedly fact-checked as false or misleading re: specific articles.
  • Repeatedly stating that fact-checkers and journalists “make up” quotes or that audio/video evidence is fake without evidence — False or conspiratorial denials of reporting and primary sources.
  • Repeated attacks on the press and objective facts (“fake news”) — delegitimizing journalism and normalizing conspiratorial rhetoric.
  • Repeatedly calling the media “the enemy of the people” — dangerous rhetoric aimed at free press.
• Has completely undermined the American election system through propaganda and repeated shameless lies. His radical supporters will never admit an election loss, and now his oppoonents will never question irregularities so not to sound/look like a radicalized t***p conspiracy theorist which makes it far easier to get away with said irregularities.
  • Promoted falsehoods about voter-fraud evidence in multiple states (e.g., ballot-count claims) — Fact-checked false; audits/recounts did not support wide fraud.
  • Claiming large numbers of fraudulent mail-in ballots in 2020 without evidence — Fact-checked false.
  • Claims about large numbers of undocumented immigrants voting in 2016 or 2020 — Fact-checked false.
  • Attempts to overturn the 2020 election / Jan. 6 role — central to federal special-counsel investigations and indictments alleging conspiracy and obstruction.
  • Promoting the “Stop the Steal” falsehoods — fueling distrust in electoral institutions and violent mobilization.
  • Attacking voting by mail and postal voting without evidence — undermining confidence in legitimate processes.
    
• Promising to release tax returns that he repeatedly refused to release — Broken campaign promise (context: later partial releases and reporting).
  • Claim he was “under audit” and therefore couldn’t release taxes (repeated explanation) — Used as a reason, but tax law doesn’t forbid release; fact-checked as misleading.
• Said he’d have a healthcare plan “within two weeks.”
• Claiming that immigrant caravans were composed primarily of criminals and unknown fighters — fact-checked as false or exaggerated — Misleading.
• Claiming that judges who ruled against him were biased or corrupt without evidence — Often rhetorical and unproven accusations against judiciary.
• Campaigning on and later failing to deliver promised large infrastructure or health reforms as advertised — broken or half-delivered campaign promises.
• Attacking the Census and suggesting politicized manipulation — raised alarms about nonpartisan institutions.
• Perpetual grievance narrative and victim framing to mobilize his base — contributes to chronic national resentment and dysfunction.
• Accused Tim Walz of Corruption or Incompetence Over Minnesota Scandals. They may have happened on Walz’s watch as governor, but the actual people responsible are already in the process of being held accountable. This is just be drudged up for partisan points and retribution against Walz, and likely a way for t***p to help his friend the Pillow Guy in the governor’s race.
  • By the way, T***p and his base being worked up about fraud is awfully rich when
    • granted clemency to the biggest Medicare fraudster of all time
    • T***p org found guilty of criminal tax fraud
      
• With all of these thousands of lies, how is anyone supposed to trust anything he says or anything that happens around him? Were his intimidating posts toward Iran just a dog and pony show to help Putin? Was his assassination attempt that got swept under the rug so, so quickly, orchestrated to gain martyrdom? I don’t usually entertain conspiracy theories, but this guy is never honest and I just don’t trust anything that seems to be an opportunity for him to gain from.

• Repeatedly calls himself:
  • “The greatest president ever”
  • “The smartest person in the room”
  • Better than generals, doctors, judges, and experts
• Takes credit for
  • Stock market performance he didn’t cause
  • Medical breakthroughs he didn’t contribute to
  • Policies he opposed or misunderstood
• Pathological blatant lying to protect ego
  • Persistent false claims even after being disproven on Election fraud, Crowd sizes, Personal achievements
• Is more thin-skinned than a 3rd grader. This aligns strongly with narcissistic injury — rage when self-image is threatened.
  • Labels critics as “Losers,” “traitors,” “human scum,” “mentally ill”
  • Attacks: Judges who rule against him, Journalists who fact-check him, Even former allies who mildly disagree
• Lacks empathy, a core narcissistic trait
  • Mocking disabled individuals
  • Dismissing war casualties
  • Downplaying COVID deaths
  • Responding to tragedies by redirecting attention to himself
• Frequent loss of sentence structure, unfinished thoughts, and abrupt topic shifts mid-sentence.
• Blurting insults, threats, or non sequiturs in settings that traditionally require restraint
• Sudden emotional swings during speeches or interviews
  
  

• March 27th, 2020, due to rapid spread especially after the horrific failed national leadership in the Covid pandemic, the state of Minnesota and many other states made the initial orders to Shelter-In-Place
• May 26th, 2020, massive riots occur in Minneapolis in response to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin
• January 6th, 2021, I watched with my own eyes as my country was attacked at a very significant time in an attempt to take away our right to elect a President
• January 7th, 2026, Murder of Renee Good in south Minneapolis by an ICE agent in my city while our city has been occupied by an aggressive federal agent presence where they have been operating outside of our laws and are blatantly violating people’s rights. Days later, Alex Pretti is murdered in Uptown Minneapolis.

• Claim that he never had sexual misconduct allegations (despite many publicly reported accusations) — Contradicted by reporting and court filings.
  • Over 25 women have publicly accused Donald T***p of sexual misconduct or assault, ranging from the 1970s to the 2000s.
• Donald T***p had an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2006, shortly after his wife Melania gave birth to their son
• T***p had a 10-month affair with Karen McDougal
• Based on sworn divorce deposition documents from 1990, Donald T***p’s first wife, Ivana T***p, accused him of rape
• Access Hollywood tape where he bragged about assaulting women
• Teen Beauty Queens Say Donald T***p Walked in on Them Changing When They Were as Young as 15
• Miss USA 2001 contestant: T***p barged into room when we were naked
• Denigrating veterans or mishandling some veterans’ programs in rhetoric — criticized for tone and execution on veterans’ issues. Called them “losers and suckers.”
• Said he “preferred soldiers who weren’t captured” when asked if John McCain (A POW in Vietnam) was a war hero.
• Uses demagoguery, propaganda, lies, and schemes to radicalize people and purposely runs on divisive issues.
• Uses nicknames like “Sleepy Joe”, “Crooked Hillary”, or “Pocahontas”, which some see as petty and divisive.
• Publicly lashes out at anyone who criticizes him, rather than addressing concerns substantively.
• Strong examples of narcissism and personality disorder
  • Claiming the crowd sizes and inaugural attendance were the largest ever (false) — emblematic early falsehood.
• Using aggressive and repeated attacks on opponents’ families and private lives — personal attacks that cross ethical lines.
• Puerto Rico: T***p paper towel-throwing ‘abominable’
• He’s a womanizer and was best friends with Jeff Epstein for over a decade.
  • In numerous pictures and videos partying with Epstein, in some cases even pointing at women and laughing/joking with him.
  • On tape at a speaking event saying he’s “a great guy who likes young women”
  • Sent Epstein a birthday card with a drawing of a naked woman and a weird
  • Was named in a rape lawsuit by a 13 year old girl, the discovery materials were specific and incredibly graphic, she dropped the case over threats to her life
  • Has been in numerous lawsuits over his conduct with women, losing a case to Jean Carroll
  • Tried for weeks to get people to not care about the Epstein files, undermined them, caused as much delay and distraction as possible
  • It baffles me how many regular people have been charmed by this wolf in sheep’s clothing. I just don’t get it. Something has absolutely radicalized people. We totally, apparently, weren’t ready for the internet and the bots have taken over the minds of a lot of people.