The past month and a half have felt like a lifetime here in the US of A. It's honestly exhausting being here in this country right now with what feels like an infinite amount of news headlines about how our president is fucking our shit up here. I've honestly never felt this ashamed to be a citizen of this country and also never felt this hopeless about how far things can fall. Being tired of just kind of ranting to myself all the time about how things are going, I decided to try to put some of my feelings to words on this here blog to maybe help myself feel slightly better. Also, to try and maybe show other people who maybe don't pay too much attention to politics or the history of Trump why he's such a terrible person. Some of these reasons will be more serious than others. Also, some might require a bit of explaining, while others are just pretty straightforward. Anyway, here are 45 reasons why our president is a piece of shit.
1. January 6th
The day Trump, in my eyes, became a traitor to this country and should have been put behind bars. Well, he probably should have been behind bars before this for other reasons, I guess, but this one was the one that truly should have stopped any future presidential campaign. It's amazingly stupid how he got no punishment for this.
2. Pardoning the Jan 6th insurrectionists
Because it wasn't bad enough he got away with it. Everyone else who was involved in this also gets a pass from any punishment. That includes the ones who were actually violent and harmed the police officers who tried to stop them from entering the building. When you betray your country and attack the capitol and get pardoned, that makes you think that maybe these actions against your political enemies don't have true consequences, and that's pretty scary.
3-4. He's also a convicted criminal you know, and possibly paid to sleep with a porn star (while married)
The first president to be convicted of felony crimes. Found guilty on 34 charges for influencing the 2016 election with hush money. He tried to hide the fact that he slept with a porn star from voters. I guess I should add that he paid to do that.
5. Canada as a 51st State
Just Trump trying to piss off our closest ally by threatening to make them a US state.
6. Canada tariffs
Just further pissing off Canada by putting tariffs on goods. Then, backing down. Then putting tariffs again. Backing down again. Then, starting again? What? I don't know anymore.
7. Really just tariffs in general
For whatever reason Trump is obsessed with giving everyone tariffs, and so far, it hasn't gone well. Stock Market looks terrible, prices going up, and allies are pissed at us. Cool.
8. Ukraine
Just recently, Trump had an interview with President Zelensky where he acted like a baby, along with idiot VP JD Vance getting annoyed at Zelensky for not saying thank you to the USA. It was hard to watch and it made Trump look like an idiot along with all his goons in the room. He also called Zelensky a dictator recently. You know, the guy who got elected in 2019 and hasn't been able to have an election because of war. But not the guy over in Russia though, right?
9. JD Vance
I just mentioned JD Vance so I figured I'd put him on the list too. Just a weird weird boy who tries really really hard to seem tough and smart. He was really unpopular last year when he was chosen as the VP. Said some really stupid things about women and everyone made fun of him for having sex with couches... allegedly.
10-19. Elon Musk
Yes, Musk deserves to be counted for at least 10 reasons why Trump is a piece of shit. Trump bringing him on and giving him all this power is one of the worst things he's done as president. Just to show you where Trump's head is at, he had three of the richest men who control Amazon, Twitter, and Meta/Facebook at his inauguration. These are his people.
BUT Elon is the worst of them because not only is he the richest person, but also the one Trump is letting run a lot of things. The whole Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE sigh) has been just a complete mess so far that's hurt a lot of people and will probably hurt more. He even hired a bunch of young employees, some of whom had some pretty sketchy pasts. One of them had a tweet in the past that said "normalize Indian hate" and another one was suspected of leaking information at a previous job. These are the kind of people working with very sensitive information, huh? OUR sensitive information.
Can't forget that Elon did a heil sieg on stage twice back in January. Thankfully, this seems to have led to his company, Tesla, losing a ton of sales, especially overseas. Elon has promoted a lot of traditional ideas on his Twitter page, often speaking about the importance of families being a husband and wife with kids. Very traditional sort of family values. Meanwhile, the guy has 14 kids himself and is unmarried.
20. DEI
Trump sure hates DEI. Thinks it's one of the things ruining the USA because he hates when people get jobs because of diversity and not "merit". He says this while putting a bunch of people in charge who don't really have any or little experience in the positions he's putting them in. Like recently picking his close friend Linda McMahon to be in charge of Education, who has little experience working in that field. The same goes for Trump putting Pete Hegseth in the Department of Defense. It wasn't so much about "merit" there, but more about putting people you know will be loyal to you and your bullshit. Trump himself got tons of positions and opportunities because of his family wealth and not because of "merit".
21. Golf
Dude just golfs too much.
22. Selling his dumbass merch
One of the annoying things Trump loves to do is sell overpriced merchandise with his name or face on it. When your ego is bigger than your brain, this makes sense. But as a president now it just feels so stupid to see him selling guitars and Bibles. You know, that book he's totally read before. The book he awkwardly posed with when he was president the first time while the country rioted for George Floyd. The book that he is never able to name a favorite verse from. That book. And on that note...
23. Using Christianity
One of the things that always annoys/confuses me the most about Trump is his ties to Christianity. As someone who grew up in that scene (not really in it anymore), it always confused me why the church in the USA seems to think this guy is God's choice and some kind of Christian hero. I know Christianity has always favored Republicans in the USA because the morals of that party align more with Christianity. But to me, Trump always felt like the antithesis of what Christianity is supposed to stand for. I mean, selling Bibles for 100$ because it has your name on them is pretty shady stuff.
There was also that whole debacle where a Bishop pleaded with Trump to have mercy on immigrants and trans people, and he took it in the worst way possible as his goons demanded an apology from her. In what ways is Trump anything like what God calls his followers to be like? When does he ever show empathy for the misfortunate? When does he ever act humble? As I mentioned before, he took pictures holding the Bible, and he may have had a hand in clearing out peaceful protesters with force to get this picture. It's all about the image he's trying to create to make the Christians in this country think he's one of them. I can't just blame Trump here; there are so many people in the USA using Christianity as a way to profit and buy jets and mansions that it's not just a Trump problem. It's just frustrating how the people being used can't see them for what they are.
24. Nazis/KKK/Proud Boys
Besides the Elon Musk salute, it's been known how much the Nazis and other hate groups around the USA support Trump. Sure, he's never outright stood by them in support himself, but he's also had multiple chances to denounce them and their ways, and he always finds a way to avoid doing so. There's a reason why these groups are out there marching and showing themselves more, and it's because they feel more comfortable now that Trump is back. "There's very fine people on both sides" and "stand back and stand by".
25. Guantanamo Bay
Trump's idea of making one of the most notorious prisons in the world a place to send illegal immigrants is just bad.
26. Getting rid of birthright citizenship
It didn't happen, but he sure as hell tried.
27. Saying Kamala Harris wasn't black
One of the weirder parts of the campaign last year was Trump doing an interview at a convention for Black Journalists. During the interview, he claimed that Harris wasn't Black until recently and that she was always Indian but decided to turn Black for the campaign. It made no sense and made him look like an idiot.
28-30. USA owning Gaza, Greenland, and the Panama Canal
About a month ago, Trump proposed the idea of the USA taking over the Gaza Strip and relocating all the Palestinians to other countries. Just another territory Trump wants to claim along with Greenland and the Panama Canal. Greenland has already stated that it wants no part of the USA. Trump seems to have this obsession with claiming these territories, maybe as a way to make a name for himself or because he's just a piece of shit. I think it's both things.
31. Gulf of America
I mean, come on.
32. He's ugly
Being ugly doesn't make you a piece of shit, but I just wanted to point out that on top of being a piece of shit, he is also ugly.
33. USAID
Trump and Elon have pretty much wanted to target USAID since they got into office again this year. Putting a 90-day work freeze on USAID to begin with and probably going to do more cuts to it. Tons of USAID workers who were overseas were forced to come back and leave their posts. This could and probably will hurt a lot of people overseas and in countries where USAID was helping with disease prevention and other foreign aid.
34. Getting rid of Roe v. Wade
This one was a disaster. But it was Trump's takeover of the Supreme Court that led to this happening amongst other really stupid things. Even if it happened while someone else was in office, he still likes to take credit for it... well, it was his choices while he was president that ultimately led to this happening.
35. Threats to cut funding to schools that allow protests
So now schools that have peaceful protests could be in danger of losing federal funding, and any protesters could be deported or imprisoned. I'm assuming it's only if you protest something he doesn't agree with? For someone who claims to love freedom of speech, this seems like the opposite of that.
36. Hulk Hogan
This one is a bit more personal to me, but ew, Hulk Hogan. I find it pretty interesting how celebrities who are found out to be pieces of shit and lose a lot of their fans seem to love to turn to the MAGA world to find a new audience. It's almost like those kinds of people are willing to put up with past racist behavior more easily? Interesting.
37-38. NATO & Putin
Recently, Trump's favorite son, Musk has been calling for the USA to exit NATO. Trump himself has been calling out Ukraine's President Zelensky a lot recently (as I mentioned before) and even called him a dictator. Not sure what Trump is even going for these days, it seems like he's just trying to piss everyone off at this point. At a UN meeting last month, Trump even sided with Russia as he refused to agree with the statement that Moscow was the aggressor in the ongoing war. Ultimately I have no idea where Trump's real alligance lies, but I don't like what he's doing here.
39. Withdrawing from the World Health Organization
One of his first acts as President (again) was to remove the USA from the World Health Organization. I assume it was to save money because the USA is one of the biggest contributors, or maybe it's because Trump doesn't really get what the WHO even is? I mean it's like he already forgot what a huge mess COVID-19 was the last time he was President.
40. COVID
I'm trying to focus more on things he's done more recently, but since I just brought it up, it's worth putting it here. He fumbled the COVID response here in the USA hard and, if done better, could have saved lives. Trump loved to call it the "China virus" because he wanted all the blame to fall on them. Also, it was a big deal to the MAGA people to not wear masks because of freedom or something stupid like that. His not correcting that behavior no doubt cost a lot of his followers their lives, along with a lot of them not wanting to get vaccinated.
41. He never stopped claiming the 2020 election was stolen
At least until now when he became President again and it doesn't matter anymore. I remember during the election last year he still wouldn't give a clear answer on his stance and even JD Vance was too afraid to tell the truth because it would piss Trump and his fanatics off.
42. He wants to abolish the Department of Education
It's bad enough that he brought in Linda McMahon of all people to run education, but apparently he wants to abolish the DoE as a whole. There was that whole Critical Race Theory debacle where it seems like all the MAGA people thought it was ruining their kids. I don't know if he's doing it for that reason or just another way to save money, but it's not good.
43. He served McDonalds to the visiting championship college team
Okay, this is honestly pretty funny looking back at it, but still really stupid. On the list of awful things he's done this is far from the worst, but his obsession with giving everyone McDonald's is pretty weird. Lots of teams at this point decline the traditional White House visit after winning a championship. The Eagles just declined it recently after winning the Super Bowl, and honestly good for them.
44. TRUMP COIN
Of course Trump had to get in on the meme coin trend and just like most of them it lost a lot of people money. What kind of President releases a meme coin? The grifter kind.
45. Hurricane Maria
This one always pisses me off personally, but his horrificly slow response to the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was insane. The viral moment of him throwing a roll of paper towels into a crowd will live on in infamy in Puerto Rico forever. There's no doubt he cost lives because of this and it could have been different if he actually gave a shit.
I could go on and on listing reasons why our current President is a piece of shit, but I don't have all the time in the world to do that. These are just some of the things he's done recently or in his last term and not all the things he did before he was even President. There are countless stories and you can go look them up if you're interested, but the point of this was to show you just how much damage one man has done in such a short time. I'm tired of waking up every morning and reading about another stupid choice our President has made that will affect our lives in a negative way. Not only us here in the USA, but also countries around the world could suffer now because of Trumps choices. Getting rid of a lot of foreign aid and slowly pissing off every one of our allies in just the first two months of a four year term is quite concerning. I didn't even mention all the terrible people he's putting in positions of power alongside himself.
Down below will be a list of articles I was reading or looking at for some of the points I made on this post. If you want more information about some of the things I was mentioning or just want to read more detailed stories of Trumps bullshit, well here you go.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-deliberations-jury-testimony-verdict-85558c6d08efb434d05b694364470aa0
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/06/nx-s1-5197697/a-capitol-police-officer-assaulted-during-the-jan-6-riot-says-he-feels-betrayed
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/business/tariffs-trump-canada/index.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c62e2158mkpt
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5289337/elon-musk-doge-treasury
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/08/nx-s1-5251642/linda-mcmahon-trump-wwe-education-secretary-nominee
https://www.livenowfox.com/news/pete-hegseth-military-experience
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/second-winner/2024/ap-traces-the-printing-of-trumps-god-bless-america-bibles-to-the-country-he-accuses-of-stealing-american-jobs-china/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_photo_op_at_St._John%27s_Church
https://people.com/all-about-elon-musk-children-11678749
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/24/trump-pardon-proud-boys-enrique-tarrio
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/31/politics/donald-trump-kamala-harris-black-nabj/index.html
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/12/1230862336/trump-says-the-us-will-own-gaza-what-that-could-mean-for-the-middle-east
https://www.kff.org/u-s-foreign-aid-freeze-dissolution-of-usaid-timeline-of-events/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-federal-funding-will-stop-colleges-schools-allowing-illegal-protests-2025-03-04/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7435pnle0go
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-consequences-of-the-us-withdrawal-from-the-who
https://www.cnet.com/news/politics/what-happens-if-the-department-of-education-is-abolished-what-we-know/
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/8/21242003/trump-failed-coronavirus-response
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/22/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-trump-delayed-aid
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