It’s easy to swat a mosquito. It’s much harder to swat a cave full of them. Every day. Day after day after day after day.
Covering the Trump administration is a lot like the latter. There’s so much chaos, open corruption and indifferent cruelty, mixed with wild incompetence and blatant lies, that it’s tricky to keep track of it all. At some point it just starts to register as ambient buzzing.
Some might argue the overwhelming absurdity is deliberate. It’s easier to pretend we aren’t in the midst of what American historian Timothy Snyder describes as “superpower suicide” if the man who’s responsible for it doesn’t know what magnets are.
“Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity,” wrote Snyder in an essay unpacking the term.
The fix to what Snyder described as “world-historical levels of strategic buffoonery” will not be easy.
“From where we stand now there are two ways forward: one is the self-induced downfall of the American republic; the other is to reconsider American ideals and to restructure American politics so as to bring the people greater power over a more just future.”
So here we are. And there are those mosquitoes again. Grab your flyswatter, won’t you?
(A brief note: We cannot emphasize enough how not-even-remotely-exhaustive this list is. We’ve undoubtedly missed many things. Likely a lot! Other omissions, like the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, aren’t on the list because you’ve hopefully not forgotten those.
Also note that the ever-combative Trump administration has disputed the accuracy of some items, like all the times he fell asleep in the Oval Office, for instance, or the fact that his Department of Health and Human Services secretary once reportedly cut off a dead raccoon’s penis to study later. So to make HuffPost’s lawyers happy, consider them alleged.)
Here’s some of the dumbest stuff officials in the second Trump administration have gotten up to:
1. Accidentally texted secret war plans to a reporter in an unsecured group chat.
2. Shared sensitive military details in a second, personal group chat.
3. Added a random person to a third group chat, exposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement manhunt details in real-time.
4. Gave Social Security numbers to a 19-year-old who goes by “Big Ballz,” who then uploaded it to an insecure cloud server.
5. Hired a staffer for the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (“Big Ballz” again) who previously provided tech support to a cybercrime ring.
6. Spent over $500 million (and potentially up to $1.4 billion) deploying federal troops to Washington, D.C., after “Big Ballz” got assaulted.
7. Almost briefed Elon Musk on top-secret war plans for China. Musk, an unelected bureaucrat, has deep business ties to the country, which houses one of Tesla’s largest manufacturing facilities.
8. Accidentally fired the Ebola response team.
9. Accidentally fired the people who manage the U.S. nuclear stockpile.
10. Cut off payments for dog food and vet bills for the Transportation Security Administration’s bomb-sniffing dogs.
11. Said older adults wouldn’t mind if they didn’t get their Social Security checks.
12. Accidentally fired scientists managing the bird flu outbreak.
13. Accidentally fired the Food and Drug Administration’s medical device reviewers.
14. Accidentally fired military veterans operating the Veterans Crisis Line.
15. “Everything’s computer!”
16. Said the only guardrails artificial intelligence needs is Trump himself.
17. Hired an education secretary who confused AI with “A1” (like the steak sauce).
18. Misspelled “United States” on an executive order purporting to rename “artificial intelligence” to “super intelligence.”
19. Deleted historic photos of the Enola Gay because it had “gay” in the name.
20. Also deleted pages about the Navajo Code Talkers, Tuskegee Airmen, Marines at the Battle of Iwo Jima, and Jackie Robinson as part of a Defense Department purge of anything related to “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.”
21. Deleted photos of Harriet Tubman from a National Park Service webpage about the history of the Underground Railroad.
22. Ordered the National Park Service to remove references to slavery from its sites.
23. Demanded the release of 2.2 billion gallons of water in response to the Los Angeles wildfires that then flowed the opposite direction, just like everyone said it would.
24. Gave a teenager who was previously fired for leaking company secrets the ability to modify code at the Treasury Department.
25. Lied about DOGE savings, then quietly deleted some of their claims when asked to defend them.
26. Tried to fire emergency ICU doctors at the NIH.
27. Hired a woman who got caught making fashion videos ― complete with affiliate links for fans hoping to copy her looks ― in her government office for her Instagram page.
28. Accidentally published classified data on its own website.
29. Demanded federal employees email five bullet points every week describing their accomplishments, but didn’t set up an email system that could handle the incoming mail, so it all bounced.
30. Pulled research funding to protect pregnant women from domestic violence.
31. Called himself a king and shared a fake Time magazine cover depicting a crown on his head.
32. Directed road funds to communities with higher fertility rates.
33. Forced parents in Maine to visit a Social Security office in person to register their newborns.
34. Tried to mobilize a disaster response team after the Myanmar earthquake but couldn’t. Instead, it sent just three people ― after the search-and-rescue window had closed.
35. Went golfing instead of overseeing the return of the remains of four soldiers.
36. Imposed tariffs on an uninhabited island full of penguins.
37. Imposed tariffs on a U.S. military base.
38. Probably used ChatGPT to calculate tariffs.
39. Blamed a deadly D.C. plane crash on diversity, equity and inclusion.
40. Spent over $2 million investigating whether or not diversity causes plane crashes. It doesn’t.
41. Laid off National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health staff in West Virginia who oversee mine safety.
42. Halted black lung protections.
43. Broke down the door of a U.S. citizen’s home with guns drawn, handcuffed him, and dragged him outside in his underwear in the subzero Minnesota winter. Later, authorities returned the man without explanation or apology.
44. Accidentally called the former national security adviser he fired.
45. Used a random British guy’s tattoo to identify Venezuelan gang members.
47. Erased the first female Thunderbird pilot from Air Force websites because “DEI.”
48. Suspended the FDA’s milk quality control program and other programs that ensure accurate testing for bird flu and other pathogens in milk and cheese.
49. Installed a makeup studio at the Pentagon while kicking out almost all of the reporters.
50. Hired a naval secretary who got the date wrong for Pearl Harbor. Twice.
51. Deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen with what a judge called “no meaningful process.”
52. Kicked HuffPost, Reuters and The Associated Press out of the White House press pool in favor of a conservative influencer who spent seven days convinced the moon had disappeared.
53. Shut down a program to stop human waste from backing up into Alabama homes because they thought it was “DEI.”
54. Tried to convert Alcatraz back into a prison.
55. Shared an image depicting himself as the pope two weeks after Pope Francis died.
56. Responded to criticism of the above by saying “the Catholics loved it.”
57. Promoted a healthcare conspiracy about magical hospital beds featuring a fake clip ― of himself.
58. Ended the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee that provided recommendations to help prevent the spread of infections in hospitals.
59. Announced the wrong victory date for WWII.
60. Nominated a Fox News contributor who said it was “smart” to take hydroxychloroquine during COVID to be surgeon general. After that pick floundered, it nominated a wellness influencer with an inactive medical license as surgeon general. After that pick languished, they nominated a different Fox News contributor instead. The country still doesn’t have a surgeon general.
61. Solicited a $400 million Boeing 747-8 airplane as a “gift” from the Qatari royal family that he intends to take with him after he leaves office.
62. Dropped a criminal bribery investigation into border czar Tom Homan after Homan accepted $50K in cash from undercover FBI agents.
63. Disbanded the FBI’s public corruption squad in Washington, D.C.
64. Claimed to have come up with the word “equalizing.”
65. Imprisoned and deported student immigrants while importing members of a Mexican cartel.
66. Scaled back scrutiny of the shell companies used by criminals to launder money and traffic drugs.
67. Pardoned two reality TV stars convicted of $30 million of fraud and tax evasion.
68. Accused the South African president of enabling “white genocide” while using a photo from a different country as proof.
69. Pardoned a tax fraudster a month after the man’s mother attended a $1 million-per-plate fundraising dinner at Mar-a-Lago.
70. Used AI to write the White House MAHA Report, which cited health studies that don’t exist.
71. Hired a health secretary who once cut the penis off a dead raccoon so he could study it later.
72. Pardoned a sheriff convicted of federal bribery charges.
73. Attacked Harvard for teaching math.
75. Put a guy who was allegedly abusing ketamine, ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms, Ambien and Adderall in charge of slashing the federal government, with access to highly sensitive government databases.
76. Fired thousands of Social Security employees as claims increased, then couldn’t understand why wait times increased.
77. Made it harder for air traffic control towers to get windows cleaned.
78. Appointed a Federal Emergency Management Agency head who said he was unaware the U.S. had a hurricane season.
79. Terminated a program that keeps low-income people from freezing to death at home.
80. Ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to raise the water level in an Ohio river so Vice President JD Vance could have an “ideal” holiday experience.
81. Bought ill-fitting shoes for everyone in his inner circle; they were reportedly then too afraid not to wear. Here’s Marco Rubio looking like a totally normal, well-functioning adult:
82. Celebrated America’s 250th birthday a month early, on his actual birthday, by hosting a cage fight on the White House lawn.
83. Couldn’t tell the difference between a 15-year-old boy with disabilities and a supposed hardened criminal from El Salvador.
84. Left details of the Putin-Trump summit in a hotel printer.
85. “Vladimir, STOP!” (Vladimir did not stop.)
86. Gave Argentina a $20 billion bailout while allowing the U.S. government to shutter.
87. Was caught on a hot mic setting up a suspicious meeting between his son and the president of Indonesia.
88. Doubled the U.S. bailout of Argentina to $40 billion.
89. Nominated a guy who said he had “a Nazi streak” to lead the Office of Special Counsel.
90. Demanded the DOJ pay him $230 million for expenses he incurred defending himself against federal criminal investigations.
91. Tore down the East Wing of the White House for a ballroom after he promised it would remain untouched.
92. Said the ballroom would cost $200 million and be privately funded. (It’s now more than $600 million, with taxpayers covering more than half of the bill.)
93. Shrugged off warnings about his ballroom violating basic fire safety laws: “I am the code.”
94. “South Carerdddd,” which may have been Trump trying to spell “South Korea,” but who knows?
95. Thought you needed ID to buy groceries, gas.
96. Responded to a medical emergency in the Oval Office like this:
97. Tried to buy 10 737s from a company that didn’t own them, and also they didn’t have engines.
98. Hobbled the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration team that reopens ports after hurricanes.
99. Stranded 11 ICE officers and eight migrants in a shipping container in Djibouti.
100. Accidentally arrested a U.S. Marshal they thought was an undocumented immigrant.
101. Bragged about how he’s “brilliant at music” and “could’ve been a flutist.”
102. Spent $45 million on a birthday parade for himself.
103. Nominated a Federal Aviation Administration chief who lied about having a commercial pilot’s license.
104. Put a 22-year-old with no anti-terror experience in charge of terrorism prevention amid threats from Iran.
105. Gave $200 million to Elon Musk’s AI company, whose signature product called itself “MechaHitler.”
106. Used that same AI to identify and bomb more than 2,000 targets in Iran. Bombed an elementary school and killed more than 150 children. Promised not to hold anyone accountable for it.
107. Put an experimental AI with a financial incentive to deny medical care in charge of approving medical care for older adults.
108. Kept the FIFA Club World Cup trophy, so they had to give the winning team a replica.
109. Incinerated 500 tons of emergency food for children instead of distributing it.
110. Reassigned FEMA workers to ICE. During hurricane season.
111. Let Musk’s kid wipe boogers on the Resolute Desk.
112. “Nobody knows what magnets are.”
113. Pepper sprayed a toddler.
114. Spent $700,000 on tricked-out ICE trucks to match Trump’s private jet for a series of social media posts.
115. Spent $2 billion rebranding the “Defense Department” to “The Department of War” even though an actual name change requires Congressional approval.
116. Reached a trade deal with Switzerland after the Swiss delegation gave him a Rolex and a bar of gold. (Relatedly, more than 100 gifts from Trump’s first term remain unaccounted for.)
117. Thought Thanksgiving side dishes were called “surroundings.”
118. Had to be stopped from “updating” the Oval Office in a manner that would have caved in the ceiling.
119. Personally superglued gaudy gold ornamentation all over the Oval Office:
120. Intervened in a federal investigation on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate.
121. Accused former President Joe Biden of signing pardons with an autopen while doing the exact same thing.
122. Reclassified swastikas and nooses to no longer be considered a hate symbol.
123. Made FBI agents drive Kash Patel’s girlfriend’s drunk friend home — more than once.
124. Pardoned a former Honduran president on drug trafficking charges, while illegally blowing up boats in the Caribbean he claimed were piloted by narco-terrorists.
125. Said Rob Reiner died because he was anti-Trump.
126. Repeatedly appeared to fall asleep during his own cabinet meetings.
127. Claimed he wasn’t sleeping but was merely “blinking,” despite ample video and photo evidence to the contrary.
128. Responded to 7 million demonstrators by posting an AI video of himself pooping on them.
129. Said “your mom” in response to a question from HuffPost.
130. Suggested he’s a better president than George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. (A 2024 survey of presidential historians by the American Political Science Association ranked him as the worst.)
131. Told the Pentagon to resume testing nuclear weapons.
132. Replaced a decorated Navy admiral with a 33-year-old DOGE staffer who has no naval experience.
133. Reduced the number of refugees America would admit to just 7,500 people — consisting mostly of white South Africans.
134. Threw a lavish “Great Gatsby”-themed party as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits ran out.
135. Pardoned the Binance founder but couldn’t say why. Months later, Binance began holding $4.7 billion worth of Trump crypto.
136. Pardoned George Santos.
137. Pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) from federal bribery and money laundering charges, then lost it when the “ungrateful” Cuellar didn’t become a Republican.
138. Said anyone who thinks Trump fell asleep at Lindsey Graham’s funeral is a “depraved moron,” even though it’s on video.
139. Fumbled the coin toss at the Army-Navy game.
140. Removed any mention of fossil fuels from an Environmental Protection Agency website about climate change.
141. Deleted language from the Federal Communications Commission website referring to the FCC as an “independent agency.”
142. Shuttered a world-class Earth science research center because the Colorado governor wouldn’t free a Jan. 6 felon in state custody.
143. Vetoed a bipartisan bill to provide clean drinking water to rural Colorado because the governor wouldn’t free a Jan. 6 felon in state custody.
144. Threatened to pull funding from a Colorado school district for letting 61 boys play on girls’ sports teams. The “boys” were all administrative staffers and mascots.
145. Tried to rename the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after himself.
146. Removed and sold priceless art gifted to the Kennedy Center, then hung up gold-leaf pictures of himself.
147. Threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center after a judge ruled he couldn’t rename it after himself.
148. Withheld infrastructure funding unless Penn Station and Washington-Dulles Airport were renamed after him.
149. Seized Venezuela’s oil, sold it, and put the proceeds in a Qatari bank account.
150. Teased a “massive” trading deal with Belarus for a key fertilizer ingredient the U.S. normally imports from Canada, which has skyrocketed in price because of his trade war, only for Belarus to deny it.
151. “Bela.” (Was this related to the aforementioned trade deal that wasn’t with Belarus? Who knows!)
152. Published a super racist video depicting former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as monkeys.
153. Removed brochures from a national monument because they called a KKK member who assassinated a civil rights activist a “racist.”
154. Claimed an immigrant ran headfirst into a wall, fracturing his skull in 8 places, when in reality immigration officers repeatedly beat him in the head with a steel baton.
155. “Lost” hard drives containing allegedly damning ICE detention center footage, after they previously claimed the footage had been “irretrievably destroyed,” then claimed the footage actually hadn’t been recorded because of a computer crash, then said it couldn’t possibly turn over footage that had been recorded because it lacked the hard drive space to do so.
156. Appeared to fall asleep in the Oval Office too many times to count.
157. Crashed the NBA Finals and ― yup ― appeared to fall asleep again.
158. Snapped “Quiet! Quiet, piggy!” at a female reporter who asked whether he might be incriminated by the Jeffrey Epstein files.
159. Was referenced more than 38,000 times in the Epstein files.
160. Claimed the drawing of a naked woman and Trump’s signature in the Epstein files couldn’t have been his because “I never wrote a picture in my life,” despite having previously auctioned off his own sketches.
161. Scolded a CNN reporter for not smiling instead of answering her question about Musk and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appearing in the Epstein files.
162. Surveilled lawmakers ahead of a DOJ hearing about the Epstein files. (Even House Speaker Mike Johnson said doing so would be “inappropriate.”)
163. Hid the Epstein files containing testimony from a woman who claims Trump sexually assaulted her when she was 13.
165. Said Tylenol causes autism despite not having any evidence to support that.
166. Directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute his political rivals in a public social media message that was supposed to be a direct message.
167. Claimed windmills are killing eagles by sharing a picture of a totally different bird. In Israel. From 2017.
168. Hung up a picture of Vladimir Putin in the White House.
169. Repeatedly referred to Greenland as “Iceland” while attempting to claim it for the U.S.
170. Falsely claimed NATO troops were never on “the frontlines” in Afghanistan.
172. Reinvented the United Nations. (It backfired.)
173. Pledged $10 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds for his “Board of Peace,” then declared himself chairman of the board, then put the “donations” into a private bank account with no oversight instead of the World Bank fund set up for that purpose.
174. Appeared to fall asleep at the first meeting of the Board of Peace.
175. Suggested he wanted to invade Greenland because Norway didn’t award him the Nobel Peace Prize. (The Norwegian government doesn’t award the Nobel Peace Prize.)
176. Kept the Nobel Peace Prize that was actually awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
177. Boasted about winning the first-ever FIFA World Peace Prize, clearly created just for him: “The numbers are beyond any numbers.”
178. Made $1.4 billion in his first year in office by exploiting the presidency.
179. Sold a 49% stake in his crypto company to a UAE “spy sheikh” for $500 million months before signing off on the sale of advanced AI chips to the UAE.
180. Sued his own government for $10 billion, then “settled” the private lawsuit for $1.776 billion with plans to give that money to convicted Jan. 6 rioters and apparently anyone else he saw fit.
181. Fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot mid-flight over a misplaced blanket only to reinstate the pilot after realizing no one else could fly them home.
182. Complained about having to invite the Olympic gold medal-winning women’s ice hockey team to the White House.
183. Abandoned a blind refugee miles from his home in freezing weather in Buffalo without notifying his family. He died.
184. Lied about deporting a cannibal who “started to eat himself” on the plane.
185. Tried to send “a great hospital boat” to Greenland. Why? Who knows!
186. Lied about searching for a missing child so they could get into a Columbia University building where they abducted a student, who was released hours later.
187. Used AI to turn himself into Jesus, then claimed the image depicted him as a doctor after people accused him of blasphemy.
188. Attacked the pope for being “WEAK on crime.”
189. Appointed a FEMA official who claimed to have teleported 50 miles to a Waffle House.
190. Reportedly told Dr. Oz soda is good for him “because it kills grass” and therefore must also kill cancer cells.
191. Arrested an 86-year-old French woman who moved to the U.S. to marry her 1950s sweetheart.
192. Read a fake Bible quote at a Pentagon prayer service that was actually from “Pulp Fiction.”
194. Appointed a 29-year-old to a high-ranking counterterrorism role at the Department of Homeland Security who allegedly also had a “sugar daddy” who bought her $40,000 in luxury goods and vacations.
195. Rejected all of the women on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Soybean Board and replaced them with men.
196. Indicted James Comey because he felt threatened by a picture of seashells. Twice.
197. Bragged about having “all the cards” using Uno cards ― which actually means he’s losing.
198. At the request of the King of England, removed tariffs he’d imposed without Congress’ consent, because irony is truly dead.
199. Gave a no-bid contract to his pool guy (who also happened to be a Trump donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor) to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which quietly sextupled in price.
200. Boasted about how the Reflecting Pool lining was “so strong, so powerful,” it couldn’t be cut with a knife.
201. Claimed vandals were cutting the lining with knives after it started to fail.
202. Claimed he “didn’t know the contractor” after the pool filled with algae and chunks of the lining started peeling off and floating to the surface.
203. Also, blamed vandals for the algae.
204. Forced the Justice Department to charge a former Olympian with a felony for allegedly vandalizing the pool.
205. Lost his mind after the DOJ dropped the charges due to a lack of evidence. The contractor later fessed up to having improperly installed it.
206. Blamed vandals for dead grass on the National Mall ― in the same spot where he’d ordered a stage built for his July 4 celebration.
207. Said he’d replace D.C.’s grass with grass from “a friend of mine.”
208. “Grass is like humans.”
209. Said he was “very serious” about making Venezuela “the 51st state.”
210. Repeatedly said he wanted to make Canada the 51st state.
211. Terminated an investigation into the U.S. Border Patrol chief, who later resigned amid reports he’d regularly traveled abroad to solicit sex workers and bragged about his conduct to his Border Patrol colleagues.
212. Went snorkeling at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, which, yes, is a war grave and, no, does not allow public snorkeling.
213. Bombed a dairy farm in Ecuador that it mistakenly believed was a drug trafficking training camp.
214. Appeared to doze off at the 9/11 memorial.
215. Intervened to get a $620 million Pentagon deal for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr.
216. Dropped 180 faiths from the military’s list of recognized religions. Bummer, atheists!
218. Made more stock trades than all of Congress combined.
219. Charged for priority access to Trump’s social media posts, thereby both enabling and profiting from insider trading.
220. Cut the screwworm monitoring program and then blamed Biden when screwworm came back.
221. Likely lied about screwworm cases going back down.
222. Stopped federal surveillance of a parasite that proceeded to cause an outbreak of explosive diarrhea across the country.
223. Pitched seizing Greenland as the means to bring back endless shrimp at Red Lobster.
225. Enlisted a military helicopter to go house-hunting and fly one of JD Vance’s kids to golf lessons.
226. “Planemaxxing.”
227. Took $13 billion in oil revenue from Venezuela but won’t say where it went.
228. Mislabeled every country on a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference, with senior African officials in the audience.
229. Shrugged off a report that Iranian hackers had breached 30 municipal water systems.
230. Sneaked off Air Force One on a catering cart to join Natalie Harp on a different plane, leaving everyone behind on a decoy plane to potentially die.
231. Canceled military exercises with South Korea because Kim Jong Un asked him to.
232. Attempted to rename Lake Ontario.
233. Proposed renaming New Mexico.
234. Had to be stopped from attempting to rename the Atlantic Ocean to “Trump Ocean.”
235. Imported mystery meat to undercut the market by 25% so he could claim to have lowered beef prices. Refused to tell reporters where it came from.
236. Tried to lower beef costs by letting ranchers process it themselves.
237. Fired a bunch of FDA food inspectors and support personnel.
238. Suggested measles deaths were “fabricated.”
239. Waived the Endangered Species Act; the Clean Water Act; the Clean Air Act; the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act; and the National Environmental Policy Act, a landmark 1970 law which requires federal agencies to evaluate their environmental impacts, so he could bulldoze Big Bend National Park to build a border wall.
240. While building the border wall, severely damaged an ancient ground carving that’s 2,000 years older than the ancient pyramids in Egypt.
241. Made millions trading oil stocks during the Iran war.
242. Made the crowd at the GOP convention in Dallas pledge to “cheat” in the midterms.
243. Ordered an underling at the FBI to go after a Twitter account called “Retard Finder” because it said something mean about him.
244. Called the Iran war “small potatoes” because it’s not Vietnam.
245. Said the Iran war would end in “four to five weeks.”
246. Said the Iran war was a “short-term excursion.”
247. Said the Iran war would end “when I feel it, when I feel it in my bones.”
248. Said the Iran war was over before it was actually over so he could undercount troop deaths. (It’s still not over.)
249. Let a Russian oligarch close to Putin pay for his son’s lavish wedding.
250. Plans to build an arch twice as tall as the Lincoln Memorial right across from the Lincoln Memorial, to store “large quantities of sniper ammunition.”
251. Used money meant for slain officers’ funerals to run a pro-Trump political ad that was just a montage of Trump and “love me” over and over in the background, then claimed it was a public service announcement.
252. Sent ICE officers to airports during the government shutdown where they mostly just stood around because they weren’t qualified to actually provide airport security.
253. Compared putting ICE officers in airports to inventing paper clips.
254. Had a meltdown over an unflattering portrait of himself in the Colorado Capitol and demanded it be taken down. (It was commissioned by a Republican and had been there since 2019 after pranksters put Vladimir Putin’s portrait in Trump’s vacant spot). Anyway, here it is again:
255. Appointed a labor secretary who allegedly drank on the job, had an “inappropriate” relationship with a member of her security detail, dragged subordinates to a strip club and ordered one to engage with a partially nude dancer.
256. Wasted millions of dollars on unusable ICE vehicles because they were clearly marked with ICE’s logo ― and ICE uses unmarked vehicles.
257. Extorted an Indian billionaire so Trump Jr. could profit off an oil refinery.
258. “I love the inflation,” he said.
259. “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody,” he also said.
260. Promised to pay voters $5,000 “Trump Dividends” if Republicans win the midterms. (aka apparently “buying” votes).
261. Promised Americans “DOGE Dividends.” (It didn’t happen.)
262. Promised Americans $2,000 “tariff dividends.” (It didn’t happen.)
263. Proposed paying a data center “dividend” to convince people to live near them.
264. Reportedly called the White House “a real dump.”
265. Directed the National Park Service to give a corner of Yosemite to a private developer.
266. Lied about where he was on 9/11.
267. Ended funding for the Arctic Report Card.
268. Canceled energy grants for states that didn’t vote for him “based solely” on the fact that they didn’t vote for him.
270. Turned the White House Colonnade into a gaudy “Presidential Wall Of Fame”:
272. Posted an altered photo of him meeting Xi Jinping because in the original he was wincing.
273. Kicked the White House press pool out and then gave a speech no one could hear because no one was there to cover it.
274. Threatened Canada with tariffs because a wealthy friend reportedly couldn’t buy the Gulfstream jet he wanted.
275. Canceled an offshore wind project and gave the $900 million “settlement” to a billionaire Trump donor.
277. Ordered the U.S. Navy to remove advanced fighter launch systems from aircraft carriers because he likes steam.
278. Announced a new class of Navy battleships that he named after himself.
279. Ordered the Navy to move the multistory towers on aircraft carriers toward the middle of the ship because he thinks they look better that way.
280. Diverted firefighting aircraft from fires elsewhere to extinguish a fire on a private mega-ranch owned by a Trump donor.
281. Granted himself and his sons “forever” immunity from tax audits.
282. Caused an estimated 762,000 deaths, of which 500,000 were children, by abruptly shuttering USAID.
283. Laid off all the full-time cruise ship health inspectors.
284. Placed a 9-year-old boy with severe autism in ICE detention for more than 80 days.
285. Let Ticketmaster and Live Nation off the hook in an antitrust lawsuit brought by the Biden DOJ.