The first 100 days of Trump's second term in office have been an orgy of corruption, callousness, vindictiveness, lies, and lawlessness.
But most of all ineptitude.
Trump's biggest "achievements" have come via a slew of Executive Orders and Emergency Declarations, not the legislative accomplishments that traditionally occur during a President's first 100 days. Many of these Executive Orders — written by right-wing extremists and tech fascists — have already been declared unconstitutional or unlawful. Trump has proudly signed them all with his big black Sharpie even as he seemingly learns of their contents and purpose as they are handed to him on live TV.
To anyone paying attention, nothing that has happened in these past 100 days has been surprising.
The Christo-Fascists who hid behind Trump as he disavowed any knowledge of their evil intent had already spelled out exactly how they planned to ruin your life.
For years, Elon Musk, Silicon Valley's "Nerd Reich," and many of America's greediest billionaires have been using their cash and influence to help power the relentless steamroller of fascism that threatens to destroy America.
That steamroller is still trundling along. And it may yet crush US democracy once and for all.
But one thing the whole world — including a growing number of those whose voted for Trump in 2024 — can no longer deny is this: Beyond lining his own pockets and staying out of prison, Trump never had a plan.
Trump can't fix anything. He doesn't understand economics. He's making everything worse.
Trump is not strong or powerful. The real strongmen in the world — the likes of Putin, Xi, and even El Salvador's Bukele — mock and manipulate him for all the world to see.
Trump doesn't inspire loyalty, only criminality and opportunism. He's not worthy to inhabit the Oval Office.
He's always been an immoral and disgusting slob.
As President, he's a pathetic disgrace.
Trump's handling of inflation? Pathetic. Ukraine? Pathetic.
Trump has conspicuously failed to deliver on two of his biggest and most ridiculous "Day One" promises — reducing inflation and ending the war in Ukraine.
Even on his signature issue of immigration, the latest Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds that his cruel and unlawful deportation strategy has turned his rating negative, despite the fact a "dwindling number of undocumented immigrants" are now crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump's overall approval rating has plummeted to 39%—"the lowest 100-day job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years." A majority of the country now disapproves of his handling of the economy, immigration, foreign trade, and the war between Russia and Ukraine.
The stock market is down 8%—the worst first-100-day performance since Nixon. Consumer confidence just saw its biggest drop since 1990. Even the Trump-friendly Daily Mail is repeatedly blasting out stories about panic in the real estate market.
Trump's tariff plan? Pathetic.
According to the latest New York Times/Siena poll:
- 56% of participants said Trump has "gone too far" with enacting tariffs.
- 52% say he has gone so far that he is "damaging important alliances."
- 52% say he has gone too far in cutting the federal workforce.
Even MAGA voters who voted for Trump to "own the libs" and "end DEI" are now realizing that they will be the ones paying for Trump's tariff stupidity.
States that are reliant on manufacturing and farming—including Michigan, Texas, Arizona, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and the Dakotas—realize they will be hit especially hard as long as Trump keeps listening to the economic advice of pathetic Peter Navarro and his fictional adviser "Ron Vara."
Trump has already caused the worst farm crisis since the first Trump administration. And his tariffs aren't bringing jobs back to the USA. Case in point: Apple just announced it will be moving assembly of iPhones for the US market out of China... to India.
Trump on the world stage? Pathetic.
Two of the most embarrassing TV moments of the past 100 days occurred when Trump welcomed two very different world leaders — Zelensky of Ukraine and Bukele of El Salvador — to the White House.
Trump's attempt to bully Zelensky backfired spectacularly as European and other world leaders united behind the Ukrainian president.
The event served to reinforce the world's admiration of Zelensky and Trump's status as a global laughingstock.
When Trump hosted Bukele just five weeks later, he took a different tack, feigning impotence and declining to even ask the Salvadoran president to return the wrongly imprisoned Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US.
Trump's pathetic display only increased the disgust that a majority of Americans feel toward the administration's lawless deportation policies.
With Putin, though, Trump reminded the world that his impotence is real, begging "Vladimir, STOP!" on Truth Social.
Even Trump's corruption is pathetic.
The first Trump administration offered a shower of corruption.
This time around, Trump has gotten rid of the low-flow showerheads to enable a firehose of bribery, fraud, and extortion.
Yes, he's making billions. But he's doing it in the cheesiest, sleaziest ways possible. And he's bankrupting many of his own supporters in the process.
From "pump and dump" meme coins to "poop and scoop" market manipulations, Trump and his inner circle have turned the US presidency into a 24/7/365 grift machine.
Trump's corrupt abuse of the president's pardon power has extended far beyond the January 6th's domestic terrorists.
In recent weeks, he's pardoned some of the worst scammers in business and the crypto world — scumbags and psychopaths who, just like Trump, have exploited Americans' financial dreams or desperation to part them from cash they can't afford to lose.
Trump has signaled his radical commitment to corruption, including, it seems, the goal of stripping America for parts by: firing Inspector Generals; selling federal buildings cheap to connected real-estate investors; putting America's food safety in the hands of Don, Jr.'s hunting buddy; dropping investigations into his biggest donor Elon Musk; allowing his biggest donor to steal multi-billion contracts from competitors; crippling the IRS's ability to audit wealthy tax cheats; gutting the Endangered Species Act to benefit donors in the mining and logging industries; and, of course, using his tariff or military "negotiations" to make deals with "Trump-friendly" corporations and countries such as Vietnam or Saudi Arabia that offer prime locales for future Trump resorts.
And in case Trump's "pay-to-play" message hadn't quite sunk in to any rich donors looking to "influence" his administration, number one son Don, Jr. just partnered on the launch of a new DC club that promises easy access to the administration for those willing to pay its reported $500,000 membership fee.
Trump is making America as pathetic as he is.
In just 100 days, Trump has turned America into a country that's both unserious and unwelcoming (to foreign students, scientists, international tourists, even Canadian real estate investors).
By weakening global alliances and abandoning trade deals (even ones he himself negotiated), Trump is telling the world that America is no longer a reliable partner.
For tens of millions of its own citizens — when it comes to everything from due process to healthcare to Social Security to privacy to clean air and water — Trump's America is a country that can no longer be trusted to deliver on its most basic promises.
Trump is the sleaziest, cheesiest, weakest, and most embarrassing President in American history.
He's not making America great. He's making it as pathetic as he is.
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