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The Unfit List
The Unfit List I. You’re an aging reality show host/steak salesman who has somehow become the President. Knowing that laws, honesty, and basic decency are for sad, low-IQ losers, you do things like: T...
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February 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
You, a man who led six businesses into bankruptcy and are now leading our country, know that “10" is a nice round number for a list such as this–a way of focusing the attention on a pattern. You know that this symbolic shortlist could easily be extended by dozens and dozens, if one were so inclined.
The 100 Worst Things Trump Has Done Since Descending That Escalator
Some were just embarrassing. Many were horrific. All of them should disqualify him from another four years in the White House.
newrepublic.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
10. Trade favors with corrupt politicians. You take a personal meeting with a mayor under federal indictment for bribery and corruption. A few weeks later, your DOJ orders prosecutors to drop the charges. They instead resign en masse, alleging a corrupt quid pro quo.
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February 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
9. Promote a foreign policy of ethnic cleansing. You announce your administration’s new plan for Middle East peace: A 21st-century Trail of Tears (forced relocation) for the people living in Gaza.
Trump doubles down on plan to empty Gaza. This is what he has said and what's at stake
Rights groups say that behind U.S. President Donald Trump's vows to turn Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” lies a plan to forcibly drive a population from its land.
apnews.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
8. Enable unprecedented corruption and cronyism. You appoint a multi-billionaire, who runs multiple large companies, to a made-up position with vast, unchecked, unsupervised authority. Your press secretary assures the public that he will “monitor his own conflicts of interest.”
14 states file a lawsuit arguing Elon Musk's authority at DOGE is unconstitutional
The lawsuit is one of several accusing President Donald Trump of skirting the Constitution and Musk of operating with unchecked power.
www.nbcnews.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
7. Carry out purges. You unlawfully fire over a dozen inspectors general (senior-level agency watchdogs for waste and fraud). You fire the head of the Office of Government Ethics. You fire career employees at DOJ and FBI for investigating and prosecuting your crimes.
Trump administration fires prosecutors involved in Jan. 6 cases and moves toward ousting FBI agents
The Trump administration has fired a group of prosecutors involved in the Jan. 6 criminal cases and demanded the names of FBI agents involved in those same probes so that they can possibly be ousted.
apnews.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
6. Unlawfully seize powers reserved by the Constitution to Congress. You issue royal decrees (executive orders) to freeze or slash massive portions of spending appropriated by Congress. You dismantle entire federal agencies created by Congress.
The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.
Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — an...
www.propublica.org
February 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
5. Steal government secrets, lie about it. You steal dozens of boxes containing classified national-security documents. You lie to investigators and secretly move boxes to a bathroom to keep the government from finding them.
Donald Trump stored, showed off and refused to return classified documents, indictment says
Donald Trump improperly stored in his Florida estate sensitive documents on nuclear capabilities, repeatedly enlisted aides and lawyers to help him hide records demanded by investigators and cavalierl...
apnews.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
4. Encourage political violence. You send an angry mob to march on Congress. You sit on your hands for hours while they storm the Capitol and force lawmakers into a bunker. Later, you pardon the rioters, including ones who violently assaulted police.
Video Of Capitol Riot Shown During First Jan. 6 Committee Hearing
YouTube video by NBC News
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February 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
3. Abuse your office, attempt election fraud. You call up a state election official, threaten him, and tell him he needs to somehow find just enough votes for you to win.
"Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break."
The Jan. 6 committee played an audio recording of President Trump's phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R). "So what are we going to do here, folks? I only need 11,000 vot...
www.c-span.org
February 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
2. Withhold aid to extract personal political favors. You call up a foreign leader and corruptly suggest that he must investigate your political rival’s family before you’ll release military aid that’s required by law.
The phone call that could get Trump impeached
YouTube video by Vox
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
1. Tear children and families apart. Your border policy separates thousands of children from their families, keeping them in cages. With no tracking system in place; hundreds of children remain separated from their parents for years.
Trump administration family separation policy - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The Unfit List
I.
You’re an aging reality show host/steak salesman who has somehow become the President. Knowing that laws, honesty, and basic decency are for sad, low-IQ losers, you do things like:
February 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM