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Robert Reich@RBReich · Oct 29, 2024

Some people seem to have forgotten how bad a president Trump was, so I made a list of the 100 Worst Things About the…

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A Twitter thread lists 100+ criticisms of Trump's presidency, covering topics including his pandemic response that allegedly led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, child separations at the border, job losses, increased violence and hate crimes, judicial appointments that overturned Roe v. Wade, profiteering from the presidency, and his first impeachment for withholding Ukraine aid.

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    Some people seem to have forgotten how bad a president Trump was, so I made a list of the 100 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency, in no particular order. Please share and add anything I missed. 🧵

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 1 Trump fueled division and sparked a record uptick in hate crimes. newsweek.com/hate-crimes-un…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 2 Murder went way up under Trump. He presided over the largest ever single-year increase in homicides in 2020. A number of factors might have contributed to that, but a big one is… apnews.com/article/corona…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 3 Gun sales broke records under Trump, who has bragged about how he “did nothing” to restrict guns as president in spite of… thedailybeast.com/trump-proudly-…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE REASON 4 Under Trump, America suffered more than 1,700 mass shootings. gunviolencearchive.org/query/bb381138…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE REASON 5 When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Trump delayed $20 billion of aid and allowed Puerto Rico to be without power for 181 days. theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 6 According to Trump's former acting Homeland Security secretary, Trump proposed selling the entire island of Puerto Rico. cnn.com/2020/07/12/pol…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 7 Trump said there were "very fine people" among the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. He now denies it, but it's on video. youtube.com/watch?v=JmaZR8…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 8 Trump allied himself with the Proud Boys, a violent hate group who helped orchestrate the Jan 6 Capitol attack. youtube.com/watch?v=qIHhB1…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 9 Trump has been convicted of committing 34 felonies while in office. The criminally false business filings he got convicted for in New York? All of them were committed while he was president. npr.org/2024/05/30/g-s…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 10 Trump strategically appointed Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade. 1 in 3 women of childbearing age now live under a Trump abortion ban. health.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-fl…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 11 One of Trump’s Supreme Court justices was Brett Kavanaugh, a man accused of sexual assault by multiple women. businessinsider.com/brett-kavanaug…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 12 Trump’s White House reportedly interfered in the FBI’s investigation of Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assaults. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 13 Trump’s failed pandemic response is estimated to have led to hundreds of thousands of needless deaths. theguardian.com/us-news/2021/f…

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    By the time Trump left office, roughly 3,000 Americans were dying of covid every day. That’s a 9/11-scale mass casualty event every single day. How did Trump fail so badly? Here's a few ways. cnbc.com/2021/01/27/us-…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 14 Trump’s White House discarded the pandemic response playbook that had been assembled by the Obama administration. politico.com/news/2020/03/2…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 15 Trump disbanded the National Security Council’s pandemic response team. apnews.com/article/donald…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 16 Trump repeatedly lied about the danger of covid, saying it was no worse than the flu or that it would go away on its own. But behind closed doors, Trump admitted he knew covid was deadly. npr.org/2020/09/10/911…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 17 Trump promoted fake covid cures like hydroxychloroquine and even injecting people with disinfectants. After Trump’s “disinfectant” remarks, poison control centers received a spike in emergency calls. time.com/5835244/accide…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 18 Trump presided over a net loss of 2.9 million American jobs — the worst recorded jobs numbers of any U.S. president in history. washingtonpost.com/business/2021/…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 19 Trump profited off the presidency, making an estimated $160 million from foreign countries while he was president. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 20 Trump also billed the Secret Service over $1 million for the privilege of staying at his golf clubs and other properties while they protected him. That’s your money! npr.org/2022/10/17/112…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 21 Trump caused the longest government shutdown in U.S. history when he didn’t get funding for his border wall, which he said Mexico was going to pay for. politico.com/story/2019/01/…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 22 Trump also shut the government down two other times.

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    Whew! I've got to stop and take a breath. I'll keep going, but please chime in with anything I miss.

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 23 Trump diverted nearly $14 billion from other federal agencies — including $9.9 billion from the military — to pay for his border wall, which he never finished. And again, so much for Mexico paying for it. rollcall.com/2021/05/07/mos…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 24 Under Trump, the national debt increased by about 40% — more than in any other four-year presidential term — largely because of his tax cuts for the rich and big corporations. washingtonpost.com/business/2021/…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 25 This one still makes my blood boil. Trump separated more than 5,000 children from their parents at the border, with no plan to ever reunite them, putting babies in cages. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 26 The Muslim Ban. Yes, Trump really did try to ban Muslims from entering the country. amnesty.org.uk/licence-discri…

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    And let's not forget about what Trump got impeached for… the first time.

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    TRUMP WAS TERRIBLE, REASON 27 Trump broke the law by trying to withhold nearly $400M of U.S. aid for Ukraine in an effort to extort a personal political favor from Ukraine’s Pres. Zelensky. cnbc.com/2020/01/16/tru…