/——-/ I take the word of the institutes for energy research over that of an insufferable Trump hater any day.
www.instituteforenergyresearch.org
/——-/ I take the word of the institutes for energy research over that of an insufferable Trump hater any day.
The United States Was Energy Independent in 2019 for the First Time Since 1957
U.S. energy production in 2019 was higher than U.S. energy consumption for the first time in 62 years. Thus, the…
/----/ So, two insufferable Trump hating Twats, you and some guy who admits he "After briefly skimming the article " decided Orange Man bad.
www.forbes.com
You are really terrified of the bad orange man. I.bet you wanna have his baby.Donald Trump has returned to the news cycle amid a deluge of stories about a dinner meeting he hosted with a white supremacist and Ye, the rapper previously known as Kanye West.
It’s a reminder of the chaotic years of his presidency, as well as a foreboding ― though hopefully instructive ― warning about how he would wield power if elected again.
If past is prologue, let’s take a moment to remember just how unsettling things got during the Trump administration, with this not-even-remotely-exhaustive list of weird and bad stuff he attempted while in office:
- Tried to buy Greenland.
- Wanted to nuke hurricanes.
- Doctored a hurricane forecast map with a Sharpie.
- Attempted a coup to stay in power.
- Absconded with thousands of classified documents, lied about it and refused to give them back when the feds asked nicely.
- Sent unidentified federal officers to Portland, Oregon, to abduct protesters and spark a conflagration that could be used as a pretense for implementing martial law.
- Ordered peaceful protesters tear-gassed so he could pose for a photo-op with a Bible outside a church.
- Tried to blackmail Ukraine into manufacturing dirt for his 2020 campaign.
- Asked Russia for help in his 2016 campaign — and got it.
- Had a weird affinity for Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Remember the Helsinki summit?)
- Invited Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to an in-person meeting in the Oval Office, where he accidentally revealed top-secret intelligence.
- Wanted to withdraw the U.S. from NATO.
- Separated migrant parents from their children, locked the kids in cages and then failed to reunite them.
- Insisted that “raking” would prevent forest fires because “you’ve got to take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forest, very important.”
- Covered for Saudi Arabia after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the gruesome murder and dismemberment of a U.S. journalist with a bone saw. (Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, owes Saudi Arabia $2 billion, and the crown prince has reportedly bragged about having Kushner “in his pocket.”)
- Intervened to get Kushner top-secret clearance after he was denied over concerns about foreign influence.
- Put Kushner in charge of Middle East peace.
- Embraced rampant nepotism.
- Touted injecting disinfectant as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted ultraviolet light as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted ivermectin as a COVID-19 cure.
- Told people not to wear face masks to cut down the spread of COVID-19, even though they work.
- Actively discouraged COVID-19 testing.
- Refused to send federal aid to New York City amid the first COVID-19 wave because the virus was hitting Democratic-voting states hardest.
- “Jokingly” said on multiple occasions that he deserved to be president for more than two terms.
- Thought climate change was a Chinese hoax.
- Built an incomplete border wall that doesn’t work, wasn’t needed and wasn’t paid for by Mexico.
- Started a trade war with China that mainly hurt U.S. consumers.
- Threw food when angry.
- Saw no problem with his vice president potentially being hanged by a violent mob he’d summoned and sent to the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the peaceful transition of power.
- Stared directly at the sun.
U.S. President Donald Trump stares directly at the sun during a partial solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017. NICHOLAS KAMM VIA GETTY IMAGES
- Started his presidency with an easily disproved lie about the crowd size at his inauguration.
- Thought people needed an ID to buy cereal.
- Fired James Comey as FBI director because he didn’t like the bureau investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election. (Later, it was revealed that Trump’s campaign manager gave detailed internal polling data to a Russian intelligence agent.)
- Was a “fucking moron,” according to Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state.
- Fired the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s China-based pandemic response team — and then when a pandemic happened years later, said, “I don’t take responsibility at all” for COVID-19.
- Repeatedly embraced racism.
- Thought repeating “person, woman, man, camera, TV” would assure Americans of his mental stability.
- Tweeted literal gibberish — a lot.
- Lied all the time. (And still does.)
- Openly embraced and amplified QAnon conspiracy theories.
- Got impeached twice.
- Passed huge tax cuts for wealthy corporations ― and massively grew the national debt.
- Flip-flopped on whether the White House had ordered the USS John McCain be hidden so he wouldn’t get mad. (It did.)
- Called American military members who died in the line of duty “losers” and “suckers.”
- Claimed to have bone spurs to get out of military service.
- Binge-watched Fox News when he should have been working.
- Played so, so much golf.
- Raked in cash from foreign interests at his Washington hotel in an operation sometimes described as the “epicenter” of a corrupt presidency.
- Held a rally that may have led to the death of Herman Cain.
- Allegedly directed his lawyer to commit campaign fraud to cover up that Trump cheated on his wife after she had recently given birth.
- Was accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women.
- Dismissed any bad news about himself as “fake.”
- Lied about voluntarily turning over his tax returns.
- Ate well-done steak — with ketchup.
- Described white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, as “very fine people.”
- Grossly abused the presidential pardon on his way out the door.
- Used private communication services extensively after arguing that Hillary Clinton should be jailed for having a private email server.
- Refused to release White House visitor logs.
- Went to Puerto Rico and threw paper towels at people desperate for actual hurricane aid.
- Discouraged exercise because he believes bodies are like batteries, with a finite amount of energy.
62 Things Trump Did That You Forgot About To Preserve Your Sanity
Donald Trump's running for president again, so you can look forward to more of his "fun" ideas — like the time he tried to buy Greenland.www.huffpost.com
Wow, and so much more.
Not a word of truth. to even "and" or "the."Donald Trump has returned to the news cycle amid a deluge of stories about a dinner meeting he hosted with a white supremacist and Ye, the rapper previously known as Kanye West.
It’s a reminder of the chaotic years of his presidency, as well as a foreboding ― though hopefully instructive ― warning about how he would wield power if elected again.
If past is prologue, let’s take a moment to remember just how unsettling things got during the Trump administration, with this not-even-remotely-exhaustive list of weird and bad stuff he attempted while in office:
- Tried to buy Greenland.
- Wanted to nuke hurricanes.
- Doctored a hurricane forecast map with a Sharpie.
- Attempted a coup to stay in power.
- Absconded with thousands of classified documents, lied about it and refused to give them back when the feds asked nicely.
- Sent unidentified federal officers to Portland, Oregon, to abduct protesters and spark a conflagration that could be used as a pretense for implementing martial law.
- Ordered peaceful protesters tear-gassed so he could pose for a photo-op with a Bible outside a church.
- Tried to blackmail Ukraine into manufacturing dirt for his 2020 campaign.
- Asked Russia for help in his 2016 campaign — and got it.
- Had a weird affinity for Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Remember the Helsinki summit?)
- Invited Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to an in-person meeting in the Oval Office, where he accidentally revealed top-secret intelligence.
- Wanted to withdraw the U.S. from NATO.
- Separated migrant parents from their children, locked the kids in cages and then failed to reunite them.
- Insisted that “raking” would prevent forest fires because “you’ve got to take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forest, very important.”
- Covered for Saudi Arabia after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the gruesome murder and dismemberment of a U.S. journalist with a bone saw. (Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, owes Saudi Arabia $2 billion, and the crown prince has reportedly bragged about having Kushner “in his pocket.”)
- Intervened to get Kushner top-secret clearance after he was denied over concerns about foreign influence.
- Put Kushner in charge of Middle East peace.
- Embraced rampant nepotism.
- Touted injecting disinfectant as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted ultraviolet light as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted ivermectin as a COVID-19 cure.
- Told people not to wear face masks to cut down the spread of COVID-19, even though they work.
- Actively discouraged COVID-19 testing.
- Refused to send federal aid to New York City amid the first COVID-19 wave because the virus was hitting Democratic-voting states hardest.
- “Jokingly” said on multiple occasions that he deserved to be president for more than two terms.
- Thought climate change was a Chinese hoax.
- Built an incomplete border wall that doesn’t work, wasn’t needed and wasn’t paid for by Mexico.
- Started a trade war with China that mainly hurt U.S. consumers.
- Threw food when angry.
- Saw no problem with his vice president potentially being hanged by a violent mob he’d summoned and sent to the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the peaceful transition of power.
- Stared directly at the sun.
U.S. President Donald Trump stares directly at the sun during a partial solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017. NICHOLAS KAMM VIA GETTY IMAGES
- Started his presidency with an easily disproved lie about the crowd size at his inauguration.
- Thought people needed an ID to buy cereal.
- Fired James Comey as FBI director because he didn’t like the bureau investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election. (Later, it was revealed that Trump’s campaign manager gave detailed internal polling data to a Russian intelligence agent.)
- Was a “fucking moron,” according to Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state.
- Fired the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s China-based pandemic response team — and then when a pandemic happened years later, said, “I don’t take responsibility at all” for COVID-19.
- Repeatedly embraced racism.
- Thought repeating “person, woman, man, camera, TV” would assure Americans of his mental stability.
- Tweeted literal gibberish — a lot.
- Lied all the time. (And still does.)
- Openly embraced and amplified QAnon conspiracy theories.
- Got impeached twice.
- Passed huge tax cuts for wealthy corporations ― and massively grew the national debt.
- Flip-flopped on whether the White House had ordered the USS John McCain be hidden so he wouldn’t get mad. (It did.)
- Called American military members who died in the line of duty “losers” and “suckers.”
- Claimed to have bone spurs to get out of military service.
- Binge-watched Fox News when he should have been working.
- Played so, so much golf.
- Raked in cash from foreign interests at his Washington hotel in an operation sometimes described as the “epicenter” of a corrupt presidency.
- Held a rally that may have led to the death of Herman Cain.
- Allegedly directed his lawyer to commit campaign fraud to cover up that Trump cheated on his wife after she had recently given birth.
- Was accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women.
- Dismissed any bad news about himself as “fake.”
- Lied about voluntarily turning over his tax returns.
- Ate well-done steak — with ketchup.
- Described white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, as “very fine people.”
- Grossly abused the presidential pardon on his way out the door.
- Used private communication services extensively after arguing that Hillary Clinton should be jailed for having a private email server.
- Refused to release White House visitor logs.
- Went to Puerto Rico and threw paper towels at people desperate for actual hurricane aid.
- Discouraged exercise because he believes bodies are like batteries, with a finite amount of energy.
62 Things Trump Did That You Forgot About To Preserve Your Sanity
Donald Trump's running for president again, so you can look forward to more of his "fun" ideas — like the time he tried to buy Greenland.
Wow, and so much more.
Yet when he left office we were still in every nation to some degree that we were in when he oozed into office. He ended nothing. We were still importing oil under the blob...and the borders were still as porous as ever.
You're too busy dreaming up your own.
Can't stop talking about him can you faggot?Donald Trump has returned to the news cycle amid a deluge of stories about a dinner meeting he hosted with a white supremacist and Ye, the rapper previously known as Kanye West.
It’s a reminder of the chaotic years of his presidency, as well as a foreboding ― though hopefully instructive ― warning about how he would wield power if elected again.
If past is prologue, let’s take a moment to remember just how unsettling things got during the Trump administration, with this not-even-remotely-exhaustive list of weird and bad stuff he attempted while in office:
- Tried to buy Greenland.
- Wanted to nuke hurricanes.
- Doctored a hurricane forecast map with a Sharpie.
- Attempted a coup to stay in power.
- Absconded with thousands of classified documents, lied about it and refused to give them back when the feds asked nicely.
- Sent unidentified federal officers to Portland, Oregon, to abduct protesters and spark a conflagration that could be used as a pretense for implementing martial law.
- Ordered peaceful protesters tear-gassed so he could pose for a photo-op with a Bible outside a church.
- Tried to blackmail Ukraine into manufacturing dirt for his 2020 campaign.
- Asked Russia for help in his 2016 campaign — and got it.
- Had a weird affinity for Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Remember the Helsinki summit?)
- Invited Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to an in-person meeting in the Oval Office, where he accidentally revealed top-secret intelligence.
- Wanted to withdraw the U.S. from NATO.
- Separated migrant parents from their children, locked the kids in cages and then failed to reunite them.
- Insisted that “raking” would prevent forest fires because “you’ve got to take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forest, very important.”
- Covered for Saudi Arabia after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the gruesome murder and dismemberment of a U.S. journalist with a bone saw. (Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, owes Saudi Arabia $2 billion, and the crown prince has reportedly bragged about having Kushner “in his pocket.”)
- Intervened to get Kushner top-secret clearance after he was denied over concerns about foreign influence.
- Put Kushner in charge of Middle East peace.
- Embraced rampant nepotism.
- Touted injecting disinfectant as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted ultraviolet light as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted ivermectin as a COVID-19 cure.
- Told people not to wear face masks to cut down the spread of COVID-19, even though they work.
- Actively discouraged COVID-19 testing.
- Refused to send federal aid to New York City amid the first COVID-19 wave because the virus was hitting Democratic-voting states hardest.
- “Jokingly” said on multiple occasions that he deserved to be president for more than two terms.
- Thought climate change was a Chinese hoax.
- Built an incomplete border wall that doesn’t work, wasn’t needed and wasn’t paid for by Mexico.
- Started a trade war with China that mainly hurt U.S. consumers.
- Threw food when angry.
- Saw no problem with his vice president potentially being hanged by a violent mob he’d summoned and sent to the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the peaceful transition of power.
- Stared directly at the sun.
U.S. President Donald Trump stares directly at the sun during a partial solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017. NICHOLAS KAMM VIA GETTY IMAGES
- Started his presidency with an easily disproved lie about the crowd size at his inauguration.
- Thought people needed an ID to buy cereal.
- Fired James Comey as FBI director because he didn’t like the bureau investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election. (Later, it was revealed that Trump’s campaign manager gave detailed internal polling data to a Russian intelligence agent.)
- Was a “fucking moron,” according to Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state.
- Fired the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s China-based pandemic response team — and then when a pandemic happened years later, said, “I don’t take responsibility at all” for COVID-19.
- Repeatedly embraced racism.
- Thought repeating “person, woman, man, camera, TV” would assure Americans of his mental stability.
- Tweeted literal gibberish — a lot.
- Lied all the time. (And still does.)
- Openly embraced and amplified QAnon conspiracy theories.
- Got impeached twice.
- Passed huge tax cuts for wealthy corporations ― and massively grew the national debt.
- Flip-flopped on whether the White House had ordered the USS John McCain be hidden so he wouldn’t get mad. (It did.)
- Called American military members who died in the line of duty “losers” and “suckers.”
- Claimed to have bone spurs to get out of military service.
- Binge-watched Fox News when he should have been working.
- Played so, so much golf.
- Raked in cash from foreign interests at his Washington hotel in an operation sometimes described as the “epicenter” of a corrupt presidency.
- Held a rally that may have led to the death of Herman Cain.
- Allegedly directed his lawyer to commit campaign fraud to cover up that Trump cheated on his wife after she had recently given birth.
- Was accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women.
- Dismissed any bad news about himself as “fake.”
- Lied about voluntarily turning over his tax returns.
- Ate well-done steak — with ketchup.
- Described white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, as “very fine people.”
- Grossly abused the presidential pardon on his way out the door.
- Used private communication services extensively after arguing that Hillary Clinton should be jailed for having a private email server.
- Refused to release White House visitor logs.
- Went to Puerto Rico and threw paper towels at people desperate for actual hurricane aid.
- Discouraged exercise because he believes bodies are like batteries, with a finite amount of energy.
62 Things Trump Did That You Forgot About To Preserve Your Sanity
Donald Trump's running for president again, so you can look forward to more of his "fun" ideas — like the time he tried to buy Greenland.
Wow, and so much more.
/----/ It means we used less than we produced, moron. Not all oil can be used for gasoline, idiot. Try and get an education. GEEEZE
www.instituteforenergyresearch.org
So it's just an academic measurement...we still imported energy..../----/ It means we used less than we produced, moron. Not all oil can be used for gasoline, idiot. Try and get an education. GEEEZE
Here's your cue to ignore the message and attack the messenger.
U.S. energy production in 2019 was higher than U.S. energy consumption for the first time in 62 years. Thus, the U.S. attained the long-held goal of “energy independence”—which is not to say that we did not import or export energy, but that we produced more energy than we used. One can thank the oil and gas industry and its use of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling for that milestone as production in those industries increased a combined 11 percent in 2019. Total U.S. energy production increased by 5.7 percent in 2019 while U.S. energy demand decreased by 0.9 percent. The United States produced 101.0 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) of energy and consumed 100.2 quads last year. Fossil fuels accounted for 80 percent of both energy consumption and production in 2019.The United States Was Energy Independent in 2019 for the First Time Since 1957
U.S. energy production in 2019 was higher than U.S. energy consumption for the first time in 62 years. Thus, the…
/----/ Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you surprise us all. What part of energy independence means we used less than we produced confuses you?
Actually untrue. We were OUT of Somalia and Kenya and Libya after he took office and we'd stopped bombing Yemen by the end of his first year. We were a net EXPORTER of oil in both 2018 and 2019 and his Stay in Mexico policy was working. The exodus across the southern border didn't start until AFTER he left and Biden threw the borders open to all comers.
If you’re independent…you don’t need anything. According to you we still imported energy.
All untrue. We still had troops all over the place, we still imported oil and we still had illegals coming across the border.
/——/ Keep moving the goal posts because Orange Man Bad. Bwhahahaha Bwhahahaha Now call the oil institute and school them on their business. Bwhahahaha Bwhahahaha
All of that is a lie. Next.
I cannot wait to see your reaction when he is your president again.Donald Trump has returned to the news cycle amid a deluge of stories about a dinner meeting he hosted with a white supremacist and Ye, the rapper previously known as Kanye West.
It’s a reminder of the chaotic years of his presidency, as well as a foreboding ― though hopefully instructive ― warning about how he would wield power if elected again.
If past is prologue, let’s take a moment to remember just how unsettling things got during the Trump administration, with this not-even-remotely-exhaustive list of weird and bad stuff he attempted while in office:
- Tried to buy Greenland.
- Wanted to nuke hurricanes.
- Doctored a hurricane forecast map with a Sharpie.
- Attempted a coup to stay in power.
- Absconded with thousands of classified documents, lied about it and refused to give them back when the feds asked nicely.
- Sent unidentified federal officers to Portland, Oregon, to abduct protesters and spark a conflagration that could be used as a pretense for implementing martial law.
- Ordered peaceful protesters tear-gassed so he could pose for a photo-op with a Bible outside a church.
- Tried to blackmail Ukraine into manufacturing dirt for his 2020 campaign.
- Asked Russia for help in his 2016 campaign — and got it.
- Had a weird affinity for Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Remember the Helsinki summit?)
- Invited Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to an in-person meeting in the Oval Office, where he accidentally revealed top-secret intelligence.
- Wanted to withdraw the U.S. from NATO.
- Separated migrant parents from their children, locked the kids in cages and then failed to reunite them.
- Insisted that “raking” would prevent forest fires because “you’ve got to take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forest, very important.”
- Covered for Saudi Arabia after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the gruesome murder and dismemberment of a U.S. journalist with a bone saw. (Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, owes Saudi Arabia $2 billion, and the crown prince has reportedly bragged about having Kushner “in his pocket.”)
- Intervened to get Kushner top-secret clearance after he was denied over concerns about foreign influence.
- Put Kushner in charge of Middle East peace.
- Embraced rampant nepotism.
- Touted injecting disinfectant as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted ultraviolet light as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted ivermectin as a COVID-19 cure.
- Told people not to wear face masks to cut down the spread of COVID-19, even though they work.
- Actively discouraged COVID-19 testing.
- Refused to send federal aid to New York City amid the first COVID-19 wave because the virus was hitting Democratic-voting states hardest.
- “Jokingly” said on multiple occasions that he deserved to be president for more than two terms.
- Thought climate change was a Chinese hoax.
- Built an incomplete border wall that doesn’t work, wasn’t needed and wasn’t paid for by Mexico.
- Started a trade war with China that mainly hurt U.S. consumers.
- Threw food when angry.
- Saw no problem with his vice president potentially being hanged by a violent mob he’d summoned and sent to the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the peaceful transition of power.
- Stared directly at the sun.
U.S. President Donald Trump stares directly at the sun during a partial solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017. NICHOLAS KAMM VIA GETTY IMAGES
- Started his presidency with an easily disproved lie about the crowd size at his inauguration.
- Thought people needed an ID to buy cereal.
- Fired James Comey as FBI director because he didn’t like the bureau investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election. (Later, it was revealed that Trump’s campaign manager gave detailed internal polling data to a Russian intelligence agent.)
- Was a “fucking moron,” according to Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state.
- Fired the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s China-based pandemic response team — and then when a pandemic happened years later, said, “I don’t take responsibility at all” for COVID-19.
- Repeatedly embraced racism.
- Thought repeating “person, woman, man, camera, TV” would assure Americans of his mental stability.
- Tweeted literal gibberish — a lot.
- Lied all the time. (And still does.)
- Openly embraced and amplified QAnon conspiracy theories.
- Got impeached twice.
- Passed huge tax cuts for wealthy corporations ― and massively grew the national debt.
- Flip-flopped on whether the White House had ordered the USS John McCain be hidden so he wouldn’t get mad. (It did.)
- Called American military members who died in the line of duty “losers” and “suckers.”
- Claimed to have bone spurs to get out of military service.
- Binge-watched Fox News when he should have been working.
- Played so, so much golf.
- Raked in cash from foreign interests at his Washington hotel in an operation sometimes described as the “epicenter” of a corrupt presidency.
- Held a rally that may have led to the death of Herman Cain.
- Allegedly directed his lawyer to commit campaign fraud to cover up that Trump cheated on his wife after she had recently given birth.
- Was accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women.
- Dismissed any bad news about himself as “fake.”
- Lied about voluntarily turning over his tax returns.
- Ate well-done steak — with ketchup.
- Described white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, as “very fine people.”
- Grossly abused the presidential pardon on his way out the door.
- Used private communication services extensively after arguing that Hillary Clinton should be jailed for having a private email server.
- Refused to release White House visitor logs.
- Went to Puerto Rico and threw paper towels at people desperate for actual hurricane aid.
- Discouraged exercise because he believes bodies are like batteries, with a finite amount of energy.
62 Things Trump Did That You Forgot About To Preserve Your Sanity
Donald Trump's running for president again, so you can look forward to more of his "fun" ideas — like the time he tried to buy Greenland.
Wow, and so much more.
Not a word of truth in the whole screed. Not even "but" or "and." Just for example, Trump did NOT "try to buy Greenland." He OFFERED to buy it, which is not the same thing. Trump did NOT "try to nuke hurricanes." He asked the question "Would nuking hurricanes work to stop them?" Not the same thing, either. He did NOT "attempt a coup." He did NOT do ANY of the rest of the things on your "list."Donald Trump has returned to the news cycle amid a deluge of stories about a dinner meeting he hosted with a white supremacist and Ye, the rapper previously known as Kanye West.
It’s a reminder of the chaotic years of his presidency, as well as a foreboding ― though hopefully instructive ― warning about how he would wield power if elected again.
If past is prologue, let’s take a moment to remember just how unsettling things got during the Trump administration, with this not-even-remotely-exhaustive list of weird and bad stuff he attempted while in office:
- Tried to buy Greenland.
- Wanted to nuke hurricanes.
- Doctored a hurricane forecast map with a Sharpie.
- Attempted a coup to stay in power.
- Absconded with thousands of classified documents, lied about it and refused to give them back when the feds asked nicely.
- Sent unidentified federal officers to Portland, Oregon, to abduct protesters and spark a conflagration that could be used as a pretense for implementing martial law.
- Ordered peaceful protesters tear-gassed so he could pose for a photo-op with a Bible outside a church.
- Tried to blackmail Ukraine into manufacturing dirt for his 2020 campaign.
- Asked Russia for help in his 2016 campaign — and got it.
- Had a weird affinity for Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Remember the Helsinki summit?)
- Invited Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to an in-person meeting in the Oval Office, where he accidentally revealed top-secret intelligence.
- Wanted to withdraw the U.S. from NATO.
- Separated migrant parents from their children, locked the kids in cages and then failed to reunite them.
- Insisted that “raking” would prevent forest fires because “you’ve got to take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forest, very important.”
- Covered for Saudi Arabia after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the gruesome murder and dismemberment of a U.S. journalist with a bone saw. (Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, owes Saudi Arabia $2 billion, and the crown prince has reportedly bragged about having Kushner “in his pocket.”)
- Intervened to get Kushner top-secret clearance after he was denied over concerns about foreign influence.
- Put Kushner in charge of Middle East peace.
- Embraced rampant nepotism.
- Touted injecting disinfectant as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted ultraviolet light as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted ivermectin as a COVID-19 cure.
- Told people not to wear face masks to cut down the spread of COVID-19, even though they work.
- Actively discouraged COVID-19 testing.
- Refused to send federal aid to New York City amid the first COVID-19 wave because the virus was hitting Democratic-voting states hardest.
- “Jokingly” said on multiple occasions that he deserved to be president for more than two terms.
- Thought climate change was a Chinese hoax.
- Built an incomplete border wall that doesn’t work, wasn’t needed and wasn’t paid for by Mexico.
- Started a trade war with China that mainly hurt U.S. consumers.
- Threw food when angry.
- Saw no problem with his vice president potentially being hanged by a violent mob he’d summoned and sent to the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the peaceful transition of power.
- Stared directly at the sun.
U.S. President Donald Trump stares directly at the sun during a partial solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017. NICHOLAS KAMM VIA GETTY IMAGES
- Started his presidency with an easily disproved lie about the crowd size at his inauguration.
- Thought people needed an ID to buy cereal.
- Fired James Comey as FBI director because he didn’t like the bureau investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election. (Later, it was revealed that Trump’s campaign manager gave detailed internal polling data to a Russian intelligence agent.)
- Was a “fucking moron,” according to Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state.
- Fired the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s China-based pandemic response team — and then when a pandemic happened years later, said, “I don’t take responsibility at all” for COVID-19.
- Repeatedly embraced racism.
- Thought repeating “person, woman, man, camera, TV” would assure Americans of his mental stability.
- Tweeted literal gibberish — a lot.
- Lied all the time. (And still does.)
- Openly embraced and amplified QAnon conspiracy theories.
- Got impeached twice.
- Passed huge tax cuts for wealthy corporations ― and massively grew the national debt.
- Flip-flopped on whether the White House had ordered the USS John McCain be hidden so he wouldn’t get mad. (It did.)
- Called American military members who died in the line of duty “losers” and “suckers.”
- Claimed to have bone spurs to get out of military service.
- Binge-watched Fox News when he should have been working.
- Played so, so much golf.
- Raked in cash from foreign interests at his Washington hotel in an operation sometimes described as the “epicenter” of a corrupt presidency.
- Held a rally that may have led to the death of Herman Cain.
- Allegedly directed his lawyer to commit campaign fraud to cover up that Trump cheated on his wife after she had recently given birth.
- Was accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women.
- Dismissed any bad news about himself as “fake.”
- Lied about voluntarily turning over his tax returns.
- Ate well-done steak — with ketchup.
- Described white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, as “very fine people.”
- Grossly abused the presidential pardon on his way out the door.
- Used private communication services extensively after arguing that Hillary Clinton should be jailed for having a private email server.
- Refused to release White House visitor logs.
- Went to Puerto Rico and threw paper towels at people desperate for actual hurricane aid.
- Discouraged exercise because he believes bodies are like batteries, with a finite amount of energy.
62 Things Trump Did That You Forgot About To Preserve Your Sanity
Donald Trump's running for president again, so you can look forward to more of his "fun" ideas — like the time he tried to buy Greenland.
Wow, and so much more.
