Editor's Choice of 100 terrible things in 100 days

This is why Trump’s polls are in the toilet

By Will Collette

I have been trying to come up with my own approach to mark the first 100 days of the Second Trump Reich. I decided to make a list – totally from my own memory – of 100 things that stuck out in my mind as ways a malignant narcissist could inflict maximum pain on the rest of the world.

I have come to the conclusion, based on these first 100 days as well as Trump’s First Reich, that the only way it all makes any sense is if you regard his actions as those of a malignant narcissist, the label that most psychologists and psychiatrists willing to speak on the subject have put on Trump.

Yesterday, Trump gave proof to this assumption in an interview with the Atlantic where he declared he is having fun controlling the country and the globe:

“The first time [term], I had two things to do ‒ run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys. And the second time, I run the country and the world…I’m having a lot of fun, considering what I do. You know, what I do is such serious stuff.”.

Every word he says shakes the world. He can make markets rise and fall just by spewing bullshit. A majority of 2024 voters gave this lunatic unlimited power. The Supreme Court gave him a get out of jail free card. The Republican controlled Congress does what he tells them to do. And this is what we got in the first 100 days:Got elected thanks to a pack of lies, Elon Musk’s money and Putin’s cyber-campaigning

1. Got inaugurated: highlight was Elon Musk giving a Hitler salute
2. Pardoned January 6 terrorists
3. Declared himself "King"
4. Suspended asylum protection to refugees from war zones in Ukraine, Syria, Haiti, Sudan, Somalia, etc.
5. Deported cancer kids who were suffering from cancer without any due process
6. Took away funding from cancer research
7. Suspended research and treatment for infectious diseases (bird flu, COVID, measles, Ebola, HIV, etc.)
8. Gutted worker safety programs
9. Attacked colleges and universities
10. Attacked state and local school systems
11. Wiped out references to women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, etc. from national exhibits, books, museums, etc.
12. Fired the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff because he is black
13. Fired the commandant of the Coast Guard Academy because she is a woman
14. Appointed drunken sexist Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense because he was a Fox News host
15. Declared a trade war against virtual everywhere on the planet (except Russia) including places that aren’t even inhabited (except with penguins)
16. Went to war with our closest ally Canada and continually threatened to take them over
17. Declared his intent to seize Greenland against the will of its people
18. Threatened to bomb Mexico
19. Alienated Europe and appears to be trying to destroy NATO
20. Suspended aid to Ukraine
21. Demanded Ukraine sign over its mineral rights and nuclear power plants to the US
22. Withdrew from the World Health Organization
23. Wiped out foreign aid, exposing millions to death from hunger and disease
24. Launched an undeclared war against Yemen
25. Cancelled our commitment to fighting climate change
26. Sanctioned the International Court of Justice
27. Threatened to remove the people of Gaza to make way for a Trump luxury resort – a war crime
28. Put lunatic anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the US Department of Health and Human Services
29. Withdrew protection from Dr. Anthony Fauci despite numerous death threats from MAGA nuts.
30. Cancelled visas for thousands of lawfully residing students who protested Israel’s war on Gaza
31. Arrested US citizens, foreign tourists and visa holders upon either returning to or entering the country because they had anti-Trump stuff on their cell phones
32. Is arresting and deporting US citizens
33. Eliminated any semblance of due process in mass deportation effort
34. Terrorized millions of decent, hard-working people
35. Created a labor shortage in agriculture, construction, health care and services
36. Threatened to take over the Panama Canal by any means necessary
37. Demands the Suez Canal allow US shipping to use the canal for free even though we had nothing to do with its construction and maintenance
38. Effectively terminated trade between the US and China
39. Made incompetent Marco Rubio Secretary of State and in charge of selling new US policies to friends and allies
40. Tanked the stock market
41. Tanked the bond market
42. Wiped out trillions of dollars of people’s retirement savings
43. Claims his tariffs are raising so much money that he might cancel the income tax
44. Gutted IRS staff to make it easier for his oligarch friends to evade taxes
45. Cancelled program that allowed free on-line tax filing
46. Gutted staffing at Social Security
47. In addition to cutting staff, he is closing Social Security offices AND requiring many seniors to show up in person to prove their identity
48. Put Dr. Oz in charge of Medicare
49. Gutted staffing at the Veterans Administration
50. Launched his devastating war against diversity, equality and inclusion and terrorized teachers, librarians, school boards, sports teams, etc.
51. Terminated federal funding to the state of Maine because their governor refused to bow to Trump
52. Gutted staffing at EPA
53. Fired thousands of federal workers without warning or recourse
54. Terminated union rights for federal workers
55. Gutted the National Labor Relations Board
56. Gutted USDA’s food safety inspections
57. Gutted National Park Service staff
58. Threatens drastic cuts to Medicaid
59. Defunded Meals on Wheels
60. Defunded Public Broadcasting
61. Gutted Head Start
62. Refused disaster relief even in Red States like Arkansas, North Carolina and West Virginia
63. Began steps to abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency
64. Named wrestling mogul Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education
65. Launched the shutdown of the Education Department
66. Disrespected Pope Francis at his funeral
67. Fell asleep at Jimmy Carter’s funeral
68. Named anti-justice Pam Bondi as Attorney General and whack job Kash Patel as head of the FBI
69. Suspended construction of offshore windfarms
70. Cancelled most environmental grants
71. Cancelled planned regulations on PFAS contamination
72. Told states they may no longer run their own climate change initiatives
73. Wiping out energy efficiency programs
74. Eliminated rules requiring appliances to save water and energy
75. Manipulated the stock market so his friends could make money on his erratic decisions
76. Turned the White House lawn into a Tesla dealership
77. Gave Elon Musk and his DOGE team access to the most sensitive information from government databases
78. Promoted cryptocurrency even though he and his family had created their own crypto coins
79. Cancelled prosecutions against corporate pals
80. Bought off NYC Mayor Eric Adams with a pardon
81. Solicited bribes from corporate interests as donations to his Inaugural
82. Solicited more bribes in the form of donations to the White House Easter Egg Hunt
83. Told Ukraine they had to give Russia territory the Russians had stolen through invasion
84. Shut down the Voice of America
85. Fired the Board of the Kennedy Center for the Arts and named himself Chair; promised to show programs like “Cats”
86. Gutted federal funding for the arts
87. Punished law firms and lawyers who represented clients suing Trump and his friends
88. Forced news media companies to give him money under threat he would revoke their licenses
89. Ordered criminal investigations of polling firms who ran polls he didn’t like
90. Arrested two state court judges for failing to cooperate with ICE
91. Threatened federal judges who ruled against him with impeachment
92. Banned legitimate news outlets from the White House and gave their seats to rightwing nuts
93. Claimed he popularized the term “groceries”
94. Claimed he caused gas prices to drop below $2 a gallon
95. Arrested and deported farmworkers
96. Gutted research on how to stop the spread of avian flu
97. Spent almost 40% of his term of office so far playing golf
98. Started the US down the slippery slope to a fascist dictatorship
99. Claimed that we have too many eggs and the price of eggs is too low
100. Failed to lower the price of eggs

Virtually all of these actions are in the courts. Virtually all of them were carried out under the guise of non-existent “national emergencies.” Virtually all of them were clouded over with a thick fog of lies. Most are unconstitutional or otherwise unlawful.

All of these items came from my memory of Der Fuehrer’s first 100 days. I know there are many other items that I could have added and that you readers would like to add. Maybe in the list for the second 100 days. Suffice to say, the magnitude of the threat King Donald poses to democracy cannot be underestimated.