100 days and 100 of the most hilarious, horrific, and heinous things done by the Trump administration

I person 2 invaluable assets that assistance maine arsenic a journalist. My representation is ironclad, and I americium beyond a quality junkie. I work everything, and I retrieve what I read.

For the past 3 months, I’ve enactment these qualities to bully usage by penning what amounts to a file a day, covering each things related to the fearfulness and clown amusement of the Trump administration.

Last weekend, I sat down and started to constitute retired each of the ways Donald Trump and his formed of characters person made fools of themselves by trying to papers 100 ways they’ve done that to people Trump’s 100 days successful office.

It was painstaking, for sure; however, it was besides revelatory and, I mightiness add, not that hard to find 100 screw-ups that are helping screw up the U.S. and planetary economy, U.S. nationalist security, justness successful the U.S., and the cognition and estimation of the U.S. astir the world.

So, successful nary peculiar order, and without further ado, I springiness you 100 ways Trump and his loyalists and minions person blundered their mode to 100 days successful office…

1. Melania’s inauguration hat. It was hilarious, heinous, and retired of a fearfulness movie, a harbinger of the adjacent 100 days.

2. Billionaires row, sitting down Trump arsenic he’s sworn successful portion the MAGA assemblage watches connected TV.

3. The Gulf of America. Enough said.

4. Seeking to bargain Greenland from Denmark.

5. Trying to marque Canada the 51st state.

6. The caller gilded age, arsenic evidenced by the schmaltzy golden successful the Oval Office.

7. JD Vance scolds Europe for not encouraging escaped speech, portion encouraging Germany’s anti-free code right-wing party. Anyone cognize who died and made JD the arbiter of escaped speech?

8. Revoking the information clearances of erstwhile cardinal aides and radical similar Dr. Anthony Fauci portion some, similar erstwhile Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, person a bounty connected their heads from Iran.

9. Executive orders removing DEI programs from authorities agencies. Only achromatic consecutive men request apply.

10. Tulsi Gabbard is confirmed arsenic manager of nationalist intelligence

10A. Tulsi Gabbard is the U.S. manager of nationalist intelligence. (Some items request repeating due to the fact that they are truthful unbelievable.)

11. Pete Hegseth is confirmed arsenic the U.S. Defense secretary.

11A. Pete Hegseth is the caput of the U.S. military. (Ditto astir repeating.)

12. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed arsenic the Health and Human Services secretary.

12A. As sick arsenic it whitethorn seem, RFK Jr. leads our nation’s wellness care.

13. RFK Jr. claims cod liver oil, steroids, and antibiotics are effectual treatments for measles.

14. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proposes renaming the Department of Defense arsenic the Department of War, forgetting our military's ngo is chiefly peacekeeping.

15. Hegseth installs a constitution workplace successful the Pentagon's property room, initially costing implicit $40,000, to heighten on-camera appearances.

16. Donald Trump refers to himself arsenic "king" successful a Truth Social station discussing New York City's postulation congestion.

17. Peter Navarro's fictional alias "Ron Vara" inspires Trump's tariff policies.

18. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick cruelly suggests that tariffs connected Canada were indispensable due to the fact that relocating factories determination would pb to "drugs, alcohol, and suicide" among American workers.

19, Lutnick encourages Fox News viewers to bargain Tesla stock. I can’t ideate Jimmy Carter’s Commerce secretary, Juanita Kreps, telling Americans to bargain Chrysler banal erstwhile the institution astir went bankrupt.

20. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem conducts a silly stunt connected the Canadian-U.S borderline hopping backmost and distant implicit the borderline portion insulting Canada by threatening to annex it. Can’t halt singing Madonna’s “Borderline.”

21. Donald Trump Jr. is opening a new, exclusive nine for the ultra-rich and Trump medication officials truthful that they tin each mingle and marque backroom deals with each other.

22. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shares details astir U.S. airstrikes successful Yemen via a Signal chat with his woman and brother. What a showoff!

23.. Hegseth astir briefs Elon Musk connected delicate U.S.-China subject strategies. On its face, briefing the wildly untamed Musk connected China secrets should daze you!

24. Elon Musk heading DOGE (I figured I’d support you successful anticipation astir Musk).

25. Musk seeks to arbitrarily occurrence 2 cardinal authorities workers via email, with the taxable enactment “Fork successful the road.” The lone happening with a fork sticking retired of it is Tesla stocks and profits.

26. Musk and the concatenation saw, an representation that volition unrecorded successful infamy.

27. The blasphemy of the demonic Donald Trump attending the ceremonial of the angelic Pope Francis. And however did Trump grant him? By wearing a bluish suit and taking a snooze.

28. The Pentagon, nether Hegseth's direction, removes implicit 400 books astatine the Naval Academy deemed to beryllium related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including works by Maya Angelou. God forbid midshipmen work a poem astir Black people.

29. Hegseth reinstates Confederate commemorations successful subject institutions, including renaming subject bases. To Hegseth, it’s Angelou no, slaveholders yes.

30. Trump signs enforcement orders to beforehand deep-sea mining, raising alarm among scientists and pissing disconnected the world.

31. Trump launches "Trump 2028" merchandise contempt being constitutionally barred from a 3rd term. But who cares astir the Constitution?

32. Trump signs enforcement orders targeting sanctuary cities, directing ineligible actions against section officials who obstruct migration enforcement. Again, illegal, immoral, and who tin accidental "authoritarian"?

33. An enforcement bid aimed to beforehand "law and order" by enabling ineligible defence for instrumentality enforcement officers facing litigation implicit authoritative duties. Remember the days aft George Floyd erstwhile cops were to beryllium held accountable?

34. Trump's enforcement bid mandates that autarkic agencies align with statesmanlike policies, Another measurement toward authoritarianism since this undermines these agencies' congressionally mandated independence.

35. Four large instrumentality firms situation enforcement orders issued by Trump, arguing they infringed connected state of speech.

36. Yet, astatine this count, 5 large instrumentality firms person caved into Trump making what are surely unethical and amerciable deals with the scourge of transgression that is Trump.

37. Trump has signed implicit 130 enforcement orders successful his archetypal 100 days, surpassing erstwhile records and raising concerns astir the maltreatment of enforcement power.

38. Trump says he’s deported astir 139,000 radical and is repurposing subject bases similar Fort Bliss for detention. Experts accidental the numbers don’t adhd up, and we person nary thought if they were deported legally oregon without a just trial, because…

39. There’s the chilling lawsuit of Kilmar Ábrego García, mistakenly deported, who inactive sits successful an El Salvador gulag.

40, Trump encourages El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to physique much prisons for "homegrown" U.S. criminals.

41. Trump's enforcement orders person aligned with proposals outlined successful the Project 2025 argumentation blueprint, signaling the sweeping interaction of the Heritage Foundation connected taking the U.S. nine backward to the 1950s..

42. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt suggests that Supreme Court justices could beryllium arrested. Well, that’s OK if they’re readying connected jailing Alito and Thomas.

43. Donald Trump’s hairsbreadth — oregon progressively thinning coiffure — continues to beryllium a sideshow.

44. Trump installs 2 flagpoles connected the North Lawn of the White House. While Rome burns, Trump obsesses implicit flagpoles.

45. During a property briefing, Leavitt labels each undocumented immigrants arsenic criminals,. That explains the rampant transgression infesting our state — not!

46. Leavitt promotes a right-wing podcaster known for spreading mendacious accusation during Hurricane Sandy, giving them a level successful the White House briefing room.

47. The medication bans the venerable Associated Press from the White House and continues to enforce it contempt a tribunal bid to assistance the ban.

48. Trump names himself president of the Kennedy Center, arsenic deceased Kennedy household members rotation successful their graves.

49. Leavitt mocks France's proposition to instrumentality the Statue of Liberty, stating that the French should beryllium "grateful" they're not speaking German. So overmuch for tactful diplomacy from the property country astatine the White House.

50. Kristi Noem's purse, containing $3,000 successful cash, her passport, and her DHS badge, is stolen portion she dines astatine a Washington, D.C., restaurant. Just proves the negligence of Cabinet members erstwhile it comes to protecting integrity and intelligence.

The adjacent 10 are the astir shocking moves against the LGBTQ+ community.

51. The medication proposes eliminating national backing for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services, which has supported implicit 1.2 cardinal situation contacts since 2022.

52. At slightest 68 national grants totaling astir $40 million, galore focusing connected LGBTQ+ wellness issues including HIV prevention, are canceled.

53. Plans are announced to defund implicit $1 cardinal successful HIV prevention efforts and adjacent the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of HIV Prevention, undermining entree to tools similar PrEP and STI surveillance

54. Trump revokes national designation of transgender individuals, defining sex arsenic immutable and binary.

55. Trump signs an enforcement bid restricting gender-affirming attraction for minors: The bid aims to forestall gender-affirming treatments for individuals nether 19 by withholding national funding.

56. The Trump medication removes LGBTQ+ and HIV resources from national websites and deletes astir each LGBTQ- and HIV-related contented from WhiteHouse.gov and different national bureau websites, erasing captious accusation and resources.

57. The medication institutes a comprehensive frost connected overseas aid, including halting backing for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), threatening entree to HIV attraction for millions globally.

58. The Pentagon attempts a prohibition connected transgender subject work members which sought to expel transgender individuals from the subject and halt their aesculapian treatments,

59. The “chair”of the Kennedy Center is astir apt down the cancellation of LGBTQ+ World Pride events astatine the venue, including performances and parts of the AIDS Memorial Quilt exhibition.

60. The planetary interaction of Trump’s moves against LGBTQ+ rights draws a dire informing from Amnesty International which reports that the administration's actions contributed to a planetary diminution successful quality rights, emboldening anti-LGBTQ+ movements and expanding repression worldwide. Let that descend successful for a minute!

61. Trump’s sign-off salutation connected Truth Social: “Thank you for your attraction to this matter.” Does helium deliberation this is funny? The memes surely are.

62. In a January 28 Truth Social post, Trump mocks writer Jim Acosta, calling him "one of the worst and astir dishonest reporters successful journalistic history" and a "major sleazebag.” How person we sunk truthful acold that POTUS uses words similar “sleazebag”?

63. Trump posts that pollsters should beryllium arrested for “ELECTION FRAUD.” Um, OK?

64. In the Grand Foyer of the White House, Trump replaces a representation of President Obama with a representation of him with his fist raised aft helium was changeable successful the receptor successful Butler, Pennsylvania, past year.

65. The medication cuts backing for nationalist libraries portion our state gets dumber and dumber nether our dumb president.

66. Trump signs different ridiculous enforcement order, calling for much subject for kids successful schools, grades K-12. I had my manus cracked galore times by nuns, which made maine deathly acrophobic of them.

67. Trump (and Musk) suggest that the U.S. should retreat from the United Nations, claiming it was "no longer serving America's interests."

68. Taking a leafage from North Korea, Trump pulls the U.S. retired of the 2015 Paris clime accord — again.

69. Trump and different Republicans suggest restrictions connected nationalist protests. Why would anyone privation to offend the Dear Leader?

70. After cutting 1,500 jobs, the medication nevertheless orders the each nationalist parks to enactment open. If you are readying a travel to a nationalist park, beryllium warned that each these cuts are creating a crisis.

71. Trump creates a Tesla “showroom” connected the South Lawn of the White House. With Trump’s sleazy endorsement, Tesla's banal terms and profits proceed to fall.

72. The medication threatens backing for nationalist schools that supposedly "indoctrinate" students. Trump lone wants to archer the communicative of the achromatic man's rule.

73. The medication pauses support for renewable vigor projects connected nationalist lands. Trump erstwhile claimed powerfulness windmills origin cancer, and this determination is successful enactment with his mantra “Drill, baby, drill.”

74. Trump is again readying connected messing with our NATO allies, which lone furthers his effort to assistance Putin tally chaotic implicit Europe.

75. The medication announces plans for further cuts successful backing for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Trump doesn’t attraction astir different pandemic fixed that helium didn’t attraction astir COVID.

,76. The Trump White House is looking astatine ways to marque women person much children. Perhaps, successful conjunction with Project 2025, this is Trump’s mode to compression 1 much play retired of The Handmaid’s Tale.

77. On-again, off-again, on-again, off-again tariffs. Where, ohio wherever is this headed?

78.. Trump says, “I tally the state and the world.” Is determination immoderate uncertainty he’s a dictator?

79. Three children, 1 with cancer, who are U.S. citizens are deported — blatantly amerciable and beyond cruel.

80. Harvard University is facing a frost of $2.3 cardinal successful national funds and imaginable nonaccomplishment of tax-exempt presumption owed to alleged mishandling of field protests and expected nonaccomplishment to support Jewish students. Thankfully, Harvard is warring back!

81. Columbia University has $400 cardinal successful national grants and contracts revoked implicit accusations of allowing anti-Semitic harassment during pro-Palestinian protests. Columbia caves. Coincidentally, Columbia screwed Trump retired of $400 cardinal erstwhile it backed retired of a onshore woody 25 years ago.

82. The University of Pennsylvania is taxable to a intermission of $175 cardinal successful national backing for purported noncompliance with national priorities, including combating anti-Seemitic discrimination. There are much colleges facing these freezes, with further ones seemingly added each day.

83. The Trump medication has keyed successful connected overseas assemblage students, cancelling visas and threatening deportation. It gets truthful atrocious that the medication was forced to backtrack and reverse the termination of overseas students' visas; however, the harm is done. Why would overseas pupil srisk coming to the United States with the menace of having their visa rescinded?

84. Kristi Noem takes glamour shots, which see her wearing a $50,000 watch, extracurricular of a compartment successful an El Salvador prison. Theoretically, she should person been successful 1 of those cells for shooting her dog.

85. Right-wing extremist Laura Loomer meets with Trump successful the Oval Office and recommends that helium occurrence cardinal quality officials — which helium does. I don't cognize what's worse, the information that she was successful the Oval oregon that Trump listened to her.

86. The FBI arrests a Milwaukee County circuit justice for allegedly helping an undocumented migrant debar arrest. Chilling. Just chilling.

87. Trump shares an nonfiction connected his Truth Social that says, “Shut up astir ovum prices.” So overmuch for lowering prices connected his archetypal day!

88.The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is ordered to fundamentally adjacent up and not commencement connected immoderate indictments, settlements, oregon caller cases arsenic hundreds of lawyers permission the division.

89. Trump says helium wants the U.S. to “own” Gaza and marque it into the Riviera of the Middle East. This deserves its ain 100 database connected wherefore it's terrible.

90.Trump and Vance berate Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, a U.S. ally, successful the Oval Office. Bottom line, the Oval is going to request a superior fumigation erstwhile Trump leaves — if helium ever does.

91. Trump complains astir his representation successful the Colorado authorities sapitol, calling it “purposefully distorted.” Sadly, it was taken down. Whatever happened to states' rights?.

92. Trump besides complains astir flags flying half-staff connected his inauguration time successful representation of erstwhile President Jimmy Carter, arsenic required by law. They spell backmost up, conscionable successful clip for different acheronian inauguration speech..

93. Elon Musk's MAGA garb and “Tech Support” T-shirt successful the Oval Office, erstwhile a spot for decorum. Musk, Kid Rock, and others formal down for the astir historical bureau successful the world.

94. Trump, Musk, RFK Jr., Kash Patel, and others be a UFC title combat successful a galling show of toxic masculinity.

95. Oops, I missed Kash Patel being nominated and confirmed arsenic manager of the FBI — if that doesn’t nonstop a chill down your spine, thing does.

95A. Kash Patel is the manager of the FBI. It adjacent hurts typing that again.

96. In his inaugural address, Trump says, “A peacemaker and a unifier, that’s what I privation to be.” Russia is upping its attacks connected Ukraine. Israel is inactive waging warfare successful Gaza. And present astatine home, the lone unity Trump has created is that we are each enraged.

97. In his inaugural address, Trump crows, “The aureate property of America begins close now.” At time 100, Trump’s canvass numbers are falling, including six retired of 10 respondents who said that Trump’s policies are making the system worse. Some “golden age” we’re surviving in.

98. And then, of course, possibly the worst blunder of each — and that’s saying thing — Signalgate, wherever Trump’s nationalist information adviser, Mike Waltz, admits a newsman into a Signal chat discussing U.S. subject strikes connected Houthis successful Yemen.

99. JD Vance is sworn successful arsenic the 50th vice president of the United States.

99A. JD Vance is vice president of the United States. God assistance each the childless feline ladies.

100. Donald Trump was sworn successful arsenic the 47th president of the United States.

100A. Donald Trump is the president of the United States. God assistance america all.

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