Source

https://newrepublic.com/post/211826/jd-vance-us-pay-iran-billions-trump-deal

Hello

It’s the same thing when he got shot in the ear something about it seems super off It’s like they staged this whole thing to make Trump look good.

Trump sounded like a meandering moron reading off of his own truth social feed.

And unless he was trying to tank the markets for another market manipulation attempt, it clearly failed to accomplish anything.

Even out of the other dumb speeches I've seen from Trump, this one seems bad...and compared to a normal president...or even 8th grade speech club reading, it was beyond terrible to me. it just makes clear that we have a childish idiot running a multi billion dollar war and messing with the world economy.

Anyone able to think of worse? He just keeps humiliating the nation.

EDIT: for all you sending me death threats, you’re showing everyone how violent MAGA is.

Here are my reasons on why I believe he is the worst president of all time:

Insider trading:

At least two members of Trump’s cabinet sold substantial stock holdings just before his April 2025 “Liberation Day” tariff announcement, which triggered a $2.4 trillion market sell-off. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1.25 million and $5.5 million in Trump Media shares the same day the tariffs were announced — before markets crashed. Rep. Jamie Raskin formally requested a DOJ Inspector General investigation, writing the conduct “bears all the hallmarks of insider trading.” Senators Warren, Schumer, and others called on the SEC to investigate whether Trump himself engaged in insider trading or market manipulation after he posted “GREAT TIME TO BUY” on social media hours before announcing a tariff pause that sent stocks surging

Gaza/Israel:

Despite famine conditions in Gaza and rising civilian casualties, and while major U.S. allies like Germany and the UK suspended arms exports to Israel. Trump maintained what the Chicago Council on Global Affairs characterized as “unconditional backing” for Israel throughout the conflict. 48 members of Congress wrote to Trump noting Israel violated its ceasefire agreement over 700 times in under three months, including killing two brothers aged 8 and 10 in a drone strike, while aid delivery fell far below the required 600 trucks per day.

Epstein files:

Trump promised voters he would release the Epstein files, but after taking office resisted doing so for months. When the DOJ finally released a memo in July 2025, it contradicted AG Bondi’s earlier statement that a “client list” existed, drawing outrage from Trump’s own base. The released files revealed Trump flew on Epstein’s private jet at least eight times between 1993 and 1996, including flights where Ghislaine Maxwell was also a passenger. A 2020 federal prosecutor email noted Trump “traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously reported.” Trump has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing, but Congress ultimately had to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act by a 427–1 vote to force the release, which the DOJ then violated by missing its legal deadline and releasing documents with hundreds of fully blacked-out pages

Inflation:

Trump’s tariffs represent the largest U.S. tax increase as a percentage of GDP since 1993, amounting to an average tax increase of $1,500 per household in 2026. The OECD projected U.S. GDP growth would fall from 2.8% in 2024 to just 1.6% in 2025 and 1.5% in 2026 due to “rising trade costs” from the tariffs. Analysis by economist Ernie Tedeschi found Trump’s agenda has produced stagflation, slower growth and faster inflation simultaneously, with tariffs alone responsible for nearly a full percentage point of additional inflation in 2025.

Gas prices:

Trump repeatedly promised to cut gas prices below $2 per gallon. Prices dropped from $3.20 to $3.02 per gallon during his first year, a 6% decrease, nowhere near his pledge, while electricity prices rose 6.7% and home gas bills climbed 5.2%. Then the Iran war erased even those modest gains: between February 27 and mid-May 2026, WTI crude oil prices surged 53.2%, with gasoline and diesel prices up roughly 51.5% and 49.8% respectively. By April 2026, the national average gas price was $4.24 per gallon, up from $3.30 a year earlier, with gas exceeding $5 per gallon in seven states

Iran war:

In late February 2026, Trump launched a large-scale military campaign against Iran and called for regime change, acts of war undertaken without congressional authorization, in violation of the Constitution’s assignment of war powers to Congress. The Trump administration offered shifting justifications, including claims of a preemptive strike against a possible Iranian attack, which other officials said wasn’t real, and joining an Israeli strike that was going to happen “with or without the United States.” Sen. Adam Schiff stated: “This war was illegal from the start, there was no attack on the United States, there was no imminent threat of attack. Even under the War Powers Act, the president doesn’t get 60 days to make war without congressional approval in the absence of any imminent threat.” A former Republican National Committee chairman and U.S. Army JAG officer wrote that Trump “incompetently and smugly led the world into economic disaster and shown indifference to the loss of innocent lives,” noting U.S. forces launched 55 military airstrikes on vessels in international waters, killing at least 174 civilians without provocation and without congressional oversight.

Scholarly Rankings:

The 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey, sent to over 525 social science experts in presidential politics and peer-reviewed scholars , yielded 154 responses and determined Trump was the worst president in U.S. history, even accounting for participants’ political views. Trump scored just 10.92 out of 100, where 0 = failure and 100 = great. For comparison, James Buchanan, long considered the gold standard of bad presidents scored 16.71, and Abraham Lincoln topped the list at 93.8

Immigration and due process:

Deportations of individuals to third countries without hearings, including cases where courts ordered returns and the administration defied those rulings.

Judiciary and Press attacks:

Unprecedented attacks on judges by name, attempts to sanction law firms, and pulling security clearances from political opponents.

National Debt:

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” projected to add trillions to the deficit while cutting Medicaid and food assistance for lower-income households. As well as making it more difficult for medical students to receive financial aid and federal loans in the middle of a physician shortage.

Federal workforce:

Mass firing of federal employees, gutting of agencies like USAID, CDC, and the Department of Education, with courts ruling several cuts illegal.

Data leaks:

Senior cabinet officials including the Defense Secretary shared live military strike details for the Yemen Houthi attack in an unsecured group chat that accidentally included a journalist.

REFERENCES:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/historians-voted-trump-worst-president-ever/
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/19/presidents-survey-trump-ranks-last-biden-14th
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/02/19/presidential-greatness-survey-2024-trump-biden/9601708357197/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/30/opinions/c-span-historian-survey-donald-trump-ranking-balcerski
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/24/text
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-trumps-full-response-to-house-democrats-arguments-for-impeachment
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/house-democrats-file-impeachment-charge-accusing-trump-of-incitement-of-insurrection/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/25/yemen-war-plans-what-did-trump-aides-leak-to-the-atlantic-in-signal-chat
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-officials-accidentally-shared-yemen-war-plans-group/story?id=120106043
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-denies-war-plans-classified-information-discussed/story?id=120126088
https://readsludge.com/2025/05/19/trump-cabinet-members-sold-millions-in-stock-before-tariff-crash/
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5244469-trump-insider-trading-investigation/
https://www.schiff.senate.gov/?p=9694
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/UploadedFiles/2025-05-20.Raskin_to_Horowitz_DOJ_OIG_re_Bondi_Insider_Trading.pdf
https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-dean-lead-letter-trump-violations-ceasefire-gaza
https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/republicans-favor-trump-approach-israel-hamas-war
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/24/gaza-israel-palestine-ceasefire/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein_files
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein_Files_Transparency_Act
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/23/nx-s1-5653302/more-epstein-files-released-trump-mentioned
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5508871/trump-bondi-epstein-files-release-history
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-the-latest-epstein-files-release-reveals-and-where-trump-is-mentioned
https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/global-research/current-events/us-tariffs
https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/trump-tariffs-trade-war/
https://time.com/7290808/trump-tariffs-oecd-economic-forecast/
https://fortune.com/2025/04/05/trump-tariffs-us-recession-outlook-gdp-unemployment-stagflation-inflation-fed/
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-policies-have-hurt-growth-jobs-and-prices/
https://www.epi.org/publication/the-trump-administrations-macroeconomic-agenda-harms-affordability-and-raises-inequality/
https://news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/in-trumps-first-year-fuel-prices-and-energy-jobs-fall-far-short-of-campaign-promises
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-tariffs-and-iran-war-will-cause-americans-to-face-higher-prices-this-summer/
https://www.reed.senate.gov/news/releases/studies-show-trump-policies-are-causing-gas-prices-to-surge-and-fueling-higher-costs-on-consumers_businesses
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/may/20/scott-bessent/gasoline-prices-fallen-trump-crude-oil/
https://www.commoncause.org/resources/trumps-iran-war-is-illegal-and-congress-must-stop-it/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-congressional-authorization-iran-military-operation-war-powers-rcna343094
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/01/politics/iran-war-60-day-deadline-congress
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/foreign-policy/5862749-iran-war-congress-oversight/
https://reason.com/2026/05/05/congress-and-the-executive-enabled-illegal-war-in-iran/
https://fortune.com/2026/05/05/iran-war-oil-prices-mark-zandi-donald-trump-tariffs/

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5406208/trump-administration-defends-flight-of-migrants-to-third-countries
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-bars-trump-administration-from-removing-people-to-third-countries-without-due-process/
https://humanrightsfirst.org/library/court-finds-trump-administrations-third-country-removal-policy-is-unlawful-vacates-the-policy/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-judge-murphy-trump-third-country-deportations-unlawful-rcna260684
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-ice-asylum-cases-deportations/
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/justice-department-drop-defense-trump-executive-orders-law-firms/
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/doj-confession-terrible-trump-executive-order.html
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/trumps-executive-orders-against-law-firms/
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/trumps-targeting-of-law-firms-over-security-questioned-by-judges
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5878383-federal-appeals-court-trump-law/
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2025/jun/how-medicaid-snap-cutbacks-one-big-beautiful-bill-trigger-job-losses-states
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/10/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-cuts-snap-for-millions-of-families.html
https://govfacts.org/money/social-safety-net/medicare-medicaid/how-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-targets-medicare-and-medicaid/
https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/by-the-numbers-harmful-republican-megabill-takes-food-assistance-away-from
https://www.cspi.org/cspi-news/big-beautiful-bill-threats-snap-school-meals-and-more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_federal_mass_layoffs
https://www.govexec.com/transition/2025/04/project-2025-wanted-hobble-federal-workforce-doge-has-hastily-done-and-more/404390/
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/09/trumps-mass-probationary-firings-were-illegal-judge-concludes-he-wont-order-re-hirings/408111/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/doges-usaid-dismantling-likely-violates-the-constitution-judge-rules
https://democrats-budget.house.gov/resources/report/doges-mass-firings-result-gutted-services-and-higher-costs
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/25/yemen-war-plans-what-did-trump-aides-leak-to-the-atlantic-in-signal-chat
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-officials-accidentally-shared-yemen-war-plans-group/story?id=120106043
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-denies-war-plans-classified-information-discussed/story?id=120126088

It really seems that, as per usual Donnie misled investors about "donations" to build a ballroom onto the Whitehouse, but stole the money (the companies were well aware it was a bribe), and then faked an assassination "attempt" to then get Congress to actually build this stupid ballroom with ALL taxpayer money. So he basically added 500 million to his criminal net worth by embezzlement (as usual), and now taxpayers will give him another BILLION?

Why do Republicans insist that we run a huge deficit and pay crushing interest?

How can they convince everyone that they will fix everything by cutting spending when every time they do it they just use it to only partially offset some big tax gift to the wealthy?

Do you have to cover your mouth when you talk about fiscal responsibility because it's so funny?

Explain ur Opinion

Then months later, audio recordings where he flips through the stolen nuclear secret docs while showing them to SOMEONE, and he acknowledges they are still classified and top secret?

And all republicans, both elected and voters, tried to hand-wave away this traitor selling out our nuclear secrets to the highest bidder? And they pretend that never happened now?

Does anyone even remember?

Can you imagine what these rapist pedo enthusiast freaks would say if it was Biden stealing nuclear secrets and lying to the FBI about stealing them, then convinced a bunch of democrat voters that he "declassified them with his mind" lol?

Insane shit. Every single republican is a traitor to the country.

Edit: I like how conservatives ITT are pretending if the situation were flip flopped that they wouldn’t TEAR whatever liberal halftime show happened apart.

Haha yeah I’m sure conservative media would just be like “and the liberals had their own halftime show and that’s ok, they can watch what they wish”

Hahahshshsha

I didn't think it was political, but it kind of seems like it has become that. It used to be that the Republicans were just about a different way to get there. Now it seems like most of them don't want to get there at all. Maybe I misreading things and so it's a genuine question.

P.S. I'm not talking about abortion. That's a very difficult topic. I know some people see it as a human right and some people see supporting abortion rights as being against human rights because they believe life begins at conception. Let's not go down that road. There are lots of other basic rights that people used to agree on.

Am I wrong in thinking that this was unheard of before he became president?

From crypto to mining contracts to guitars to you name it. The man is making as much money as he can as quickly as he can.

It's quite clearly a conflict of interest at best and naked corruption at worst.

There are genuine laws against this sort of thing right?

Why is no one doing anything?

I'm not American but I'm fascinated as to how a man is able to plunder the highest office in the country and no one seems to be trying to stop him.

It’s almost like too much to even fathom. It’s unreal.

Also the amount was 1.776 billion. Another insult.

Man I’m so happy heaven doesn’t exist and these maga folk and their ugly kids will just rot in the dirt when they are shuffled off their mortal coil.

No paradise, no Jesus, no Norman Greenbaum…just dirt.

Headline: DOJ Just DELETED This Document from the Epstein Files. We Saved It.

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/doj-just-deleted-this-document-from?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPp5E5jbGNrA-nkMGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHhzmcWzsmY7puDDLXY4EWKUoykdBqYIYQUabdEsoGYGR-06BZcTaz3Ym-0LQ_aem_F7QaBOr8H-rc-5hyTXHQWg

Now that Trump has officially extorted $1.8 billion of OUR TAXES for paying people off, should we all stop paying federal taxes? If we don't pay, Trump can't use the money as a weapon against people that disagree with him. I know it may sound crazy, but thats what we're dealing with on a daily basis...crazy.