Derelict, Incompetent or Wreckless
1991 (context)
1991 thru 2009 – For context, Trump bankrupted at least 4 of his own casinos.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20200929/111078/HMKP-116-JU00-20200929-SD003.pdf
2009
2009-01-01 Linda McMahon’s educational experience involves sitting on the Connecticut Board of Education for one year, and she holds a degree in French.
https://edsource.org/updates/mcmahon-confirmed-as-u-s-secretary-of-education
2021
2021-01-01 The current FBI director under the Trump administration was formerly a podcaster named Kash “Money” Patel and his podcast “Kash’s Corner” is still on Spotify. The platform touts “whistleblowing”, uncovering “conspiracies” and unfounded claims of scandals.
https://open.spotify.com/show/2lWqshCmJul1EAADnNmPWk
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000114036124030406/ny20026576x34_s1a.htm
2021-02-18 Media outlets reported that Ted Cruz vacationed in Cancun during the Texas winter storm power outage. During an interview he expressed remorse, stating that he just wanted to be a dad for his girls. However, he did the same thing again in July 2025 when he took his family to Greece while central Texas flooded.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/ted-cruz-cancun-power-outage/
2024
2024-09-10 Trump accused Haitian immigrants in Ohio of eating pets during the 2024 debate, and ABC news had to fact-check him.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77l28myezko
2024-11-25 In Pete Hegseth’s book The War on Warriors, he argues that the US should disregard the Geneva Convention constraints and abide by our “own rules”.
2025 February
2025-02-27 The Trump administration targeted legal oversight of military lawyers, stating their enforcement of law were potential “roadblocks” to Trump’s orders.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/politics/pentagon-lawyers-sidelined-jags
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-military-lawyers-being-sidelined
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5162069-pentagon-officers-fired/
https://www.execfunctions.org/p/the-decaying-legal-culture-in-the
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-hegseth-firing-chairman-lawyers-6bead3346b1210e45e77648e6cbc3599
https://www.newsweek.com/how-pete-hegseths-cull-of-military-lawyers-could-hurt-us-soldiers-10819597
2025 March
2025-03-01 Pete Hegseth initiated the dismantling of the Civilian Mitigation and Response Action Plan, which was designed to build a blueprint for avoiding civilian war casualties. The agency had the important task of maintaining a “no-strike” list so we wouldn’t bomb places like schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, et cetera. Hegseth even pitched the idea of changing the name to Center for Precision Warfare so the mission wouldn’t sound so “woke”, but the Trump administration inevitably scrapped it just before they started a war in Iran and bombed a school for girls, killing nearly 200 children in the first day of the war.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/03/us-civilian-casualties-iran/686292/
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-iran-hegseth-civilian-casualties
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/us/politics/hegseth-pentagon-civilian-harm.html
2025-03-11 Pete Hegseth used an unapproved unauthorized Signal chat platform to discuss classified plans of military strikes in Yemen. He also invited officials who were not supposed to be part of the communications including his wife. Two months after Signalgate, Mike Walz resigned. On December 4th of the same year, the Pentagon Inspector General released a report stating Hegseth endangered the lives of American servicemembers when he shared classified details of Yemen strikes on the unauthorized commercial app Signal Chat.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-goldberg-the-atlantic-trump-officials-group-chat-signal/
https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-happened-to-those-signalgate-messages/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseths-signal-chat-pentagon-inspector-general-report/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/politics/unclassified-ig-report-hegseth-signal
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2ej74pxdro
2025-03-18 Several living individuals’ personal information was doxed during the release of the JFK files.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/20/jfk-files-social-security-trump/82567111007/
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/personal-data-revealed-in-released-jfk-files
2025 May
2025-05-20 During a hearing Kristi Noem fumbled with the definition of Habeas Corpus and misinterpreted the type of approval needed to activate the suspension clause.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1948380052635180
2025 June
2025-06-03 Newly appointed head of FEMA David Richardson said during a meeting he was not aware of the upcoming hurricane season.
2025 July
2025-07-10 Kristi Noem wouldn’t authorize the deployment of FEMA search and rescue teams for Texas floods until well over 72 hours after the flooding.
2025 August
2025-08-11 Lawrence Taylor stated he wasn’t sure why he was tapped for Council on Sports Fitness & Nutrition.
2025 September
2025-09-04 During a senate committee hearing, RFK declared he did not have COVID statistics, did not know how many people died from COVID, nor how many were saved by vaccines.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts/rfk-jr-says-he-doesn-t-know-covid-death-data-246709829694
2025-09-10 Kash Patel prematurely sent out a post on X telling the public a suspect had been caught. He wrote, “The subject for the horrific shooting today that took the life of Charlie Kirk is now in custody. Thank you to the local and state authorities in Utah for your partnership with @fbi. We will provide updates when able”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/15/kash-patel-brown-shooting-suspect
2025-09-11 (context) Trump assigned a former NFL player to the ambassador of the Bahamas. The video of Herschel Walker stumbling through foreign policy questions from Ted Cruz about the Bahamas can be found on YouTube. On February 19th of the following year, during a press conference Trump couldn’t remember where he assigned Walker, stating, “…and now he’s going to be the ambassador of…come on, name the country, Herschel…”.
https://newrepublic.com/post/206779/donald-trump-forgets-names-titles-world-leaders
2025-09-17 During a Judiciary Committee Hearing following the Kirk shooting, Congresswoman Jasmine Crocket grilled Patel over his mishandling of the investigation.
2025 October
2025-10-02 During a Fox interview, Leavitt was caught off guard after the Fox reporter asked her to verify claims servicemembers were not receiving pay during the shutdown just after Russell Vought stated the contrary in a previous interview.
2025-10-07 In response to the shutdown, Republican Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa stated she would hold town halls “when hell freezes over” and stated, “I don’t have to hold a town hall so you can come and yell at me”.
2025-10-10 In response to the government shutdown, Mike Johnson canceled house votes, including the swearing in of Adelita Grijalva. Her vote would be the one to get the Epstein files released. Meanwhile, Republican leaders decided not to show up to work.
2025 November
2025-11-04 News outlets begin to report on the ridiculous ad-nauseam number of times Mike Johnson says he doesn’t have information, doesn’t know anything, didn’t get the memo, or hasn’t heard of anything.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D-GbZlrOyZE
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1ookag8/supercut_of_mike_johnson_responding_i_dont_know/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/mike-johnson-trump-news-1235458884/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-johnson-cnn-supercut-i-dont-know_n_690a0f03e4b04ad08e188350
https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/mike-johnson-doesnt-know-church-state
2025-11-10 Eight Democratic senators joined Republicans in a vote to reopen the government without any concessions like saving affordable health care. During the shutdown, Trump leveraged SNAP benefits for politics and defied judge orders to release them to feed millions of starving Americans, so maybe this is what broke Democrats to cave. This was also when Trump forked over $40B in American taxpayer dollars to help Argentina out while our food pantries were overrun with needy citizens, and nobody voted to take the funds back from that either.
https://time.com/7332610/8-senators-broke-with-democrats-to-end-government-shutdown/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-democrats-vote-end-government-shutdown/
https://meidasnews.com/news/republicans-vote-no-on-using-argentina-bailout-money-for-aca-subsidies
2025-11-28 Trump announced plans to revoke all executive orders Biden signed with an autopen.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/politics/trump-biden-auto-pen
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115629010097815862
2025 December
2025-12-01 Trump made hundreds of posts on Truth Social including reposts and fanning conspiracy theories. The amount of posts made on this date made Trump look even more unstable than he already had.
https://time.com/7338077/trump-truth-social-posts-addiction/
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/trump-truth-social-december-150-posts-social-media
https://people.com/donald-trump-late-night-truth-social-spree-11860296
2025-12-04 The Pentagon Inspector General released a report stating Hegseth endangered the lives of American servicemembers when he shared classified details of Yemen strikes on the unauthorized commercial app Signal Chat.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseths-signal-chat-pentagon-inspector-general-report/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/politics/unclassified-ig-report-hegseth-signal
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2ej74pxdro
2026 January
2026-01-19 Trump sent a message to the Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store demanding the Nobel Prize, blamed Norway for not giving him the prize, then insisted in the same message he needed “Complete and Total Control of Greenland”. He also added in the message, “I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7mev35x2lo
2026-01-28 After the public execution of Pretti, both Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller pointed fingers at each other, each one stating that they were following the others’ orders.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-stephen-miller-massacre-minnesota-shooting
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-bites-back-after-ice-barbie-blame-game/
2026 February
2026-02-11 The Pentagon shut down El Paso Airport without telling anyone or giving a reason as to why. They initially reported the airport would be shut down for 10 days, then later changed it to 6 hours.
https://apnews.com/live/faa-el-paso-texas-air-space-closed-updates
2026-02-11 Shortly after the closure, the story as to why the shutdown occurred spread, that the shutdown was due to a “Mexican cartel drone”. Sean Duffy posted “the threat has been neutralized”, Pam Bondi used the incident to pivot away from Epstein questions at her hearing, and White House officials pointed fingers at the FAA for the shutdown. Ultimately, the Pentagon (or the FAA) utilized an uncoordinated attack and fired an anti-drone laser at a stray party balloon.
https://x.com/SecDuffy/status/2021594420806639787
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/politics/el-paso-trump-administration-finger-pointing
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/coastal/politics/2026/02/11/dc-wrap
2026-02-26 Trump sent two corrupt real-estate brokers – Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner – to Geneva to discuss nuclear talks with Iran. This came two days before the US and Israel surprise-attacked Iran and launched missiles, including killing 170 schoolchildren.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-steve-witkoff-iran-enriched-uranium-11-nuclear-bombs/
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/03/witkoff-kushner-trump-fail-diplomacy-iran-ukraine-gaza/
2026-02-27 For the second incident in February 2026, the Pentagon shot down a border patrol drone over Fort Hancock outside El Paso Texas, proving there is an ongoing breakdown in communication between agencies.
2026-02-27 During a discussion on Piers Morgan, Lauren Boebert couldn’t answer what inflation was.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/lauren-boebert-stumbles-piers-morgan-183517013.html
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/politics/lauren-boebert-stumbles-trying-to-define-inflation/
2026 March
2026-03-01 After the US bombed Iran, the US State Department had made no plans on how to evacuate American citizens from the region. They only told them to find their own way out.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/04/evacuation-middle-east-iran-war-00812898
2026-03-02 During a briefing, Pete Hegseth vowed there would be no “stupid” Rules of Engagement concerning the war in Iran.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/hegseth-insists-the-iran-conflict-is-not-iraq-and-is-not-endless
2026-03-05 Trump finally fired incompetent and reckless Kristi Noem, stating he did not know she had spent $250M on ad campaigns during her reign of ICE terror. He replaced her with Senator Markwayne Mullin.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-homeland-security-noem-mullin-38c583b3cef97b4ef60d84b8f8b5961a
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/05/nx-s1-5667546/kristi-noem-homeland-security-fired
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/us/politics/kristi-noem-markwayne-mullin-trump.html
2026-03-06 Trump stated on Fox that ships were safe to go through the Strait of Hormuz while Iran laid out mines. He stated to Brian Kilmeade, “There’s nothing to be afraid of” and quipped that the oil tanker crews should “show some guts”. Six tankers were struck, and media posted video of fuel tankers burning near Al Faw Port of Basra, Iraq on March 12.
https://thehill.com/business/5774913-donald-trump-oil-tankers-strait-hormuz/
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a70726144/trump-pep-talk-straits-of-hormuz/
https://www.reuters.com/world/cargo-ship-hit-by-projectile-strait-hormuz-crew-evacuates-2026-03-11/
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/11/cargo-ship-struck-strait-of-hormuz-uk-iran-war.html
2026-03-08 Trump threatened via Truth Social to withhold his signature on all bills until Congress passed the SAVE act.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116193527873859174
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5776058-trump-republicans-save-america-act-midterms/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/09/trump-threat-congress-save-america-act
2026-03-10 Sources uncovered that Pete Hegseth went on a spending spree with taxpayer money from September 2025 on, spending $9M on crab legs, $6.9M on lobster tail, $98,000 for a grand piano, $5.3M on Apple devices, $15.1M for steak, $124,000 on ice cream machines, $139,000 on doughnut orders, $225M on furniture, $12,000 for fruit basket stands, and $50.1B on grants and contracts. This all came just before the Trump administration decided to withhold SNAP benefits for American families and their children.
https://newrepublic.com/post/207555/pete-hegseth-billions-dollars-fruit-basket-stands-chairs-crab
https://mashable.com/video/jimmy-kimmel-pete-hegseth-spending-93-billion
2026-03-13 Pete Hegseth stated that “no quarter” will be shown to Iran. He stated, quote, “We will keep pressing. We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies”. Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona stated, “No quarter isn’t some wannabe tough guy line. It means something”. To give ‘no quarter’ means to take no prisoners and kill them instead. This violates the law of armed conflict.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/14/democratic-lawmaker-condemns-hegseth-no-quarter
https://ktar.com/arizona-news/kelly-hegseth-no-quarter/5836584/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmSXS6ptXzc&list=WL&index=10&t=61s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTwyfDfO_r4&list=WL&index=3
2026-03-16 Leaked DOGE deposition videos went viral, revealing that DOGE employees used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to determine which agencies and grants to cut, starting with any that referenced DEI. They used AI to indiscriminately take jobs away from dedicated and hard-working people.
https://fortune.com/2026/03/16/doge-employee-deposition-lawsuit-federal-deficit-elon-musk-spending/
https://abcnews.com/Politics/2-doge-staffers-regrets-people-losing-income-reduce/story?id=131050170
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/nyregion/doge-depositions-musk-lawsuit.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beMb-MHflOs
2026-03-19 During Senator Markwayne Mullin’s confirmation hearing before being appointed the new head of DHS, Rand Paul confronted Mullin about a past comment where he said he understood why Paul was assaulted and suffered rib fractures.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/18/rand-paul-mullin-dhs-hearing-senate
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5789478-rand-paul-markwayne-mullin-dhs/
2026-03-24 House Democrat leaders chose not to force a vote on an Iran war powers resolution until after a 2-week recess in mid-April. Demand Progress Senior Policy Advisor Cavan Kharrazian stated, “This is a moment for anti-war leadership, not hesitation. The House should be on the record now, especially when reporting suggests the votes are there to pass a war powers resolution”. Ryan Grim wrote on social media, “Gregory Meeks is now suggesting he might back away from a War Powers vote just as (and honestly because) it now may have the votes to pass. Dems secretly want this war to continue bc it hurts Trump”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGFkuH7GRX8&list=WL&index=1&t=388s
https://x.com/ryangrim/status/2036631611014594992
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-iran-war-powers-resolution-vote-trump/
https://demandprogress.org/house-dem-leaders-waver-on-iran-vote-as-trump-prepares-to-escalate/
2026-03-26 Democrats proposed a bill to block Trump from using any federal funds to take military action in Cuba without Congressional authorization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGFkuH7GRX8&list=WL&index=1&t=388s
2026-03-26 Mysterious trading patterns emerged on the PolyMarket trading app (whose investors include a venture capital firm owned by Donald Trump Jr), causing people to suspect insider-trading within Trump’s ranks. As one YouTuber puts it: this type of concern is being reported on in major news outlets, meaning opposing nations could identify insider accounts and infer US battle plans since they are already making huge bets on world events and then cashing out. That puts American servicemembers’ lives at risk.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/polymarket-insider-trading-rules-iran-war-venezuela/
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/insider-trading-prediction-markets-trump-rules-rcna265452
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/25/trump-iran-oil-insider-trading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNBRgrndNoE&list=WL&index=1
2026 April
2026-04-04 Hegseth ordered base commanders to allow troops to carry personal firearms. This was originally banned by George Bush in the 90’s to prevent accidents and suicides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5u7wrYxLUg&list=WL&index=5
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-troops-personal-firearms-military-bases/