I was hoping that Trump would join the three other US presidents who died on July 4. Alas. The three are John Adams (1826), Thomas Jefferson (1826), and James Monroe (1831), all among this country's "Founding Fathers." Trump doesn't quite (ahem) compare to those three, no matter how many lies they tell about him, but it still would have made the 4th even better than it was.
You know why Donald Trump will almost certainly go down as one of the worst presidential mistakes in United States history?
His supporters.
Forget who they voted for. It is what it is. The issue isn’t just that they voted for him — it’s that they don’t hold him accountable for anything. They just move the goalposts, make excuses, and believe whatever drivel he sells them.
Back in 2016, key pillars of his campaign included having Mexico pay for a border wall, a “great” plan for healthcare, passing congressional term limits, and “very easily” reducing the national deficit and eliminating the national debt.
Yet he did absolutely none of that.
Mexico didn’t pay a single penny for the roughly 52 miles of new wall he built (which equates to barely over 10 miles a year). He never had a plan for healthcare and still doesn’t. He hasn’t mentioned term limits for members of Congress since his 2016 campaign. And he not only ballooned deficits — he added trillions to the national debt.
They don’t care. They’ll make excuses.
Additionally, he called the monthly jobs reports “fake” up until he was sworn into office. He then proceeded to take credit for every single one of them, including the one released less than two weeks after he took office, even though they came from the same sources, were calculated the same way, and reflected essentially the same economic growth he previously called “terrible” under Obama.
They don’t care. They’ll make excuses.
He’s literally on video saying he wouldn’t have time to play golf because he would be working so much. Except, of course, records show that he has played more golf during his first five years than Obama did in eight — even though Trump frequently attacked the former president for playing golf.
They don’t care. They’ll make excuses.
Even the 2024 election: after spending much of Election Day pushing lies and conspiracies about “mass voter fraud,” those comments magically vanished once results started moving in his direction and it became a very real possibility he was going to win.
Amazing how that works, isn’t it?
There he is — the person these folks wanted in charge of the country — pushing one conspiracy after another, laying the foundation to deny election results if he were to lose, then suddenly stopping (and seemingly no longer caring about the “voter fraud” he claimed was happening) once it looked like he was likely to win.
Which, of course, is presented as evidence proving that when Trump wins it’s “fair,” but anytime he loses, he claims it was “stolen and rigged.”
They don’t care. They’ll make excuses.
Now there’s his current presidency, where he promised to lower prices on Day 1, end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours, lower the national debt (again), pass healthcare legislation (again), and be the one person who wouldn’t get us into a war with Iran — the opposite of every single one of those things has happened.
Prices continue to rise, as inflation has hit three-year highs and wasn't any better before his war than when he took office. The war in Ukraine is worse today than it was when he was elected. The national debt is growing at a record pace. He's still never produced a comprehensive healthcare package, just legislation that stripped it away from millions of Americans. And he started the war with Iran he spent 10+ years saying he was the one person who never would.
But they don’t give a damn. They just make excuses.
The fact that the overwhelming majority of his supporters don’t hold him accountable for anything is why he’s able to lie, cheat, and get away with whatever he wants. And that’s exactly why I believe he will be remembered in U.S. history as one of the worst presidents this country has ever had — twice.
Not just because he's absolutely awful, but because MAGA never holds him accountable for anything. They just buy his bullshit and make more excuses for him.
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