I've copied and pasted this from a Quora entry by Richard M. Bleicher, responding to the question:
As an American citizen, can you tell me a good reason why Donald Trump failed to win his second term as president?
Well, since you ask ... click for more (much more).
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I can give you countless reasons. Let’s start with the fact that the Tangerine Toddler, the Mango Mussolini, Velveeta Voldemort, Humpty Trumpty, Dipshit Douchebag Diaper Donny Dickstain, was the worst President in US History and the most morally bankrupt scumbag who's ever held office.
He's nothing but a malignant narcissist; a megalomaniac; the text book definition of a sociopath; a vile, divisive, hate mongering, spiteful, petty, vindictive, bully; and a pathologically lying Con Man with a personality disorder who's been grifting people his entire life since LONG before he was President. I could fill a book with all his abhorrence, but here's just some examples:
- He was sued years back for racial discrimination for refusing to let blacks rent apartments in the buildings he owned in NYC:
https://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/495955920/donald-trump-plagued-by-decades-old-housing-discrimination-case- When he owned the Miss Teen USA Pageant, he would routinely go backstage to creep on the girls as young as 15 in various stages of undress. Many girls testified to this, & he even bragged about it on The Howard Stern Show:
- He created a fraudulent "Trump University" that scammed thousands of people. He settled a lawsuit with former students for $25 million:
- He was fined $10 million when it was found his Taj Mahal property had committed "significant & long-standing Anti-Money Laundering violations:
- He was fined $2 million by the State of NY for illegal activity during the 2016 election:
- He's made it his business practice through the years to scam contractors doing work on his construction projects out of the money he owed them, always claiming "shoddy" work as an excuse to withhold full payment:
- He set up a charitable fund for kids with cancer and stole all the money from it:
- He told more than 30,000 blatant lies in 4 years:
- He lied about the value of his business and even his own NYC penthouse apartment, even overstating the size of it to be 30,000 sq feet, when it is actually less than half that at only 11,000 sq feet.:
- He took $1.9 million out of campaign donations prior to the 2020 election and shifted it to his own personal account:
- He mocked a disabled reporter:
- He's openly bragged about using his celebrity to sexually take advantage of women and "grab them by the p*ssy":
- He referred to third world countries as "shit holes" and accused Mexicans of being "rapists":
- Before he was President, Trump criticized Obama for the amount of time he was playing golf, stating that "If I'm ever President I'll be too busy working to have time for golf". And then once he became President, he proceeded to spend more than 20% of his days in office on a golf course. But not just ANY golf course. Always one of HIS golf courses, which cost taxpayers millions:
- He had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history:
- He diverted military funding to build his wall that never got finished & which Mexico didn't pay for:
- He increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion:
- He had a composite .95% GDP for his term, one of the worst in history. Economic growth also never even reached 3% at any point in his term, despite his campaign promise to grow the economy by 4% annually:
- He had 3 of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history:
- He was told by Bob Woodward in January of 2020 that Covid-19 was a serious impending threat, and then not only refused to share that info with the American people, fearing we'd all panic, but then once the virus actually hit, he continually downplayed it in public, repeatedly saying it was "just a flu" that would "magically disappear by April when the weather got warm"
- He mismanaged the pandemic response so badly that it cost thousands of American lives:
- He charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties:
- He hired his grossly unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House:
- He continually denied science and climate change, and even nominated a climate change skeptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental issues:
- He attempted to get the US Justice Dept to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a woman who accused him of sexual assault:
- He has continually refused to denounce QANON & even retweeted QANON propaganda over 250 times:
- He tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida:
- He fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his Muslim travel ban:
https://www.npr.org/2017/01/30/512534805/justice-department-wont-defend-trumps-immigration-order- He re-tweeted a gif calling Biden a pedophile:
- He repeatedly claimed falsely that mail-in voting is inherently fraudulent, despite the fact that we've had mail-in voting since the Civil War and there's never been widespread voter fraud that affected the outcome of any election:
- He fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure:
- He grifted his supporters for over $250 million after the election under the guise the money would be going to support his election fraud case. That's not where the money went. To date, he hasn't spent a dime of that money on a single election audit or other effort to overturn the election:
- He summoned PA state legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the election:
- He made a seditious phone call To GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which he attempted to strong arm him like a mob boss into “finding him the votes” he needed to change the GA State election result in his favor. He then threatened him with potential criminal consequences if he would not comply:
- His continued lies, hate speech, and propaganda about the election in the weeks afterwards literally fomented an angry mob of Trump supporters who felt compelled to riot at the Capitol on 1/6 to "stop the steal" and disrupt the certification of a dutifully elected President.
These people were there in Trump's name, to "Stop the Steal", because this is what they thought he wanted. And if not for riling these people up for weeks with tweets like "Peter Navarro has 38 pages of proof of election fraud. Be at the Capitol on January 6. Will be wild!", these people never would've been there in the first place.
These Trumper Trailer Park Nazi, White Supremacist, Domestic Terrorist, scumbags beat officers with flag poles and various other objects (2 have received five years in prison for this); broke windows; spread feces on the walls; and caused dozens of injuries as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages. And all to "Stop the Steal".
In addition, Trump's blatant lies about Mike Pence's "supposed" ability to get the election overturned nearly got Pence assassinated at the Capitol. These rioter thugs even constructed a makeshift gallows outside the Capitol, then stormed inside chanting "Hang Mike Pence!" with the intent of doing just that if they could find him.
Trump was insistent that Pence must "do the right thing" for the country at the Electoral Certification, when the reality was that there was no such "right thing" Pence could possibly have done. Pence even told Trump this on January 5, a conversation Trump later lied about having ever taken place. And despite what all you Trumpers have been saying that in fact Pence "could have rejected the electors from certain states and sent them back", it's simply NOT TRUE.
Don't believe me? Go look up the "Electoral Count Act of 1887". It's in the 12th Amendment of the Constitution, and it SPECIFICALLY limits the role of the VP in the Electoral Certification Process to that of "PRESIDER", not "DECIDER". The VP's role is purely ceremonial.
In fact, Pence is one of many VP's in history who were Constitutionally bound to preside over Electoral Counts that confirmed their own defeat. But Trump, in truly despicable fashion, tweeted out that Pence "didn't have the courage to do the right thing", which in turn caused his crazy far right wing and QANON supporters attacking the Capitol to view Pence as a traitor who must be killed.
And the worst part? Trump let it all happen. After telling his supporters at his speech that morning "And now we're going to march to the Capitol and I will be there with you", he instead bailed on them like an absolute coward and got escorted back to the White House, where he proceeded to watch the events unfolding at the Capitol on TV with absolute glee while shoving Big Macs in his face and doing absolutely NOTHING.
Kevin McCarthy even called Trump from inside the Capitol and implored him to stop it, to which Trump replied "Well, Kevin- I guess the election fraud bothers these people more than it does you", to which McCarthy replied, "Who the F*CK do you think you're talking to?".
Republican Congressmen, Fox News pundits, and even Don Jr. were desperately pleading with him to stop it, and he ignored them all. It wasn't until 187 minutes later (that's 3 hours and 7 minutes, in case you're mathematically challenged) that he was literally forced to act. And even then, he went before the cameras and in his final act of abhorrence as President, had the absolute audacity to tell these trailer park Trumper Nazis:
"We love you all very much. You're all very special, but it's time to go home now…"
Watch this brief video. It shows the timeline of events and Trump's complete callousness at what was going on that day, as well as how hypocritical these other Republicans and Fox pundits were in the weeks and months after 1/6, when their tone grew VERY different than it was that day, obviously in a blatant attempt at downplaying 1/6 to Republican voters. Absolutely disgraceful:
And finally, it's come out that in the days leading up to January 6, Trump had set-up a "War Room" at the Willard Hotel near the Capitol, where he'd gathered a team of advisors including Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon who were literally planning to steal the election with a plan they were calling "The Green Bay Sweep".
This plan, as laid out by Navarro himself, involved over 100 members Congress who they'd lined up to object to various state electors from states Biden won, in hopes that those votes would get disregarded and Trump would literally be reinstalled as President. This alone should be considered an act of treason:
Trump is the biggest disgrace in history and the most despicable President ever. There's a reason why he finished his term with the lowest approval ratings of any president in history:
And lest you think it's only the left who feels this way about the Mango Mussolini, try explaining why, in the aftermath of January 6, thousands of Republicans fled the party in absolute disgust and registered as Independents, to the point where the GOP currently has its lowest level of registered voters in decades:
In addition, even a group of REPUBLICANS became so fed up with Trump's never ending election lies that they actually started a campaign to encourage this insanity to end by putting up billboards all over America stating "Trump lost no more audits".
Trump supporters are simply failing to realize that they've all been brainwashed by the biggest Con Man in American history to believe that Trump is someone that he absolutely is not.
The fact is, that Donald Trump is neither a Republican nor a Conservative. He's merely an opportunist. He ran as a Republican because he desperately wanted to be President and that was his only chance. Had an opportunity ever arisen for him to run as a Democrat, he absolutely would've done so and would've trashed Republicans at every turn.
Trump is merely a Con Man who's been playing the system for his personal benefit. It has never been about politics for him. It's all about the power and the legal protections the Presidency affords him, as well as grifting the system for financial gain.
He even hoodwinked his supporters into believing he wouldn't profit from his Presidency by donating his salary, but that's peanuts compared to the $2.4 billion he actually earned in the four short years he was in office:
Trump has no core values; he's not a real Christian; and he most certainly doesn't care about the institution of the Presidency or the actual work the job entails. He cares ONLY about having complete power, and would've been just as happy being a Democratic President if he'd ever had the chance.
Trump's supporters hilariously think he's a Conservative, when the fact is that behind closed doors there's no doubt he laughs at you people the same way as the rest of the country does. Trump would never associate in any capacity with the vast majority of his supporters. In fact, there's no doubt he despises most of you. If Trump walked by and one of you were on fire, he wouldn't even so much as piss on you.
Trump is also the single biggest moron and total buffoon who's ever held office. This is a guy who:
- Suggested windmills cause cancer:
- Thought we had airplanes during the Revolutionary War:
- Suggested we buy Greenland:
- Stated that "we'd have less Covid cases if we tested less", one of the most idiotic statements ever uttered by a President:
- Questioned whether injecting disinfectant might be a viable Covid cure:
- When asked about how US Covid cases compared to other countries "Per Capita", he had absolutely no idea what "Per Capita" even means:
- Once described a hurricane as having been "one of the wettest on record, from the standpoint of water", and had some other hilariously embarrassing commentaries on hurricanes:
- Here was his rambling, completely incoherent take on homelessness:
- And how about this recent rambling, nonsensical gem of a word salad on Ukraine, which I challenge anyone to even attempt deciphering:
- He's also apparently the world's biggest expert on literally ANY subject:
I also love how Trumpers are quick to point to Biden's supposed lack of mental capacity, when Trump's idiocy, incoherence, and senility was on full display for the world to see every day for 4 years. Here are some of his greatest hits:
Presidential historians also recently came out with a list of their rankings of all 45 Presidents up through Trump. They ranked the presidents based on 10 criteria:
1.) The vision they had for America
2.) Public persuasion
3.) Crisis leadership
4.) Economics
5.) Moral authority
6.) Foreign affairs
7.) Administrative skills
8.) Relationship with Congress
9.) Pursuit of equal justice
10.) Their performance within the context of the time they led the country.
Based on these 10 criteria, Trump was ranked the fourth worst President in US history, ahead of only Pierce, Johnson, and Buchanan:
is this enough reasons for you, or shall I go on?
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