What's your worst memory from the Trump presidency?

[liberalmediaaddict]

What's your worst memory from the 4 years Donald Trump was President? Something he did or said that still haunts you and keeps you up at night.

For me it's how he responded to the Covid pandemic. I couldn't trust a word he said and because I work around the
public I literally feared for my life every day until a vaccine was found.

March of 2020 when Covid was declared a global emergency is when the Trump presidency went from incompetent to deadly. The rest of that year was a nightmare because Trump made the pandemic a hundred times more stressful everytime he opened his mouth. By lying and denying how serious it was.

When I think of Trump's presidency I think of the hell that was 2020. From Covid to the January 6th insurrection it was one of the worst years in US history thanks largely to Trump's chaos and cruelty.

The idea that millions of Americans want to return to what life was like under Trump in 2020 is absolutely maddening. It's either collective amnesia or mass psychosis but definitely a sign something is seriously wrong with how voters get their information.

Everytime an unforseen crisis occurs I think, "how would a Trump administration handle this?" And the obvious answer is, "worse than you can possibly imagine."

Hopefully the swing states come to their senses and choose calm over chaos and compassion over cruelty. If not they can't say they weren't warned about how deranged and dangerous Trump is. The warning lights are all flashing red.

[newdeal2]

1. Jan 6 was the worst

Throwing paper towels at hurricane survivors, clearing BLM protestors for his stupid photo op, family separations at the border, COVID incompetence.

Are we better off than 4 years ago? Hell yes!

[applegrove]

3. I could not watch Jan 6. I turned the chanel and only

went back to it when it was over. Too hard to see.

[newdeal2]

40. When they played some footage during the DNC convention

I got both sick and very angry all over again.

[bottomofthehill]

54. It has to be 1/6

The President of the United States tried to steal an election. Overthrow the will of the American Voting public and it was not even close. He called the mob and sent it to the Capitol. The President……

Thankfully Federal, State and Local Law Enforcement was able to stop him. The National Guard forgot to show.

[Emile]

2. Inauguration day

[marked50]

24. I would agree that his Inauguration Day was a very, very bad memory

When I was watching it and then Shawn Spicer came out to talk about it and the very first thing Spicer wanted to talk about was the crowd size compared to Obama's.. I shouted out in distress. "We're F...ked!"

But the Covid Disaster and Jan 6 were right up there at the top- hard to choose between the 3. Don't forget the SC Justice picks.

[Aristus]

4. January 6th for me, too.

For all of the problems we have in this country, at least we had always had a peaceful transfer of power. Trump and his shitgibbon followers took care of that, didn't they?

[verargert]

5. my brother dying from COVID-19 April 11th 2020

[Deuxcents]

7. My sincere condolences. I wish we could have welcomed you on a more positive note 🌺

[33taw]

52. My sincere condolences. The same for me. Jan 2021.

[Think. Again.]

6. The trump presidency.

[malaise]

8. The coup and the Covid

Still stunned

[Deep State Witch]

9. Do People Just Choose To Forget These?

We were watching a story on CNN about young African-American men voting for TCF. Do these young men not remember the BLM protests? How people were teargassed? Kyle Rittenhouse? The Orange Turd clearing Lafayette Square then parading out there with his staff and holding a Bible upside down in front of a boarded-up church? Have young Black men chosen to forget these things because Kanye West supports him, or because he's selling gold sneakers, etc.?

[liberalmediaaddict]

17. First time voters don't seem to realize

Just how bad his presidency was. Meaning 18 year olds.
Maybe their parents shielded them from the reality of the news surrounding his administration. Some of them were in grade or high school during Trump's first term.

[Inkey]

10. Hearing him,

Daily telling the American people lies.

[Daigan]

11. Election Night

Feeling like I had been kicked in the stomach.

[Skittles]

13. yes, and knowing the disaster he would be

it absolutely disgusted me that Hillary was held to impossible standards while that POS Trump was held to no standards at all

[Bettie]

14. And that feeling never quite went away

every day, there was another kick....

[BluenFLA]

12. Jan. 6 and the towel throwing

Him exposing Biden to COVID-19 is a dishonorable mention, as well.

[Raine1967]

15. All of what you said, but we need to talk about his border policy.

His family separation policy breaks me the most. Over a thousand kids have not been reunited with their parents. Many of them are becoming you adults and still are searching for their parents. No one knows if they are still in captivity. (I don't TBH)

His administration failed, maliciously, to keep records for those kids and parents.

I cannot even comprehend how many of those children died from covid, or worse.

I fear many were sexually abused.

This is a story that has never been properly reported.

[liberalmediaaddict]

21. There's a documentary called "Separated"

About Trump's child separation cruelty. Chris Hayes was talking about it the other night. Unfortunately MSNBC is refusing to air it before the election because they're scared of crossing Trump.

[Akacia]

34. Yes this bothered me so much and still does.

Those poor families and the children in cages.

[LakeArenal]

27. Really!!!! Anything after that.....

[Jack Valentino]

16. Definitely COVID and January 6th were the worst.

As for the first three years of his presidency, my memory is vague-- because I went on a self-imposed news blackout soon after the 2016 election...
On the rare instances I tuned in, I would change the channel every time the stupid son of a bitch was put on the air...


I didn't tune back into news until the 2020 presidential primaries were well under way.
I was a Bernie backer turned into a Joe Biden supporter in 2020. That wasn't difficult, I always loved Joe.

[liberalmediaaddict]

25. His first 3 years felt like 6

2017 to 2019 was basically him playing golf, tweeting and coasting off Obama's great economy. 2020 was when everything got real and he was expected to actually do the job of being President. And he failed magnificently.

[Jack Valentino]

29. When COVID hit, he had a choice and an opportunity to become a Real Leader

for the American people in one of their greatest crisis ever---
if he had, his re-election would have been assured.




He chose poorly.

[keep_left]

18. Definitely Covid--in particular, the early days when we didn't know...

...what we were dealing with, and it became abundantly clear that the Trump regime was a lost cause. Remember his moronic press conferences? And how about the anti-vax MAGA chuds?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219331975#post15

...a lot of people forget how disastrous those Covid-era press conferences really were. I remember the feeling of panic as it spread across the country--including from health professionals I knew--when it became clear that we had an utter dunce in the White House with a bunch of unqualified sycophants around him...

...Instead of any reassurance that the government would do the right thing, we got long-winded egomaniacal talk about his ratings, the need to placate Wall Street by getting everyone back to work...and his enthusiasm for fake cures like bleach and malaria drugs...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219540493#post5

We all remember the refrigerated trucks that stored the bodies when the morgues were overflowing; how Trump ignored intelligence briefings about the plague's lethality and then openly lied about it; how Trump tried to force everyone back to work while a deadly contagion raged outside...God, it just all runs together like mud after a while.

Worst of all, Trump had states competing against each other for supplies and assistance, like a real-life version of The Hunger Games. My term for it at the time was the "free-market pandemic".

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219490667#post23

Trump did absolutely everything wrong about Covid, including concealing information (which he had obtained through intelligence briefings) about its lethality. Then when he contracted Covid through his own stupidity--probably at one of his idiotic rallies---he got absolutely heroic measures which saved his life, including at least 16 courses of Regeneron antibody treatment.

Because Trump turned Covid into another front in the culture war, soon the MAGA chuds got in on the action as well. It wasn't long before his moronic followers created conspiracy theories about the vaccines (RFID chips, etc.) and refused to take them--even being fired from their health care jobs for their refusal. Extremist radtrad Catholics disobeyed a direct order from their Pope to get vaccinated (it was a requirement for everyone at the Vatican!) and helped create one of the most ridiculous vaccine conspiracy theories ever ( "baby parts!" ).

[Bayard]

19. Hard to choose one

Covid, Jan. 6th, kids in cages. I vividly remember Rachel Maddow breaking down in tears at the end of her show while covering that last one.

It was all a bad dream that we couldn't wake up from. Why would anyone want a re-run?

[hatrack]

20. All of it, Katie . . . .

Every single never-ending day that the miserable stupid lazy sociopathic piece of dog shit was taking up space behind the Resolute desk.

Four years of his bullshit and lies and indifference and incompetence and blustering and corruption and his ugly stupid fucking makeup-caked Whizzo Death Mask splayed across every screen and broadcast as he honked and blew about how "incredible" everything was, "like no one has ever seen", and preparing for the infrastructure package that would be coming out "in two weeks", as words without meaning plopped their way out of his dog-anus mouth.

His ugly stupid sons, his ugly stupid daughters, his ugly stupid grifting trophy wife, his ugly stupid staff and supporters and media whores, all dropping to their knees for just a little more rhetorical fellatio, just one more bump, just one more line, just one more paycheck, just one more contract, just one more guest appearance on the Tee-Vee.

That was my least favorite part.

[sakabatou]

22. Jan. 6 and the COVID response

[NoveltySocks]

23. So many things come to mind

Many of which have already been listed. But for me, the worst thing is how what was once unthinkable became so normalized over that bleak four year period. All the lies, the crimes, the cruelty. I don't want to go back to waking up worried about whatever fresh hell that man and his minions might be unleashing on any given day. I'm astounded that so many people apparently look back at all of that fondly.

[liberalmediaaddict]

31. Exactly

For 4 years I woke up every morning wondering what awful statement he had tweeted or what cruel executive order he'd signed. Or what horrible, unqualified person he'd hired for his administration.

[Dem4life1234]

26. Covid

And election night of 2016

He really trashed up the presidency.

Sure we had presidents who fooled around in office but at least they still governed and didn't wage war on the American people.

[Xavier Breath]

28. Maybe not one specific thing, but a routine that the (now ex) wife and I engaged in each day.

When I'd get home from work, invariably one of us would say to the other "Did you hear what he did/said today?" Every damn day, there was a fresh atrocity to discuss.

[Klarkashton]

30. "fine people on both sides"

That was horrible.

[liberalmediaaddict]

35. That made me sick to my stomach

Watching the riot footage from Charlottesville and then hearing Trump's deranged response.

And David Duke and the proud boys all thanking Trump for helping spread their message. America hasn't been the same since.

[boston bean]

32. Kidnapping of children.

Shameful.

[PXR-5]

33. James Bridenstine

Jan 6th, among others.

The appointment of James Bridenstine to head NASA was also a bad day for me.

Why?

He basically set up NASA as a bank for the privatization of NASA. Taxpayer money is now handed out freely, most of it goes to Elon Musk, who supports tRump and other wackos!

I've always been a fan of NASA, including being active in it's support, now I feel we have been dupet.

Defund NASA!

[lpbk2713]

36. Callous mishandling of the pandemic.

He is directly responsible for the loss of many lives.

[surfered]

37. The whole enchilada!

[Blue Dotty]

38. Children dying in cages

https://www.propublica.org/article/six-children-died-in-border-patrol-care-democrats-in-congress-want-to-know-why

[Marthe48]

39. My husband died a week after traitor was sworn in

I will always blame traitor for his death. I don't need to be reasonable about it. I saw what that travesty did to the remnants of my husband's spirit.

[TBF]

41. Overturning Roe -

My mom and aunts were supporting the ERA and environmental causes in the 1970s - it is fifty years later and while POTUS Biden stopped the hemorrhaging - I feel like Trump will pick right up where he left off and keep going backwards.

[Poiuyt]

42. For me, it was the church photo op where he stood there holding a bible

What a fucking hypocrite.

I know it wasn't as bad as some of his other heinous episodes, but this just really angered me.

[keep_left]

45. Yeah, a completely empty gesture on his part.

Don't forget...he held that Bible upside down and backwards. Somehow, that's fitting for Trump.

I should also add that the church at which Trump did the photo op was one of those "woke, accepting" churches the chuds hate. Apparently the Trump regime was too lazy to do its research and find a more reactionary or fundamentalist church.

[qwlauren35]

43. Nominating Brett Kavanaugh.

Nothing made me sicker. And it was so obvious what would happen.

[Freethinker65]

44. Confiscating PPE from the State of Illinois for vindictiveness.

The Sharpie weather map for pathological outright lying to the public.

[MistakenLamb]

46. Killing two of my uncles from COVID

An entire generation of men in my family wiped out from his early inactions and MAGA spread lies

[PeaceWave]

47. Realizing the extent to which the cap on the SALT deduction impacted our taxes.

[peggysue2]

48. Good Lord. There are so many horrible memories

J6 and Covid, of course, both debacles shocking in their own way.

But one moment, actually a photo of a small child crying during a traffic stop by Border Agents is burned into my brain because it's so emblematic of the Trump Administration's cruelty and hate. The border agents tower over this child (she's probably no more than three years old). She could be anyone/everyone's child dressed in a bright pink shirt and red sneakers and clearly scared to death.

If Trump were to win? We can expect thousands of more images like this. Or perhaps not. If Trump and his Flying Monkey Brigade have there way, there will be no photographers shooting incriminating moments.

Bend the knee or have your knees broken.

[bedazzled]

49. The day i woke up and he was "president"

Nothing that happened thereafter was unexpected. How low can you go?

[JanMichael]

50. The use of all types of federal employees to attack protestors.

I think the Bureau of Prisons was the main source of thuggery.

[RandySF]

51. It's still Election Night 2016.

[northoftheborder]

53. Upside down Bible

Holding that Bible up as sort of a talisman for his storm-trooper tactics with the demonstration. That enraged me. His stupid, ignorant Covid press sessions - depressing. His threatening hovering of Hillary on the stage - maddening.
every day

[Intractable]

55. When he famously came down the escalator.

It was all downhill from there.

[Quiet Em]

56. January 6th and his complete ineptness with Covid obviously

also his asking if peaceful protesters could be shot in the leg, good people on both sides, the emboldening of creeps galore, and just waking up everyday terrified of what the hell he did while I was sleeping.

[jmowreader]

57. His diverting military construction funds to build his stupid wall

The rest of you have already hit on some of the worst atrocities Trump inflicted on America, but let's talk about what's in the title of this message.

Trump really wanted his wall. Congress wouldn't fund it. So, Trump illegally took the money meant for building and repairing military housing and diverted it to build his wall. Now, you can go on Reddit's r/army subreddit and look at pictures of barracks rooms covered in black mold - which wouldn't be that way if Trump hadn't stolen the money to fix the problems that caused it from the military.

His trade wars were also bad too. Because of his tariffs many farmers went out of business because their biggest export markets had dried up. One of my...what is a niece's husband, a nephew-in-law? One of those...farms hay. Most of it goes to Asia, and during the Trump administration he was hurting bad because no hay was going to Asia.

[Bobstandard]

58. Kids in cages

A stain on us all, but it’s all on Trump.

[proud patriot]

59. The Day RBG died

I was inconsolable .

[consider_this]

60. And he's managed to continue to stink up the room in all the years following.

outrage after outrage, lie upon lie, hate delivered with pride, cultivating his cult, escaping accountability - and a horrible example to youngsters. Felonius maximus.
When will it ever end?

[tishaLA]

61. Maddow crying

As she tried to read the breaking news about the "tender age" camps and the separation policy.

To think we'd become that kind of nation. Just appalling.

[H2O Man]

62. Recommended.

Interesting question, with outstanding responses!

I've narrowed it down to January 2017 to January 2021.

[maveric]

63. His election.

[IzzaNuDay]

64. The whole damn 4 years.

Starting from Election Day. Was terrified for me and my family. Covid made us hole up at home, which wasn’t so bad but terrified to leave the house. 6 Jan was scarier to watch.
I hope DU protects its users, as I am afraid we are all targets as we all disagree with him.

[Ping Tung]

65. Don embracing and performing indecent acts with the flag.