Let's have a contest to pick the day Trump fist has to pay for his lies and miss deeds.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. He was caught red-handed engineering the Watergate coverup

when the "smoking gun" tape was released, so we all hoped that he'd be prosecuted for something - obstruction of justice, at least - after he resigned. When Ford pardoned him a lot of people, me included, were absolutely furious. But before that, it looked for quite awhile like he would never have to account for Watergate at all; and he insisted he wasn't "a crook" (though that remark referred to some tax shenanigans and not Watergate), but the Saturday Night Massacre changed everything. At that point many more people started to figure out he had something big to hide, and his popularity really started to slip after that.