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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
(715 posts)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
(122,244 posts)went back to it when it was over. Too hard to see.
newdeal2
(715 posts)I got both sick and very angry all over again.
bottomofthehill
(8,724 posts)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
(28,308 posts)marked50
(1,428 posts)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
(67,930 posts)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
(15 posts)Deuxcents
(19,018 posts)33taw
(2,677 posts)Think. Again.
(16,636 posts)malaise
(276,776 posts)Still stunned
Deep State Witch
(11,102 posts)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
(898 posts)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
(310 posts)Daily telling the American people lies.
Daigan
(2 posts)Feeling like I had been kicked in the stomach.
Skittles
(157,570 posts)it absolutely disgusted me that Hillary was held to impossible standards while that POS Trump was held to no standards at all
Bettie
(16,827 posts)every day, there was another kick....
BluenFLA
(114 posts)Him exposing Biden to COVID-19 is a dishonorable mention, as well.
Raine1967
(11,597 posts)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
(898 posts)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
(613 posts)Those poor families and the children in cages.
LakeArenal
(29,654 posts)Jack Valentino
(810 posts)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
(898 posts)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
(810 posts)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
(2,267 posts)...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
...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
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
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
(23,870 posts)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
(60,503 posts)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
(42,834 posts)NoveltySocks
(384 posts)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
(898 posts)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
(516 posts)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
(4,760 posts)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
(1,369 posts)That was horrible.
liberalmediaaddict
(898 posts)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
(36,418 posts)Shameful.
PXR-5
(531 posts)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
(43,155 posts)He is directly responsible for the loss of many lives.
surfered
(2,332 posts)Blue Dotty
(53 posts)Marthe48
(18,637 posts)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
(33,699 posts)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
(18,245 posts)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
(2,267 posts)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
(6,231 posts)Nothing made me sicker. And it was so obvious what would happen.
Freethinker65
(10,916 posts)The Sharpie weather map for pathological outright lying to the public.
MistakenLamb
(768 posts)An entire generation of men in my family wiped out from his early inactions and MAGA spread lies
PeaceWave
(730 posts)peggysue2
(11,378 posts)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
(1,832 posts)Nothing that happened thereafter was unexpected. How low can you go?
JanMichael
(25,151 posts)I think the Bureau of Prisons was the main source of thuggery.
RandySF
(68,751 posts)northoftheborder
(7,597 posts)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
(304 posts)It was all downhill from there.
Quiet Em
(538 posts)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
(51,269 posts)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
(1,600 posts)A stain on us all, but its all on Trump.
proud patriot
(101,019 posts)I was inconsolable .
consider_this
(2,756 posts)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
(14,298 posts)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
(75,091 posts)Interesting question, with outstanding responses!
I've narrowed it down to January 2017 to January 2021.
maveric
(16,623 posts)IzzaNuDay
(489 posts)Starting from Election Day. Was terrified for me and my family. Covid made us hole up at home, which wasnt 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.