Stupidity at Scale

How do you fail this regularly, this completely, unless you’re really trying?

You almost have to admire the discipline of Donald Trump's administration: it takes real talent to be this consistently stupid.

You’d think that by dumb luck alone, they’d accidentally help someone once in a while. But no. They put in the work. Every policy is a master class in doing the wrong thing at every possible turn.

It’s as if they held an all-hands meeting and agreed: “No idea is too bad. If there’s a giant red button marked ‘DO NOT PUSH,’ we’re mashing it with both fists.”

In just 100 days, the Dollar Store Dictator nuked 20% of the economy and trashed eight decades of American credibility. You almost have to respect the commitment.

Supporters call it “bold reform.” Reality calls it relentless harm with zero benefit.

The Wrong Thing, Every Time

Let’s run the tape. These aren’t just mistakes; these are policy blunders so egregious, courts had to step in—over and over—because basic legality was apparently too much to ask. And we're still waiting to see if they're belligerent enough to keep defying the orders.

Trump’s Hall of Shame: The Top Ten Trainwrecks

Tariff Tantrums: Slapped tariffs on allies and adversaries alike, tanked markets, crushed farmers, and spooked global investors. Judicial smackdown followed.
Visa Vandalism: Randomly canceled visas for thousands of foreign students, leaving them undocumented overnight. Lawsuits flew; policy reversed.
Deportation Debacles: Tried to deport Venezuelans on phantom “gang ties.” Judges: not even close.
Aid Freeze Fiasco: Cut off foreign aid by fiat. Blocked by the courts.
Trans Military Ban: Tried to purge trans servicemembers. Blocked as unconstitutional.
Funding Freeze Folly: Attempted to halt all federal grants and loans. Judges stepped in again.
Refugee Shutdown: Executive order halts refugee admissions. Courts: try again.
Mass Firing Spree: Fired 25,000 federal workers. Most reinstated by court order.
Proof-of-Citizenship Voter Rules: Tried to demand citizenship proof at registration. Blocked—federally illegal.
Anti-DEI Edicts: Ordered states to ban race-based educational practices. Judges laughed them out of court.

And that’s not even counting the disasters still in progress:

Elimination of FEMA, defunding sanctuary cities, NYC’s congestion pricing blocked, new anti-trans orders, and more mass firings on deck.

Consistently Finding the Worst Option

Think it’s just “liberal whining”? Even GOP mega-donors like Citadel’s Ken Griffin are warning that Trump’s clown show is wrecking the country’s global standing:

“It can be a lifetime to repair the damage that has been done,” he said

But Trump didn’t stop there. He brought in Elon Musk—America’s most notorious chaos agent—to run his “Department of Government Efficiency.” The result? Bad went to worse.

DOGE bragged about $55 billion in “savings.” Auditors found less than $4 million. Most “terminated” contracts had already expired or were axed under Biden. The rest was accounting smoke and mirrors.

Then they fired the teams responsible for nuclear safety and pandemic response. Cue Congressional outrage, emergency re-hires, and national security warnings. Musk’s people parachuted into agencies while still collecting paychecks from SpaceX and X, triggering red flags from every watchdog with a pulse.

The Mechanics of Catastrophe

Federal workers got cryptic emails threatening them with resignation if they didn’t reply. Morale collapsed, productivity nosedived, and government ground to a halt.

This isn’t governance. It’s a masterclass in how to fail, harder and dumber, every single time.

Is it malice, or just cosmic-level idiocy? Are they physically incapable of making a good decision, or does the Trump orbit repel competence like some kind of stupidity force field?

Eclipsing the Past, Darkening the Future

Historians will be arguing about this for decades. All you really need to know: Herbert Hoover finally got bumped from the bottom of the rankings. And we get to spend the rest of our lives explaining how, in a country of 330 million, we elected this idiot. Twice.

How stupid were we? Look around.