The MAGA Handbook to Fascism
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Rape and Sexual Assault:
Per a congressman, Trump mentioned in Epstein files more than 1 million times.
Has been found liable for sexual abuse and for defaming the victim. Has bragged about sexually assaulting women, using language that perfectly aligns with several of the many sexual assault and rape allegations made against him.
Has bragged about walking into the dressing rooms of his pageants while young women were dressing, allegedly including girls as young as 15.
He was accused (along with Epstein) of forcibly raping a 13 year old. The victim withdrew the lawsuit after allegedly receiving multiple threats. Her testimony.
Referred to his daughter as “a voluptuous piece of ass”.
Has refused to release the Epstein files or talk about Epstein after previously pledging to release the documents (what is he hiding?).
Epstein pleaded the 5th when asked about Donald Trump in the presence of minor women (girls).
Epstein Victim Twice Named Trump to Law Enforcement.
Epstein's 13-Year-Old 'First Victim' Reportedly Names Trump In DOJ File.
Literally lies every time he opens his mouth.
Blatantly lied about military pay raises and recruitment goals in a pathetic attempt to malign democrats.
Took out a full-page ad calling for the death penalty for the Central Park 5 who were later completely exonerated. Has continued to falsely claim they were responsible for the attack, despite being proven innocent through DNA & a rapist/murderer’s confession.
Is implementing all the initiatives of Project 2025 at a rapid pace, despite lying repeatedly during the campaign and claiming he has nothing to do with it.
Blatantly ignores emoluments clause, creating obvious & constant conflicts of interest.
Loading Federal Courts with ultra-right-wing MAGA loyalists:
All three of Trump’s Supreme Court nominees lied about their views on Roe as “precedent” and “settled law” and/or obfuscated their views when asked direct questions. The conservative super majority court then overturned Roe despite having no clearly articulated argument.
Although abortion is a highly divisive topic (on which I have mixed feelings), there is no doubt that the Dobbs decision has led to unnecessary deaths of mothers as well as uncountable medical complications for mothers including many who have simply suffered miscarriages, some of whom also died. Pregnant women suffering miscarriages or simply in need of care are also often being denied care because doctors are afraid of being prosecuted.
Criminal Activity:
Was found guilty of defrauding his university students.
Was found guilty of inflating his assets to get favorable loans.
Was found guilty by a jury of his peers of 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection to using hush money to cover up his affair with a porn star.
One of his companies was found guilty of tax fraud, ostensibly ordered by Trump himself.
Screws 590,000 gullible followers out of $100 deposits ($59MM total) for Trump phones that are never going to materialize.
Constantly insulting anyone who doesn’t kiss his ass:
Endless grade-school level insults aimed at anyone who doesn't support him, like this or this or this (just a few examples).
Baselessly attacking musicians and celebrities who don't like him, in a clear violation of constitutionally protected free-speech protections. Shouldn't the president have better things to do? He even called an Olympic skier a “real loser” for simply making a very measured and restrained comment. How thin-skinned can one person be?
Insults the military:
Falsely accused gold star families of giving him Covid.
Wants to change the name of Veterans Day so that it honors fewer veterans and also rename VE day because he doesn’t understand that WWII continued after victory in Europe. All presumably because he loves drawing attention to himself.
Refused to take part in a military remembrance because he was afraid his hair would get wet and then referred to fallen U.S. veterans as “losers”.
Used Arlington Cemetery for illegal campaign photo op, started an altercation with an Arlington staffer who was just doing her job, and his campaign then mocked her in a press statement, saying she was suffering a mental episode.
Continued to mock John McCain's war injuries even after his death, and beforehand saying he “likes people who weren't captured”.
Said Medal of Freedom "equivalent" to and "much better" than Medal of Honor.
As a reminder, Trump is a draft dodger who lied about having bone spurs to avoid Vietnam.
Refuses to take his campaign hat off while saluting fallen service members.
Netted around $100 million by running a memecoin rug pull scam, defrauding investors of around 2 billion dollars.
Ordered republicans to block a bipartisan immigration bill so Biden would not get a win before the election.
Is stealing $230MM of taxpayer money by ordering the DOJ to give it to him. The DOJ officials are mostly Trump sycophants including his former personal attorney.
Filling top positions with unqualified partisan hacks:
Pete Hegseth as SECDEF. The same moron who almost hit a drummer with an axe. Posted videos promoting the idea of repealing women's right to vote. Is a known violent drunk. Shared/leaked classified military info on an unsecured text chat TWICE. Continually lies or deflects from answering questions, like this. He gutted the program tasked with preventing civilian casualties, which could likely have prevented the Iran War elementary school massacre. I don't have time to document half the horrible stuff about him.
Selects his personal attorney Pam Bondi as attorney general. Bondi lied and reversed a pledge to release the Epstein files, in order to protect her boss. Acts like a petulant child, lies and refuses to answer questions during an entire congressional hearing. Here's one example. Publishes Epstein victims' names while redacting perpetrators' names.
Fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and replaced her with a far-right partisan hack, after claiming without evidence that she cooked the books.
Appointed unqualified conspiracy theorist and Trump sycophant Kash Patel as FBI director. Patel has obsessively purged the FBI in efforts to make it nakedly partisan. He gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, as revenge for them doing their jobs.
Appoints ultra-right-wing conspiracy theorist and mass spreader of lies Dan Bongino to 2nd-in-command at the FBI. He has zero previous FBI experience and has been pushing Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election.
RFK Jr. as HHS secretary despite the fact he literally has zero qualifications for this post. He is gutting the HHS and CDC. He is killing $500MM in mRNA vaccine research even though it is incredibly effective against pandemic viruses and shows much promise in treating other illnesses including cancer. Has ordered the CDC to post anti-vax propaganda on their website.
Appoints college intern with zero national security experience as head of counterterrorism unit (you can't make this up).
Kristy Noem has affair with Trump aid while turning ICE into gestapo force and grossly overspending against DHS budget. Noem gutted Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the unit focused on protecting the US from cyberattacks, oversaw the dismissal of hundreds of staff from the disaster relief agency FEMA, and proposed reducing the Office of Intelligence and and Analysis staff from 1,000 to 275.
Economic Idiocy & Corruption:
Will likely cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by unilaterally selling all electric vehicles and removing all EV chargers, replacing them with gas vehicles, all to own the libs. The nature of most government jobs makes them almost perfect use cases for EVs.
Warns automakers not to raise prices (which is impossible) after implementing his 25% tariffs because he's too stupid to understand how tariffs work. He also tells Walmart the same thing. Of course, based on his previous baseless statements none of these companies should have to eat anything, since he repeatedly lied that tariffs are a tax on a foreign country.
Imposes insane tariff rates which he deems “reciprocal” even on countries (many of them poor countries) that impose very little if any tariffs on american goods, because he is too stupid to understand the difference between tariffs and trade deficits, and why countries like those in Southeast Asia have a trade deficit with us because we purchase lots of cheaply made goods from them and they are too poor to purchase expensive American products. Here is another thorough analysis of his flawed logic.
Even putting aside Trump’s logic error of conflating trade deficits with tariffs, a conservative think tank found that his administration’s fancy looking formula for calculating “reciprocal tariffs” is off by about a factor of four!
His tariff insanity is estimated to cost american households around $3,800 per year, with lower income households being hit much harder as a percentage of their income. And yes, Americans are the ones paying the tariffs, not the importing countries.
His 2017 tax cut bill - which is nothing more than a shameless giveaway to the ultra rich - helped balloon deficit spending to record levels. As a reminder, we now have 50 years worth of data that proves that Trickle-Down Economics only benefits the rich, while increasing economic inequality and deficits.
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” has already erased 12 years of Medicare Part A solvency.
He is such a simple-minded narcissist that he literally said about the economy that he takes credit for all the good parts and blames Biden for all the bad parts.
He disparages the USMCA trade agreement and the person who signed it, even though that person was him.
He asked S. Korea for manufacturing investment and said “if we don’t have the manpower in the United States, bring in Korean workers and train them”, then raided the new Hyundai factory in Georgia arresting 475 people (mostly Koreans), jeopardizing the startup of the factory and making it much less likely that Korean (or any other foreign) companies will start new factories here.
Screws American ranchers by massively increasing Argentinian beef imports, while simultaneously giving Argentina $40MM in aid, but only if his preferred candidate wins (obviously interfering with another nation’s internal politics).
Abruptly cuts off tariff negotiations w/ Canada because his feelings were hurt by an Ontario-funded commercial featuring Ronald Reagon. He then blatantly lies (because he lies about EVERYTHING) and claims it was “AI”,even though this is a very real and well-documented video of Reagan's radio address.
Puts a 50% tariff on Brazil (raising coffee prices dramatically), not because Brazil did anything wrong, but because he loves dictators and he is mad that Brazil’s supreme court is holding former strongman dictator Jair Bolsonaro accountable.
U.S. ran a record trade deficit in goods in his first year of tariffs. U.S. manufacturing lost 70,000 jobs just between April and December 2025.
Trump cuts nearly a half billion dollars in promised funding for Illinois health and mental health programs, despite the fact that almost all “blue” states like Illinois give more tax dollars to the federal government than they receive (while the opposite is true for most red states).
Dismantling of U.S. Federal Government:
Firing 2,400 workers from the VA just to start. The new head of the V.A. wants to fire 15% of the VA workforce, or around 83,000 people, which has already led to declines in morale.
Firing hundreds of workers from NOAA, one of the most respected weather and climate organizations on earth.
Firing 400 workers from the already understaffed FAA.
Firing 1,000 workers from the National Parks Service.The number jumps to 4,000 when including Forest Service employees.
Begins firing 10,000 workers from HHS including from the FDA & CDC.
Massive cuts at the IRS will make it far easier for the wealthy to cheat on taxes and could cost the federal government up to $2.4 trillion over the next decade.
Is cutting 90% of staff from the Consumer Protection Bureau, which was created after the 2008 financial meltdown to protect consumers from fraud, abuse and deceptive practices. A DOGE/Elon employee helping to carry out this downsizing owns $365k worth of stock in companies that would directly benefit from the elimination of the CPB, in an obvious conflict of interest.
Dismantling of USAID including 20,000 job cuts across the country.
Fires JAGs from each military branch to eliminate “roadblocks” to any order he may give (sounds like another building block for a coup).
Totalitarian Imperialism:
Continually threatens Canada with an illegal annexation of their entire country, for no good reason.
Continually threatens Greenland with an illegal annexation of their entire country, for no good reason.
Continually threatens Panama with an illegal takeover of the Panama Canal.
Betrayal of Ukraine and Embrace of Totalitarian Russia:
A reminder: the United States (along with UK and Russia) gave Ukraine security guarantees in exchange for their nukes.
The US has (for no good reason) stopped providing intelligence to Ukraine. This includes stopping data necessary for the targeting of HIMARS, effectively bricking all the HIMARS weapons Ukraine already has. Not only is this an unwarranted betrayal of Ukraine, but this potentially cripples future US defense export business, as no ally will want to purchase US weaponry if there's a significant chance the US government can disable it.
Deporting Ukrainians and Afghans (many of whom risked their lives helping us during the Afghan war) who emigrated legally.
Trump officials are interfering with internal Ukrainian politics by holding talks with Zelenskyy's political opponents.
Musk/DOGE cut the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia.
In the most shameful display of “diplomacy” I have ever seen, Trump, Vance and their cronies ambushed President Zelensky in the oval office, stating he hasn't shown respect and asking why he hasn't thanked Trump, even though Trump has done nothing for Ukraine, and Zelensky and the Ukrainian people have thanked the American people and U.S. government many, many times.
Imposed a 10% tariff on Ukraine, but Russia is somehow exempt.
Twice votes with Russia, Belarus and N. Korea in refusing to condemn Russia regarding the invasion of Ukraine.
Immoral and/or Incompetent Business Practices:
Trump businesses have declared bankruptcy 6 times.
Has a documented reputation for consistently stiffing contractors and employees, in many cases for many tens of thousands of dollars of completed work.
Trump and his father were sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination in housing.
Mental Instability and Low Intelligence:
He is likely functionally illiterate.
Is such a man-child that he has said pollsters that have shown his approval ratings sliding in recent weeks should be investigated for "election fraud."
Insanely tried to take credit from 3 physicists who won the Nobel prize for physics. This despite the fact the 3 men made the discovery in question in 1984 & 85 (a few years before he was president) and he is of course cutting funding at this lab, leading to layoffs which will make research and discoveries like this more difficult.
He is so fucking stupid that when he heard chip makers use "transistors" he thought it meant "transgenders".
He thinks toy company Mattel is a country.
Violates peoples’ rights and the constitution with impunity:
Threatens to send American citizens to El Salvador prison for vandalizing Teslas.
Illegally sending people to an El Salvadorian prison without any due process. A few notable examples: “accidentally” sending a man there due to “administrative error” even though he had protected immigration status. Another man was illegally rounded up and sent there because he had an autism awareness tattoo. Another was sent there because he had a tattoo of his favorite soccer team. These are hundreds of people who are now stuck in an El Salvadorian prison, likely being tortured and unlikely ever to be returned to the U.S. This gay hairdresser who was escaping persecution in his home country was imprisoned in the U.S. for six months and then sent to the El Salvador prison based solely on his religious tattoos. Blatantly and repeatedly lied on national TV about Kilmar Abrego Garcia having MS13 tattooed on his hand based on a laughably obvious photoshopped image of the letters overlaid on his hand.
Telling El Salvadorian president that he wants to send “homegrown criminals” there next, and to “build about five more [prisons]”.
Illegally removing visas for people they don't like, and then illegally detaining them for practicing nonviolent protected free speech. In the case of Mahmoud Khalil, they also threatened to arrest Khalil's wife (for no reason). She is an American citizen and 8 months pregnant.
Trump FBI moves to criminally charge groups including Habitat for Humanity for legally accepting government grants.
Renegs on a public student loan forgiveness program enacted by George W. Bush for individuals based on free speech that he doesn't like.
Planning to illegally run for a third term despite this being clearly outlawed by the constitution.
Threatening immigration lawyers with deportation, even when they are U.S. citizens.
Illegally and arbitrarily barring immigration and asylum decisions for anyone from a list of 39 countries that he doesn't like.
Circumventing immigration and deportation laws by deporting immigrants and asylum seekers to countries they have never lived in.
Attempted a coup after the 2020 election:
Repeatedly lied without evidence that the election was rigged (against advice of his lawyers), illegally pressured the republican governor of Georgia to “find some votes”, and tried installing fake electors to steal electoral votes in seven states.
Incited an insurrection at the capitol by urging a mob to “fight like hell”, "And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore." 5 people died and our capital was breached by domestic terrorists, many armed and with intent to capture and/or kill members of congress. Before their attack, Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani called for “Trial by combat”.
Filed 62 baseless lawsuits (losing 61) to overturn the election, without evidence.
Blanket pardoned (for no good reason) all the January 6th defendants who stormed the capital, many of whom had served little or no part of their sentences for their treasonous assault.
Now the DOJ has been infiltrated by J6 rioters and is targeting the prosecutors. Here's an example.
Trump issues ‘demand’ that states cancel elections and rig maps for GOP after voting rights SC decision.
Trump DOJ vows to weaponize Supreme Court ruling against minority voters.
Attacks on Freedom of Speech:
Threatening to revoke broadcast licenses for stations that criticize him.
Using the FCC to have Jimmy Kimmel suspended simply because he made a very mild and fact-based critique of Trump.
Executive orders that violate the constitution:
Illegally attempting to override states’ laws on climate change.
Arbitrarily firing thousands of federal employees.
Unilaterally stopping asylum.
Punishing law firms who have represented clients he doesn’t like.
Attempting to overrule the entire 14th amendment by fiat to unilaterally end birthright citizenship.
Unilateral attempt to overrule election laws by fiat, including a non-sensical requirement that mail-in ballots must be received by election day. The president has no constitutional authority over elections.
Pardoning violent and corrupt criminals for no good reason:
Pledges to pardon Honduran president and actual narco-state terrorist.
Pardoned Michelle Fiore who stole money raised for a memorial to a slain Las Vegas police officer.
Orders DOJ to drop case against corrupt NYC mayor Eric Adams.
Has pardoned many other corrupt politicians including former Illinois governor Rob Blagojevitch who tried to sell a senate seat.
Commutes George Santos because he “always votes republican.”
Pardons Steve Bannon after he defrauded regular people of 25 million dollars for the “Trump border wall”.
Pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who served prison time for failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism. He and Binance have been key supporters of some of the Trump family's crypto enterprises.
Grants clemency to executive who perpetrated $205MM Medicare fraud.
Trump pardons wipe nearly $2 billion in victim repayment and taxpayer recovery for Medicare and tax fraud.
The DEA has stopped using its body cams supposedly to comply with an executive order from Trump. This will harm both victims of police abuse as well as officers falsely accused of malpractice.
Trump DOJ says (without basis) laws Congress passed to prevent another Nixon don’t apply to Trump.
He very rarely sits for the “daily” intelligence briefings and never reads the written document.
Constantly belittles the press or anyone else asking legitimate questions with nasty ad hominem attacks instead of addressing the issue at hand.
Ordered DHS secretary and sycophant Kristi Noem to waste $200MM on TV ads kissing his ass.
Wasting taxpayers money on giant banners of his portrait that resemble those commonly displayed by dictators.
Installs childish WH portraits mocking past presidents.
Trump administration aims to roll back limits on harmful PFAS forever chemicals in drinking water.
Constantly posts hateful and childish memes about himself on Twitter.
Posts idiotic portraits of himself as Superman, Rocky, Jesus, etc.
Constantly posting bald-faced lies on social media. Like this obvious falsehood from a satire site that explicitly says everything on their site is completely false. Or this obviously photoshopped and false comparison.
Shamelessly sells overpriced garbage to his sycophantic supporters like idiotic $99 “digital trading cards” and $60 “Trump bibles”.
Unilaterally destroyed the White House East Wing to build a ballroom almost twice as big as the White House itself, without congressional approval or any of the required oversight or lawfully required reviews, and using private money (in an obvious conflict of interest).
DHS spends $108MM on Noem's “ICE Barbie Airliner”.
His border wall was an obvious grift and is falling apart because it’s a piece of shit, being destroyed by monsoon rains. As a desert resident, I remind everyone that monsoon is not a special type of storm, just the name for the desert rainy season. So these wall sections are disintegrating due to plain old heavy rainfall.
Spends an insane amount of time golfing on the taxpayers’ dime. Or, at least he did until his recent health decline (probably a serious stroke).
Ends the IRS direct electronic filing option, because heaven forbid people be allowed to pay their taxes without additional fees.
Threatens 6 Democrat members of congress with execution for simply stating that service members should obey the law.
Believes idiotic conspiracy theories and blames Biden/Dems for everything, including stuff that happened when he was president.
Constantly naming things after himself including a new class of warship, the Kennedy Center and the U.S. Institute of Peace. Put his picture on National Parks Pass.
Makes constant random threats which he usually chickens out on (“TACO”), forcing everyone to react to his madness while alienating almost all of our allies.
Throws a typical tantrum and insanely threatens to block the new Detroit-Windsor bridge from opening, even though Canada paid for all of it (because we couldn’t get our funding figured out). In typical Trump fashion, he makes multiple blatant lies during this tantrum, including that “virtually no U.S. material was used” (U.S. steel and steel-workers were used), that “Canada owns both sides of the bridge” (Ownership is shared between Canada and Michigan) and blaming Obama for “stupidly” approving the project (former Conservative MP Jeff Watson points out “construction began in earnest in your [Trump’s] first term as President … Back then you called for expeditious construction” of the bridge.)
Unleashing ICE as a gestapo force, operating in a lawless manner using masks and hiding their identities.
ICE murders a woman in Minneapolis, then DHS and Trump spout obvious lies about it being self-defense. And it was definitely not self-defense.
ICE murders VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti in cold blood in MN. He was legally concealed carrying. Multiple camera angles clearly show he was not fighting, nor did he draw his weapon at any point. He was clearly using his phone to record the ICE encounter, which was in public.
ICE again ignoring courts and the constitution by lying that citizens cannot record them in public, then threatening and even detaining them for doing so.
ICE officers routinely wearing masks and no ID, while roaming in packs and violating people’s rights with impunity. Their gestapo tactics include but are not limited to: using explosives to blow the door off of a home with children inside, emerging from unmarked vehicles with weapons drawn, shooting into a family vehicle, and grabbing people off of the street and putting them into unmarked vehicles.
US citizen and US Army Iraq War veteran George Retes Jr. recounts how he was illegally taken by ICE and detained for 3 days in jail with no access to a lawyer, no phone call, and no showers so that he was unable to wash the burning pepper spray off his skin (with overhead video evidence). Obvious civil rights violations.
Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months.
ICE uses lights to block video recording while detaining woman with legal green card.
ICE officers routinely threaten people for doing nothing wrong, like this. Or this.
War on the Environment:
Continues to promote coal, despite the fact that it is the dirtiest fuel available and is incredibly hazardous to the health of miners.
Unilaterally suspends all work on offshore wind farms, costing thousands of jobs and much needed energy production.
Constantly lies about wind power.
Exempts oil & gas companies from endangered species act.
One Big Beautiful Bill means American taxpayers will be paying billions more per year in subsidies to fossil fuel industries.
Blatant Racism:
Posts video of Obamas as apes and doesn’t apologize.
Is on a war to erase the history of any non-white males:
Removes picture of Harriet Tubman (too woke?).
Replacing the instantly recognizable and beautiful traditional presidential livery on all executive government planes with his gaudy/hideous “Trump Force One” livery.
Accepted an obvious bribe from Qatar in the form of a $400MM 747 that he is repurposing as the new Air Force One. He also insists the plane will move to his presidential library (i.e. it will become his) after his presidency, which is illegal.
Falsely accused Iran (without evidence) of committing the American military strike that destroyed an elementary school and killed ~175 people (mostly children).
Falsely (and without evidence) claimed the January 2025 Washington D.C. plane crash was caused by DEI initiatives, even though all the pilots were white.
More evidence that his tax cuts for the wealthy are hurting middle & lower-class people, especially in red states: “Big Beautiful Bill” Is Hitting Republican States Hard.
Threatens Iran with destroying their desalination plants, cutting off access to water to tens of millions. This is a war crime, as is the act of making this threat.
Continued extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean & Pacific that have killed at least 178 with no evidence any of the victims were involved in narcoterrorism.
Fired all 22 members of NSF science advisory board with no explanation. This after he did the same with the advisory committee on immunization.
Putting his ugly face on U.S. passports (almost no countries put head-of-state portraits on passports). Putting his signature on U.S. currency (no previous sitting presidents have done this).
Iran War Idiocy:
Trump tells aides he is willing to end Iran war without reopening Strait of Hormuz (which was never closed until he started this war on a whim).
Virtually stopping a fifth of global liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, along with a third of crude oil and fertiliser exports, two-fifths of helium exports, and nearly half of sulphur exports that flowed through Strait of Hormuz.
War is hurting our allies energy infrastructure. Damage to Kuwaiti power and desalination plant.
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had” says Trump.
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