Stupidity, Cruelty, Hatred: WTF Edition

By Michael Woyton

How much stupidity, hatred and cruelty can one administration foist on this country and the world?

It seems to be limitless, coming from the ever-diminishing mind of president donald j. trump* and his clown-shoe wearing band of merry sycophants.

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Here are a few examples:

During his Watergate downfall, President Richard Nixon talked to portraits on the walls of the White House.

The current grifter-in-chief thinks he talks to former presidents.

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The convicted felon/adjudicated rapist called California Gov. Gavin Newsom “president of the United States.”

Trump: Gavin Newscum has admitted that he is that he has learning disabilities. I think a president should not have learning disabilities. The president of the United States, Gavin Newscum, admitted that he has learning disabilities, dyslexia, everything about him is dumb

Headquarters (@headquartersnews.bsky.social) 2026-03-16T21:05:44.245Z

And we won’t even talk about this person calling someone else “dumb.”

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Smiley McSmilesallthetime says hurting consumers is the “last of our concerns right now.”

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-17T11:52:59.676Z

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This makes one wonder if the Mar-a-Lago makeup man signed an EO that cruelty is a feature not a bug in any directives.

Floating the notion of ending lifesaving drugs to blackmail a country over its minerals?

The State Department is considering ending Zambia’s HIV aid to force it to give the U.S. more access to its minerals. Some 1.3 million people in the country rely on daily HIV treatment provided through a decades-old U.S. aid program. nyti.ms/4rzh8fE

The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2026-03-17T00:50:03.901135Z

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I guess massive tariffs, insults and threats just don’t carry as much diplomatic weight as they never did.

Guess insulting our allies and using tariffs as a bullying tactics has repercussions.Imagine that.

MJdowntheshore (@mjdowntheshore.bsky.social) 2026-03-16T17:38:55.385Z

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* I’m following what the wannabe king declared on social media that he will only refer to the Supreme Court in lowercase because he has a complete lack of respect for them after the illegal tariffs ruling.

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Published by Michael Woyton

Michael Woyton is an award-winning journalist who covered municipalities and school districts for the Poughkeepsie (NY) Journal and local and regional news in the Hudson Valley for Patch Media.

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