

IN JUNE 2020, Amanda Carpenter compiled a timeline of Trump outrages titled ā100 Reasons Trump Is Unfit to Be President.ā
Itās time for an update.
Since then, Trump has added to the list almost beyond enumeration. Chronicling just Trumpās behavior from November 3, 2020 to January 6, 2021 might have yielded more than 100 already familiar offenses. The endless drumbeat of lies about a āstolenā or āriggedā election, the scramble to seat false electors in multiple states, the attempt to strong-arm Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger into overturning the stateās election results, and finally the incitement of a riot at the Capitol in a last-ditch attempt to stop the certification of the voteāall have been extensively documented. Instead, weāll start the timeline with Trumpās departure from the White House.
1. January 20, 2021. Trump left the White House, becoming only the fifth president in U.S. historyāthe first since 1869āto snub his successorās inauguration, and ordered dozens of boxes containing classified documents moved to his Mar-a-Lago estate in violation of the Presidential Records Act.
2. March 1, 2021. In his first public remarks since leaving the White Houseāa speech at the Conservative Political Action ConferenceāTrump repeated the Big Lie about the 2020 election and announced a vendetta against Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach him in the House and convict him in the Senate.
3. March-May 2021. Boxes with classified documents were moved around Mar-a-Lago in highly accessible areas, with some taken to Trumpās home in Bedminster, New Jersey. In May, the National Archives began asking Trump to turn over the presidential records in his possession (he did not comply until January 2022).
4. April 10, 2021. In an address to Republican National Committee donors in Florida, Trump ranted about election theft and Republican disloyalty, calling Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a ādumb son a bitch.ā
5. July 12, 2021. On Fox News, Trump described the January 6th insurrection as āa lovefestā between his supporters and the Capitol Police, praising Ashli Babbittāthe rioter fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer while trying to reach an area where House members and staffers were shelteringāas āan innocent, wonderfulā woman.
6. June 2021. Trump privately urged Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks to push for an election ādo-overā to reinstall him as president.
7. July-September, 2021. At least twice, Trump allegedly showed military-related classified documents to individuals with no security clearance.
8. October 11, 2021. After the officer who shot Babbitt had been cleared of wrongdoing, Trump recorded a video tribute to Babbitt, demanding a re-investigation.
9. February 23, 2022. As Vladimir Putin formally recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk Peopleās Republics, the Kremlin-controlled Ukrainian separatist enclaves, and sent in Russian troops in a prelude to the full invasion of Ukraine, Trump praised the move as āgeniusā and āpretty savvy.ā (Three days later, he deplored the invasion but blamed President Joe Biden.)
10. May 13, 2022. Trump assailed a bipartisan bill to send $40 billion worth of aid to Ukraine.
11. May 23, 2022. After lawyers advised Trump to comply with a subpoena for remaining classified documents, he allegedly proposed lying that he had none left.
12. August 6, 2022. At CPAC, Trump dismissed the plot to kidnap and possibly kill Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 as a āfake dealā by the FBIāājust like those who instigated January 6.ā
13. August 8, 2022. The FBI seized more than 100 classified documents in a search at Mar-a-Lago after Trumpās legal team asserted that no such items remained there; Trump denounced the search as āan attack by Radical Left Democrats.ā
14. September 1, 2022. Trump told a right-wing radio host that if elected, he would issue āfull pardons with an apologyā to many January 6th rioters.
15. November 1, 2022. After an intruder attacked then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosiās husband Paul Pelosi with a hammer, Trump made comments winking at salacious right-wing conspiracy theories that the attack stemmed from a loversā quarrel between the victim and the assailant.
16. November 22, 2022. Trump dined at Mar-a-Lago with notorious white supremacist, Holocaust denier, and antisemite Nick Fuentesābrought as a guest by another antisemite, rapper Kanye (āYeā) West.
17. December 4, 2022. Trump asserted that the alleged āMassive Fraudā in the 2020 election āallows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.ā
18. March 7, 2023. āI am your retribution,ā Trump told CPAC in a speech in which he promised to use the military to carry out mass deportations of illegal immigrants.
19. March 25, 2023. Trump opened the first major rally of his 2024 presidential campaign in Waco, Texas with āJustice for Allāāa recording of āThe Star-Spangled Bannerā sung by imprisoned January 6th rioters.
20. April 3, 2023. Trump became the first current or former president to be criminally indicted. The charges concerned falsifying business records to hide hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
21. April 13, 2023. Trump promised āsweeping civil rights investigations into Marxist local District Attorneysā linked to billionaire George Soros.
22. May 9, 2023. A Manhattan jury found Trump civilly liable for sexual abuse and defamation toward writer E. Jean Carroll.
23. May 10, 2023. Trump commented on the verdict on a CNN town hall by calling Carroll a āwhack job.ā
24. June 9, 2023. After the Justice Department unsealed a federal indictment of Trump on 37 felony counts in the classified documents case, Trump portrayed it as a plot to āsteal a presidential election.ā (He later claimed to have āwonā the case after Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, dismissed it on a dubious technicality; appeals are ongoing.)
25. June 27, 2023. CNN aired an audio recording in which Trump appeared to be showing military-related classified documents to people without clearances.
26. July 16, 2023. Trump claimed he could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours by using military aid as leverage to pressure both Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to āmake a dealāāin practice, strong-arming Ukraine into a bad and temporary peace.
27. August 14, 2023. Trump was indicted by an Atlanta grand jury for a scheme to reverse the stateās 2020 presidential vote.
28. September 17, 2023. Trump marked the Jewish New year by posting a flier taunting āliberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel.ā
29. September 22, 2023. Trump suggested that outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley should have been executed for treason (or at least would have been executed āin times gone byā). He was commenting on reports that Milley had called Chinese military leaders after the January 6th riot, with administration officialsā knowledge, to allay worries about a possible U.S. attack.
30. September 26, 2023. Trump was found liable for business fraud in a civil case in New York for inflating the value of his properties.
31. September 27, 2023. Trump asserted that disease-carrying immigrants were āpoisoning the blood of our country,ā drawing a strong condemnation from the Anti-Defamation League.
32. September 29, 2023. At the California Republican convention, Trump made more snarky comments about the hammer attack on Pelosiās husband.
33. September 29, 2023. Trump suggested that his administration would stop āpillaging and theftā at stores by encouraging law enforcement to shoot shoplifters.
34. November 11, 2023. In a Veterans Day speech, Trump pledged to āroot out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections.ā
35. December 5, 2023. In a Fox News appearance before a live audience in Iowa, Trump told Sean Hannity (twice) that he wanted to be āa dictator,ā though only on āday one.ā
36. December 9, 2023. At a New York Republican event, Trump told former administration official and āstop the stealā backer Kash Patel to āget readyā for a new administration jobāfour days after Patel threatened to ācome afterā Trumpās enemies in government and the media.
37. December 16, 2023. Trump reprised the theme of immigrants āpoisoning the blood of our countryā at a rally and online.
38. December 19, 2023: Trump became the first ever presidential candidate to be ruled an insurrectionist by a court when the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that he was ineligible for the presidential ballot because the 14th Amendment barred insurrectionists from holding public office.
39. January 8, 2024. Trump returned to his political roots as a promoter of racist ābirtherā conspiracy theoriesāboosting a far-right bloggerās claim that Nikki Haley, a U.S.-born daughter of Indian immigrants, was not a ānatural born citizenā because her parents were not U.S. citizens when she was born.
40. January 16, 2024. Trump lambasted NBC and CNN for not airing enough of his Iowa victory speech and suggested their broadcasting licenses should be ātaken away.ā
41. January 26, 2024. In a second case related to E. Jean Carrollās rape accusation, a New York jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $83.3 million in damages for defamation.
42. February 7, 2024. Trump strong-armed Senate Republicans into killing a bipartisan bill that included border security funding and aid to Ukraine.
43. February 10, 2024. At a rally, Trump bragged about threatening the head of a NATO country that he would give Russia a green light to ādo whatever the hell they wantā to any member nation that was behind on its ābills.ā (NATO members are obligated to spend a percentage of their GDP on defense, not pay ābillsā to the organization. Also, Trump probably did not actually threaten a specific NATO leader.)
44. February 16, 2024. A federal judge ordered Trump to pay $355 million in civil penalties for business fraud.
45. February 20, 2024. In a Fox News town hall, Trump commented on the death of Russian political prisoner Alexei Navalny by comparing his own legal troubles to Navalnyās persecution. He refrained from criticizing Putin.
46. March 2, 2024. Trump started using āToo Big to Rigā as a campaign slogan, telling supporters a landslide was needed to overcome cheating by the Democrats.
47. March 15, 2024. In an appearance on Fox News, former Vice President Mike Pence announced that he āwill not be endorsing Donald Trump.ā
48. March 16, 2024. At an Ohio rally, Trump referred to jailed January 6th insurrectionists as āhostagesā and āpatriots.ā He had earlier pledged to āfreeā them as one of his first acts in office.
49. March 18, 2024. In an interview, Trump said that Jews who vote for Democrats hate their religion and Israel.
50. March 29, 2024. Trump shared a video featuring a pickup truck with pro-Trump signs and a decal of Joe Biden tied up in the back.
51. April 12, 2024. In a post endorsing a MAGA Republican challenger to GOP Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington, who had voted to impeach Trump after January 6th, Trump slammed Newhouse as a āweak and pathetic RINO.ā
52. April 30, 2024. In a Time interview, Trump refused to promise to concede if he lost the election and suggested that 2020 election denial would be a litmus test for a job in his administration.
53. May 5, 2024. Trump told donors at a private gathering that Joe Biden was running a āGestapo administration,ā adding, āItās the only way theyāre going to win.ā
54. May 21, 2024. On Truth Social, Trump amplified the deranged accusation that Biden had approved his assassination during the August 2022 search of Mar-a-Lagoāwhere Trump was not present at the timeābecause the warrant authorized the FBI to use deadly force in self-defense or in defense of others, in accordance with standard procedure. He called Biden āA SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACYā and called for his removal as āMENTALLY UNFIT.ā
55. May 27, 2024. Trump wished a āHappy Memorial Day to All, including the Human Scum that is working so hard to destroy our Once Great Countryā and to the āRadical Leftā judge in the E. Jean Carroll trials.
56. May 31, 2024. Trump became the first president convicted of a felony when the jury in the hush money case returned guilty verdicts on 34 counts.
57. June 15, 2024. At a Turning Point USA conference, Trump derided Zelensky as āthe greatest salesman . . . every time he comes to our country, he walks away with $60 billion.ā He falsely claimed that the Ukrainian president had ājust leftā with such an aid package.
58. June 25, 2024. In an interview, Trump suggested that he might not defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion, saying that āTaiwan should pay us for defenseā as one would pay āan insurance company.ā
59. July 22, 2024. The day after Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid and endorsed Kamala Harris, Trump called Harris āDumb as a Rock.ā
60. July 24, 2024. Trump pledged to defund public schools that mandate vaccinesāseemingly not only COVID-19 shots but standard childhood vaccinations, too.
61. July 26, 2024. In a speech to the Turning Point Action Believersā Summit, Trump reprised the āToo Big to Rigā theme and promised to āfixā everything so that Christians will need to vote ājust this one timeā and then never need to again.
62. July 31, 2024. In an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists, Trump berated an interviewer for a ānasty questionā and said that Harris (who is biracial) was āalways of Indian heritageā until she āhappened to turn black.ā
63. August 1, 2024. After a prisoner exchange with Russia in which three U.S. nationals (including reporter Evan Gershkovich) were brought home, Trump mocked the swap as a bad deal and falsely claimed that as president, he āgot back many hostages, and gave the opposing country NOTHING.ā
64. August 3, 2024. The Washington Post reported that of the 42 people who served in Trumpās cabinet, only 24 endorsed him.
65. August 8, 2024. Trump may have set a record for lies per minute in an hour-long news conference. While some of the 162 lies and distortions counted by National Public Radio were nebulous, vague statements, many were provable liesāe.g., that at least 20 million people had illegally crossed the border under the Biden/Harris administration, or that Harris replacing Biden on the Democratic ticket was unconstitutional.
66. August 8, 2024. At the same event, Trump repeatedly derided Harris as ābarely competentā and ānot smart enough to do a news conference,ā falsely stating that she had failed the California bar exam (like many applicants, she had passed on the second try).
67. August 11, 2024. Trump flogged a far-right conspiracy theory that a large crowd at a Harris rally in Michigan was a computer-generated fake.
68. August 22, 2024. Trump responded to Harrisās Democratic National Committee speech with frenzied posts about Hunter Biden, āCrooked Joe,ā and āComrade Kamala Harris.ā
69. August 26, 2024. Attending a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery at the invitation of some family members of soldiers killed in the withdrawal from Afghanistan, Trump brought a photographer and videographer in violation of cemetery rules; a cemetery staffer who objected was shoved and verbally abused.
70. September 7, 2024. Repeating the Big Lie about the 2020 election, Trump accused the Democrats of ārampant Cheatingā and threatened ālong prison termsā for political operatives, donors, and āCorrupt Election Officials . . . involved in unscrupulous behavior.ā
71. September 10, 2024. In his disastrous debate with Harris, Trump recycled a far-right hoax about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio eating local residentsā dogs and cats.
72. September 10, 2024. During the debate, Trump also refused to acknowledge losing the 2020 election.
73. September 10, 2024. Also during the debate, Trump blamed the Democrats and Harris herself for provoking his attempted assassination by accusing him of endangering democracy. (The shooter was a mentally unstable young man with no apparent political agenda.)
74. September 11, 2024. Trump told Fox News the debate was āriggedā by the moderatorsā fact-checking and added that ABC should be stripped of its broadcasting license.
75. September 11, 2024. Trump appeared at a September 11 memorial event in the company of far-right freak Laura Loomer, who had previously pushed āinside jobā 9/11 conspiracy theories and posted a racist tirade about Harrisās Indian heritage.
76. September 13, 2024. Trump threatened to cut federal disaster funds for California wildfires unless Gov. Gavin Newsom (āNewscumā) changed the stateās environmental policies limiting water deliveries to farmers.
77. September 16, 2024. After a gunman was found hiding near Trumpās golf course, Trump again accused Democrats of ācausing [him] to be shot atā with rhetoric depicting him as a threat to democracyāwhile also accusing the Democrats of ādestroying the country.ā
78. September 19, 2024. Speaking to two conservative Jewish groups in Washington, D.C., Trump not only warned that Israel will be āwiped off the face of the earthā if he loses but suggested that Jews āvoting for the enemyā would bear much of the blame for his loss.
79. September 24, 2024. After Zelenskyās visit to a Pennsylvania munitions factory, Trump ratcheted up his derision of the Ukrainian president at a Georgia rally and claimed Russia was unbeatable. (After conciliatory efforts from Zelensky, the two met on September 27.)
80. September 29, 2024. At a rally in Pennsylvania, Trump suggested āone really violent dayā of policing as a solution to property crime.
81. September 30, 2024. After Hurricane Helene hit several Southern states, Trump falsely claimed that President Biden was āsleepingā and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp had been unable to get through to himāeven after Kemp confirmed a call with Biden. Trump claimed baselessly that the federal government was withholding help from āpeople in Republican areas.ā
82. October 1, 2024. Trump, who had repeatedly questioned Bidenās age and mental fitness, gave two rambling speeches in Wisconsin in which he mixed up words, confused Iran with North Korea, compared the Israel/Iran conflict to ātwo kids fighting in the schoolyard,ā and warned against immigrants from the African country of Congo while adding, āI donāt know what that is.ā
83. October 3, 2024. At a rally in Michigan, Trump falsely claimed that āKamala spent all her FEMA money, billions of dollars, on . . . illegal immigrants that they want to have vote for them this season.ā
84. October 3, 2024. Trump asserted that Biden and Harris were āuniversally being given POOR GRADESā for their handling of the hurricaneāeven though the federal response had been praised by Republican governors including Kemp and Virginiaās Glenn Youngkin.
85. October 5, 2024. At a Pennsylvania rally, Trump falsely asserted that the federal government was giving just $750 to hurricane survivors who had lost homes (thatās only an upfront payment for immediate needs).
86. October 8, 2024. Reports about Bob Woodwardās about-to-be-released book, War, claimed that Trump had repeatedly spoken to Putin on the phone since leaving office, as recently as early 2024. āIf I did, itās a smart thing,ā Trump said a few days later, adding that āRussia has never had a president that they respect so much.ā
87. October 10, 2024. Trump ranted about CBS editing a Harris interview for 60 Minutes, supposedly to hide a āCRAZY, OR DUMBā answer (previously aired on Face the Nation). āTAKE AWAY THE CBS LICENSE,ā he wrote, while also suggesting that the Democrats āshould be forced to concede the Election.ā
88. October 11ā12, 2024. At a rally in Aurora, Colorado, Trump repeated claims (debunked by local Republican officials) that the city had been āinvaded and conqueredā by a Venezuelan migrant gang and referred to the United States as an āoccupied state.ā He promised to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798āwhich applies to nationals of countries with which the United States is at warāto summarily deport suspected members of drug cartels and gangs. He repeated his points about the United States being āan occupied countryā at a rally in Coachella, California the next day.
89. October 12, 2024. Also at the Coachella event, Trump mocked a heckler by suggesting that she would āget the hell knocked out of herā by her pro-Trump mother.
90. October 13, 2024. In a Fox News interview, Trump said that any election-related violence would not come from his supporters or foreign subversives, but from āthe enemy from withinā (āradical left lunaticsā) and suggested that they could be handled by the National Guard or even the military.
91. October 14, 2024. After two attendees at a Pennsylvania town hall had medical issues, Trump abruptly decided not to take more questions and told his staff to play music from his favorite playlist. He spent nearly 40 minutes swaying on the stage, causing some to question his mental acuity.
92. October 17, 2024. Trump continued to rant online about stripping CBS of its license for the supposed falsification of the Harris interview. He also asserted that āKamala should be investigated and forced off the campaign, and Joe Biden allowed to take back his rightful place.ā
93. October 17, 2024. In a podcast interview, Trump not only blamed Biden for having āinstigated the warā in Ukraine but also suggested that Zelensky āshould never have let that war startā; he also made more snarky comments about Zelenskyās skill at extracting money from the United States.
94. October 18, 2024. Asked about favorite presidents on Fox & Friends, Trump mentioned Abraham Lincoln but then mused, āWhy wasnāt that settled? . . . It doesnāt make sense we had a Civil War.ā Itās hard to say whatās more disturbing: Trumpās ignorance of American history or the implication that Lincoln should have done more to accommodate slave owners (just as Zelensky should have done more to accommodate Putin?).
95. October 18, 2024. Also on Fox & Friends, Trump affirmed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who backed him after ending his own candidacy, would be in his administration. RFK Jr., an anti-vaccine crackpot and conspiracy theorist, has claimed that Trump asked him to tackle corruption and health and that he would help pick leaders of healthcare-related federal agencies.
96. October 19, 2024. In a campaign stop at a Pennsylvania airport named after the late golfing legend Arnold Palmer, Trump launched into a bizarre riff about how well-endowed Palmer supposedly was.
97. October 20, 2024. In an appearance on Fox News, Trump was asked about his comments on āthe enemy from withinā against whom he had suggested deploying the military. He reiterated the claim that such domestic āenemiesā were more dangerous than foreign adversariesāand specifically named California Democrats Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi. Trump also stood his ground on the Springfield pet-eating story and defended the January 6th āprotestā as an event filled with ābeautyā and ālove.ā
98. October 21, 2024. Visiting storm-battered North Carolina, Trump resumed attacks on federal emergency responders (who were already concerned about being targeted by far-right militias). He also repeated claimsāearlier debunked by the Republican House members standing right next to himāthat hurricane relief had been hampered because FEMA was doing too much for migrants.
99. October 22, 2024. ABC News reported that Trump was considering Judge Aileen Cannon, who had controversially dismissed the classified documents case against him after drawing criticism with her earlier rulings in the case, for attorney general.
100. October 22, 2024. John Kelly, retired Marine general and former secretary of homeland security and White House chief of staff in the Trump administration, went on the record to confirm Trumpās long-reported remarks calling fallen American soldiers āsuckersā and ālosersā and admiring Hitlerās generals. He also recalled Trump saying that āHitler did some good thingsāāand expressed the view that Trumpās authoritarian leanings and admiration for dictators āfalls into the general definition of fascist.ā
101. October 22, 2024. Trumpās former national security adviser John Bolton questioned the āfascistā labelābut only because he thinks Trump lacks the mental capacity to have any political philosophy. Bolton suggested instead focusing on Trumpās actual behavior and the dangers of his presidency.