50 Reasons

He tried to overturn an election he lost: fake elector slates in seven states, pressure on state officials to "find" votes, and a mob at the Capitol when his vice president refused to go along. No losing candidate in modern history did any of these things.

On day one he pardoned roughly 1,500 January 6 defendants, including leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy, and his Justice Department later moved to erase those convictions from the record.

He signed an order inserting the federal government into mail voting. Courts have blocked it repeatedly; the judge overseeing the cases noted the administration offered no evidence of mail-ballot fraud, against an "overwhelming risk of pervasive disenfranchisement."

He told supporters Republicans should "nationalize the voting" in cities he named, then denied using the word on camera two days later.

His FBI announced arrests over the 2020 election and sent agents to the homes of Wisconsin election officials over claims debunked years ago.

Under his administration, the V-Dem Institute, the world’s largest democracy-measurement project, downgraded the United States to an "electoral autocracy."

His Justice Department’s election monitors drew their first sustained complaint from a Republican governor, who asked his own attorney general to investigate their conduct. Roughly 1,000 monitors are planned for November.

He named the people he wanted prosecuted. Prosecutors who refused were replaced, and James Comey was indicted a second time, over an Instagram photo of seashells.

FBI personnel describe an internal team they call the "payback squad" building cases against his perceived enemies, and his FBI director arrived with an enemies list.

His Justice Department brought an eleven-count fraud indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, freezing the group’s extremism-tracking work while the case proceeds.

He fired 17 inspectors general at once, without the notice to Congress the law requires. A court ruled the manner of the firings unlawful.

A federal judge ruled this August that his Pentagon’s blacklisting of a company that criticized the government was illegal First Amendment retaliation: "The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics."

A federal appeals court panel that included two of his own appointees ruled that his executive orders "are not law."

He has used the pardon power as patronage: a convicted Ponzi schemer, and the first presidential pardons of corporations in American history, for crypto firms.

He sued the IRS he controls for $10 billion. His own Justice Department settled with him: a $1.776 billion fund for his allies and a document barring the IRS from auditing his family. A federal judge voided the whole arrangement, ruling the suit was "filed for an improper purpose," and referred his lawyer to the bar.

His accounts made more than 3,700 stock trades in a single quarter, up to $750 million worth, while he set the tariff, contract, and enforcement policies that move those stocks. Presidents are exempt from the criminal conflict-of-interest statute that binds every other executive-branch official.

He bought up to $5 million of Axon stock two weeks before ICE posted a $220 million Taser contract that procurement experts said was written so only Axon could win it.

His brokers began buying private-prison stock on the tenth day of his term. His detention policies then drove GEO Group’s profits up nearly 700 percent.

He bought Boeing stock the same day Boeing won an $880 million Navy contract. The disclosure system reports ranges monthly, so the public cannot establish which came first.

A $1.2 billion federal settlement to cancel offshore wind sent $900 million to a firm run by a donor who gave $1 million to his inauguration and owns a mansion near Mar-a-Lago.

He launched a meme coin, renamed the Kennedy Center after himself (a federal judge ruled it illegal), and put his face on the national parks pass.

He launched it after his own Director of National Intelligence testified there was no imminent threat.

Congress voted against authorizing the war. It continued anyway.

American strikes hit schools: roughly 175 people killed at a girls’ school in Minab, most of them children, and an untested missile used on another. He lied about the first.

The Pentagon concealed American casualty numbers, and survivors of one attack contradicted the Defense Secretary’s public account, calling the deaths preventable.

The war drained U.S. weapons stockpiles to levels a defense official called "beyond critical," while gas passed $4 and the disclosed cost climbed toward a $200 billion supplemental.

On one of the war’s worst nights, he said of Iran: "the whole civilization will die tonight."

He ordered the Pentagon to prepare a resumption of nuclear weapons testing, and let New START expire, leaving the world’s two largest arsenals without limits for the first time in fifty years.

The United States lost its measles elimination status after 25 years. Children have died. When Pennsylvania reported its first measles deaths in 35 years, his Health Secretary suggested they may have been "fabricated" by a governor’s staffer.

His Health Secretary removed childhood vaccines from federal recommendations and fired all 17 members of the vaccine advisory committee. A federal court voided the changes as "arbitrary and capricious."

He cancelled $500 million in mRNA vaccine research and a $590 million bird-flu vaccine contract during an active outbreak that had already killed someone.

More than 20,000 federal health workers are gone, and the FDA’s ability to find the source of foodborne outbreaks fell from 77 percent to 36 percent.

His Health Secretary told senators his 2019 Samoa trip had "nothing to do with vaccines." His own letter to Samoa’s prime minister asked to study the country’s MMR vaccine. Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, whose vote confirmed him: "The commitments that were made to me have been violated."

He rolled back the first national drinking-water limits on PFAS, chemicals in the water of roughly 100 million Americans, and killed the federal heat rule for outdoor workers.

Whooping cough cases rose tenfold as vaccination rates fell. At least a dozen infants have died.

He said ICE would target "the worst of the worst." By July 2026, most people ICE arrested had no criminal record at all, by the government’s own data. The libertarian Cato Institute found 73 percent of detainees had no criminal convictions.

Deaths in ICE custody reached a 20-year high, while the administration closed the detention oversight office, gave ICE discretion over releasing body-camera footage, and, under an acting director who is a former private-prison executive, stopped reporting deaths of people who die just after release.

American citizens have been detained and deported, including citizen children, one of them a four-year-old with late-stage cancer sent to Honduras without medication.

He revoked the legal status of roughly 1.5 to 1.8 million people who came to the country lawfully and followed every rule.

His first term separated more than 5,500 children from their parents, some permanently.

ICE has detained the families of American service members, including the father of a sailor who was deployed at the time, and more than 50 spouses and parents of active-duty troops.

ICE bought 6,000 electric shock gloves in a no-bid contract, for use on people "actively or passively resisting," with listed scenarios that include protesters.

The Pentagon moved to fire the leadership of Stars and Stripes one day after the paper reported on conditions aboard a deployed aircraft carrier. The publisher who refused to fire his journalists was pushed out too.

U.S. Central Command kept a secret directory of blacklisted journalists.

His FCC opened a review of Disney’s broadcast licenses after a late-night joke about the First Lady.

His administration denied green cards over lawful political speech.

Thirty lawmakers, and MAGA figures including Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alex Jones, have publicly raised the 25th Amendment.

He called the only Black woman ever to sit on the Supreme Court a "low IQ person," part of a documented pattern of attacking Black women’s intelligence.

His administration spent more than a year quietly pressuring the Park Service to hand a strip of Yosemite to a private developer, and secretly helped write the public-lands sell-off pitch it publicly denied. The people who stopped the sell-off were largely hunters and Republicans.

He fired the Army chief of staff in the middle of a war, once suggested the country’s top general deserved execution, and serving officers describe facing a choice between disobeying orders and committing war crimes.