Trump is sick Archives

Donald Trump has added plaques to his “Presidential Walk of Fame,”
He penned them himself, with two to accommodate his self-acclaim.
Caroline Leavitt calls him a “student of history,”
Though where he get his “facts” remains a mystery;
They’re just the rantings of a weak old man playing the same old blame game.

No, the President Can’t ‘Be Presidential’

December 16, 2025 Buck Banks

“I’d expect to hear something like this from a drunk guy at a bar, not the President of the United States. Can the president be presidential?”

— Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), on CNN, talking about President Trump’s reaction to the murder of filmmaker Rob Reiner.

Massie Calls Out GOP Over Trump’s Comments About Reiner Murder

December 16, 2025 Buck Banks

“Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered. I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the VP, and White House staff will just ignore it because they’re afraid? I challenge anyone to defend it.”

— Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), on X.

Trump Balks at Walk Talk

August 25, 2025September 1, 2025 Buck Banks

Maryland Governor Wes Moore can sure talk the talk,
But his invite to Donald Trump made the old man balk.
You’d think Moore had committed sacrilege
The way Trump threatened to defund his bridge,
But Moore just invited Trump to take a public safety walk.

One Pound Away from Obesity

January 18, 2018 Buck Banks

1 lb.

Slate notes one result from President Trump’s medical exam “was conspicuously abnormal: the president’s body mass index. … At 6’3” and 239 pounds, Trump’s BMI is 29.9, exactly 0.1 units shy of one big league distinction: obesity. Remarkably, the president was found to be exactly 1 pound lighter than a weight that would have pushed him over the edge to receive the diagnosis of obesity. Similarly, if he were merely 1/10 of an inch shorter, he would also be considered obese.”

Americans Split on Trump’s Stability

January 18, 2018 Buck Banks

45% to 47%

A new Quinnipiac poll finds American voters disapprove of the job President Trump is doing, 57% to 38%. Key finding: “Wide gender, racial and political gaps leave American voters divided on whether Trump is ‘mentally stable,’ as 45% say he is stable and 47% say he is not stable.”

Most Find Trump’s Behavior Alarming

August 28, 2017 Buck Banks

71%

A new George Washington University Battleground Poll finds there is widespread national concern about President Trump’s public discourse and behavior. Key finding: The survey found that 71% of voters agreed his “behavior is not what I expect from a president” (27% disagreed), and 68% agreed his “words and actions could get us accidentally involved in an international conflict” (29% disagreed). Also striking: Almost two-thirds (63%) of the registered voters polled said the country is on the wrong track, and a majority (56%) had an unfavorable view of President Trump (41% favorable).

Trump Thanks Putin for Expelling Diplomatic Staff

August 11, 2017 Buck Banks

“I’m very thankful that he let go of a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll.”

— U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, thanking Russian President Vladimir Putin for ordering the United States to slash its diplomatic staff in Russia, breaking nearly two weeks of silence on Putin’s July 30 order cutting U.S. embassy and consulate staff by nearly two thirds, Reuters reports.

Majority of Americans Think Trump has Mental Problems

May 19, 2017 Buck Banks

56%

A new SurveyUSA poll finds that 56% of Americans (including 1 in 4 Republicans) say President Trump “sometimes loses touch with reality.” Also interesting: 37% say Trump “is unable to distinguish between what is true and what is made up.”

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Most Loathsome President Ever

— Bret Stephens

Factless, Partisan Plaques

No, the President Can’t ‘Be Presidential’

“I’d expect to hear something like this from a drunk guy at a bar, not the President of the United States. Can the president be presidential?”

— Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), on CNN, talking about President Trump’s reaction to the murder of filmmaker Rob Reiner.

Massie Calls Out GOP Over Trump’s Comments About Reiner Murder

“Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered. I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the VP, and White House staff will just ignore it because they’re afraid? I challenge anyone to defend it.”

— Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), on X.

Trump Balks at Walk Talk

One Pound Away from Obesity

1 lb.

Americans Split on Trump’s Stability

45% to 47%

A new Quinnipiac poll finds American voters disapprove of the job President Trump is doing, 57% to 38%. Key finding: “Wide gender, racial and political gaps leave American voters divided on whether Trump is ‘mentally stable,’ as 45% say he is stable and 47% say he is not stable.”

Most Find Trump’s Behavior Alarming

71%

Trump Thanks Putin for Expelling Diplomatic Staff

“I’m very thankful that he let go of a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll.”

Majority of Americans Think Trump has Mental Problems

56%

A new SurveyUSA poll finds that 56% of Americans (including 1 in 4 Republicans) say President Trump “sometimes loses touch with reality.” Also interesting: 37% say Trump “is unable to distinguish between what is true and what is made up.”

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

“I think it’s embarrassing, still, even more so. I mean, sure, like, take care of yourself, get healthy, but who gets to take four months off of work because they’re sad?”

— Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) called Rep. Tom Kean Jr’s (R-NJ) explanation on Tuesday for his prolonged absence from Congress “embarrassing” in an interview with TMZ, Mediaite reports.

Numerati

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.

$3.81 billion

53%

A new Cato Institute poll found that only 53% of Americans could correctly identify the adoption of the Declaration of Independence as the historical event marked by July 4. And 46% said they did not know what the day commemorated, including 61% of Gen Z respondents.

$26 million

“President Donald Trump said he had earned at least $26 million in income from an array of new real estate ventures abroad, illustrating how his fortune has grown as his family embraces foreign deal-making in his second term,” Bloomberg reports.