Forget “presidential,” Donald’s State of the Union address met the most categories of horrible words and deeds of anything Donald has done since I started tracking his horrible behavior last July.
I’ve been following what Donald and members of his Administration have been saying and doing since July 1, 2017, and I’ve been comparing those words and deeds against 51 categories of horrible behavior that I identified prior to the 2016 election. While Donald’s major speeches tend to hit many categories, Donald’s State of the Union speech hit the most categories of anything he’s said or done since I started keeping track – 22 categories.
What follows is the complete list of categories I track, with the 22 categories that Donald’s State of the Union speech hit highlighted. In some cases (like lying and hypocrisy) there were multiple examples of horribleness, but that category is only counted once.
Horrible categories
- Adultery
- Hypocrisy
- Lying
- Mocking the disabled (or, more broadly, belittling people)
- Narcissism
- Rape
- Sexual assault (and sexual harassment)
Miscellaneous bigotry
- Anti-gay marriage
- Anti-Semitism
- Homophobia (and transphobia)
- Immigrant-hating
- Islamophobia
- Misogyny
- Race baiting
- Racism
- Social Darwinism
- Splitting up immigrant families
- White male privilege
- White supremacy
- Xenophobia (or more broadly, Dehumanizing the Other)
Economic and educational views
- Anti-Common Core (or more broadly, anti-education)
- Failed businessman (or more broadly, ignorance about how the economy actually works)
- Not honoring contracts (or more broadly, No business ethics)
- Trickle-down economics/lower taxes on the rich
Anti-scientific views
- Anti-environmentalism
- Anti-intellectual
- Anti-science
- Anti-vaccination
- Climate change denial
- Polluted air (or more broadly, polluted air and water)
- Rejects GMO foods
Social Policy
- Abortion restrictions
- Authoritarianism
- Churches back into politics
- Demagoguery
- Police militarization (or more broadly, police brutality)
- Propagandist
- School shootings (or more broadly, mass shootings)
- Strip medical insurance
Anti-civil rights
- Against fair trials (or more broadly, attacking the rule of law)
- Easing lawsuits against the media for libel (or more broadly, attacking the media)
- Eliminating birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law
- Restricting civil liberties (especially voting restrictions)
Foreign policy and nationalism
- China-hating
- Crimes against humanity
- Fascism
- Jingoism
- NATO-hating
- Nuclear proliferation
- Putin/Russia-loving
Categories: Politics/Law/Government
Such a negative man