March saw a marked increase in the amount of narcissism displayed by Donald, many more examples of his cluelessness about economics, and repeated attacks on the civil liberties of citizens, immigrants, and foreigners alike.

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Update: I’ve decided to add a link to the Google doc that I use to record, categorize, filter, and study Donald’s (and his Administration’s) abhorrent behavior. The total list is now over 1000 examples since July 2017, when I started tracking.

In March, I counted 100 unique items of horrible behavior by Donald. This was the second drop in a row, down from 104 in February, but the drop was almost exclusively due to factors in my life that prevented me from reading the news as often as I usually do, rather than any improvement in Donald’s behavior. Donald’s narcissism rose to previously unheard of levels in March, and his focus on tariffs revealed his complete ignorance of economics even more thoroughly than his push for reverse Robin Hood tax cuts did. And Donald’s Administration showed they were willing to restrict the civil liberties of immigrants and foreigners alike.

The seal of the President of the United States

In March, 26 of the 100 unique instances of loathsome behavior revealed Donald’s narcissism. That’s the highest total number of instances and the highest percentage since I started recording his deplorable behavior last July. One of Donald’s golf courses ordered course markers with the Presidential Seal, which is not only in horrible taste, but also may be against the law. And what kind of person would be OK with playing a round of golf with Presidential Seal course markers? A narcissist, that’s what kind. Donald publicly mocked his own son-in-law after Jared Kushner lost his interim security clearance and talked approvingly of becoming “president for life.” And Donald hired Joseph diGenova, a Washington lawyer who has ass-kissed claimed that Donald is being framed by the FBI over his connections to Russian election manipulation.

There were also 15 unique instances where Donald’s ignorance of economics was on full display. After Donald’s previous economic advisor resigned, Donald hired CNBC columnist and always-wrong economics Larry Kudlow to be the new economic advisor. Donald applied tariffs to steel and aluminum and claimed, incorrectly, that the impacts would be minimal to the average consumer. And he demonstrated a glaring ignorance of basic supply and demand (never mind mental health and substance dependency) in the process of calling for drug dealers to face the death penalty.

March also saw 11 unique instances of Donald calling for restricting civil liberties or overlooking the importance of the US Constitution’s protections. As with Donald’s narcissism and economic ignorance, this was both the highest total number of instances and the highest percentage since I started tracking in July, 2017. After Rex Tillerson was fired and CIA Director Pompeo was nominated to replace Tillerson, Donald nominated a Gina Haspel to lead the CIA – the same Haspel who ran a CIA black site during George W. Bush’s presidency and who was responsible for approving the torture of detainees at the black site. The Census Bureau added a question about the citizenship of all residents in a household back to the 2020 Census, a question that was removed 70 years ago because it was distorting the Census’ results. And perhaps most abusive of all, agents of Donald’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) used private data gathered by Facebook to track and arrest undocumented immigrants.

Summary
In the month of March, 2018, I identified 100 unique items that met one or more of my 51 categories (see below for a complete list).

Horrible categories