Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Trump said it best.

 

Trump said it best.

             By Keith Thomas

             https://substack.com/@bykeiththomas

5/5/2026, 4 pages

From the very beginning.

The proof is his administration.

KING OF LOSERS

"I hang out with losers because it makes me feel better. I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories."[1] DJesusT

It isn’t often that I agree with Trump but he’s in inarguably 100% right on the button with the comment he made. The toadies Trump appointed to his DOJ are currently supporting his quest to receive $10 BILLION DOLLARS in taxpayer money in a lawsuit he filed on behalf of himself, his sons, and organization against the IRS and Treasury Department.[2] In this case the losers will be taxpaying citizens.

Recent filings indicate that Trump is in negotiations to settle with himself.[3]

“Insanity is contagious.”― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

TRUMP’S SURROUNDED

Trump’s appointments confirm that he’s indeed been successful at surrounding himself with sycophants, losers, perverts, alcoholics, anti-science, conspiracy-spinning, dog killing, brain worm ridden, thieving, grifting, incompetent liars with their unique individual lack of talents spread across his entire administration.

Trump knew that the fractured Republican cult was looking for a leader to call their own when he first stepped into politics for real. His famous line for being able to shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose his base of support reflected his understanding of what would be his core MAGA base. Republicans had spent decades preparing the ground for just such a man as him.

A narcissist sociopath.

HOW DEEP IS THE STUPID

There is nothing too stupid for MAGAts to believe. From the mundane of people eating the dogs and the cats, kids dressed as furries using litter boxes in schools, to the more esoteric of not believing Trump lost the 2020 elections.

Whatever asinine addled thing Trumps says MAGAt Republicans cheer like he’s a genius playing 3 or 4D chess depending upon the incoherence of his message! Outright gibberish from him is usually where the 4D chess analogy is claimed.

Trump’s Administration isn’t about government succeeding in serving the people of the nation. Their goal is to serve Trump and lavish praise on him in hopes that they will get at least a little taste of all the grifting he and his spawn are doing with lawsuits, government contracts, and insider trading.

You know … usual Republican pastimes.

DUST BINNING

Meanwhile appointees like alcoholic Nazi Jesus religious fanatic Secretary of War Hegseth whose department has been rife with security breaches continues to stay in the news by citing made up scripture from the movie Pulp Fiction.[4] [5]

Heroin addict Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. who has bragged about snorting cocaine off a toilet seat is an anti-vaxxer, anti-science, defiler of animals who had a brain worm who likes to take his grandkids swimming in filthy water to build up their immunity will continue being in the news with his bizarre beliefs.[6]

The often-drunk FBI Director Kash Patel is rumored to be next on the way to the dust bin because of his excessive drinking.[7] I would be surprised if there are those in the Trump administration that don’t drink to excess.

Trump is on track to beat the turnover rate from his first administration. His first administration had the highest turnover rate of any presidency since they started tracking in the 1980s.[8] [9] Below I’m just listing some major figures.

·       I hate to list Elon Musk as being gone because the guy is like a cockroach. You think he’s been eradicated but he keeps showing up running along the baseboards looking for food.

·       Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem bit the dust for a variety of reasons. Having an affair with her senior aide Corey Lewandowski was just one of them.[10] Getting more media time than Trump was another one (he was really pissed about the ad campaign that featured Kristi). King Trump does not like being upstaged.

·       In a show of solidarity Special Government Employee Corey Lewandowski left on the heels of Noem’s departure. He was not on the payroll. He was a kept man.

·       Attorney General Pam Bondi bit the dust because she couldn’t stop the quest to release the Epstein files and get convictions of Trump’s political enemies.[11]

·       Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer left over accusations of her excessive drinking, having a hostile work environment, along with her husband and dad being accused of being inappropriate with her staff.[12]

·       You may not remember National Security Adviser, Mike Waltz. He wasn’t around long. He was one of the participants in the major security breach where they included the editor of the Atlantic in their bombing plotting regarding Yemen.[13]

·       Then there’s Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino. He was all big on getting those darn Epstein files released until he got the job of providing cover for the adjudicated rapist Trump.

·       Overcompensating for his (lack of) height Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino left after a couple of citizens were killed by agents and a whole lot of bad publicity. He wanted to deport 100 million people.[14] MAGAts are not good with numbers. #1, There aren’t that many illegal immigrants in the United States. That’s almost a third of our population. #2, That sounds a whole lot like ethnic cleansing coming from a man that like to dress as a Nazi SS guard.

·       Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said that he was retiring at the end of May to spend more time with his family. ??? He advocated and signed off on a memo that let ICE agents enter homes and arrest people without a warrant.[15]

·       National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent resigned because of his opposition to the war against Iran which he blamed on Israel NOT Trump. Heaven forbid![16] He has ties to white supremacists, antisemites, and Christian Nationalists and is currently running for congress.[17]

·       CDC Director Susan Monarez resigned because she refused to sign on to RFK Jr’s antivaccine appointments to a board and firing people without just cause.[18]

·       Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. was relieved of his duties by Hegseth. He was the first black officer to head a branch of the military and was head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Here’s way too long of a list of female and officers of color that have been relieved of their commands to list.[19]

·       Navy Secretary John Phelan quit. Don’t know why. Just did. His CV for the job was that he was a GOP donor.[20] He may not have been quick enough to get a big ol’ ship built with Trump’s name on it. Trump wants a Trump class battleship named after him.[21]

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I don’t want this next item to just be a bullet point.

Trump has eliminated 300,000 government jobs.[22] He claimed they are better off. People’s lives were damaged. Some beyond repair. Homes will be lost. Health insurance will be gone for single people and entire families. People will have to work through all kinds of financial damage. MAGAts cheer this kind of shit.

What MAGAts are oblivious to until something happens to them directly is that there are economic ripples from all this crap. The war in the Middle East (war expenses), tariffs on and off, less disposable income, depleted savings, the supply of oil choked off, farm bankruptcies, broken supply chains, high cost of fuel and fertilizer, loss of healthcare, closing of rural hospitals and on and on.

People matter. But not to MAGA Republicans.

Only Trump matters.


[1] https://people.com/trump-says-he-likes-to-hang-around-with-losers-because-it-makes-me-feel-better-11936625

[2] https://abcnews.com/Politics/judge-orders-trump-doj-justify-presidents-10b-irs/story?id=132365447

[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-irs-talks-resolve-10-billion-lawsuit-tax-records-leak-rcna333854

[4] https://cepr.net/publications/trump-administration-riddled-with-unqualified-leaders/

[5] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hegseth-bible-pulp-fiction/

[6] https://nypost.com/2026/02/16/us-news/rfk-jrs-14-year-heroin-addiction-cocaine-off-toilet-seats-and-allegations-he-still-smokes-dmt/

[7] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kash-patel-alcohol-fbi-mess-firing-the-atlantic-b2960378.html

[8] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/tracking-turnover-in-the-trump-administration/

[9] https://fortune.com/2017/12/28/trump-white-house-record-first-year-turnover-rate/

[10] https://people.com/second-trump-administration-departures-11955079

[11] https://people.com/pam-bondi-fired-attorney-general-11772383

[12] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/politics/labor-secretary-text-messages.html

[13] https://people.com/the-atlantic-screenshots-entire-group-chat-texts-war-plans-11703501

[14] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/24/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-retirement

[15] https://apnews.com/article/immigration-customs-enforcement-ice-todd-lyons-da46097e88f93a7d6e15570222a34f06

[16] https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-war-kent-resignation-e2e17a76d79617a68370f076c0291208

[17] https://forward.com/news/813322/joe-kent-white-supremacist-israel-iran-resign/

[18] https://www.npr.org/2025/08/27/g-s1-85911/cdc-director-susan-monarez-ousted-leaders-resign

[19] https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/nx-s1-5333324/pentagon-military-dei-purge-recruiting

[20] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/04/23/what-led-navy-secretary-john-phelan-losing-his-job-what-we-know.html

[21] https://theweek.com/politics/list-everything-trump-named-himself

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