trump versus W

[thesquanderer]

7. Yes. I had that discussion with a friend during Trump's first term...

She said that Trump was the worst president in her lifetime. And I said, no... that while Trump was the worst human being we'd had as president, he wasn't the worst president because, unlike W, he was not responsible for lots of death... thousands of our troops and perhaps hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in W's unnecessary war. (And torture too!) But once Trump's botched response to covid led to a huge number of unnecessary deaths in the U.S., I could no longer attribute to Trump's defense that, well, at least he didn't kill people. And now we have Iran.

And the Bush administration's disregard for the Constitution via the PATRIOT Act and warrantless surveillance (and supposedly having called the Constitution just a goddamned piece of paper) seems almost quaint next to Trump's disregard for the Constitution.

Yup, I never thought we would ever have another President as bad as W, much less one even worse.