January 2, 2026
"The 20 best things Trump did in 2025/The accomplishments of a stunning year can’t be captured in just 10 items."
Marc A. Thiessen itemizes the good, over at The Washington Post. That's a gift link, so you can see if you agree with the ranking and with the characterization of these things as good. You might want to read some of the comments, which can't believe what an awful idiot Thiessen is.
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WaPo may tell you that, as part of the service you are paying for, you can provide free links to your readers. But you know what? WaPo is lying!
Who'da thunk it?
Owned by Jeff Bezos, a Trump syncophant, of course theyr'e lying, it the MAGA way. Look at Kash Patel, Bondi, Hegseth, Noem, big liars all, trying to cover their asses with lies no one believes. Well, at least no rational thinking American with a heartbeat. Ok, give me the libtard references, so what.
Damn! Comments don’t disappoint! If anything, they are geared up for a fully refreshed assault on sanity for 2026. Didn’t bother to jump to the 10 worst as those comments would probably send me to therapy.
I agree with all that, and it is an impressive 11 months, but without extensive election reform, it will all be for nothing, and the United States will be a non-democratic republic, as it was from 2020-2024.
Trump's greatest accomplishment has been the exposure of the real values of Democrats, some Republicans in the swamp, and the media: lawless, murderous, corrupt, for sale , and America last. It nearly cost him and us everything to find out.
Victoria, you got anything beyond ad homonym. Should be easy with all those accomplishments to attack.
Bezos is a practical fellow. He does what is best for Bezos. That does not make him a Trump sycophant, unless one is an anti-Trump fanatic wherein any laxity in anti-Trump fervor is sinful.
Victoria here is showing the same thing I've noticed elsewhere: the left is now openly just rejected any evidence that is not approved by the Democrat party. "Oh, the government says X which contradicts us? The government is lying!" They genuinely refuse to believe anything outside their bubble.
Coupled with the open embrace of weird conspiracy theories ("Trump staged the Butler assassination attempt and Da JOOOS shot Charlie Kirk or it was the Mormons and it is all good Kirk died!!!!! REEEEEEE")... the left is just rapidly headed towards a psychotic break. The Gods of the Copyright headings will always reign and reality cannot be denied, no matter how much leftists hate it.
Darn it. I'd love to read Thiessen's list and the comments. Those readers are so used to their cocoon, they are still being shocked by sights of the big world out there. Go ahead, test your wings, little ones. It's there for real.
Take it easy on Victoria. She hasn't had any fun since her daddy took her T-Bird away.
My read on Bezos is that he figured the same as Andreesen, also a Democrat, that leftist mania (political and cultural) had gone way too far. Note that Bezos had cooperated with the Biden administration in 2021-22 in deplatforming right wing twitter-competitors from his Amazon cloud servers, the industry leader. He was most definitely anti-Trump at the time.
Those comments = proof that TDS is all too real.
Thiessen also did a column of Trump's 10 worst things:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/31/donald-trump-2025-worst-list-marc-thiessen/
He lists them from a rightie perspective, but there is some overlap with things the left criticized: mishandling Epstein, shutting down VOA/RFE/etc, accepting the Qatari plane, making concessions to the ChiComs, etc. CC, JSM
21. Rescued the castaways from Gilligan’s Island.
I can give you a list of things Trump's failed on. First, lots of guilty Democrats and not a few GOPe types are still walking free instead of languishing in jail awaiting a fair trial on a wide variety of charges from treason to corruption, theft, drugs, etc. Second, China still has a navy that hasn't sunk and been blamed on the Norks. We still have way too many illegals here. And Trump hasn't managed to get the useless GOP Congress to impeach dozens of judges.
Plus he hasn't really cut government, though to be honest I never believed Trump to be that kind of guy. Trump's a 1990s era Democrat, not a hardcore conservative, so essentially this is just Bill Clinton, Part 3 that we have going on. It's telling how much the left hates the idea of a moderate Democrat running things instead of a Muslim communist.
Oh, and I guess I blame Trump for not doing whatever it is that will finally get Chuck's head to explode and he stops bothering us here.
Comments are LIT! Lots of "I'm cancelling my subscription!" Hilarious!
I thought they all cancelled their subscriptions when the WaPo refused to endorse Kamala.
Billionaire oligarch forgot a few:
Turned pardon system into an open bribery
Turned loose masked gestapo on Americans
Gave $20,000,000,000 to his pal in Argentina to prop up failing far right regime
Devalued US currency to lowest point in 50 years
Made US inflation far worse with tariff scheme
Took personal bribes from foreign nations to enrich his family business
Distanced himself from his history of child rape on Trump Island
Successfully convinced MAGAts that his obvious dementia is not taking place
Yes the possum senate is at fault
Those are some strong shrooms
Milei is the most popular president in South America, beating Lula of Brazil, 49 to 48.5
Not counting the new guy in Bolivia.
Inflation is steady at 3% and has been since eoy 2024
How is it "far worse"?
Odd how Obama and Biden turning masked Antifa and BLM rioters loose on Americans is a-ok with Hag.... "Peasants! Don't you realize that Democrat violence against Americans is great, while government enforcing the law against illegals is torture?!"
TBH: "Successfully convinced MAGAts that his obvious dementia is not taking place"
If you successfully convince me you don't have dementia, doesn't that mean you don't have dementia? Kind of like a Turing test. CC, JSM
And he fails the test
"He does what is best for Bezos. That does not make him a Trump sycophant"
Well. It may well be that, as Jeff Bezos sees the matter, right now the best thing for him is to be, or at least appear to be, a Trump sycophant. I presume that he bought WaPo precisely so that he could send that sort of signal.
I mean, what the Hell does Jeff Bezos want at this point, anyway? That he can't simply trade some money for?
If you are dumb enough to be a regular subscriber and commenter at the Washington Post, I doubt you'll have any thoughts worth sharing. But that's just me.
Re TeaBagHag at 12:43--if the Bad Orange Man can rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America", I suppose you can rename "Epstein Island" as "Trump Island". But the exercise is silly in both cases.
While Trump and his cabinet are doing the things that needed to be done to improve the lives of ALL Americans, the Democrats have made their plans clear:
Democrats will do their damnedest to keep the illegal aliens they encouraged to cross our borders in the US, provide them housing, healthcare, cash, etc...
They’ll make them wards of The State, enable them to vote and provide them everything they need and do it on the backs of hard working American taxpayers.
So far Trump has failed to do anything about Biden's "Trunalimunumaprzure".
"You know the thing."
I wonder how long it will take Dems to figure out that Trump is not running again? I'm not going to tell them.
To the WaPoo commenters: Get in, losers, we're Making America Great Again!
Oldsters from Pasadena and oral fetishists alike both go for those hunky, hunky illegals. (Minnesota daycare owners not included -- too skinny.)
"Create an account to redeem your free article ...."
LOLOLOlolooooooooo
How about no. Nothing could make me help the pricks at the Washington Post earn money. Even reading their free shit.
They may be the same person (,catfish,l
Here's the list. I got Grok to steal it (he can see through their paywall). So you can discuss the list without ever having to give the Washington Post your identifying information (that's what they're doing ... identifying and tracking you.)
1. Trump obliterated the Iranian nuclear program.
2. Trump got NATO allies to meet and raise their defense spending promises.
3. Trump is doing more to help Ukraine than Biden ever did.
4. Trump forged one of the greatest peacemaking records in U.S. history.
5. Trump is standing up for persecuted Christians in Nigeria.
6. Trump has eliminated dozens of suspected Venezuelan drug boats.
7. Trump fixed the military recruiting crisis.
8. Trump shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development.
9. Trump added $156 billion to the defense budget.
10. Trump forced Panama to crack down on Chinese influence over the Panama Canal.
11. Trump dramatically cut taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security.
12. Trump made our nation’s capital safer by sending in the National Guard.
13. Trump scrapped Biden-era policies intended to force people into electric cars, and unleashed oil and gas production.
14. Trump ended collective bargaining for a million federal workers.
16. Trump took on radical gender ideology and protected women’s sports.
17. Trump brought many of the nation’s elite universities to heel.
18. Trump used tariff threats to strike new trade deals.
19. Trump drove illegal migration to a virtual halt.
20. Trump created “Trump Accounts” to give every American child a trust fund.
21. Trump delivered justice for the Abbey Gate bombing.
I wonder how many WaPo subscribers know that if not for Trump and the Republicans, acting against the strenuous opposition of their preferred party, their taxes would be increasing significantly, effective Yesterday.
You might want to read some of the comments...
Pass. We get the same, stupid shit from the leftists who post here.
Also see: 1:56 PM
Fairly good listicle.
I think Trump deserves credit for bringing transparency to how money is spent and who receives it.
Trump deserves credit for ending Biden era social media censoring.
Trump deserves credit for bringing transparency to events surrounding COVID and its origination from the Wuhan Lab.
Trump deserves credit for refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve instead of continuing the Biden era of depleting the reserves to artificially lower oil prices to try and buy votes.
Hag, we did not give Milei $20B. The US treasury did a currency swap, that is, we purchased Argentine pesos for American dollars, which helped stabilize the peso, which increased in value relative to the US$ and made money for the Treasury. Helped them, helped us.
Tell us you have no understanding of international financial transactions, but get all your news form Occupy Democrats memes.
Old Country Liar,
Always wrong but never in doubt my pedo supporting friend.
I’ll put this in MAGAtese for you.
Hey Grok, did the US Argentine currency swap benefit the US?
No, the Argentina-China currency swap agreement did not benefit the United States
While the swap indirectly helped Argentina meet some IMF repayments (a U.S.-backed institution), its primary effects—promoting yuan usage and enhancing China’s regional footprint—ran counter to U.S. goals of maintaining dollar hegemony and limiting Beijing’s influence in the Western Hemisphere. The U.S. response with its own financing underscores that the China-Argentina deal was seen as a strategic setback.
People can talk about twitter and other social media sites, but there is no cesspool on the mainstream Internet more fetid than the WaPo comment section.
Biff,
Do folks like Achilles pop in the WaPo comments to say that we need to exterminate all the Democrats to keep our republic?
TeaBagHag said...
Biff,
Do folks like Achilles pop in the WaPo comments to say that we need to exterminate all the Democrats to keep our republic?
Exile is sufficient.
Thiessen is a pretty good egg unlike gerson or jen rubin
(Better check the cables)
Speaking of crazy https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/the-worst-foreign-policy-blunders?
Speaking of currency swaps that ended up a net boon for US. Trump deserves credit for using Biden approved funds to give to Intel and using those funds to buy Intel stock, instantly earning the US millions in improved value and giving Intel the dollars promised by Biden.
The TBH certificate of approval. You just need to know how to read it :)
In 2026, 3 oppressive totalitarian regimes are at high risk of falling: Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran. If it happens, all would be attributable to the policies of Trump . Syria was a pre-season win.
If even one fell, it would be an incredible, historical success. And if Don runs the table ?
gspencer said...
Those comments = proof that TDS is all too real.
@gspencer, when was that ever in doubt? What it really proves is that people who read the Washington Post are thoroughly mentally deranged.
Who was talking about a China-Argentina currency swap? That's what happens when you let Grok do all your thinking for you. Do you at least understand now that a currency swap is not a gift?
U.S. Slashes Proposed Tariffs on Italian Pasta ~ WSJ
I thought that the Italians would be the ones paying the tariffs. Are you trying to tell me that the US consumers are paying them? Hmm. Even Trump's imbeciles could work out how much a 92% tariff would leave to the producer if the latter were to pay it all!
Trump Rolls Back Tariffs on Furniture and Kitchen Cabinets ~ WSJ
"The president has watered down import levies on a host of products in recent months to address concerns about the cost of living"
Trump caves again. Big talker. Is the Trump peak behind us?
too many brainslugs, even if you used a blowtorch, you wouldn't salvage much,
It's just as silly to believe that Trump is always wrong as it is to believe that Trump is always right.
Former Law Clerk- “ 11. Trump dramatically cut taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security.”
That sounds like a Yuge accomplishment. Wonder why workers and senior’s aren’t excited? Why are even conservative lawmakers hesitant of bragging about it?
I have a Trump loving friend who earns around $75k a year in overtime and I mentioned how happy I was for him of how much of a break he’ll be enjoying over the years. He looked at me and literally said; “fuck you”.
They know. I know. I could explain it to you in detail but it’s not what you want to hear.
1. Trump obliterated the Iranian nuclear program.
2. Trump got NATO allies to meet and raise their defense spending promises.
7. Trump fixed the military recruiting crisis.
19. Trump drove illegal migration to a virtual halt.
I picked out four big ones that even the naysayers can't credibly naysay (even though they will, of course).
Thanks for the list. The free link was nice, but if you have to give your email and create an account, it's not really free.
You have to be careful and precise with what you ask AI. Last year's China-Argentina currency swap didn't benefit the US. The US-Argentina currency swap that Trump made, did benefit the US. If you think AI is giving you slam-dunk proof for your argument it pays to double check.
bezos readers are so massively disinformed they might as well be on another planet,
the answer to the joke 'why do people take an instant dislike'
it saves time
What is Chuck talking about?
"Always wrong but never in doubt my pedo supporting friend."
Hey leftist pedo groomer troll :Speaking of always being wrong, and supporting pedos,
you're transurrectionist democrat groomer boyfriend says hi from prison:
https://www.themainewire.com/2025/11/nations-first-trans-identifying-state-legislator-pleads-guilty-to-child-sex-crimes/
Freedom’s just another word for turning over your identity.
“SOCIALISM IS MM-MM-DANI !”
When your imaginary friends start cursing you, that's a problem.
is that the same one harry reid aka cleanface, had who told him about Romney's taxes,
boatbuilder said... “I don't think…”
Original Mike said... “What is Chuck talking about?”
Obviously, the same thinking process applies for Mike.
Let’s start with what was said; Former Law Clerk- “ 11. Trump dramatically cut taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security.”
Ain’t so. It doesn’t matter if you know what I’m talking about or your level of thinking. It’s about how the scam isn’t producing nor resonating with the wage earners or seniors.
Seniors, waitresses, overtime workers, even Republicans lawmakers who shoved this shit sandwich down their throats realize it’s a shit sandwich.
That’s what I’m talking about.
he may be a figment of my imagination, like bruce willis in the sixth sense
I got my answer.
FormerLawClerk said...
Here's the list.
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Am I missing something? Did WaPo not mention Trump closed the border and has seen about 2 million illegals returned to their home!
R. J. Ward wrote"I could explain it to you in detail but it’s not what you want to hear.
I didn't write this list, bro. I just stole it from the Washington Post so you could read it without having to earn them any revenue.
Trump FUCKED OVER seniors and is still doing it, and also those who make tips. Hood rats he let into the fucking country are stealing BILLIONS of our tax dollars and he hands seniors a 2.7% cost of living increase in Social Security. Fuck that. I'm opening a goddamn day care center. A fake one.
Why should we let the hood rats Trump let in steal all the money and not get any for ourselves?
He should be impeached now - by Republicans - for all the things he promised but hasn't delivered.
Mr. T,
Good, fuck that guy.
I don’t care what party you’re a member of, commit a crime and I’m glad you’re locked up. MAGAts continue to lick Dementia Donnie’s boots in the face of overwhelming evidence that he committed a massive amount of crimes;, including child rape. Shitheel MAGAt types call it lawfare to protect your fragile psyches from the fact that you’re in a cult.
"Am I missing something? Did WaPo not mention Trump closed the border and has seen about 2 million illegals returned to their home!"
19. Trump drove illegal migration to a virtual halt.
They could have added the repatriation.
"He looked at me and literally said; “fuck you”."
Now it's Trump's fault your friends don't like you?
If he's earning 70K in tips then yea, he's well over the threshold, but I thought you supported taxing the rich.
How many American lives past, current and future will be saved by Trump stopping tons of drugs from getting into the country. Every boat sunk and every "sailor" killed is not only the drugs on that boat stopped, but all the ones they would have brought in the future, plus all the shipments discouraged by these new professional hazards. It's a lot of lives saved, not that such a thing matters to people who celebrate the murder of innocents, but for the rest of us, it's a damned fine accomplishment.
Bogoh, for starters, I have no control of what you think or thought. That’s on you.
From your own admission, he was “well over the threshold”, which is why he cursed at my sarcasm.
Bottom line, well over the threshold for the peons receiving these coin tosses while the wealth shifts upward pisses the peons off, even if you do classify someone feeding a family of six by working 7 12 hour shifts a week as rich.
They ain’t buying it.
Bagoh @ 7:55, pick off the low level drug carrot chasers and claim victory while pardoning high level drug kingpins.
Make that add up.
Were they better off without the tax cuts? They don't have to claim them, and without Trump their taxes would be higher on top of that.
bagoh20 said...
“Were they better off without the tax cuts? They don't have to claim them, and without Trump their taxes would be higher on top of that.“
When you look at he entirety of the bill, yes, they, and actually we, (unless you’re a billionaire), were better off.
Again, are we better off with those boats sunk or not? I know thousands of Americans are, and your "kingpin" is out of the game with no affect on anything. This is how it goes when a leader puts helping actual Americans above avoiding criticism.
"When you look at he entirety of the bill, yes, they, and actually we, (unless you’re a billionaire), were better off."
Then I'll assume you told him to pass on any tax breaks and maybe even send in some extra.
bagoh20 said...
Again, are we better off with those boats sunk or not? I know thousands of Americans are, and your "kingpin" is out of the game with no affect on anything. This is how it goes when a leader puts helping actual Americans above avoiding criticism.
Your vast alleged knowledge of thousands of Americans you personally know along with the rest of your word salad comes up short in explaining how pardoning someone guilty of bringing 400 to tons of cocaine to addict American citizens adds up.
@ 8:14, again, I have no control as to what you assume.
Here's my math:
+ Thousands alive who would be overdoses.
- One political leader who may have facilitated lots of drug shipments in the past free
Still equals thousands of innocent American lives saved now and future.
I don't want that guy pardoned, but if the Trump package comes with those benefits and that cost, I'll take it.
Not as good as your imaginary perfect leader, but he wasn't on the ballot.
Ronald J. Ward said...
Bagoh @ 7:55, pick off the low level drug carrot chasers and claim victory while pardoning high level drug kingpins.
Make that add up.
Out of the 752 drug lords in South and Central America Biden and the CIA managed to find the one that was also the opposition to their marxist cutout in Honduras.
Funny how that works.
Ronald J. Ward said...
Your vast alleged knowledge of thousands of Americans you personally know along with the rest of your word salad comes up short in explaining how pardoning someone guilty of bringing 400 to tons of cocaine to addict American citizens adds up.
It is more likely that they took the leader of Honduras and convicted him in a New York court on bullshit charges like they tried to do with Trump so they could install another marxist in Honduras.
Nobody believes anything Russian Hoaxers like you say.
Income phase-out (of overtime tax relief) starts at $150K (single) and $300,000 (married filing jointly).
"peons."
Is your imaginary friend working 7 12 hour shifts to feed a family of 6?
Google AI: Earning $150,000 as a single individual in the U.S. places you in a high income bracket, generally around the top 10% to 20%, depending on the year and whether you're looking at individual or household income, with $150,000 often being near the top 10% cutoff for individuals, but closer to the middle-to-upper-middle for households, putting you well above the median income and into the upper-middle class or even affluent categories.
Your weaseling is even less grounded in reality than usual, Weasel.
"I thought they all cancelled their subscriptions when the WaPo refused to endorse Kamala."
I am sure they will threaten to cancel their subscriptions another dozen times until 2029.
in the face of overwhelming evidence that he committed a massive amount of crimes;, including child rape.
TeaBagHag can't understand normal thinking.
"can't understand normal thinking." Syphilis -- The key to understanding the globalist's social-media-enshitification project's talent recruitment strategy.
> in the face of overwhelming evidence that
> he committed a massive amount of crimes;,
> including child rape.
That's a pretty specific claim of fact; how is this not libel?
That's a pretty specific claim of fact; how is this not libel?
1/3/26, 12:23 AM
Retards aren't responsible for the stupid shit they spew from their face-holes.
Bagoh, we know who Trump has pardoned and we know their history.
We don’t know the facts about the boats. We know what Trump is telling us but he’s not the most reliable source when it comes to honesty.
So no, I can’t agree with this “package deal” of sucking up to Trump. We had the head of the snake and Dozing Don let it go. That doesn’t add up in any realistic war on drugs, regardless of how much you idolize your Mango God.
Boatman, arguing over whether $150K is “rich” avoids the uncomfortable fact that the tax break itself is small and limited. And, in 2028, it goes away completely.
Toss a few coins to the peasants while the rich raid the vault.
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