Trump Is Historically Unfit | Daily Dose, June 4, 2025
Fact-based, pro-democracy frames to flood the zone with nutritious facts.
We’ve all had that experience in the grocery aisle—do we choose the healthy option or the less healthy one? Our food comes with nutrition labels to help guide our decisions about what we consume. But when it comes to our media diets there are no labels. This is dangerous because the quality of our media consumption impacts the health of our society. Without any information nutrition labels our MAGA friends and colleagues end up feeding on a diet of toxic propaganda while everyone else does the best they can with highly processed news meant to go down easy. In this environment, the cancer of fascism metastisizes. The Daily Dose is an immune boost for the American mind that replaces the toxic option with key nutrients like Vitamin C(ontext) and Vitamin F(acts) to boost levels of Vitamin D(emocracy).
Instead of the TOXIC PROPAGANDA option…
Criticism Of Trump Proves That He’s Being Unfairly Targeted And His Achievements Are Purposefully Under-reported By “Left-Wing” Media
Consume the HEALTHY CONTEXT version…
Donald Trump Is Historically Unfit To Be President And, If Anything, Mainstream Media Gives Him A Pass
I get that this one seems pretty obvious to most non-MAGA readers. But the reality is that we have fascism in America because one-third of our fellow citizens believe memes, people, and pundits who tell them Donald Trump is a great man. We have to help our fellow Americans see the reality of Trump’s corruption before it is too late.
We all have psychological needs for comprehension of our world, a sense of control over our lives, and community with others. We all take cues from our social circles and the sources of information we trust. In an uncertain world those who are wired towards conservatism and who unknowingly expose themselves to conservative-coded streams of manipulative information are pushed into the hands of a demagogue like Trump.
Our society soaks itself in a toxic sea of online disinformation everyday. We have all been victims of disinformation no matter where we fall on the political spectrum. Fascism only exists where propaganda is strong. And so I think it is totally worthwhile to put this little piece together.
We must all play our role as a Fact Warriors and share this bit of reality with our friends and loved ones who may not see the same things as we do. We have to care about the media diets of everyone and, as a nation, we all need to get a lot healthier when it comes to who we allow to tell us about the world. An information war is being waged against us every day and we must never stop fighting for reality.
Trump Unfit
Donald Trump was corrupt before he won the presidency in 2016 and has maintained a pattern of deep corruption ever since, using the office of the presidency to enrich himself and his family. The toxic propaganda version of Trump exists in part because our MAGA friends and loved ones are told repeatedly that the mainstream media is a left-wing manipulation operation. They’re told that highlighting Trump’s corruption is evidence of a plot against him. This messaging is so powerful that it overrides the reality that the same mainstream news outlets that highlight Trump’s corruption also highlight the corruption of people like Democractic Mayor of New York City Eric Adams and former Democratic New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez. That’s what journalists do.
Trump gets outsized corruption coverage from mainstream media because he is epically corrupt, not because he is a victim of a media plot against him. Meanwhile, there is an actual media plot in his favor. Most of mainstream media is owned by pro-Trump corporations and media tycoons. Right-wing billionaires have also created media companies and think tanks that pump our information ecosystem with pro-Trump propaganda 24/7/365. It’s quite clear that Trump is given a pass by an information ecosystem designed to protect him.
A case in point is that last week Donald Trump re-posted to his Truth Social account claims that Joe Biden was executed in 2020, “There is no Joe Biden,” and the Biden we’ve seen for the last several years is a combination of Biden “clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities.”
Mainstream outlet Axios reported this abolutely disqualifying, batshit crazy behavior as “intriguing” in a normalizing piece headlined, “Trump's Truth posts mix wild conspiracies with market-moving policies.”
Here is my short video on how the lynchpin of the pro-Trump propaganda effort against our MAGA friends and loved ones—that mainstream media is nothing more than a left-wing plot against Donald Trump—is just not true.
Below, I’ll provide bulleted examples that make it clear Trump is unfit. But I do want to emphasize one glaring example of Trump’s deep moral rot and lack of fitness to lead our country—the fact that he is a rapist.
[TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL ASSAULT]
A civil jury in New York found that Donald Trump used his fingers to penetrate the vagina of E. Jean Carroll against her will. This was not an “anti-Trump” jury but rather a random collection of New Yorkers who were selected with equal input from Trump’s attorneys. Here is a legal filing by the judge in the case, Lewis Kaplan, emphasizing that Trump raped E. Jean Carroll according to any colloquial definition of the term. The judge clarifies that the term wasn’t used in the civil ruling because of New York State’s rules for classifying sexual assaults:
As is shown in the following notes, the definition of rape in the New York Penal Law is far narrower than the meaning of “rape” in common modern parlance, its definition in some dictionaries, in some federal and state criminal statutes, and elsewhere. The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was “raped” within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump “raped” her as many people commonly understand the word “rape.” Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.
Vitamin C(ontext)
In addition to raping a woman and telling the public his predecessor is dead and has been replaced by a robot clone, Donald Trump is obviously the most unfit person to ever hold the presidency because:
In 2016, Vox chronicled Trump’s lifetime of corruption before seeking the presidency. They wrote, “Whenever Trump has been in positions of power or authority, he has demonstrated a pattern of trying to enrich himself by abusing the trust others have placed in him — whether it’s creditors, contractors, charitable givers, Trump University students, regulators, or campaign donors.”
Trump hires people for his administration, like Special Counsel Paul Ingrassia, who have close ties to Holocaust deniers and Nazi sympathizers. As of May 14th, the top of Ingrassia's Instagram page featured a pinned photo of himself with Andrew Tate, an anti-Semite who describes himself as a "misogynist" and is accused by the UK of sex-trafficking.
Trump seems incapable of empathy. He recently said of Biden’s advanced cancer diagnoses: "If you feel sorry for him, don't feel so sorry, because he's vicious ... I really don't feel sorry for him."
Trump lies every day. The Washington Post documented tens of thousands of lies in his first term alone.
The organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington chronicled over 3,700 conflicts of interest in Trump’s first term.
Democractic members of the House Oversight Committee chronicled 100 instances of corruption by Donald Trump in just the first 100 days of his second term. Yes, it’s the opposition party but that doesn’t change that all of these accusations are fact-based.
Trump’s May 2025 memecoin gala “is a level of corruption…unheard of in U.S. history.” He invited 220 top token holders, many of them large foreign investors, to a private restaurant event at his golf club—effectively selling access to the Oval Office. Trump’s organization has already minted over $320 million in fees. Some top investors like Justin Sun are tied to foreign governments.
Trump has a history of bragging about sexual assault like when he admitted to grabbing women by their genitals during the infamous 2005 Access Hollywood tape.
In a 1992 segment for Entertainment Tonight Trump asks a ten-year-old girl if she’s “going up the escalator.” When the girl replies, “yeah,” Trump turns to the camera and says: “I am going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it?”
Trump engaged in crude and demeaning conversations about women over a 17-year-period of appearances on radio shock-jock Howard Stern’s show. Among many disturbing comments, Trump strangely told Stern that it was okay for Stern to call his daughter Ivanka a “piece of ass.”
Trump has a well-documented history of disparaging American military service members and veterans.
Donald Trump attempted a coup on January 6th, 2021 after lying to the American public about the outcome of the 2020 election.
The Trump Organization paid $1.6 million in fines when a New York judge sentenced it for running a 15-year tax fraud scheme
Oh, and the thing Trump posted last week about how his predecessor was executed in 2020 and now makes public appearances only because he is a robot clone.
There are so many more examples and I invite you to provide more in the comments!
Healthy Ingredients To Share On Social Media
CREW President Trump’s legacy of corruption, four years and 3,700 conflicts of interest later
Vox Donald Trump’s history of corruption: a comprehensive review
Judge Lewis Kaplan MEMORANDUM OPINION DENYING DEFENDANT’S RULE 59 MOTION
The Hill Washington Post counts 30,573 false or misleading claims in four years by Trump
House Oversight Democrats Report 100 Days of Corruption: Oversight Democrats Highlight 100 Conflicts of Interest as President Trump Clears the Path for Corruption
Washington Post ‘The most corrupt thing a president has ever done’
The Guardian ‘Roadmap for corruption’: Trump dive into cryptocurrency raises ethics alarm
BuzzFeed Teen Beauty Queens Say Trump Walked In On Them Changing
CNN Donald Trump to Howard Stern: It's okay to call my daughter a 'piece of ass’
CBS News More allegations, questionable Trump comments on women surface
Washington Post Why Trump’s alleged comments about soldiers brought so much outrage
The Guardian January 6 was part of an attempted coup d’etat in America. Don’t let Trump and his allies tell you otherwise
NBC News Trump Organization fined $1.6 million for long-running tax fraud scheme
NPR Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
Aaron Rupar X.com Post (don’t use X!): Video of Trump Saying He Doesn’t Feel Sorry For Biden
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