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Zorro

(18,768 posts)
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 12:52 PM 13 hrs ago

'Easily the Worst President in U.S. History'

The damage President Trump has inflicted on the United States and the world is so enormous and wide-ranging that it is hard to grasp.

It runs the gamut from public and private institutions to core democratic customs and traditions, from the legal system to universities, from innocent targets of fraud to those duped into believing vaccines do more harm than good.

One way to bring home the depth of Trump’s callousness is to look at a specific case. In May 2025, Anjee Davis, the chief executive of Fight Colorectal Cancer, a patient advocacy group, told CBS News:

We have a member who is being treated for Stage IV colorectal cancer. She had just qualified to enter a clinical trial that was going to be her last-chance effort to slow the spread of her cancer.

Her trial was about to start when N.I.H. funding was pulled overnight, and the trial was canceled.

Davis replied to my inquiry about the case by email. “This patient has since passed away without receiving the clinical trial she was counting on,” she wrote.

“What we will never know,” Davis added, “is whether that trial could have given her more time with her children.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/opinion/trump-legacy-history-presidents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.clA.vyOp.b6-H_C8IcPrX&smid=url-share
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FakeNoose

(41,977 posts)
1. Oh yeah, without a doubt
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 01:13 PM
13 hrs ago

When Chump is gone for good, the history books will not be kind to him. I hope the US media gets at least part of the blame for this fiasco because they cashed out early and allowed it all to happen.

Deuxcents

(27,321 posts)
4. The media and the people who helped put and keep him in power should be held to account, too
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 02:03 PM
12 hrs ago

slightlv

(7,857 posts)
9. I hope there is a deep, engrossing conversation around the First Amendment.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 02:54 PM
11 hrs ago

We need the First Amendment for protests, etc. But more evil and harm is done by allowing anything and everything to be said on social media, and the Press... who SHOULD be our standard bearers for First Amendment rights has failed this country more than I thought possible. There are others where First Amendments come with caveats. As long as those caveats aren't directed toward protecting those in government, I think changes could be made. But that will be a different time and age than I live in. It's hard to think I'll not be around to see much of what comes after.

sinkingfeeling

(57,878 posts)
3. I've said it will take a century to put the USA back on track if it ever happens. Keeping this article. Thanks.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 01:38 PM
12 hrs ago

ffr

(23,435 posts)
5. So the GOP were the DEATH PANELS the projected onto democrats. They choose who lives and who dies.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 02:33 PM
11 hrs ago

We always knew that to be the case, but there are enough un-serious voters out there to swing an election to a self-serving convict adjudicated rapist, that it doesn't matter who said or did what. We all suffer, paying the price for the truly gullible.

SamuelAdams

(89 posts)
12. Heartbreaking.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 03:23 PM
11 hrs ago

Then VP Biden's moon shot to fight cancer has been damaged by petty funding cuts. Hillary Clinton proposed a similar initiative in 2016 to fight Alzheimer's. Millions of Americans will have worse health outcomes and die sooner because of this administration. Young people who might have gone into medical research no longer will because of these cuts. There is no telling how far health research will be pushed back.

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