Donald Trump Is the Most Corrupt President in US History
There are so many insane things happening at any given moment under Donald Trump that it can be easy to forget that this is the most spasmodic, scandal-plagued presidential administration the United States has ever seen.

The Trump family is going out of its way to make all previous presidential corruption scandals look like small potatoes. (Roberto Schmidt / Getty Images)
From the moment he took office, Donald Trump embarked on a unique strategy of overwhelming the information space with an ever-flowing deluge of executive actions, controversies, wild public statements, and more, to the point that it was impossible to fully keep track of it all. It’s as if music producer Phil Spector applied his famous “Wall of Sound” to politics. Far from eroding his political support, this approach — call it the “Wall of Scandal” — seems unable to budge the reliable 30-something percent floor of support he enjoys no matter what.
There are so many insane, shocking, sometimes unprecedented things happening at any given moment of Trump’s second term that it pays to pause, take a breath, and really take stock of them for a moment.
Let’s put aside the Iran war, which by itself would rank among the top five disastrous things done by an American president this century, if not for much longer. For three months now, the world has watched Trump publicly flail trying to get out of this war he half-assedly lied the country into while somehow claiming a win, alternately scrambling for the exit and desperately trying to convince Americans — and probably himself — that he is actually winning. All the while, he is tanking the global economy, slowly destroying the fossil fuel industry he fetishizes, and setting himself up for a future electoral drubbing.