this was created to avoid including political/ drumpf-related content on my 5 things lists

not a news expert or anything; just a highly distressed U.S. citizen, scrolling through her Facebook feed, jotting down one thing at a time

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• 08/09 Wed — Inflatable chicken resembling Trump placed near White House
• 06/08 Thu — “Lordy, I hope there are tapes” -James Comey, 2017
• 05/31 Wed — COVFEFE
• 05/23 Tue — "it was a great honor to be here with all my friends" boi... this isn't a yearbook signature... ✧
• 05/22 Mon — the orb (of darkness) becomes a meme ✧
  • officially revamping this list, refocusing on the most facepalming events
• 04/29 Sat — day 100
• 04/22 Sat — the March for Science takes place across the country
• 04/15 Sat — tax day rallies occur in major US cities, even though "the election is over"
• 04/13 Thu — MOAB is deployed on Syria
• 04/11 Mon — Gorsuch is sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Court
• 04/06 Thu — the nuclear option is enacted to nominate the supreme court nominee (democracy is dying)
• 04/06 Thu — air force strike against Syria
• 03/24 Fri — Republicans withdraw the health care bill ✧
• 03/23 Thu — "President Trump toots the horn of a semi truck on the lawn of the White House, living every child's road trip dreams." ✧
• 03/17 Fri — didn't shake hands with the German Chancellor in front of the camera ✧
  • mom: who'd want to shake his tiny hands?
  • bro: you don't know what they've grabbed
• 03/16 Thu — proposed a national budget that cuts funding for education, human services, public broadcasting, etc ✧
• 03/15 Wed — a federal judge blocked the travel ban ✧, has drumpf never heard of checks and balances?
• 03/14 Tue — MSNBC leaked his 2005 tax returns
• 03/04 Sat — tweeted that "Obama wiretapped the Trump Tower" ✧ a claim to distract from Russian involvement in the election, tbh
• 03/03 Fri — Pence used a private email server as Indiana's governor ✧
• 02/28 Tue — the presidential address to congress. many women wore white in honor of the suffragettes
• 02/28 Tue — KaC: "I didn’t mean to have my feet on the couch" ✧
• 02/26 Sun — "remember when the Oscars were racist?" #Merylsayshi
• 02/19 Sun — cited a (fake) attack in Sweden
• 02/16 Thu — time for a press conference still going on about not winning the popular vote
• 02/13 Mon — Flynn (national security adviser) resigned from his position
• 02/08 Wed — lashed out at Nordstrom via twitter
• 02/08 Wed — Senator Elizabeth Warren silenced by republicans after reading a letter by Coretta Scott King — "She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted." ✧
• 02/04 Sat — MELISSA MCCARTHY PLAYED SPICY ON SNL he's got a new nickname now~
• 02/03 Fri — a judge halts drumpf's immigration ban ✧
• 02/03 Fri — national prayer breakfast opening remarks.jpg
• 02/02 Thu — in a national interview, KaC reports of a Bowling Green Massacre ✧, but all is well ✧
• 02/02 Thu — Gorsuch's high school yearbook surfaces, founding the "fascism forever club" ✧
• 02/02 Thu — instead of discussing religion at the National Prayer Breakfast, drumpf discussed low ratings on The Apprentice ✧
• 02/02 Thu — threatened to remove federal funding for UCBerkley after the Milo protests✧
• 02/01 Wed — refugees from Australia are "illegal" and won't be welcomed to the U.S. ✧ he's practically asking for a war with old alliances✧
• 02/01 Wed — apparently, Frederick Douglass is doing an amazing job and is being recognized more and more✧
• 02/01 Wed — told senate majority leader to "go nuclear" if the SCOTUS nominee is filibustered ✧
• 01/31 Tue — Gorsuch* is appointed as the SCOTUS nominee at, like, a press conference...✧
• 01/31 Tue — DeVos is (somehow) approved for secretary of education by a vote of 12-11
• 01/31 Tue — DEVOSS LIFTED QUOTES IN HER WRITTEN QUESTIONNAIRE REPORT holy cow✧
• 01/30 Mon — apparently Emmanuel was at the O'Hare protest on Sunday evening...✧
• 01/29 Sun — protests at airports continue
• 01/28 Sat — immediate "no ban, no wall" protests occurred at airports nation wide
• 01/28 Sat — issued an immigration ban on countries that just-so-happen to have a Muslim-majority population
• 01/27 Fri — pencipoo spoke at the "pro-life" (anti-abortion) rally in Washington D.C.
• 01/26 Thu — atomic physicists set the hands of the doomsday clock to 2.5 minutes to midnight✧
• 01/25 Wed — threatened to stop the "carnage" in Chicago
• 01/25 Wed — restricting funds to sanctuary cities
• 01/25 Wed — Spicer's one-way Dippin Dots feud surfaces✧
• 01/25 Wed — Greenpeace hangs a banner in front of the white house✧
• 01/24 Tue — the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines are green-lit
• 01/24 Tue — gag orders for EPA and USDA scientists
• 01/22 Sun — KaC: Spicer gave "alternative facts"
• 01/21 Sat — Women's March~
• 01/20 Fri — fewer crowds gathered at this inauguration
• 01/20 Fri — 27 words first spoken for the first time at any inauguration✧ and how they differ from the addresses of prior presidents✧