preposterous
Welcome to the Hall of Fame page for some of the most preposterous statements or actions taken in politics recently. Bipartisan, you will find. Thought-provoking, but in ways you may not have considered initially. These political gems made us scratch our heads a little, at least! Those political nuggets are expressed when common sense takes a vacation.
A pro-trump supreme court?
February 28, 2024 - SCOTUS says it will decide in June whether a former POTUS has immunity against federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office - six months thinking on a critical case.
arizona GOP senate candidate kari lake
February 19, 2024 - Lake tells KTAR her nasty comments about the late U.S. Senator and war hero, John McCain, “was said in jest,” as she mounts a campaign for the U.S. Senate herself.
Presumptive 2024 GOP Nominee Donald J. Trump
January 25, 2024 - Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) confirms Trump killed the GOP bill to stop the border & fentanyl crisis so he can use it as an election issue for the rest of 2024.
Credit: US Rep. Sean Casteen
Credit: US Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
CONGRESSIONAL LAPEL PINS
January 10, 2024 - Facing a looming government funding shutdown, Congressional Republicans spent $40,000 on new lapel pins for members because they disliked the green but loved the gaudy gold.
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
January 6, 2024 - House Republican Conference chair, Elise Stefanik, from upstate New York, says January 6th defendants including those already court convicted, are “hostages,” on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Credit: Florida Department of Health
Credit: CNN
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD
January 4, 2024 - DeSantis Surgeon General says mRNA vaccines can contaminate human DNA and called for the end of distribution to patients despite lacking scientific evidence to support his opinion.
U.S. Senator markwayne mullin (r-Ok)
November 14, 2023 - A schoolyard brawl nearly broke out in a formal Senate Committee hearing when the 46-year-old Oklahoma lawmaker challenged Teamsters president and witness Sean O’Brien to a fight.
Credit: Scott Applewhite, Associated Press
U.s. rep. matt gaetz (r-FL)
October 3, 2023 - In an extreme right-wing maneuver, the Panhandle Florida Congressman engineers a coup d’etat against Speaker Kevin McCarthy through the entire Congress into political chaos.
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U.S. Rep. Marjorie taylor-green (r-ga)
May 18, 2023 - The Georgia conservative firebrand introduced articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden as a political stunt with absolutely no shred of evidence of wrongdoing by POTUS 46.
governor ron desantis (r) vs. walt disney world
April 22, 2022 - The Florida Governor dumbly repeals Disney’s corporate improvement district in place since 1971 in retaliation for opposing him on a controversial signature issue before the state.
Texas AG Candidate George P. Bush (R)
July 26, 2021 - Craven political pandering was on full display when Bush groveled for Trump’s endorsement. It went to incumbent Ken Paxton despite being under investigation for alleged corruption.
Candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders, (R-AR)
July 23, 2021 - Trump’s former press secretary said on Fox News there will be no mask or vaccine mandate if elected Governor: “We believe in personal freedom and responsibility.” What abortion rights, critics ask.
PRESIDENTIAL SON HUNTER BIDEN
July 23, 2021 - The Biden White House says that "Hunter Biden will not know, we will not know who purchases his art." Ethics experts are not convinced.
U.S. REP. RONNY JACKSON, (R-TX)
July 22, 2021 - The former Trump presidential physician challenges the media to find out how many House Democrats have been vaccinated against COVID-19. The answer was already widely known: All of them.
Megyn Kelly, Podcast Host
July 12, 2021 - The attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th was not an insurrection according to the former cable and network host. Kelly claimed the media hyped up the riot to make it look 'Worse than it actually was.”
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Newsmax Host Rob Schmitt
July 9, 2021 - Vaccines are “against nature” so he argues.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, (R-GA)
May 23, 2021 - Tweeted to former U.S. Secretary of Labor and University of California at Berkeley grad Robert Reich, “Don’t know you, but when I saw Berkley in your bio, I got it. Just put the hammer and sickle with it.”
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U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, (R-NC)
May 21, 2021 - Said that the British would not have surrendered at Yorktown if George Washington was wearing a mask. Comment made on The Water Cooler aired on Real America’s Voice.
melania trump, fLOTUS
October 27, 2020 - “Children watching and learning about politics in our country deserve a better display of political responsibility,” says the First Lady of the United States in a speech slamming Democrats during the closing days of the 2020 presidential campaign.
mark meadows, trump white house chief of staff
October 25, 2020 - “We are not going to get control of the pandemic.” The war-time president’s chief of staff tells CNN that Trump has surrendered. Americans, we should note, do not surrender wars.
donald j. trump, 45th president of the united states
September 2, 2020 - The President, fermenting voter fraud on mail-in ballots, tells North Carolina residents to vote twice - a felony in that state.
Ron DeSantis - Florida governor
August 12, 2020 - Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis compares the difficulties of reopening public schools in the challenging 2020-21 academic year because of the coronavirus pandemic with obstacles faced by the U.S. Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011.
tucker carlson - fox tv host
August 12, 2020 - With a name like, Tucker, you would think that a TV host would not intentionally mangle the name of a major party candidate for Vice President of the United States. But he did. And, the same Tucker, when corrected, replied, “So what?” Casting stones in politics when you live in a glass studio can be problematic and is ill-advised.
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NBC News - Meet The Press
United States Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)
August 10, 2020 - The Texas Republican Senator, Ted Cruz, mocks Massachusetts Democrat Senator Ed Markey on his proposal to assist 30 million unemployed Americans with $2,000 monthly payments for a defined period sarcastically saying: “Why be so cheap? Give everyone $1 million a day, every day, forever. And three soy lattes a day. And a foot massage.”
peter navarro - trump white house trade advisor
August 9, 2020 - Peter Navarro tries to convince NBC’s Chuck Todd on Meet The Press that Donald J. Trump is the “hardest working president in history” while 45 was golfing at his private New Jersey country club during the pandemic crisis that has killed more than 160,000 Americans. This was Trump’s 271st time playing golf since taking office.
ABC News
mark meadows, white house chief of staff
July 26, 2020 - White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows welcomed the efforts of foreign governments to influence the presidential election for Donald Trump on ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos. Foreign interference in U.S. elections is a U.S. crime.
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betsy devos, u.s. secretary of education
July 16, 2020 - “More and more studies show that kids are actually stoppers of the disease and they don’t get it and transmit it themselves, so we should be in a posture of — the default should be getting back to school kids in person, in the classroom.”
The White House
donald j. trump, 45th president of the united states
July 15, 2020 - The most powerful person in the world resorts to hawking Goya products for a campaign supporter at the HMS Resolute desk, a place of thoughtful governing by previous presidents, Republican as well as Democrat.
USA Today
peter navarro - trump white house trade advisor
July 14, 2020 - Peter Navarro attacks Anthony Fauci, MD, in a USA Today op-ed saying the publicly popular and widely trusted infectious disease expert has been “wrong about everything I have interacted with him on.”
The White House
kayleigh mcenany, press secretary
July 9, 2020 - The White House Press Secretary tried to convince us that there is “no greater ally of the Cuban community than President Trump - he loves the Cuban community, he moved his residence down to South Florida.” Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club to Havana, Cuba is some 286 miles if you take a boat across the Gulf of Mexico.
The White House
hogan gidley, deputy press secretary
July 9, 2020 - McEnany’s second at the podium says the President’s message on fighting COVID-19, saving the tanking economy, and restoring law and order “has been consistent: resilience, hope, and optimism.” That’s of course, when new cases are uncontrolled, 45 million have been unemployed, and the president’s agency heads are not shooting our fellow citizens in the streets and parks.
The walt disney company
July 8, 2020 - The entertainment giant dedicated to family values rushed into an agreement with the controversial former quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers to produce a docuseries on how to promote greater diversity through content. Colin Kaepernick has not been known for his sensitivity to diversity.
Melania trump, first lady
July 7, 2020 - Hosting a White House summit on re-opening schools safely, the First Lady says kids are missing laughter with their friends, learning from their teachers, and the joy of recess play. No word or Trump plan on how to avoid contracting deadly COVID-19, half a year after starting to spread in the U.S.A.
shannon latier, jefferson descendant
July 6, 2020 - The great-great-great-great grandson of our third president and author of the American Declaration of Independence says Thomas Jefferson “didn’t do anything to help create a free and equal society.”
US Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
July 5, 2020 - The decorated former combat officer says that she is open a discussion on removing monuments to George Washington in the face of protests to remove statues to our first president who brought America through the Revolutionary War with Britain. Do we assume that means the big obelisk, too?
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mike pence, u.s. vice president
June 26, 2020 - We’ve made remarkable progress in fighting COVID-19 says Vice President Mike Pence on the same day that the United States reported 40,000 new cases in 24 hours. The highest single-day rate during the entire pandemic crisis.
American Airlines
american & united airlines
June 26, 2020 - Both American and United Airlines announced that they are abandoning social distancing onboard their aircraft and will be filling the middle seats and flying full. The United States recorded its highest-ever number of new coronavirus cases on the same day. 40,000.
West Virginia governor jim justice (r)
June 3, 2020 - Discussing that the state of West Virginia would welcome the Republican National Convention leaving North Carolina says that would include “any president” except “maybe Barack Obama.”
Kayleigh McEnany, White House Press Secretary
May 19, 2020 - “If it were any other President of the United States the media would take him at his word,” says newly-appointed Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany criticizing the media for not believing the President, who has lied about a documented 18,000-plus times, is taking hydroxychloroquine.
donald j. trump, 45th president of the united states
May 18, 2020 - President Trump declared to reporters at the White House that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine, a purported COVID-19 preventive, for a week and a half. Medical studies indicate it may cause cardiac arrest. The President is said to have “common” heart disease.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky)
May 12, 2020 - Responding to criticism from former President Barack Obama of President Trump, the Majority Leader said in a campaign video, “I think President Obama should’ve kept his mouth shut,” adding it was classless and noting that 44 had “his shot” for eight years.
Las vegas mayor carolyn goodman (i)
April 22, 2020 - “We have had viruses for years.” Re-open the casinos, restaurants, and hotels and essentially let the virus get the workers. “We will see what happens,” the Mayor alleged.
donald j. trump, 45th president of the united states
April 22, 2020 - @realdonaldtrump Tweet: “I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.” Did we know that gunboats fly?
US Rep. alexandria ocasio-cortez (d-NY)
April 15, 2020 - The New York firebrand argues “inequity” is a “pre-existing condition” when deserving people are being denied healthcare coverage regardless of race, gender, faith, or wealth.
The coronavirus stimulus program (R Senate/D House)
April 15, 2020 - High school seniors across the nation were not included in the “Trump” stimulus” checks even though their generation will pay the $2 trillion price tag and the President egotistically signed his name to that slight of check.
Florida Governor Ron Desantis (r)
April 14, 2020 - The Florida Republican Governor argues World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an essential service contending that its content, which is generated by fake wrestling matches, is more important than safety in the coronavirus crisis because his citizens are “starved” for entertainment.
US Rep. Trey hollingsworth (r-in)
April 14, 2020 - The conservative Indiana Congressman says senior lives are not as important as making money and therefore the economy should take precedence over protecting our elderly population. Said the 36-year-old to Vanity Fair: “Lawmakers Must ‘Put On Our Big Boy and Big Girl Pants’ and Let Americans Die.”
Florida governor ron desantis (r)
April 9, 2020 - Governor DeSantis wants to open Florida public schools sooner than health experts recommend because, he wrongly concludes, school-age children do not tend to get the coronavirus. The Republican DeSantis issued stay-at-home orders for the entire Sunshine State just nine days earlier.
Georgia Governor Brian kemp (r)
April 2, 2020 - Georgia’s Governor, Brian Kemp (R), says that he did not know people infected with coronavirus could be asymptomatic and thus might unknowingly spread the often fatal disease. The newly elected Governor’s comments came nearly three weeks after President Trump declared a national emergency on this health challenge on March 13th.
us rep. matt gaetz (r-FL)
March 9, 2020 - The Florida Congressman from the Panhandle wears a gas mask onto the U.S. House floor to mock coronavirus hours before he went into quarantine himself and a constituent died from the disease. Gaetz denied he wore the mask to make fun of the coronavirus.
donald j. trump, 45th president of the united states
February 28, 2020 - “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear” Florida resident Donald J. Trump commenting on the coronavirus crisis before more than 10,000 Americans died from COVID-19.