Alright, y’all, we’re again for one more spherical of Dumbest Moments Of 2025. The primary spherical merely wasn’t sufficient. Far an excessive amount of has been performed to normalize anti-intellectualism this 12 months, arguably extra so than every other 12 months in latest historical past. We’ve abject ignorance within the White Home for a second time. We made actual life and satire just about indistinguishable. America has all the time been this racist, however has it ever been this dumb earlier than?
You recognize what? Don’t reply that. Let’s simply get began, we could?
Karoline Leavitt defends Trump’s “medbed” AI
One factor to learn about being a member of the Trump administration is you’re going to appear to be an fool whereas defending the president’s idiocy. That is White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s each day actuality because the administration’s official mouthpiece, and if she wasn’t already this dumb earlier than touchdown the job, she definitely is dumber for having taken it.
In October, President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video of himself selling a cure-all “medbed,” which references a QAnon medical conspiracy idea about fictional medical beds that can treatment a affected person of just about any ailment and “restore each citizen to full well being.”
Is it science? No. Is it science fiction? In all probability. Did Trump notice it was AI, or did he truly suppose he made an announcement that Jesus beds have been in manufacturing? Who is aware of? This one isn’t about Trump being a moron; we’ll get again to that additional down the checklist. This entry is about Leavitt, who mainly needed to put her mind on autopilot to BS her manner by means of this one.
“The president posted an AI deepfake of himself speaking about medbeds. What was he attempting to speak?” a reporter requested Leavitt throughout a press convention.
“I believe the president noticed the video and posted it after which took it down, and he has the precise to try this; it’s his social media,” she responded. “He’s extremely clear, as you all know. You hear from him straight on social media. He likes to share memes. He likes to share movies. He likes to repost issues that he sees different individuals publish on social media as properly, and I believe it’s fairly refreshing that we’ve got a president who’s so open and trustworthy straight himself, many a occasions on Fact [Social], you might be listening to straight from the president of the US.”
It’s like they suppose we’re all this silly. Nobody however individuals who stick issues up their noses for enjoyable as adults thinks it’s “fairly refreshing” that the commander in chief just about lives on social media and reveals how “clear” he’s by compulsively posting any disinformation, misinformation, or outright propaganda that occurs to return throughout his newsfeed. It’s debatable that nobody within the final century is extra chargeable for “faux information” than the man who coined the expression. We should always discover no consolation in that.
Shifting on…
Is our training secretary even educated?
Again in June, Schooling Secretary Linda McMahon, whose profession as a professional wrestling mogul someway certified her to function the very best academic authority within the nation, was requested a easy query throughout a congressional listening to, when Rep. Summer time Lee (D-Pa.) sought clarification on which historical past classes could be thought-about “unlawful DEI” underneath the Trump administration. Lee was even gracious sufficient to supply McMahon a few examples, particularly concerning well-known occasions in Black historical past that needs to be frequent data however are new data to the one that is actually accountable for training.
McMahon solely proved she is aware of McNothing.
“Wouldn’t it be ‘unlawful DEI’ for a lesson plan on the Tulsa Race Bloodbath?” Lee requested McMahon.
“I’d should get again to you on that,” McMahon stated.
“Are you aware what the Tulsa Race Bloodbath is?” Lee requested.
“I’d prefer to look into it extra and get again to you on it,” McMahon replied.
McMahon gave comparable non-answers when requested about Ruby Bridges. As I wrote beforehand, “McMahon didn’t know something about probably the most well-known race riot in American historical past, and he or she didn’t seem to know a lot (if something) in regards to the first Black scholar to attend a desegregated college in Louisiana — however she’s the authority on which Black historical past topics represent ‘unlawful DEI’?” Not that actually any historical past would fall underneath any range, fairness, and inclusion coverage. It’s not an employment spot or a scholarship; it’s simply factual U.S. historical past.
Have we actually gotten so dumb that we think about information to be a range initiative? Once more, don’t reply that.
Megyn Kelly tried accountable Barack Obama for Charlie Kirk’s loss of life
Now, relating to Megyn Kelly, there’s no scarcity of situations during which she has bolstered the dumb blonde stereotype by opening her mouth about actually something. I imply, simply final month, she was nonetheless publicly mulling over whether or not or not Jeffrey Epstein was technically a pedophile. I’m not even positive she was sensible sufficient to count on the backlash she acquired for it.
However there was one occasion during which Kelly revealed how dense the air is between her ears that largely flew underneath the media radar. It was through the time when conservatives have been desperately looking for accountable any and every little thing associated to “the left” on the assassination of white Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk, together with their failed agenda to make a leftist out of Kirk’s accused killer, Tyler Robinson, who, as I wrote beforehand, “is a white Christian male who’s from a conservative household and loves weapons like conservative households love posing for Christmas pictures with weapons.”
After all, that was simply the regular-degular politicizing of a tragedy that occurs after each high-profile taking pictures. The take Kelly supplied, nevertheless, was merely a moronic show of MAGA logic, and one that completely demonstrated how a lot Obama continues to stay within the white conservative thoughts, rent-free, a complete decade after his presidency ended.
“We haven’t felt like ourselves since Barack Obama. He was such a slick snake. This affable man sporting good fits and appeared the half and sounded the half and dressed the half. However so divisive in his messaging,” Kelly stated.
“He’s the one who began to inject race the place nobody had been doing it. He’s the one who began to make use of his pen within the telephone to shove issues down our throats that we didn’t need. He’s the one who shoved by means of an entitlement on our healthcare and our private physician visits that he promised he wouldn’t mess with, and he did, actually hurting individuals and inflicting large anger and open lies,” stated the bimbo-licious racist who vehemently defended blackface and said emphatically that Jesus and Santa Claus are white and will solely be depicted as white.
As I famous beforehand, “Obama spent eight years defending himself in opposition to allegations of being a socialist, communist, Marxist, Muslim, terrorist-sympathizing foreigner, to the purpose the place he felt compelled to point out two types of his beginning certificates to fight lies that he was ineligible to be president.” And the demonstrable racist who championed these lies, and continues to champion many extra racist lies, turned Obama’s successor.
Talking of Trump…
Trump and the MS-13 tattoo debacle
On Tuesday, a federal choose canceled the human smuggling trial for Salvadorian migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the person wrongly deported to a detention middle in El Salvador by the openly unapologetic Trump administration — and scheduled a listening to on whether or not the prosecution is being vindictive in pursuing the case in opposition to him, which was launched by the administration in August, after Abrego Garcia was launched from federal custody, solely to be instantly arrested by ICE.
However earlier than all of that occurred, Trump and U.S. Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi had been on a marketing campaign to painting Albrego Garcia as an MS-13 member, which led to the president making a demented idiot of himself throughout an interview with ABC Information’s Terry Moran. In the course of the interview, Trump introduced a picture of the tattoos on Abrego Garcia’s fingers with the letters and numbers “M,” “S,” “1” and “3” photoshopped over every knuckle, and our steady genius of a president didn’t appear to know that the letters and numbers have been, certainly, photoshopped, and repeatedly insisted they weren’t.
Moreover the truth that specialists on gang membership have constantly reported that the tattoos on Abrego Garcia’s hand are largely unremarkable and that there is no such thing as a proof that they’re gang-affiliated, Trump’s bid to propagandize the person right into a gang he was probably by no means part of has blown up in his face spectacularly, additional exposing what, at this level, can hardly be uncovered any additional:
Trump is an fool and a bigot, the very mixture that acquired him two phrases as president within the first place.
Samantha Fulnecky, College of Oklahoma, and DEI for dumb white individuals
OK, since we’re virtually performed with this checklist, let’s have a look at a newer instance: 2025’s descent into anti-intellectualism.
This month, College of Oklahoma scholar Samantha Fulnecky made headlines and a right-wing circle jerk talking profession out of being a mediocre white lady, whose class was assigned to write down a response paper about an article that centered round conventional gender stereotypes. As an alternative, Fulnecky wrote about how her Christian beliefs make hatred of trans individuals OK, even though trans individuals weren’t the topic. Past that, she didn’t cite sources — not even any particular bible passages —barely even referenced the article, wrote the essay poorly, and failed to satisfy different necessities listed within the rubric for the project. So, Fulnecky obtained a zero on an project that deserved a zero.
Or to let her and the remainder of MAGA America, she was unfairly persecuted for her Christian beliefs by a woke educator, who occurred to be a trans lady.
So, Fulnecky and the white Christian nationalists who took up her trigger kicked and screamed till OU eliminated the instructing assistant who failed her and made it so the failing grade wasn’t counted in the direction of her general grade, as a result of, on this silly nation, we decrease the requirements for poorly performing white individuals whereas mendacity about how DEI lowers the requirements for non-white individuals.
By the best way, right here’s Fulnecky gleefully admitting she by no means even learn the article she was supposed to write down about, and wrote the paper up in half an hour, which the standard of writing made apparent anyway.
The White Home thought-about Walmart and DoorDash dependable sources of financial knowledge.
For the previous couple of weeks at the very least, Trump has been crashing all the best way out over his plummeting approval rankings, which present his personal supporters starting to activate him, largely over his financial failings. The president has been on his dumbly named “Fact” Social platform, whining about how polls don’t replicate how exhausting he’s labored, mendacity about how improved the financial system is underneath him. In early December, he was up for hours typing out some 160 rage posts about how nice his administration has been, and the way horrible everybody hating on him is, then he repeated that vitality on Christmas day with the same prolonged tweetstorm.
However earlier than all of that, his administration was actually out right here attempting to persuade America that metrics from DoorDash and Walmart proved he was making our financial system nice once more.
After all, it took no time in any respect for just about everybody with a functioning mind to debunk Trump’s claims that Walmart’s “2025 Thanksgiving dinner underneath Trump is 25% decrease than 2024 Thanksgiving dinner underneath Biden” by noting that the corporate’s 2025 meal is smaller than its 2024 providing and contains extra Nice Worth model objects than it did final 12 months. The White Home’s report citing DoorDash’s first-ever State of Native Commerce Report —which claims grocery costs on breakfast objects have dropped 14% between March and September 2025 — was additionally completely debunked as soon as individuals realized DoorDash’s declare relies on the corporate’s “Breakfast Fundamentals Index,” which is made up of the worth of 4 objects: three eggs, a glass of milk, a bagel, and an avocado.
The Trump administration additionally misstated a lot of DoorDash’s already doubtful knowledge as a result of it’s a very silly administration that has given us this inconceivably silly 12 months.
Anyway, let’s shut this factor out with the final entry on this checklist.
Trump’s golden statue
There may be presumably no higher visible illustration of the Idiocracy that’s 2025 than a 12-foot golden statue of President Donald Trump holding a Bitcoin, which was briefly put in outdoors the U.S. Capitol in September.
The statue was reportedly funded by a bunch of crypto buyers, who stated the set up was “a tribute to Donald Trump’s vocal advocacy for cryptocurrency and serves as a provocative assertion on the evolving panorama of digital finance.”
So, mainly, crypto buyers have been out erecting golden monuments to Trump, giving us a visible illustration of how all he has achieved this 12 months is utilizing his abysmal presidency to additional enrich himself, whereas the remainder of us tighten our belts because of the failing financial system he promised to save lots of us from.
As we famous partially 1 of this checklist, these are solely examples of the round the clock idiocy that we’ve got seen normalized in 2025. Might 2026 be a better 12 months despite the MAGA morons who will proceed to run the so-called biggest nation on the earth.
God, assist us all.
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