Donald Has Always Been a Pig — He’s only getting worse as his mind crumbles

Donald Has Always Been a Pig

He’s only getting worse as his mind crumbles

Bryan Zepp Jamieson

July 20th 2025

Back on October 14, 2016, just four weeks before the American voters lost their minds and elected Donald Trump president, Time Magazine reported this:

CNN uncovered a 2004 interview with Donald Trump and Howard Stern in which the two men discuss Lohan, who was 18 at the time. The men talk about Lohan’s appearance and how “wrecked” and “troubled” she was at the time. Stern asked Trump, “Can you imagine the sex with this troubled teen?” Obviously, Trump could. He responded, “She’s probably deeply troubled and therefore great in bed. How come the deeply troubled women, you know, deeply, deeply troubled, they’re always the best in bed?”’

Lohan was 18 at the time Trump said that, going on to complain about her freckles, which he apparently found unattractive.

Oddly, Lohan was supporter of Trump in the early days of the new administration, telling a British outlet, “I don’t agree with his policies and the things that he’s doing, but at the end of the day he is the president right now, so what’s the point in picking on someone instead of just seeing what they’re capable of or not capable of?” However, aside from some mild trolling in 2017 that Trump might want to talk to the website Lohan was shilling for—lawyers.com—she hasn’t spoken about him since.

The same CNN article went on to disclose another statement by Trump that partially previews one of Trump’s more bizarre statements in 2025: that he wanted to strip Rosie O’Donnell of her citizenship.

In a later interview with Stern in February 2007, Trump, then best known for NBC reality show The Apprentice, also made derogatory remarks about longtime nemesis Rosie O’Donnell.

“I’d pay a lot of money for that not to happen,” Trump responded to Stern asking whether he would reconcile with Rosie O’Donnell if she performed a sex act on him. “That’s one of the most unattractive people,” he said.”

As support for Trump continues to crumble amongst his once-adoring fans, I’m hearing, more and more, “We had no idea…” No idea he was dishonest. No idea he was authoritarian. No idea he was a chauvinistic pig. No idea he was a thief. No idea he was the monster he really is.

The other day on Facebook, I wrote to one person who was astounded that a contractor refused to do business after seeing a Trump sign on the property, “It’s no longer ‘just politics’; if you still support Trump at this point, it speaks to what sort of person you are, your principles, your decency.” I was nice enough to refrain from pointing out that the Trumpkins on the Supreme Court had upheld the right of business owners to refuse to do business because of sexual preference, or political opinion.

I have no use for the “no idea” people. We’ve known for many, many years exactly what Trump was. He is not only the most hated man in America, but he may just be the most hated man in American history. There’s a coffee cup design that’s popular right now: shows a jaundiced-looking cat above the caption, “Is He Dead Yet?” Nobody ever needs to ask to whom the cat is referring. Hint: It isn’t Jon Arbuckle.

I’ve had people tell me with a perfectly straight face that before Trump entered politics, he was wildly popular and beloved by all, and he sacrificed all that to serve the people. No, really.

Clear back in 1987—yes, 38 years ago!–Trump was cannon fodder for notable comic strips such as Bloom County (Berkeley Breathed) and Doonesbury (Garry Trudeau). I’ve included a couple of copyright violations here, for which I hope to propitiate by linking to Trudeau’s marvelous collection, “Yuge!: 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump (Volume 37)

1987. That was before Trump’s disgraceful calls for the executions of the Central Park Five and before when Trump repeated that demand after the five had been exonerated. That was before Marla Maples, and the squalor of his life revealed. It was before 9/11, before he mocked a disabled reporter, before he raped E. Jean Carroll, and before he became America’s maddest, most vicious, and possibly final President.

In a more recent 1991 sequence, Trudeau had his vacuous TV personality/reporter Roland Hedley interviewing on-the-street New Yorkers about Trump’s hoped-for financial demise. “Curious locals have gathered on the street!” he intones. “Tell me, sir—what will you miss about The Donald’s lifestyle?” Interviewee One replies “Hard to say. There so much that’s repellent about the guy, the boasting, the piggish consumption, the squalid personal life…” Interviewee two interrupts, “How about the hideous décor of his casinos?” “Nah,” One replies, “Who cares about décor? His squalid personal life was the most offensive thing about him!” “It was not! The worst was the hideous décor!” The crowd breaks out in a “Tastes great!” “Less filling!”-type chant while Roland grins at the viewpoint and says, “New Yawkers! They never agree! What are you gonna do, Peter?”

In one panel, the crowd is shouting “JUMP! JUMP! JUMP!” and Roland says, “Peter, the excitement is palpable here tonight…”

Donald Trump is a morally bankrupt pig, and he always has been. If you don’t believe that, you are either a massive fool or there is something very deeply wrong with you.

And he’s only gotten worse, and is a greater danger to all of us.

If you think it’s still “just politics” I don’t know you. I don’t want to know you. You’re disgusting.

And if you are unlucky enough to know such a person, get them a copy of Trudeau’s collection. Watching them read it will make it worth the fourteen bucks!

Day Five — Disgrace and Acquittal

Day Five

Disgrace and Acquittal

February 13th 2021

In many ways, today turned out to be the wildest day of Trump’s impeachment trial. Yes, he was acquitted, with only 57 Senators voting that he was guilty of sedition. Seven Republicans declared his guilt. So he was simultaneously acquitted and humiliated, escaping conviction on a technicality.

The day started with the stunning news that the Senate had voted to permit witnesses. It would have been a disaster for Republicans many of whom want to see Trump gone but who can’t work up the courage to do that themselves. Many of them wanted impeachment to go away, but a lot of them want Trump to go away.

Team Trump immediately started issuing threats, promising that things would get real ugly real fast. Who knows? Maybe their client would whip up a violent armed mob to attack the Capitol to prevent witnesses from testifying. Joni Ernst shouted that the Senate would not consider anything Biden wanted—not COVID relief, not minimum wage, not the remaining cabinet nominations—until the trial ended, and promised witnesses would tie everything up for months.

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler said McCarthy told her of a conversation: “He said to the President, ‘You’ve got to hold them. You need to get on TV right now, you need to get on Twitter, you need to call these people off.’ And he said, the President said, ‘Kevin, they’re not my people.’”

McCarthy told Trump: “Yes they are, they just came through my windows and my staff is running for cover. Yeah, they’re your people. Call them off,” Herrera Beutler said. On Friday she tweeted, “That’s when, according to McCarthy, the president said: ‘Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.” Truly an incendiary account. Trump supporters didn’t want anything like that in the public record, right?

But then something odd happened; the Senate ruled that the accounts of the conversation between House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Trump could be stipulated; in other words, admitted as evidence without objection. The phone call is utterly damning, with McCarthy shouting to Trump to call off his mob (Remember, Trump’s brownshirts were busting the windows to McCarthy’s office at the time). Further, it revealed a depraved indifference on Trump’s part toward his own vice president, Mike Pence. A few minutes later, Tommy Tuberville told Trump that Pence had been hustled away, but was still in danger. Trump followed the conversation with instructions to the mob via tweet to attack Pence for his lack of courage. It’s widely reported that the Pence Secret Service were in constant contact with Trump’s Secret Service, and so Trump had to know Pence was in danger, along with his staff, family, and even the backup nuclear football Pence’s Secret Service carried.

Trump did not call off his mob. He did not send in the National Guard. It was Pence who called the guard, and it was five hours later that Trump finally told his followers to go home. And five days before he bothered calling Pence to see if he was ok.

After that, the Dems suddenly reversed their field on calling witnesses, and today saw the end of the trial, and the 57-43 vote that disgraced but did not convict Trump.

Why did this happen? Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said he voted to acquit Donald Trump because he thought it was unconstitutional to hold an impeachment trial for a president who had already left office. That’s nonsensical on the face of it, but it reveals McConnell’s thinking—he wants Trump gone. He just doesn’t want the Senate to do it and thus widen the existing civil war within the GOP. At least 300,000 voters have fled the party since election day, and there is a serious movement afoot to create a new party that isn’t overwhelmed by Nazis and conspiracy freaks.

To that end, he was willing to disgrace Trump and make criminal charges against him much easier?

Anyone remember Ollie North? Betrayed America through his role in Iran/Contra, got off on a technicality, and spent the rest of his wastrel life gloating at us? He got off because a court ruled that testimony against him in Congressional hearings could not be entered as evidence in criminal proceedings as being prejudicial and a violation of double indemnity. He walked because of the witnesses in Congress.

There may well be hundreds of witnesses who are willing or can be subpoenaed in a criminal trial of Trump for dereliction of duty and possibly sedition. And criminal trials are coming. Count on it.

So Senate Republicans punted, but civilian courts are made of sterner stuff.

In the meantime, this was the most bipartisan impeachment vote in the history of the United States.

Trump may be acquitted. But he has also been disgraced like no other President in history.

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