Nearly halfway through his presidential term, Donald Trump has continued to exist in a perpetual state of controversy, and 2018 provided no shortage of outrageous moments. The Onion looks back at the most significant events in the Trump presidency in 2018.
January 3:
Trump disbands his voter fraud commission after realizing it’s unlikely to land Hillary Clinton in prison.
January 8:
Michael Wolff’s blockbuster book Fire And Fury forces Americans to reckon with the possibility that the Trump administration may be somewhat disorganized.
January 30:
Trump uses first State of the Union to tout his infrastructure plan, something that is totally, definitely still happening.
February 22:
The Department of Justice rescinds civil rights protections for transgender students. Or maybe that was last year. We don’t know anymore.
March 22:
Administration criticized after its official women’s health website removes all mention of women.
March 23:
John Bolton added to general sense of foreboding.
May:
That whole weird deal where we didn’t see Melania for like two weeks.
July 1:
Nation finally resigns itself to the fact that it’s always going to be like this.
October 6:
Trump’s reckless Supreme Court nomination of alleged sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh is rejected by the upstanding members of the Republican Party in a brave stand for basic moral principles.
October 22:
At a rally in Houston, Trump describes himself as “a nationalist” to six seconds of silence, then adds “the nation is America” to 20 seconds of raucous cheering.
October 25:
McRib returns to participating McDonald’s.
December 5:
President lauded for attending funeral correctly.
December 12:
Sentencing of former attorney Michael Cohen to three years in prison alerts distraught Trump to existence of Mueller investigation.
