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U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the America Business Forum at the Kaseya Center on November 05, 2025 in Miami, Florida. The forum brings together global leaders, cultural figures and innovators from various sectors for discussions on business, technology and social development. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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The 10 dumbest, weirdest, and most alarming things Donald Trump has said in 2025

It's been an incredibly stupid year, and one man is at the center of it all!
David James
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Published: Dec 31, 2025 11:47 am

We live in powerfully stupid times. Perhaps it’s social media destroying attention spans, the ongoing destruction of the education system, or just brain damage from repeated COVID infections – but it feels like everyone is getting objectively dumber each day. I mean, take a peek at a random comment section on here sometime!

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And, of course, the King of the Stupids is Donald Trump. Since returning to the Oval Office, he’s rarely gone a day without spouting something insane, evil, nonsensical – or all three at once. So, as 2026 rolls around and we usher in another shining year of stupidity, let’s take a look back at his glittering pronouncements.

First up, let’s head back to May, when Trump delivered a truly baffling speech to West Point graduates:

Rather than talk about military service, he instead mumbled about golf and “trophy wives”, delivering a meandering and irrelevant anecdote about real-estate developer Bill Levitt:

“He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife. Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. But that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell you, a lot of trophy wives, it doesn’t it work.”

Next up, we’re going to August, when Trump ordered that the southern border wall be painted black to make it hotter. We don’t have his exact words on this, but they’re relayed by Kristi Noem, so we feel the stupidity is preserved intact:

“That was specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb. So we are going to be painting the entire southern border wall black.”

Also in August, Trump pronounced that people call him “President of Europe”:

“They jokingly call me the President of Europe. They call me the President of Europe, which is an honor. I like Europe and I like those people. They’re great leaders. And we’ve never had a case where uh.. seven.. plus, really 28… essentially 35.. 38 countries were represented here the other day. 38 European countries.. uh.. European and other countries were represented.”

Now a quick hit of stupidity from October, in which Trump was asked about habeas corpus and appeared to believe the reporter was referring to someone called Habeas Corpus:

Also in October came the frequent cognitive exams that Trump’s doctors are subjecting him to. Probably no big deal that they’re worried about his brain, right? As he explained:

“I also did a cognitive exam, which is also very risky! Because if I didn’t do well, you’d be the first to be blaring it and I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he’d almost never seen a perfect score. And I had a perfect score. Uh, I had the highest score. And uh.. that made me feel good.”

Soon after, Trump displayed his geographical skills by insisting you can walk from Qatar to Iran:

“Literally, you walk over from Iran to Qatar. You can walk it in one second. You go, boom, boom, and now you’re in Qatar. That’s tough territory! I think Qatar are amazing!”

Reader, it will not surprise you that you cannot walk from Iran to Qatar. Qatar is a peninsula in the Persian Gulf, and the only country it shares a land border with is Saudi Arabia. It does share a maritime border with Iran, which sits across the Persian Gulf, though even that (at its narrowest point) is still 119 miles away.

Let’s pivot to Trump’s ego, which was on full display after the death of Charlie Kirk, which he chose to commemorate by bragging that, unlike Kirk, he was actually able to dodge a bullet:

“They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn’t believe it, actually.”

He’s getting worse…

Things have only gotten worse in recent months, including Trump claiming:

“For generations Miami has been a haven for those fleeing communist tyranny in South Africa. I mean, if you take a look at what’s going on in parts of South Africa. Look at South Africa, what’s going on. Look at South America, what’s going on. You know, we have a G20 meeting in South Africa. South Africa shouldn’t even be in the Gs anymore. Because what’s happened there is bad. I’m not going.”

FYI: Miami is not a haven for those fleeing communist tyranny in South Africa.

Then were his thoughts on magnets (how do they work?):

“China was gonna hit us with rare earth. Now, everybody says, what does that mean? Magnets! If China refused to give magnets because they have a monopoly on magnets because they’ve allowed… it happened over a 32 year period. Uh, there wouldn’t be a car made in the entire world, there wouldn’t be a radio, there wouldn’t be a television, there wouldn’t be internet, there wouldn’t be anything, because magnets are such a… Now, nobody knows what magnets are…”

Things only got more incoherent in a baffling speech to McDonald’s franchise owners in November:

“And then they said “skedaddle”. The word “skedaddle” and that plane went *psshhh* like this, you know when it drops the bomb it goes.. down, right? Because it gives it a better angle and, you know, more speed for the bomb. Very very heavy bombs. And they go boom! And as soon as those things… the one pilot, he said “skedaddle!” and that thing just turned on its side *psshhhh* and it, I mean it’s just so unbelievable.”

Soon after came his continued insistence that stealth jets are literally invisible to the naked eye:

“The only time anybody could see those planes was when those bomb chutes open up, because it becomes totally un-stealth. When it goes.. I explain.. uh, Mark Levin once.. You’re going in, you go like this. And as soon as it goes like this, for some reason the plane is totally visible. Not good.

And I watched it happening. Just, it’s like I’m sitting I’m watching it’s amazing. The situation room is an amazing place. But I watched it go bing bing. It went bing bing! And two massive 100,000lb bombs come pouring out and the job they did was incredible.”

Honestly, we could go on (today he proved he doesn’t know what a bald eagle looks like) but you get the point. Researching this article and going back through Trump’s pronouncements over the year has been quite eye-opening. At the beginning of his second term, he generally made sense (by Trump standards).

Now? He’s delivering abstract word salads that indicate his pudding brain is dangling by a thread. But as dumb as 2025 has been, I have confidence that 2026 will be dumber still! Happy New Year to you all!

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