Direction

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Dr. Conspiracy

I don’t watch much TV and had never seen an episode of The Apprentice. As a life-long southerner, the New York celebrity scene wasn’t of any interest. My very first time hearing Donald Trump was in 2011 on one of the morning TV shows and the topic was Barack Obama’s birth certificate. Trump was throwing out innuendo suggesting that Obama’s birth certificate, then not public, said he was a Muslim, never mind the fact that no US birth certificate has a child’s religion on it.

As the years went by, Donald Trump became a vector for a number of conspiracy theories, most notably 2020 election denial.

I spent thousands of hours online debunking conspiracy theories about Barack Obama, writing over 4,000 articles on the topic at my Obama Conspiracy Theories blog. This time around, I’m going to take the same approach, applying the same fact checking and debunking techniques to conspiracy theories about Donald Trump, starting with the 2024 US Presidential election. When I started on Obama I knew almost nothing about him. I had an open mind. Trump has accumulated a lot of baggage in my mind since 2011; I’ll have to be extra careful not to let my biases get in the way.

Bad News Sells

The infamous “mainstream media” has put out some pretty strong doomsday speculation about the upcoming Trump administration. Trump’s image wasn’t helped by the selection of Matt Gaetz for Attorney General, perhaps the worst pick ever for that job, who was so bad he finally withdrew. So the political left will provide the grist for the Trump Conspiracy Theories mill.

Does he intend to use the Department of Justice against his political enemies? Will he wreck the economy with tariffs and mass unemployment after gutting the federal workforce? Is he in the tank for Vladimir Putin? Is Medicaid doomed? Will children starve without school lunches? After the election, will he play golf and let Elon Musk or JD Vance run the government?

As I said once before back in 2011:

Let the Claims Begin1

  1. The Debunker’s Guide to Obama Conspiracy Theories ↩︎

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Bribery?

Posted on June 16, 2026 by Dr. Conspiracy

Rachel Maddow, as usual, sets up this story beautifully:

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Trump’s Golden Statue

Posted on May 22, 2026 by Dr. Conspiracy

I just wanted to share this high-production-value video I found:

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No Class

Posted on May 22, 2026 by Dr. Conspiracy

The true reason CBS canceled the Late Show with Stephen Colbert is a matter of speculation, whether it was political or economic, but there no question that the President demonstrated his total lack of class when commenting on the end of an era:

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Trump’s Lost His Mind

Posted on April 14, 2026 by Dr. Conspiracy

There hasn’t been much content here at Trump Conspiracy Theories. That’s because I’ve been overwhelmed by just how bad things are.

The video above shows an image that Donald Trump posted on his own social media. It’s not a fake; he really posted it.

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Make Liberals Cry Again

Posted on December 22, 2025 by Dr. Conspiracy

Much less been written here than was intended originally. I’ve been in shock. Every time I’m about ready to write about some outrage, a bigger outrange comes along. Just read Truth Social.

I guess the worst is Trump murdering shipwreck survivors. And if Trump is personally not to blame, the is certainly to blame for not raising hell over it happening or making sure it doesn’t happen again. He trashed the Pope on Truth Social. He put his name on the Kennedy Center (illegally). He pardoned terrorists who smashed their way into the Capitol and assaulted police officers; that pardon was so broad that the recently-arrested pipe bomber is arguing that the pardon covered him too. Trump pardoned a drug kingpin responsible for 400 tons of cocaine bound for the US. And putting a nut job anti-vaxxer in charge of DHHS — with a measles outbreak now in South Carolina.

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Bombing Iran

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Dr. Conspiracy

I had a flash of deja vu this morning. I looked it up and found this old memory from the 1980’s.

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Loving Trump

Posted on May 27, 2025 by trumpconspiracy_l4s5gf

Today is the 8th Sunday after Easter, and Christians who use the Revised Common Lectionary may have heard the scripture lesson from the Gospel of John this morning, including these words:

[Jesus said:] I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

John 13: 34-35 NRSV

A group of Lutheran bishops have produce a video titled “Insistent on Love.”

Insistent on Love

Trump followers promote the narrative that opposition to President Trump is grounded in hate. They, along with Trump himself uses the phrase “Trump hater” often, and his followers have long referred to political opponents as having “TDS” (Trump derangement syndrome). TDS became an almost automatic response for anything. And some who use that term also express a desire to “make liberals cry.” They have succeeded.

And indeed, there are people who resent the super rich, the privileged and the ones who seem to get away with things that would land anyone else in prison.

But Trump really seems to have blown a gasket or something. On Easter, when over a billion Christians worldwide are celebrating new life in Jesus, Trump took to Truth Social and offered an Easter greeting:

Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. …

Context: Memorial Day was today (May 6), a national day of remembrance honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. This is Donald Trump’s Memorial Day Message on his social media platform, Truth Social, starting:

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS …

There’s something pathological going on. Normal people can put political differences aside for national observances like Easter and Memorial Day. It sounds either like consuming hate or incitement to hate. Is he really unable to let go for even a few minutes?

Noting good can come of this.

Update:

Sometimes, I would rather not be right. In Minnesota, a far-right individual murdered 2 and wounded 2 others in a politically motivated assassination. His manifesto named 70 individuals as targets, including Democratic politicians and abortion providers.

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Some Odd Videos

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Dr. Conspiracy

Some odd videos have been appearing on Facebook, depicting President Trump, Vice President Vance and Elon Musk performing menial agriculture and factory jobs.

I think the idea being presented is that the Trump trade policies will result in American workers doing more of the types of labor found countries that supply low-cost goods to the US.

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Trump Tariff Math

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Dr. Conspiracy

Trump made a big presentation about tariffs on April 2, held up a chart, and his administration later published a formula of how they calculated the tariffs. The short takeaways are:

  1. The formula doesn’t calculate what it claims to calculate, and indeed obfuscates what they’re really doing. In reality, all the formula calculates is the percentage trade deficit we have with a country.
  2. Trump is putting a 10% tariff on countries with which we have a trade surplus, just because.
  3. On average, the US consumer will pay 10.25% more on everything we buy from other countries, from eggs to car parts.

I found two excellent videos explaining the math in some detail. The first, following, is from CBS News. I list it first because it’s more succinct and easier to follow. It also shows more plainly why the Trump formula is bogus and how two of its terms cancel each other out. They’re just for show.

The second video is from British math educator Matt Parker. It goes into more detail (sometimes a bit rambling) demonstrating the Trump formula is a gross oversimplification and points more specifically to government data sources:

I have a master’s degree in mathematics and I endorse these explanations, although the math is 4-function pocket calculator level.

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Trump attempts to exact retribution against law firms who represented his political opponents and put them out of business

Posted on March 23, 2025 by Dr. Conspiracy

Trump crossed the line again. This video explains it in detail.

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