It’s tempting to think Donald Trump has exhausted his list of caustic labels to be applied to those who dare to disagree with him. We are, after all, talking about a president who has told Americans his political opponents are “fascists” who are guilty of “treason.” His domestic foes are also “enemies of the people,” “the enemy within,” “scum” and “threats to democracy.”
Last year, Trump went so far as to insist Democrats were “evil” and members of “the party of Satan.” More recently, the Republican president decided that Democrats who agree with the majority of Americans about the war in Iran are “traitors.”
As this week got underway, however, Trump published an item to his social media platform that included a new label for his domestic political foes. The missive read in part:
So ironic that Cryin’ Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are hiring SLEAZEBAGS like Barack Hussein Obama’s Crooked former Attorney General, Eric Holder, and others of that ilk, to look into Voter Integrity, when this same group of Human Garbage RIGGED the 2020 Presidential Election. GET TOUGH REPUBLICANS — THEY’RE COMING, AND THEY’RE COMING FAST! They’re no good for our Country, they almost destroyed it, and we don’t want to let that happen again! These are highly dishonest people who are, in many ways, treasonous, in that they are trying to destabilize the United States of America in what, some would call, a War.
There’s no point in fact-checking every delusional error of fact and judgment in Trump’s online rant — Holder isn’t “crooked”; no one “rigged” the 2020 election; etc. — but the president’s willingness to describe his American detractors as “human garbage” is new.
During the 2024 presidential election, Trump referred to the United States as a “garbage can,” which reflected a striking lack of patriotism, but nearly two years later, he has apparently amended his assessment.
There was a time in the not-too-distant past in which a sitting American president publicly referring to his political opponents as “human garbage” would’ve been a huge story. In 2026, however, Trump’s comments went largely ignored, probably because so much of the political world has grown inured to the routine madness that emanates from the White House on a near-daily basis.
But as recently as last week, after a gunman attempted to breach the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted, “This political violence stems from a systemic demonization” of the president.
Four days later, her boss labeled American officials he doesn’t like as “human garbage,” as part of a pattern that can be accurately characterized as “systemic demonization.”
The next time Republicans complain about inflammatory and intemperate political rhetoric, keep this in mind.
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