Here Are 16 Dystopian And Sometimes Utterly Bizarre Things Donald Trump Did This Week

A week under the Trump administration can feel like a month. Oftentimes, it seems like every single day comes with a barrage of headlines, and it’s hard to keep up without endlessly doomscrolling.

So, to save your thumbs and your minds, I’ve compiled a list of wild things Donald Trump has done this week. Enjoy (or not)!

1. Sunday, April 6:

As the stock market plummeted following Trump’s tariff announcements, a reporter asked him whether there was “a threshold” of pain in the stock market that he was unwilling to tolerate. 

His response? “I think your question is so stupid.”

3. Sunday, April 6:

He even went as far as calling tariffs a form of “medicine.” Yes, as the global market shook, he told reporters, “Sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.”

4. Monday, April 7:

Shifting away from the tariffs — for a moment — Trump bragged to reporters about a golf tournament he competed in. “I won. It’s good to win. You heard I won, right? Did you hear I won? … I won… I have a very low handicap.”

HuffPost estimates that Trump’s golf trips have cost US taxpayers upwards of $26 million so far. We’re less than three months into his second term. 

5. Monday, April 7:

Trump invented a new word for people who may be panicking about turmoil in the stock market: PANICAN. 

6. Monday, April 7:

After winning the 2024 World Series, the Dodgers were welcome in the White House… where Trump weirdly fawned over their arms amid a bunch of bumbling.

“When you ran out the healthy arms, you ran out of really healthy— they had great arms but they ran out. It’s called sports. It’s called baseball in particular and pitchers I guess you could say,” he said. 

7. Monday, April 7:

A photo comparison of Trump and former President Joe Biden’s Oval Offices went viral because Trump has apparently redecorated the room with A LOT of gold. 

8. Tuesday, April 8:

Likewise, people couldn’t help but notice another mini renovation made in the main entry hall at the Department of Justice. During former administrations, portraits of the president, vice president, and attorney general hung on the wall. Now? It’s just Trump. 

View before and after photos here. 

9. Tuesday, April 8:

Annnnnnnd we’re back to tariffs. Unfortunately. 

Earlier this week, Trump seemed to block out all of the resentment spreading online amid his global trade war and claimed other countries “are calling us up, kissing my ass,” he said during the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). “They are dying to make a deal. ‘Please, please, sir, make a deal. I’ll do anything. I’ll do anything, sir.”

10. Tuesday, April 8:

During the NRCC, Trump was speaking on midterms when he made this bold claim: “I really think we’re helped a lot by the tariff situation going on… It’s going to be legendary. Legendary in a positive way.”  

11. Tuesday, April 8:

In an extremely odd move that reeks — in my opinion — of possible last-minute decision-making, Trump announced that he planned on implementing tariffs on pharmaceuticals. (Spoiler Alert: He later announced a 90-day pause on tariffs. So I guess this is up in the air for now.) 

Regardless, in a Gallup survey, about one-third of aging Americans expressed concern over being able to afford prescription drugs. This was pre-tariffs, in 2024. 

13. Wednesday, April 9: 90 day pause + 125% on china

Then, at 12:18 p.m. on that same day, he announced the authorization of a 90-day pause on tariffs — except for with regards to China, which got a tariff raise to 125%. 

14. Wednesday, April 9:

About two and a half hours later, Trump’s White House’s official X account shared this ominous and arguably dystopian message: “DO NOT RETALIATE AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED.” 

15. Wednesday, April 9:

Speaking on the US’s relationship with China and Biden’s role in this relationship, Trump hypothetically asked, “How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?”

This quote unleashed a fury of jokes from people who claim to ask themselves this same question every day. 

16. And finally, Thursday, April 10:

During a now-heavily-criticized cabinet meeting, Trump made several claims that experts have since shot back at. One claim was that the US “took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China” via tariffs, which fact-checking reporter Daniel Dale debunked. 

“As many of our colleagues keep pointing out, because we have to, all that revenue was paid by US importers,” Dale said on CNN. “And we know from study after study and just from talking to people in this country, most of those costs were passed on to US consumers.”

WELP! Let us know your thoughts on these events and whether you’d like to see more about Trump’s administration as a whole in our next edition. See ya next week!

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