October 2, 2025

The 20 Most Disgraceful People in the Trump Administration, So Far

During the first Trump administration, I marked my extreme distain for the whole operation by posting a regular feature on this website, Trump Terrible 10, ranking and critiquing the ten most disgraceful people in the administration that week. Consistent with my views about the best way to operate during Trump 2, I’m not doing that this time. No way. 

But I’m gonna post this list, without all the glib editorializing. It has the benefit of some social media crowdsourcing for fine-tuning. I might revisit the rankings at some point. Feel free to send me your thoughts.

Disgracefulness ranking is based on a combination of (1) illegal abuse of power; (2) pursuit of terrible policies; (3) personal corruption; (4) blind obedience to Trump whims; (5) dishonesty; and (6) just general awfulness. 

  1. Donald Trump
  2. Pam Bondi
  3. Stephen Miller
  4. Russ Vought
  5. Pete Hegseth
  6. Kristi Noem
  7. Bobby Kennedy
  8. JD Vance
  9. Brendan Carr
  10. Chris Wright
  11. Tom Homan
  12. Kash Patel
  13. Ed Martin
  14. Vince Haley
  15. Susie Wiles
  16. Karoline Leavitt
  17. Scott Bessent
  18. Lindsey Halligan
  19. Bill Pulte
  20. Tulsi Gabbard
  21. Lee Zeldin
  22. Doug Burgum
  23. Paul Ingrassia

OK, 23.