SUMMARY: Trump’s body count is starting to add up. A couple million in deaths, a few hundred in political violence, and now the poor souls blown from the water in pursuit of whatever narcissistic wet dream he seems to be having. Is it too soon to start talking about Trump in the same way we talk about all governments that have killed millions of their citizens? Has Trump killed more people than any other American government official outside of war?

KEY TERMS: Trump, Murder, , Excess Deaths, Extra-Judicial Killings, Immigration Detention Centers, Medicaid Cuts, USAID, SNAP, Political Violence

COMMENTS: What is Trump’s body count? How does he compare to other American government officials? Where does he rank among other murderous governments?

  1. Killed At Sea
  2. The #COVID19 Pandemic
  3. Immigration Detention Centers
  4. Political Violence
  5. Future Deaths
  6. Image Attriution
The Feculent Touch Strikes Again: The al-Baghdadi Edition

As the number of people murdered by the Orange Caricature because they are on board a boat at sea near a coast mounts, I began to wonder just how many people has Orange Julius Caesar murdered during his time in office and how does it compare to other governments?

I’m asking for your help here in constructing a body count for the TACO Stain. Here’s what I know or think I know:

Killed At Sea

According to PBS, as of Thursday 23 October, Trump had murdered 37 people on board boats in either the Caribbean Sea or in the Pacific. Since then, there is reporting that six more people were killed.

Well, I don’t think we’re going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. “I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. OK? We’re going to kill them.

Trump speaking to reporters “Kill Them:” Trump Says No Congress Nod Needed to Attack Narco-Terrorists

Are there any justifications for Hamas' attack in Southern Israel or the IDF's response?
“We’re Not Monsters” No Excuses for Atrocities

Trump seems willing to go on a merry killing spree, believing that he can kill anyone in the world because he is afraid of them. Fear is the all purpose white supremacist excuse used to have vaguely Arab looking passengers on airlines removed because they made white people nervous. And Black people existing make Karens of both genders nervous across our country. And of course, that boy and his skateboard made Kyle Rittenhouse scared enough to justify murdering him with his assault rifle, and Trayvon Martin made George Zimmerman nervous after Zimmerman attacked him, which justified his murderous actions.

Trump’s body count of foreigners doesn’t seem like its going to slow down anytime soon, either, because he’s said he’s going to attack land targets with the aircraft from the USS Gerald Ford. Trump’s fear of Brown people coupled with his fear of the Epstein files and his fear of Putin’s kompromat is sufficient for him to pull the largest aircraft carrier in the history of the world from striking distance on an active theater of war where our NATO allies are being threatened and sent to where it can kill hundreds of innocent people. Well, there you go.

The Pandemic

Why doesn't MAGA Nation understand that they are dying because their politicians and news outlets are leading them astray?
#COVID19 Deaths Prove Anti-Maskers and Vaxxers Wrong, but don’t Convince Them

Trump made a shambolic mess of a bad situation with the pandemic. A research letter published in JAMA this year estimates that the excess US deaths in 2020 and 2021 were over a million each, totalling 2,107,177. Trump did in two years what took the Khmer Rouge four to do.

To put that two million in perspective, excess deaths in 2019 were just over 600,000, in 2022, just over 800,000, and in 2023, 700,000.

Immigration Detention Centers

The Lost ICE Children Traumatized all the Decent People in America

The number of deaths in immigration detention centers is difficult to determine because ICE, like all other Trump affiliates, lies. NPR reports that the total number of detainees to die in ICE facilities under Trump’s watch is 61. If you take the American Immigration Council’s count of twenty-three deaths in 2025, then the number is 64.

The twenty-three that died in 2025 are seven more than the sixteen that died in 2020 when stalked the camps. In 2021, when Biden was in charge, only five people died in the detention centers despite .

Political Violence

A close up of Trump's right side in five-quarters profile (both eyes visible). It shows two streams of blood having fun across his cheek to his mouth. It shows the upper part of his pinna bleeding with what seem to be two locus of damage to the front and back of the helix. There does not appear to be any extreme damage. It seems cut at best.
Trump Being Shot At Connects Conservative Violent Rhetoric to Acts of Conservative Violence

Trump has been promoting political violence since his fateful ride down the golden escalator before his bevy of paid actors in 2016. Since then, many Republicans have taken up the call to arms. However, it is difficult to get an accurate count of the number of people murdered in political violence because definitions of political violence and assigning motivations and political affiliation can be difficult.

The best count finale on a Google search is 112 dead in rightwing political attacks since 2016. Compare that to thirteen assigned to leftwing perpetrators. In your eye all who are heralding the rise in leftist violence.

Future Deaths

Shows a young baby, maybe a year old, with a measles rash across its flushed cheeks and a yellow towel across its forehead.
The Measles Outbreak, Medicaid Cuts, and Healthcare and Research Spending Reductions: Straight out of Hitler’s Propaganda Playbook

With skyrocketing ACA insurance premiums, a cut in funding for Medicaid, cancelling cancer and other medical research grants, destroying USAID, and other cuts to government funding, many many people are going to die. When we quit giving out fans in the summer in Texas in the 1980s when Republicans cut social service funding, the number of older adults who died from heat-related causes rose dramatically. People don’t realize how much these government programs do.

As rural hospitals close, medications go unpaid for, and symptoms ignored until it is too late, the number of deaths that Trump’s callous disregard for human life and welfare are going to increase. Add to this the disruption in SNAP, WIC, and other food aid due to the government shutdown, and suddenly you’ve got hundreds more unnecessary deaths. Is it too soon to talk about Trump along with some of the more deadly governments in human history? Is it possible that he’s killed more people than any other president outside of war?

He’s got a long way to go before he can join the ranks of Hitler, Mao, and Stalin, but he’s already surpassed such well knowns as North Korea, Tito, and Turkey’s Kurdish Genocide. And, he’s on par with the Khmer Rouge and World War II Japan. Let’s face it with his narcissistic desire to be best, there’s no where to go but up from here!

Image Attriution

This image was found on the WikiMedia Commons page, File:Skulls of the victims of the Khmer Rouge occupation of Cambodia.jpg