45 Things Donald Trump Should Pardon
2 min readJan 20, 2021
It’s totally possible within minutes or seconds of me posting this the soon-to-be former president will have announced his pardons already. Even so, I’ve decided to make a last ditch plea for consideration by the 45th president. Here it goes… I need to type quickly. I’m running out of time, and so are the people, places and things on this list. The list follows — in no particular order. BTW — there’s nothing remotely funny about this administration so I’m hoping some of these make you laugh.
- The Last Jedi
- The final season of Game of Thrones and Dexter.
- Dominos Pizza’s The Noid
- Mike Myer’s Judge Ito impression on Saturday Night Live
- Sofia Coppola’s performance in The Godfather Part III — Coda or no Coda
- Mantecore
- People who still use the word “epic”
- Javier Bardem’s No Country for Old Men haircut
- Anthony Hopkins for appearing in Transformers: The Last Knight
- MC Skat Kat
- Z. Cavaricci
- People who still use Drakkar Noir
- My friend who popped dodge balls at a day camp I worked at
- McDonald’s for still using “I’m lovin’ it” as a tagline
- The Grammys for giving Steely Dan gold over Nirvana
- The Black Eyed Peas for writing “My Humps”
- Vince McMahon for leaving Donald Trump in its wrestling Hall of Fame
- Fannypacks
- The guy who thought it was a good idea to put commercials before trailers in movie theaters.
- Tony Little’s ponytail
- Rudy Giuliani’s farts
- Friendster
- Popeye’s Sea Hag
- Season Three of This is Us
- Pixar’s Cars 3
- Peter Cetera’s haircut in the “Glory of Love” music video
- Obama’s tan suit
- Hillary’s emails
- Crystal Pepsi
- New Coke
- The Alf Christmas Special
- The original Aunt Viv
- Dumb and Dumber To
- The Gimp from Pulp Fiction
- Gunther from Friends
- Cousin Oliver from The Brady Bunch
- The Director’s Cut of Cats
- The first episode of WandaVision
- Best Buy’s return policy
- Gina Carano’s Twitter feed
- Barnes & Noble bathrooms
- The Wilpon Family
- Home Alone 2’s pigeon lady
- Jimmy Fallon’s hair rub
- The door that hits him in the ass on the way out