The thing that surprised me most was that he managed to do even worse than I imagined he would do when I first saw that stupid escalator ride to his announcement.
It was a parade of dumb, stupid and hamhandedness from that very first appearance right up until he got on the plane to leave forever. I mean I expected a bunch of the stupidness to happen but I figured there would at least be some adults in the room that would at least try to corral him. But no, I got to watch our president side with a foreign country against the interests of the US, I got to watch him needlessly kill hundreds of thousands of people with his inaction during a worldwide health crisis, I marveled at his ability to shit on our allies and buddy up to despots and dictators, and of course I got to watch him lie about everything from whether or not it was raining during his inauguration (it was, he said it wasn't), to whether or not he supported white supremacists (he said no, he was lying) and who could forget the time he sharpied over a hurricane map to show Alabama in the cone of doom just so he could claim he wasn't wrong when he incorrectly said Alabama was in the cone of doom. I mean, the list of lies from tiny to immense could fill up a book, and I guess I expected that, but I didn't expect it to be as never ending and as damaging as it ended up being.