30 Political Gaffes That’ll Make You Grateful You Have No Foreign Policy Experience or Charisma
Desperate attempts at relatability
![30 Political Gaffes That’ll Make You Grateful You Have No Foreign Policy Experience or Charisma](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/0/2/1003302_320x180.jpg)
“Politicians are just like you and me, honey.” That was our impression of a Martian mother explaining the behaviors of these politicians to her Martian child. Because there’s no way an Earthling parent could say the same about what’s happening here.
![On August 21, 2019, Trump tweeted that the dollar was the strongest it's been in history. That day, the U.S. Dollar Index - the most common measure of the dollar's strength - was 40% less than its record high. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/5/1001155.jpg)
![Trollitical History Tom Moore's resolution praising the Boston Strangler On April 1, 1971, Texas lawmaker Tom Moore tricked his fellow legislators in the state House into passing a resolution that praised the Boston Strangler for his unconventional techniques involving population control. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/4/1001154.jpg)
![Trollitical History The Canuck letter In 1972, a letter was printed by a newspaper that said Senator Edmund Muskie (D-Maine) had approved of and laughed at the term Canuck for French-speaking Canadians. It was later discovered that this letter was a fake planted by Richard Nixon. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/2/1001152.jpg)
![On May 4th, 2017, Canadian Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU wore some extremely loud Star Wars socks to a meeting with the Irish Prime Minister. Не was apparently trying to show that he's just like everyone else and loves pop culture, bless his heart. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/3/1001153.jpg)
![In 2014, then-Mayor BILL de BLASIO was laughed at for using a knife and fork to eat pizza at a Staten Island pizzeria. (It's usually eaten with your hands in New York City, something you'd think the mayor would have known). CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/1/1001151.jpg)
![In 2015, then- Mayor of London MICHAEL BLOOMBERG tried to take BART during his presidential campaign stop in the Bay Area, but he couldn't figure out how to use the card for it - even though he was mayor of the very subway-reliant New York City for 11 years. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/8/1001148.jpg)
![CRACKED 887549 059636 In 1992, then-President GEORGE H. W. BUSH went to a grocery store convention in Orlando, Florida and was really impressed by the electronic scanners. Не bafflingly asked if the scanners could tell if someone spelled his name wrong.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/4/1001144.jpg)
![P Then-Prime Minister of the UK THERESA MAY somehow felt she had to show off her dance moves in 2018 while she was in Nairobi, Kenya. Cringing and laughter ensued. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/0/1001150.jpg)
![WRONG WRONG BOB HALL WRONG Hall, a Texas State Senator, said at a hearing that the animal testing for the COVID-19 vaccines had been stopped because the animals were dying, and they never got around to the human testing. Obviously, this was total BS. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/3/1001143.jpg)
![WRONG WRONG WRONG CLAY HIGGINS Higgins, a U.S. Congressman, said in 2023 that gun violence doesn't exist, and that more kids are killed by abortion than guns each year. How's that for attempting to erase reality? CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/7/1001147.jpg)
![STEVE KING Congressman King said in a speech to the House of Representatives that transgender troops were similar to slaves who had been castrated. That guy's made plenty of bizarre quotes, but WRONG this one is up there. WRONG WRONG CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/5/1001145.jpg)
![WRONG WRONG WRONG RAÚL R. LABRADOR At a town hall in Lewiston, Idaho in 2017, Rep. Labrador said that no one dies from not having access to health care. This made the crowd (made up exclusively of human body owners) really mad. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/9/1001149.jpg)
![LISA MCCLAIN McClain, a Republican Congresswoman, once claimed that Donald WRONG Trump was responsible for catching Osama bin Laden. Of course, bin WRONG Laden was killed during Barack Obama's administration, some WRONG Republicans' fantasies notwithstanding. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/6/1001146.jpg)
![WRONG WRONG WRONG GET OUT ON OF JAIL Last Chance DEAN DAVIS Davis, a politician from Oklahoma, said he couldn't be arrested because of his job. Не made this claim when he was taken into custody for being drunk in public. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/1/1001141.jpg)
![WRONG WRONG WRONG HANK JOHNSON Congressman Johnson was worried that if too many military personnel were sent to Guam, the island might flip over. My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize, were his exact words. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/0/1001140.jpg)
![TED CRUZ WRONG WRONG WRONG At the hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, Cruz asked her about some books for Black kids, like Antiracist Baby. Не was pretty ANTIRACIST wrong about what was in them, and claimed they were BABY teaching kids to be racist. IBRAH X. BENDI ILUSTRATIONS to ASHLEY LURASHEVSKY CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/6/1001136.jpg)
![JAMES INHOFE WRON WRONG WRONG In 2015, Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma brought a snowball to the Senate floor to prove that global warming isn't real. It's a snowball just from outside here. So it's very, very cold out. Very unseasonable, he said, in February. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/7/1001137.jpg)
![Trollitical History The Sadiq Khan balloon On September 1st, 2018, a giant balloon of then-London Mayor Sadiq Khan wearing a yellow bikini was flown over Westminster with the approval of the authorities. It was 29 feet long and nicknamed baby Khan. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/4/2/1001142.jpg)
![Trollitical History Julius Malema's egg-throwing in parliament In 2015, South African politician Julius Malema and his EFF group caused some chaos when they disrupted the opening of the country's parliament by throwing eggs. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/9/1001139.jpg)
![Trollitical History RTMark's fake World Trade Organization In 2001, US activists' group RTMark created a website that looked like it belonged to the WTO. They even sent a representative, Andy Bichlbaum, to international conferences to talk about the world economy and declare the end of the WTO. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/9/1001129.jpg)
![Trollitical History Lyndon В. Johnson's oddly racist snake prank In the late 1940s, then-Congressman LBJ used to pull a prank on black gas station attendants by driving up with a snake in his trunk. One time, it almost got him beaten with a tire iron. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/3/1001133.jpg)
![Trollitical History Strom Thurmond's record filibuster Sen. Thurmond of South Carolina set a record in 1957 for the longest filibuster ever, lasting 24 hours and 18 minutes. His staff put a bucket in the cloakroom so he could pee while still keeping one foot on the Senate floor. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/1/1001131.jpg)
![Trollitical History Ukraine's Darth Vader cosplayer In October 2014, Darth Vader, a candidate in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, was not allowed to vote because he wouldn't take off his mask. Не was a guy formerly known as Viktor Shevchenko, who said he was a serious politician. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/4/1001134.jpg)
![RISHI SUNAK had a bit of trouble when trying to buy a can of Coke with contactless payment as part of a photo ор. Turns out, he had no clue how contactless payment worked. beds Specia Estre FOR CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/0/1001130.jpg)
![In 2015, then-Prime Minister of Australia TONY ABBOTT spontaneously took a big bite out of a raw onion while visiting a farmer in Tasmania. Не later said he wanted to show his appreciation for the hard work of the farmer. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/2/1001132.jpg)
![CRACKED Every April, VLADIMIR PUTIN hosts a live show on Russian TV. It's been going on since he became president decades ago. The show is shameless cult-of-personality stuff, filled with bright LED screens and a cheering audience.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/8/1001128.jpg)
![In 2015, then- Mayor of London BORIS JOHNSON accidentally rammed into a 10-year-old schoolboy while they were playing street rugby in Tokyo, Japan. Не knocked him over and, of course, had to apologize. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/6/1001126.jpg)
![In 2018, Canadian Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU was made fun of for being waaayyy too careful with his words, when he interrupted a woman at a town hall and told her she should have said peoplekind instead of mankind. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/5/1001135.jpg)
![HILLARY CLINTON Hillary once tried to drum up the youth vote by suggesting young folks should Pokémon Go to the polls. Yeah, big Hello, fellow kids energy. PROOF adidas CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/3/8/1001138.jpg)
![CRACKED JOE BIDEN tried to connect with people during the third Democratic presidential debate in 2019 by saying that black parents should be given advice on how to raise their kids, and warning to make sure you have the record player on at night.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/2/7/1001127.jpg)