President Donald Trump has set a troubling record in his first year back in office for failed presidential nominations.

Trump has withdrawn more nominees in 2025 than any U.S. president in the past four decades, according to an analysis from Wake Up to Politics writer Gabe Fleisher, who examined every presidential appointment process since 1981, when Ronald Reagan was in office.

Fleisher found that Trump—despite two months still left in the year—has already outpaced every other modern president, surpassing Barack Obama, who withdrew 35 nominees in 2009.

The report follows the collapse of Paul Ingrassia’s nomination—Trump’s 49th failed pick—after leaked text messages revealed the White House liaison had admitted to having a “Nazi streak.”

Ingrassia, 30, serves as the White House’s liais

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