Attorney General Pam Bondi tried scoring brownie points with Donald Trump on Tuesday, but it backfired hilariously. Despite being a top administration head, Bondi can’t read a chart, apparently.
In an X post on Dec. 30, Pam Bondi triumphantly declared that “since day one” the Donald Trump Administration had been crushing the drug epidemic. She lauded Trump’s work on closing borders, seizing Fentanyl, and credited him with stopping the drug crisis.
But to substantiate her claims, Bondi shared a graph showing annual U.S. drug overdose death rates by census region from October 2015 through October 2024. If you read that correctly, you’ll know what’s wrong with that at a glance. But Bondi missed that detail. The chart data ends before Trump began his second term. If anything, it shows how DOD crashed down during Joe Biden’s administration.
The chart shared by Pam Bondi crushed her own claims
The data Bondi posted shows overdose deaths peaking around 2022–2023 and then dropping sharply into late 2024. That period that sits squarely under the Biden administration. In other words, Trump was not in office when the decline occurred. But Bondi’s caption credited him and her Department of Justice anyway. She wrote:
Since day one, the Trump Administration and this Department of Justice have been fighting to end the drug epidemic in our country.
Even if someone were to believe the Attorney General, she killed her own narrative. The federal data she publicly posted showcases Biden-era outcomes. So, the decline in Drug overdose deaths is plainly not one of Trump’s accomplishments. Users on X noticed Bondi’s blunder immediately and jumped in on the moment.
“Claiming credit for Biden’s work while saying Biden did nothing” became the dominant theme of the replies. But some were less polite. People pointed out that an Attorney General should be able to read the x-axis of a chart before turning it into propaganda. The replies also mocked Bondi for being “incompetent” and an “embarrassment.”
After realizing her mistake, Bondi decided to run away instead of clarifying
After comments kept pouring in, Bondi realized her blunder as well. But instead of correcting the attribution, she chose the worst possible option: deleting the tweet. Hilariously, that move didn’t do her any good. In fact, that’s when the ridicule intensified.
People began circulating screenshots of her post, and the story spread even further. What could have been dismissed as a sloppy post turned into something more revealing because of her dumb move. It also proved the Trump administration’s embarrassing reflex to erase inconvenient evidence rather than acknowledge it.
Bondi deleted the post because she didn’t have alternative data to support her points. The public had now already seen that the DOD dropped during Biden’s term. Bondi could not have posted anything to twist the narrative in her favor at this point. But what’s disappointing is that she didn’t even dare to acknowledge her mistake. And only because that would mean praising Biden.
The incident raised questions about every claim of accomplishment by the Trump administration
Since taking office, the Trump administration has routinely claimed victories while simultaneously accusing previous administrations of doing nothing. But people are now forced to question if those claims are also based on data that predates the administration itself. The logic is simple: if they can do it for one thing, they can do it for anything.
The irony of the situation is also unavoidable. The Trump administration keeps accusing others of misinformation, but they’ve been caught doing the same red-handed. And the argument wouldn’t have hit so hard if Bondi hadn’t deleted the post and spoken about the mistake instead. But when the numbers don’t cooperate, Bondi chose disappearance instead of transparency. Unfortunately for her, the internet has already saved the receipts.
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