The White House did not publish an official “Naughty List” for 2025 — though whether they made one is anyone’s guess — a handful of lawmakers would have been shoe-ins for inclusion.
These people worked against President Donald Trump and his administration over the past year by holding up votes on Trump’s nominees and agenda, attacking the president on social media and in the press, and badmouthing him and his team in front of any microphone they could find.
They come from both parties and across the country, unified only in their opposition to the Big Man. Let’s take a look at which Grinches made the list.
LaMonica McIver
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) was one of three New Jersey lawmakers who physically pushed their way into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) holding facility in her state. She and the others claimed that ICE agents had gotten “rough” with them, but body cam footage belied her account.
McIver was indicted for her trouble, on three counts of “forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene
President Trump’s former ally is the most recent lawmaker to incur Trump’s wrath.
After a series of criticisms from Greene — focused primarily on the Trump administration’s handling of files related to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — Trump attacked the Georgia congresswoman in several Truth Social posts. Calling her “Marjorie Traitor Greene” in one instance, he cheered her eventual resignation from Congress as “good for the country.”
In the days since, Greene has given a handful of interviews — and they’ve been progressively less flattering to Trump.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The New York firebrand has been a more-or-less constant thorn in the side of Republicans since she was elected, and 2025 has proved to be no different. With the policies championed in her proposed Green New Deal languishing under the weight of Trump’s regulatory reform, she has turned to jabbing at members of the administration and those who support it via social media.
One such barb was aimed at former collegiate swimmer — and staunch advocate for women and girls — Riley Gaines, who pointed out the dangers of embracing socialism as AOC has.
“Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth,” Ocasio-Cortez said, referencing the 2022 NCAA championships where Gaines had tied for 5th place with trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas.
Gaines was unperturbed, replying, “It’s always hilarious when they think they’ve landed a ‘gotcha’ by pointing out I was the 5th-fastest woman *in the nation* yet they conveniently forget the mediocre man who ranked 462nd in the men’s division lol. Misogynistic dunce.”
Ocasio-Cortez also took to social media to crow about a poll that showed her besting Vice President JD Vance in a potential 2028 match-up. What she didn’t mention was that the poll was taken in Canada, where socialism has already taken hold — and where no one can vote for her, anyway.
Mark Kelly
Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) joined five other members of Congress — all of them veterans of either the Armed Services or the Central Intelligence Agency — to make a video encouraging members of the military to question their orders in real time. Nicknaming them the “Seditious Six,” Trump said his administration was prepared to investigate Kelly in particular because, as the only member of the group who retired from the military, he is still subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and can be recalled to be court-martialed for his actions.
Chuck Schumer
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer kept members of his party in line through the longest government shutdown in American history — and despite the fact that he and his party got nothing for their trouble, they still managed to inflict a significant amount of pain on people who either worked for the federal government and were furloughed or were dependent on government assistance.
When the shutdown finally ended, Democrats got none of the things they’d demanded, and members of Schumer’s party began to turn on him.
“Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said at the time.
Hakeem Jeffries
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has almost constantly been at odds with the Trump administration — and his attacks have often been disingenuous at best. After claiming that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had refused to talk to him about bringing the shutdown to an end, Jeffries was forced to admit to CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins that they had, in fact, spoken — and that Johnson had initiated the call.
On another occasion, Jeffries aimed his ire at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz. He mocked the acclaimed cardiothoracic surgeon and claimed that no one should take him “seriously.”
Fox News anchor John Roberts laid out the fact check: “Just a quick fact check for the minority leader: Mehmet Oz: Undergraduate degree — Harvard; MD — UPenn; MBA — Wharton School; He was a renowned cardiothoracic surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital before taking the leap into TV.”
Jeffries did praise Trump for issuing a pardon to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), whose indictment was viewed by a number on both sides of the political aisle as politically motivated — but on balance, he more than earned the sombrero memes in which he was featured.
Chris Van Hollen
Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) was at first of many congressional Democrats who sided with dangerous criminal aliens over American citizens, attacking ICE agents for faithfully enforcing federal immigration laws. But when his party and their media cohorts effectively adopted MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia as their cause du jour, it was Van Hollen who took his activism to absurd new heights.
When the criminal illegal alien was deported and sent to El Salvador — an admitted mistake made by the Trump administration, which could legally have deported him to any country other than El Salvador — it was Van Hollen who took it upon himself to fly to El Salvador and demand to meet with Abrego Garcia.
Adam Schiff
Perhaps the naughtiest of them all, Schiff made the leap from the House to the Senate in January, and although he still hasn’t delivered the “evidence” he swore he had of Trump colluding with Russia, he has poured a fair amount of time and effort into being a bee in the Trump administration’s bonnet.
Just two days after Trump’s inauguration, Schiff complained in an X post that Pam Bondi — then Trump’s nominee for attorney general — had not given a thorough review to all of the January 6th pardons. He omitted the fact that his party had stalled Bondi’s confirmation process — and therefore it was ridiculous to expect her to already be doing the job they were preventing her from getting.
In the months since, Schiff’s statements have been an exercise in lacking self-awareness.
“That attitude that you can make a president or a party unsuccessful, no matter what damage it might do to the country, because it’s good politics — we have to get past that ruinous idea,” he said on a recent podcast, omitting his own history of doing exactly that to Trump.
When War Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered strikes on narco-terrorists in the Caribbean, Schiff referred to men who survived the initial strike as “shipwreck survivors” and declared the strikes illegal. He later complained that Trump had only survived multiple prosecutions because then Attorney General Merrick Garland had not been “partisan enough.”
Here’s hoping these naughty folks enjoy their coal — and learn to be nicer next year!
