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Donald Rumsfeld

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The Resume

    (July 9, 1932-June 29, 2021)
    US Navy (1954-57)
    US Secretary of Defense (1975-77, 2001-2006)
    White House Chief of Staff (1974-75)
    Congressman from Illinois (1963-69)

Why he might be annoying:

    He’s richer than hell (his fortune is over $50 million).
    His friends call him 'Rummy.'
    Many grannies consider him a sex symbol.
    He's had the same haircut for fifty years.
    He squints and grimaces whenever he hears something he doesn’t like.
    He tends to say ‘by golly’ a lot.
    He does not have a seat behind his desk, he prefers to stand.
    He smokes a pipe.
    He ran unsucessfully for the Republican nomination for President in 1988.
    He has been accused of covering up a scandal where American soldiers inhumanely mistreated Iraqi war prisoners (May 2004).

Why he might not be annoying:

    He’s blunt and honest.
    Watching his press conferences can be a hoot.
    He mocks reporters who ask him stupid questions.
    He has more testosterone than all the previous Secretaries of Defense combined.
    He helped load the Pentagon’s wounded onto stretchers on September 11th.
    He served as a US Navy pilot.
    He looks like an astronaut.
    He is the first man to serve as Secrfetary of Defense twice.
    He was the youngest Secretary of Defense ever in 1975 (and one of the oldest in 2001).

Credit: JinnFiend


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 18 Votes: 61.11% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 52 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 103 Votes: 43.69% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 370 Votes: 58.65% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 175 Votes: 55.43% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 147 Votes: 53.06% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 153 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 108 Votes: 53.70% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 168 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 295 Votes: 56.95% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 342 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 353 Votes: 51.84% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 471 Votes: 49.68% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 1274 Votes: 43.41% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 5523 Votes: 31.87% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 1174 Votes: 37.14% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 878 Votes: 55.01% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 1762 Votes: 73.27% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 1615 Votes: 75.42% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 2078 Votes: 69.92% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 15047 Votes: 65.30% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 2937 Votes: 58.80% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 16022 Votes: 36.11% Annoying