The Sixth Annual Idiot of the Year Awards
An idiot is someone who’s convinced they aren’t one. That exempts me from the category. If you gather a bunch of idiots and put them in charge of the world’s major nations for a decade, you get roughly what we have now. Today is my favorite day of the year. My job for twelve months is to spot fools and prove that they are fools. My job today, one day a year, is to gather the biggest fools of all into a single ranking. The 2025 crop has easily surpassed all previous ones. Once again, I have the honor of presenting to my friends at The American Spectator the nominees for the 2025 Idiot of the Year Award — and I can’t wait to read your votes in the comments.
I can’t think of a better ending for the biggest promoter of international wokeism than to end up putting up with Katy Perry 24 hours a day.
Nicolás Maduro, a shapeless, hollow mass growing around a mustache.
He’s the kind of person you’d never want to rob a bank with. The kind who drops a piece of paper with the address of where you’re hiding the money in the middle of the heist. The one who gets nervous, kills all the hostages, and leaves without the money. The one who can’t count bills without constantly licking his fingers. The problem in Venezuela is that it’s being robbed — and Maduro is the leader of the gang.
Pedro Sánchez, the man who whispers to his handcuffs.
After watching all his collaborators end up in jail for corruption, with dozens of judicial investigations open into his inner circle and even his family, he refuses to resign, claiming his government acts swiftly against corruption. Indeed, his party acts swiftly to steal before the judges arrive. Despite being the son-in-law of the owner of a large network of brothels, he’s spent years hammering on with the slogan “I’m a feminist because I’m a socialist,” and now a #MeToo movement has erupted within the party, including his chief advisor, who turned out to be a pervert. In short, the legal net is tightening around Moncloa Palace hour by hour, and millions of Spaniards are already chilling expensive champagne, waiting for the moment this man — who has done so much damage to Spain and the world — finally falls.
Zohran Mamdani, the Democrats’ new icon.
With economic ideas that would make a first-year economics student blush, Mamdani has become the new Democratic darling; everyone wants to be like him. My suggestion: they start by throwing themselves to the ground, butt up in the air, pointing away from Mecca.
Pete Buttigieg, attempting to convert to the faith of common sense (still a long way to go).
After spending his entire career relentlessly promoting identity politics and “wokeism,” now that he’s out of power, he’s suddenly realized that the left will never win another election if it doesn’t distance itself from these obsessions that divide society. It’s not that he’s had a change of heart; he just wants to win elections. Buttigieg’s conversion miracle was wrought by Saint Donald Trump.
Bad Bunny, the typical rich guy who wants everyone else to be poor.
He claims he makes songs, which makes you wonder what the Rolling Stones, Hombres G, or even Mozart are really doing. A guy whose lyrics could be the script for a low-budget porn film tries to lecture you on feminism and tolerance.
Mahmud Abbas, the friendly face of car bombs.
Every terrorist group needs a useful idiot who, precisely because he seems like an idiot, is allowed into presidential palaces and takes photos dressed in a suit and tie.
Ted Sarandos, public enemy number one of Western culture.
Conservatives have plenty of reasons to criticize Soros and denounce his entire network of influence to make the world a worse place. But the focus of the culture war today isn’t Soros — it’s Sarandos. Netflix is poison for the West. I’m amazed that so many conservatives are happily funding that poison.
Ursula von der Leyen, Montagu’s harrier inhabiting the Brussels carpet.
One day we should talk about how the CDU (Christian Democratic Union of Germany), teeming with far-left idiots in disguise, has ruined Europe. The best representative of this organized gang of traitors is von der Leyen.
Ali Khamenei, the meddler-in-chief.
Find any place in the world, any place you like, examine its main problems, zoom in, and you’ll find Iran working behind the scenes to make things worse.
Richard Gere, “exiled” in Spain.
I have written to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Foundation of Friends of Stranded Sperm Whales due to Obesity, because I consider it an unnecessary ideological genocide against Spaniards that, in addition to putting up with Pedro Sánchez, we now have to endure Richard Gere lecturing us on politics from his luxury mansion Española. Deportation now!
Justin Trudeau, Katy Perry’s boyfriend.
I can’t think of a better ending for the biggest promoter of international wokeism than to end up putting up with Katy Perry 24 hours a day. Good luck with that, Justin.
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