Source: DANIEL SLIM / Getty 2025 has been a difficult year for a lot of people, and for some, the biggest burdens they had to bear were a result of the decisions made in Washington, D.C. Contrary to what Pharrell Williams may think, politics is not a "magic trick", and its machinations have real-world impact on millions of people's ways of life. In addition to inflicting pain on the proletariat, politicians and politically adjacent public figures have gotten themselves into trouble this year. BOSSIP has compiled a short but mighty list of some of 2025's most infamous instances.