Asinine Assertions


The most profoundly asinine or hypocritical statements and claims made by Donald Trump.

From the petty and provocative to the injurious and inflammatory – a series of statements highlighting Donald Trump’s sweeping ignorance and propensity to lie about even the most trivial matters.

 

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≡ Oct. 13 2020

 

Retweeted Q-Anon conspiracy theory claiming Osama bin Laden is still alive, and Obama and Biden murdered Seal Team 6.

» The claim originated from a website packed with unsubstantiated conspiracy theories and offered no evidence to support the outrageous claim.

» The Navy Seal who killed bin Laden replied, tweeting:

“Very brave men said goodby to their kids to go kill Osama bin Laden. We were given the order by President Obama. It was not a body double. Thank you Mr. President.”

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≡ Oct. 10, 2020

 

Contrary to known science, Trump claimed to be ‘immune’ to COVID-19 while recovering from his infection.

» After claiming he had gained immunity from COVID-19 in a Fox News interview, Trump repeated the claim in a Tweet which was promptly flagged by Twitter for “spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19” due to known cases of COVID-19 reinfection.

 

 

≡ Oct. 8, 2020

 

Called Kamala Harris a “monster” and made several false claims about the Vice Presidential candidate.

» During an interview with Fox Business News, Trump said:

“This monster that was on stage with Mike Pence, who destroyed her last night by the way, but this monster she says ‘no, no, there won’t be fracking, there won’t be this’. Everything she said is a lie.”

» Trump continued his scare tactics, saying Harris was a “communist” and “well beyond a socialist”.

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≡ Oct. 7, 2020

 

Claimed he would have all soldiers serving in Afghanistan back by Christmas.

 

» An unlikely achievement that had not been officially planned at the time of the tweet – and whatever happened to not telling the Taliban when our troops are leaving?

 

≡ Oct. 5, 2020

 

Told people not to worry about COVID-19 and insisted everyone had access to the same quality of healthcare he received after catching it.

 

 

 

≡ Aug. 31, 2020

 

Claimed ‘dark shadows’ were controlling Joe Biden and planes filled with dark-clad ‘thugs’ and ‘rioters’ were invading cities.

 

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≡ Aug. 17, 2020

 

Promoted a toxic plant as another bogus treatment for COVID-19.

» Based on suggestions of Housing Secretary Ben Carson and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, Trump promoted the use of an experimental drug (created from the toxic oleandrin plant) to treat COVID-19.

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≡ July 27, 2020

 

Announced, then canceled, a surprise ‘first pitch’ at Yankee Stadium – an event that was never scheduled.

» Apparently jealous of attention Dr. Fauci was receiving after he was invited to throw the season opening pitch at Yankee Stadium, Trump told reporters an hour before Fauci’s pitch:

“[The president of the Yankees baseball team] is a great friend of mine… and he asked me to throw out the first pitch, and I think I’m doing that on Aug. 15 at Yankee Stadium.”

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≡ July 31, 2020

 

Ranted about cans and bags of soup-bricks being thrown at police by protesters:

 

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≡ June 31, 2020

 

Claimed he was designating ANTIFA as a ‘Terrorist Organization.’

 

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≡ June 9, 2020

 

Suggested a 75-year-old protester knocked unconscious by police might’ve been an “ANTIFA provocateur”.

 

 

Video at Buffalo protest shows police pushing 75-year-old man | CBC News (6.5.20)

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≡ May 28, 2020

 

Shared tweet that claimed wearing masks during a pandemic was ‘not about public health’ and akin to slavery.

 

 

≡ Apr. 24, 2020

 

Suggested ‘bringing ultraviolet light inside the body’ or injecting disinfectant as potential treatments for COVID-19.

“Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way.”

“I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or, or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that.”

» Unnecessarily clarifying that he’s not a doctor, Trump explained his suggestions might hold merit because he’s “like, a person that has a good you-know-what.”

 

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≡ Dec. 6, 2019

 

Says people are ‘flushing toilets 10, 15 times’ due to water conservation standards:

 

 

≡ July 29, 2019

 

Claimed to have aided first responders on 9/11 and cleared rubble.

“Many of those affected were firefighters, police officers and other first responders. And I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first responder. But I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you.“

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≡ July 17, 2019

 

Implied Rep. Illhan Omar might be ‘married to her brother’.

“There was a lot of talk that she was married to her brother. I don’t know anything about it. I heard she was married to her brother.”

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≡ July 14, 2019

 

Told four Congresswomen of color (three of whom were born in America) to go back to their ‘corrupt’ countries: 

 

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≡ Feb. 28, 2019

 

Defended Kim Jong-un after the death of an American citizen who had been imprisoned and tortured in North Korea.

» Trump said of the dictators involvement in American citizen Otto Warmbier torture and death:

“I don’t believe he would have allowed [torture] to happen… I will take him at his word that he didn’t know.”

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≡ July 24, 2018

 

Claimed he would protect people with pre-existing conditions while claiming Democrats would take protections away.

» At the time of the tweet, Trump and the GOP had voted 54 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act and protections for pre-existing conditions while offering no replacement or substitute protections.

 

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≡ June 12, 2018

 

Asserted that Kim Jong Un – a repressive dictator holds as many as 100,000 of his own citizens in inhumane gulags – “loves his people.”

“He’s a tough guy. When you take over a country, a tough country, tough people and you take it over from your father — I don’t care who you are, what you are, how much of an advantage you have — if you can do that at 27 years old, that’s one in 10,000 that could do that. So he’s a very smart guy. He’s a great negotiator, but I think we understand each other.”

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≡ April 2018

 

Thinks the Baltic states and the Balkans are the same; criticized the Baltic states for causing the Balkan wars.

» Blamed Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvian leaders for “starting the war in the 1990’s” that ended with the breakup of the former Yugoslavia (this despite his 3rd and current wife, Melania, being from Slovenia in the Balkans.

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≡ Jan. 2, 2018

 

Took credit for zero U.S. commercial aviation deaths in 2017.

» Which could be said for 2014, 2015, and 2016 as well – hardly the result of any action(s) by Trump.

 

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≡ Oct. 20, 2017

 

Tweeted a bogus interpretation of crime statistics from England and Wales, claiming a dramatic rise of ‘Radical Islamic’ terrorism.

 

» Trump derives his number from a wildly inaccurate reading of the report, and in fact – for matters that might be considered ‘Radical Islamic’ terrorism – the report shows an increase of less than 0.1% over the previous year.

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≡ Sept. 30, 2017

 

In response to criticism about the lack of aide provided to the American citizens of Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria:

 

» …to an island of people without power, and which his emergency response as president was poor at best.

 

≡ Aug. 21, 2017

 

Looked directly into the sun during a solar eclipse.

 

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≡ Aug. 13, 2017

 

“Very fine people on both sides.”

—President Donald Trump, in reference to a Neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville that was met by protesters, and during which a protester was killed + dozens injured when one of the nationalists intentionally drove his car into a crowd of them.

» The nationalist and Neo-Nazi marchers chanted things such as “Jews will not replace us” and “blood and soil” (an old Nazi slogan).

» Previous day, Trump also resisted singling out white nationalists (and perpetrators of the violence), instead condemning “violence and bigotry, on many sides”.

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≡ July 19, 2016

 

Trump’s ‘Nuclear Speech’.

 

 

≡ July 17, 2016

 

Unironically bragged about his humility:

“I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.”

 

≡ May 5, 2016

 

 

≡ Jan. 18, 2016

 

“Two Corinthians”

“Two Corinthians 3:17, that’s the whole ballgame. … Is that the one you like? Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”

 

≡ 2016

 

Allegedly believes the body is an exhaustible battery, and that exercising drains it and shortens your life.

» According to two biographers who interviewed former associated of Trump:

Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. So he didn’t work out. When he learned that John O’Donnell, one of his top casino executives, was training for an Ironman triathlon, he admonished him, “You are going to die young because of this.”

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≡ Oct. 26, 2015

 

Claimed his whole life has been a struggle and that he started his career with only “a small loan of a million dollars” from his father.

“My whole life really has been a ‘no’…It’s not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me… My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.”

» A New York Times investigation found Donald Trump inherited at least $413 million from his father – much of it through fraud and tax dodges.

» Furthermore, the investigation revealed the “$1 million” loan was actually over $60 million (or $140 million in todays dollars), and most was not paid back.

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≡ Sept. 16, 2015

 

Claims vaccines have caused an ‘epidemic’ of autism.

» Trump has a long history of suggesting that rising autism rates in the U.S. are the result of large vaccine doses – a claim not supported by the science.

 

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≡ Sept. 22, 2015

 

Claimed Hillary Clinton created the “birther” movement.

» She did not… in fact, Trump has long been the most vocal and prominent proponent of the conspiracy.

 

 

≡ Aug. 26, 2015

 

When asked about his favorite Bible verse, demurred, saying it was too “personal”.

» Further illustrating he has no knowledge of the subject, Trump was apparently even unaware of the difference between the Old and New Testaments.

 

 

≡ May 23, 2014

 

Accused ‘Obama’s’ wind turbines of killing millions of birds and bats.

» Which of course, they do not. The cited source (Canada Free Press) is an opinion website that peddles ‘extreme-right conspiracy theories’.

 

 

≡ 2014

 

Said he is ‘basically the same’ now as he was in first grade, temperament and all.

“when I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.”

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≡ Dec. 12, 2013

 

Suggested President Obama may have assassinated the man who verified his “birth certificate.”

 

 

≡ May 11, 2012

 

Suggested wind farms cause intentional, methodical killing of bald eagles.

 

 

≡ Oct. 17, 2012

 

Claimed asbestos would’ve prevented the collapse of the Twin Towers following the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

 

…work, the World Trade Center would never have burned down.”

» Although asbestos insulation is fire-resistant, it’s not fireproof, as Trump has suggested. Its use as insulation was banned during construction of the Twin Towers as a result of its cancer causing properties – cancer causing properties that, even after being banned in new construction since 1971, is still responsible for deaths of at least as many Americans every year as were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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≡ 2003

 

Said: “100’s of millions of years ago, people were doing business, and they were trading in rocks and stones and other things.”

» Granted, it was during an ‘interview’ by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen disguised as his character ‘Ali G’, but Trumps statement appears to be sincere – showing Trump’s knowledge about human history to be off by just a few ‘100’s of millions of years’.

 

 

 

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