Dishonorable Mentions


Editors picks of noteworthy actions and statements made by Donald J. Trump.

A collection of notable posts from other sections, as well as otherwise uncategorized actions worthy of Dishonorable Mention.

 

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≡ Oct. 15, 2020

 

Falsely claimed he’s “always protecting people with pre-existing conditions.”

» Just the opposite, Trump spent his entire presidency trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act and protections for pre-existing conditions along with it – at no point has Trump offered a replacement or concrete assurances he would provide the same protections.

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≡ Sept. 30, 2020

 

Study finds Trump to be the ‘single largest driver of misinformation’ related to COVID-19.

» The Cornell University study found Trump was responsible for almost 38% of overall “misinformation conversation” – notable falsehoods promoted by Trump include repeatedly pushing unproven ‘miracle cures’ and remedies (such as injecting bleach or taking drugs not shown to benefit patients).

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≡ Aug. 17, 2020

 

Claimed he could only lose the election if it was ‘rigged’.

“The only way we’re going to lose an election is if the election is rigged.”

Setting the stage for one of two scenarios:

1) Trump expects to lose and is giving himself an out which he feels will protect his dignity and allow him to leave office while still claiming to be a “winner” – and all for the small fee of many American’s faith in democracy with untold long-term consequences…

2) Or, Trump will contest the election if he loses, claiming it was “rigged” and threatening to undermine U.S. democracy directly and entirely.

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≡ Aug. 7, 2020

 

Claimed Joe Biden is ‘against God and he’s against guns’.

“He’s following the radical left agenda, take away your guns, destroy your 2nd Amendment, no religion, no anything, hurt the Bible, hurt God. He’s against God. He’s against guns. He’s against energy, our kind of energy.”

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≡ July 21, 2020

 

Wished child-sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell “well” after she was arrested on charges of aiding sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein.

» When asked by a reporter whether he felt Ghislaine Maxwell might ‘turn in powerful men’ now that she had been arrested, Trump replied:

“I wish her well, frankly. I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her well, whatever it is.”

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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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≡ June 1, 2020

 

Used tear gas, concussion grenades, and rubber bullets to disperse peaceful protectors outside the White House.

» …for the sole purpose of staging a photo-op at a nearby church.

 

Police Disperse Peaceful Protesters with Tear Gas for Trump’s Bible Photo-Op | Bloomberg QuickTake News (6.1.20)

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≡ May 29, 2020

 

Terminated U.S. support for the World Health Organization.

» In an apparent effort to deflect blame for perceived mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the President Donald Trump has terminated U.S. funding support to the World Health Organization – in the middle of said pandemic, no less.

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≡ Oct. 7, 2018

 

Photoshoot with baby orphaned following a hate-motivated massacre in El Paso, Texas.

» Whether Trump’s demeanor highlights a lack empathy, or is just a lack of social awareness, neither is particularly flattering.

The White House | Flick

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≡ April 2, 2019

 

Claimed the noise from windmills cause cancer.

 

[No one – not “they” or anyone else – has ever suggested that the noise from wind turbines causes cancer.]

» Also repeated a baseless claim that homes “anywhere near” wind turbines drop “75 percent in value” (they do not).

» Further exaggerated the threat of wind farms pose to birds, calling them a “graveyard for birds” – this despite fossil-fueled power stations posing 35x the danger to birds (per gigawatt-hour of electricity produced).

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≡ March 2019

 

Proposed eliminating federal funding for the Special Olympics.

» Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos proposed cutting all $17.6M of U.S. funding for the Special Olympics in the Education Departments 2020 budget.

» Following public outcry and days of DeVos attempting to defend the proposed cuts, Trump announced his administration would not follow through with the cuts in years budget proposal.

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≡ Oct. 28, 2018

 

Apparently doesn’t know how to close an umbrella.

 

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≡ Oct. 25, 2018

 

Blamed “Mainstream Media” for series of pipe bombs targeting Trump critics and prominent Democrats.

» After a series of attempted assassinations of prominent Democrats and critics of Trump (including CNN and former CIA Director John Brennan) using pipe bombs delivered by mail, Trump feigned unity for one day before immediately blaming the media for the actions that were much more likely to have been inspired by his own rhetoric.

 

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≡ Oct. 18, 2018

 

Claimed to be a champion of protections for pre-existing conditions – while trying to eliminate them.

 

 

≡ Sept. 24, 2018

 

Halted HIV cure and other important medical research.

» The Trump administrations Department of Health and Human Services canceled contracts related to fetal tissue donation for an array of medical research projects.

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≡ June 11, 2018

 

Repealed Net Neutrality.

» Despite near-universal public support for the Obama-era consumer protection, the Trump administration repealed Net Neutrality and the Open Internet Rule.

 

≡ March 2018

 

Lifted ban on importing sport-hunted elephant ‘trophies’ into the U.S. “on a case-by-case basis”.

» The ban on had been put in place by the Obama administration in recognition of the their ‘threatened’ status.

⇒ Do something

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≡ Jan. 1, 2018

 

Apparently doesn’t know the words to national anthem.

 

 

≡ July 26, 2017

 

Declared (by tweet) a ban on ‘transgender individuals’ serving in the U.S. military.

“After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow…¹ …Transgender individuals to service in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming…² …victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.³”

» Despite claiming to have consulted with ‘Generals and military experts’, officials at the Pentagon say they were neither been consulted or given notice about the new dictate.

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≡ Apr. 3, 2017

 

Ended U.S. funding for the United Nations Family Planning Agency (UNFPA).

» The UNFPA aids in family planning and combating childbirth mortality, providing reproductive services to over 12,500,000 women in over 45 countries, and is the worlds largest single provider of contraceptives.

» In 2016, U.S. funding prevented 100,000 unsafe abortions and provided over 800,000 women with contraception; thus, contrary to Trumps alleged intent (to reduce abortions) – the result will actually be more pregnancies, more abortions, and many more unsafe ones at that.

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≡ Apr. 2017

 

Praised Philippine president and self-described murderer, Rodrigo Duterte, for his use of extrajudicial killings of suspected drug dealers and users.

“I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem.”

» U.S. State Department reported in 2015 that over 6,000 Philippines had been killed by “police and unknown vigilantes” in anti-drug operations, with many of them being executed after being detained.

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≡ Oct. 2, 2016

 

Mocked Hillary Clinton for getting pneumonia during the 2016 presidential campaign.

 

 

≡ July 18, 2015

 

“He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero who was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.“

» Trump’s opinion of Senator John McCain’s Vietnam War service and his nearly six years of torture as an American prisoner of war (following his aircraft being shot down in 1967).

 

Trump: “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured” | C-SPAN (7.20.15)

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≡ Sept. 28, 2014

 

 

≡ Sept. 11, 2013

 

Tweeted the following tribute for the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks which killed 2,996 people.

 

 

≡ Sept. 11, 2001

 

Bragged on 9/11, after the Twin Towers collapsed, that his building was again the tallest in downtown Manhattan.

 “40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan,” Trump replied, “and it was actually, before the World Trade Center, was the tallest — and then, when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second tallest. And now it’s the tallest.” (no, no it wasn’t).

 

≡ 1999

 

Withdrew medical benefits from nephew’s infant with cerebral palsy to spite nephew.

» Kicked his family nephews family off his companies insurance and ended his financial assistance over accusations that Donald Trump had exerted “undue influence” on his dying, demented fathers wills.

» Trump explained he was “angry because they sued.”

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≡ 1990

 

Said he was impressed by the Chinese governments “power of strength” in the Tiananmen Square massacre:

“When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak.”

» Trump explained that ‘his problem’ with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was that he didn’t use a “firm enough hand” on protesters – in contrast to China’s handling of pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square which the government suppressed using tanks to kill 100’s, if not 1000’s, of its own defenseless civilians.

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≡ 1977 →

 

Cheated on all three of his wives.

» Trumps infidelities have been public knowledge since at least 1990, when he took his then-mistress, Marla Maples, on a family vacation with his 1st wife Ivana Trump.

» His most notable affair however comes from revelations that Trump, while running for the presidency in 2016, illegally paid $130,000 in hush-money to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep silent about their affair (at the time of the affair, Trumps current wife Melania was recovering from the birth of their son, Baron).

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≡ 1968

 

Dodged the Vietnam draft using a faked disability.

» Trump has no records of the alleged diagnosis (bone spurs) that prevented him from being eligible for the Vietnam draft, and cannot recall which foot was allegedly affected.

“I had a deferments because I had a foot thing, and I get that deferment for that.”

» His former lawyer, Michael Cohen, testified that when he’d asked Trump for records of the deferment, Trump could not provide them.

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