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Day to Day Politics: The final 23 unedited sayings of The Donald.

Friday 16 June 2017

I dearly want you to continue reading The AIMN so this is the final 23 (from “Trump’s Top 73 Craziest Quotes“). I wont impose any more on you. Future political historians will spend many hours trying to fathom how a man like Trump could possibly have become President of the United States, even then they may not find an answer.

Here are the final 23:

23: DONALD TRUMP BRAGS ON 9/11 THAT HIS BUILDING WAS NOW TALLEST

“40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan… And now it’s the tallest.” – Trump bragging about his building following the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in an interview with WWOR/UPN 9 News in New York. 70 Pine Street, just a block away, is actually bigger (Sept. 11, 2001).

22: DONALD TRUMP ON “BAD HOMBRES”

“We have some bad hombres here, and we’re going to get them out.” –  Trump speaking about illegal immigrants at the final president debate (October 19, 2016).

21: TRUMP ACCUSES HILLARY OF STARTING THE BIRTHER CONTROVERSY

“Hillary Clinton … started the birther controversy. I finished it.” – Trump falsely claiming that Hillary Clinton started the rumors that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States (Sept. 16, 2016).

20: TRUMP … “CANCEL THE ELECTION AND GIVE IT TO ME”

“We should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump.” – Trump speaking at a rally in Toledo Ohio, Oct. 27, 2016.

19: TRUMP … “I LOVE THE POORLY EDUCATED”

“We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.” – Trump on his performance with poorly educated voters who helped him win the Nevada Caucus, Feb. 23, 2016.

18: DONALD TRUMP ON SHOOTING SOMEBODY

“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, okay? It’s, like, incredible.” – Trump speaking at a rally in Sioux Center, Iowa as the audience laughed, January 23, 2016.

17: DONALD TRUMP ON OGLING WOMEN IN DRESSING ROOMS

“I sorta get away with things like that.” — Trump on bursting into Miss Universe pageant dressing rooms.

16: DONALD TRUMP ON WOMEN

“Women: You have to treat them like s–t.” – Donald Trump

15: DONALD TRUMP ON HIS DAUGHTER

“I don’t think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.” – Trum, when asked how he would react if Ivanka posed for Playboy.

14: DONALD TRUMP BRAGS ABOUT HIS TEMPERAMENT

“I’m also honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has.” — Donald Trump (November 3, 2016).

13: TRUMP MOCKS REPORTER WITH DISABILITY

“Now, the poor guy — you’ve got to see this guy, ‘Ah, I don’t know what I said! I don’t remember!'” – Trump mocking New York Times investigative reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has a physical disability called ‘arthrogryposis’ that limits flexibility in his arms, by jerking his arms in front of his body.

12: DRAFT-DODGING TRUMP SAYS POW McCAIN “NOT A WAR HERO”

“He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.” –  Trump on John McCain, despite the fact that Trump himself dodged the draft to avoid the Vietnam War.

11: TRUMP WON’T COMMIT TO ACCEPTING ELECTION RESULTS

“I will tell you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense, OK?” – Trump refusing to say whether he will accept the election outcome during the third presidential debate (Oct. 19, 2016).

10: TRUMP ATTACKS MEXICAN JUDGE IN TRUMP UNIVERSITY FRAUD CASE

“I’ve been treated very unfairly by this judge. Now, this judge is of Mexican heritage. I’m building a wall, OK? I’m building a wall.” –  Trump accusing U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over the fraud case against Trump University, of being biased against him because of his Mexican heritage, despite the fact that he is a U.S. citizen who was born in Indiana (CNN interview, June 5, 2016).

9: TRUMP CALLS ON RUSSIA TO HACK CLINTON AND SABOTAGE ELECTION

“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” – Trump, calling on Russian espionage services to intervene in the U.S. election and help sabotage Hillary Clinton. The emails in question were deemed “personal,” but Trump has previously said he thinks they contain sensitive intelligence, meaning that Trump is hoping Vladimir Putin gains access to classified government information (July 27, 2016).

8: TRUMP … DODGING TAXES “MAKES ME SMART”

“That makes me smart.” –  Trump responding to Hillary Clinton’s suggestion that he pays no federal income tax (Sept. 26, 2016).

7: DONALD TRUMP THREATENS WAR WITH IRAN OVER HAND GESTURES

Report this a“When Iran, when they circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats, and they make gestures at our people that they shouldn’t be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water.” – Trump, threatening to go to war with Iran over rude hand gestures, Pensacola, Florida (Sept. 9, 2016).

6: TRUMP DIDN’T EVEN KNOW WHAT A GOLD STAR FAMILY IS

“‘You do know you just attacked a Gold Star family?’ one adviser warned Trump. Trump didn’t know what a Gold Star family was: ‘What’s that?’ he asked.” – as reported by New York Magazine.

5: DONALD TRUMP SMEARS GOLD STAR MOTHER

“His wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say. She probably — maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.” — Trump smearing Ghazala Khan, the mother of a fallen American soldier, by implying that she was not allowed to speak, despite the fact that she has spoken publicly about her son’s death (ABC News interview, July 30, 2016).

4: DONALD TRUMP HINTS AT HILLARY CLINTON ASSASSINATION

“If she gets to pick her judges – nothing you can do, folks. Although, the Second Amendment people. Maybe there is. I don’t know.” –  Trump in what many interpreted to be a suggestion that someone might shoot Hillary Clinton, her Supreme Court picks, or both, Wilmington, North Carolina campaign rally (Aug. 9, 2016).

3: TRUMP REPORTEDLY ASKS WHY WE CAN’T USE NUKES

“Why can’t we use nuclear weapons?” – Trump, reportedly asking a foreign policy adviser three times during a meeting why the U.S. couldn’t use its nuclear weapons stockpile, according to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough.

2: TRUMP CALLS CLINTON “SUCH A NASTY WOMAN”

Donald Trump at the third presidential debate: “Nobody respects women more than me.”

Three minutes later: “Such a nasty woman.” (Oct. 19, 2016).

1: DONALD TRUMP BRAGS ABOUT GROPING WOMEN

“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful – I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the p**sy. You can do anything.” – Trump in a 2005 interview with Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush.

 

My thought for the day.

“If we don’t impose discipline our children when they are young how on earth do we expect them to impose it on themselves as young adults.”

 

15 comments

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  1. wam

    Wow, Lord, if a hand gesture angers trump, we are in for an invasion to depose trumball and annoint pauline?

    Today’s children are 6 years ahead of we disciplined kids making ‘impose’ as inappropriate’ to an informed and sexually active 10 year old as it was to us at 16.
    ps
    Are you going to discuss any positive actions by trump?

  2. darrel nay

    TRUMP won because he was a proud American versus Hillary was a corrupt globalist.

    Cheers

  3. Pilot

    Trumps an idiot, a liar and a fraud. Those who actually voted for him and support the fool are worse! The sooner he’s gone the better. He’s been caught in his own lies, but like our homegrown conservatives just keeps on lying until the enquirers give up. We do not need people of his ilk running anything. The above quotes prove this.

    Imo, the last election had no true candidates, Clinton may have been bad, but trump was so much worse, not even in her league.

    Can’t wait for the impending impeachment proceedings to start, then we’ll see this fool writhe, wriggle and lying like no one else can. He’s truly pathetic.

  4. darrel nay

    It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat….Roosevelt

    Cheers

  5. ahcid

    I’ll have a go at listing some of the positive things that Trump has done:

    (1) …..

  6. Roswell

    darrel nay, as a person who hates violence – as do I – what are your thoughts on number 4?

  7. Zathras

    Trump is a proud American who appears to have sold out to the Russians in exchange for his job.

    He will likely survive his current problem but if he doesn’t toe their line one day that rumoured (but strangely specific) “hooker tape” may mysteriously appear to finally finish him off. As a deeply flawed individual, he must have a lot of skeletons in his closet waiting to be let out.

  8. helvityni

    For the climate change deniers and people who are against same sex marriage, and also those who don’t regard women as equal to men: :

    Ana Brnabic is now Serbia’s first female, and gay, prime minister.

    She 41 years old,( not an old fuddy duddy) . who studied in Hull University, and when back in Serbia, started working in the wind power industry…

    Little country,great women… 🙂

  9. havanaliedown

    A single, childless daughter of immigrants with an exotically-pronounced surname was elected Premier of NSW by the bigoted, racist, sexist troglodytes of the Liberal Party. Or didn’t you notice?

  10. Ricardo29

    DN, have you not read any of the comments Trump made. He said gees things, they are not fake news. Anybody who can read and still think Trump is OK has to be in denial, or stupid. Trump won with fewer than a quarter of eligible voters, like it or not Hillary got more but was defeated by a Republican gerrymander. The best person, Bernie Sanders, didn’t win. And to those who say “Trump won, suck it up” or “Trump won, at least give him a chance” I say that a person as unsuited to that great position as Trump is, and who speaks as stupidly as Trump does and who acts with as little thought of the consequences as Trump does, must be opposed and brought down. In his short time in office he has seriously diminished the position he holds and made both him and it an object of ridicule. He has no redeeming features.

  11. Phil

    Trump, the amusing, dangerous, vapid and narcissistic president is a symptom of American decline. Although America under Trump will continue to stumble along, its global power is slipping away along with its citizens dreams.

    History is littered with great and powerful empires that collapsed. American empire will be no different.

    What is fascinating is to be in the here and now to actually observe an empire collapse in real time.

  12. Freethinker

    Trump is only one individual used by a powerful group within the party to achieve their aims.
    I am more worry of those behind him and specially Ryan that is the 3rd in the list behind Trump.

  13. wam

    Great start ah cid but he signed 90 executive orders? His women were bare headed for the saudi king and covered for the pope.
    R29
    He won two elections:
    The first against deeply religious republican politicians like cruz and rubio who were every bit as poor as trump and all thought he was superior to the cretin trump.
    The second was against a woman. QED in the country of god.
    No gerrymander just state equalisation similar to our referenda
    What did you think of Reagan/Thatcher/the rabbott/Hanson/SHY??

  14. Terry2

    Sadly, in his attempt to destroy every achievement of Barack Obama, it seems that Trump is about to reverse the process of normalisation of relations between the USA and Cuba.

    Incredibly for a man who says he supports liberty and the freedom of the individual he is about to make it illegal for US citizens to take a business trip or have a holiday in Cuba.

    Such a small minded man but what havoc he has brought to the world so far.

  15. paulwalter

    He’s so crass (laughs). Loved the one about Ivanka posing for Playboy.

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