attacked a 16-year-old activist on Twitter after she won Time’s Person of the Year?

After Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg was selected to be Time’s Person of the Year for 2019, Trump responded over Twitter:

Trump’s campaign team also tweeted a manipulated image of the Time cover, placing his head on Thunberg’s body.

Thunberg didn’t reply directly, but updated her Twitter bio to read, “A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend.”

The same campaign Twitter account also depicted Trump as Marvel super-villain Thanos, while Trump has displayed fake covers of Time featuring himself at his golf clubs.

The Washington Post – Trump mocks 16-year-old Greta Thunberg a day after she is named Time’s Person of the Year
Newsweek – Trump campaign is using a Photoshopped Time cover of President’s head on Greta Thunberg to solicit text signups
Business Insider – Teenage activist Greta Thunberg changes her Twitter bio to clap back at Trump’s tweet calling her Person of the Year honor ‘ridiculous’

said that he directed the EPA to investigate low-flow fixtures because people needed to flush toilets 10 to 15 times?

They take a shower and water comes dripping out, just dripping out very quietly dripping out. People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once. They end up using more water. So, EPA is looking at that very strongly, at my suggestion.

Reuters – Trump takes aim at trickle-down toilets, faucets
Business Insider – Trump says the EPA is looking ‘very strongly’ at ‘sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms’ because people are flushing their toilets 10 to 15 times
The Washington Post – Trump Orders Toilet Rule Review Over Low-Flow Flushing

was depicted by his own campaign as genocidal Marvel super-villain Thanos?

The Twitter account notes that it is “Managed by the #TeamTrump 2020 campaign.”

The use of this particular scene is especially confusing, as it was the moment in the Marvel film Endgame when Thanos discovers he has lost his god-like powers and is immediately defeated.

Jim Starlin, who created the character of Thanos, shared his reaction: “After my initial feeling of being violated, seeing that pompous fool using my creation to stroke his infantile ego, it finally struck me that the leader of my country and the free world actually enjoys comparing himself to a mass murderer.”

The same Twitter account photoshopped Trump’s head over a teenage girl’s from a Time Person of the Year cover.

BBC News – Thanos creator labels Donald Trump a ‘pompous fool’ after Avengers tweet
The Hollywood Reporter – Thanos Creator Feels “Violated” After Trump Campaign’s ‘Avengers’ Ad

called the FBI scum and attacked a report by his own Department of Justice?

At a rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Trump remarked, “The FBI also sent multiple undercover human spies to surveil and record people associated with our campaign…Look how they’ve hurt people. They’ve destroyed the lives of people that were great people, that are still great people. Their lives have been destroyed by scum. OK, by scum.” Trump repeated claims that he and his campaign were spied on by the FBI, and that the FBI knew that the Mueller investigation was “a hoax.”

The remarks came just a few days after his Department of Justice’s inspector general issued a report on the Mueller investigation. It found that the investigation into Russian election meddling, which began before the 2016 election, was justified. It also concluded that the Mueller investigation was not tainted by political bias. Trump has referred to the Mueller investigation in the past as an “attempted coup.”

Trump targeted Congressional Democrats at the rally, who had recently begun drafting articles of impeachment. Trump characterized it as “the lightest, weakest impeachment…This is ‘impeachment light.’ This is the lightest impeachment in the history of the country.” He also claimed that America would collapse he wasn’t reelected, joked about staying in office for decades, and teased a guard for being “too politically correct” in the removal of a female protester.

Business Insider – Trump called the FBI ‘scum’ and hit out at the report that discredited his theory the Russia probe was a deep-state plot at a wild Pennsylvania rally
USA Today – Trump slams Democrats at Pennsylvania rally, claims opponents ’embarrassed’ by impeachment
Business Insider – Here are the biggest takeaways from the DOJ watchdog’s highly anticipated report on the Russia probe’s origins
PBS Newshour – WATCH LIVE: Trump holds campaign rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania

mocked his own security guard for not being tough enough in removing a female protester from a rally?

Trump grew angry when it began taking too long for the security to eject the female protester, mocking the guard with arm gestures for being “too politically correct” in not being rough enough in removing her. He said to the crowd, “I’ll tell you, law enforcement is so great. That particular guy wanted to be so politically correct. We don’t want to be politically correct. I don’t know who he was. He didn’t do the greatest job.”

The rest of the rally included a variety of conspiracies and accusations levied at the FBI and Democrats.

The Hill – Trump on removal of protester at rally: ‘We don’t want to be politically correct’
The Washington Post – ‘We don’t want to be politically correct’: Trump calls for the removal of protester at rally

insisted that he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize “for a lot of things?”

Trump was discussing the possibility of mediating a solution between India and Pakistan over a growing humanitarian crisis in the disputed Kashmir region when a reporter mentioned the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump replied, “I think I’m gonna get a Nobel Prize for a lot of things, if they gave it out fairly, which they don’t.” Trump had been previously nominated by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the request of the US government.

Trump remarked on President Obama having been awarded the prize: “He had no idea why he got it and you know what, that was the only thing I agreed with him on.”

On the subject of negotiations between the geopolitical rivals, Trump said, “I’ve never failed as an arbitrator. I’ve been asked to arbitrate disputes, pretty big ones, from friends. And I’ve done it in a good successful fashion.”

Time – President Trump Insists He Would Get a Nobel Prize, If ‘They Gave It Out Fairly’
The Hill – Trump says he would be awarded Nobel Peace Prize ‘if they gave it out fairly’
The Hill – US asked Japanese leader to nominate Trump for Nobel Prize: report

abruptly ordered the withdrawal of US forces from a base in Syria, abandoning Kurdish allies to be attacked by Turkey?

The base had been so hastily abandoned that photographs show it was still powered and stocked with food. Russian journalists took footage of the abandoned base and claimed in media broadcasts, “Manbij is ours!” Turkey immediately began an offense against Kurdish militias in the region, who had lost over 10,000 soldiers fighting alongside the US against ISIS. Trump later tweeted about his own “great and unmatched wisdom” regarding the matter.

Though the Kurds had long been US allies in the region, Trump dismissed concerns about them by saying they are “no angels.” He also suggested that the Kurds were releasing ISIS prisoners, though other US officials have said that this was being done by Turkish-backed forces. Concerns about the released ISIS prisoners were dismissed as being a problem for Europe instead of the United States. Trump claimed that allies like the United Kingdom’s were “thrilled” with his decision, though the UK government has denied this, and opposed any Turkish incursion. Other reports with sources in Trump’s administration assert that he believed Turkey to be bluffing, and that it wouldn’t actually attack Syria.

Trump also claimed that the soldiers that had been stationed in Syria would be coming home, when in fact they were just to be redeployed to Iraq.

Newsweek – RUSSIANS SHARE VIDEOS FROM HASTILY ABANDONED U.S. BASE IN SYRIA: ‘MANBIJ IS OURS!’
Independent – Trump says Kurds are ‘no angels’, after US allies helped defeat Isis
Business Insider – Trump suggested the Kurds were releasing ISIS prisoners, but US officials say Turkish-backed forces are actually doing this
Independent – ‘No idea where that came from’: Government denies Trump’s claim UK was ‘thrilled’ with his Syria decision
Axios – Behind the scenes of the Trump bluff that kicked off Turkey’s invasion
The Washington Post – Trump isn’t ‘bringing our soldiers back home’ from Syria

referred to his own “great and unmatched wisdom”?

The Trump failed to elaborate on what “I’ve done before!” meant in reference to totally destroying and obliterating an economy.

The tweet came following Trump’s decision to withdraw US forces from a base in Syria, the occupation of the base by Russian forces, and Turkey’s subsequent operations against Kurdish militia groups that had long been US allies.

The New York Times – Trump Orders Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Northern Syria

removed 1 million children from a food stamps program with free school lunches?

The Department of Agriculture estimated that 982,000 children no longer automatically qualify for free school lunches. 45% will have additional application requirements, while the rest will no longer qualify at all.

Business Insider – A new Trump administration rule will deprive nearly 1 million school kids of automatic free lunches, official figures say
ABC News – Trump rule may mean 1 million kids lose automatic free lunch
CBS News – Half a million kids could lose free school lunches under new Trump administration rule

awarded the 2020 G7 summit to his Miami-area golf resort?

The decision was immediately met with widespread backlash. The G7, an organization representing the world’s most developed economies, meets annually.

Trump later reluctantly changed the location to Camp David, though he maintained that the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution that prohibits Presidents from personally profiting from their office is “phony.”

Politico – Shrugging off allegations of self-dealing, Trump picks his Doral resort for G-7 summit
Reuters – Trump to host G7 summit at his Florida golf resort, sparking criticism
Time – 2020 G7 Summit to Be Held at Camp David Retreat, President Trump Says

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