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- abruptly ordered the withdrawal of US forces from a base in Syria, abandoning Kurdish allies to be attacked by Turkey?
- accused Germany of being “totally controlled by Russia”?
- acknowledged that he made up a claim about having a trade deficit when speaking to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau?
- asked Germany’s Angela Merkel a basic question about trade 11 times?
- asked reporters at his meeting with Kim Jong-Un to make them look “nice and thin and perfect”?
- attacked Canadian PM Justin Trudeau for being “very dishonest and weak” after Trudeau said that Canada would match US tariffs?
- awarded the 2020 G7 summit to his Miami-area golf resort?
- bragged that his nuclear button was “bigger and more powerful” than Kim Jong-un’s?
- called NATO “as bad as NAFTA”?
- called the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution “phony”?
- cast doubt on the future of NATO?
- caused the CIA to extract a high-level informant in the Russian government?
- claimed he had no business interests with Saudi Arabia or Russia, despite selling millions in property to Saudis and Russians?
- claimed that an an ammonium nitrate disaster in Beirut was an intentional bombing?
- described an inadequate military briefing used to justify an attack on Iran as the “best presentation they’ve ever seen”?
- didn’t know that India and China shared a border?
- dismissed concerns about ISIS fighters escaping from Syrian prisons by saying that they’d be going to Europe?
- ended joint defense exercises between the US and South Korea at North Korea’s request?
- fist-bumped authoritarian Turkish leader Erdogan, saying that he “does things the right way”?
- insisted that he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize “for a lot of things?”
- justified tarrifs on French wine because he likes the way American wines look better?
- lifted US sanctions on three companies linked to a Russian oligarch?
- mispronounced Namibia during a meeting with African leaders?
- misspelled the name of his Secretary of Defense and made multiple false claims in a tweet?
- opposed and delayed sanctions on Russia, despite bipartisan support in Congress?
- ordered a drone strike on a senior Iranian official?
- praised authoritarian Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte?
- pushed the leader of Montenegro?
- referred to Haiti, El Salvador, and parts of Africa as “shithole countries”?
- referred to his own “great and unmatched wisdom”?
- refused to join global efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine?
- revealed special operations tactics and other classified information by providing a detailed description of the raid on ISIS leader al-Baghdadi?
- revoked a rule for reporting on drone strikes?
- rode a golf cart 700 yards while the leaders of 6 other nations walked together during his first G7 meeting?
- said about foreign policy, “I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things”?
- said Canadians were smuggling goods over the border, like dairy and shoes?
- said Crimea is part of Russia because everyone there speaks the lanuage?
- said Haitians “all have AIDS” and that Nigerians live in “huts”?
- said he didn’t need preparation or notes for a summit with Kim Jong-Un?
- said he would “take out” the families of terrorists?
- said if he was wrong about trusting Kim Jong-un, “I’ll find some kind of an excuse”?
- said it was “too inconvenient” to use a secure phone?
- said tariffs he instituted and tweeted about didn’t exist?
- said that he would impose torture techniques “a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding?”
- said that his tweets are sufficient notice to Congress for military strikes?
- said that the death of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi was more significant than that of Osama bin Laden?
- said the “European Union is a foe” just before meeting with Putin alone?
- said, “nobody knows more about trade than me”?
- saluted a North Korean military officer?
- shared classified intelligence with Russia?
- signed off on a high-risk raid in Yemen that led to several deaths?
- sparked international outrage by imitating terrorists systematically executing Parisians?
- spoke at length about the most “beautiful piece of chocolate cake you’ve ever seen” when asked about the decision to bomb Syria?
- suggested that Montenegro could start World War 3?
- thought Canada had burned down the White House?
- thought Nepal and Bhutan were in India, pronouncing them as “nipple” and “button”?
- threatened to bomb Iranian cultural sites?
- threatened to end trade with all of America’s allies?
- told Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, “you don’t have this problem, but I can send you 25 million Mexicans and you’ll be out of office very soon”?
- told Russia and Turkey about a raid on the leader of ISIS, but not Congress?
- unilaterally instituted tariffs against the EU, Mexico, and Canada for “national security” purposes?
- used the “yank and pull” handshake method on various people, including heads of state?
- wanted Russia to be reinstated to the G7, despite its removal for invading Ukraine?
- wanted to buy Greenland?
- withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal?