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ignored a group of physicians who offered to provide free flu shots to detained immigrants?

Three children, aged 2, 6, and 16, had already died of the flu in US custody at the time the offer was made. U.S. Customs and Border Protection have since said that there would be no plans to vaccinate those in their custody.

Newsweek – Trump administration ignored offer of free fly clinic for migrants despite child deaths, physicians say
CNBC – The US won’t provide flu vaccines to migrant families at border detention camps

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

used Pharrell Williams’ song “Happy” without permission at a rally hours after a mass shooting?

Williams issued a cease-and-desist for the use of his song, and condemned the choice to do so hours after 11 people were murdered at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Trump has repeatedly used songs without permission and received similar legal threats, including for songs by R.E.M., Aerosmith, Prince, Adele, and the Rolling Stones, among others.

Time – Pharrell Demands President Trump Stop Playing ‘Happy’ at His Political Rallies
BBC News – Pharrell orders Donald Trump to stop playing his music
Quartz – All the pop songs artists have asked Donald Trump not to use, in one playlist

said he would have run unarmed into a school to stop an active shooter?

Trump said that the police response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida was “disgusting.” He claimed that, “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon, and I think most of the people in this room would’ve done that too.”

17 people died in what was at the time the second-deadliest school shooting in American history.

10 years prior, Trump recounted to Howard Stern about how he was too disgusted to help an elderly man who had fallen and was bleeding heavily.

The New York Times – Trump Says He Would Have Rushed in Unarmed to Stop School Shooting
BBC News – Florida school shooting: Trump says ‘I would have run in unarmed’
Fortune – Trump Claims He Would Have Personally Stopped Florida Shooter. Critics Aren’t So Sure

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

fondled “Rudia,” Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag?

The comedy skit in which Trump pretended to harass then-mayor of New York City Rudy Guliani was part of the Mayor’s Inner Circle Press roast, a comedy event.

Inside Edition / YouTube

The drag character, Rudia, had debuted three years earlier at the event when Giuliani appeared on stage in front of 2,000 people in and sang “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” in falsetto.

Giuliani later campaigned for Trump and worked as his personal lawyer.

Business Insider – Donald Trump once stuck his face into Rudy Giuliani’s chest for a drag-queen comedy skit — and the video refuses to die
The New York Times – Jaws Drop As Giuliani Steals Show In Heels

 

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

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