Trump’s former national security advisor, John Bolton, described the exchange in his 2020 book, The Room Where it Happened.
In 2019 conversation between Trump and Chinese President Xi during a G20 meeting, Trump described the detainment and relocation of the Uighur people as “exactly the right thing to do.”
Uighur detainees in Xinjiang, April 2017. Wikipedia
An estimated 2 to 3 million Uighur Muslims, an ethnic minority in China, are separated from their families and imprisoned across hundreds of concentration camps to undergo re-education and forced labor. Survivors have recounted people being regularly beaten, tortured, and murdered.
China’s Communist Party maintains that such measures are necessary to prevent terrorism.
Trump’s 2020 presidential opponent, Joe Biden, referred to China’s treatment of the Uighur people as genocide.
Trump made the remark at an October, 18 2020 rally in Carson City, Nevada.
He will surrender your future to the virus. He’s going to lockdown. This guy wants to lockdown. He’ll listen to the scientists. If I listened totally to the scientists, we would write down, have a country that would be in a massive depression.
On October 16, 2020 at an Ocala, Florida rally, Trump repeatedly called Matt Gaetz “Rick.”
Florida’s 1st congressional district representative Matt Gaetz and convicted Trump aide Rick Gates. Wikipedia
Matt Gaetz is the US House Representative from Florida’s 1st district. Rick Gates was a former aide that pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.
On October 13, 2020, Trump retweeted a QAnon conspiracy that claimed that Barack Obama and Joe Biden faked Osama bin Laden’s death in 2011. The account he retweeted was soon after deleted.
Trump also retweeted a video that claimed Iran was paid off to safely transfer bin Laden to Pakistan for Obama’s “trophy kill.”
Trump make the remarks at an October, 16 2020 rally in Macon, Georgia.
Running against the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics puts pressure on me.
Could you imagine if I lose? My whole life, what am I gonna do? I’m gonna say I lost to the worst candidate in the history of politics. I’m not gonna feel so good. Maybe I’ll have to leave the country, I don’t know.”
During an October 15, 2020 town hall, Trump refused to denounce the QAnon conspiracy theory when asked by host Savannah Guthrie. QAnon holds that Trump was waging a secret war against a secret cabal of Satantic Democrats that engaged in a mass pedophile ring.
GUTHRIE: All right, while we’re denouncing, let me ask you about QAnon. It is this theory that Democrats are a satanic pedophile ring and that you are the savior, of that. Now can you just, once and for all, state that that is completely not true, and disavow QAnon in its entirety?
TRUMP: I know nothing about QAnon.
GUTHRIE: I just told you.
TRUMP: I know very little. You told me, but what you tell me, doesn’t necessarily make it fact. I hate to say that. I know nothing about it. I do know they are very much against pedophilia. They fight it very hard. But I know nothing about it. If you’d like me to-
GUTHRIE: They believe that it is a Satanic cult run by the deep state.
TRUMP: …study the subject. I’ll tell you what I do know about. I know about Antifa, and I know about the radical left, and I know how violent they are and how vicious they are. And I know how they are burning down cities run by Democrats, not run by Republicans.
Betsy DeVos, Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Education, was a longtime advocate of charter schools and redirecting tax dollars to private and Christian schools.
Betsy DeVos. Wikipedia
DeVos’ family was among the richest in the nation, with a worth over $5 billion. Her husband was former CEO of Amway and her brother founded the private military firm Blackwater. She and her family used their significant wealth for political influence within the Republican Party. In a 1997 editorial, she wrote, “I have decided to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence. Now I simply concede the point. They are right. We do expect some things in return.”
In 2001, she said education reform was a means to “advance God’s kingdom.” In a separate interview, she said she sought “to impact our culture in ways that are not the traditional funding-the-Christian-organization route, but that really may have greater Kingdom gain in the long run by changing the way we approach things – in this case, the system of education in the country.”
Despite never being an educator, DeVos was nominated to be Secretary of Education by Trump. She was confirmed by the Senate in a narrow 50-50 vote, where the tie was broken by Vice President Mike Pence. During the confirmation hearings, DeVos said guns had a place in schools, giving the example of defense against grizzly bears.
During her tenure, DeVos sought to allocate federal funds to private schools by arguing it to be a component of “state’s rights.” She failed to divest from 24 assets as required by law, attempted to cut funding for the Special Olympics, revoked Obama-era rules about for-profit universities and sexual assault reporting on campuses, and was investigated for using personal email accounts to conduct government business.
In a 2018 60 Minutes interview, she struggled to answer various questions, including why the Michigan charter school programs she pushed in her home state of Michigan were failing students.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, she attempted to redirect millions of dollars in relief from public schools to private and religious schools until the move was prevented by a federal court. She also called for the full re-opening of schools, saying, “there’s nothing in the data that suggests that kids being in school is in any way dangerous to them.”
On March 6, 2019, Trump referred to the CEO of Apple as “Tim Apple.”
Trump defended the mistake by saying it was done intentionally to save time.
At a recent round table meeting of business executives, & long after formally introducing Tim Cook of Apple, I quickly referred to Tim + Apple as Tim/Apple as an easy way to save time & words. The Fake News was disparagingly all over this, & it became yet another bad Trump story!
Trump also called national security advisor John Bolton “Mike Bolton,” Vice President Mike Pence “Mike Pounce,” and former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan “Ron.”
John Bolton, former George W. Bush ambassador to the United Nations, served as a national security advisor for Trump from April 2018 to September 2019.
Trump repeatedly referred to him as Mike Bolton to aides and in public.
Michael Bolton is a famous singer.
Trump also called Apple CEO Tim Cook “Tim Apple,” Vice President Mike Pence “Mike Pounce,” and former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan “Ron.”
In a September 12, 2019 address to House Republicans in Baltimore, Maryland, Trump accidentally referred to Vice President Mike Pence as “Mike Pounce.”
Trump also called national security advisor John Bolton “Mike Bolton,” former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan “Ron,” and Apple CEO Tim Cook “Tim Apple.”
