Trump made the comment during a speech in Iowa two weeks before the state’s primary election. Trump came in second, about 3% behind Texas US Senator Ted Cruz.
NPR – Donald Trump: ‘I Could … Shoot Somebody, And I Wouldn’t Lose Any Voters’
Politico – Trump: I could ‘shoot somebody’ and I wouldn’t lose voters
Wikipedia – 2016 Iowa Republican caucuses
In a 2014 discussion with his biographer Michael D’Antonio, Trump explained,
When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.
However, he has also asserted that he had the best temperament of anyone who has ran for President.
In other discussions with his biographer, Trump noted how as a child he enjoyed fighting, which was one of the reasons he was sent to a military academy.
He has also described himself as a “whiner,” and taken shots at over Twitter at all his “haters,” even on the anniversary of 9/11.
Politico – What I Learned Writing Trump’s Biography
The Washington Post – The scariest thing I found out about Donald Trump yesterday
The Week – Donald Trump tells biographer he’s the same now as he was in first grade
Trump has made various similar remarks about climate change. After becoming President, he vacillated on the issue, going between claiming that cold snaps disprove global warming, while also alleging that his administration had done much to combat climate change.
Trump has also claimed that windmills cause cancer, and withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement. He has dismissed UN climate reports.
His administration has rolled back several regulations, including for endangered species, offshore rigs, and coal pollution.
The Department of Defense has listed climate change as a national security threat since before Trump’s presidency. It has not commented on the health risk of windmills.
Forbes – Trump’s Climate Denial Is A National Security Threat
Time – Donald Trump Called Climate Change a Hoax. Now He’s Awkwardly Boasting About Fighting It
US Department of Defense – DoD Releases Report on Security Implications of Climate Change
The belief has been long documented, and Trump’s reiterated his belief on the 2016 campaign trail:
All my friends who work out all the time, they’re going for knee replacements, hip replacements — they’re a disaster. That’s exercise.
As far as modern medical science has been able to determine, this is untrue.
The New York Times – Donald Trump is Not Going Anywhere
The Washington Post – Trump thinks that exercising too much uses up the body’s finite energy
Business Insider – Trump believes some amazingly false things about exercise
The New Yorker – How Trump Could Get Fired
The venture was short-lived, as the Sharper Imagine discontinued the line after two months.
Reviews for the steaks were mostly negative, and were described as “mealy,” “grainy,” “bland,” “dry,” “greasy and tasteless,” “loaded with fat,” “no flavor, overpriced, and just gross,” and “nothing but grease and shrinkage…. no redeeming qualities.”
Trump is also known for preferring his steaks well-done with ketchup. He had various other similar ventures that quickly failed, like Trump Vodka.
Wikipedia – Trump Steaks
GQ – If You Hate Donald Trump, You’re Gonna Really Love These Reviews of Trump Steaks. Bad!
Business Insider – This anecdote about Donald Trump’s failed steak business reveals a huge part of his personality
In a book published in 1997, Trump claimed that asbestos is “100 percent safe, once applied.” He went on to explain, “I believe that the movement against asbestos was led by the mob, because it was often mob-related companies that would do the asbestos removal.” In 2018, his EPA announced that it would only evaluate new uses of asbestos and no longer consider the risks of asbestos already in the environment.
Newsweek – Donald Trump called asbestos poisoning a mob-led conspiracy, now his EPA wouldn’t evaluate asbestos already in homes.
The New York Times – The Chemical Industry Scores a Big Win at the E.P.A.
The 436 acres were purchased in 1998 for $2 million with the intention of making a private golf course. He donated the land to the state in 2006 when he claimed its value to be $100 million.
Outside – A Brief History of Donald J. Trump State Park
Wikipedia – Donald J. Trump State Park
The briefing was penned by Trump’s national security advisers. During the congratulatory phone call, Russian meddling in US elections was not discussed.
Putin has long maintained political control in Russia, disallowing any real competition, exercising ultimately authority over the media, and presiding over widespread corruption in elections. He has been President or prime minister since 2000.
PBS News Hour – Briefing papers warned Trump: ‘DO NOT CONGRATULATE’ Putin
The Washington Post – The ‘DO NOT CONGRATULATE’ leak shows the White House is panicking
Newsweek – RUSSIA: FIVE REASONS WHY PUTIN’S ELECTION IS A SHAM
Trump made the comments about his then-24 year old daughter in a 2006 episode of The View. In interviews with Howard Stern, he also called her “voluptuous” and said she could be referred to as a “piece of ass.”
Independent – Donald Trump’s unsettling record of comments about his daughter Ivanka
