Skip to contentPresidency – Year 1
- abruptly ended an interview when asked about his claims of being wiretapped by Obama?
- accused Joe Scarborough of murder?
- accused Obama of illegally placing a “tapp” on his phone, calling him a “Bad (or sick) guy”?
- admitted that he didn’t come up with, or even like the phrase “drain the swamp”?
- announced that he would shut down DACA?
- appointed Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor despite warnings of his foreign connections?
- asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reverse his recusal from the Russian investigation?
- 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”?
- awkwardly stopped in the middle of his sentence during an announcement to drink water?
- boasted about himself in front of the CIA’s Memorial Wall?
- bragged about his 2016 win and handed out electoral maps when asked about his first 100 days?
- brought a war widow to tears, then called her account wrong because he had “one of the greatest memories of all time”?
- called Paul Ryan “Ron”?
- called the press “the enemy of the people”?
- caused the CIA to extract a high-level informant in the Russian government?
- changed the Presidential Challenge Coin to feature himself?
- chose an Education Secretary who sought to use public schools to “advance God’s Kingdom?”
- claimed that past presidents didn’t call families of fallen soldiers, while he had for “virtually everybody”?
- claimed to distance himself from his businesses, using stacks of unlabeled folders as proof?
- created a commission to expose mass voter fraud, which then found none?
- defended Putin’s murder of journalists, saying “you think our country’s so innocent?”
- didn’t know about Pearl Harbor?
- doubled the initiation fee at the “Winter White House” Mar-a-Lago to $200,000 shortly after being inaugurated?
- drove a golf cart on the greens?
- endorsed a child molester for Senate?
- falsely claimed that he had the largest inaugural crowd size ever?
- filled out the wrong birth date on an absentee ballot?
- fired FBI Director James Comey?
- gave a speech to the Boy Scouts?
- hired and fired a White House communications director within 11 days?
- implied Frederick Douglass was still alive?
- installed a red button on his desk that summons someone to bring a Coke?
- looked directly into the sun during a partial eclipse?
- met with his cabinet for the first time?
- mispronounced Namibia during a meeting with African leaders?
- mocked “low I.Q. Crazy Mika” for “bleeding badly from a face-lift?”
- opposed and delayed sanctions on Russia, despite bipartisan support in Congress?
- pardoned Joe Arpaio, who was convicted for illegally detaining immigrants?
- posed in a fire truck for a Made in America showcase?
- praised authoritarian Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte?
- promised healthcare that would provide “insurance for everybody”?
- pushed the leader of Montenegro?
- railed against new aircraft carriers and their digital deck propulsion system, demanding that they return to “goddamned steam”?
- retweeted an image of a bloody CNN stomped under his shoe?
- rode a golf cart 700 yards while the leaders of 6 other nations walked together during his first G7 meeting?
- said after becoming elected that “[lock her up] plays great before the election — now we don’t care, right?”
- said Haitians “all have AIDS” and that Nigerians live in “huts”?
- said he lost the popular vote because of fraud?
- said he was the least anti-Semitic and least racist person “you’ve ever seen in your entire life”?
- said of NFL players kneeling in protest, “get that son of a bitch off the field”?
- said of the Charlottesville protests that “there were some very fine people on both sides”?
- said that he fired FBI Director James Comey because of the Russian investigation?
- said that the border wall needed to be physically transparent for border control to see through?
- said the United States should replace the dollar with gold as the global currency?
- said, “People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?”
- said, “nobody knew that health care could be so complicated”?
- sent a $25,000 personal check to a Gold Star family?
- shared classified intelligence with Russia?
- signed an Executive Order that rolled back Obama-era protections for transgender students?
- signed off on a high-risk raid in Yemen that led to several deaths?
- spoke at length about the most “beautiful piece of chocolate cake you’ve ever seen” when asked about the decision to bomb Syria?
- thought “clean coal” was physically cleaned by miners?
- thought Nepal and Bhutan were in India, pronouncing them as “nipple” and “button”?
- thought that being President of the United States would be easier than his old life as head of his own company?
- threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria?
- 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 police, “please don’t be too nice” to suspects?
- told Russian officials that firing “nut job” FBI Director James Comey would ease pressure from the Russia investigation?
- took credit for $700 million in cuts to the F-35 program’s price that was agreed upon before he was President?
- tried to fire the Special Counsel?
- tweeted a gif of him wrestling CNN to the ground?
- tweeted, “Despite the negative press, covfefe”?
- used the “yank and pull” handshake method on various people, including heads of state?
- wanted a military parade for his inauguration, including tracked vehicles and missile launchers?
- wanted the Republican tax bill to be called the “Cut Cut Cut Act”?
- was called “a f*cking moron” by his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson?
- was called a “dotard” by Kim Jong-un?
- was called an “idiot” and “dope” as smart as a kindergartener by his National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster?
- was said to be “like an 11-year-old child” by Steve Bannon?
- wrongly said that his was the biggest Electoral College win since Reagan?