In reply to a remark from Marco Rubio during a Fox News debate, Trump said,
“Look at those hands, are they small hands? And, he referred to my hands — ‘if they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.”
Time – Watch Trump Talk About His Private Parts at the Debate
CNN – Donald Trump defends size of his penis
Vox – Donald Trump just defended his penis size at the Republican debate
After his victory in the Nevada Republican primary, Trump boasted about the demographics that voted for him.
We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.
While Trump garnered 57% of the vote by those with only a high school education, he had 42% votes by college graduates, and only 37% by those with a postgraduate degree.
USA Today – Donald Trump loves the ‘poorly educated’ — and they love him
Vox – The strangest line from Donald Trump’s victory speech: “I love the poorly educated”
Addressing the Syrian civil war, Trump disparaged the Obama administration: “The world has blown up around Barack Obama.” He continued, “It is the level of stupidity that is incredible. I’m telling you, I used to use the word incompetent. Now I just call them stupid. I went to an Ivy League school. I’m very highly educated. I know words, I have the best words. I have the best, but there is no better word than stupid. Right? There is none, there is none. There’s no, there’s no, there’s no word like that.”
As far as having the best words, he has misspelled his officials’ name, his wife’s name, and his own name, coined the word “covfefe,” and sent a tweet packed with five typos.
Gawker – Yet Another Bold Claim From Donald Trump: “I Know Words”
Daily Caller – Trump: ‘I Know Words, I Have The Best Words’ — Obama Is ‘Stupid’ [VIDEO]
Trump made the remark to the Associated Press.
He has made the claim, and many like it, multiple times.
PBS News Hour – Trump Says His Tax Rate is ‘none of your business”
US News – ‘Nothing to learn’ in Trump’s tax returns? No way to tell until he releases them.
Trump said to a crowd in July 2016,
I think I have the best temperament or certainly one of the best temperaments of anybody that’s ever run for the office of president. Ever. Because I have a winning temperament. I know how to win.
He made similar claims at other campaign rallies and during the debates with Hillary Clinton.
ABC News – Donald Trump Says He Has One of the ‘Best Temperaments’ of Any Presidential Candidates
US News & World Report – Temperament Tantrum
Graham voiced his criticisms during Trump’s candidacy in 2015.
After Trump became President, Graham has repeatedly come to his defense despite his multitude of scandals.
CNN – Graham: Trump is a ‘race-baiting, xenophobic’ bigot (2015)
Newsweek – Lindsey Graham says Donald Trump’s not racist, but called him a ‘race-baiting bigot’ in 2015
During an interview on 60 Minutes, Trump took offense at the notion that he might not be a humble person, retorting, “I think I am actually humble, I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.”
The author of Moneyball and The Big Short wrote about the transition,
The first time Trump paid attention to any of this was when he read about it in the newspaper. The story revealed that Trump’s very own transition team had raised several million dollars to pay the staff. The moment he saw it, Trump called Steve Bannon, the chief executive of his campaign, from his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, and told him to come immediately to his residence, many floors above. Bannon stepped off the elevator to find Christie seated on a sofa, being hollered at. Trump was apoplectic, yelling: You’re stealing my money! You’re stealing my fucking money! What the fuck is this?
Seeing Bannon, Trump turned on him and screamed: Why are you letting him steal my fucking money? Bannon and Christie together set out to explain to Trump federal law. Months before the election, the law said, the nominees of the two major parties were expected to prepare to take control of the government. The government supplied them with office space in downtown DC, along with computers and rubbish bins and so on, but the campaigns paid their people. To which Trump replied: Fuck the law. I don’t give a fuck about the law. I want my fucking money. Bannon and Christie tried to explain that Trump couldn’t have both his money and a transition.
Shut it down, said Trump. Shut down the transition.
