railed against new aircraft carriers and their digital deck propulsion system, demanding that they return to “goddamned steam”?
In an interview with Time, Trump recalled the conversation.
I said, “You don’t use steam anymore for catapult?” “No sir.” I said, “Ah, how is it working?” “Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn’t have the power. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place, there’s planes thrown in the air.”
It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said — and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said, “What system are you going to be—” “Sir, we’re staying with digital.” I said, “No you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.”
Foreign Policy – Trump Wants New Aircraft Carriers to Turn Back to ‘Goddamned Steam’ Power Catapults
said that four Congresswomen should “go back” from where they came?
The four freshman Congresswomen, known as the Squad, include Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), are all American citizens, and only one was born outside of the United States. Regardless, Trump said of their criticism that they should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” He continued to attack them using prepared talking points, and demanded an apology from Ilhan-Omar after saying she was “incapable” of loving America.
Trump doubled down on his remarks, saying that the Congresswomen should “love it or leave it.” Some pundits pointed out that the phrase was a slogan employed by various xenophobic groups, including the KKK. Trump also failed to explain how the four Congresswomen’s criticisms on the state of America were insulting to the country, when his own campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” presupposes that America was no longer great.
The New York Times – Trump Tells Congresswomen to ‘Go Back’ to the Countries They Came From
The Boston Globe – A painful history of Trump’s ‘love it or leave it’ argument
SBS News – How Trump invoked KKK slogan ‘love it or leave it’ at North Carolina rally
demanded an apology from a Congresswoman he said was “incapable of loving America”?
Trump had tweeted, “I don’t believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Country,” saying that they should go back to their own countries. All four were US citizens, with three having been born in the US. After lying about having prepared talking points to attack the Congresswomen, he then demanded an apology from Ilhan-Omar of Minnesota. She had remarked about Republican Congressmen only supporting Israel because they were paid to do so from Israeli lobby groups. When she walked back the remark, Trump called her apology “lame.”
The New York Times – Trump Tells Congresswomen to ‘Go Back’ to the Countries They Came From
Associated Press – Trump calls Rep. Omar apology about Israel remark ‘lame’
Independent – Trump demands congresswomen he subjected to racist tweets apologise to US and Israel
tweeted a gif of him wrestling CNN to the ground?
Trump has also retweeted an image of a bloody CNN crushed under his shoe. He has long railed against the press, calling them “the enemy of the people.”
ABC News – Critics pounce on Trump after CNN wrestling tweet
rescinded an invitation to the White House for the Philadelphia Eagles?
Within a day of offering a White House invitation to the Philadelphia Eagles for becoming the 2017 NFL season Super Bowl champions, it was rescinded after several members said they wouldn’t attend. Trump has prepared platters of fast food for other visiting teams.
USA Today – President Trump cancels White House invitation for Super Bowl champion Eagles
NBC Sports – Eagles release statement after invite to White House rescinded
was called “a f*cking moron” by his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson?
After a July 20, 2017 meeting at the Pentagon, the New Yorker reported that then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson referred to Trump as “a f*cking moron.”
When asked about it, Tillerson said he wouldn’t be resigning, but also didn’t deny whether he’d said the remark.
After the report emerged, Trump publicly challenged his Secretary of State to an IQ test.
Tillerson was fired the following year.
Time – The Rise and Fall of Rex Tillerson: A Timeline
New York Magazine – Tillerson, Who Privately Called Trump ‘Moron,’ Pretty Much Confirms It in Public
Quartz – All the ways Trump’s closest confidants insult his intelligence
BBC News – Rex Tillerson – Trump’s former top diplomat
brought a war widow to tears, then called her account wrong because he had “one of the greatest memories of all time”?
Army Sergeant La David Johnson was killed during an ambush in Niger by elements of ISIS. The event was the largest loss of American lives in Africa during combat since the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993.
La David’s pregnant widow said that Trump forgot her husband’s name during a phone call he’d made to offer condolences. Trump also remarked about her husband that, “He knew what he signed up for, but it hurts anyways.”
When the widow’s account of the phone call was reported, Trump said she was wrong because he has “one of the greatest memories of all time.”
He also tweeted that he had said the name “without hesitation.”
A few days later, Trump defended himself by saying that past Presidents didn’t even call the families of fallen soldiers.
Trump also attacked a Gold Star family for speaking at the DNC and disparaged US Senator John McCain’s service in Vietnam because he liked people “who weren’t captured.” In another instance, Trump sent a $25,000 personal check to a grieving family, though it came after news reports on its delay months after the promise.
The New York Times – Soldier’s Widow Says Trump Struggled to Remember Sgt. La David Johnson’s Name
Business Insider – TRUMP: I remember call to Gold Star widow better than she does because I have ‘one of the great memories of all-time’
The Washington Post – President Trump has one of the greatest memories of all time
Wikipedia – Tongo Tongo ambush
referred to Haiti, El Salvador, and parts of Africa as “shithole countries”?
Trump prompted international outcry with his remark. He had also asked why any immigrants should be allowed from such countries, instead of “more people from Norway.”
The Washington Post – Trump attacks protections for immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries
AP News – Trump: Why allow immigrants from ‘shithole countries’?
Reuters – ‘Thanks, but no thanks’ – Norwegians reject Trump’s immigration offer
said a report about having prepared talking points was fake news, before photos of the talking points were released?
The talking points in question were various disparaging remarks about four Congressional lawmakers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.). While his tweet claimed there were no talking points prepared, clear pictures of them surfaced. He had also said the four women, despite being US citizens, should “go back” to their own countries, and said that they were “incapable of loving America.”
Additionally, the upper right corner of the page had the words, “some people,” and “alcaida” prominently hand-written. The former is a common justification that Trump uses (e.g. “I’m intelligent. Some people would say I’m very, very, very intelligent”), while the latter appears to be a misspelling of Al-Qaeda. Trump has also misspelled his officials’ name, his wife’s name, and his own name.
The Week – Trump claims he didn’t have ‘talking points’ to degrade Rep. Ilhan Omar. Here’s a picture of him holding them.
Newsweek – DONALD TRUMP FALSELY CLAIMS HE DIDN’T HAVE ‘TALKING POINTS’ ON MINORITY CONGRESSWOMEN, DESPITE PHOTOS
