said, “I’m intelligent. Some people would say I’m very, very, very intelligent”?
Trump made the remark during an 2000 interview with Fortune Magazine.
Has also made reference to his “very large brain,” both during his campaign and as President.
got five draft deferments during Vietnam?
Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War. Four were for college, but a fifth was for bone spurs on his foot that allegedly made him ineligible to serve. There had been no medical history of spurs during medical examinations prior, and Trump claimed that they later healed on their own.
Despite having not served, Trump has called dodging STDs his “personal Vietnam,” said John McCain wasn’t a war hero because he was captured, and has attacked Gold Star families.
Business Insider – Donald Trump avoided the military draft 5 times, but it wasn’t uncommon for young men from influential families to do so during the Vietnam War
Military Times – Trump made up injury to dodge Vietnam service, his former lawyer testifies
USA Today – Podiatrist’s daughters say bone spur diagnosis that helped Trump avoid Vietnam draft was ‘favor’
was laughed at by Scottish Parliament?
In 2012, Trump railed against a Scottish proposal to construct an ocean wind farm a mile from the coast, which would be visible from his newly acquired Aberdeen golf course. He claimed that it would cause a great deal of environmental damage in the area. When asked for empirical evidence, Trump put forward his own expertise:
Trump: I am an expert on tourism. If you…dot your landscape with these horrible, horrible structures, you will do tremendous damage-
Member Of Scottish Parliament (MSP): (interrupting) My question is, where is the clinical evidence – not an opinion, an empirical assessment; where is your clinical evidence?
Trump: Well, first of all, I am the evidence. I think I’m more of an expert-
(laughter)
Trump: – I…you know what, I think I’m a lot more of an expert than the people you’d like me to hire, who are doing it to make a paycheck-
MSP: -If you won’t-
Trump: -But I am an expert in tourism.
As of 2019, the golf course had lost money for the previous consecutive 7 years.
Trump warned of wind turbines’ supposed dangers several times over his presidency, including asserting that their noise causes cancer. During his tenure, he also drew laughter at the United Nations for claiming his administration had accomplished among the most as any other in US history.
BBC News – Trump and Scotland: The people who hit back at the president
Bloomberg – Trump’s Aberdeen Golf Course Posts Loss for Seventh Year in Row
fondled “Rudia,” Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag?
The comedy skit in which Trump pretended to harass then-mayor of New York City Rudy Guliani was part of the Mayor’s Inner Circle Press roast, a comedy event.
The drag character, Rudia, had debuted three years earlier at the event when Giuliani appeared on stage in front of 2,000 people in and sang “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” in falsetto.
Giuliani later campaigned for Trump and worked as his personal lawyer.
Business Insider – Donald Trump once stuck his face into Rudy Giuliani’s chest for a drag-queen comedy skit — and the video refuses to die
The New York Times – Jaws Drop As Giuliani Steals Show In Heels
sold the failed Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City?
Trump purchased the hotel and casino in 1984. It spiraled into being ranked last among those in Atlantic City before finally being shuttered in 2014.
A regular visitor described its last years as being in slow but perpetual decline: “It did slip every year. This year they had no bedspreads and they totally gave up on the ice machines. This year the Plaza bar was closed and the 24 hour cafe closed at 2 p.m. The higher-end restaurants were closed. It was so sad to see it get a little worse every year. They really seemed to give up about five years ago.”
USA Today – Trump Plaza: 4th Atlantic City casino shutdown
Atlantic City News – Thousands out of work in Atlantic City as big casinos shut doors
The Guardian – Atlantic City Trump Plaza shuts its doors as embattled town loses another casino
Wikipedia – Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino
called Jeffrey Epstein “a terrific guy”?
Trump also said of Epstein, and “likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Trump made the comments in a 2002 interview, noting that he’d known Epstein for over a decade. In 2008, Epstein was convicted of procuring an underage girl for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.
Trump tried to distance himself from the child sex trafficker after his 2019 arrest, saying “I don’t think I’ve spoken to him in 15 years” and that he “was not a fan.” A tape surfaced of them chatting and laughing together at a party from 1992, amid reports of Trump having gone to various Epstein-hosted events, including testimony by Epstein’s brother Mark that Trump had flown on Jeffrey’s plane multiple times. Additionally, one of Epstein’s alleged teenage victims claims to have been recruited from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
After Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested for allegedly helping Epstein traffic children, Trump said “I wish her well.”
New York Magazine – Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery
The New York Times – Jeffrey Epstein Was a ‘Terrific Guy,’ Donald Trump Once Said. Now He’s ‘Not a Fan.’
The Washington Post – Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein partied together. Then an oceanfront Palm Beach mansion came between them.
NBC News – Tape shows Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein discussing women at 1992 party
Politico – Unsealed documents detail alleged Epstein victim’s recruitment at Mar-a-Lago
tweeted about “losers and haters” and bragged about his IQ?
Trump made a similar tweet referencing losers and haters on the anniversary of 9/11. He has also described himself as a whiner, and has said that his temperament hasn’t changed since the first grade.
suggested he wanted to abort his second daughter Tiffany?
During a 2004 interview with Howard Stern, Trump recounted when he learned of Marla Maples’ pregnancy:
“Well, what are we going to do about this?” She [Maples] said, “Are you serious? It’s the most beautiful day of our lives.” I said, “Oh, great.”
Trump also made lewd comments about Tiffany during her infancy, referencing her breasts.
Newsweek – When Trump found out Marla was Pregnant with Tiffany, he said, ‘oh, great’
defended China’s use of force at Tienanmen Square?
Trump made the comments in an interview with Playboy Magazine.
When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak…as being spit on by the rest of the world.
didn’t want to name his son after himself because, “what if he’s a loser?”
His ex-wife Ivana Trump recorded the statement in her memoir, “Raising Trump”.
