The various tweets in which Trump predicted that Obama would attack Iran to secure the Presidency never came to pass. Instead, the Obama administration negotiated the Iran Nuclear Deal, which Trump withdrew the US from. Trump also later ordered a drone strike on a senior Iranian official and threatened to bomb Iranian cultural sites, prompting outcry and threats of retaliation.
In the 2019 holiday season, conservative social media began buzzing about the omission of a scene in a Canadian Broadcast Company cut of the 1992 film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. The scene features Trump in the Plaza Hotel to give directions to the lead character. After outcry, the CBC revealed that the film had had several scenes cut for time, and that the edit in question had been used in broadcasts since 2014.
Trump joked the controversy, tweeting, “I guess Justin T doesn’t much like my making him pay up on NATO or Trade!” and “The movie will never be the same! (just kidding)”.
Business Insider – Trump tweets that ‘Home Alone 2’ ‘will never be the same’ after report that his cameo was cut in a Canadian broadcast
The New York Times – The CBC’s Cut of a Scene From ‘Home Alone 2’ Draws the Trumps’ Ire
After Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg was selected to be Time’s Person of the Year for 2019, Trump responded over Twitter:
Trump’s campaign team also tweeted a manipulated image of the Time cover, placing his head on Thunberg’s body.
Thunberg didn’t reply directly, but updated her Twitter bio to read, “A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend.”
The same campaign Twitter account also depicted Trump as Marvel super-villain Thanos, while Trump has displayed fake covers of Time featuring himself at his golf clubs.
The Washington Post – Trump mocks 16-year-old Greta Thunberg a day after she is named Time’s Person of the Year
Newsweek – Trump campaign is using a Photoshopped Time cover of President’s head on Greta Thunberg to solicit text signups
Business Insider – Teenage activist Greta Thunberg changes her Twitter bio to clap back at Trump’s tweet calling her Person of the Year honor ‘ridiculous’
The Twitter account notes that it is “Managed by the #TeamTrump 2020 campaign.”
The use of this particular scene is especially confusing, as it was the moment in the Marvel film Endgame when Thanos discovers he has lost his god-like powers and is immediately defeated.
Jim Starlin, who created the character of Thanos, shared his reaction: “After my initial feeling of being violated, seeing that pompous fool using my creation to stroke his infantile ego, it finally struck me that the leader of my country and the free world actually enjoys comparing himself to a mass murderer.”
The same Twitter account photoshopped Trump’s head over a teenage girl’s from a Time Person of the Year cover.
BBC News – Thanos creator labels Donald Trump a ‘pompous fool’ after Avengers tweet
The Hollywood Reporter – Thanos Creator Feels “Violated” After Trump Campaign’s ‘Avengers’ Ad
The Trump failed to elaborate on what “I’ve done before!” meant in reference to totally destroying and obliterating an economy.
The tweet came following Trump’s decision to withdraw US forces from a base in Syria, the occupation of the base by Russian forces, and Turkey’s subsequent operations against Kurdish militia groups that had long been US allies.
The New York Times – Trump Orders Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Northern Syria
The tweet was later deleted, though it can still be found in Twitter’s archives.
“The Democrat party has gone completely insane,” he later told the Mississippi audience.
USA Today – ‘Louisiana, I’ll see you tonight’: Trump tweets he’s visiting Louisiana Friday – but he’s going to Mississippi
The New York Times – Trump Rails Against Impeachment in First Rally Since House Vote
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There was a great deal of confusion over where Trump got the figure, given that it was 230% more than the correct number.
The Hill – Trump tweets 303K job claim after report of 128K new jobs
Trump has made the claim multiple times, such during his campaign on the Alex Jones Radio Show, on Twitter, and after the raid on ISIS leader al-Baghdadi when he claimed that the event was more important than the death of bin Laden. Trump did in fact mention Osama bin Laden in his 2000 book The America We Deserve in the context of how the Clinton administration was mishandling multiple threats, referencing a 1998 air strike on bin Laden’s compound. While Trump originally asserted that no one had heard of bin Laden, he was a well-known and reported on threat at the time, which owed to the reasoning behind the airstrikes in the first place. Trump’s book also did warn of a large terror attack, although this was already the driving force of concern about bin Laden and other possible sources of terrorism.
Business Insider – Trump claims the killing of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi is more significant than Osama bin Laden’s assassination.
FactCheck.org – Trump’s bin Laden ‘Prediction’
Trump’s inclusion of a photo taken from a spy satellite in his tweet revealed the resolution and location of the US’ best surveillance satellites. Using the angle of the photo, it was even possible for amateurs to determine exactly which satellite took it.
Forbes – Trump Accidentally Revealed The Amazing Resolution Of U.S. Spy Satellites
Wired – Trump Tweeted a Sensitive Photo. Internet Sleuths Decoded It
NPR – Amateurs Identify U.S. Spy Satellite Behind President Trump’s Tweet
Trump argued that the governor was failing in managing the forest fires because he refused to “‘clean’ his forest floors,” and instead was doing what “his bosses, the environmentalists, demand.” The fires were not located in forested areas, and clearing brush from forests is already a widely employed tactic. Trump previously referred to this as “raking” the forest floors.
..Every year, as the fire’s rage & California burns, it is the same thing-and then he comes to the Federal Government for $$$ help. No more. Get your act together Governor. You don’t see close to the level of burn in other states…But our teams are working well together in…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2019
….putting these massive, and many, fires out. Great firefighters! Also, open up the ridiculously closed water lanes coming down from the North. Don’t pour it out into the Pacific Ocean. Should be done immediately. California desperately needs water, and you can have it now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2019
Politico – Trump threatens to end federal aid to California in tweets slamming Gov. Gavin Newsom
ABC News – Trump threatens to cut off federal funding for California wildfires
