The 59 worst things Trump did during his presidency
Moya Lothian McLeanGreg EvansAug 17, 2023
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The 59 worst things Trump did during his presidency

Since Donald Trump begrudgingly left office in January 2021, he's had
some bad moments. He has moaned that the election was stolen from him and
said he should have won and has spread baseless conspiracies while
mocking Joe Biden.

These claims about the election have been widely disputed but even if
they were true it is worth remembering what he was like as a president,
and why he absolutely should not be one again.

It's still staggering to believe that he was ever the President of the
United States and given the amount of controversy surrounding him.

Yet, he might still get a second chance if his 2024 campaign is
successful which is hard to comprehend given that he now has four
indictment charges looming over his head and potential jail time as a
result, should he be found guilty.

Some of the charges pale against some of the things he did and said while
he was in the White House which ranged from the absurd to the downright
scandalous.

If you just need a reminder of those discrepancies, here are 59 of his
worst acts when he held office.

Read to the end, if you dare.
1. When he dismissed Russian interference in the election

The spectre of Russia has haunted Trump since the 2016 election that
brought him to power. Post-election analysis of data by the likes of
academics seems to suggest that yes, Russian interference played a part
in it.

But Trump, funnily enough, has never been keen to examine the role Russia
might have had in seeing him elected. This means he�s not only blocked
every attempt to investigate it but also sacked multiple officials who�ve
threatened to do so, like former FBI director James Comey. Trump even
admitted that Russia was part of his reasoning for firing Comey, making
him only the second American president to sack his FBI director.
Historic.
2. When he appointed his unqualified family to top administration roles

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Ah, the sweet smell of nepotism. As soon as Trump went to the White
House, so did his family. But breaking with protocol, members of the
extended Trump clan quickly received important high-ranking roles. Like
daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared who are now special advisors, a
role that is very vague but ensures they�re essentially part of running
the country. Ivanka�s attempt to mingle with world leaders at the 2019
G20 summit was widely ridiculed.

It�s not stopped her, or the other Trumps, from ascending the power
ladder though.
3. When he was literally impeached

You have to do something pretty bad to be impeached. Like have sexual
relations with a much more junior member of staff and then lie about it.
The accusation facing Donald Trump was that he pressured Ukraine to dig
up dirt on Joe Biden and his son Hunter, threatening to withhold aid
unless the Ukrainian president complied with his wishes.

Trump was acquitted by the Republican Senate majority but people can
examine the evidence for themselves�
4. When he tried to ban TikTok

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Donald Trump wasn�t aware of TikTok at the start of 2020 � but now the
viral app ranked high on his list of enemies that summer. Why? Teens.

It wasn�t until teens claimed credit for half-filled seats at Trump�s
�comeback� rally in Tulsa.

After that, Trump decided the Chinese-owned app was a national security
threat and has now forced the sale of TikTok in order for it to continue
operating in the US.

Funnily enough, senior leaders who work at winning bidder Oracle, have a
very close relationship with Trump�s administration.

Oracle�s win was a surprise, with most expecting Microsoft to succeed
with their bid to �partner� with TikTok�s owners in the US.

Keep your friends close and your enemy apps closer!
5. When he approved a devastating oil pipeline through Native land

One of the very first things Trump did on ascending to office, was revive
plans for a huge oil pipeline that had been rejected by Barack Obama.

Despite Obama deciding that the pipeline was not only environmentally
unsound, it would also not deliver on promises such as lowering petrol
prices, Trump merrily fired out an executive order in January 2017,
signing off on the Keystone XL pipeline which would � pump some of
Canada�s most dangerous oil products over nearly 1,200 miles of US land
and Indigenous territories largely for export to other countries�.

Priorities.
6. When he called far-right protestors �very fine people�

Remember Charlottesville? The white supremacist rally where counter-
protestor Heather Heyer was killed after a member of the far-right drove
a car into her. Well according to Trump, there were �very fine people� on
both sides of that protest. One side was made up of Neo-Nazis and white
supremacists. The other wasn�t.
7. When he appointed a far-right nationalist his chief strategist

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When Trump entered the White House, so did Steve Bannon, a man regularly
described as a �far-right nationalist�. Eventually, he was fired after
Trump reportedly got sick of sharing the spotlight. Now he�s been charged
with fraud after embezzling funds donated by Trump supporters to a crowd
funder to build the infamous border wall. Classy.
8. When he imposed a �Muslim travel ban�

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In 2017 Trump signed an executive order that temporarily suspended
immigration to the US for all citizens of seven Muslim majority countries
for 90 days. Citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and
Yemen suddenly found themselves unable to enter America. Massive protests
immediately took place as a response with courts eventually finding the
ban unlawful and overturning it.

That didn�t stop Trump though; he issued a new ban in 2018 that instead
restricted how many visas could be issued to applicants from Iran, Libya,
Somalia, Syria and Yemen, along with Venezuela and North Korea.

This ban was eventually upheld by the Supreme Court. And in February it
was expanded to cover citizens from Nigeria, Eritrea, Tanzania, Sudan,
Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar.
9. When he (repeatedly) refused to release his tax returns

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From the very beginning, Trump refused to drop his taxes. Why? We can
only guess. But former lawyer Michael Cohen suggested it might be for a
very Trumpian reason.

�He doesn�t report the income he claims,� Cohen claimed during an
interview to promote his book, Disloyal.

�His wealth is not as significant, and I imagine they were probably
lenient in how they took deductions�.

He also said releasing the tax returns might throw up more problems for
Trump.

�His biggest fear is, if that tax return was released, there�s a whole
slew of accountants and forensic accountants that will rip through it and
he will end up with a massive tax bill, penalties, fines, and possibly
even tax fraud,� Cohen added.
10. When he tried to stop transgender students from using school
bathrooms in line with their gender

In February 2017, Trump decided to go after one of the most marginalised
groups possible by removing protections for trans students which allowed
them to use bathrooms corroborating with their gender identity.

The harm the policy could cause was so evident that even education
secretary Betsy DeVos opposed the move because of the effect it would
have on trans students.

Trump went ahead with it anyway.
11. When he lied about his inauguration crowd sizes

Size matters to Trump which is why he and his team practised their very
first professional gaslighting by insisting that the crowds gathered for
his inauguration were the �largest ever�, despite extensive photographic
evidence to the contrary.

Later it emerged a government photographer had even edited photos to make
�crowds appear bigger�, according to a Guardian investigation.
12. When repeatedly called Elizabeth Warren �Pocahontas�

After Elizabeth Warren revealed she had Native American ancestry (which
wasn�t too well received by actual Native Americans), Trump gave her a
new nickname: Pocahontas.

But rather than mock just Warren, the nickname serves to ridicule Native
Americans and indigenous cultures as a whole.
13. When he doubled fees at his resort hotel after becoming president

What�s the first thing you do when you become the leader of the �free�
world? Jack up the membership fees at your beach resort.

After Trump�s election, Mar-a-Lago, the shining jewel in his gilt-coated
crown, doubled its initiation fee to $200,000.

At the time, Norm Eisen, Barack Obama�s top ethics lawyer, called it �not
very subtle exploitation of the fact that the club�s figurehead is now
president of the U.S.�

�This type of naked profiteering off of a government office is what I
would expect from King Louis XVI or his modern kleptocratic equivalents,
not an American president,� Eisen said.

Preach.
14. Tried to penalise �sanctuary cities� for migrants

Sanctuary cities are a loose name for states or localities that have
regulations which can act as an obstacle for Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) to hunt down migrants they think they can deport.

So of course Trump has tried to penalise those areas.

How? By threatening to withhold federal funding from them.
15. When he fired the acting attorney general for not defending his
travel ban

One of Trump�s first firings (setting the tone for a presidential term
that would see one of the highest staff turnovers ever) was Sally Yates.
The then-acting US attorney general refused to enforce his first Muslim
ban.

So she was sacked for �betraying� the department.
16. When he tried to buy Greenland

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Trump wanted to trade Greenland for Puerto Rico, which he reportedly
called �dirty and poor�. That just about sums it up.
17. When he seemingly told police officers to rough up suspects

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In 2017, Trump gave a speech in Long Island to members of the Suffolk
County Police Department. In it, he seemed to encourage roughing up
suspects, saying:

"When you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head,
you know, the way you put their hand over, like, don't hit their head and
they've just killed somebody. Don't hit their head. I said, you can take
the hand away, okay?"

He doubled down, saying �Don�t be too nice�. The remarks drew such
criticism that Suffolk County even tweeted a rejoinder.

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18. When he invented three million �illegal� voters to explain Hillary
Clinton winning the popular vote

Nothing worse than a sore winner; even though Trump won the presidency,
he can�t get over the three million votes which meant Hillary Clinton was
the winner of the popular ballot.

From 2017, he promised an investigation into �massive voter fraud�,
saying up to five million votes had been illegally cast for Clinton.

Trump has yet to offer any proof.
19. When he used his platform to �cancel� a tire company

In August 2020, after Goodyear announced they were banning their
employees from wearing 'MAGA attire,' Trump tweeted: "Don�t buy GOODYEAR
TIRES - They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS. Get better tires for far
less!� Trump wrote on Twitter. �(This is what the Radical Left Democrats
do. Two can play the same game, and we have to start playing it now!).�
20. When the Trump Hotel organisation received $60,0000 for hosting an
event for Kuwait

Trump apparently never divested from his business interests � which means
when an event held by Kuwait to celebrate their national day was held at
Washington�s Trump International, there were questions raised.

Like whether the sitting president would see any of the reported $60,000
fee paid by Kuwait to host the event there.

And whether Trump�s solution � which is donating �all profits from
foreign government payments made to his hotels to the United States
Treasury� � would really prevent any conflict of interest.

Hmm...
21. When he attacked former prisoner of war, John McCain as a �loser�

There was no love lost between late Republican Senator John McCain and
Donald Trump.

But Trump certainly got in some low blows against his rival.

Upon McCain�s death in 2018, from a brain tumour, it was reported by
witnesses that Trump was angered by his funeral being officially
commemorated.

"We�re not going to support that loser�s funeral,� witnesses claimed the
president said.

However, Trump then denied he�d ever called McCain a �loser�.

The only problem was that footage from Trump�s 2015 campaign run shows
him clearly slamming McCain as just that.

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"He lost, he let us down... I never liked him as much after that because
I don't like losers,� Trump says during the clip.

He follows it up by denying McCain deserves the epithet of �war hero�.

"He is not a war hero�� Trump said.

�He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't
captured�.
22. When he told a sheriff to �destroy� the career of a senator who
opposed police officers being able to seize assets

In 2017, Trump �joked� about destroying the career of a Texas senator who
wanted to crack down on asset forfeiture.

Asset forfeiture is a controversial practice that allows police
departments to seize �suspicious� assets and keep them� even if the
person they�re seized from is never convicted or charged with a crime.

According to experts, the practice �disproportionately� affects people
without means. Police can auction off the assets and the funds go back
into their budgets.

However, Trump�s response to hearing about a senator who wished to reform
the concept was pretty telling.

�Who is the state senator?,� he said, on being informed about proposed
legislation to require conviction before asset forfeiture could be
practised.

�Want to give his name? We'll destroy his career�.
23. When he appointed Jeff Sessions attorney general

Donald Trump might be slamming Jeff Sessions now but when he appointed
him his first official attorney general, he seemed like a big fan.

Which was despite large protests against giving Sessions the role, thanks
to his past record, which included opposition to LGBTQ rights and
protecting voting rights for marginalised groups.

While in office, Sessions immediately began undercutting federal rights
for LGBTQ people, especially trans individuals.

Did Trump care, before or after? Absolutely not.
24. When he ignored evidence of Michael Flynn�s meetings with Russia

One of the highest-profile falls from grace of Trump�s administration was
Michael Flynn. Formerly Trump�s national security advisor, Flynn now
faces criminal charges for accusations that he lied about contact with
Russia before being appointed to the role.

But Trump was apparently warned about Flynn weeks before the adviser was
forced to resign and only told vice president Mike Pence about the
allegations facing Flynn when a Washington Post expos� on the matter the
next day.
25. When he appointed Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon, secretary of housing
and development

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During the 2015 race to become the Republican nominee, Ben Carson stood
out.

Sadly it wasn�t for his incisive political nous but instead because he
kept saying really, really strange things.

It got to the point where people were surprised to discover the man had
actually qualified and practised as a world-renowned neurosurgeon.

So when Trump was elected, it came as an unwelcome surprise to discover
Carson was being put in charge of a vital department, as secretary of
housing development, with absolutely zero experience in the area.

Since then, Carson�s been accused of trying to �destroy� affordable
housing during his four years in government.
26. When he withdrew from the Paris Agreement on climate change

Q: How do you solve a problem like world-threatening global warming?

A: Withdraw from the global climate change agreement that binds countries
to environmental promises to try and limit already devastating harm
wrought by global warming.

Simple.
27. When he suggested vaccines cause autism

While on the campaign trail, Trump met with anti-vaxxers, including
Andrew Wakefield whose now-disproved study into the MMR vaccine and
autism helped renew an anti-vaccine movement in 1998.

This followed over 20 occasions where Trump tweeted about links between
vaccines and autism, for which there is no evidence.

Once elected, Trump had plans to establish an advisory committee to look
at federal vaccine policies, reportedly because he had some �doubts[...]
and questions�.

Funnily enough, with coronavirus floating about, he�s now a big fan of
vaccines.
28. When he stopped funding for the UN Population Fund which supports
family planning across the globe

In a Trump-led �crusade against the health and rights of women and girls
globally�, the US ended all funding for the United Nations Population
Fund in 2017.

The fund supports reproductive and sexual health programmes for
vulnerable women in over 150 countries, like Venezuela and Syria.

At the time, Trump cited false claims of programmes requiring �coercive
abortion�.

In response, women�s rights activists said he had �signed a global death
warrant for women�.
29. When he falsely accused Barack Obama of spying on the Trump campaign

Trump has accused predecessor Barack Obama of many things without
providing a lick of evidence.

And he started as he meant to go on � by bizarrely claiming Obama had
wire-tapped the phones in the Trump Tower.

To achieve what end? So he could listen to the sound of Fox News and
crinkling fast food packets for 24 hours a day? Sure.
30. When he appointed an anti-abortion advocate to oversee family
planning funding for low-income communities

Who is the best person to head up family planning funding allocations for
low-income communities, aka ensuring people with wombs have a right to
choose whether they give birth or not?

According to Donald Trump, it�s Teresa Manning, a loud anti-abortion
advocate and birth control �sceptic�.

Manning was appointed deputy assistant secretary for population affairs
in 2017, where she oversaw Title X funding -- money for contraceptive and
sexual health services.

Her previous experience in the field came from stints at two large anti-
abortion groups.

Eventually, Manning resigned in 2018, with her successor Valerie Huber
being a �a staunch advocate of abstinence-only programs�.

Just the person for the job then.
31. When he cut a pandemic early warning program in 2019

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Now the president doesn�t have to be Mystic Meg but it does seem to show
a worrying lack of forethought that Trump cut a program that would issue
early warnings of pandemics in September 2019.

The first known reported case of coronavirus occurred just two months
later.
32. When was accused of revealing classified information to the Russian
ambassador

Said one U.S official to a Washington Post reporter about a meeting Trump
had with the Russian ambassador and foreign minister:

"He revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have
shared with our own allies."

Apparently Trump�s loose lips even jeopardised a mole inside the Islamic
State. Awkward!
33. When he nominated a climate change sceptic to chair the committee
advising the White House on environmental policy

We can�t say that Donald Trump doesn�t take climate change seriously �
but we can say that he withdrew from global commitments to tackle the
issue, once tweeted about needing �a little of that good old fashioned
Global Warming!�, and nominated climate change sceptic Kathleen Hartnett
White to be his top environmental advisor.

So, you do the math.
34. When he removed protection status from 59,000 Haitians, forcing them
to return to disaster-ridden Haiti by July 2019

In November 2017, Trump ended a humanitarian programme that had allowed
59,000 Haitians to reside and work in the U.S, as the country still tries
to recover from 2010�s devastating earthquake, which ripped through its
social fabric.

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere; money sent back
home from ex-pats is a lifeline.

Worse still, in 2020, the forced deportations of Haitians continued
during the pandemic, despite human rights activists warning that Trump
was essentially �exporting� coronavirus to a nation that would not be
able to cope with an outbreak.
35. When he retweeted anti-Islam videos from the deputy leader of Britain
First

Trump�s busy fingers on social media often display that he doesn't really
think or check things before he shares them on his official account,
which is a worrying thing to consider when you are talking about the US
president.

Perhaps the most disturbing thing that Trump has ever shared on his
timeline was a series of Islamophobic tweets from the deputy leader of
the far-right group Britain First back in November 2017.

Trump did later apologise for sharing the tweets, telling Piers Morgan in
a television interview that he knew nothing of the group beforehand,
adding:

�If you are telling me they're horrible people, horrible, racist people,
I would certainly apologise if you'd like me to do that.�
36. When he cut corporate tax to its lowest rate since 1939

If you are interested in things like corporate tax then you might not be
surprised to learn that Trump has opted to favour the biggest companies
in the world rather than the everyday blue-collar worker that he pretends
to appeal to.

On December 22 2017 he signed in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which reduced
taxes to somewhere between 35 and 21 per cent, reportedly the lowest the
rate had been since 1939.

Trump even falsely bragged about this being the biggest tax cut in
history, saying in April 2018: �We have the biggest tax cut in history,
bigger than the Reagan tax cut. Bigger than any tax cut.� It was actually
only the eighth biggest in US history.

Regardless, under Trump, the rich get richer and the poor stay the same.
37. Allegedly referred to the likes of Haiti and El Salvador as �s***hole
countries*

2018 got off to a hell of a start for Trump when he reportedly called
countries like Haiti, El Salvador and nations in Africa 's***holes�
during a meeting with congressional leaders.

According to the Washington Post, Trump said: "Why are we having all
these people from sh*thole countries come here? Why do we need more
Haitians?"

Take them out.

Trump was widely condemned for his comments but a few countries used the
president�s ignorance to their advantage with both Namibia and Zambia
using �s***hole countries� as part of their promotional material for
tourists.
38. When he accused Democrats of �treason� for not applauding his 2018
State of the Union address

We all know by now that Trump is a very, very sensitive man and can�t
take the slightest criticism against him. However, to accuse Democrats of
�treason� for not applauding his 2018 State of the Union address is a bit
of a stretch.

Yet that�s exactly what he did during a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio in
February 2018:
39. When he oversaw the longest government shutdown in US history

Between December 22 2018 and January 25 2019 almost nothing happened in
the US government due to the longest shutdown in United States history.

The reason for this? Because Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on
the federal budget, mostly over disputes about Trump�s immigration policy
and his border wall, which still hasn�t been completed.

To show you how hypocritical this whole situation was here is a Trump
tweet from less than 12 months before complaining about how bad a
shutdown would be for the military:
40. When he tweeted that the FBI had failed to capture the Parkland
school shooter because they were �spending too much time� on Russia

Trump�s failure to tackle gun violence in the US is almost as bad as his
inability to accept responsibility for anything and point the finger
elsewhere.

In the aftermath of the Parkland school shooting in Florida in February
2018, Trump attempted to blame the FBI for the massacre, claiming that
they were spending too much time investigating his alleged collusion with
Russia.

At a time when his people needed him the most, he opted to look the other
way. Shameless.
41. When he mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford, who accused
Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault

When Trump�s supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was accused of
historical sexual assault by Dr Christine Blasey Ford at a college party
in 1982, Trump did what any decent president would do; he mocked her.

Speaking at a rally in Mississippi in October 2018, Trump appeared to
suggest that Ford was drunk on that date as an excuse to pour scorn on
her claims. Kavanaugh denies her allegations.
42. When he separated migrant children from their parents

Of the many scandalous things that Trump has done in his presidency, the
separation of children from their parents at his controversial detention
facilities at the US/Mexico border was probably the worst.

Evidence had emerged of migrant children literally being placed in cages
at the facility, something which Trump tried to blame Barack Obama for.
In June 2019, Trump official Marsha Brown even tried to argue that said
children didn�t need to be �safe and sanitary.�

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43. When he blamed mental illness and video games for gun violence

As we have already mentioned, Trump has failed to do anything about gun
violence in the US but in August 2019 he did find something to blame;
mental illness and video games.

Speaking after a weekend where 31 died after shootings in Ohio and Texas,
Trump criticised �gruesome video games� that �celebrate violence� adding
that: �Mental illness and hatred pull the trigger, not the gun.�

The problem here is that one of his first actions as president was to
scrap a regulation introduced by Obama that made it harder for people
with a history of mental illness to purchase a gun.
44. When he peddled a conspiracy theory about Joe Biden and Ukraine

Towards the end of 2019 Trump began spreading and widely debunked
conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine and not Russia that had interfered
in the 2016 election on behalf of the Democrats.

During an interview on Fox News in November 2019, Trump said:

�A lot of it, they say, had to do, they say had to with Ukraine. It is
very interesting, it is very interesting, they have the server from the
DNC. You know, the FBI�s never gotten that server. Why did they give it
to a Ukrainian company?�

He also tried to tie Joe Biden to this theory that linked the former vice
president�s son, Hunter due to the work he had done in Ukraine. This led
to Trump trying to obtain information on the Bidens from the Ukrainian
president Volodymyr Zelensky, an act that eventually got Trump impeached.
45. When he sprayed Black Lives Matter protesters with tear gas so he
could attend a photo op

As the Black Lives Matter protests escalated across the United States
following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers,
Trump decided to show no compassion or words of solace or peace.

Instead, he order the military to hit protesters outside of the White
House with tear gas just so he could walk a few metres across the street
and hold up a bible outside of a church for a shameless photo op, a stunt
which left the churches resident �distraught�.

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Why did Trump do this? According to CNN, it was because he was �upset�
for being mocked for being rushed into a bunker by the secret service
after riots broke out near the White House.
46. Tried to take credit for the Covid vaccine

Just days after he lost the election, news of a successful coronavirus
vaccine was announced. The Trump administration was quick to claim a
victory over the pandemic and falsely attributed Operation Warp Speed
with being instrumental in the vaccination. In a similar move, on 11th
November Trump did a tone-deaf tweet about how well the stock market was
doing and that the 'vaccine coming soon.' In comparison to the more
reserved statement from the incoming Biden administration, Trump's tweet
looked insincere at best.

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47. Tried to launch a 'voter fraud hotline' that was flooded by prank
calls

After he lost the election to Joe Biden, Trump did everything in his
power to try and overturn the results. One of his efforts included
launching a 'voter fraud hotline' where Trump supporters could call in
and report anything suspicious they had seen at polling stations. This
didn't result in any substantial evidence being brought forward but did
see it inundated with some very funny prank calls.

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48. Gave his 'most important speech' ever that was just full of lies

A month after the election, Trump shared a 46-minute video on Facebook
that he called the 'the most important speech I've ever made.' What
followed was nothing but baseless claims about the results of the vote,
vague claims and evidence of voter fraud and calls for judges to help him
win.

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49. Walked out of a medal ceremony in the Oval Office

On 7th December, Trump hosted a special ceremony for Dan Gable, a
wrestler who was being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Nothing
wrong there. Surely Trump couldn't do anything scandalous here, right?
Wrong. After saying a few further things about the election, Trump
abruptly decided that he'd seen enough and walked out of the event
leaving Gable looking completely baffled and confused, alone in front of
the press.

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50. Pardons

As his presidency started coming to an end, everyone who had even the
vaguest connection to Trump started to put in requests for pardons
against any misdemeanours in their past. There were so many requests that
staff actually had to start a spreadsheet. Eventually, Trump did manage
to pardon a few individuals including George Papadopoulos (who lied to
the FBI), Republican Duncan Hunter (who violated campaign finance laws)
and Republica Chris Collins (who also lied to the FBI).
51. Delayed signing the Covid relief bill

Towards the end of December, Trump belated signed a $900bn Covid relief
bill into law, after millions of Americans had already lost their
unemployment benefits. Although the bill had been delayed for months
thanks to disagreements between Democrats and Republicans, Trump had
initially refused to sign the bill calling it "wasteful spending" and
actually wanted the stimulus checks to be increased from $600 to $2000,
which we can probably all agree is a good thing. However, the delay put
many unemployed Americans in desperate situations as was exemplified by
the replies to this tweet by journalist Dan Rather.

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52. Edited a video to make it look like he won the Nobel Prize

Nearly two months after the election, Trump released a bizarre campaign
video, which parodied a beef commercial from the 1990s. If that wasn't
strange enough an image included in the short video featured Trump on the
White House balcony with the Israeli prime minister and officials from
UAE and Bahrain with a Nobel Peace Prize superimposed on it for no
apparent reason at all other than to make it look like he might have
actually received the prestigious prize.

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53. Attacked a Republican for having a brother that doesn't exist

As his options for overturning the election started to run dry, Trump
began lashing out at Republicans, specifically targeting Brad
Raffensperger the secretary of state for Georgia. In a strange moment,
Trump tweeted a conspiracy theory that Raffensperger's brother "works for
China" and that they "definitely don't want 'Trump.'" The only problem is
that Raffensperger doesn't have a brother at all.

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54. Asked Georgia officials to fix the election for him

Trump�s mad start to 2021 saw him caught on a phone call to officials in
Georgia, including the aforementioned Brad Raffensperger, asking them to
basically fix the election for him. At one point he asked them to find
11,780 votes, which is one more than the Democrats have which would swing
the election in his favour. It was almost so unbelievable that it was
inevitably turned into a song.

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55. Incited a violent attack on the Capitol building that left five
people dead

In perhaps the darkest day, in not just Trump's presidency but in the
history of the United States, thousands of armed Trump supporters stormed
the Capitol building in a violent attempt at a coup to stop Biden from
being certified as the next president by the Senate.

The mob smashed through windows and doors and managed to make their way
into the chamber as well as elected officials' offices, all while
Senators and others were locked away for their own personal safety.

The riot led to the deaths of five people including one police officer
and came just hours after Trump had held a 'Save America March' outside
of the White House where he had encouraged the crowd to march down
Pennsylvania Avenue and make their presence known. Trump failed to
immediately act to stop the riot and eventually tried to distance himself
from any blame. The aftermath saw members of Congress call for Trump to
be immediately impeached, whereas on social media, Trump's Twitter
account was permanently suspended and he was locked out of many other
platforms to prevent any further incitements of violence. For all of the
scandals that has dogged Trump's presidency the image of his rabid
supporters draping Trump flags over the steps of the Capitol,
intimidating the press and overall posing a threat to democracy will be
the enduring legacy of his presidency. The hearings opening up
information of that day are only just starting
56. Allegedly flushed documents down the toilet

According to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, several White House
staff members found pieces of ripped-up notes in the toilets of the White
House while Trump was president

\u201cTrump\u2019s dump. NY Times\u2019 Maggie Haberman obtains
photos from White House source of documents with Trump\u2019s handwriting
on them in two different toilets. On left is a toilet in White House, on
right is from overseas trip Trump took. Trump reportedly flushed
documents repeatedly.\u201d
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Trump has denied the claims on multiple occasions but if they were true,
it could violate the Presidential Records Act.

The former president�s Mar-a-Lago home was raided earlier this year
because he was keeping classified documents illegally.
57. Allegedly told his younger son Covid conspiracy theories

Journalist Bob Woodward shared an audio clip of the former president
allegedly telling his youngest son, Barron, that Covid �came out of
China� and �they should�ve let it be known it was a problem two months
earlier.�

At the time of the recording, Barron would�ve been 13 years old.

Woodward claimed: �I go back to listen to this and my God, Trump is
conning not just me but his son.�
58. Complained about Rudy Guiliani�s poo

According to Haberman in her new book Confidence Man: The Making of
Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, one time Trump allegedly called
Guiliani �f***ing disgusting� because of his poo.

Haberman claimed that while Trump and Giuliani were aboard the former
president's plane, he "loudly complained" about "the odor after Giuliani
had used one of the plane�s bathrooms so that other aides could hear."
59. When he wanted to give himself the Congressional Medal of Honor

During Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit, Trump revealed to a
crowd that while he was president he wanted to give himself the
Congressional Medal of Honor.

�As President, I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor
but they wouldn�t let me do it,� Trump said.

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