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...lied or made false claims to the public 30,573 times during his 4 years as president. That's an average of 21 times a day.
This is according to Washington Post fact checkers who analyzed approximately 5 million words Donald Trump
spoke, wrote, or tweeted during his time in office.
...separated more than 5,000 babies and children from their families at the U.S./Mexico border in 2018.
This included families who legally applied for asylum at official border crossings.
The policy did not include any measures to reunite children with their families.
As of May 2024, approximately 1,400 children remained separated from their families after 6 years.
...said that his daughter Ivanka had a "very nice figure" and "if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her."
This occurred during a 2006 appearance on The View with Ivanka, then 24 years old.
Former Trump administration official Miles Teller claimed that while president, Trump repeatedly commented on Ivanka's
"breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led [White House chief of staff]
John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter."
...called American solders "suckers" and "losers" for dying in war or being wounded or captured.
He refused to appear in public with military amputees because "it doesn't look good for me."
Confirmed by Trump's former chief of staff, retired 4-star general John Kelly.
Kelly’s son Robert was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2010, which Trump knew when he made these statements to him.
...lied and claimed that he had won the 2020 election,
despite having lost by over 7 million in the popular vote and 74 in the Electoral College.
His election lies prompted a mob of Trump supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol in a violent coup attempt on January 6th, 2021.
Trump watched the riot on TV for more than 3 hours and did nothing to stop it,
despite members of his staff and government officials begging him to act.
174 police officers were wounded in the attack.
After 187 minutes, he finally released a video telling the mob to go home.
It was the first time in U.S. history that a president had refused to accept the results of an election
and obstructed the peacful transition of power.
...downplayed the threat of COVID-19,
undermined public health experts while suggesting useless or dangerous treatments such as ultraviolet light and injecting bleach,
refused to wear a mask in public for 2 months and made fun of others for doing so,
hosted huge campaign rallies while the virus spread out of control,
and saw over 400,000 Americans die from COVID by the time he left office.
A February 2021 study published by The Lancet Commission estimated that about 40% of those deaths
"could have been avoided if the country had handled the pandemic similarly to its wealthy peers".
- ABC News - Trump, downplaying virus, has mocked wearing masks for months - October 2, 2020
- Business Insider - Damning analysis of Trump's pandemic response suggested 40% of US COVID-19 deaths could have been avoided - February 11, 2021
- BBC - Coronavirus: Outcry after Trump suggests injecting disinfectant as treatment
...spent 307 days of his 4-year presidency on a golf course. That's almost an entire year.
Trump's golf vacations cost taxpayers an estimated $151 million.
Nearly all of them were at Trump-owned properties, drastically raising the costs.
At a campaign rally in August 2016, Trump said "I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to go play golf."
...bragged that he was "able to kill Roe v. Wade."
He appointed 3 far-right Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn the 50-year-old precedent
that protected abortion rights across the entire country.
63% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
Since Roe was overturned, 14 states have banned abortion, some without an exception for rape or incest.
11 states have enacted abortion restrictions that would have been illegal before Roe was overturned.
...refused to divest from any of his hundreds of businesses while president.
Those businesses made over $2.4 billion in revenue from January 2017 to December 2020.
Yet he claimed that he was "the only president that ever lost money while serving in office."
Trump made a show of "donating" his presidential salary.
Meanwhile, he charged the Secret Service over $1.4 million to stay at his own properties while he was president.
At times, he charged them 5x the government rate.
- Forbes - Trump’s Business Hauled In $2.4 Billion During Four Years He Served As President - July 19, 2021
- Rolling Stone - Trump, Accused of Inflating Net Worth by $3.6 Billion, Says He Is Only President Who Lost Money in Office - September 9, 2023
- ABC News - Trump Organization charged Secret Service $1.4M to stay at his properties, committee says - October 17, 2022
...called for the "termination" of the U.S. Constitution to overturn the 2020 election, two years after losing.
He has threatened a "bloody" roundup and deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants.
He has threatened to cut off federal funding for any school that requires vaccinations.
He has threatened over and over to jail his political opponents.
He has said "I have the right to do whatever I want as president" according to Article II of the Constitution.
- CNN - Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post - December 4, 2022
- New York Times - Trump Steps Up Threats to Imprison Those He Sees as Foes - September 9, 2024
- Independent - Trump says his plan to expel millions of immigrants will be a ‘bloody story’ - September 8, 2024
- AP News - Trump’s vow to only be a dictator on ‘day one’ follows growing worry over his authoritarian rhetoric - December 27, 2023/li>
- Vox - Trump’s campaign against public health is back on - August 14, 2024
- The Week - Trump: 'I have an Article 2 where I have the right to do whatever I want as president' - July 23, 2019
Donald Trump really said and did these things.
It's easy to forget. It's easy to feel overwhelmed and exhausted by the flood of nonsense and lies and cruelty, after all these years.
But we have to remember. The facts are out there, and this page provides a reminder of just a few of them. Think of all the things not listed above...
- His 2 impeachments.
- His 4 criminal cases.
- His 34 felony convictions.
- His 6 business bankrupcies.
- His 7-part plan to overturn the 2020 election.
- Trump University. Trump Airlines. Trump Water. Trump Magazine. Trump Mortgage. Trump Steaks. Trump Travel. Trump Vodka. Trump Mattress. Truth Social.
- Project 2025.
- "Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything."
- Shutting down his Trump Foundation charity and paying a $2 million settlement due to years of illegal misuse.
- Wanting to shoot migrants in the legs. Wanting to shoot Black Lives Matter protesters in the legs.
- His repeated false and absurd claims that children are being given transgender surgeries at school.
- A $90 million judgment against him for sexual abuse and defamation.
- His praise and admiration for dictators like Putin and Kim Jong Un and Viktor Orban and others.
- Launching his political career on "birther" lies against Barack Obama.
- His philandering and failed marriages.
- Seeing a little girl and remarking on camera, "I am going to be dating her in 10 years."
- Denying climate change is real and calling it a "hoax."
- The Muslim Ban.
- Damaging our alliances. Walking away from the Paris Climate Accord and the Iran Nuclear Deal.
- The fact that his wife has barely been seen in public with him in recent years.
- The $355 million civil fraud judgment against him.
- "Russia, if you're listening..."
- Massive, destructive deregulation.
- Claims to be a Christian, but said he's never asked God for forgiveness.
- Dozens of sexual assault and rape allegations over decades.
- His first wife Ivana's 1990 sworn deposition, in which she claimed that he had torn out her hair and raped her in a fit of rage.
- His friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
- The "nuclear speech."
- Threatening to leave NATO.
- Calling the press "the enemy of the people" -- right out of the dictator's playbook.
- His choice of JD Vance for running mate.
- The fact that he needs a new running mate because his supporters wanted to hang the last one and built a gallows for him on the U.S. Capitol grounds.
- ...and this is still just scratching the surface.
You wouldn't trust this man to watch your kids. You wouldn't trust him to run your business. You wouldn't trust him to tell the truth about anything that matters. So remember who he is, and vote to make sure he never steps foot in the White House again.