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All the links to these are below. Here are all his stuff ups in chronical order.
Kellyanne Conway (apt last name) invents term alternative facts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/conway-press-secretary-gave-alternative-facts-860142147643
8 – Ethics group files a lawsuit over Trump violating the constitution.
https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/23/news/donald-trump-watchdog-constitution-lawsuit/index.html
Trump signs pipeline memorandums – allowing them to go ahead despite mass protests.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/trumps-dakota-access-pipeline-memo-what-we-know-right-now/514271/
Trump censors the EPA
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/315876-trump-bans-epa-employees-from-giving-social-media-updates
Trump signs order to start building the wall:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/30/2017-02095/border-security-and-immigration-enforcement-improvements
Mexico says we’re not gonna pay for it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/mexican-president-vows-protect-immigrants-inside-united-states-n712321
Judges overrule Trump’s Travel ban.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/federal-judges-pile-orders-opposing-trump-travel-bans-article-1.2958793
British people say no, but don’t vote it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/petition-ban-trump-s-state-visit-uk-reaches-1m-signatures-n714021
FCC chair halts low cost internet bill because of course he does.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/blue-sky/ct-fcc-chair-internet-poor-20170203-story.html
Trump doubles down on claim Hilary didn’t win the popular vote.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-adviser-doubles-claims-voter-fraud-thousands-voters/story?id=45436933
Mitch Flynn finally resigns
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38965557
Trump censors the word Climate Change by Department of Agriculture
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/07/usda-climate-change-language-censorship-emails
Thousands attend Not My Presidents Day Natioinal Rally
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/19/donald-trump-not-my-presidents-day-protests/98130952/
Trump tries to increase punishments for MJ use and possession.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-marijuana-20170223-story.html
Jess Sessions, his attorney general, decreases limitations to private prisons.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-sessions-private-prisons-2017-2?IR=T
Trump bans CNN, Huffpost, the BBC and several other critical news agencies from press secretary meeting.
Trump skips White House Correspondent’s Dinner.
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/25/politics/trump-declines-to-attend-white-house-correspondents-dinner/index.html
Trump unnecsssarily increases military budget by 10% – 54bn.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/27/trumps-budget-54-billion-increase-defense-spending
Removes background check requirement for people who are mentally ill.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-signs-bill-revoking-obama-era-gun-checks-people-mental-n727221
Jeff Sessions was found to be hiding his links to Russia.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/02/jeff-sessions-russian-ambassador-trump-campaign
Jeff recuses himself on the same day Trump annoucnes full confidence in him.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-leading-jeff-sessions-recusal-fallout/story?id=45855918
Trump officially starts repealing Obamacare without a plan.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/03/08/conservatives-to-meet-with-trump-as-critics-pile-on-house-gop-health-care-plan/
CIA is allowed to make drone strikes
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-gave-cia-power-to-launch-drone-strikes-1489444374
Saudi Arabia starts getting closer to Trump
Trump’s first budget:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/16/us/politics/trump-budget-cuts.html
Trump accuses the British of Spying on him too.
https://insider.foxnews.com/2017/03/14/judge-napolitano-why-there-may-never-be-proof-even-if-obama-spied-trump
Trump cuts funding to Sanctuary cities;
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/27/politics/jeff-sessions-trump-sanctuary-cities/index.html
Trump hires his own daughter.
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/29/politics/ivanka-trump-white-house-job
Tom Price, Health secretary, helps big pharma, after purchasing $90,000 in pharmaceutical stocks.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tom-price-intervened-rule-hurt-drug-profits-same-day-acquired-drug-stock
Pence indicates that yes, Trump plans to end Obamacare.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-vice-president-dynalab-inc/
Trump donates $78000 of his salary to National Parks, which he’d slashed funding for by millions and boasts about it.
Trump walks back on previous government quarterly calls with prominent LGBTQ organisations;
https://transequality.org/the-discrimination-administration
Trump vows to bankers that he’ll remove regulations put in place to stop global financial crises.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-business-idUSKBN17D1ZD
Betsy Devos undoes Obama Student loan help provisions.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-11/devos-undoes-obama-student-loan-protections
Trump administration withdraws support for bill which allows transgender individuals to choose what bathroom they want to use:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-lgbt-idUSKBN17G1B5
Trump signs bill secretly, which allows states to withhold funding for Planned Parenthood.
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/13/politics/donald-trump-planned-parenthood-money/index.html
Trump withdraws funding from UN body that combats population growth and gives women rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/apr/04/trump-administration-un-population-fund-abortion
Trump congratulates human rights violating effective dictator Erdogan on ‘democratic win.’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/17/donald-trump-erdogan-turkey-referendum-congratulations
Trump announces surprise changes to H1B visa, one which is credited for America’s amazing tech sector.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/17/donald-trump-temporary-worker-h1b-visa-executive-order
Trump’s lawyers argue that protestors were stopping HIS right to free speech somehow.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/20/donald-trump-protest-rallies-speech-237431
Vice president Pence upholds agreement with Australia to host some of our refugees in detention, a deal Trump had tweeted was “dumb”
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-pence-asia-australia-idUKKBN17O03C
Sessions suggested DREAMers (kids of Mexican immigrants) may be deported.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sessions-unlike-trump-dreamers-unauthorized-immigrants-subject-deported/story?id=46956350
Formally revealed that Mitch Flynn left financial disclosures off in security clearances;
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/31/politics/white-house-financial-disclosures/index.html
Antisemitic attacks rise by 88% since Trump’s inauguration.
https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/us-anti-semitic-incidents-spike-86-percent-so-far-in-2017?_ga=776
Trump attacks courts for ruling his sanctions on Sanctuary cities unlawful.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/26/trump-tweets-sanctuary-cities-237620
Trump gives largest tax cut to American businesses. Welcomed by markets, but rightly questioned as too much of a cut.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-idUSKBN17S1CE
Tensions with North Korea heat up.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39749670
All references to climate change removed from EPA website.
Trump suggests he meet with King Jong Un after he tests missiles despite China’s command not to.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-01/president-donald-trump-interviewed-by-bloomberg-news-transcript
Jared Kushner’s sister sells Visas to Chinese businessmen for $500,000 a pop. Apparently that’s possible now.
https://money.cnn.com/2017/05/06/news/jared-kushner-nicole-family-event/index.html
Sally Yates testifies Trump administration knew Flynn was compromised for weeks before he got fired.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/08/527406535/watch-live-sally-yates-testifies-before-senate-on-russia-trump
Half of EPA scientists dismissed:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/epa-scott-pruitt-scientists-dismissed
Fires James Comey, head of FBI, who was investigating him for colluding with Russia, and then the next day, divulges information to Russian Ambassadors.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/05/10/one-day-after-firing-the-fbi-director-trump-meets-with-russias-top-diplomat.html
Trump tries to defend revealing classified information to Russian diplomats a few days later.
Trump signs executive order about election voter fraud that never happened at rates he was suggesting
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/11/donald-trump-signs-executive-order-establish-voter-fraud-investigation/
Trump suggests no politician has ever been treated as unfairly as him.
Trump signs $110bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-signs-110-billion-arms-deal-saudi-arabia/story?id=47531180
A good article talking about Trump’s deep Saudi conflicts.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/news/2017/06/14/433956/trumps-conflicts-interest-saudi-arabia/
Trump suggests cutting 1.7trillion from Medicaid and anti poverty programs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-22/trump-to-propose-deep-cuts-to-anti-poverty-programs-and-medicaid
Health insurance rises 50% because of Trump;
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-obamacare-trump-mismanagement-20170518-story.html
Trump unloads on NATO allies;
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/25/trump-rebukes-nato-leaders-for-not-paying-defence-bills
Trump tweets literally derail his own lawyers’ arguments and jeopardize his case to try and instate a travel ban completely.
https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2017/06/06/donald-trump-undermines-his-lawyers-case-for-the-travel-ban
Trump’s budget cuts $1trillion from Medicaid and Foodstamps – it’s finally published.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40015958
Homeland security chief says Kushner having a backchannel to Russia is a “good thing”
Homeland security secretary calls Kushner back channel to Russia a ‘good thing’
Housing secretary calls poverty a state of mind.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40048192
Trump bows out of Paris Deal that would revolutionise and minimize carbon pollution.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/06/01/musk-departs-trump-biz-council-over-paris-exit/102398528/
Trump tirades against London mayor’s handling of terrorist attack… For no reason.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40172537
Trump properties – 70% of them are sold to LLC’s where people can buy anonymously, and which he can withdraw from anytime.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/13/trump-property-buyers-make-clear-shift-secretive-llcs/102399558/
Trump to make sanctions on Russia less.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/17/trump-white-house-russia-sanctions-deal-239636
Energy secretary doesn’t believe carbon is to blame for climate change.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/19/energy-sec-rick-perry-says-co2-is-not-the-main-driver-of-climate-change.html
1200 employees fired from EPA
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/06/epa-set-to-eliminate-over-1200-employees-by-september/
Intelligence officers asked by Trump to refute that he had ties to Russia… As if that’ll work?
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/22/politics/intel-chiefs-trump-refute-collusion/index.html
Trump admits he doesn’t have Comey tapes… How did he expect this to play out?
Trump cuts $400k in funding from anti KKK group
Trump tries Tweeting at Kim Jong Un to stop him.
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/asia-pacific/does-this-guy-have-anything-better-to-do-trump-responds-to-north-koreas-latest-missile-test-fire-35892779.html
Trump has secret second meeting with Putin at G20…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-putin-meeting-russia-us-g20-undisclosed-white-house-confirms-a7848061.html
Trump made $2.8mm from millitary staying at his hotels:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/07/dods-paying-2-4-million-to-lease-space-in-trump-tower.html
Our first glimpse of QAnon:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/13/donald-trump-white-house-steve-bannon-rich-higgins
Trump’s chief of communication calls random reporter and unleashses tirade on him. Reporter does the most obvious thing a reporter would do and reports it.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon
Transgender people can’t serve in the military
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/26/trump-says-us-military-will-not-accept-or-allow-transgender-people-to-serve
Billionaire rolls back law designed to give people overtime pay. 4.2million affected.
https://www.npr.org/2017/07/26/539438892/labor-department-starts-to-roll-back-obama-overtime-rule
President Trump donates 2nd quarter salary to Dept for Education
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/president-donald-j-trump-donate-salary-department-education/
Trump calls French PM’s wife hot.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/14/youre-in-such-good-shape-trump-criticised-for-creepy-comment-on-brigitte-macron
New Chief of Staff implaced. First obvious decision – remove the idiot who thought he could scream at a reporter.
In First Move as White House Chief of Staff, Kelly Fires Scaramucci
Trump jokes about police brutality ;
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-sanders-trump-joking-police-brutality-comment/story?id=48958553
White nationalist made delegate for Trump 2020
Trump Selects a White Nationalist Leader as a Delegate in California
Congress limits Trump’s ability to lift sanctions on Russia. Trump thinks this is unfair of course;
Trump almost hires racist blogger to lead Agriculture department
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/02/donald-trump-sam-clovis-old-blog-progressives-obama
Jeff Sessions tries to change how journalists are subpoenaed;
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/04/jeff-sessions-promises-crackdown-on-leaks-in-the-us/
Trump starts twitter war with Kim Jong Un?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/08/donald-trump-north-korea-missile-threats-fire-fury
Trump calls violent Nazis “Fine People,” after failing to condemn violence.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trumps-very-fine-people-both-sides-remarks/
Manufacturing Advisory council quits because he didn’t denounce Nazis.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/16/a-second-trump-advisory-council-is-disbanding.html
Microsoft and digital execs also resign.
https://www.theregister.com/2017/08/18/mass_resignations_hit_trumps_digital_economy_advisory_board/
Steve Bannon fired finally…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/18/steve-bannon-donald-trumps-chief-white-house-strategist-mutual/
Trump national security agents quit en masse.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/infrastructure-advisers-trump-homeland-security_n_599ddf67e4b0821444c07fb9?ri18n=true
Trump inspects wall and threatens to shut down Federal government if wall he said would be funded by Mexico, isn’t funded by the US.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-threatens-government-shutdown-border-wall-article-1.3434249
Transgender army ban has rules set.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/24/transgender-military-ban-start-date-donald-trump-memo
Trump uses first pardon on convicted Racist.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-26/donald-trump-pardons-ex-arizona-sherrif-joe-arpaio/8845148
Trump says all options are on table for North Korea.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-trump-idUSKCN1B91B8
Trump Ends DACA
Betsy Devos rolls back act designed to prevent rape on college campuses;
https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/betsy-devos-announces-she-plans-to-roll-back-title-ix-guidelines_n_59b14e36e4b0dfaafcf5dfeb?ri18n=true
Even as Trump signs memorande m condemnig hate groups, he defends white nationalists.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41262866
It’s leaked that government employees are being told to attend Anti-leaking classes.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-21/federal-employees-are-ordered-to-attend-anti-leaking-classes
NBA champs refuse to visit White House, a tradition held for decades of all major US sports.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/23/trump-takes-on-stephen-curry-withdraws-invitation-for-golden-state-warriors-to-visit-white-house.html
Trump extends Travel ban, despite it having no power.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/25/trump-travel-ban-extended-to-blocks-on-north-korea-and-venezuela
Jared Kushner investigated for improper use of emails.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/28/white-house-launches-probe-private-email-accounts-243281
Tom Price, health secretary, resigns.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/29/tom-price-resigns-health-secretary-private-flights-trump
Trump doesn’t follow through with sanctions that punishes Russia. It wouldn’t impress his boss.
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/355000-sens-mccain-cardin-scold-trump-for-missing-russian-sanctions-deadline
Trump consoles dead widow by saying that her Husband knew what he signed up for and that he understood it still hurt…
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/frederica-wilson-widow-fallen-soldier/index.html
Trump waters down ACA and reduces funding for contraception in it.
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/13/557459193/trump-set-to-address-values-voter-summit-for-first-time-as-president
UNESCO – USA leaves
Trump uses campaign funds to pay for his defense.
Trump almost gets a pharmaceutical exec in charge of drug enforcement.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/17/558276546/tom-marino-trumps-pick-as-drug-czar-withdraws-after-damaging-opioid-report
His travel ban is blocked.. yet again.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/17/trump-travel-ban-blocked-hawaii-judge
Trump suggests that because Hurricane Maria wasn’t as bad as Katrina, he doesn’t need to focus or fund aid for it.
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/19/politics/puerto-rico-governor/index.html
Trump officials plead guilty to lying to FBI about knowledge that Russian officials they met with were connected to the government.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/30/ex-trump-adviser-papadopolous-pleaded-guilty-to-lying-to-fbi-agents.html
Trasngender ban blocked by judge;
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trumps-transgender-military-ban_uk_5a2ecc35e4b06e3bccf308e9
Trump announces largest corporate tax cuts ever.
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/tax-reform-republican-plan/index.html
Tax bill also passed where paid parental leave and other necessary taxes are cut too.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-42016719
Texas mass shooting at church
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-shooting-latest-donald-trump-devin-kelley-sutherland-springs-first-baptist-church-act-evil-a8039306.html
Commerce Secretary is connected to Putin family
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/06/wilbur-ross-paradise-papers-leak
Trump suggests previous administrations bungled trade with China.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-41924797
Kushner doesn’t cooperate with investigation.
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/11/16/news/senate-panel-says-kushner-failed-to-provide-russia-documents/
Sanctuary cities can’t be punished by Trump for housing them.
https://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Judge-says-Trump-can-t-punish-cities-over-11098098.php
Trump makes Pocahontis Joke about Elizabeth Warren.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/27/trump-makes-pocahontas-joke-at-ceremony-honoring-navajo-veterans
Trump tweets racist tweets because of course he does:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42166663
Trump’s racist tweet causes trip to the UK to be dropped.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/30/donald-trumps-working-visit-uk-dropped-tensions-theresa-may/
Trump donates small part of salary to combat opioid addiction
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/30/politics/trump-salary-opioid-donation/index.html
Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/01/trumps-ex-national-security-adviser-michael-flynn-charged-with-lying-to-fbi
https://www.vox.com/2017/12/2/16727988/trump-michael-flynn-fbi-lies-obstruction
Travel ban passes the Muslim ban.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42231806
Trump proposes a new spy agency that investigates the “Deep State.”
Trump White House Weighing Plans for Private Spies to Counter “Deep State” Enemies
Trump Jerusalem pronouncement angers everyone.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/trump-s-un-allies-blast-jerusalem-decision-in-emergency-meeting
Trump says chain migration by Muslims caused NY bombing.
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-manhattan-explosion-20171211-story.html
Trump accused of rape by 19 women.
Trump omits climate change from national address.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/12/18/trump-omits-key-military-priority-national-security-strategy-climate-change/961769001/
Trump fires entire HIV/AIDS taskforce;
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/30/donald-trump-fires-hiv-aids-panel-advisers-react-retribution
Trump waives punishment for banks that owed him hundreds of millions.
https://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/trump-administration-waives-punishment-convicted-banks-including-deutsche-which
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