Now… normally, the CSGOPOTD blog just puts down an “update” to new happenings about an entry. This entry… this man… this is what this blog was created for. Donald Trump has become, hands down, the most terrifying person to ever hold the office of President of the United States. We include presidents who shrugged off being shot and kept on movin’ along. From his incitement at violence at his rallies, to his permissive attitude towards white supremacists who support him and even placing white nationalists on his White House staff, from his several racist policy ideas, to his authoritarian outlook that isn’t just borderline fascism, it’s almost the textbook definition…
That is why… we’re going to go“all in” on this profile. All of the old, with the daily disgusting comments from the Cheeto Golem. We will not, and cannot pull our punches. We’re laying it all out, again, and all of the events that unfolded since we left off reporting on Trump’s comments about Megyn Kelly after the first GOP debate in Cleveland,Ohio. We know, we know… this is a daunting task…
But it must be done. We have to report on every idiotic, oafish thing we can find reports of from Donald Trump, in the hopes that people who are missing the forest through the trees see it all laid out, with citations, and hope that their conscience will lead them to stop defending this maniac.
So we’ll do our part and tell the whole story, and hope that’s enough to sway some minds away from the darkness and madness that Trump embodies. So without further ado… here’s our full timeline of Donald Trump’s worst moments (that we know of, there are probably worse ones that we don’t):
· 1955: Per Donald Trump’s book, “The Art of the Deal”, at some point during this year, he is in second grade,and punches his music teacher in the face, giving them a black eye because in the 8 year old Trump’s mind “he didn’t know anything about music”. Today he cites this as an example of his his “tendency to stand up and let my opinions be known in a very forceful way”. Psychologists would classify it as something much different.
· December 1st, 1969: Donald Trump receives his fifth deferment from military service in Vietnam, for heel spurs in one of his feet (undisclosed which, sometimes he says both, but he never had corrective surgery, nor can he recall the name of the doctor who diagnosed him). He oddly participated in sports while attending military academy without any issues prior to this.
· October 16th, 1973: The New York Times has the first mention of Donald Trump in the media, reporting on Donald Trump and his father being sued for racial bias by the Justice Department for housing discrimination against African Americans in developments he and his father owned. In the following months, Trump hired Roy Cohn, the former pal of disgraced Senator Joe McCarthy, to attempt to win a counter-suit with the government for $100 million while hosting a press conference at the New York Hilton to complain that the government was forcing him to rent to “welfare recipients”. This would be his first, and definitely not his last foray into using racial dog whistles.
· March 7th, 1978: The New York Times reports that for the second time, Trump Management is charged with racial bias in their renting practices.
· June 6th, 1980: After promising he would preserve priceless art deco reliefs and statues on the outside of the Bonwit-Teller building after he purchased it, and donate them charitably to a museum, New Yorkers wake up on this morning to discover Donald Trump has reneged on that promise, and has construction workers demolishing what should be cherished national treasures. In the aftermath, Trump could not be reached for comment, but a Trump Corporation spokesman, John Barron, told the New York Times, “the merit of these stones was not great enough to justify the effort to save them.” Please remember, going forward, that John Barron is an alias Trump uses to talk to the press over the phone as his own fake publicist, and not an actual person.
· February 5th, 1983:Amazing deal-maker Donald Trump makes an offer to buy the Cleveland Indians…low balling the current owner by only offering up $13 million dollars. He eventually would go as high as $34million in negotiations, but Cleveland’s ownership would not commit to any deal,because Trump would not commit to keeping the team in Cleveland for more than 3years, and intimated he wanted to move the team to Tampa, Florida. The Miami Herald, in their coverage of the story, has mysterious Trump spokesman John Barron confirm that no deal was done. This is only one of Trump’s failed attempts to buy a baseball team, of which there are many.
· August 2nd, 1983: Trump refuses to rent properties he owns to Polish refugees arriving in New York looking for housing,with a secretary for the Trump organization saying, ’’We were talking about people who live in America now - not refugees. I don’t think this is something he would consider.“
· September 23rd, 1983: Trump buys the New Jersey Generals, a franchise in the promising new USFL, that plays football in the spring. His plans are to apparently threaten the NFL’s revenue enough that they are forced to merge the two leagues as they did with the AFL/NFL merger in the 1960s, and then Trump will have found aback-door way to get to be an NFL owner.
· April 8th, 1984: Trump plans on building a 60 story castle made of condominiums in New York City’s Madison Avenue, complete with a moat and drawbridge. Prudential Bank was to partner on the deal, and nixed any plans for the insane project, because it would have cost$1.5 million (about $3.5 million today, adjusted for inflation) per apartment to even break even.
· April 20th, 1984: The New York Times runs a story about how terribly the cheerleaders for the New Jersey Generals are treated by the franchise, already having caused 11 of the original 30 to quit due to harassment they were expected to face from fans, and demeaning promotional appearances. Lisa Edelstein, who was a cheerleader at only the age of sixteen(!) gave an interview in 2015 and classified their treatment as having been "like hookers”.
- July 20th, 1984: Reports begin surfacing of the USFL considering switching to playing its games in the fall, which would put them in direct competition with NFL games. This idea is being kicked around league owner meetings from... Donald Trump.
- August 12th, 1984: Donald Trump proposes building the tallest building in the world in New York, that would be 500 feet taller than the Sears Tower. Community planners and architecture experts thought the idea was implausible, and a writer for the Chicago Tribune, Paul Gapp, commented on the design as "one of the silliest things anyone could inflict on New York or any other city". So, a few weeks later, Trump sued for libel, to the tune of the modest sum of $500 million. It got thrown out of court, of course.
- September 19th, 1984: Donald Trump makes his first appearance on the Forbes 400 list of the world’s wealthiest people. Of course, years later, the man who assembled that list, Jonathan Greenberg, has since realized he was duped into including a far-less-wealthy-than-he-would claim Trump after receiving several phone calls from a Trump executive named… John Barron. Yes, that would be the person who doesn’t exist, who Trump pretends to be to lie to the media about himself. Trump, as Barron, claimed that Greenberg’s estimates that Trump was worth only $5 million were incorrect, and lied and claimed he also controlled 90% of his father Fred’s fortune, and was therefore worth $200 million. And, if anyone doubts Greenberg’s claims… he has the recordings of those phone calls. Greenberg begrudgingly placed Trump’s wealth at $100 million and put him on the list. Regrettably for many lenders, they would grant loans to Trump based on the inflated number they would get from the Forbes 400 list and fund most of the rest of Trump’s disastrous real estate and business ventures through the 1980s and 1990s.
· October 18th, 1984: Trump convinces the majority of the other owners of the USFL to file an anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL, for $1.2 billion, saying the NFL was deliberately trying to monopolize and cut into the USFL’s profits. Stay tuned for the result of that lawsuit…
· November 15th, 1984: Donald Trump gives an interview to the Washington Post where he talks of his desire to handle the United States’ nuclear negotiations with the Soviet Union, while admitting he knew little to nothing about missiles,and providing no explanation on his plans. (At least on that last part, a lack of details, he hasn’t changed.)
· February 1st, 1985: Trump contacts the media to tell them he had “struck oil” on property he owned on the New York’s Upper West Side, saying “we could be pumping here for years”. This, of course, was classic Trump exaggeration… the oil was roughly 100,000 gallons of oil that had spilled on the property, an oil rail yard, over the previous decades. It classified more as an environmental hazard than an oil strike. (The fact that Donald can’t tell the difference should concern anyone with any concern for the country’s environment, should he be elected president.)
· April 2nd, 1985: Donald Trump asks for reimbursement for the contract of New Jersey Generals player Doug Flutie from the USFL office, because he felt he had “overpaid” for him. This is as literal an example of Trump reneging on a business deal as you can get, however, this news story is noteworthy because Trump Organization Vice President (and fake person) John Barron was interviewed a lot in the article…
· July 30th, 1986: After almost two years of litigation… a jury finds the NFL guilty on only one of nine counts in the anti-trust lawsuit Donald Trump filed, and a six-person jury awards the USFL damages of… $1. Not one billion dollars. Not one million dollars. A single dollar. But don’t worry, in antitrust cases, damages are tripled… so the USFL got $3. Steve Ehrhart, the USFL’s executive director, has kept that check, and never cashed it. The league soon cancels its 1986 season, and goes out of business.
· November 1st, 1987: Trump publishes his first book, “The Art of the Deal” that was co-written by Tony Schwartz (who does not have many kind words to say about The Donald these days, so much so that Trump’s lawyers have threatened legal action if he keeps talking). Trump promises that proceeds from the sales of this book will go to charities researching cures for AIDS or multiple sclerosis. The book is a rare success for Trump, sell millions of copies, so one might think, that meant a lot of money to charity, right? Wrong. Investigations in recent years have shown he actually donated far less than promised, and Trump spent more money on his daughter’s ballet lessons than he ever did on the charities he pledged to donate to.
· November 2nd, 1987: The day after the huge book release party for “The Art of the Deal”, which cost well over $100,000… Trump tries to convince his ghost writer, Tony Schwartz,that since they wrote the book together, they had to split the cost of the party together, evenly. Yes, Trump is this much of a back-stabbing skinflint.
· December 18th, 1988: Just what nobody wanted… Donald Trump releases “Trump: The Game” a board game that is best described as critics as “a really dumb version of Monopoly”. We submit to you the commercial for the game upon its release, and please note that Donald Trump promised the proceeds from sales for the game would go to charity. That was also a surprise at the time to Milton Bradley executives, who had never discussed such a donation. (Hint: He never donated the money to charity.)
· August 17th, 1989: Donald Trump, having learned nothing from his disastrous involvement in the USFL that killed the budding football league, begins making serious overtures towards creating a rival baseball league to MLB, and talks about being a potential franchise owner in Northern New Jersey. This time, his rival sports league is only empty, boastful talk, and nothing ever comes to fruition.
· September 5th, 1989: Trump expressed his envy towards some African-Americans, in less-than-eloquent terms in an NBC News special about race:
“A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. I think sometimes a black may think they don’t have an advantage or this and that… I’ve said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.’’
· May 1st, 1989: After a woman was raped in Central Park, the NYPD originally arrested five suspects, four African Americans and one of them Hispanic. Trump did not just comment on the “Central Park Five” at the time, Trump took out a full page ad in all four major New York newspapers saying they should be “given the death penalty”. The problem was, they were innocent, and had been coerced by law enforcement into making false confessions. Eventually a sixth man was caught and was convicted of the crime, confessing to acting alone, and DNA evidence confirmed his story.
· June 8th, 1989: Trump launches Trump Airlines aka Trump Shuttle by purchasing Eastern Airlines. The Wall Street Journal article from the first day already acknowledged Trump’s promise of guaranteed seats on each flight was broken, forcing some travelers to book with other airlines. After a few years of mismanagement, and with Trump feeling the impact of the Gulf War causing jet fuel prices to double (likely to be part of the reason he would go on to suggest the United States should just “take the oil” in the Middle East during the second Iraq War), Trump Shuttle was sold off to U.S. Air in 1992, to raise capitol during one of Trump’s bankruptcies.
· March 1st, 1990: Trump appears on the cover of Playboy Magazine. (Unironically, the 2016 Republican Party Platform that Trump is running on has a plank in it that declares pornography to be a public health crisis.)
· July 12th, 1990: Under oath, in court after being accused of hiring 200 illegal immigrants for construction labor (his defense was he didn’t know), Donald Trump admits to using the aliases “John Barron” and “John Miller” in business conducted over the phone. This would be the same “John Barron” who called the press ten years earlier during demolitions of the Bonwit-Teller building and during , and in the Doug Flutie story in the New York Times, as well as in the calls to get himself on the Forbes 400 list in 1984. As we now know today, for well over a decade, Trump would make phone calls, and claim to be one of these other pseudonyms who “represented Donald Trump” as an executive of the Trump corporation, or his publicist.
· August 19th, 1990: A story in the Sun-Sentinel is published about how Donald Trump was pressuring his then-girlfriend, and future second wife, Marla Maples, to pose nude in Playboy Magazine, with Maples eventually rejecting the offer, which Donald so nobly negotiated on her behalf.
· April 9th, 1991: Donald Trump, with his empire under crushing debt, found a unique, but illegal way to procure funds to keep his hotels and casinos afloat… he gets his daddy,Fred Trump, to loan him money again. But they want to make sure that tax collectors don’t get the money, so they make the cash drop in the form Fred buying seven hundred $5000 chips at Trump Castle Casino. For this illegal loan, Donald Trump and Trump Castle are fined $30,000 for violating the Casino Control Act.
· July 8th, 1991: Trump gets caught pretending to be his own publicist, pretending he’s actually “John Miller” while on the phone in an interview with Sue Carswell of People Magazine. It was also how Trump’s second wife, Marla Maples, found out that Donald was leaving her, when she was one of the people called upon to listen to the recording of John Miller, and confirm that it was her husband, saying he was leaving her. Oh, and “John Miller” said that Donald was dating Italian supermodel Carla Bruni, who when asked by The Daily Mail if she was, in fact, dating Trump, refuted the claim, and said he was “a lunatic”. (We agree with Ms. Bruni.)
· July 14th, 1991: According to a1991 tell-all book written by a Trump colleague, John O’Donnell, Trump had other thoughts on African Americans working for him as accountants, in relation to Jews:
“Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”
O’Donnell’s book also notes Trump saying:
“Laziness is a trait in blacks.”
And while you might want to give Trump the benefit of the doubt for saying what O’Donnell quoted him as saying… well, in a 1997 Playboy interview, Trump admitted they were “probably true” before calling O’Donnell a “f***ing loser”.
· May 1st, 1991: Trump laughed offdetractors in an interview with Esquire Magazine, saying, “You know, it doesn’t really matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”
· July 18th, 1991: Donald Trump files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the first time, for the Trump Taj Mahal casino. The maneuver costs him a 50% stake in the casino, Trump Shuttle, and a 282 foot yacht.
· January 1st, 1992: The book ”Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, The Downfall, The Reinvention“ is released, and features a passage where it is revealed he once pitched an idea to Playboy Magazine that they would run a nude photo spread of his most attractive female staffers.
· March 9th, 1992: Trump files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy again, for the second time in a year, this time for Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. He loses half his stake in the New York Plaza to Citibank.
· March 22nd, 1992: After over two years of court battles, Donald Trump finalizes his divorce from his first wife, Ivana, after having an affair with Marla Maples.
· September 12th, 1992: Trump is at a charity event, and spots Marie Brenner, a reporter who wrote a story about his divorce from Ivana Trump in September of 1990, that he didn’t care for. So, like a coward, Donald decides to enact petty revenge by dumping wine down the back of her dress. He later brags about this event to others in interviews, but exaggerates that the glass was an entire bottle. (Remember this when Donald talks about his feelings about the freedom of the press.)
· November 9th, 1992: Trump gives an interview to New York Magazine where he gives his views on women, and says, “You’ve got to treat ‘em like s***.”
· December 25th, 1992: Donald Trump is featured on Entertainment Tonight’s Christmas edition, where, on camera, he sees a ten year old girl, asks her how old she is, and when he gets his answer, says, ”Maybe I’ll be dating you in ten years.” He’s 46 years old at the time. Doing the math, he hoped to be dating her when she is 20 and he is 56, and that equals creepy.
· October 6th, 1993: Trump has an ongoing lawsuit with the federal government, because he feels it is an unfair advantage that a Native American tribe, the Pequots, have a casino on their lands in Connecticut and as a result, don’t have to pay taxes on it. He was called to testify before Congress about his grievance, where he claimed they would be pulling down half a billion dollars a year, tax free, and warned of organized crime figures leveraging their casinos, saying, “It will be the biggest scandal ever, the biggest since Al Capone … . An Indian chief is going to tell Joey Killer to please get off his reservation? It’s unbelievable to me.” But,after discarding his seven-page prepared speech because it was “too politically correct” (yes, he was against political correctness almost a quarter century ago), Trump blew the minds of everyonepresent when he started insinuating that the Pequot weren’t actually Native Americans because, “They don’t look Indian to me.” This drew a strong rebuke from Congressman George Miller, who pointed out that during an uglier time in our country, people would comment that someone does not “look Jewish” or“look black” and that people would be denied loans based on their ethnicity. Trump, though, seemed unfazed by that sort of prejudice being wrong.
· January, 1994: Not content tojust be interviewed in Playboy, Donald Trump appears in a soft-core pornography film, Playboy Centerfold: 40th Anniversary.
· March 10th, 1994: Trump is interviewed by Nancy Collins on ABC’s Primetime Live, where he gives a long interview filled with misogynistic answers, including where he discusses how it’s a “dangerous thing” to let your wife work, and defending his previous comments about how it’s important to treat one’s wife “roughly” for a good marriage.
· Summer, 1994: Trump frequently attends parties hosted by financier Jeffrey Epstein, a friend of his at the time for seven years, who eventually would be revealed to frequently hire child prostitutes as “entertainment” for himself and others. It is at four of these parties that he is later accused of having sexual contact with a thirteen year old girl, once by forcing himself upon the victim physically.
· September 1st, 1994: Donald Trump is interviewed by Robin Leach of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and when asked what parts of his daughter Tiffany inherited from him, versus ones from her mother, Marla Maples, he bizarrely answers:
“She’s a very beautiful baby. She’s got Marla’s legs. We don’t know whether or not"—Trump then put his hands to his chest to indicate breasts—"she’s got this part yet, but time will tell.”
Yes,he just sexualized his one-year old daughter. You may pause from reading now to go take a shower.
· May 17th, 1996: Donald Trump owns the Miss Universe Pagaent, and it is held in Las Vegas,Nevada, with the winner being Miss Venezuela, Alicia Machado. Over the course of the next year, in dealing with Trump at appearances as the holder of the crown, Trump would harass Machado over her weight, calling her “Miss Piggy” (at times inviting the media to come and watch her exercise), or alternatively, denigrating her as a Latina by calling her “Miss Housekeeping”.
· May 1st, 1997: Trump appears in an interview in Playboy Magazine for the second time, where he was interviewed at his Mar-a-Lago estate by Mark Bowden, the man who would go on to write “Black Hawk Down”. Among the takeaways… Trump was a pathological liar, terribly vain, and lost his temper when he discovered a water cooler had been installed on his tennis courts that he wasn’t expecting. In a rage, he struck it… causing it to fall off its moorings and being a flood on the court, causing him to shuffle away with Bowden embarrassed, and asking if that would end up in the article. It did. Please also note Donald poses on the statues of two parrots having sex in the interview, which he apparently thought was classy. So classy, that he also posed for a photo with his teenage daughter Ivanka on it.
· May 2nd, 1997: Trump files for divorce from his second wife, Marla Maples, certainly not coincidentally only days before the prenuptial agreement the two signed before their wedding was to reach a date that would have changed Marla’s settlement in the divorce from $1million to $5 million. The divorce is finalized in 1999.
· May 19th, 1997: Trump tries petitioning New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to have a massive statue of Christopher Columbus built in New York City (This would be the same Christopher Columbus that historians often note hunted the native populations of the Caribbean for sport, and had him stripped of his viceroy status by the King and Queen of Spain as a result.), that would be made of bronze, built by a Russian architect (who made statues of Peter the Great in Russia so ugly that people tried to blow them up), and be even six feet taller than the Statue of Liberty.Because Trump’s things must always be the biggest, even bigger than the icon that welcomes immigrants into the country.
· August 20th, 1997: Donald Trump is the new owner of the Miss Teen USA pageant, and in full nepotistic daddy mode, makes his 15 year old daughter Ivanka the co-host of the pageant. What’s more interesting, though, is that four underage contestants recall Donald Trump walking in on them backstage while they were changing, assuring them, “It’s nothing that I haven’t seen before.” One of those four contestants mentioned it to Ivanka, who commented, “Yeah, he does that.”
· October 27th, 1997: Trump releases his second book, “The Art of the Comeback”, which features his belief that asbestos is not dangerous, and there is a mafia conspiracy to stop its use.
· 1997-2008: These are scattered through most of the next decade, but feel free to peruse a list of some of the most misogynist and disgusting things said about women by Donald Trump as a guest on the Howard Stern Show over the course of a decade. That includes the time when Stern asked Trump if he would leave his wife, Melania, if she were horribly disfigured in a car accident and he asked for the qualifier, “How are her breasts?”
· October 19th, 1999: Playboy Magazine releases a soft core pornographic film, “Playboy Video Centerfold: 2000 Playmates Bernaola Twins” on this date, which is relevant to this article because it had a cameo of none other than Donald J.Trump.
· November 17th, 1999: While teasing a presidential run, The Donald mused, “I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I’m more honest and my women are more beautiful.”
· December 1999: Trump is interviewed by Dan Rather, where he insults the intelligence of both Republican candidates for president in 2000, taking shots at then Texas Gov. George Bush’s intelligence, and questioning whether or not Arizona Senator John McCain is actually a war hero because “he was captured”.
· February 4th, 2000: Donald Trump, now an owner of the Miss USA pageant, invites himself backstage to leer at the contestants changing in the nude. He later brags about this to Howard Stern, and one of the contestants in the USA pageant later confirms that yes, Donald was peeping on the women as they prepared for the contest.
· September 15th, 2000: Donald Trump is sent a letter by film documentary creator Mike Tollin, who includes a rough cut of the story of the USFL, still thanking him and inviting him if he would be interested in attending the premiere. After watching the film, and seeing so many USFL personalities blaming him for killing the league, Trump responds, “A third rate documentary. And extremely dishonest (as you know). Best Wishes, Donald Trump. P.S. : YOU ARE A LOSER.” Suffice to say, he did not attend.
· December 19th, 2000: Donald Trump admits in an intervew with the New York Daily News that because he was angry about disputes over the inheritance of his father Fred Trump’s estate having no money go towards the family of Trump’s late brother, Freddie, Donald Trump canceled the health insurance policy of his own nephew William Trump, out of petty revenge.
· April 3rd, 2001: Donald Trump appears in yet another Playboy documentary featuring fully nude women, this time his cameo is backstage at a Playboy fashion runway show with his girlfriend (and future third wife) Melania Knauss.
· September 11th, 2002: On anepisode of Howard Stern, Donald Trump is asked if he thinks the United States should go to war in Iraq and says, “I guess so.” (These days, Trump insists he was ALWAYS against the Iraq War.)
· March 24th, 2004: Trump gave this misogynistic re-write of reality to the New York Daily News:
“All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me—consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.”
· August 10th, 2004: Donald Trump files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a third time, this time for Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts. It is $1.8 billion in debt at the time.
· September 2004: Trump, on Howard Stern, is asked by Stern if he can refer to Trump’s daughter as “a piece of ass”. Donald approves of her being referred to in this manner.
· September 23rd, 2004: Trump launches “Trump World Magazine”, whose monthly content is mostly ads you’d find in Sky Mall, if you were a nouveau-riche wanker trying to look richer than you actually were. Print, they say, is dying or already dead, and it folded in May of 2009, because people really couldn’t afford the caviar and yachts that magazine liked to talk about, in between news updates about what hijinks Donald was getting into from publicists that may or may not have still been Donald.
· October 22nd, 2004: Hurricane Wilma makes landfall as it passes over Florida, doing massive amounts of damage. After disaster relief aid becomes available, Donald Trump requests $17 million in aid due to damage to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Of course, in hindsight, Trump may have been taking money based on exaggerated or non-existent damages, because Trump’s butler and estate historian, Anthony Senecal, claims the estate has never sustained major damage from a hurricane, and only two weeks later, Donald Trump, Jr. was married at Mar-a-Lago, and none of the many photos of that wedding show any damage, whatsoever.
· December 17th, 2004: Donald Trump appears on Don Imus’ radio show, where the two discuss the statutory rape arrest of Florida teacher Debra Lafave, which Trump seems comfortable with because the teacher was “not bad” looking, and the 14 year old boy she sexually assaulted could have been “given confidence” by the encounter with Lafave.
· December 19th, 2004: Just in time for Christmas, Trump releases “Trump: The Cologne”, retailing at $60. User reviews were that it smelled like “Jamba Juice”, or “upscale strip clubs”. Bottles can today be found only on Amazon.com for $10, after Macy’s dropped the scent in 2015 because Donald Trump decided to go and say that all Mexicans are rapists.
· May 23rd, 2005: Trump begins Trump University, a real-estate education course whose online, and in-person seminars were quickly noted to be worthless by those taking them. The business model was to make people spend as much money on as many useless classes as they could. It folded in 2010, and class-action lawsuits against the Trump Corporation are still under way to the present day. We will not get to see Donald Trump’s depositions in the case before the 2016 election, however, Trump was required to stand trial for racketeering and fraud in November 2016, after the election, and settled out of court for $25 million.
· July 21st, 2005: Donald Trump testifies before Congress, claiming he could quickly renovate the United Nations Building, and complaining about government regulations against asbestos, which he thinks could have prevented the Twin Towers from falling on 9/11 if more of it was used in the buildings. As intelligent people know, asbestos is highly carcinogenic. Also, they might know that early construction on the World Trade Center did use asbestos in their construction, and the dust from that asbestos being pulverized in the buildings’ collapse is a lot of the reason why so many of the 9/11 first responders began developing cancer. So maybe that’s not something we should start using again, Donald.
· October 23rd, 2005: Donald Trump gets himself a cameo on an episode of the soap opera “Days of Our Lives”. Of course he’s going to want publicity galore for the appearance, so Access Hollywood covers his appearance on the set, sending reporter Billy Bush to interview Trump on set. Little did Bush know, he was about to get one of the most vulgar and sexist rants Donald Trump had ever said about women, as he stalked actress Arianne Zucker. The outtakes from the interview, conducted only months after Trump married his third wife, Melania::
Trump: “I moved on her and I failed. I’ll admit it.”
Off-camera voice: “Whoa.”
Trump: “I did try and f— her. She was married. And I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said, ‘I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture.’ I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phony tits and everything.She’s totally changed her look.”
(Trump and Bush appear to notice Arianne Zucker, the actress who is waiting to escort them into the soap opera set.)
Billy Bush: “Your girl’s hot as s—, in the purple.”
Trump: “Whoa! Whoa! I’ve gotta use some tic tacs, just in case I start kissing her. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful – I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.”
Bush: “Whatever you want?”
Trump: “Grab them by the p—y. You can do anything.”
· December 2005: Donald Trump, in yet another appearance on the Howard Stern show, refers to his own wife Melania, who is pregnant with his son Barron, a “blimp” and a “monster”.
· December 2005: At Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, People Magazine reporter Natasha Stoynoff meets with Trump for an interview, and per her account, is sexually assaulted by Trump, who tries to force himself on her, only to be interrupted by his butler. Eventually, Melania Trump, pregnant with son Barron arrives, and Donald goes from, “We’re going to have an affair, it’ll be the best sex ever…” to a doting husband.
· Late 2005-Early 2006: Trump meets for lunch at some point with Fox News anchor Juliet Huddy, and after the meal in an elevator, allegedly forces himself on her for an unwanted kiss, which is sexual assault.
· January 29th, 2006: An investigation by the New York Daily News discovers Donald Trump collected a $150,000 recovery grant meant for small businesses in New York after 9/11, in spite of his businesses not having been physically damaged by the attacks, and that the Trump Corporation is hardly a “small business”.
· February 27th, 2006: While promoting The Apprentice Season 5, Trump appears with his children, Ivanka and Donald Jr., and the three are given a math quiz. Trump fails to successfully multiply 17 x 6 as equaling 112, and insists he got the answer correct anyway. (Note, this explains how he ends up filing for bankruptcy so much, and is a prime example of how he just attempts to re-write reality rather than admit when he’s wrong.)
At another point in the interview, Howard Stern asks Trump is he knows anything about sexual predators, leading co-host Robin Quivers to quip, “Well, you are one.” Without missing a beat, Trump chuckles and says, “It’s true.”
· October 2006: Trump is on Howard Stern’s radio show again, and discusses how his daughter Ivanka looks “more voluptuous than ever”, and starts discussing if her breasts are natural or implants.
· April 3rd, 2006: Trump launches Trump Mortgages LLC, and with his infinite business wisdom and being one of the biggest bankruptcy failures in history already quips, “It’s a great time to start a mortgage company!”at the launch. The company is out of business by August 2007, because, y'know, home mortgage crisis. (This man was granted stewardship over the American economy?)
· June 4th, 2006: While doing an interview on The View, Trump is asked if he would be comfortable if his daughter Ivanka posed for Playboy. After brushing off the possibility of it even happening, he added something pretty damned creepy:
“If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
· June 2006: Trump, only weeks after his wife Melania gives birth to his son Barron, begins an affair with former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, which lasts months.
· July 30th, 2006: As Trump attends a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada, he meets and has sex with pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels, cheating on his wife,Melania, who only just gave birth to his son Barron months prior. The affair continues for months, into 2007.
· December 6th, 2006: Trump’s feud with Rosie O’Donnell reached its peak, with him making statements about her weight or appearance like, “You take a look at her, she’s a slob. She talks like a, like a truck driver.”
· January 17th, 2007: Donald Trump launches his not-at-all successful venture, Trump Vodka, and promises that proceeds from the liquor’s sale would be donated to the charity Mothers Against Drunk Driving. (Hint: Mothers Against Drunk Driving never saw a dime, and told Trump when he originally wanted to work with them that it would be wrong to accept money from liquor sale profits for their charity… yet he promoted his product saying the donation would take place.) Oh, and Trump Vodka’s distillery went bankrupt by 2010, and was sold to… wait for it… a Mexican company.
· March 16th, 2007: Donald Trump appears on CNN to be interviewed by Wolf Blitzer, and begins criticizing the United States for not yet withdrawing all troops from Iraq. During his 2016 Presidential campaign, of course, he likes to criticize the Obama administration for doing precisely this, which was required because of a treaty signed by President George W. Bush prior to Obama taking office.
· March 23rd, 2007: Donald Trump,now helping host the Miss USA Pageant with NBC, tries to have Nancy O’Dell, a co-host of the pageant fired by the network because she got pregnant. It’s even more spiteful because the audio from Access Hollywood from the October 23rd, 2005 Trump conversation with Billy Bush about a woman who rejected his advances… Nancy O’Dell was the married woman Trump tried to, as he so eloquently put it… “f***”.
· April 1st, 2007: Trump appears at Wrestlemania XXIII, where he shaves Vince McMahon’s head before falling victim to a Stone Cold Stunner from pro-wrestling legend Stone Cold Steve Austin.
· May 8th, 2007: Donald Trump has the launch party for Trump Steaks, which he wanted to market through the mail-order catalog, Sharper Image. For just $199 you could get two filet mignons, two cowboy bone-in rib-eyes and 12 burgers, or for $999 you got 24 burgers and 16 steaks. People at Sharper Image at the time now recall “we sold almost no steaks”. The venture failed within literally two months,but that’s because people won’t buy $45 mail order steaks and $3 hamburgers when the economy is collapsing. Heck, probably not when the economy is healthy.
· January 15th, 2008: Trump, on his periodic radio show, talks about a news story from Saudi Arabia where a man found his wife at home, watching a game show, and got to divorce her because it was as if she was cheating on him by keeping company with the man hosting the game show on television. Trump then praised Sharia Law is because it lets a man so easily divorce his wife, and find her at fault.
· February 17th, 2009: DonaldTrump files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the fourth time, this time for all of Trump Entertainment Resorts. This occurred after it missed a bond payment of $53.1million, and its total debts at this time were $1.74 billion.
· February 11th, 2010: Trump gives an interview with CNN reporter Becky Anderson to promote The Apprentice, where he states his belief that he’s successful because of his genes, saying, “I’m a gene believer… hey when you connect two race horses you get usually end up with a fast horse.”
· September 9th, 2010: In the buildup to the 2010 elections, FOX News and candidates from the Republican Party in the Tea Party Wave began making a big fuss about a supposed “Ground Zero Victory Mosque” being built on the site of Ground Zero in New York City. The site was actually several blocks away, but several public figures were fanning the flames of anti-Islamic bigotry. And who else would show up to join in for some free publicity based on those sorts of thoughts but… yes, Donald Trump. Trump started hitting the news cycle to offer to “solve” the problem by buying up the real estate from the investors trying to build the Park 51 Islamic cultural center, conveniently timed right before the ninth anniversary of 9/11.
· February 10th, 2011: Trump, speaking at CPAC, insists that Barack Obama never attended Colombia University, because no one there “ever saw him” or “knows who he is”.Yes, it’s a ridiculous claim.
· March 6th, 2011: The latest season of Celebrity Apprentice debuts, whose runner-up that season is former Oscar winning actress Marlee Matlin, who is deaf-mute. Per at least three members of staff who worked on the show, Donald Trump frequently referred to Matlin as“retarded”.
· March 30th, 2011: Trump truly starts dipping his toe into the pool of the Birther movement, discussing President Obama’s birth certificate with Laura Ingraham,and saying the “missing one” says he’s a Muslim.
· March 21st, 2011: Trump brags on Fox News about “screwing” Libyan dictator Muammar Qadaffi in a real estate deal.
· March 31st, 2011: Trump gives a rather naïve view of foreign policy, wondering why the United States left Iraq, because we should have stayed and “kept the oil”.
· April 1st, 2011: A New York Times opinion writer receives a copy of one of her articles in the mail, returned to her by Donald Trump with her photo in the byline circled by Trump with the comment, “Face like a dog”.
· April 7th, 2011: Donald Trump dedicated himself even further to the Birther cause, saying he “had real doubts” that President Obama was born in Hawaii, and claimed he had hired private eyes to research the matter in an interview on The Today Show. Note: No investigation’s results are ever given.
· April 14th, 2011: Trump had the audacity to say he has “a great relationship with the blacks”.
· April 15th, 2011: Donald Trump is interviewed by Sean Hannity, and says President Obama’s real birth name is “Barry Soetero”.
· April 28th, 2011: Trump speaks in Las Vegas, and gives his ideas for the global economy… like threatening China and OPEC with the word “f***”.
· April 30th, 2011: Donald Trump is humiliated at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner, being lambasted by President Obama himself in front of the assembled media for his active campaign to inflame the Birther Conspiracy Theory, days after the state of Hawaii releases his long form birth certificate.
· May 1st, 2011: Trump gives his thoughts as to why he’s against gay marriage to the New York Times:
“It’s like in golf … A lot of people– I don’t want this to sound trivial – but a lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive. It’s weird. You see these great players with these really long putters, because they can’t sink three-footers anymore. And, I hate it. I am a traditionalist. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist.”
October 2011: The website The Dirty and Life and Style magazine report about a possible affair (it happened) between Trump and Stormy Daniels.
· April 12th, 2012: Trump releases a video blog where he posits a new conspiracy theory… President Obama made a deal with Saudi Arabia to keep gasprices low until after the 2012 election to help him win it, just until after he won a second term,they would return to high values (Hint: they remained low through his second term).
· August 24th, 2012, The Donald weighs in on alternative energies on Twitter in the dumbest way:
“It’s Friday. How many bald eagles did wind turbines kill today? They are an environmental & aesthetic disaster.”
Fun fact… wind turbines kill fewer birds than tall buildings do each year. You know, like the tall buildings Trump builds and is compelled by ego to plaster his name on.
· August 28th, 2012: For whatever reason, Trump decided to take a shot at Arianna Huffington on Twitter, saying she was “unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man- he made a good decision.”
· October 11th, 2012: Trump gets on Twitter to link to an article from the paranoid conspiracy website WorldNetDaily that President Obama wears a “secret ring” with “Arabic writing” on it that could mean he’s a Muslim.
· October 17th, 2012: Donald Trump, on Twitter, posits his theory that President Obama will “start a war” to help win the upcoming election in four weeks.
· October 28th, 2012: Trump started a feud on Twitter with Bette Midler for no discernible reason, posting this self-contradictory statement on Twitter, that is the only time Trump pretends to be politically correct (and fails at it):
“While @BetteMidler is an extremely unattractive woman, I refuse to say that because I always insist on being politically correct.”
· October 29th, 2012: Donald Trump appears on the Late Show with David Letterman, where he talks about how “their leaders are so much smarter than our leaders” and is saying he thinks “Mitt Romney can turn it around” and help stimulate the American economy versus the Chinese one. Letterman,always pretty honest about being liberal and unafraid to push back against guests, pulls out some of Trump’s clothing line, and points out that the tagsall say the garments are “Made in Bangladesh” or “Made in China”. Trump, visibly embarrassed,sheepishly shrugs it off and agrees with Letterman’s sentiment that he shouldclose down his foreign factories and instead open one in Jamaica, Queens, NewYork . He does not do this, of course. (The interview segment will later bebrilliantly used by the Clinton campaign to point out Trump’s hypocrisy on outsourcing jobs.)
· November 6th, 2012: Trump again puts his foot in his mouth on Twitter, claiming that global warming was a concept created by the Chinese to find a way to make U.S. manufacturing less competitive.
· April 2nd, 2013: Trump filed a $5 million lawsuit against comedian Bill Maher for making a joke that Donald Trump’s father was a chimpanzee.
· April 7th, 2013: On an episode of Celebrity Apprentice, Trump joked about how he thought it would be a “pretty picture” to see former Playboy model and Baywatch star Brande Roderick “on her knees”.
· May 7th, 2013: Trump decides to tackle the topic of military sexual assault on Twitter, seemingly thinking that it’s an expected outcome of an army made up of both sexes:
“26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?”
Because every gender-integrated workplace has a problem with rape, right? (No, no they don’t. Jesus.)
· June 18th, 2013: Donald Trump goes on Twitter to talk about the Miss Universe pageant, and how he hoped Vladimir Putin would attend and “become my new best friend”.
· October 3rd, 2013: Trump appears on Larry King Live where he praises Vladimir Putin for how he has “outsmarted our country”.
· November 9th, 2013: Trump goes to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant, and stays at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel there.This would be the hotel visit later mentioned in the Steele dossier.
· November 11th, 2013: Trump gives a Twitter shout-out to Aras Agalorov, Russian oligarch, talking about making a Trump Tower in Moscow, and praising Aras’ son, Emin (remember those names).
· November 18th, 2013: Trump gets on Twitter, and claims there are polls that show dead people voted for Obama in the 2012 election.
· November 20th, 2013:Trump makes a cameo in Russian pop star Emin Agalorov’s video for the song “In Another Life”. (This would be the same Emin Agalorov whose father is a Russian oligarch who later contacts Donald Trump, Jr. to send a Russian government lawyer to meet with him at Trump Tower during the 2016 elections.)
· December 12th, 2013: Donald Trump suspects foul play when the Hawaiian State Health Directordies in a plane crash, as part of a cover up of Obama’s birth certificate.
· March 21st, 2014: Again, Trump praises Vladimir Putin, saying he would “rebuild the Russian Empire”.
· April 17th, 2014: Yet again, Donald Trump goes on Twitter to praise Vladimir Putin, while insulting President Obama.
· April 23rd, 2014: Trump is on Twitter again to claim that the statistics showing the percentage of people without health insurance were coming down since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act were not accurate, and they were “manipulated”.
· May 27th, 2014: Before the National Press Club, Donald Trump talks at length about having met Vladimir Putin, and his respect for him, saying:
“I was in Moscow recently and I spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer,and we had a tremendous success. The show was live from Moscow and we had tremendous success there and it was amazing, but to do well, you have to get the other side to respect you, and he does not respect our president, which is very sad.”
· June 21st, 2014: New York City settled a civil suit with the “Central Park Five”, young men they wrongly convicted of sexual assault and incarcerated for years, awarding them $40 million for the miscarriage of justice. And who decided to comment on the payout? Donald Trump, of course, the guy who 25 years earlier said they should“be given the death penalty”! Trump referred to the suspect’s 2014 settlement as “the heist of the century”. Yeah, effectively he still thought of them as rapists, and now they were thieves, too. Of course, this wouldn’t be the last time The Donald would accuse minorities of being rapists out of hand…
· August 1st, 2014: Trump got on Twitter to weigh in on the Ebola Virus, and to criticize the decision to take U.S.citizens working as care workers from Africa back to quarantined containment facilities in the United States to be treated.
· August 25th, 2014: Donald Trump,on Twitter, accuses the Obama administration of dealing arms to ISIS. In a later tweet eight days later, he says the gun-running operation was going through Benghazi.
· September 3rd, 2014: Trump goes on Twitter to join up with the anti-vaccination movement and complain about vaccines that treat more than one disease at once, saying, “tiny children are not horses”.
· October 2nd, 2014: Trump gets on Twitter to claim that the Centers of Disease control are lying to the American public about the Ebola Virus, and it is “much easier to transmit than they are admitting”.
· October 16th, 2014: Donald Trump warns of Mexican immigrants bringing Ebola Virus into the United States in an interview with Iowa conservative talk show host Steve Deace. (Remember, it’s a disease whose origins are in Africa, and there has never been a single case in Mexico.)
· October 23rd, 2014: Trump, on Twitter, demands President Obama resign because of the Ebola Virus crisis.
· November 17th, 2014: Trump, on Twitter, accuses President Obama of manipulating the statistics regarding the number of deportations of illegal immigrants taking place, insisting that the true number is a “record low”.
· November 25th, 2014: Trump waxed philosophically about the legacy of President Obama:
“Sadly, because President Obama has done such a poor job as president, you won’t see another black president for generations!”
· April 4th, 2015: Trump goes after Arianna Huffington again on Twitter, calling her a “dog”.
· April 17th, 2015: Trump gets on Twitter to take a sexist pot-shot at Hillary Clinton:
“If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?”
Ina rare moment of retracting his words, the post was quickly deleted.
· April 27th, 2015: Trump also thought his opinion on civil unrest in Baltimore was something worth getting on social media to talk about, blaming the behavior of those present on Barack Obama, as well:
“Our great African American President hasn’t exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore.”