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Thirty Of The Most Terrible, Weird, Or Dishonest Things Donald Trump Has Said

A not-so-greatest hits, because we can't afford to forget.

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Thirty Of The Most Terrible, Weird, Or Dishonest Things Donald Trump Has Said
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With the hiring of a new campaign manager and the giving of an uncharacteristically apologetic speech in Charlotte, Donald Trump is clearly trying to shift the ethos of his campaign from outright disaster to tolerable mess.

But no matter how many times he expresses remorse for "personal pain" caused by a seemingly endless dirty laundry list of terrible statements, he still said those things. It's important never to forget some of the horribleness that has spewed from his mouth, even when his strategy of erasing controversy with even more controversy seems to have somehow worked up to this point.

Because it's difficult to keep up, here's a 'greatest' hits list of some of Donald Trump's most reprehensible, downright dishonest or just plain weird statements, all of them made during his presidential campaign.


30. "[Mexico's] sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists."

- July 16, 2015, presidential announcement speech


29. “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever."

- August 7, 2015, about Megyn Kelly


28. “I would knock the hell out of ISIS… [and] when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families."

- December 2, 2015 on "Fox & Friends"


27. "Oh, look at my African-American over here. Look at him. Aren't you the greatest?"

- June 3, 2016 at Redding, Cali. rally

26. "Well, just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke. Okay? I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists."

- February 28, 2016, "State of the Union"

If you follow that link above, you'll see he absolutely knows who David Duke is.


25. "Two Corinthians 3:17, that's the whole ballgame....Is that the one you like?"

- January 18, 2016 at Liberty University


24. “If you see somebody with a tomato, knock the crap out of them. Just knock the hell — I promise you, I'll pay the legal fees."

- February 1, 2016 at Iowa rally


23. “[John McCain] is not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

- July 16, 2016 at Arizona conference


22. “[Ted Cruz's] father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being — you know, shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous."

- May 3, 2016 in Fox News phone interview


21. “I would like to think she would find another career or find another company if that was the case."

- August 1, 2016, on what his daughter Ivanka should do if she were sexually harassed at work



20. "It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 days as a sheep."

- Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist and ally to Adolf Hitler, quoted in a tweet by Trump on February 28, 2016


19. "Bing bing bong bong."

- August 11, 2015 at Michigan speech

18. "[America] must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time it's proven that vetting mechanisms have been put in place."

- July 21, 2016 at Republican National Convention


17. "'Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.'"

- December 8, 2015 in campaign release


16. "The Bible means a lot to me, but I don't want to get into specifics."

- August 26, 2015, when asked his favorite Bible verse.


15. "Well, I think many. I mean, when we get into the Bible, I think many, so many. And some people, look, an 'eye for an eye,' you can almost say that. That's not a particularly nice thing."

- April 14, 2016, when asked again about his Bible verse.

Never mind the fact that 'an eye for an eye' is one of the few Old Testament laws Jesus explicitly rebuked.


14. "Lyin' Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin' Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!"

- March 22, 2016 tweet


13. "No need to 'spill the beans,' the images are worth a thousand words."

- March 23, 2016 retweet from a follower

12. "There has to be some form of punishment."

- March 30, 2016 in MSNBC town hall on women who get abortions


11. "You're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed -- what the hell do you have to lose?"

- August 19, 2016 on why the African-American community should vote for Trump in Michigan speech


10. "He is a member of a club or society, very strongly pro-Mexican, which is all fine. But I say he's got bias. I want to build a wall."

- June 5, 2016, on Latino judge investigating Trump University scandal


9. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

- July 27, 2016 at Miami rally


8. "I wanted to hit a couple of those speakers so hard....I was going to hit one guy in particular, a very little guy. I was going to hit this guy so hard his head would spin; he wouldn't know what the hell happened."

- July 29, 2016 at Iowa speech after the Democratic National Convention


7. "If you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say, she probably — maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say, you tell me.”

- July 30, 2016 in ABC News interview about Muslim mother of fallen soldier



6. "I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier."

- August 2, 2016, at Virginia rally after being given a Purple Heart


5. "Actually, I was only kidding. You can get the baby out of here. That's all right. Don't worry."

- August 2, 2016, at Virginia rally, after saying baby was okay

4. "Hillary Clinton wants to abolish the Second Amendment. Hillary Clinton wants to take your guns away, and she wants to abolish the Second Amendment."

- May 7, 2016 at Wash. rally


3. "If [Hillary Clinton] gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”

- August 9, 2016 at Wilmington, N.C. rally



2. "ISIS is honoring President Obama. He is the founder of ISIS. He is the founder of ISIS, okay? He is the founder. He founded ISIS. And I would say the cofounder would be crooked Hillary Clinton."

- August 10, 2016 at Fla. rally


1. "Titties."

- August 8, 2016 in Detroit, Mich. economic policy speech


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