Since announcing his running for the presidency (and long before), Donald Trump has made some interesting and outlandish claims on Twitter that made me stop and think, wondering whether I had read wrong. Here are some of those Tweets.
Everybody is arguing whether or not it is a BAN. Call it what you want, it is about keeping bad people (with bad intentions) out of country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 1, 2017
He may be trying to keep bad people out of the country, but he’s going about it in a manner that does indeed ban people who don’t need to be banned. Also, it is a ban, considering he called it one himself a few days ago:
If the ban were announced with a one week notice, the “bad” would rush into our country during that week. A lot of bad “dudes” out there!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 30, 2017
The Democrats are delaying my cabinet picks for purely political reasons. They have nothing going but to obstruct. Now have an Obama A.G.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 31, 2017
No, democrats (and anyone who supports public education) are trying to block his cabinet picks because they aren’t qualified for the position Trump wants them to hold.
There is nothing nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter our country. This was a big part of my campaign. Study the world!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 30, 2017
It’s not just terrorists that the order blocks from entering the country though. It’s all citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Green card holders from those countries now have to go through a lengthy process to reenter the country as well (yes, even with their green cards). In an interview with Politico, former New York Mayor and Trump adviser, Rudi Giuliani said that Trump wanted to implement a “Muslim ban” early on, and then he asked Giuliana how to do “it”, referring to a Muslim ban. So despite Trump’s claims that it doesn’t target any religion, it very much does.
The failing @nytimes has been wrong about me from the very beginning. Said I would lose the primaries, then the general election. FAKE NEWS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2017
Their subscriptions actually grew by 132,000 after Trump won the election, not exactly what I’d call failing.
Wow, television ratings just out: 31 million people watched the Inauguration, 11 million more than the very good ratings from 4 years ago!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2017
Sure, but what Trump neglected to state was that that was Obama’s second one, not his first which had 37.8 million viewers. The only president to have more viewers the second time was Richard Nixon.
A photo delivered yesterday that will be displayed in the upper/lower press hall. Thank you Abbas! pic.twitter.com/Uzp0ivvRp0
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2017
I could be mistaken, but I believe the inauguration was on Jan. 20, 2016, not Jan. 21 (I’m not mistaken).
Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2017
Those protestors did vote…in the popular vote…the one that Hillary Clinton won by almost three million votes.
I have NOTHING to do with The Apprentice except for fact that I conceived it with Mark B & have a big stake in it. Will devote ZERO TIME!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2016
If he has a big stake in it, doesn’t that mean he has a bit to do with it?
Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency (making it hard for our companies to compete), heavily tax our products going into..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2016
their country (the U.S. doesn’t tax them) or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea? I don’t think so!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2016
Since when did China need our permission to change how they run their economy?
I thought that @CNN would get better after they failed so badly in their support of Hillary Clinton however, since election, they are worse!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2016
I think his idea of better is choosing to ignore, not report on and refute anything that might make him look bad, regardless of the validity.
Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California – so why isn’t the media reporting on this? Serious bias – big problem!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 28, 2016
To this day there is no evidence of people voting illegally, so I guess he just thought this up and put it on Twitter for all to see as fact. Little did he know that the majority of people would see it and believe it without question or research.
In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016
Again, not sure where these numbers on “illegal votes” are coming from (oh wait, his head) but the current popular vote count sits with Hillary Clinton ahead by 2,841,862.
Fidel Castro is dead!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2016
The next president of the United States’ reaction to the death of one of the most prominent historical figures was just four short words…I’m not sure if he doesn’t understand who Fidel Castro was or just doesn’t care very much that he passed away.
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012
Not according to environmental scientists and the measurements they take regarding climate change or any other person who has looked at and understood a graph of global temperatures over the past 50 years. Even though this tweet is old, Trump’s stance hasn’t changed, stating that he doesn’t believe climate change is one of our big problems.
I am going to repeal and replace ObamaCare. We will have MUCH less expensive and MUCH better healthcare. With Hillary, costs will triple!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2016
Still not sure where Trump gets his statistics. These claims aren’t even remotely true.
Crooked Hillary should not be allowed to run for president. She deleted 33,000 e-mails AFTER getting a subpoena from U.S. Congress. RIGGED!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1, 2016
She was found innocent though (after the FBI spent over $20 million to investigate her). Could it be that Trump doesn’t read the news? That can’t be, right…right?
Just out: Neera Tanden, Hillary Clinton adviser said, “Israel is depressing.” I think Israel is inspiring!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 28, 2016
I’m not sure inspiring is the right word for the nation that’s waging war on Palestine, a land without any organized form of armed forces inspiring. Try atrocious.
