ADVERTISEMENTDonald Trump’s highly controversial proposal to ban Muslims from entering the USA is only the latest in a catalogue of outspoken remarks that have outraged many outside of his own fan base.
Never scared to say what he thinks, or even to speak before he thinks, Trump has managed to offend a wide range of the American population.
Trump on his humble beginnings
“It has not been easy for me. I started off in Brooklyn. My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars”
Trump on women’s lib
“You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.” – from an interview published in Esquire, 1991
On media magnate Arianna Huffington:
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ariannahuff</a> is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man- he made a good decision.</p>— Donald J. Trump (realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2012
On former First Lady and presidential election rival Hillary Clinton:
Hey
realDonaldTrump</a> - In case you're looking for that tweet you deleted .. I got it right here. <a href="http://t.co/a6F98q5xGU">pic.twitter.com/a6F98q5xGU</a></p>— Lenny Jacobson (Lennyjacobson) April 17, 2015
On Bette Midler:
While
BetteMidler</a> is an extremely unattractive woman, I refuse to say that because I always insist on being politically correct.</p>— Donald J. Trump (realDonaldTrump) October 28, 2012
“If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, I’d be dating her”
On “radicalised” London
“There are places in London and other places that are so radicalised that the police there fear for their own lives.”
On climate change
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
It's really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 19, 2015
It's Friday. How many bald eagles did wind turbines kill today? They are an environmental & aesthetic disaster.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 24, 2012
On building walls to keep Mexicans away
“I will build a great wall – and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me – and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”
On race relations
Tweeted after violent protests following the death of a black man while in Baltimore police custody in April 2015:
Our great African American President hasn't exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 28, 2015
On former presidential candidate and Vietnam war P.O.W. John McCain
“He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, OK.”
On how to deal with foreign despots
“I dealt with Gaddafi. I rented him a piece of land. He paid me more for one night than the land was worth for two years, and then I didn’t let him use the land.That’s what we should be doing. I don’t want to use the word ‘screwed’, but I screwed him.That’s what we should be doing.”
On gun control
Tweeted after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, January 2015:
If the people so violently shot down in Paris had guns, at least they would have had a fighting chance.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2015
Isn’t it interesting that the tragedy in Paris took place in one of the toughest gun control countries in the world?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2015
On disabilities
Trump mocks a New York Times reporter with arthrogryposis, a congenital condition affecting the joints:
On banning Muslims
Spoken after the San Bernardino shootings in California, in which the two alleged perpetrators were Muslims: