Donald Trump: his pet hates in his own words

Donald Trump: his pet hates in his own words
By Euronews

Donald Trump’s highly controversial proposal to ban Muslims from entering the USA is only the latest in a catalogue of outspoken remarks that have

Donald 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:

On former First Lady and presidential election rival Hillary Clinton:

On Bette Midler:

“If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, I’d be dating her”


On climate change


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 police custody in April 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:


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:

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