Trump’s most unbelievable moments as president

Former President Donald Trump did a lot of terrible things while in office. Whether it was the time he retweeted a quote from fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini or the threats he made to strip security clearances from critics, it's hard to keep all his issues straight.  

Luckily, American news media spent years collecting evidence of the former president’s buffoonery and there is a wide variety of awful things the former president did that could be considered among his worst, here’s a short list of some of Trump’s most unthinkable moments. 

While speaking at a campaign rally in Missoula, then-President Trump gave his opinion on Representative Greg Gianforte pleading guilty to a misdemeanor for bodyslamming reporter Ben Simmons, saying "Any guy that can do a body slam—he’s my kind of guy," he said according to CNBC. 

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If there was ever a moment that revealed the cruel and distasteful nature of the former president it was the time he mocked disabled reporter Serge Kovaleski while speaking during a 2015 campaign rally in South Carolina according to NBC News.

It was a little vain at first but somehow the former president had convinced himself that his inauguration was the largest ever. Photo evidence showed that likely wasn’t true and The Guardian noted Trump went as far as to edit the photos to make the crowd bigger. 

On March 13th, 2018, Trump fired Rex Tillerson via tweet making the Secretary of State the first cabinet member to ever be fired through social media. The Atlantic reported that Trump didn’t even get around to calling Tillerson until three hours after his tweet. 

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Trump’s racist nature was never more on display than when he called Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas after the senator’s claims she was part Native American were thin following a DNA test Trump dared her to take in exchange for $1 million to her charity of choice Reuters reported. 

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Speaking of racism, few people talk about Executive Order 13769, which banned travel to the United States for citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries for ninety days and the suspension of refugee resettlement for 120 according to ACLU Washington.

While we’re discussing the former president’s racist tendencies we should probably also mention that time Trump kicked off his campaign by saying Mexican immigrants weren’t friends to the U.S. and that they were bringing drugs and crime with them, Time noted. 

In 2018, in leaked conversations, Trump allegedly questioned why so many people from “sh**whole countries” were coming to America while talking about immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and some African countries according to The Atlantic. 

Trump defended white nationalists who protested the removal of Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville following counter-protests, saying there were “very fine people on both sides.” Mind you, one of those people ran his car into the crowd and killed one person ABC News reported.  

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While speaking at an event in Long Island in 2017, the former president appeared to be encouraging police officers to rough up suspects, telling them to throw suspects into the paddywagon, adding: “Please don’t be too nice,” according to ABC News. 

One of the ugliest policies of the Trump administration came to light after immigration lawyers and judges began reporting parents were arriving at detention centers without their children according to the Atlantic. As many as 700 children were separated from their parents, a New York Times investigation found at the time.

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Trump made a lot of mistakes during the COVID-19 pandemic but his biggest was likely his decision to delay signing the COVID relief bill five days after he suggested he would veto the bill, a move that sent Washington into a panic according to CNBC.

Leaked recorded audio of Trump’s conversation with Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger showed that the former president really did ask Raffensperger to steal an election for him, pleading with him to find 11,780 votes according to The Washington Post. 

There was no moment more unprecedented than Trump’s rally prior to the January 6th Capitol Attack that saw the former president allegedly incite the following insurrection. “Trump made a fiery last stand and incited his supporters to storm and sack the U.S. Capitol as part of an attempted coup,” The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker wrote.