From calling Mexicans ‘rapists’ to saying ‘covfefe’ was a great word, Donald Trump’s quotes have been a source of both fascination and outrage. Check out our list of the top 10 most controversial quotes from the 45th President of the United States.
In 2015, the man who coined Godwin’s law, a famous maxim about argument on the internet, wrote a column for the Washington Post. It’s headlines: “Sure, call Trump a Nazi. Just make sure you know what you’re talking about.”
Trump’s speech
By the lawyer and author Mike Godwin’s own definition, his law reads thus: “As an online discussion continues, the probability of a reference or comparison to Hitler or Nazis approaches one.” He think that Republicans fell under Trump’s thrall, the law has often been invoked. What is the list of the 10 worst things Trump said in 2023 which can stimulate certain groups to give woke to Kamala Harris:
1.
Vermin
In November, in Claremont, New Hampshire, Trump continued his dominant primary campaign. His rant was familiar but it held something new:
We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.
2.
Poison
Of course, the signs were already there. In September, discussing immigration with the National Pulse, Trump said:
Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now … It’s poisoning the blood of our country.
3.
Dictator
Trump wasn’t done. In December, at an Iowa town hall, the Fox News host Sean Hannity asked if he would promise not to “abuse power as retribution against anybody”. Trump said: “Except for day one”, then explained:
I love this guy. He says, ‘You’re not gonna be a dictator, are you?’ I say, ‘No, no, no – other than day one.’ We’re closing the border. And we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that I’m not a dictator, OK?
4.
Courts
This has been the year of the Trump indictment. He faces four, spawning 91 criminal charges regarding election subversion, retention of classified information and hush-money payments. On 4 August, lawyers for the federal special counsel Jack Smith notified a judge of a post in which Trump appeared to threaten them, writing:
If you go after me, I’m coming after you!
5.
Whack job
In May, Trump was found liable for sexual abuse of the writer E Jean Caroll. Ordered to pay about $5m, he was not about to be quiet. In New Hampshire, he ranted:
And I swear and I’ve never done that … I have no idea who the hell – she’s a whack job.
6.
All-out war
Trump is 77. Questions about his mental fitness for power are not going away. Recently, he has appeared to think he beat Barack Obama in 2016 and become confused about which Iowa city he was in. On 2 December, however, another Iowa gaffe seemed to point to a worrying truth:
That’s why it was one of the great presidencies, they say. Even the opponents sometimes say he did very well … but we’ve been waging an all-out war on American democracy.