Each card shows the verbatim Quote with the Date it was made, the Context (the setting, the wider context, and why the statement was false or misleading), the Action it triggers (its ID and the Text from distraction_actions.yaml), and the source Links.
“I have always suspected Shifty Adam Schiff was a scam artist.… Mortgage Fraud is very serious, and CROOKED Adam Schiff (now a Senator) needs to be brought to justice.”
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Trump, responding to allegations from his administration of Mortgage Fraud by Senator Adam Schiff, which were later dropped and resulted in the DOJ investigating the handling of the allegations.
“I was saved by God to make America great again.”
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Trump cast himself as a messianic-like figure on his first day back in office at his inaugural address, as he recounted how he survived an assassination attempt at a campaign event.
“Canada should become our Cherished 51st State.”
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A February Truth Social post floated annexing America’s northern neighbor, sparking widespread reaction amid tariff negotiations.
“CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!”
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A February Truth Social post about the Manhattan toll alongside an AI-generated image of Trump wearing a golden crown on a mock magazine cover. Despite his efforts to kill the initiative, the program did not die and the Congestion Relief Zone tolling program remains in effect.
“They’re a BRICS nation, Spain. Do you know what a BRICS nation is? You’ll figure it out.”
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When a reporter asked about Spain failing to meet NATO’s defense spending target of 2% of economic output, Trump incorrectly identified Spain as part of the BRICS economic bloc during a policy discussion.
“A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.”
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Truth Social post following discussions between the U.S. and Russia regarding a potential peace plan that initially excluded Kyiv. Zelenskyy criticized the approach, which prompted retaliation
“The European Union was formed to screw the United States, that’s the purpose of it, and they’ve done a good job of it”
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Remarks during his first White House cabinet meeting while announcing his administration’s plan to impose a 25% tariff on imports from the European Union, framing the creation of the EU in a way that contradicted actual post-WWII history.
“$8 million for making mice transgender. This is real.”
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During an address to Congress, Trump claimed a study to explore how biological sex hormones affect asthma, breast cancer, HIV Vaccine, and the physiological impacts of steroid hormone administration was intended to make mice transgender.
“Climate change is the greatest con job ever perpetrated.”
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Delivered during a wide-ranging, combative speech at the United Nations headquarters in New York, he urged world leaders to abandon renewable energy targets and instead rely on traditional fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Studies show that over 90% of actively publishing climate scientists agree human activity drives global heating.
“Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate... and he just went CRAZY!”
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Truth Social post in early June 2025 during an explosive public fallout with Elon Musk, who had previously served as an advisor leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The public split was triggered by a sweeping federal tax-cut to electric vehicle tax credits that benefited Tesla, of which Musk is the CEO.
“Wacky Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown (Remember, Green turns to Brown where there is ROT involved!)”
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Truth Social post turning on his former ally, outspoken GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, after she pressed for the Jeffrey Epstein files to be released in full, broke with Trump on inflation and affordability, and criticized his foreign policy decisions
“I want to try and get to heaven, if possible. I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole.”
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Stated during an appearance on Fox & Friends, while discussing his efforts to resolve the war in Ukraine. Many reacted to the unusual theological framing of his political goals and the statement in the context of his policies.
“This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP??? … SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”
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Two Truth Social posts in response to six Democratic lawmakers with military and national security backgrounds who released a video, in which they reminded service members that they have an obligation to disobey illegal orders. The video was in the context of continued attempts at deployment of National Guard troops into U.S. cities. The response resulted in an increase in threats to the Democratic lawmakers by Trump supporters.
“I can say unrelated to that, she’s a disaster for New York. She’s a horrible, horrible human being, and I think she’s a total crook, there’s no question about it — but that’s just my opinion”
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Comments during an Oval Office appearance on New York Attorney General Letitia James, who led a multi-year civil fraud investigation into The Trump Organization, which resulted in a massive financial judgment against him, leading to his targeting of her during his presidency.
“Schumer is a Palestinian, as far as I’m concerned … He’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore.”
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Comments in response to a question about the U.S. corporate tax rate during an Oval office meeting as Republicans were trying to get a government spending bill enacted, for which Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was involved in negotiations. Schumer is Jewish and not Palestinian. Trump has previously made comments along these lines.
“Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME”
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Truth Social post after Rob Reiner, a critic of Trump, and his wife were found murdered in their home. The term Trump Derangement Syndrome is used by Trump and his followers to dismiss intense political opposition as mental imbalance. The statements drew sharp bipartisan backlash and widespread condemnation.
“After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean ‘THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES”
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Truth Social post in response to multiple news outlets reporting the president had apparently cut back on domestic travel, cut back on public appearances, and had been dozing off during events and meetings. This is following him calling President Biden “sleepy Joe” during the campaign, and them only 3-and-a-half years apart in age.
“I love the smell of deportations in the morning.”
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Truth Social post featuring a movie poster that evoked Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now, echoing threats of a major federal immigration crackdown and potential National Guard troop deployments to Chicago. Opponents accused him of declaring war on an American city.
“We want Venezuela to immediately accept all of the prisoners, and people from mental institutions, which includes the Worst in the World Insane Asylums, that Venezuelan ‘Leadership’ has forced into the United States of America.”
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Truth Social post continuing claims he has made for years without evidence that Venezuela has been emptying their insane asylums and sending them to the U.S. Several people questioned if Trump confused people seeking asylum from Venezuelan with people being sent from insane asylums. This was also in the context of military strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug vessels and alleged connections between Venezuelan and the Tren de Aragua gang, which were later refuted.
“I have common sense, OK?”
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Trump’s response during a news conference to a question reporters asked him whether he was getting ahead of the investigation into a mid-air collision above DC by claiming DEI initiatives were connected. The collision was later ruled to be caused by a combination of helicopter pilot error, air traffic control overload, and systemic FAA/Army failures, with the U.S. government formally admitting liability.
“We always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”
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Spoken during a rally in Pennsylvania on affordability, as Trump touted his administration’s decision to pause immigration from dozens of countries, including Somalia. In the same address, he also admitted to using the phrase “shithole countries” in his first term, which he had previously denied using. This was in the context of starting immigration actions in Minnesota, seemingly to target those communities.
“It fails to protect our magnificent, law-abiding American citizens, but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions, that have illegally entered our country from all over the world.”
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Comments during the Inaugural Address. Throughout his campaign and into his presidency, Trump frequently asserted that foreign countries were intentionally emptying their prisons, jails, and mental health asylums to send migrants into the United States, which has no evidence.
“So we’ll, I think, we’ll go as far as we have to go”
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Comments on Greenland, while taking reporters’ questions in the Oval Office.
“We didn’t give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back.”
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Comments during the Inauguration Address, continuing campaign threats to reimpose U.S. control over the canal. Trump again accused Panama of breaking the promises it made for the final transfer of the strategic waterway in 1999 and of ceding its operation to China - claims that the Panamanian government has vehemently denied.
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too… We’ll own it.”
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Comments at the White House during a joint news conference with Israel’s prime minister. Members of the administration walked back the comments the next day.
“And think of it as a big real estate site, and the United States is going to own it and we’ll slowly — very slowly, we’re in no rush — develop it. We’re going to bring stability to the Middle East soon.”
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Comments to reporters aboard Air Force One about the US taking over Gaza and considering it a real estate opportunity, which many considered unworkable due to forced displacement of Palestinians.
“We’re going to take it. We’re going to hold it, we’re going to cherish it. We’re going to get it going eventually”
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Speaking about Gaza to reporters in the Oval office with Jordan’s King, who would clarify that was in opposition to the steadfast Arab position that Gaza should be rebuilt without displacing the Palestinians.
“All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED.”
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Comments on June 21, the day of military strikes on Iran with the stated intention of stopping their ambition to create nuclear weapons. This followed a US intelligence assessment In March that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. It would then follow additional strikes in Feb of 2026 to stop them from creating nuclear weapons.
“I think we’re closer now than we have been ever… I do think we’re getting a lot closer, maybe very close.”
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Comments in a joint news conference with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. This followed claims during the campaign he would stop the Ukraine-Russia war within 24 hours if elected. After this press conference, peace talks broke down and the war continued.
“Well, I was being a little bit sarcastic when I said that… What I really mean is I’d like to get it settled and, I’ll, I think, I think I’ll be successful.”
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Comments in a TV interview on the Ukraine-Russia war in response to a question about claims during the campaign that he’d end the war within 24 hours if elected, despite now being 54 days into his presidency.
“We won the First World War, we won the Second World War, we won everything before that and in between, and then we decided to go woke.”
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Comments to reporters as he signed an order renaming the Defense Department the Department of War. The order does not legally replace the Department of Defense, which requires an act of Congress, but permits the administration to use the designation in official communications. The change carried a cost of $52 million based on the Pentagon’s formal legislative proposal, though independent and initial estimates have ranged much higher
“We have something coming up, favored nations, where I’m going to be reducing drug prices by 1,400 to 1,500%.”
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Comments to reporters while signing an unrelated executive order about his Most Favored Nation executive order from earlier in the year. The impossible math drew ridicule. Later examples made it clear he meant a 98% reduction.
“Even people that were against the tariffs, now they see the way they’re working. And by the way, with no inflation, with no problem, we’re just building up cash and we’re using that cash to reduce taxes, reduce debt, and other things.”
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Comments to reporters in the Oval Office. The statement was false by two measures: the inflation rate and the Federal Reserve’s target for price stability, and inflation was going up at the time.
“Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough.”
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Truth Social post in response to his frustrations regarding the pace of the central bank’s rate cuts.
“I always abide by the courts — always abide by them — and will appeal”
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Comments in the Oval Office, with Elon Musk standing nearby, when asked by reporters if he will abide by adverse court rulings related to Department of Government Efficiency Service (DOGE). Judges found the administration in violation of explicit orders across at least 31 major legal challenges involving mass layoffs, deportations, and federal funding cuts. Separately, Court records also highlighted more than 250 additional instances of noncompliance in individual immigration petitions, such as keeping detainees past court-ordered release dates
“Look at all the fraud that he’s found in this USAID. It’s a disaster … I’d like to see what the kickbacks are. How much money has been kicked back? Who would spend that kind of money to some of the things that you read about”
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Comments to reporters in the Oval Office when asked about Elon Musk’s role in the Department of Government Efficiency Service (DOGE). The President commented that he opposed many of Musk’s ideas to slash government spending, but he praised efforts related to shutting down USAID. Reports would later surface that the sudden shut down would result in over 700,000 deaths worldwide in 2025 alone.
“It’s going to sell like crazy. It’s a bargain.”
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Comments to reports at his first cabinet meeting in his new term, announcing the Gold Card Visa program, originally introduced at $5 million. It would later be dropped to $1 million. As of mid 2026, only one had been sold.
“Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. So maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally.”
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Taking questions during a cabinet meeting, President Trump addressed concerns about his trade war with China leading to potential shortages for U.S. businesses and consumers.
“Let’s do some trading.”
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Speaking at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Riyadh, Trump said he had offered trade incentives to both New Delhi and Islamabad to de-escalate tensions, reaffirming his claim that it was the United States that helped broker a military truce between India and Pakistan. This is a statement that New Delhi has consistently denied.
“You can give up certain products. You can give up pencils...Every child can get 37 pencils. They only need one or two. They don’t need that many, but you always need you always need steel”
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During a speech in Pennsylvania on affordability as he continued to face criticism for failing to bring prices down, he made the comments as part of defending his tariffs. Some analysts noted that a push toward consumer austerity runs counter to his claims that the economy was strong.
“I am proud to be the only President (with the possible exception of the Late, Great George Washington) to donate my Salary.”
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A Truth Social post in the context of the White House Ballroom renovation. This was a clarification on previous claims in 2019 to be the only president to donate his salary. In addition to Washington, John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover also did not keep their presidential salaries and instead donated them to charity.
“The whole thing is a con job. Germany tried it, and wind doesn’t work.”
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Comments to reporters during a visit to Scotland, continuing his attacks on wind power. This followed his infamous quote in 2019 that windmills cause cancer. The comment was made despite the fact that wind power accounted for 28% of Germany’s electricity generation in 2024, making it the country’s largest single source of electricity
“We’re ending Joe Biden’s war on beautiful, clean coal once and for all.”
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Comments made to reporters during the signing of 4 executive orders repealing coal rules to raise emissions standards on coal plants. Trump has called coal a clean energy source since 2016, despite scientific and environmental experts statements that there is no such thing as truly clean coal in traditional burning.
“We’re gonna get the drug prices down. Not 30 or 40 percent, which would be great, not 50 or 60, no. We’re gonna get ‘em down 1,000 percent, 600 percent, 500 percent, 1,500 percent.”
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At a reception with members of Congress on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, Trump promised drug-price cuts of “1,000%, 600%, 500%, 1,500%” - a cut past 100% would make the drug free, and more would have the maker paying the buyer, so critics (and the X AI Grok) ran him through the math publicly while he insisted he had “a certain talent” to force pharma to accept the numbers.
“He called and apologized the other day because he thought he said things that were a little bit too strong, and I appreciated that.”
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After Tucker Carlson’s June 13, 2025 column accused Trump of being “complicit” in Israel’s attack on Iran, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that Carlson had phoned to apologize; in an interview with Germany’s Bild, Carlson told the paper’s editor-in-chief the call never happened - “Okay... no.”
“In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.”
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After the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that July added only 73,000 jobs and revised May-June down by 258,000, Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer and claimed without evidence that she had rigged the numbers to hurt Republicans and help Democrats; a former BLS commissioner - Trump’s own first-term nominee - said it was “impossible” for a commissioner to manipulate data the agency revises on its normal schedule.
“It won’t interfere with the current building. It won’t be. It’ll be near it but not touching it - and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.”
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When the $250 million State Ballroom project was announced in July 2025, Trump said it would never touch the existing White House; in October, crews began demolishing the 1902 East Wing - the entire wing was torn down without the public review the National Park Service process would normally require, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Democratic lawmakers demanded a pause.
“Kaczynski was one of his students. Do you know who Kaczynski was? There’s very little difference between a madman and a genius.”
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At an “Energy and Innovation” event at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Trump claimed his uncle Dr. John Trump, a professor who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had taught Ted Kaczynski and recounted a supposed exchange with him - impossible, since his uncle died in 1985, a decade before Kaczynski was identified as the Unabomber in 1996, and Kaczynski never attended MIT (a Harvard and University of Michigan alumnus).
“But he was asked by the city, I guess, that we don’t want to show the real numbers.”
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Press conference at the White House on the D.C. crime crackdown, days after the city’s police department was federalized. Trump claimed a man who quit the force said he was asked to cook the numbers - “Let me do numbers so it looks like it’s going down” - while a precinct commander was on administrative leave accused of changing crime statistics and the D.C. police union head publicly doubted the reported drop in crime; the White House’s own “FACT: Yes, D.C. Crime Is Out of Control” release accused the department of cooking the books.
“They have pumping that looks like they’re pumping into a horse. You have a little child, little fragile child, and you get a vat of 80 different vaccines, I guess. Eighty different blends, and they pump it in.”
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At an hour-long autism press conference, Trump claimed children get “a vat of 80 different vaccines” in a single visit and urged parents to break the MMR vaccine into separate shots. Children do not receive anywhere near that many vaccines at once - sometimes as few as six in a single visit - and the individual MMR component shots are not available for use in the U.S.; FactCheck.org and the American Academy of Pediatrics called the event a fire hose of misstatements.
“I’m really good at predicting things. They actually said during the campaign, they had a hat, the best-selling hat. Trump was right about everything. And I don’t say that in a braggadocious way, but it’s true. I’ve been right about everything.”
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In a 57-minute address to the UN General Assembly - nearly four times the 15-minute allotment - Trump boasted about his record and warned European leaders their countries were going to fail if they did not get away from the “green energy scam.” Much of the audience, especially European leaders, openly mocked him, and fact-checkers documented a run of false claims in the speech.
“Inflation has stopped, wages are up, prices are down.”
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In a prime-time address on his first year in office, Trump declared the inflation battle won. It was not: at the time of the speech the most recent CPI data showed September inflation at 3.0% - exactly where it stood when he took office - and the November report released the next day showed 2.7%, a decline but far from zero and still above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target; CNN documented the White House’s use of apples-to-oranges comparisons to make inflation sound better.
“A+++++”
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At a campaign-style event at a Pennsylvania casino, standing under a banner reading “LOWER PRICES BIGGER PAYCHECKS,” and in an interview released the same day, Trump graded his economy “A+++++” despite having inherited “a total mess” from Joe Biden. The unemployment rate had risen during his second term and only about one in five families said they were better off financially than a year ago; Sen. Bernie Sanders quipped, “If this is an A+++++ economy, God help us if we ever get to a B or a C.”
“jobs and factories will come roaring back”
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Announcing “Liberation Day” - the highest U.S. tariffs since the Great Depression - Trump promised the manufacturing jobs would return. They did not: manufacturing employment declined every month for the rest of 2025, and a year later the promised manufacturing boom was being called a bust.
“written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden administration.”
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As his base revolted over the handling of the Epstein files, Trump posted on Truth Social in defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi, claiming the memo behind them had been fabricated by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan and the Biden administration, comparing the “Epstein Files” to the Steele dossier and calling both “FAKE,” and telling MAGA not to “waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.” The post did not quell the revolt - it added fuel to the fire.
“I look at some of these agreements, I’d read them at night, and I’d say, ‘Who would ever sign a thing like this?’”
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At a White House press conference on February 24, 2025, where he claimed a 25% tariff on all Canadian and Mexican goods would alleviate the deal’s impact on Americans, Trump rebuked the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that his first administration signed in January 2020 - a pact he had praised as the “best agreement we’ve ever made” - and unwittingly criticized himself.
“They call me the president of Europe. Which is an honour. I like Europe. And I like those people. They’re good people. They’re great leaders.”
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Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, August 25, 2025, a week after European leaders including Sir Keir Starmer met him in Washington alongside Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump embraced the nickname as an honour. Officials in Brussels assured POLITICO that nobody they knew ever referred to him that way.
“We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory, the Gulf of America.”
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At a press conference on January 7, 2025, before his inauguration, Trump declared his administration would rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” saying “we do most of the work there and it’s ours.” He followed through, and among the first executive orders he signed was an order directing the secretary of the interior to change the name on federal maps.
“Don’t do that — M, S, one, three — it says M, S, one, three.... Terry, do you want me to show you the picture? He had ‘M,’ ‘S’ as clear as you can be. Not ‘interpreted.’”
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In an ABC News interview with Terry Moran that aired April 29, 2025, Trump defended a photo he had shared on Truth Social of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s knuckles - deported to the CECOT prison in El Salvador despite an order not to - insisting the M, S, 1 and 3 above the tattoos read “MS-13.” The image had been altered: the letters and the captions beneath the tattoos are in a printed font and do not appear in other photographs of Abrego Garcia’s hand, and gang experts told PolitiFact none of the tattoos is a known MS-13 marker.
“The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately.”
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A Truth Social post on Aug 7 2025, days after Sen. Tom Cotton questioned Lip-Bu Tan’s ties to Chinese companies; Intel shares fell more than 3 percent. Four days later Trump met Tan at the White House, called his rise an amazing story, and set up Cabinet talks, a stark reversal that left the conflict-of-interest charge unexplained.
“As far as I’m concerned, the war is over.”
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Speaking by the side of Netanyahu in Israel on Oct 13 2025, as the last living hostages were released, two weeks after Trump and Netanyahu announced the 20-point plan at the White House. The declaration outran the plan: Israel still controlled about half of Gaza, Netanyahu had hours earlier said the military campaign was not over, and Hamas disarmament was still ahead - a year later, phase two remained stalled.