- 2018
Separated thousands of migrant children from their parents at the border.
- 2025
Sent the National Guard into Los Angeles against the governor's wishes, then into Washington DC.
- 2002
Called Jeffrey Epstein a "terrific guy" who "likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
- 2016
Was recorded bragging that famous men can grab women "by the pussy".
- 2020
Told the far-right Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by" during a presidential debate.
- 2024
Told a TV debate watched by 67 million people that migrants were "eating the dogs".
- 2025
Posted an AI picture of himself dressed as the Pope.
- 2025
Proposed that the US "take over" Gaza, move its people out and turn it into "the Riviera of the Middle East".
- 2020
Said Covid would "disappear" one day, "like a miracle".
- 2025
Threw himself a military parade on his 79th birthday.
- 2025
Announced "Liberation Day" tariffs that wiped trillions of dollars off stock markets in two days.
- 2019
Ordered to pay $2 million after a court found he misused his own charity, the Trump Foundation, which was shut down.
- 2025
Launched a gold "Trump Mobile" phone first billed as "made in the USA". The claim quietly disappeared.
- 2017
Insisted his inauguration crowd was the biggest ever, despite the photos.
- 2025
Sent about 240 Venezuelans to a Salvadoran mega-prison. More than half had no criminal conviction or charge anywhere.Cato Institute
- 2025
Pulled the US out of the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement.
- 2025
Promised cheaper groceries. Two months in, eggs hit a record $6.23 a dozen.
- 2025
Pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who had pleaded guilty to money-laundering failures.
- 2025
Demanded $230 million in compensation from his own Justice Department.
- 2007
Sold Trump Steaks through The Sharper Image, a gadget shop.
- 2018
Paid $25 million to settle fraud claims from students of Trump University.
- 2018
Stood beside Putin in Helsinki and took his word over America's own intelligence agencies.
- 2025
Fired the Kennedy Center's board, made himself chairman, then had his handpicked board rename it the "Trump Kennedy Center", even though Congress named it by law as a memorial to JFK.
- 2025
Had his $300 million ballroom paid for by corporate donors, including defence contractors and tech giants with business before his government.
- 2017
Said there were "very fine people on both sides" after a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville.
- 2018
Called African nations and Haiti "shithole countries".
- 2025
Berated Zelensky in the Oval Office, called him a "dictator", then paused US weapons and intelligence for Ukraine.
- 2023
Charged with hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, some of them stored in a bathroom. A judge he appointed threw the case out, and prosecutors gave up after he won the election.
- 2025
Rebranded the Department of Defense the "Department of War".
- 2020
Paid $750 in federal income tax in 2016 and again in 2017.The New York Times
- 2021
Became the only president impeached twice, the second time for incitement of insurrection after the 6 January attack on the Capitol.
- 2025
Rolled out a red carpet for Putin in Alaska and came home with no ceasefire.
- 2023
Found liable by a jury for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll. The Supreme Court turned down his appeal in 2026.
- 2025
Kept arming Israel while a UN commission of inquiry concluded it was committing genocide in Gaza, and named arms suppliers, including the US, as complicit.
- 2024–25
Sued TV networks until they paid up: $15 million from ABC, $16 million from Paramount.
- 2020
Suggested injecting disinfectant as a possible treatment for Covid.
- 2017
Threw paper towels into a crowd in Puerto Rico after a deadly hurricane.
- 2025
Told pregnant women "don't take Tylenol", linking it to autism without good evidence.
- 2017
Looked straight at a solar eclipse without eye protection.
- 2025
Sanctioned judges of the International Criminal Court for pursuing Israeli leaders.
- 2023
Said immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our country".
- 2026
Watched the national debt pass $40 trillion.
- 2025
Immigration sweeps detained more than 170 US citizens in nine months.ProPublica
- 2021
Claimed the 2020 election was stolen and lost more than 60 court cases trying to prove it.
- 2026
Took the US to war with Iran in February. Asked about his "no new wars" pledge, he said: "I didn't guarantee no war."
- 2016
Claimed millions of people voted illegally to explain losing the popular vote.
- 2025
Fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a weak jobs report.
- 2022
Sold digital trading cards of himself as a superhero, an astronaut and a cowboy.
- 2005
Boasted on the radio that he could walk into beauty pageant dressing rooms because he owned the show.
- 2019
Altered an official hurricane map with a Sharpie to back up a false claim about Alabama.
- 2017
Tweeted "covfefe". Nobody has ever found out what it meant.
- 2025
Called the Epstein files a "hoax", then signed the law forcing their release after his own party turned on him.
- 2019
Claimed the noise from wind turbines causes cancer.
- 2025
Deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who had legal protection from deportation, to a notorious Salvadoran prison. His own officials admitted it was an "administrative error".
- 2017
Banned travel from several Muslim-majority countries in his first week in office.
- 2020
Said of Ghislaine Maxwell, arrested for trafficking girls for Epstein: "I just wish her well, frankly."
- 2025
Pardoned or freed around 1,500 people charged over the Capitol attack, on his first day back in office.
- 2025
Had the US vote alongside Russia and North Korea against a UN resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
- 2023
Became the first president to have a police mugshot taken, then sold it on T-shirts.
- 2025
Posted an AI video of a "Trump Gaza" resort, complete with a giant golden statue of himself.
- 2017
Fired FBI director James Comey, then told Russian officials in the Oval Office it had taken off "great pressure".
- 2025
Started selling a $1 million "Gold Card" for rich foreigners who want to live in America.
- 2024
Convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide a hush-money payment.Appeal ongoing
- 2025
Freed disgraced congressman George Santos from prison.
- 2026
Shared footage of a British man being mauled to death by a tiger, captioned "Don't ever mess with nature!"
- 2026
Sent diesel to its highest price in US history, $5.85 a gallon, with his Iran war. Everything that travels by truck got pricier.
- 2026
Said he was "glad" when former FBI director Robert Mueller died.
- 2025
His team planned airstrikes in a group chat that accidentally included a journalist. His defence secretary kept his job.
- 2025
Posted an AI video of himself in a crown, flying a jet that dumps sewage on "No Kings" protesters. Takes one to know one.
- 2015
Mocked a disabled reporter at a campaign rally.
- 2025
Promised his ballroom "won't interfere with the current building". Then he bulldozed the entire East Wing of the White House to make room for it.
- 2025
Renamed the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America".
- 2025
Told a female reporter asking about Epstein: "Quiet, piggy."
- 1991–2009
Took his companies through six bankruptcies, mostly casinos. Who loses money running a casino?
- 2024
Sold "God Bless the USA" Bibles for $59.99.
- 2025
Promised to release the Epstein files. His Justice Department then announced there was no "client list", and Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum-security prison camp after meeting his deputy attorney general.
- 2025
Sent masked immigration agents to grab people outside schools, courthouses and Home Depot car parks.
- 2020
Told a rally he had asked officials to "slow the testing down" because it found too many Covid cases.
- 2020
Called fallen American soldiers "losers" and "suckers", according to his own former chief of staff.
- 2025
Turned America's closest neighbour against it with tariffs and "51st state" taunts. Canadians cancelled trips and provinces pulled American booze off the shelves.
- 2025
Accepted a luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar's royal family to use as Air Force One.
- 2025
Claimed to have ended eight wars in eight months. Fact-checkers found several were short ceasefires, one was never a war, and some fighting started again.
- 2026
Warned that Iran's "whole civilization will die tonight" unless it made a deal.
- 2017–21
Made 30,573 false or misleading claims in his first term.The Washington Post Fact Checker
- 2025
Launched his own $TRUMP meme coin, then hosted a dinner for its biggest buyers.
- 2026
At least 57 people died in immigration custody in his first 19 months back.
- 2026
Promised to bring prices down "starting on day one". During his Iran war, gas passed $4.50 a gallon, up from about $3.10 when he took office.
- 2026
Pushed ahead with a 250-foot triumphal arch beside Arlington National Cemetery without asking Congress. Washington calls it the "Arc de Trump".
- 2025
Called off trade talks with Canada over a TV ad that quoted Ronald Reagan on why tariffs are bad.
- 2026
His immigration agents shot dead two US citizens in Minneapolis, Renée Good and ICU nurse Alex Pretti. His officials called Pretti "a would-be assassin". Videos show him holding a phone.
- 2019
Held back military aid from Ukraine while asking Zelensky to dig up dirt on Joe Biden. It got him impeached the first time.
- 2026
Campaigned as the president of "no new wars". In January he bombed Venezuela and seized its president, without asking Congress.
- 2021
Phoned Georgia's top election official and asked him to "find 11,780 votes".
- 2016
Had porn star Stormy Daniels paid $130,000 to stay quiet before the election.
- 2018
Said of the Saudi crown prince after journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered: "Maybe he did and maybe he didn't."
- 2025
Refused to rule out military force to take Greenland, and kept calling Canada "the 51st state".
- 2022
Claimed election fraud allowed "the termination of all rules", "even those found in the Constitution".
- 2025
Shut down USAID, the agency that ran most of America's foreign aid.
- 2025
Presided over the longest government shutdown in US history: 43 days.
- 2019
Told four congresswomen of color, three of them born in America, to "go back" to the countries they came from.