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230 Things Donald Trump Has Said and Done That Make Him Unfit to Be President

How many times has Donald Trump disqualified himself from holding the most powerful job in the world? You be the judge.

By Chris Kirk, Ian Prasad Philbrick, and Gabriel Roth

On the eve of the election, Slate’s revisiting our best stories from the campaign. How did we get here? Read on.

It has been 13 months since Donald Trump announced his presidential bid and, in the same speech, called Mexican immigrants rapists .. http://tinyurl.com/j8rdgpr . The ensuing drip feed of Trumpian absurdities and offenses has had a desensitizing effect. We know that Trump is a racist .. http://tinyurl.com/zfpobhl , a misogynist .. http://tinyurl.com/jo97mp3 , an authoritarian .. http://tinyurl.com/zdzk5xp , and a narcissist .. http://tinyurl.com/zw92f2v , but we’ve lost track of the many, many specific things he has said and done that disqualify him from the office he seeks.

So we have compiled a list of specific things that make Trump an unacceptable candidate for the presidency. Some are policy proposals that should be outside the bounds of debate, like punitive torture .. http://tinyurl.com/j9s7zuo . Some are casual vulgarities, like his description of Rosie O’Donnell .. http://tinyurl.com/zzq7zvh . You might not agree that each individual item on the list is disqualifying in isolation—you can vote those down, and vote up the ones you find especially egregious—but the list’s cumulative weight makes its own statement.

Disclaimer: Trump contradicts himself a lot. Not all of the policy positions listed here reflect his current thinking on a given subject. You’ll have to decide for yourself whether you find that reassuring.

Update, Aug. 1, 2016: We originally listed 141 items here. But Trump doesn’t stop saying and doing unpresidential things, so we’ll continue to update the list through Election Day. New items will appear at the top of the list under “Recent Trump Moments” for a while, until they are replaced by fresher instances of self-disqualification.

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Repeatedly called a deaf actress “retarded” and sexually harassed her on the set of The Apprentice

Told two 14-year-old girls, “Wow! Just think—in a couple of years, I'll be dating you.”

Suggested a reporter who accused him of sexual assault wasn't attractive enough to assault

Falsely claimed Bill Clinton “had to pay an $850,000 fine” to Paula Jones after she accused him of sexual assault

Falsely claimed he won “every poll” after the second presidential debate

Falsely claimed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency endorsed him

Falsely claimed the Iran nuclear deal made Iran rich

Falsely claimed the U.S. economy is experiencing its slowest growth since 1929

Falsely claimed his opponent was “seen laughing on two occasions” at a 12-year-old rape victim

Posted a tweet urging voters to “check out [a critic's] sex tape,” then denied it during a debate

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1. Said he would force the military to commit war crimes

2. Said about women, “You have to treat ’em like shit”

3. Proposed to create a database system to track Muslims in the U.S.

4. Said a U.S.-born judge couldn't be impartial because of his “Mexican heritage”

5. Advocated assassinating terrorists’ families

6. Advocated waterboarding as punishment even if it doesn’t help gain information, because “they deserve it anyway”

7. Said women should be punished for having abortions

8. Urged supporters to beat up protesters at his rallies

9. Made fun of a reporter’s physical disability

10. Promised to deport U.S. citizens whose parents immigrated illegally, in violation of the 14th Amendment

11. Advocated shutting down mosques

12. Called for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S.

13. Described global warming as a hoax perpetrated by “the Chinese” for competitive reasons

14. Responded to the murder of 49 people at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub with “Appreciate the congrats for being right on Islamic terrorism”

15. Suggested the U.S. should reduce its debts by partially defaulting on them

16. Fraternizes with avowed white supremacists on Twitter

17. Called Mexican immigrants rapists

18. Endorsed torture

19. Refuses to sell any of his more than 500 businesses if he’s elected, potentially creating unprecedented conflicts of interest

20. Disparaged Sen. John McCain's military service because he was captured by the North Vietnamese

21. Defended FDR’s internment of Japanese Americans

22. Refused to release his tax returns during the campaign

23. Retweeted bogus crime statistics that wildly inflated the rate at which blacks kill whites

24. Suggested that supporters who attacked a homeless Hispanic man were “very passionate” and “love their country”

25. Blamed sexual assault in the military on “put[ting] men and women together”

26. Referred to Tiananmen Square demonstrations as a riot and said the Chinese government’s response “shows you the power of strength”

27. Repeatedly suggested that President Obama might be a Muslim

28. Claimed he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the 9/11 attacks

29. Doesn’t know how many articles are in the Constitution

30. Called an attorney who requested a break to pump breast milk “disgusting”

31. Doesn’t pay his bills

32. Proposed to change libel laws to make it easier to sue media organizations

33. Praised North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un


34. Barred reporters from campaign events for unfavorable coverage

35. Described Fox debate moderator Megyn Kelly as having “blood coming out of her wherever”

36. Said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose voters”

37. Questioned President Obama’s American citizenship, bringing the “birther” campaign into the mainstream

38. Named and threatened former students who criticized Trump University

39. Bragged about the size of his penis during a primary debate


40. Didn’t immediately disavow an endorsement from KKK leader David Duke

41. Claimed he’s donated $1 million to veterans’ groups, although none received any money until reporters began investigating

42. Didn’t know the meaning of the term “Brexit” less than a month before the U.K. referendum on leaving the EU

43. Called Elizabeth Warren “the Indian” and “Pocahontas”

44. Posted a link to Facebook promoting the conspiracy theory that the Obama administration actively supported al-Qaida in Iraq

45. Founded Trump University, which a salesman called “a fraudulent scheme [that] preyed upon the elderly and uneducated”

46. Said, “It doesn’t really matter what [the media] write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass”

47. Advocated plundering oil from Iraq, Libya, and other oil-rich countries invaded by the U.S., in violation of the Geneva Conventions

48. Named himself as his primary consultant on foreign policy

49. Refused to take care of his children, saying that husbands who change diapers are “acting like the wife”

50. Refused to rule out using nuclear weapons against ISIS

51. Claimed he’s donated $102 million to charity, although journalists have been unable to find evidence of any substantial donations

52. Said of Carly Fiorina, “Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?”

53. Approvingly repeated a tall tale about a U.S. commander ordering the execution of Muslim insurgents with bullets dipped in pig’s blood

54. Refused to condemn anti-Semitic attacks on journalists

55. Paid campaign money to family members and his own businesses

56. Advocated withholding free public education from insufficiently studious kids

57. Told a female contestant on Celebrity Apprentice, “That must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees”

58. Suggested that he might refuse to serve as president if elected

59. Speculated about his 1-year-old daughter’s future breasts

60. Said, “If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her”

61. Proposed to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants

62. Hired a suspicious number of advisers who have done work on behalf of Vladimir Putin

63. Has repeatedly done business with figures linked to organized crime

64. Claimed that American Muslims knew about the Orlando nightclub shooter and San Bernardino terrorists before the attacks

65. Didn't understand the phrase “nuclear triad” during a primary debate

66. Pointed out a black supporter and said, “Oh, look at my African American over here”

67. Kept a collection of Adolf Hitler’s collected speeches in a cabinet by his bed

68. Said that “maybe” his employees should feel they have to return quickly from maternity leave or risk being replaced

69. Suggested the U.S. won’t come to NATO allies’ military aid

70. Proposed to compel Mexico to pay for a border wall

71. Praised Saddam Hussein for being good at killing terrorists

72. Called for the death penalty for the Central Park Five, five teenagers later exonerated of rape and assault

73. Threatened Amazon as payback for negative coverage in the Washington Post

74. Praised the U.K.’s vote to leave the EU because a falling pound would be good for his Scottish golf course

75. Suggested that Sen. Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy

76. Tweeted an image that originated on a white-supremacist account containing a star of David over a background of money

77. Read out Sen. Lindsey Graham’s personal phone number in a campaign speech

78. Quoted in a 1991 book as telling a colleague that “laziness is a trait in blacks”

79. Subjected his then-wife Ivana to what she described in a deposition as rape, although she later said she didn’t mean the word literally

80. Said that the U.S. military should withdraw from Japan and South Korea and allow those countries to defend themselves with nuclear weapons

81. Called for the construction of a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent immigration

82. Tweeted: “Our great African American President hasn’t exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore!”

83. Has been a plaintiff in at least 1,900 lawsuits and a defendant in 1,450 more

84. Suggested that Bill and Hillary Clinton conspired to murder aide Vince Foster

85. Believes the world would be “100 percent” better if Saddam Hussein and Muammar Qaddafi were still in power

86. Reportedly asked national security advisers why the U.S. can’t use nuclear weapons

87. Directed a female employee not to take lunch orders when visitors came to Trump Tower because he found her insufficiently attractive

88. Publicly shamed a Miss Universe winner for gaining weight

89. Told his security team to confiscate protesters’ coats and “throw them out into the cold”

90. Repeatedly claimed, falsely, to have opposed the Iraq war

91. Sold Trump University and Trump Institute courses that relied on plagiarized materials

92. Included the head of the white nationalist American Freedom Party on a list of California delegates

93. Compared his “sacrifices” as a businessman with those of parents whose son was killed in war

94. Earned millions from failing casinos by shifting the debt burden to investors

95. Filed for corporate bankruptcy four times

96. Claimed there’s “no real assimilation” of “second- and third-generation” families from the Middle East

97. Tried to set up an investment partnership with Muammar Qaddafi

98. Argued that the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub could have been prevented if patrons had been armed

99. Claimed, falsely, that President Obama “issued a statement for Kwanzaa but failed to issue one for Christmas”

100. Has insulted 239 candidates, journalists, organizations, countries, sitting politicians, and celebrities on Twitter

101. Wished for a housing-market crash

102. Took out advertisements alleging that the “Mohawk Indian record of criminal activity is well documented” to fight competition for his casino business

103. Used contributions to the Trump Foundation to buy a helmet and jersey signed by Tim Tebow for $12,000 at a charity auction

104. Said, “Refugees are trying to take over our children” by telling them “how wonderful Islam is”

105. Called the decision to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill “pure political correctness”

106. Called Rosie O’Donnell a “big, fat pig”

107. Greeted a Miss Universe contestant with a kiss on the lips, which she called “gross” and “inappropriate”

108. Said that Black Lives Matter activists are “looking for trouble”

109. Proposed a 35 percent tax on Mexican-made cars and trucks, in violation of NAFTA

110. Proposed to abolish gun-free zones

111. Defended then–campaign manager Corey Lewandowski after he physically grabbed a female reporter

112. Falsely claimed there have been calls for a moment of silence for Dallas shooter Micah Johnson

113. Falsely claimed that Ferguson, Missouri, and Oakland, California, were “among the most dangerous [places] in the world”

114. Claimed that “the birther movement was started by Hillary Clinton in 2008”

115. Pre-emptively questioned the legitimacy of the election

116. Proposed to have China assassinate Kim Jong-un

117. Attempted to court Jewish voters with anti-Semitic stereotypes about money, influence, and dealmaking

118. Threatened to “spill the beans” about an unspecified scandal concerning Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi

119. Attempted to seize and bulldoze the home of an Atlantic City, New Jersey, widow under eminent domain

120. Tweeted “The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!”

121. Said that Hillary Clinton “got schlonged” by Obama in 2008

122. Claimed a federal spending bill “funds ISIS”

123. Pretended to be his own publicist

124. Called Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine “so smart”

125. Proposed to appoint himself U.S. trade representative

126. Accused Hillary Clinton of “playing the woman card”

127. Believes that he would “get along very well” with Vladimir Putin


128. Repeatedly called a deaf actress “retarded” and sexually harassed her on the set of The Apprentice

129. According to Chris Christie, he would seek to purge Obama-era civil service hires

130. Included two anti-Sharia cranks on a list of five foreign-policy advisers

131. Said, “If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS … the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president”

132. Repeated a supporter who called Ted Cruz a pussy

133. Praised conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, telling him, “I will not let you down”

134. Said, “I think Islam hates us”

135. Tried to entice Ohio Gov. John Kasich to be his vice presidential candidate by saying he’d let him control domestic and foreign policy

136. Said he “can relate” to victims of racism because “even against me the system is rigged.”

137. Suggested that Gold Star mother and Muslim Ghazala Khan remained silent because she “wasn’t allowed to have anything to say”

138. Said he doesn’t “have the time” to read books

139. Joked about Second Amendment advocates shooting his opponent or her judicial appointees

140. Kept journalists in restrictive “press pens” on the campaign trail

141. Proposed to charge American allies for military defense

142. Referred to 9/11 as 7-Eleven

143. Said Mitt Romney would have “dropped to his knees” for an endorsement

144. Proposed a 45 percent tariff on Chinese exports

145. Praised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s brutal response to an attempted coup, giving “great credit to him for turning it around”

146. Likened the killing of a 21-year-old woman by a drunk-driving undocumented immigrant to ritualistic child sacrifice

147. Falsely claimed he “100 percent” owns “the largest winery on the East Coast”

148. Claimed he saw nonexistent footage of money airlifted from the U.S. to Iran

149. Told two 14-year-old girls, “Wow! Just think—in a couple of years, I'll be dating you.”

150. Said Khizr Khan “has no right to claim I have never read the Constitution”

151. Employed a butler who said President Obama should be “hung for treason”

152. Picked convention speakers who called for his general-election opponent to be imprisoned

153. Called sexual harassment allegations against Roger Ailes “totally unfounded”

154. Claimed that the U.S. is being “ripped off” by its fellow members of NATO

155. Questioned Hillary Clinton’s religion

156. Suggested a reporter who accused him of sexual assault wasn't attractive enough to assault

157. Launched at least 15 business ventures that went on to fail

158. Said women who are sexually harassed at work should “find another career”

159. Said Gold Star father Khizr Khan attacked him for being tough on terrorism

160. Called Obama and Clinton the founders of ISIS

161. Falsely accused Clinton of rigging the general election debate schedule

162. Praised an adviser who called for Clinton to be executed

163. His wife, Melania, plagiarized her convention speech from Michelle Obama, then campaign operatives lied about it

164. Questioned Ben Carson’s Seventh-day Adventism

165. Appeared not to know about Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea

166. Sued a former campaign aide for $10 million for breaching a confidentiality agreement

167. Characterized the theme of his administration as “America First”

168. Questioned Ted Cruz’s evangelical faith

169. Posted a tweet urging voters to “check out [a critic's] sex tape,” then denied it during a debate

170. Proposed to deport his opponent, an American citizen

171. Entrusted his health to a doctor who described his test results as “astonishingly excellent”

172. Asked advisers if he could get out of picking Mike Pence as his vice presidential candidate after he’d offered Pence the job

173. Falsely claimed his opponent was “seen laughing on two occasions” at a 12-year-old rape victim

174. Proposed to try U.S. citizens in Guantanamo Bay military tribunals

175. Urged supporters to patrol polling places to combat “election fraud”

176. Falsely claimed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency endorsed him

177. Hired the editor of white-nationalist website Breitbart as his campaign chief

178. Said he’s “starting to agree” that his opponent should be imprisoned

179. Falsely claimed the U.S. economy is experiencing its slowest growth since 1929

180. Responded to a murder with: “Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!”

181. Called on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails

182. Doesn’t allow contributors to cancel recurring donations on his website

183. Ejected a baby from a rally

184. Falsely claimed he won “every poll” after the second presidential debate

185. Told black voters, “You’re living in poverty; your schools are no good; you have no jobs”

186. Falsely claimed the Iran nuclear deal made Iran rich

187. Falsely claimed San Bernardino neighbors saw “bombs all over the floor” but failed to act due to political correctness

188. Falsely claimed Chicago police brass told him crime could be ended if they were allowed to be “much tougher”

189. Boasted of “employee childcare programs” that are really for hotel guests

190. Ran a modeling agency that hired models working illegally in the U.S.

191. Falsely claimed Bill Clinton “had to pay an $850,000 fine” to Paula Jones after she accused him of sexual assault

192. Said he wanted to hit Democratic National Convention speakers who criticized him

193. Threatened to pull the U.S. out of the World Trade Organization

194. Would consider recognizing Crimea as Russian territory and lifting sanctions on Russia

195. Falsely claimed his opponent wants to admit 620,000 Syrian refugees

196. Named the person who made up “death panels” to his economic team

197. Falsely claimed his opponent’s plan would provide Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants

198. Screwed over the USA Freedom Kids, a group of preteen girls who performed at Trump events

199. Employed campaign operatives who scrubbed language supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression from the GOP platform

200. Called his opponent “unhinged” and “unbalanced”

201. Threatened to fund a super PAC campaign against his defeated GOP primary rivals if they run again

202. Hired a former Christie staffer implicated in the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal

203. Confused Clinton’s running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, with Tom Kean, Republican governor of New Jersey in the 1980s

204. Said, “When you’re a star, [women] let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab them by the pussy.”

205. Said veterans who suffer from PTSD aren’t “strong” and “can’t handle it”

206. Repeatedly sexually assaulted women

207. Said not paying income taxes "makes me smart"

208. Promised to jail his opponent if elected

209. Referred to a Hispanic Miss Universe as "Miss Housekeeping" and "Miss Piggy"

210. Said "we’re going to have to see" about whether he would accept a victory for his opponent as legitimate

211. Continuted to insist the Central Park Five are guilty of murder, despite DNA evidence exonerating them

212. Repeatedly walked in on pageant contestants, including teenagers, while they were changing

213. Accepted $150,000 in 9/11 recovery funds to “repair” a building that wasn’t damaged in the attacks

214. Said of a 10-year-old girl, “I am going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it?”

215. Spent $258,000 from his charitable foundation to settle lawsuits related to his businesses

216. Called poor people “morons”

217. Mocked his opponent stumbling leaving a 9/11 memorial event after she was diagnosed with pneumonia

218. Spent $20,000 in contributions to the Trump Foundation on a 6-foot-tall painting of himself

219. Illegally contributed $25,000 to the PAC of a prosecutor who was considering legal action against Trump University

220. Illegally raised funds through his foundation without the proper license

221. Claimed government officials are letting illegal immigrants "pour into the country so they can go and vote”

222. Brought on alleged serial sexual harasser Roger Ailes as a campaign adviser

223. Vowed that Iranians who provoke U.S. sailors with “gestures” will be “shot out of the water”

224. Took credit for giving away other people’s money

225. Suggested his opponent cheated on her husband

226. Claimed the Commission on Presidential Debates “rigged” the debates

227. Claimed nearly $1 billion in business losses in a single year

228. Repeatedly cited false unemployment statistics

229. Claimed he “lost hundreds of friends” on 9/11

230. Said his opponent “could actually be crazy”

Correction, July 18, 2016: This post originally described the Central Park Five as “five black men.”
One of the five, Raymond Santana, is Latino, and all were between 14 and 16 at the time of the attack.

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