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The GOP nominee has defied presidential campaign precedent, turning blunders into a shot at the White House.
By MICHAEL KRUSE and TAYLOR GEE
September 25, 2016
The beginning of the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump included statements that would have ended the campaign of any other politician. Has an announcement speech ever looked so much like a flashily produced political suicide? Did he really just call a key part of the electorate criminals and rapists?
Ever since his blunt, racially divisive debut in Trump Tower in June 2015, Trump has proven that gaffes do not singe his hide like they do the fragile and fretful politicians who tiptoe through the typical campaign for public office. Time and again, Trump poured gasoline on himself and lit a match. Time and again, pundits predicted fatal self-immolation. Instead, Trump often rode the ensuing firestorm like an Atlas rocket. His poll numbers actually went up after he insulted John McCain’s war record. What mainstream politician has ever said something like that, much less received a boost out of it? The only thing more stunning than Trump’s dismantling of campaign norms has been how consistently he has flirted with disaster.
He has insulted brown people, black people, Muslim people, Jewish people. He has insulted women. He has insulted the grieving parents of a dead soldier. He has mocked a disabled person and expressed admiration for dictators. He has ham-handedly pandered to a politically critical portion of the population by posting to social media a picture of gringo Tex-Mex captioning it, “I love hispanics!” He has suggested he could shoot somebody and not lose votes. He has openly talked about the possibility of the assassination of his opponent. Twice. And these are just the insults, not the demonstrable falsehoods.
It helped him dispatch 16 challengers in the extended primaries of a party of which he has been an off-and-on member, and it has taken him to Monday night, to the first of three debates against Hillary Clinton—his best chance yet to get an edge in the race to become the 45th president of the United States. Amid the pre-debate speculation that he could say something at the debate that would cost him the election, it’s difficult to imagine what he could say that would do what so many other statements of his were unable to and end his campaign.
Here are 37 of his gaffes that could have been fatal—but somehow weren’t.
2. “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” July 17, 2015 .. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317 , Family Leadership Summit in Iowa. Trump was referring to Senator John McCain, a former Navy pilot who was tortured during his five-and-a-half years as a POW during the Vietnam war.
4. “Well I really watch the shows. You really see a lot of great, you know, when you watch your show and all of the other shows, and you have the generals and you have certain people that you like.” August 16, 2015 .. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/donald-trump-foreign-policy-gaffes-2016-213345 , interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” trying to name his foreign policy advisors.
7. “@mygreenhippo #BenCarson is now leading in the #polls in #Iowa. Too much #Monsanto in the #corn creates issues in the brain? #Trump #GOP.” October 22, 2015, retweet by @realDonaldTrump.
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8. “I want to know who are the soldiers carrying suitcases with $50 million? How stupid are we? I wouldn’t be surprised if those soldiers, if the cash didn’t get there.” October 1, 2015 .. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-us-troop-stole-millions-and-millions-in-iraq-224352 , speech in Keene, New Hampshire, suggesting U.S. soldiers embezzled cash intended for disbursement to officials in Iraq and Afghanistan.
9. “Now the poor guy, you ought to see this guy. ‘Ah, I don’t know what I said! I don’t remember!’” November 24, 2015 .. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34930042 , physically mocks New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has a congenital condition called arthrogryposis that affects his joints.
10. “I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.” December 15, 2015 .. http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/12/gaffe-track-trumps-triad-travesty/420924/ , answering a debate question about his priority in the “nuclear triad,” the three ways (air, land and sea) that nuclear missiles can be launched.
11. “The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don’t kid yourself. When they say they don’t care about their lives, you have to take out their families,” December 2, 2015 .. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/trump-kill-isil-families-216343 , interview on “Fox & Friends.”
12 a. “Is there anyone in this room who doesn’t renegotiate deals? Probably 99 percent of you. Probably more than any room I've ever spoken in.” 12 b. “I’m a negotiator like you folks were negotiators.” 12 c. “You’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money,” December 3, 2015 .. http://www.npr.org/2015/12/03/458329895/trump-to-jewish-republicans-im-a-negotiator-like-you-folks , speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition.
16. “If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President because this would not have happened. … For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful. I am proud to be a Christian and as President I will not allow Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened, unlike what is happening now, with our current President. No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man’s religion or faith.” February 18, 2016 .. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-response-to-the-pope . Press release from the Trump campaign.
17. “Well, just so you understand, I don't know anything about David Duke, okay? I don't know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So, I don't know.” February 28, 2016 .. http://www.wsj.com/articles/rubio-cruz-turn-up-heat-on-trump-as-super-tuesday-looms-1456707632 .. on CNN, asked if he’ll disavow the endorsement of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
22. “His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald’s being — you know, shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. What is this, right prior to his being shot, and nobody even brings it up. They don’t even talk about that. That was reported, and nobody talks about it. I mean, what was he doing — what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death? Before the shooting? It’s horrible.” May 3, 2016 .. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/donald-trump-ted-cruz-convention.html?referer=https://t.co/14AQIadOtN , interview with Fox News, repeating unsubstantiated allegations that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
25. “The judge was appointed by Barack Obama, federal judge. Frankly, he should recuse himself because he’s given us ruling after ruling after ruling, negative, negative, negative. What happens is the judge, who happens to be, we believe, Mexican, which is great. I think that’s fine.” May 27, 2016 .. http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/05/gaffe-track-trumps-attack-on-a-mexican-judge/484877/ , rally in San Diego, in which he criticizes Indiana-born Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who, on the basis of his Mexican ancestry, Trump alleges cannot judge fairly in a lawsuit related to Trump University.
29. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let's see if that happens." July 27, 2016 .. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-putin-no-relationship-226282 , at news conference in Doral, Florida, encouraging Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
30. “If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably—maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say.” July 30, 2016 .. http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/07/gaffe-track-the-victim-or-the-crimea/493757/ , interview with ABC News, referring to Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazala, parents of a Muslim U.S. soldier killed in Iraq. At the Democratic National Convention, Khizr Khan criticized Trump for his anti-constitutional ban on Muslims.
32. “He’s not going into Ukraine, OK? Just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, alright? You can mark it down and you can put it down, you can take it anywhere you want.” July 30, 2016 .. http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/07/gaffe-track-the-victim-or-the-crimea/493757/ , interview on ABC, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose 2014 annexation of Crimea proved that he was already in Ukraine.
33. “I would like to think she would find another career or find another company if that was the case. I don’t think she would allow herself to be subjected to that.” August 1, 2016 .. http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/08/gaffe-track-trump-shrugs-at-sexual-harassment/494024/ , interview in USA Today, discussing how he would expect his daughter Ivanka to handle sexual harassment in the workplace.
34. “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.” August 2, 2016 .. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-purple-heart-226565 , at a rally in Ashburn, Virginia where a supporter presented him with a copy of a medal the veteran had been awarded in Iraq. The Purple Heart is awarded to members of U.S. military who are injured or killed while serving.
35. “If [Hillary Clinton] gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.” August 9, 2016 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcxkkrNSv-4&feature=youtu.be , at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina. Many read his remark as a suggestion that opponents of Clinton should take up arms against her if she’s elected president.
37. “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?" August 19, 2016 .. http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/19/politics/donald-trump-african-american-voters/ , at a rally in Dimondale, Michigan, explaining why African Americans should vote for him.
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