From the invention of “covfefe” (does anybody know what that’s but?), to the declare that you just “cannot be too grasping” (and do not we all know it), there’s really no scarcity of comedy gold that leaves the president’s mouth.
So, naturally, we have rounded up the 29 stupidest issues Donald Trump has ever stated… subjectively, in fact.
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In Trump’s first joint handle since taking workplace in January, he praised his personal stance on DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) initiatives, tax cuts and commerce tariffs. However, viewers had been fast to level out the second that noticed the president declare that the Biden administration had spent $8 million {dollars} to make “mice transgender”.
The remark drew laughs from these within the viewers, in addition to on-line, as individuals believed Trump gave the impression to be complicated it with “transgenic mice”.
Making mice transgenic is a revolutionary course of by which scientists add human cells to mice to allow them to extra precisely research the impact of illness on human tissues.
In his first main blunder since changing into president for the second time, Trump claimed that Spain is a ‘BRICS’ nation throughout a press convention, the place he was requested about defence spending within the nation.
He claimed: “They’re a BRICS nation, Spain. Are you aware what a BRICS nation is? You’ll determine it out.”
BRICS refers to a bloc of 10 creating economies, together with Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, of which no EU member nation is a component.
Following the tragic aircraft crash between a helicopter and an American Airways flight in Washington DC in January 2025, Trump took the chance responsible variety and inclusion.
“I modified the Obama requirements from very mediocre at finest to extraordinary, you keep in mind that solely the very best aptitude they should be the very best mind and psychologically superior individuals had been allowed to qualify for air visitors controllers”, he stated.
“Then once I left workplace and Biden took over, he modified them again to decrease than ever earlier than. I put security first.
“The initiative is a part of the FAA’s (Federal Aviation Administration) ‘variety and inclusion hiring plan’, which says variety is ‘integral to attaining the FAA’s mission of making certain secure and environment friendly journey’. I do not assume so. I do not assume so. I feel it is simply the alternative.”
The feedback had been met with backlash.
When Trump vowed to introduce mass deportations ought to he change into president, he was quizzed on the destiny of British royal Prince Harry. Nevertheless, it appears like Harry’s all good for now, as Trump says he’d let him keep as a result of he has “sufficient issues” together with his spouse, Meghan.
“I’ll go away him alone. He’s received sufficient issues together with his spouse – she’s horrible”, he quipped.
It’s no secret that Trump thinks quite a lot of himself, however when he referred to himself because the “king”, individuals weren’t so keen to go together with it.
“CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!”, he wrote on Reality Social, referencing the scrapping of latest tolls within the metropolis’s mass transit system.
New York governor Kathy Hochul, merely responded: “We’re a nation of legal guidelines, not dominated by a king. We’ll see you in court docket.”
The US is concerned in an ongoing dispute over Greenland as Trump desires the land to be America’s, even claiming that Denmark doesn’t have the “proper” to the nation – besides he missed one main reality.
Greenland is a self-governing, autonomous nation inside the Kingdom of Denmark and has been a part of Denmark for 600 years regardless of being 1,815 miles away (for context, the space between Greenland and the US is 3,134 miles).
Greenland’s outgoing Prime Minister, Mute Egede, fired again at Trump’s feedback in a Fb publish the place he wrote: “The U.S. president has as soon as once more aired the considered annexing us.”
“Sufficient is sufficient,” he added and shared his plans to organise a gathering of the chairmen of all Greenland’s political events “as quickly as doable” to debate Trump’s newest remarks. Yikes.
- Claims egg prices have dropped 30 per cent in a week – they went up 28 per cent since he took office
Donald Trump bending the reality? There’s simply no approach. Besides, he did simply declare US egg costs went down 30 per cent in a single week alone, after they’ve really gone up fairly considerably.
“I do not know should you noticed. Little issues corresponding to the price of eggs – little to you, however huge to the individuals on the market. Down virtually 30 per cent, within the final, eh, few days”, he stated throughout a press convention on 12 March.
Even Serena Williams‘ former coach Rennae Stubbs chimed in on the motion, writing: “This dude lies as a lot as he attracts breath.”
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Everybody remembers that notorious White Home assembly between Donald Trump and President Zelensky after they sought to discover a peace answer between Ukraine and Russia – however it could appear issues had been by no means going to finish properly proper off the bat.
Forward of a gathering within the Oval Workplace with JD Vance and Zelensky, Trump greeted the Ukrainian president with a remark, saying: “Oh look, you’re all dressed up.”
Zelensky was seen wearing a black, long-sleeved polo shirt that includes the Ukrainian trident, which Vance would later go on to criticise, as he’d chosen to not put on a swimsuit. The Ukrainian has not worn a swimsuit since Russia’s invasion started, and as an alternative opted for a uniform likened to his troopers.
Trade tariffs proceed to be a scorching subject for US president Donald Trump, however when he tried to play the blame sport it in the end backfired, after social media customers identified an essential reality regarding the scenario.
Throughout a White Home press convention alongside French president Emmanuel Macron on Monday (February 24), Trump was requested about commerce between the US and neighbouring international locations Mexico and Canada.
“I imply who can blame in the event that they made these nice offers with the USA, took benefit of the USA on manufacturing, on nearly the whole lot – each facet that you might think about they took benefit of,” he stated.
“I have a look at a few of these agreements and I say who would ever signal a factor like this. The tariffs will go ahead, sure. We’ll make up quite a lot of territory. Our nation shall be liquid and wealthy once more.”
It was Trump who signed “these issues”.
When he made it again into workplace for a second time, Trump was already setting his sights on a 3rd time period within the White Home – besides, that’s not allowed.
On February 20, Trump delivered a speech at a Black Historical past Month occasion on the White Home the place he boasted about receiving “extra votes from Black Individuals than any Republican president ever.”
“I received’t be blissful the following time,” he continued, including: “Ought to I run once more? You inform me.”
Nevertheless, regardless of Trump’s hints, the twenty second Modification states that it is not doable.
“No particular person shall be elected to the workplace of the President greater than twice, and no one who has held the workplace of President, or acted as President, for greater than two years of a time period to which another particular person was elected President shall be elected to the workplace of the President greater than as soon as,” it reads according to the Nationwide Structure Heart.
Nevertheless, he is since backtracked (as of Could 2025) and says he is “not trying” at working once more.
Whereas we’re typically torn on whether or not we love the planet or having the ability to drink a Weight-reduction plan Coke in peace extra, Trump has made his emotions concerning the plastic straw ban clear – and vowed to reverse it.
“This stuff do not work, I’ve had them many instances, and once in a while, they break, they explode. If one thing’s scorching, they do not final very lengthy, like a matter of minutes, generally a matter of seconds. It is a ridiculous scenario,” he stated, talking about paper straws, earlier than instantly signing an government order to deliver the trusty plastic ones again.
Trump would not appear too involved about plastic straws polluting the planet and thinks “it’s OK” to maintain utilizing them.
The president added: “I don’t assume that plastic goes to have an effect on the shark very a lot as they’re … munching their approach by means of the ocean”.
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Trump hates quite a lot of these issues, and who knew a kind of issues can be windmills? The 78-year-old described the wind farms as “rubbish” and stated that when in workplace, his administration plans to implement insurance policies to cease constructing them.
“They’re harmful,” Trump stated on the matter. “You see what’s occurring up within the Massachusetts space with the whales … The windmills are driving the whales loopy, clearly.”
This can be a subject Trump has been vocal about throughout his presidential election campaign as he pledged the variety of wind farms can be slashed if reelected.
Donald Trump is notorious for saying fully outrageous remarks, making doubtful selections and simply usually issues that make you go: “Eh?”
And he is achieved it once more, this time about American citizenship.
Trump lately spoke with NBC News about his purpose to finish birthright citizenship and stated Americans with household within the nation illegally could also be deported.
“Do you know, if someone units a foot – only a foot, one foot, you do not want two – on our land, congratulations, you at the moment are a citizen of the USA of America”, he stated.
“Sure, we will finish that as a result of it is ridiculous. We’re the one nation that has it, you realize. You already know we’re the one nation that has it.”
Trump right here is seemingly describing an outrageous situation the place a girl would give delivery to an toddler that might have one foot in America and one other out of the country like Mexico and Canada.
At a time the place gender-based violence is rife, it’s really slightly stunning that Donald Trump as soon as publicly fantasised about Liz Cheney being shot.
Trump branded Ms Cheney – the daughter of Dick Cheney, the previous Republican vp, who has come out in support of Trump’s rival Kamala Harris – a “very dumb particular person” and a “radical struggle hawk”.
“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels taking pictures at her, let’s see how she feels about it. You already know, when the weapons are skilled on her face,” he stated. Yikes.
Trump’s signature slogan ‘Make America Nice Once more’ didn’t come from nowhere – and it is sensible on condition that he made his emotions concerning the state of the US underneath Joe Biden clear.
Talking in Tempe whereas on his marketing campaign path, Trump stated: “We’re like a rubbish can, you realize, it’s the primary time I’ve ever stated that, and each time I come up and speak about what they’ve achieved to our nation, I get indignant. First time I’ve ever stated rubbish can, however you realize what, it’s a really correct description.”
Earlier than being re-elected as president, it was clear Trump was keen to do something to safe his second time period – even when that meant making his emotions concerning the present administration on the time clear and unfiltered.
In the identical rally speech which noticed him ramble about the penis size of late US golfer Arnold Palmer, the previous Apprentice star took purpose at then-vice president Kamala Harris utilizing slightly vibrant language.
He instructed his supporters: “We’ve got to inform Kamala Harris that you just’ve had sufficient, that you just simply can’t take it anymore. We will’t stand you, you’re a s*** vp. The worst.”
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By October 2024, Trump had achieved various rallies on his marketing campaign path, and admittedly, should have been clutching at straws to win over voters.
Donald Trump used his speech at his Michigan rally on 18 October to go after an imaginary girl named ‘Jill’ and inform her “fats husband” to get “off the sofa” and “vote for Trump” – sure, actually.
“Early voting is underway so get everybody you realize and get out and vote. Go tomorrow, it’s simply beginning, go and vote, be sure to vote, and produce all our mates that need to vote for us, inform them: ‘Jill, get your fats husband off the sofa. Get that fats pig off the sofa”, he instructed the gang.
“’Time to go and vote for Trump, he’s going to save lots of our nation’ … Get him up, Jill. Slap him round, get him up!”
Donald Trump labelled himself the “father of IVF” in a clumsy second in entrance of an all-female viewers of voters, as he tried to win them over within the 2024 election.
It comes as many concern rights to IVF might change into threatened underneath a Republican, Trump-led authorities.
It occurred throughout a Fox Information city corridor in the important thing election battleground of Georgia, when the difficulty of reproductive rights and IVF (In vitro fertilization) got here up, and he scrambled for a solution.
Vice-President Kamala Harris, who was additionally working for president, known as the remark “fairly weird”.
Donald Trump made a joke at a personal fundraiser referencing the widow of Corey Comperatore, the supporter who was killed throughout the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania in July, in line with a report.
The Guardian reported it obtained a 12 minute recording from a dinner held in Aspen, Colorado on August 10 during which he was heard swearing, claiming a bunch of “murderers” got here to America after being launched from jail out of the country and making a joke on the expense of Comperatore’s household.
Trump reportedly stated: “So they are going to get hundreds of thousands of {dollars} however the girl, the spouse, this lovely girl, I handed her the cheque – we handed her the cheque – and she or he stated, ‘that is so good, and I respect it, however I would a lot slightly have my husband’.
“Now, I do know a few of the ladies on this room would not say the identical.
“I do know no less than 4 {couples}. There are 4 {couples}, Governor [Abbott], that I do know and you are not certainly one of them. At the very least 4 {couples} right here would have been thrilled, really.”
Throughout the election marketing campaign, Trump stated giving police “one actually violent day” to sort out crime corresponding to theft from shops would assist to cease individuals stealing in what’s been described as “one of the harmful speeches of the twenty first Century”.
Trump spoke at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania on September 29, claiming crime charges are skyrocketing (one thing the far proper constantly falsely claims to trigger concern) and it is primarily the fault of migrants.
He went on to say this could possibly be handled in a approach much like the dystopian motion horror movie collection The Purge the place all crime, even homicide, is authorized for a 12-hour interval. Not a sensible selection, should you ask us.
21. Trump wants to rename AI – and his suggestion makes no sense
Donald Trump would not like artificial intelligence… properly, the identify no less than, as he bizarrely requested for AI to be known as one thing else.
(As a result of renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America” for federal companies wasn’t sufficient.)
The US president was in attendance at a synthetic intelligence summit on 24 July when he determined to make this linguistic question throughout a speech.
“Across the globe everyone seems to be speaking about synthetic intelligence. I discover that too synthetic, I can’t stand it. I don’t even just like the identify,” Trump stated, tossing his palms up within the air.
“It’s not synthetic. It’s genius. It’s pure genius,” he stated of the creating know-how.
We’re unsure that one will catch on.
22. Donald Trump expects one other ‘thanks’ for doing the fitting factor
Following a bust-up over Ukraine, it appears Trump expects one other ‘thanks’ for serving to a warzone – this time regarding the ongoing devastation in Gaza.
Talking in Scotland on Sunday, with European Fee president Ursula von der Leyen sitting subsequent to him, the US president instructed reporters: “We gave $60 million, two weeks in the past – and no person even acknowledged it – for meals.
“It’s horrible. You already know, you actually no less than need to have someone to say ‘thanks’ … No person acknowledged it, no person talks about it, and it makes you’re feeling a bit of unhealthy whenever you do this.
“No person gave however us, and no person stated, ‘gee, thanks very a lot’, and it could be good to have no less than a thanks.”
How very charitable.
23. Trump claims he’s the only president ever to have donated his salary
Donald Trump has made a wild declare about his presidential wage, however everyone seems to be saying the identical factor.
The US president has made many wild claims all through his presidency, from outlandish claims about drug prices to the suggestion he’s “shook more hands than any human is able to”.
In his most up-to-date brag on Reality Social, Trump steered he’s “the one President” to have donated his wage – $400,000 yearly.
Whereas his declare of being the one president to take action is fake (a number of of his predecessors together with John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover donated their presidential salaries), many have additionally highlighted how he has spent eye-watering sums of public money on playing golf, and likewise made billions whereas in workplace.
In accordance with the monitoring web site Did Trump Golf Today?, 24.5 per cent of Trump’s presidency has been spent {golfing}.
24. This bizarre rant about grass
25. Not understanding how prices work
Donald Trump’s maths is coming underneath scrutiny as soon as once more following his newest declare about slicing drug costs – and the decision is it nonetheless would not add up…
The president was requested what recommendation he has for Republicans on Capitol Hill heading into the midterms, and that is when Trump introduced up the weird declare concerning the “super drop in drug costs”.
“You already know, we’ve minimize drug costs by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500 per cent,” he stated.
This clip started making the rounds on social media, the place Trump’s stats had been swiftly criticised as they schooled the commander-in-chief that his calculations would imply Individuals can be paid to obtain their treatment.
26. Trump claims European leaders gave him new nickname
Whether or not its boastful claims about his alleged successes or wild figures conjured up to make him look good, Trump is not any stranger to being his personal cheerleader.
However, maybe certainly one of his most weird claims but got here when he claimed to reporters within the Oval Workplace on Monday (25 August) that European leaders have nicknamed him “the president of Europe”.
“They [EU leaders] jokingly name me the president of Europe,” Trump claimed.
“They name me the president of Europe. Which is an honour. I like Europe. And I like these individuals. They’re good individuals. They’re nice leaders.”
By some means, nobody fairly believes him.
27. Trump denies Epstein birthday e-book letter is his
President Donald Trump has denied signing a be aware included in a 2003 birthday album compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell for Jeffrey Epstein.
The album was launched by Democrats on the Home Oversight Committee after they subpoenaed paperwork from Epstein’s property late final month.
As he arrived for dinner in Washington, D.C., Trump dismissed the declare as “nonsense,” stating, “It’s not my signature,” and, “That’s not the way in which I converse.”
He added, “Anyone that is coated me for a very long time is aware of that is not my language.”
28. Trump responds ‘who?’ when asked about assassinated Democrat
Donald Trump has sparked large backlash for his response to a reporter who requested a query about murdered Democrat lawmaker Melissa Hortman.
In June, Hortman, the speaker of the Minnesota Home of Representatives, and her husband and canine, had been assassinated by a person impersonating a police officer. The suspect, Vance Luther Boelter, additionally shot one other Democratic lawmaker and his spouse the identical evening.
The reporter requested: “Looking back, given all the shifting ways in which this White Home has paid tribute to Charlie Kirk, do you assume it could have been becoming to decrease the flags to half-staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota Home Speaker, was gunned down by an murderer as properly?”
Shockingly, Trump responded: “Uh, I’m not acquainted. The who?”
29. Donald Trump claims Jimmy Kimmel suspension was due to bad ratings
Donald Trump was requested to touch upon the current suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, and jumped on the alternative to throw shade on the late evening speak present host, whereas in a press convention within the UK with Keir Starmer.
The President claimed, “Properly Jimmy Kimmel was fired as a result of he had unhealthy scores greater than anything.”
Trump went on to say Kimmel’s feedback on the demise of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk earlier than saying it was a matter of Kimmel’s “expertise” that price him his present.
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