YES, HE REALLY DID SAY THAT! THE MAN IN HIS OWN WORDS

Some of the most egregious statements Donald Trump has made in the past few years…

ON POWER AND POLICY

‘I will build a great wall – and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me – and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I’ll build a great, great wall on our southern border and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.’ ‘ When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.’ ‘Donald J Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.’ ‘The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing noncompetitive.’ (2012 Tweet) ‘It’s freezing and snowing in New York – we need global warming!’ (2012 Tweet) ‘This very expensive global warming bull**** has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps, and our scientists are stuck in ice.’ (2014 Tweet) ‘We have a disaster called the big lie: Obamacare ... And it’s going to get worse, because remember, Obamacare really kicks in in 2016. Obama is going to be out playing golf.’ ‘If we have nuclear weapons, why can’t we use them?’ Trump allegedly asked this of a foreign policy expert. He denies saying it. ‘I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.’ ‘He [Putin] is running his country and at least he’s a leader, unlike what we have in this country.’

ON HIMSELF

‘The beauty of me is that I’m very rich.’ ‘The point is, you can never be too greedy.’ On the suggestion that he pays no federal income tax: ‘That makes me smart’

ON HIS RIVALS

‘If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband, what

makes her think she can satisfy America?’ (deleted Tweet, 2015) On Senator John McCain being tortured while a prisoner in the Vietnam War: ‘He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.’ ‘I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I’m more honest and my women are more beautiful.’ ‘An extremely credible source has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud’

ON WOMEN

‘Nobody respects women more than me’, before adding of Hillary Clinton three minutes later: ‘Such a nasty woman’. ‘You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful – I just start kissing them. When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the p***y. You can do anything.’ ‘I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.’ ‘You know who’s one of the great beauties of the world, according to everybody? And I helped create her. Ivanka. My daughter, Ivanka. She’s six feet tall, she’s got the best body. She made a lot of money as a model — a tremendous amount.’ ‘You know, it really doesn’t matter what they write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.’ ‘All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.’ ‘Arianna Huffington is unattractive, both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man – he made a good decision.’ On Megyn Kelly, a Fox News moderator in the first Republican debate: ‘You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.’ To a lawyer in a 2011 court case when she asked for a medical break to pump breast milk for her three-month-old daughter: ‘You’re disgusting, you’re disgusting.’