FEBRUARY

BARELY a month into his presidency Trump faced his first major scandal.

Gen Mike Flynn was forced to resign as National Security Officer for holding secret conversations with the Russian ambassador on lifting US sanctions against the Kremlin.

Trump reportedly told FBI director James Comey to close down the investigation into

Flynn and allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. More than TRUMP claimed the Obama administration had wiretapped Trump Tower – prompting the former president to break his silence to issue a categorical denial.

In between attacking various news outlets for “fake news”, Trump also began the process of repealing Obamacare and found time for a Twitter spat with Arnold 1.8 million people signed a petition opposing Trump’s state visit to Britain. Lies of the month: Feb 18 Tweet about “incident” in Sweden: “You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?”

There was no terror attack in Sweden.

“Obamacare covers very few people.” Obamacare, in fact, covers more than 20 million Americans. Kremlin collusion. Trump later sent his famous “covfefe” tweet which had everyone reaching for dictionaries. He probably meant “coverage”...probably. Lie of the month: “We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world.” Denmark has the biggest tax burden.