Trump's Talking Toupee
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TIMELINE
Every quote, every year, every bewildered toupee reaction
1987
Bragging:
"Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvases or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, prefer..."
2011
Preening:
"My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body."
2015
Bragging:
"I have the best words. I have the best, but there is no better word than stupid."
MAGA:
"We're going to build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall."
Campaign:
"I know more about ISIS than the generals do. Believe me."
Promises:
"Nobody reads the Bible more than me."
2016
Bragging:
"We're going to win so much, you're going to be so sick and tired of winning."
Bragging:
"I alone can fix it."
MAGA:
"We're going to make America great again. Big league, folks. Big league."
Scandal:
"When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."
Controversy:
"Nobody has more respect for women than I do. Nobody."
Bragging:
"My IQ is one of the highest — and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure; it's not your fault."
Campaign:
"Things are going very very well. Very solid. Very very solid."
Bragging:
"Tremendous. Tremendous things are happening, believe me."
MAGA:
"It's a beautiful crowd tonight. Very beautiful crowd."
Hyperbole:
"Everyone is saying it. Everyone. Believe me."
2017
Confused:
"Nobody knew health care could be so complicated."
Media:
"The FAKE NEWS media is the enemy of the American people."
Humor:
"Despite the constant negative press covfefe."
Presidency:
"We had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen."
Bragging:
"I have the best people. I only hire the best."
General:
"Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself."
Controversy:
"We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides."
Controversy:
"You had some very fine people on both sides."
Bragging:
"It looked like a million, million and a half people."
Bragging:
"This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period."
Presidency:
"Most people don't even know he was a Republican. Does anyone know? A lot of people don't know that."
Controversy:
"I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don't have a musical inst..."
2018
Bragging:
"I'm a very stable genius."
Bragging:
"I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius... and a very stable genius at that!"
MAGA:
"Trade wars are good, and easy to win."
Bragging:
"I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the best school, and I was a really good student."
General:
"He wrote me beautiful letters, and they're great letters. We fell in love."
Bragging:
"I have a great, great great great, I mean really great, really great military."
MAGA:
"Trade wars are good, and easy to win."
Scandal:
"No collusion. No collusion. No collusion. None."
2019
Humor:
"Great being with the Clemson Tigers last night at the White House. Because of the Shutdown I served them massive amounts..."
Bragging:
"My two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart."
Scandal:
"It was a perfect call. A perfect, perfect phone call."
Humor:
"I really like Big Macs and Quarter Pounders... All the fast food in America, it's great."
Media:
"The media is the enemy of the American people."
Bragging:
"I have a great and unmatched wisdom."
Humor:
"I've never cried. I don't know why."
2020
Controversy:
"Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV."
Covid:
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute... is there a way we can do something like that by in..."
Covid:
"I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters just like you, just to see what would happen."
Presidency:
"I'm a tough cookie."
Bragging:
"I have good genes. All I know is I have good genes... It's all in the family."
Covid:
"I cannot imagine why."
Covid:
"I'm taking hydroxychloroquine. A couple of weeks ago, I started taking it."
Bragging:
"I feel like a movie star when you can't have an entourage around you."
Covid:
"We're fighting the invisible enemy."
General:
"I'm a great patriot."
Covid:
"It's the China virus. It's not racist at all."
MAGA:
"Build back bigger. Build back bolder. Build back badder."
Controversy:
"A lot of people don't like me, very unfortunately."
Bragging:
"I have a much bigger brain than he has."
2023
Bragging:
"I have one of the greatest memories of all time."
Preening:
"My father was from Germany. He had great genes. I have great genes."
2024
MAGA:
"Tariff is the most beautiful word in the dictionary."