The Boston Globe’s Michael Cohen gathered some of the minor and major Trump atrocities of the past four years in a twitter thread. I can’t even imagine what he’ll do if he pulls off a win.
I’ve been working on a piece charting the worst indiscretions of Trump’s presidency and I’d completely forgotten about the speech he gave to the Boy Scouts Jamboree in which he talked about a friend who had orgies on a boat
Or the time he pushed the Prime Minister of Montenegro out of his way for a photo op
Or that time he cancelled a summit with the Danish prime minister because she wouldn’t sell him Greenland
Remember when Sean Spicer referred to concentration camps as “Holocaust centers” leading to this reaction from @AshleyRParker and the defining gif of the Trump years
And I had completely forgotten that Trump wanted to build a moat around the US-Mexico border wall and fill it with snakes and alligators
One of my favorite Trump outrages – the time he attacked Nordstrom’s on Twitter because they said they would no longer carry Ivanka Trump’s fashion brand
Somehow I had forgotten this …
Sharpiegate!
Then there was the time he gave a smiling thumbs up with a baby whose parents had been orphaned in the El Paso mass shooting
And who can forget the time he threw paper towels at hurricane survivors in Puerto Rico
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV (it even has its own Wikipedia page!)
The Mike Pence Water Bottle Video!
This was 19 days ago!
On Halloween he complimented children for not having a weight problem!
Ok, here’s one – how many of you remembered that he commuted Rod Blagojevich’s prison sentence? It happened this year!
I know that @Scaramucci has become a punch line but it’s hard to do justice to how bats**t this interview with @RyanLizza was … and how insane it seemed at the time
How about that time he referred to @SenWarren as Pocahontas at a White House event HONORING NATIVE AMERICANS
Covfefe … how did we forget covfefe!
HE MOCKED A CHILD FOR BELIEVING IN SANTA CLAUS!
On his first full day in office he went to the CIA, stood before a wall memorializing the 117 CIA agents who have died in the line of duty “and boasted of his appearances on magazine covers and exaggerated about the size of the crowd at his inauguration.”
I’ve got more! Like the time Trump didn’t know that Frederick Douglass is no longer alive
He bragged about recognizing an elephant!
I had forgotten that he offered well wishes to an accused sexual predator – twice!
He publicly mocked Christine Blasey Ford at a campaign rally
His press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said every woman who accused Trump of sexual assault was a liar
h/t yo @jacklerner but this one is unforgettable
A personal favorite: the time he had the Clemson Tigers to the White House & served them fast food
Originally tweeted by Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) on October 23, 2020.