Unpresidential Behavior
Timeline
| 2017.06.27 | A Time magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It’s fake news. washingtonpost.com (See also Administration Errors, Attempts to Discredit Media) |
| 2017.06.28 | In a nonsensical tweet, Donald Trump attacked The Washington Post and Amazon, complaining that the “fake news” newspaper was protecting the online retailer from something called "internet taxes" with its coverage. politico.com (See also Attempts to Discredit Media) |
| 2017.06.29 | Donald Trump lashed out at the hosts of MSNBC's “Morning Joe” in two vicious tweets, calling Mika Brzezinski “low I.Q. Crazy” and claiming that she had a facelift late last year. washingtonpost.com (See also Attempts to Discredit Media, Misogyny, Women) |
| 2017.06.29 | Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, "The president in no way, form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. If anything, quite the contrary." washingtonpost.com (See also Misogyny) She's laughably wrong, and lying. |
| 2017.07.02 | Trump tweeted a modified video of a wrestling match between himself and his media rival CNN. thehill.com (See also Attempts to Discredit Media, Unprecedented Actions) |
| 2017.07.18 | Trump has repeatedly told aides and advisers that he wants to end the subsidy payments supporting the Affordable Care Act, which would cause millions of vulnerable Americans to lose access to health coverage. politico.com (See also Affordable Care Act) |
| 2017.07.25 | Standing before 40,000 Boy Scouts, Trump bragged about the “record” crowd size, bashed President Barack Obama, criticized the “fake media," trashed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and threatened to fire his health and human services secretary if he couldn’t persuade members of Congress to vote for the Republican health-care bill. washingtonpost.com (See also Department of Health and Human Services, Tom Price) |
| 2017.07.25 | Trump falsely claimed that the crowd size at his Boy Scout Jamboree speech was "record-setting." buzzfeed.com (See also Narcissism, False Statements) The largest jamboree on record was in 1960, the Boy Scouts of America told BuzzFeed News. |
| 2017.07.25 | Trump launched another public assault on his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions, questioning why the Justice Department chief has not done more to investigate alleged “crimes” by Hillary Clinton. washingtonpost.com (See also Jeff Sessions, Department of Justice) |
| 2017.07.26 | In response to Senator Murkowski voting against the ACA repeal, Trump and his administration responded by tweeting at her and a phone call from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke letting them know the vote had put Alaska's future with the administration in jeopardy. adn.com (See also Health Care, Affordable Care Act, Department of the Interior, Ryan Zinke) |
| 2017.07.27 | The White House has changed the transcript of Anthony Scaramucci's first press conference to say that Trump sinks "30-foot putts" instead of the "three foot putts" that he claimed at the time. dailydot.com (See also Attempts to Discredit Media, Administration Errors) |
| 2017.07.27 | There will be “no modifications” to the military’s transgender policy as a result of Trump’s declared ban on transgender men and women, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs said in a message to top military officers. politico.com (See also LGBTQIA) |
| 2017.07.27 | With a set of explicit tirades, the new White House communications director attacked Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon, and threatened to fire the entire communications staff. newyorker.com (See also Trump Cabinet, Attempts to Discredit Media) |
| 2017.07.29 | Trump on Saturday threatened to end key payments to insurance companies made under ObamaCare if a repeal-and-replace bill is not passed. thehill.com (See also Affordable Care Act) |
| 2017.08.01 | A lawsuit filed by a man named Rod Wheeler makes a remarkable claim: The Trump White House — or Trump personally — may have been aware of or involved in a discredited Fox News story about the killing of a Democratic National Committee staffer last July. washingtonpost.com (See also Attempts to Discredit Media) The suit claims that a wealthy Trump supporter asserted that the president reviewed a later-debunked Fox News story. |
| 2017.08.02 | Trump has told members of his New Jersey golf club that he spends so much time away from Washington because the White House is a "real dump." bloomberg.com |
| 2017.08.02 | Trump is apparently lying about two phone calls during which he claims officials called him to offer him praise - one from the President of Mexico about immigration, and another from the Boy Scouts. thinkprogress.org (See also Assaults on Facts, False Statements, Mexico, Immigration) |
| 2017.08.03 | The Washington Post on Thursday published transcripts of Trump’s January phone calls with the leaders of Mexico and Australia — and they include plenty of bizarre, surreal, and stunning moments. buzzfeed.com (See also Foreign Policy, Mexico Wall, Mexico, False Statements) |
| 2017.08.03 | Trump blamed Congress for the United States’ poor relationship with Russia, a day after he signed sanctions legislation that he said was flawed and unconstitutional. nytimes.com (See also Russia, Assaults on Government, Iran, North Korea, Russian Meddling in Election) |
| 2017.08.04 | Trump has let almost six months pass without holding a solo press conference, despite other presidents addressing the press before they leave for vacations. money.cnn.com (See also Attempts to Discredit Media) |
| 2017.08.07 | After Senator Richard Blumenthal voiced support on television for continuing the investigation into Russian meddling in last year's election, and expressed concern about the Justice Department’s increased focus on rooting out administration officials who leak information damaging to Trump, the President tweeted that the Senator was "a phony Vietnam con artist," and that "he cried like a baby." washingtonpost.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Fascism) |
| 2017.08.08 | Trump gets a folder full of positive news about himself twice a day. news.vice.com (See also Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer) The only feedback the White House communications shop has ever gotten in all these months is: “It needs to be more fucking positive,” so some in the White House ruefully refer to the packet as “the propaganda document.” |
| 2017.08.12 | While Guam is being threatened by nuclear attack from North Korea, Trump told their president that they don't need to worry, since their tourism will boost tenfold. nytimes.com (See also North Korea) Gov. Eddie Calvo uploaded a phone call with President Trump to social media in which Mr. Trump says, “We are with you 1,000 percent.” |
| 2017.08.15 | In a long, combative exchange with reporters at Trump Tower in Manhattan, the president repeatedly rejected a torrent of bipartisan criticism for waiting two days before naming the right-wing groups and placing blame on “many sides” for the violence in Charlottesville that ended with the death of a young woman after a car crashed into a crowd. nytimes.com (See also Racism, Nationalism, Anti-Semitism) |
| 2017.08.15 | Premiums for the most popular health insurance plans would shoot up 20 percent next year, and federal budget deficits would increase by $194 billion in the coming decade, if Trump carried out his threat to end certain subsidies paid to insurance companies under the Affordable Care Act. nytimes.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Health Care) |