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-- 2016 --

July 21: Pope Francis answered a question about Trump’s overall tone. “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.” Within hours, Trump slammed the Pope, fantasized about an ISIS attack on the Vatican that only he could stop, and concluded ...“For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful.” ... This was right after Trump had] questioned a person’s faith.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/donald-trump-keith-olbermann-sanity-test

July 21: On March 16, Trump was asked about which foreign-policy consultants he was speaking to. “I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain,” he said, apparently seriously. “I know what I’m doing, and I listen to a lot of people, I talk to a lot of people, and at the appropriate time, I’ll tell you who the people are. But my primary consultant is myself, and I have a good instinct for this stuff.”
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/donald-trump-keith-olbermann-sanity-test

August 2:  We can use specific terms about his personality (disagreeable) and temperament (toddler-ish) but not make attributions to a clinical disorder. All of this is doable even as we still dig into why anyone accepts this kind of behavior from a grown man, much less a man who is the GOP's candidate for president.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2016/08/02/lets-talk-about-donald-trumps-brain/#6330766d1746

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October 13: Donald Trump, who has on many occasions called the tradition of shaking hands “barbaric,” confessed in his 1997 book The Art of the Comeback: “One of the curses of American society is the simple act of shaking hands, and the more successful and famous one becomes the worse this terrible custom seems to get. I happen to be a clean hands freak. I feel much better after I thoroughly wash my hands, which I do as much as possible.”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/the-7-oddest-things-donald-trump-thinks-214354

October 13: Imperfection is unacceptable ... “Depending on his mood, a stray cigarette butt on the carpet or an employee’s scuffed shoe could provoke a fearful tirade, always accompanied by a string of expletives. ... To image-obsessed Donald, a loosened tie was the sign of a sloppy mind.”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/the-7-oddest-things-donald-trump-thinks-214354

October 13: “Don’t sleep any more than you have to,” [Trump]  advised readers in 2004’s Think Like a Billionaire. “I have friends who are successful and sleep ten hours a night, and I ask them, ‘How can you compete against people like me if I sleep only four hours?’”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/the-7-oddest-things-donald-trump-thinks-214354

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October 13: Trump’s protectiveness of his hair may be more than a case of excessive vanity. Jack O’Donnell suggests in Trumped! that the Republican nominee has long considered baldness a sign of weakness. O’Donnell even quotes Trump as saying, “The worst thing a man can do is go bald.”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/the-7-oddest-things-donald-trump-thinks-214354

October 13: Howard Hughes, who died in 1976, was a famous billionaire who blended business interests in real estate, entertainment and aviation—but he’s remembered most for the OCD-fueled eccentricities and germophobia that consumed him toward the end of his life, making him a penthouse recluse who didn’t cut his hair or his nails, who ate only chocolate and chicken and drank only milk, who spent most of his time watching movies naked but for a napkin placed on his penis.

Trump has said he can relate.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/the-7-oddest-things-donald-trump-thinks-214354

-- 2017 --        

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March 3: "Look, I have a lot of issues with Mr. Trump but I commend him wholeheartedly on one issue," [advisor Sebastian] Gorka said. "His whole message and the phenomenon of Donald Trump is based on the rejection of political correctness."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/03/politics/kfile-gorka-trump-criticism/index.html

May 18: So confident was [Trump] of his own immunity to convention that he once boasted he could shoot someone in the middle of New York's Fifth Avenue and wouldn't lose voters. But as President, that impunity has been challenged and Trump's behavior became a liability. Ultimately, had he not fired [FBI Director James] Comey in a fit of pique about the Russia investigation, it might never [have] emerged that he reportedly asked the FBI chief to cool it in his investigation. And [Deputy Attorney General Rod] Rosenstein's hand may not have been forced and Trump may not have faced a special counsel [Robert Mueller].
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/politics/donald-trump-robert-mueller-democracy/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist

May 16: Trump has claimed repeatedly that he is treated unfairly by the media, by the intelligence community and by the courts, but Donald Trump's worst enemy is Donald Trump. Nothing has hurt the President, his governing agenda and his prospects for governing a full term more than his own statements ...
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/15/opinions/trump-incompetence-opinion-ghitis/index.html?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion

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May 30:  ... one [White House] official said. "Everyone is trying to do their best to support the President. It is just getting harder and harder to do."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/30/politics/mike-dubke-white-house-communications-director/index.html

May 30:
"Trump loves the word 'killers'." ... From early childhood, [Harry Hurt III wrote in his Trump biography, 'Lost Tycoon'], Fred [Trump] used to tell his boys 'you are a killer … you are a king … you are a killer … you are a king.'"
https://www.axios.com/scoop-trumps-comms-director-leaving-white-house-2426616450.html

June 4: ... Trump. He is sort of an anti-president -- at least in terms of how we have always defined those terms. Trump's attitude and approach in office is closer to Jerry Springer than to Gerald Ford. He's more Limbaugh than Lincoln.

What we know: Trump isn't going to stop Trumping. The only question now is whether voters want an anti-president as their president.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/04/politics/donald-trump-london-terror-tweets/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist

October 4: [Secretary of State Rex] Tillerson ... openly disparaged the president, referring to him as a “moron,” after a July 20 meeting at the Pentagon with members of Trump’s national security team and Cabinet officials, according to three officials familiar with the incident.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/tillerson-s-fury-trump-required-intervention-pence-n806451

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October 4: Trump was aware before Wednesday's report that Tillerson had referred to him as a "moron" at the Pentagon this summer, a source familiar with the conversation told CNN, but it's unclear whether Trump discussed the remark with Tillerson.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/04/politics/tillerson-trump-moron/index.html

October 4: During a hastily arranged statement Wednesday morning, Tillerson insisted he enjoys a close relationship with Trump and called him "smart." But he would not directly deny that he'd called Trump a "moron."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/04/politics/tillerson-trump-moron/index.html

October 4: Discord between President Donald Trump and his chief diplomat is at an all-time high, spilling into public view in recent days and peaking with a NBC News report Wednesday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a "moron" in a Pentagon meeting.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/04/politics/tillerson-trump-moron/index.html

October 4: Minutes after Tillerson spoke in front of cameras to dispute portions of the [moron] story, Trump called on the [NBC] network to apologize.

Unsurprisingly, the network shrugged off his Twitter demand.

"We stand by our reporting," an NBC News spokeswoman said.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/04/politics/tillerson-trump-commitment-moron/index.html?iid=EL

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October 6: The "does he know what he's doing or is he just doing it?" conundrum sits at the heart of virtually every move Trump has made as a candidate and now as President. What's more dangerous with this latest loose talk [hinting at  potential war], however, is that even if Trump is just saying things to hype up the drama rather than to warn of an actual impending military action, he (and we) have no way of knowing if Iran, North Korea or any other potential target understands that.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/06/politics/trump-storm-coming/index.html

October 16: Reflecting on his decades-long political history, [Senator John] McCain warned that to "fear" the world the US has led for the better part of a century, "abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe" and "refuse the obligations of international leadership ... for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems" is unpatriotic.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/16/politics/john-mccain-joe-biden-liberty-medal/index.html

November 14: Russian PM Medvedev met U.S. Trump, calls him 'open and well-meaning'
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-us-medvedev-trump/russian-pm-medvedev-met-u-s-trump-calls-him-open-and-well-meaning-ria-idUSKBN1DE1CD


-- 2018 --

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September 24: [From "why do people love -or hate- Trump? Here Are The 20 Top Reasons "]

20. He obviously thinks quite highly of himself.
We don’t need an egomaniac with his finger on the nuclear button. We don’t need someone who might likely destroy civilization as we know it because someone hurt his feelings. We need someone who can put down the mirror and focus on the problems that threaten us all.

https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2018/07/why-do-people-hate-trump/

-- 2019 --  

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May 26: The President of the United States is erratic, illiterate, and doesn’t want to know what he doesn’t know. The President has alienated former allies, befriended or courted murderous dictators, and has repeatedly brought the country to the brink of nuclear confrontation. The President lies constantly, knows that he is lying, and demands that Administration officials lie for him, and often they do. The President has waged war on the institutions of government, overseeing the gutting of the State Department and the destruction of other federal agencies by their own leaders, and effectively shut off media access to the Pentagon, the State Department, and the White House. The President has acted to thwart oversight of the Administration by other branches of government. The President has never made a secret of despising the government itself: he has called it a “swamp” and gleefully shut it down for thirty-five days, during a temper tantrum. The President has not only failed to divest himself of his businesses but has installed his children in and near the White House, openly using his office for personal financial gain. The President has debased political culture and language, using his bully pulpit to spew lies, hate, and personal insults
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-nancy-pelosis-tactics-affirm-the-trumpian-style-of-politics



-- 2020 --

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