One of my friends, maybe the only really conservative friends that I have, was debating with me about Donald Trump. She was claiming that I had been “propagandized” by the mainstream media when I told her that Trump is more enfeebled than Biden, and that he has said insanely crazy things. So I collected for her 50 crazy things that Trump had said since becoming President, most of which I’ve seen or heard on video or on the radio, and many of which I heard in “real time” as they happened. Here goes. Trump has:

1. Claimed, with respect to windmills, “If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations. Your house just went down 75% in value. And they say the noise causes cancer.”
2. Claimed that “the late, great Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man.”
3. Claimed that “100% of the net jobs created under Biden have gone to the illegals.”
4. Claimed that “we had civil service, 9,000 people that were crooks and thugs and sadists, a lot of sadists.”
5. Claimed that “magnets no longer work if they get wet.”
6. Asked this long meandering question about whether it would be better, if he were riding in an “electric boat” that were sinking, to be electrocuted by a battery or be eaten by a shark.
7. Said he would be a “Dictator on Day One” (so that the United States could drill for oil even though it’s drilling for more oil now than when Trump was president) and said he “hope[s] the military revolts at the voting booth” (whatever that means).
8. Claimed that N.C. Lieutenant Governor (and current Gubernatorial candidate) Mark Robinson is “better than” MLK, and is “Martin Luther King” on steroids
9. Proposed the idea of creating a “migrant league of fighters” to “square off against mixed martial arts professionals.”
10. Claimed that “books are being rewritten to say he is the worst-treated president in history, topping Andrew Jackson or Abraham Lincoln.”
11. Claimed that he did more for “the blacks” than Abraham Lincoln, and maybe even including Abraham Lincoln.
12. Suggested that the U.S. military “might be renaming one of its forts after the Rev. Al Sharpton.”
13. Proposed the idea to “buy” Greenland from the Danes while he was president.
14. Contradicted the National Hurricane Center when they predicted the path of Hurricane Dorian by drawing on a map with a sharpie to bolster his suggestion that it would impact Alabama.
15. Claimed that there used to be “exploding” dishwashers, but that now, with energy efficiency standards, “you press it 12 times” and “like four drops of water” come out.
16. Claimed that he had “won 18 club championships in Golf” all at clubs that he owned. (Golf experts say that’s like an NFL quarterback telling you he’s won 18 Super Bowls.)
17. Claimed that the United States had the cleanest air and the “best H20 numbers ever” while he was President (which is complete nonsense).
18. Claimed that he was responsible for capping insulin at $35, which is the policy that Biden helped to implement.
19. Claimed that the “real wages of African Americans and the workers of all over the world that came here legally – they’re down six percent.” (This also, is complete nonsense.)
20. Claimed that Kamala Harris “wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.” (This also, is complete nonsense.)
21. Claimed that he sent “Abdul” a picture of his house to get the Taliban to stop sniper attacks while he was President. (However, the leader of the Taliban was Hibatullah Akhundzada, and the Taliban used IEDs and not snipers to attack US soldiers.)
22. Claimed that there was an 18 month period where there were no attacks on US soldiers by the Taliban. (Most of that period was while Joe Biden was president.)
23. Asked his Covid advisors to look into injecting bleach into the human body as a treatment and prevention remedy for Covid-19.
24. Asked whether we could use nuclear weapons to obliterate hurricanes.
25. Blamed California for its raging wildfires in 2020, and suggested fires could be stopped by “raking” the forests, and that Finland had “spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things, and they don’t have any problem.”
26. Claimed “The problem [Democrats] have is they’re radical because they will take the life of a child in the eighth month, the ninth month, and even after birth, after birth.” (Taking the life of a child after birth is murder in all 50 states, as well as D.C. and Puerto Rico.)
27. Claimed that everyone wanted the abortion issue to be brought “back in the states.” (Actually, no one, not the advocates who are pro-life nor those who are pro-choice wanted it back in the states. Both sides want a federal rule.)
28. Claimed that “if I didn’t bring in the National Guard [into Minneapolis] during the George Floyd protests], that city would have been destroyed.” (Trump didn’t call the National Guard into Minneapolis; Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz deployed the National Guard to the city.)
29. Claimed during a 2016 debate that “nobody cherishes and nobody respects women more than Donald Trump,” and that he “will be so much better to women than Hillary Clinton.”
30. Claimed during his 2020 debate with Biden that he was “the least racist person in the room.”
31. Claimed, in his conversation with Elon Musk” that “Our crime rate is going through the roof.” (Trump’s claim is false; both violent crime and property crime dropped significantly in 2023 and in the first quarter of 2024.)
32. Claimed “I think we have the worst inflation we’ve had in 100 years.” (Inflation under Jimmy Carter went to 13% by the end of 1979; inflation under Biden has been about 5% per year.)
33. Claimed, with respect to global warming, that “the ocean’s gonna rise one eighth of an inch over the next 400 years.” (Actually, the global average sea level is currently rising more per year than Trump claimed that it will rise in 400 years.)
34. Claimed that his conversation with Musk on X was being heard by “like 60 million or something.” (Public data on X showed that there were about 1.1 million accounts listening to the conversation.)
35. Claimed, about Kamala Harris, that she “wants to release all the prisoners that are in detention” in the United States. What she actually wanted, in 2019, is to close privately-run immigration detention centers.
36. Alleged that Ted Cruz’s father was with John F. Kennedy’s assassin (Lee Harvey Oswald) shortly before he murdered the president, and that he was “handing out pro-Fidel Castro pamphlets” in New Orleans in 1963.
37. Claimed that the “audience was cheering for me at the [ABC] debate” with Kamala Harris (even though there was no audience).
38. Claimed that the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
39. Claimed about his knowledge of terrorism, “I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me.”
40. Said, about Kim Jong Un, “And then we fell in love. OK? No, really — he wrote me beautiful letters, and they’re great letters. We fell in love.”
41. Claimed, about Fredrick Douglass during Black History month, “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”
42. Told a campaign audience that he “doesn’t need” their votes in November, only that they “guard our vote” and “stop the steal.”
43. Still claimed, in the debate with Kamala Harris, that he had won the 2020 election (despite 63 losses in court, including some before judges that he had appointed).
44. Skipped visiting a cemetery where more than 2,000 U.S. soldiers who died in World War I are buried because it was raining, and referred to the deceased Marines as “suckers” and “losers.” (substantiated by his former chief of staff, General John Kelly.)
45. Claimed in his last debate with Biden, “they talk about a relatively small number of people that went to the Capitol and in many cases were ushered in by the police.” (Actually, more than 1,400 people have been charged with federal crimes stemming from the riot. More than 850 people have pleaded guilty to crimes, and 200 others have been convicted at trial.)
46. Claimed that he “offered [Nancy Pelosi] 10,000 soldiers or National Guard” during the insurrection” and “he turned them down.” (Nancy Pelosi is not in charge of the Capitol Building.)
47. Claimed, with respect to aid to Ukraine, that “we’re in for $250 billion and they’re in for about $71 billion.” (The actual numbers, since Russia’s invasion, are that individual European countries had collectively committed a total of about $205 billion to Ukraine, in military, financial and humanitarian assistance, compared to about $108 billion committed by the US.)
48. Declared that people who “criticize the justices of the Supreme Court” should be “jailed.”
49. Claimed “If you build a car in the United States, you can’t sell it in Europe.” (This is completely false.)
50. Most recently, of course, claimed that Haitians were “eating the cats and the dogs” in Springfield, Ohio; it turns out that one woman reported that her Haitian neighbors stole her cat (“Miss Sassy”) who was eventually found in her own basement.

And that doesn’t even include his greatest hits, such as his claim that he could “shoot someone on Fifth Avenue” and not lose any voters, or that Mexico is “not sending their best” but are sending “criminals” and “rapists,” but some are “good people.” And let’s not forget “grab them by the pussy.”

And finally, there is also Trump’s obvious mental decline. Asked recently what specific legislation he would back to make child care more affordable, Trump said this:

If Biden had said anything like this, Trump’s supporters would have been screaming bloody murder.