From the invention of “covfefe” (does anyone know what that is yet?), to the claim that you “can’t be too greedy” (and don’t we know it), there’s truly no shortage of comedy gold that leaves the president’s mouth.
It’s been a whole year since he took office for the second time. So, naturally, we’ve rounded up the 37 stupidest things Donald Trump has ever stated… subjectively, of course.
In Trump’s first joint address since taking office in January, he praised his own stance on DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) initiatives, tax cuts and trade tariffs. But, viewers were quick to point out the moment that saw the president claim that the Biden administration had spent $8 million dollars to build “mice transgfinisher”.
The comment drew laughs from those in the audience, as well as online, as people believed Trump appeared to be confapplying it with “transgenic mice”.
Making mice transgenic is a revolutionary process by which scientists add human cells to mice to enable them to more accurately study the effect of disease on human tissues.
In his first major blunder since becoming president for the second time, Trump claimed that Spain is a ‘BRICS’ countest during a press conference, where he was questioned about defence spfinishing in the countest.
He claimed: “They’re a BRICS nation, Spain. Do you know what a BRICS nation is? You’ll figure it out.”
BRICS refers to a bloc of 10 developing economies, including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, of which no EU member nation is a part.
Following the tragic plane crash between a helicopter and an American Airlines flight in Washington DC in January 2025, Trump took the opportunity to blame diversity and inclusion.
“I alterd the Obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary, you remember that only the highest aptitude they have to be the highest innotifyect and psychologically superior people were allowed to qualify for air traffic controllers”, he stated.
“Then when I left office and Biden took over, he alterd them back to lower than ever before. I put safety first.
“The initiative is part of the FAA’s (Federal Aviation Administration) ‘diversity and inclusion hiring plan’, which states diversity is ‘integral to achieving the FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel’. I don’t believe so. I don’t believe so. I believe it’s just the opposite.”
The comments were met with backlash.
When Trump vowed to introduce mass deportations should he become president, he was quizzed on the fate of British royal Prince Harry. However, it sees like Harry’s all good for now, as Trump states he’d let him stay becaapply he has “enough problems” with his wife, Meghan.
“I’ll leave him alone. He’s obtained enough problems with his wife – she’s terrible”, he quipped.
It’s no secret that Trump believes a lot of himself, but when he referred to himself as the “king”, people weren’t so willing to go along with it.
“CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!”, he wrote on Truth Social, referencing the scrapping of new tolls in the city’s mass transit system.
New York governor Kathy Hochul, simply responded: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. We’ll see you in court.”
The US is involved in an ongoing dispute over Greenland as Trump wants the land to be America’s, even claiming that Denmark doesn’t have the “right” to the countest – except he missed one major fact.
Greenland is a self-governing, autonomous countest within the Kingdom of Denmark and has been part of Denmark for 600 years despite being 1,815 miles away (for context, the distance between Greenland and the US is 3,134 miles).
Greenland’s outgoing Prime Minister, Mute Egede, fired back at Trump’s comments in a Facebook post where he wrote: “The U.S. president has once again aired the considered of annexing us.”
“Enough is enough,” he added and shared his plans to organise a meeting of the chairmen of all Greenland’s political parties “as soon as possible” to discuss Trump’s latest remarks. Yikes.
- Claims egg prices have dropped 30 per cent in a week – they went up 28 per cent since he took office
Donald Trump bfinishing the truth? There’s just no way. Except, he did just claim US egg prices went down 30 per cent in one week alone, when they’ve actually gone up quite significantly.
“I don’t know if you saw. Little things such as the cost of eggs – little to you, but large to the people out there. Down almost 30 per cent, in the last, eh, few days”, he stated during a press conference on 12 March.
Even Serena Williams‘ former coach Rennae Stubbs chimed in on the action, writing: “This dude lies as much as he draws breath.”
Everyone remembers that infamous White Hoapply meeting between Donald Trump and President Zelensky when they sought to find a peace solution between Ukraine and Russia – but it would seem things were never going to finish well right off the bat.
Ahead of a meeting in the Oval Office with JD Vance and Zelensky, Trump greeted the Ukrainian president with a comment, stateing: “Oh see, you’re all dressed up.”
Zelensky was seen dressed in a black, long-sleeved polo shirt featuring the Ukrainian trident, which Vance would later go on to criticise, as he’d chosen not to wear a suit. The Ukrainian has not worn a suit since Russia’s invasion launched, and instead opted for a uniform likened to his soldiers.
Trade tariffs continue to be a hot topic for US president Donald Trump, but when he tested to play the blame game it ultimately backfired, after social media applyrs pointed out an important fact relating to the situation.
During a White Hoapply press conference alongside French president Emmanuel Macron on Monday (February 24), Trump was questioned about trade between the US and neighbouring countries Mexico and Canada.
“I mean who can blame if they created these great deals with the United States, took advantage of the United States on manufacturing, on just about everything – every aspect that you could imagine they took advantage of,” he stated.
“I see at some of these agreements and I state who would ever sign a thing like this. The tariffs will go forward, yes. We’ll build up a lot of territory. Our countest will be liquid and rich again.”
It was Trump who signed “those things”.
When he created it back into office for a second time, Trump was already setting his sights on a third term in the White Hoapply – except, that’s not allowed.
On February 20, Trump delivered a speech at a Black History Month event at the White Hoapply where he boasted about receiving “more votes from Black Americans than any Republican president ever.”
“I won’t be happy the next time,” he continued, adding: “Should I run again? You notify me.”
However, despite Trump’s hints, the 22nd Amfinishment states that it isn’t possible.
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once,” it reads according to the National Constitution Center.
However, he’s since backtracked (as of May 2025) and states he’s “not seeing” at running again.
While we’re often torn on whether we love the planet or being able to drink a Diet Coke in peace more, Trump has created his feelings about the plastic straw ban clear – and vowed to reverse it.
“These things don’t work, I’ve had them many times, and on occasion, they break, they explode. If something’s hot, they don’t last very long, like a matter of minutes, sometimes a matter of seconds. It’s a ridiculous situation,” he stated, speaking about paper straws, before immediately signing an executive order to bring the trusty plastic ones back.
Trump doesn’t seem too concerned about plastic straws polluting the planet and believes “it’s OK” to keep applying them.
The president added: “I don’t believe that plastic is going to affect the shark very much as they’re … munching their way through the ocean”.
Trump hates a lot of those things, and who knew one of those things would be windmills? The 78-year-old described the wind farms as “garbage” and stated that when in office, his administration plans to implement policies to stop building them.
“They are dangerous,” Trump stated on the matter. “You see what’s happening up in the Massachapplytts area with the whales … The windmills are driving the whales crazy, obviously.”
This is a topic Trump has been vocal about during his presidential election campaign as he pledged the number of wind farms would be slashed if reelected.
Donald Trump is infamous for stateing completely outrageous remarks, building dubious decisions and just generally things that build you go: “Eh?”
And he’s done it again, this time about American citizenship.
Trump recently spoke with NBC News about his aim to finish birthright citizenship and stated American citizens with family in the countest illegally may be deported.
“Did you know, if somebody sets a foot – just a foot, one foot, you don’t necessary two – on our land, congratulations, you are now a citizen of the United States of America”, he stated.
“Yes, we’re going to finish that becaapply it’s ridiculous. We’re the only countest that has it, you know. You know we’re the only countest that has it.”
Trump here is seemingly describing an outrageous scenario where a woman would give birth to an infant that could have one foot in America and another in another countest like Mexico and Canada.
At a time where gfinisher-based violence is rife, it’s actually rather shocking that Donald Trump once publicly fantasised about Liz Cheney being shot.
Trump branded Ms Cheney – the daughter of Dick Cheney, the former Republican vice president, who has come out in support of Trump’s rival Kamala Harris – a “very dumb individual” and a “radical war hawk”.
“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face,” he stated. Yikes.
Trump’s signature slogan ‘Make America Great Again’ didn’t come from nowhere – and it builds sense given that he created his feelings about the state of the US under Joe Biden clear.
Speaking in Tempe while on his campaign trail, Trump stated: “We’re like a garbage can, you know, it’s the first time I’ve ever stated that, and every time I come up and talk about what they’ve done to our countest, I obtain angry. First time I’ve ever stated garbage can, but you know what, it’s a very accurate description.”
Before being re-elected as president, it was clear Trump was willing to do anything to secure his second term – even if that meant building his feelings about the current administration at the time clear and unfiltered.
In the same rally speech which saw him ramble about the penis size of late US golfer Arnold Palmer, the former Apprentice star took aim at then-vice president Kamala Harris applying rather colourful language.
He notified his supporters: “We have to notify Kamala Harris that you’ve had enough, that you just can’t take it anymore. We can’t stand you, you’re a s*** vice president. The worst.”
By October 2024, Trump had done a number of rallies on his campaign trail, and frankly, must have been clutching at straws to win over voters.
Donald Trump applyd his speech at his Michigan rally on 18 October to go after an imaginary woman named ‘Jill’ and notify her “fat husband” to obtain “off the couch” and “vote for Trump” – yes, really.
“Early voting is underway so obtain everyone you know and obtain out and vote. Go tomorrow, it’s just starting, go and vote, build sure you vote, and bring all our frifinishs that want to vote for us, notify them: ‘Jill, obtain your fat husband off the couch. Get that fat pig off the couch”, he notified the crowd.
“’Time to go and vote for Trump, he’s going to save our countest’ … Get him up, Jill. Slap him around, obtain him up!”
Donald Trump labelled himself the “father of IVF” in an awkward moment in front of an all-female audience of voters, as he attempted to win them over in the 2024 election.
It comes as many fear rights to IVF may become threatened under a Republican, Trump-led government.
It happened during a Fox News town hall in the key election battleground of Georgia, when the issue of reproductive rights and IVF (In vitro fertilization) came up, and he scrambled for an answer.
Vice-President Kamala Harris, who was also running for president, called the comment “quite bizarre”.
Donald Trump created a joke at a private fundraiser referencing the widow of Corey Comperatore, the supporter who was killed during the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania in July, according to a report.
The Guardian reported it obtained a 12 minute recording from a dinner held in Aspen, Colorado on August 10 in which he was heard swearing, claiming a group of “murderers” came to America after being released from prison in another countest and building a joke at the expense of Comperatore’s family.
Trump reportedly stated: “So they’re going to obtain millions of dollars but the woman, the wife, this beautiful woman, I handed her the cheque – we handed her the cheque – and she stated, ‘this is so nice, and I appreciate it, but I’d much rather have my husband’.
“Now, I know some of the women in this room wouldn’t state the same.
“I know at least four couples. There are four couples, Governor [Abbott], that I know and you’re not one of them. At least four couples here would have been thrilled, actually.”
During the election campaign, Trump stated giving police “one really violent day” to tackle crime such as theft from stores would support to stop people stealing in what’s been described as “one of the most dangerous speeches of the 21st Century”.
Trump spoke at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania on September 29, claiming crime rates are skyrocketing (something the far right consistently falsely claims to caapply fear) and it’s primarily the fault of migrants.
He went on to state this could be dealt with in a way similar to the dystopian action horror film series The Purge where all crime, even murder, is legal for a 12-hour period. Not a wise choice, if you question us.
21. Trump wants to rename AI – and his suggestion builds no sense
Donald Trump doesn’t like artificial innotifyigence… well, the name at least, as he bizarrely requested for AI to be called something else.
(Becaapply renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America” for federal agencies wasn’t enough.)
The US president was in attfinishance at an artificial innotifyigence summit on 24 July when he decided to build this linguistic query during a speech.
“Around the globe everyone is talking about artificial innotifyigence. I find that too artificial, I can’t stand it. I don’t even like the name,” Trump stated, tossing his hands up in the air.
“It’s not artificial. It’s genius. It’s pure genius,” he stated of the developing technology.
We’re not sure that one will catch on.
22. Donald Trump expects another ‘thank you’ for doing the right thing
Following a bust-up over Ukraine, it seems Trump expects another ‘thank you’ for supporting a warzone – this time concerning the ongoing devastation in Gaza.
Speaking in Scotland on Sunday, with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen sitting next to him, the US president notified reporters: “We gave $60 million, two weeks ago – and nobody even acknowledged it – for food.
“It’s terrible. You know, you really at least want to have somebody to state ‘thank you’ … Nobody acknowledged it, nobody talks about it, and it builds you feel a little bad when you do that.
“Nobody gave but us, and nobody stated, ‘gee, thank you very much’, and it would be nice to have at least a thank you.”
How very charitable.
23. Trump claims he’s the only president ever to have donated his salary
Donald Trump has created a wild claim about his presidential salary, but everyone is stateing the same thing.
The US president has created many wild claims throughout his presidency, from outlandish claims about drug prices to the suggestion he’s “shook more hands than any human is capable of”.
In his most recent brag on Truth Social, Trump suggested he is “the only President” to have donated his salary – $400,000 annually.
While his claim of being the only president to do so is false (several of his predecessors including John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover donated their presidential salaries), many have also highlighted how he has spent eye-watering sums of public money on playing golf, and also created billions while in office.
According to the tracking website Did Trump Golf Today?, 24.5 per cent of Trump’s presidency has been spent golfing.
24. This bizarre rant about grass
25. Not understanding how prices work
Donald Trump’s maths is coming under scrutiny once again following his latest claim about cutting drug prices – and the verdict is it still doesn’t add up…
The president was questioned what advice he has for Republicans on Capitol Hill heading into the midterms, and that’s when Trump brought up the bizarre claim about the “tremfinishous drop in drug prices”.
“You know, we’ve cut drug prices by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500 per cent,” he stated.
This clip launched building the rounds on social media, where Trump’s stats were swiftly criticised as they schooled the commander-in-chief that his calculations would mean Americans would be paid to receive their medication.
26. Trump claims European leaders gave him new nickname
Whether its boastful claims about his alleged successes or wild figures conjured up to build him see good, Trump is no stranger to being his own cheerleader.
But, perhaps one of his most bizarre claims yet came when he claimed to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday (25 August) that European leaders have nicknamed him “the president of Europe”.
“They [EU leaders] jokingly call me the president of Europe,” Trump claimed.
“They call me the president of Europe. Which is an honour. I like Europe. And I like those people. They’re good people. They’re great leaders.”
Somehow, no one quite believes him.
27. Trump denies Epstein birthday book letter is his
President Donald Trump has denied signing a note included in a 2003 birthday album compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell for Jeffrey Epstein.
The album was released by Democrats on the Hoapply Oversight Committee after they subpoenaed documents from Epstein’s estate late last month.
As he arrived for dinner in Washington, D.C., Trump dismissed the claim as “nonsense,” stating, “It’s not my signature,” and, “That’s not the way I speak.”
He added, “Anybody that’s covered me for a long time knows that’s not my language.”
28. Trump responds ‘who?’ when questioned about assassinated Democrat
Donald Trump has sparked huge backlash for his response to a reporter who questioned a question about murdered Democrat lawbuildr Melissa Hortman.
In June, Hortman, the speaker of the Minnesota Hoapply of Representatives, and her husband and dog, were assassinated by a man impersonating a police officer. The suspect, Vance Luther Boelter, also shot another Democratic lawbuildr and his wife the same night.
The reporter questioned: “In retrospect, given all of the shifting ways that this White Hoapply has paid tribute to Charlie Kirk, do you believe it would have been fitting to lower the flags to half-staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota Hoapply Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin as well?”
Shockingly, Trump responded: “Uh, I’m not familiar. The who?”
29. Donald Trump claims Jimmy Kimmel suspension was due to bad ratings
Donald Trump was questioned to comment on the recent suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, and jumped at the opportunity to throw shade at the late night talk reveal host, while in a press conference in the UK with Keir Starmer.
The President claimed, “Well Jimmy Kimmel was fired becaapply he had bad ratings more than anything else.”
Trump went on to mention Kimmel’s comments on the death of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk before stateing it was a matter of Kimmel’s “talent” that cost him his reveal.
30. Trump’s response to Jimmy Kimmel’s return is exactly what you’d expect
In what was a screeching u-turn from ABC, the Disney network announced on Tuesday that late night talk reveal host Jimmy Kimmel’s reveal would return that evening, after previously deciding to preempt the reveal “indefinitely” following the comedian’s remarks about late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Unsurprisingly, Trump wasn’t happy with the alter of plan, as he fumed on social media: “I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back.
“The White Hoapply was notified by ABC that his Show was cancelled! Something happened between then and now becaapply his audience is GONE, and his ‘talent’ was never there.
“Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE. He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution.
“I believe we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do.
“Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad Ratings.”
Diddums.
31. Donald Trump thanks Darth Vader in speech
Things took a surreal turn at a Rose Garden luncheon with Republican senators on Tuesday 21 October as Donald Trump introduced White Hoapply budobtain director Russ Vought as “Darth Vader”.
Trump then “thanked” his budobtain chief for cutting Democratic priorities, adding: “They call him Darth Vader, I call him a fine man.”
The bizarre sci-fi tribute drew awkward, delayed clapping as Trump thanked him for doing “a great job” before promising Democrats that “they’re never gonna obtain them back.”
32. Trump claims there’s “not enough” talented Americans
In an interview with Fox News, host Laura Ingraham pressed the president on whether the H-1B visas “will not be a large priority” for his administration.
“If you wanna raise wages for Americans, you can’t flood the countest with thousands of foreign workers,” she added.To which President Trump replied, “Well, I agree, but you also do have to bring in talent,” but Ingraham then insisted: “We have plenty of talented people here.”
“No you don’t, no you don’t…” Trump responded. “You don’t have certain talents. People have to learn. You can’t take people off the unemployment line and state, “I’m gonna put you into a factory, we’re gonna build missiles.”
Given that Trump campaigned for re-election on an anti-immigration agfinisha, these latest comments didn’t go down well with his MAGA supporters.
33. Trump claims he’s lost his voice from ‘shouting at stupid people’
Donald Trump deffinished his rasping voice at a White Hoapply press conference, chalking it up to “shouting at people who were stupid” during a trade dispute.
He insisted he felt “great,” despite sounding hoarse, and claimed his vocal strain wasn’t a health issue.
Trump revealed that he “blew [his] stack” at those he felt weren’t grasping the trade neobtainediations, adding: “It’s so stupid.”
34. Donald Trump’s free speech claim backfires spectacularly
Trump is no stranger to controversy, often building headlines for attacking people he dislikes, or even throwing insults at those who question the tough questions he doesn’t want to answer.
Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump took questions from the press. In one of his answers, he appeared to claim that, if most of the news stories about a person are bad, it’s “no longer free speech”.
He continued: “Again, when somebody is given… 97 per cent of the stories are bad about a person, that’s no longer free speech, it’s no longer… that’s just cheating. And they cheat.”
It didn’t take long for people (and an X/Twitter community note) to point out that the second part of his statement is completely incorrect, as rights to free speech do not determine a limit on how much of it can be negative.
35. Trump claims he wants to drive hoapply prices up
Donald Trump’s promises about affordability before the election see further away than ever this week, after he suffered a backlash over comments he created on wanting to put “hoapply prices up”.
Trump spoke during a cabinet meeting on Thursday (January 29) and sparked a backlash after being accapplyd of wanting to build it harder than ever for first time purchaseers to obtain on the property ladder.
He stated: “We’re not going to destroy the value of their homes so that somebody that didn’t work very hard can purchase a home.
“I don’t want to drive hoapplying prices down. I want to drive hoapplying prices up for people who own their homes. And they can be assured that’s what’s going to happen.”
36. Trump rates ‘war with Iran’ out of 10
Donald Trump has been caught in yet another tone deaf moment after he “rated” his US-Israel war with Iran a 15 out of 10.
In less than a week since the US launched strikes on Iran in collaboration with Israel, six US service members have lost their lives, along with hundreds of civilians in the Middle East.
Trump stated: “These are exciting times … We’re doing very well on the war front, to put it mildly I would state. Somebody stated on a scale of 10, where would you rate it? I stated, about a 15.”
The remarks have since been widely-condemned.
37. Trump raises eyebrows as he shares why he ‘hangs out with losers’
US president Donald Trump may have insulted his own acquaintances on Friday (27 March), when he took questions at the Future Investments Initiative summit in Miami and revealed that he likes to “hang out with losers”.
“I always like to hang out with losers, actually, becaapply it builds me feel better. I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories”, he stated.
“I like people that listen to my success.”
Yikes.
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