| Quote/Action | Source |
|---|---|
| "You take this little beautiful baby and you pump ... " he said, referring to mandatory childhood vaccines. "We had so many instances, people that work for me, just the other day, 2 years old, a beautiful child, went to have the vaccine and came back and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic." | Washington Post |
| "The Obama administration was actively supporting Al Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist group that became the Islamic State." | Trump's Facebook Account |
| "If we didn't remove incredibly powerful fire retardant asbestos & replace it with junk that doesn't work, the World Trade Center would have never burned down." | |
| “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” | |
| Ted Cruz’s father "was with Lee Harvey Oswald" before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. | Politifact |
| [Of Kim Jong Un] "And you've got to give him credit. How many young guys — he was like 26 or 25 when his father died — take over these tough generals…. It's incredible. He wiped out the uncle. He wiped out this one, that one. I mean, this guy doesn't play games.” | Business Insider |
| “I know more about ISIS than the generals do. Believe me.” | Washington Post |
| “We don't even really know who the leader [of ISIS] is.” | Fox News interview with Bret Baier |
| "An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that @BarackObama's birth certificate is a fraud." | |
| “Don’t tell me it doesn’t work — torture works… Waterboarding is fine, but it’s not nearly tough enough, ok?” | YouTube |
| “He’s [John McCain] not a war hero,” said Trump. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” | POLITICO |
| Donald Trump spent 10's of thousands of dollars on an ad campaign in 1989, urging New Yorkers to bring back the death penalty and execute five minority youths who were suspects in a brutal rape case. Decades later, the youths were completely exonerated when DNA evidence proved they had nothing to do with it. Upon hearing about the settlement, Trump wrote a lengthy editorial in the New York Daily News calling it a "disgrace" and "the heist of the century". In this screed, he complained that the youths were still certainly guilty and that the city was "stupid". | The New Yorker |
| Said that Judge Curiel should not preside over his case because of his "Mexican heritage" | Mediaite |
| Blamed the Tiananmen Square massacre on the protesters for a "riot" while being impressed at China's brutal "show of strength" | The Guardian |
| He withdrew medical support that he promised for his brother's grandson with cerebral palsy because he was angry at the boy's parents | New York Times |
| Trump University targeted students who 'hurt' and 'had problems' | TIME |
| “Look, he [Barack Obama] was born Barry Soetero, somewhere along the line he changed his name.” | Fox News |
| Students at Trump University were coerced to give positive reviews | New York Times |
| Censorship on the Internet: "We're losing a lot of people because of the internet," Trump said. "We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people." | ABC |
| A former Trump University sales manager testified that he was reprimanded for not pushing a financially struggling couple hard enough to sign up for a $35,000 real estate class he knew they couldn’t afford. | New York Times |
| Mr. Nicholas, a sales executive, recalled a deception used to lure students — that Donald J. Trump would be “actively involved” in their education. “This was not true,” he testified, saying Mr. Trump was hardly involved at all. | New York Times |
| Ms. Sommer, an event manager, recounted how colleagues encouraged students to open up as many credit cards as possible to pay for classes that many of them could not afford. “It’s O.K., just max out your credit card,” she recalled their saying. | New York Times |
| [Of Trump's tax plan] The plan would reduce federal revenues by $9.5 trillion over its first decade before accounting for added interest costs or considering macroeconomic feedback effects. | Tax Policy Center |
| [Of Trump's tax plan] Unless it is accompanied by very large spending cuts, it could increase the national debt by nearly 80 percent of gross domestic product by 2036. | Tax Policy Center |
| Tax cuts largely focused on the top 1% like Mr. Trump, both in dollars and as a percentage of income. The tax plan costs $11.2 trillion, more than any other candidate, and $4 trillion of that comes from tax breaks to the top 1% | Tax Policy Center |
| Wants to bomb Iraq's oil fields | CNN |
| When giving testimony before the Congressional Subcommittee on Native American Affairs, Trump spoke angrily about the Pequot Indians, whose new casino had just surpassed his Atlantic City casino as the most popular in America. ‘They don’t look like Indians to me and they don’t look like Indians to Indians,’ he complained. | Mediaite |
| [About foreign policy] “I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things...my primary consultant is myself” | POLITICO |
| [About a protestor] 'I'd like to punch him in the face" | CNN |
| "If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them," Trump said. "Just knock the hell — I promise you, I'll pay the legal fees." | Business Insider |
| “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” | Washington Post |
| “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.” | Campaign Website |
| Donald Trump's "trade wars" would lose around 4 million jobs, and another 3 million jobs would not be created that otherwise would have been, had the country not fallen into a trade-induced downturn | Washington Post |
| Wanted his 1-year-old daughter to grow nice breasts | NY Daily News |
| Doesn't think Muslim judges can do their jobs | POLITICO |