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The Deplorable Trump List

THE 10 WORST THINGS ABOUT THE DONALD,


PROVING HE IS UNFIT TO BE PRESIDENT

10. Donald Trump mocked a disabled reporter.


Trump mocked a disabled New York Times reporter in front of a crowd, saying, “Now the poor guy, you ought to
see this guy,” before jerking his arms around and holding his right hand at an angle. He imitated the reporter,
saying, “ ‘Ah, I don’t know what I said! I don’t remember!’ ”

9. Donald Trump is unfit to be commander in chief.


The U.S. president is also the commander in chief, one job we have to make sure Trump never gets, since he has
said he would force the military to commit war crimes. And he has already brought up the “nuclear option,”
actually asking national security advisers why the United States can’t use nuclear weapons. Who is advising him
on national security? Who’s giving him all these ideas? The Donald named himself as his primary consultant on
foreign policy.

8. Donald Trump would threaten national security.


So who would be Trump’s allies around the world? He can probably count on his BFFs Vladimir Putin and Kim
Jong-un, and he continues to praise the legacies of Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi.

7. Donald Trump doesn’t respect our own military.


What about our own military? They’re not safe from Trump’s vicious attacks either. Just ask Sen. John McCain.
And we all remember when he insulted Americans across the country by going after a Gold Star family after their
appearance at the Democratic convention. And even after his own party denounced his comments, he continued
to go after Mrs. Khan, suggesting she wasn’t being allowed to speak about her son, who was killed serving his
country.

6. Donald Trump peddles xenophobia and racism, and doesn’t discriminate with his
discrimination.
Trump has made plenty of xenophobic and hateful comments about Muslims, Mexicans, Native Americans, Afri-
can-Americans and Jews, and he pals around with white supremacists and has a white nationalist as a campaign
chief.

5. Donald Trump doesn’t respect women.


Trump has made many offensive comments about women over the years. Some examples: In 1992, Trump told
New York Magazine, “You have to treat ’em like shit,” and that’s how he’s treated women in his life—women like
Megyn Kelly and working women who have faced sexual harassment at work—saying they should “find another
career.”

Women now make up 47 percent of the workforce; in 40 percent of households, women are the only or primary
breadwinner. And women are a majority of the electorate. Trump is taking his own advice and treating women
like shit. But that’s a lot of voters.

Randi Weingarten Lorretta Johnson Mary Cathryn Ricker


president secretary-treasurer executive vice president
4. Donald Trump was rooting for the Great Recession.
In 2006, Trump said “I sort of hope” real estate markets tank so he could take the opportunity to buy up cheap
property and make a buck off of men and women who had just lost everything. And it’s not only American fi-
nancial markets he hopes crash. After the Brexit vote, Trump actually celebrated, saying: “When the pound goes
down, more people are coming to Turnberry,” his golf course.

3. On 9/11, Donald Trump noted on TV that his Financial District building was now the
tallest.
On one of the darkest days in American history, when we lost thousands of men, women and children to what is
still considered the largest terrorist attack in the world, Trump decided to pick up the phone and call into a televi-
sion station to point out that, now, his building was the tallest in Manhattan. There are no words.

2. Donald Trump tries to walk back his birther statements.


Kind of. At his press conference, he actually spent more time talking about his new hotel in D.C. than he did on
anything else, but he still ended up on the crazy train. He is now saying Hillary Clinton started the birther witch
hunt that he has become so famous for. Too bad your tweets don’t lie, Donald.

1. Donald Trump would decimate public education.


No surprise from a man whose only foray into “education,” Trump University, was a scam so brazen that multiple
states launched investigations.

Trump wants to take $20 billion of existing federal dollars to fund private school voucher programs. He says his
$20 billion program would provide vouchers for 11 million students to attend the schools of their choice, but the
reality is it will mean that every dollar now spent on disadvantaged kids, English language learners and students
with special needs would be redirected out of public education. If you do the math, his plan would harm 10 stu-
dents for every 1 student it covers.

Vouchers don’t boost student achievement or improve opportunities for kids from low-income families; they take
needed money from public schools while failing to offer greater educational resources.

For the full fact sheet on Donald Trump’s lies, visit www.aft.org/Trump-Lies

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