#The Washington Post's Fact Checker has found that Trump has products manufactured in twelve nations: China, the Netherlands, Mexico, India, Turkey, Slovenia, Honduras, Germany, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam, and South Korea.
#In a December 2015 interview with Steve Bannon, Donald Trump said: "I have a little conflict of interest because I have a major building in Istanbul." Bannon then hosted a radio on Breitbart.
#Trump tweet on Canada: "What they've done to our dairy farm workers is a disgrace." "We can't let Canada or anybody else take advantage and do what they did to our workers and to our farmers."
#Trump described the slightly revised health care bill as "good" and "getting better every day." The only revisions being publicly reported are to allow states to get waivers to opt out of the prior medical condition requirement and let them delete some "essential benefits" requirements.
#In the wake of the cruise missile strike on a Syrian airstrip, the Syrian Network for Human Rights has noted no reduction in Assad's use of cluster munitions, incendiary weapons and barrel bombs.
#At last count, more than 200 cities and countries in 32 states have declared they are a sanctuary entity and will not cooperate with ICE. "In 1997, the Supreme Court ruled that the feds cannot command a state to 'administer or enforce federal... laws and regulations.' " (Source: Diane Dimond, "Sanctuary cities ignore presidential threat," The Albuquerque Journal, April 15, 2017).
#When Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni asked Trump to help him in an effort to bring about a stable government in Libya, Trump said: "I do not see a role in Libya." "I think the United States has right now enough roles. We're in a role everywhere."
#Trump urged Gentiloni to spend at least 2% of his nation's GDP on defense, Gentiloni said there were budget "limitations."
#Trump said his administration was analyzing the Iran nuclear deal "very carefully" and he would have more to say about it in the "not-too-distant future." "They are not living up to the spirit of the agreement, I can tell you that." The State Department had recently certified that Iran was living up to the terms of the agreement.
#On May 21, 2015, Donald Trump said: "I am going to save Social Security without any cuts." "Trump's proposal [to eliminate FICA taxes] is a Trojan horse [... It] would, if enacted, lead to the destruction of working Americans' fundamental economic security," said Nancy Altman, co-chair of Strengthen Social Security, quoted in the Los Angeles Times, on April 10, 2017.
#Last month, Trump said he would hunt down "the low-life leakers" in his administration. Some whistleblowers have objected to being called "low-life."
#When asked if he authorized a strike against militants in Iraq and Syria, Trump responded: "Everybody knows what happened, so, and what I do is authorize my military." Leon Panetta objected to Trump saying "my military." Panetta: "The military belongs to the country. Our defense system belongs to the country. And it's not the president's military."
#"When Trump talks about Europe, it tends to be as a land of his own imagining: a once terrific place brought low by NATO deadbeats and so wrecked by immigration-related disasters that no one wants to visit anymore; its discontent a harbinger of his success and proof of his perspicacity." (Source: Amy Davidson, "Eurotrump," The New Yorker, March 27, 2017).
#"By now, Trump's tactics are familiar. Schooled by Roy Cohn, Joseph McCarthy's protege, in the dark arts of rage, deflection, insult, and conspiracy-mongering, Trump ignited his career with 'birtherism' " "The problem in Washington, is not a Deep State. The problem is a shallow man -- an untruthful, vain, vindictive, alarmingly erratic president." (Source: David Remnick, "First as Tragedy," The New Yorker, March 20, 2017).
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