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  1. May 14, 2020 – Trump spoke of coronavirus testing in contradictory terms while visiting a medical equipment distribution center in Pennsylvania.

    “We have the best testing in the world,” he boasted, then added, “Could be that testing’s, frankly, overrated. Maybe it is overrated.”

  2. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 14, 2020 – Trump spoke of coronavirus testing in contradictory terms while visiting a medical equipment distribution center in Pennsylvania.

    “We have the best testing in the world,” he boasted, then added, “Could be that testing’s, frankly, overrated. Maybe it is overrated.”

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  3. May 14, 2020 – Perchlorate, a toxic chemical compound used in rocket fuel, has been found to contaminate water, causing fetal and infant brain damage.

    The Obama administration planned to regulate the chemical, but the Environmental Protection Agency, led by Trump’s appointee Andrew Wheeler, went against the decision, saying that the regulation was “not in the public interest.”

  4. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 14, 2020 – Perchlorate, a toxic chemical compound used in rocket fuel, has been found to contaminate water, causing fetal and infant brain damage.

    The Obama administration planned to regulate the chemical, but the Environmental Protection Agency, led by Trump’s appointee Andrew Wheeler, went against the decision, saying that the regulation was “not in the public interest.”

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  5. May 14, 2025 - The Guardian reported that Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, repeatedly mentioned "white genocide" in South Africa in its responses to unrelated questions on X.

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  6. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 14, 2025 - The Guardian reported that Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, repeatedly mentioned "white genocide" in South Africa in its responses to unrelated questions on X.

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    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  7. May 14, 2025 - Attorney General Pam Bondi sold $1-5 million of Trump Media stock on April 2, the same day Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs announcement tanked the stock market; Trump Media stocks fell 13 percent over the next several days before recovering.

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  8. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 14, 2025 - Attorney General Pam Bondi sold $1-5 million of Trump Media stock on April 2, the same day Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs announcement tanked the stock market; Trump Media stocks fell 13 percent over the next several days before recovering.

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    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  9. May 14, 2025 - Following his meeting with interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh, President Trump praised the former jihadist as "great" and a "young, attractive, tough guy" with a "strong past."

    The meeting came one day after Trump announced he would lift sanctions on Syria. "Syria, they've had their share of travesty, war, killing in many years," said Trump.

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  10. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 14, 2025 - Following his meeting with interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh, President Trump praised the former jihadist as "great" and a "young, attractive, tough guy" with a "strong past."

    The meeting came one day after Trump announced he would lift sanctions on Syria. "Syria, they've had their share of travesty, war, killing in many years," said Trump.

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    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  11. #SevenYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 13, 2019 – Trump hosted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the White House. Orbán’s actions include installing a barbed-wire fence along the border to prevent impoverished migrants from the Middle East and Africa from entering the country.

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    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  12. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 13, 2020 – At a time when the coronavirus was spreading throughout American prisons, infecting thousands of inmates, Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was released from prison at his attorneys’ urging.

    Manafort, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and obstruct justice, was allowed to complete his seven-year sentence under home confinement.

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  13. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 13, 2025 - During the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh that coincided with President Trump's visit, American tech companies Nvidia and AMD announced deals to sell advanced chips necessary for AI development to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirites, and Qatar.

    Some criticized the deals as a potential security threat given Saudi Arabia and the UAE's close ties to China.

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    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  14. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 12, 2017 – After Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Sean Spicer, and President Trump each gave conflicting explanations for Trump’s decision to dismiss FBI Director James Comey, Donald Trump tweeted, “As a very active President with many things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy.”

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  15. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 12, 2017 – Donald Trump tweeted, “James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”

    After the tweet, Comey was quoted saying, “Lordy, I hope there are tapes.”

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  16. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 12, 2020 – Though U.S. law dictates that the election occurs on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, White House adviser Jared Kushner suggested that the presidential election might have to be delayed because of the pandemic.

    “I’m not sure I can commit one way or the other,” he said, though neither Kushner nor Trump has the authority to postpone an election.

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  17. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 12, 2020 – During a pandemic that had killed tens of thousands of Americans, Trump took the time to promote a conspiracy theory that suggested that Joe Scarborough of MSNBC committed murder.

    “When will they open a Cold Case on the Psycho Joe Scarborough matter in Florida,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Did he get away with murder? Some people think so.”

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  18. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 11, 2017 – In a televised interview, Donald Trump admitted that he had the Russia investigation in mind when he fired FBI Director Comey.

    He said, “And, in fact, when I decided to just do it, said to myself, I said: This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should’ve won.”

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  19. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 11, 2017 – Donald Trump signed an executive order to form a task force that would review purported voter fraud.

    Despite not having evidence to prove his claim that millions of people voted illegally, he returned to the issues of voter registrations and “election integrity” repeatedly.

    Trump’s ongoing argument about illegal voting has been widely discredited.

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  20. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 11, 2020 – The Trump administration unveiled two large banners at a Rose Garden briefing that read, “AMERICA LEADS THE WORLD IN TESTING.”

    The event ended suddenly, however, after a testy exchange between Trump and journalists Weijia Jiang and Kaitlan Collins.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  21. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 11, 2025 - ABC reported that President Trump planned to accept a $400 million luxury jet from the Qatari royal family to replace Air Force One and that he planned to continue using the jet after his presidency.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  22. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 10, 2017 – In the Oval Office, Donald Trump told the Russian Foreign Minister and Russian Ambassador to the United States, “I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job… I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  23. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 10, 2025 – Trump ordered the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to add at least 20,000 officers to enforce his deportation policies.

    He called on the department to begin “deputizing and contracting with state and local law enforcement officers, former federal officers, officers and personnel within other federal agencies, and other individuals.”

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  24. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 9, 2017 – Dan Heyman, a West Virginian journalist, was arrested after questioning Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price about how the proposed health care bill would affect victims of domestic violence.

    In the aftermath of the healthcare bill’s introduction, Secretary Price had barred press access whenever questions about health care might be raised.

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    #TrumpMustGo #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  25. #SevenYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 9, 2019 – At a rally in Florida, Trump said, “How do you stop these people?” when referring to migrants at the border.
    An audience member yelled, “Shoot them!”

    The president then smirked and joked, “Only in the Panhandle!”

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  26. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 9, 2025 – White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said that the Trump administration was “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus, the right of a person to challenge their detention in court.

    Miller told reporters. “[Trump] said, ‘The Constitution is clear,’ stating that habeas corpus, ‘could be suspended in time of invasion.’”

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  27. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 8, 2017 – The EPA announced it would not renew terms of employment for half of the scientists on its advisory board.

    These academics consulted the federal government on the scientific foundations and implications of new legislation.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  28. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 8, 2017 – White House advisers began drafting an executive order which would unilaterally withdraw the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

    In an attempt to rescue NAFTA, White House officials broke with custom and called the office of the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau directly, requesting that he convince Donald Trump to reconsider.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  29. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 8, 2017 – In a legal brief defending Donald Trump’s travel ban, the Justice Department cited Palmer v. Thompson, a segregation-era court case which restricted judges from considering “government purpose” when assessing a law’s constitutionality.

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    #TrumpMustGo #DejaVu #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  30. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 8, 2018 – Donald Trump announced the United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, the 2015 agreement reached by seven countries after more than two years of negotiations.

    The deal granted billions of dollars in sanctions relief in exchange for Iran’s agreement not to develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.

    The United States reimposed pre-deal sanctions on Iran.

    #TrumpMustGo #Iran #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  31. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 8, 2020 – Trump met with seven World War II veterans, all in their 90s, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe.

    Even though he was close enough to speak with the men, he didn’t wear a mask in their presence.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  32. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 8, 2025 – Trump’s tariff wars began to impact thousands of working-class and middle-class Americans.

    Sandy Alonso needed a new wheelchair. “It’s ten years old. Pieces are starting to break.” She wanted to replace the model she already had, which was made in China. It was light enough to load into her car herself.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  33. #SevenYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 7, 2019 – The White House blocked former White House Counsel Don McGahn from disclosing records to the House Judiciary Committee.

    The documents contain information about Trump urging McGahn to fire Mueller.

    They also reference subsequent conversations in which the president told his former counsel to deny the exchanges.

    #ImpeachTrumpNow #RepublicansOwnItAll #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  34. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 7, 2020 – The criminal case against Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, was dropped by the Justice Department — even though Flynn had pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI in an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

    Trump called those who opposed him “dishonest, crooked people… They’re scum — and I say it a lot, they’re scum, they’re human scum.”

    #ImpeachTrumpNow #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  35. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 7, 2025 – The Trump administration announced plans to deport migrants without legal status to Libya, a country plagued by violence.

    Human rights groups have called Libya’s migrant detention centers “horrific” and “deplorable.”

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    #ImpeachTrumpNow #RepublicansOwnItAll #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  36. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 6, 2020 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put together a 17-page report advising Americans on when they could reopen the economy.

    According to a CDC official who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the Trump administration prevented the release of the report, telling the CDC that it “would never see the light of day.”

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  37. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 6, 2025 – The Trump administration announced a new program, “Project Homecoming,” that offered a $1,000 payment to people in the US without immigration status to “self-deport.”

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) pledged “financial and travel assistance” to undocumented immigrants using an app called CBP Home.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  38. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 6, 2025 – Trump hosted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office.

    Trump’s tone veered from hospitable to hostile as the two leaders discussed their major differences in the ongoing trade war between Canada and the US.
    Pivoting from his recent belittling statements about Canada, Trump said, “Canada is a very special place to me.”

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  39. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 5, 2020 – Rick Bright, the scientist who lost his job as head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, filed a whistleblower complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.

    In the complaint, Bright said his warnings about the coronavirus were dismissed by the Trump administration and that he was punished by being moved to another post.

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  40. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 5, 2025 – Abelardo Avelleneda-Delgado, 68, died in ICE custody while being transported from a local jail to federal detention.

    The first detainee to die in this manner in at least a decade, Avelleneda-Delgado had lived in the US for almost forty years and raised a large family while working on tobacco and vegetable farms.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  41. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 4, 2020 – The White House issued new guidance that banned members of its pandemic task force from testifying before Congress.

    The decision was made shortly after infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose views often diverged from Trump’s, was prohibited from testifying before a House committee.

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  42. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 4, 2025 – Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the white-supremacist group The Proud Boys, visited Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago and thanked the president for pardoning him for his participation in the January 6 takeover of the Capitol building.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  43. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 4, 2025 – During a wide-ranging and testy interview on Meet the Press, Trump waffled when asked about upholding the Constitution. He said, “I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.”

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  44. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 3, 2020 – The coronavirus death toll could reach 100,000, Trump said during a Fox News town hall broadcast from the Lincoln Memorial.

    The figure was double the estimate he predicted only two weeks earlier.

    Nevertheless, he said the country should still reopen its economy.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  45. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 2, 2025 – Just days after joking that he would “like to be pope,” President Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself dressed in papal attire.

    A White House account subsequently reposted the image, which was swiftly condemned around the world.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  46. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 1, 2025 – President Trump signed an executive order prohibiting federal funding for NPR and PBS.

    Calling NPR and PBS’s coverage “biased and partisan,” the order instructed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to cut off direct funds and to cut grants to local public radio and television stations that indirectly fund PBS and NPR programs.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  47. #OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 30, 2025 – The Commerce Department reported that the US economy had its worst quarter since 2022.

    GDP fell to an annualized rate of -0.3 percent, a sharp drop from the fourth quarter’s 2.4 percent rate, and the stock market declined after the announcement.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol