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Trump’s disastrous general election (so far)

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    • May 3: Trump Becomes Presumptive Republican Nominee

      Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee following a landslide win in Indiana and Ted Cruz’s subsequent suspension of his campaign.

      “Donald J. Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday with a landslide win in Indiana that drove his principal opponent, Senator Ted Cruz, from the race and cleared the way for the polarizing, populist outsider to take control of the party. After months of sneering dismissals and expensive but impotent attacks from Republicans fearful of his candidacy, Mr. Trump is now positioned to clinch the required number of delegates for the nomination by the last day of voting on June 7. Facing only a feeble challenge from Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, Mr. Trump is all but certain to roll into the Republican convention in July with the party establishment’s official but uneasy embrace.”

    • May 5: Trump Kicks Off Hispanic Outreach with Taco Bowl Tweet

      On Cinco de Mayo, Donald Trump posted a photo of himself eating a taco bowl and added, “I love Hispanics!”

    • May 5: Trump Says He Would Renegotiate the U.S.’s Debts, Threatening Global Financial Stability

      Donald Trump: “I am the king of debt. I do love debt. I love debt. I love playing with it.”

      “‘I am the king of debt. I do love debt. I love debt. I love playing with it,’ Trump said.”

      Donald Trump: As president, “I would borrow, knowing that if the economy crashed, you could make a deal.”

      “‘Do you believe that we, in terms of the United States, need to pay a hundred cents on the dollar, or do you think that there’s actually ways that we can renegotiate that debt?’ CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin asked him. ‘Yeah, I think — look, I have borrowed, knowing that you can pay back with discounts. And I have done very well,’ Trump said. ‘I would borrow, knowing that if the economy crashed, you could make a deal, and if the economy was good, it was good, so, therefore, you can’t lose.’”

      AEI economist: Donald Trump’s plan to renegotiate the country’s debt “would be an outrageous thing to do…. It could introduce chaos.”

      “Banks, investors and ordinary people around the world rely on bonds issued by the Treasury Department as more dependable than cash. Doubts about whether the debt is trustworthy could influence interest rates, which are connected to Treasury rates, throughout the economy. For example, home loans and credit cards could become more expensive as banks, concerned about whether their Treasury bonds would be made good, restricted lending to protect themselves. While Trump’s precise plans were unclear from the interview, if the U.S. government did not pay some of its debts in full, creditors would come to see the country as an unreliable borrower, said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, an economist who heads the conservative American Action Forum think tank. ‘You’re Puerto Rico,’ he said, referring to the fact that the U.S. territory is on the verge of defaulting on its debt. ‘That’s not a good thing.’ ‘The Treasury Department could go to people who hold the debt and say, look, we’re not going to be able to pay you back,’ said Michael Strain, an economist at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute. ‘That would be an outrageous thing to do.…  It could introduce chaos.’”

    • May 9: Trump Says The U.S. Will Never Default Because “You Print the Money”

      “Donald Trump declared Monday the U.S. never has to default on debt ‘because you print the money,’ while trying to clarify his strategy for managing the national debt. Trump insisted that he never said the U.S. should default or attempt to renegotiate with creditors, as had been reported. ‘People said I want to go and buy debt and default on debt, and I mean, these people are crazy. This is the United States government,’ Trump told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on ‘New Day.’ ‘First of all, you never have to default because you print the money, I hate to tell you, OK?’”

    • May 10: Trump Campaign Selects White Separatist as Delegate

      Donald Trump’s campaign selected a self-described white separatist as a delegate to the Republican National Convention. “A Los Angeles attorney who advocates for the creation of a ‘white ethno-state’ is on an official list of Donald Trump’s Republican convention delegates published Monday night by state election officials. William Johnson, a self-described white separatist who is the chairman of the American Freedom Party, is among the delegates pledged to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee published by the California Secretary of State’s office. In a statement issued late Tuesday, Trump’s campaign said Johnson’s inclusion on the published list of delegates was an error.”

    • May 12: Posts by Trump’s Longtime Butler Calling for Obama’s Death Discovered

      Donald Trump’s former butler wrote Facebook posts calling for President Obama to be dragged from the “white mosque” and hanged “from the portico.” “The Secret Service said it would investigate Donald J. Trump’s longtime butler over Facebook posts laced with vulgarities and epithets calling for President Obama to be killed. The racially tinged posts by the butler, Anthony Senecal, were unearthed by Mother Jones on Thursday, and referred to Mr. Obama as a ‘Kenyan fraud’ who should be hanged for treason. ‘With the last breath I draw I will help rid this America of the scum infested in its government,’ Mr. Senecal wrote last May, saying that the president should be dragged from the ‘white mosque’ and hanged ‘from the portico — count me in !!!!!’”

    • May 13: Trump Denies Having Posed as His Own Spokesman

      Donald Trump denied having posed as his own spokesman after the discovery of a recorded phone call. “Donald Trump said Friday that a newly resurfaced recording of a man who sounds like Trump posing as his spokesman isn’t him — even though he has admitted in the past to posing as his own publicist under a pseudonym. ‘It was not me on the phone,’ Trump told NBC’s ‘Today’ show when the recording was played for him during a live interview. ‘And it doesn’t sound like me on the phone, I’ll tell you that, and it was not me on the phone.’ NBC was asking Trump about a Washington Post report published earlier Friday that claims Trump routinely made calls to reporters in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s posing as a publicist named John Miller or John Barron, advocating for himself and answering questions about his personal life and business dealings.”

    • May 16: Trump Says He and David Cameron Are “Not Going to Have a Very Good Relationship”

      Donald Trump said he and British Prime Minister David Cameron were “not going to have a very good relationship.” “Asked about Cameron’s remarks, Trump said he didn’t care, but then added, ‘It looks like we’re not going to have a very good relationship. Who knows, I hope to have a good relationship with him but it sounds like he’s not willing to address the problem either. ‘He continued: ‘Number one, I’m not stupid, okay? I can tell you that right now. Just the opposite. Number two, in terms of divisive, I don’t think I’m a divisive person, I’m a unifier, unlike our president now, I’m a unifier.’”

    • May 18: Trump Says He Would Talk to Kim Jong Un

      Donald Trump said he “would have no problem” speaking to Kim Jong Un. “Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is willing to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang’s nuclear program, proposing a major shift in U.S. policy toward the isolated nation. In a wide-ranging interview with Reuters, Trump also called for a renegotiation of the Paris climate accord, said he disapproved of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions in eastern Ukraine, and said he would seek to dismantle most of the U.S. Dodd-Frank financial regulations if he is elected president. The presumptive Republican nominee declined to share details of his plans to deal with North Korea, but said he was open to talking to its leader. ‘I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him,’ he said. Asked whether he would try to talk some sense into the North Korean leader, Trump replied, ‘Absolutely.’”

    • May 23: Trump Calls for Teachers to Carry Guns in Classrooms

      Donald Trump called for teachers or “school resource officers” to carry guns in classrooms. “Donald Trump on Monday clarified his position on allowing guns in schools, telling CNN in a phone interview that ‘school resource officers’ or trained teachers should be the ones carrying guns. He stood by his adamant criticism of gun free zones but backed away from his blanket call to eliminate all gun free zones in schools, saying they would only be eliminated ‘in some cases.’ Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton this weekend accused Trump of wanting to ‘mandate that every school in America allow guns in classrooms.’ Trump responded Sunday morning on Fox News with a muddled comment that seemed to both reject and reaffirm his support for arming teachers in classrooms. ‘I don’t want to have guns in classrooms, although in some cases teachers should have guns in classrooms, frankly,’ he said.”

    • May 24: Trump Goes After Susana Martinez in New Mexico

      Donald Trump blamed Susana Martinez for Albuquerque’s unemployment numbers and the number of New Mexicans on food stamps, and alleged that she was allowing Syrian refugees to settle in the state. “On Tuesday night, Mr. Trump purposefully attacked Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico, who in addition to being the most prominent Hispanic woman in American politics, also happens to be the chairwoman of the Republican Governors Association. Appearing at a campaign rally in Albuquerque, the largest city in Ms. Martinez’s state, Mr. Trump unleashed a blistering assault on the governor, who skipped the event, by saying she was ‘not doing the job.’ He faulted her by falsely asserting she was allowing Syrian refugees to settle in the state, and blamed her for Albuquerque’s unemployment numbers as well as the increase in the number of New Mexico residents on food stamps. ‘It’s your governor’s fault,’ Mr. Trump told thousands of booing supporters. ‘We have to get your governor and get going. She’s got to do a better job, O.K.? Your governor has got to do a better job.’”

    • May 26: Trump Says He Would “Cancel” the Paris Climate Deal

      Donald Trump said he would “cancel” the Paris climate deal. “Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he would ‘cancel’ the Paris climate deal in his first major speech on energy policy. More than 195 countries pledged to reduce carbon emissions in a landmark agreement last year. The billionaire businessman has said before there is no evidence that humans are responsible for climate change. He called for more drilling, fewer regulations and the approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. ‘Any regulation that’s outdated, unnecessary, bad for workers or contrary to the national interest will be scrapped and scrapped completely,’ Mr Trump said.”

    • May 29: Trump Launches Attack on Judge Gonzalo Curiel

      Donald Trump spent 11 minutes at a rally attacking Gonzalo Curiel, the judge in his Trump University case, adding that he “happens to be, we believe, Mexican.” “At a rally in San Diego on Friday, Mr. Trump again steered his pirate ship into uncharted waters, firing off personal and racially tinged attacks against a federal judge hearing a case in which Mr. Trump is the defendant. The judge, Gonzalo Curiel of the Federal District Court in San Diego, is presiding over a class-action lawsuit that accuses Trump University of defrauding and misleading customers who spent $1,500 for three-day seminars that promised to teach Mr. Trump’s secrets of success in real estate. Shortly after Mr. Trump’s rally, Judge Curiel ordered the unsealing of about 1,000 pages of the company’s internal documents. The release, which came in response to a request by The Washington Post, was standard procedure for a civil suit. But Mr. Trump doesn’t do standard procedure. In a rambling, 11-minute stream of vitriol, Mr. Trump, who has attacked Judge Curiel before, called him ‘very hostile’ and a ‘hater of Donald Trump,’ and said he ‘should be ashamed of himself. I think it’s a disgrace that he’s doing this.’ […] For good measure, Mr. Trump added that Judge Curiel ‘happens to be, we believe, Mexican.’ False; the judge is from Indiana. But facts are, as always, beside the point for Mr. Trump, who reassured his audience that ‘the Mexicans are going to end up loving Donald Trump when I give all these jobs.’ (Presumably he was not referring to those he has promised to deport if he is elected.)”

    • May 31: Trump Berates Journalists at News Conference

      Donald Trump spent most of a news conference berating and insulting journalists on live television. “He called a news conference ostensibly to answer questions about his fund-raising for charities that benefit military veterans. But Donald J. Trump instead spent most of his time on live television Tuesday berating the journalists covering his presidential campaign in unusually vitriolic and personal terms. ‘You’re a sleaze,’ he told a reporter for ABC. ‘You’re a real beauty,’ he told a reporter for CNN, snidely denigrating the man’s competence. For 40 minutes, Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, assailed those reporting on his candidacy with a level of venom rarely seen at all, let alone in public, from the standard-bearer of a major political party. Then he warned that a Trump White House would feature more of the same.”

    • June 2: Trump Says Judge Curiel’s Mexican Heritage Is an “Inherent Conflict of Interest”

      Donald Trump said Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s Mexican heritage was “an inherent conflict of interest” because “I’m building a wall.” “Donald Trump on Thursday escalated his attacks on the federal judge presiding over civil fraud lawsuits against Trump University, amid criticism from legal observers who say the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s comments are an unusual affront on an independent judiciary. In an interview, Mr. Trump said U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel had ‘an absolute conflict’ in presiding over the litigation given that he was ‘of Mexican heritage’ and a member of a Latino lawyers’ association. Mr. Trump said the background of the judge, who was born in Indiana to Mexican immigrants, was relevant because of his campaign stance against illegal immigration and his pledge to seal the southern U.S. border. ‘I’m building a wall. It’s an inherent conflict of interest,’ Mr. Trump said.”

    • June 2: Trump Says Judge Curiel “Should Have Recused Himself” Because He Is “Mexican”

      Donald Trump said Judge Gonzalo Curiel “should have recused himself” from the Trump University case because “I’m building the wall. […] I have a Mexican judge.” “The presiding judge in a lawsuit filed by former students of Trump University, he has been called a ‘hater’ of Mr. Trump by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee himself. At a rally last week, Mr. Trump said the judge ‘happens to be, we believe, Mexican,’ suggesting that he was biased because of Mr. Trump’s calls to build a wall along the border to prevent illegal immigration. Angry supporters have been calling the judge’s chambers. Mr. Trump repeated his argument in an interview on Thursday. ‘I’m building the wall, I’m building the wall,’ Mr. Trump said. ‘I have a Mexican judge. He’s of Mexican heritage. He should have recused himself, not only for that, for other things.’”

    • June 3: Asked More Than 20 Times, Trump Denies That He Is Being Racist Toward Judge Curiel

      Donald Trump denied repeatedly that his assertion that Judge Gonzalo Curiel could not be impartial was racist, even after being pressed more than 20 times. “Donald Trump on Friday vociferously — and repeatedly — defended his claims that a judge overseeing a lawsuit against Trump University is biased because of his Mexican heritage, pushing back against criticism that his objections are racist. Trump, pressed by CNN’s Jake Tapper more than 20 times on whether he was invoking racism in his attacks on the judge, continued to point to his plans to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and renegotiate trade agreements between the two countries as justification and validation of his critiques. The presumptive GOP nominee said U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, a federal district judge in the Southern District of California, has made ‘rulings that people can’t even believe.’ ‘He’s proud of his his heritage. I respect him for that,’ Trump said, dismissing charges that his allegation was racist. ‘He’s a Mexican. We’re building a wall between here and Mexico.’ At the end of a lengthy exchange, Tapper asked: ‘If you are saying he cannot do his job because of his race, is that not the definition of racism?’ ‘No, I don’t think so at all,’ Trump said.”

    • June 3: Trump Points Out “My African-American” at Rally

      Donald Trump pointed out a black man in the crowd at a California rally, saying, “Oh, look at my African-American over here.” “REDDING, Calif. — In a speech in which he promoted the backing of Chinese-Americans in Los Angeles and called protesters at a rally in San Jose ‘thugs,’ Donald J. Trump on Friday sought to project support from African-Americans for his campaign on a single man in the audience. Mr. Trump, at a rally here, began speaking about a previous rally in Arizona in which a black supporter was arrested after punching a protester. ‘We had a case where we had an African-American guy who is a fan of mine,’ Mr. Trump said of an event in Arizona in March. ‘In fact I want to find out what’s going on with him.’ As his voice trailed off, Mr. Trump noticed a man in the crowd. ‘Oh look at my African-American over here,’ Mr. Trump said. ‘Are you the greatest? Do you know what I’m talking about?’ Mr. Trump then returned to speaking about the Arizona episode.”

    • June 5: Trump Triples Down on Judge Curiel Comments

      Donald Trump said Judge Gonzalo Curiel was “very strongly pro-Mexican” and was biased against him because “I’m going to build a wall.” “DICKERSON: No, no, for him, how does — his Mexican parents have to do with him not… (CROSSTALK) TRUMP: He’s member of a club or society very strongly pro- Mexican, which is all fine. But I say he’s got bias. I want to build a wall. I’m going to build a wall. I’m doing very well with the Latinos, with Hispanics, with the Mexicans. I’m doing very well with them, in my opinion. And we’re going to see, you’re going to see, because you know what? I’m providing jobs. Nobody else is giving jobs. But just so you understand, this judge has treated me very unfairly. He’s treated me in a hostile manner. And there’s something going on. When a woman can be a plaintiff in a case and then say, I don’t want to be — and you know why they don’t want to be a plaintiff? They didn’t want her. The lawyers asked that she not be a plaintiff because they would have lost the case immediately.”

    • June 5: Trump Says It’s “Absolutely” Possible a Muslim Judge Wouldn’t Treat Him Fairly

      Donald Trump said it was “absolutely” possible a Muslim judge wouldn’t be able to treat him fairly because of his proposed Muslim ban. “DICKERSON: My question is, if it were a Muslim judge, would you also feel like they wouldn’t be able to treat you fairly because of that policy of yours? TRUMP: It’s possible, yes. Yes. That would be possible, absolutely.”

    • June 6: Trump Instructs Surrogates to Attack Judge Curiel and Reporters, Overruling Previous Direction from Campaign Staff

      Donald Trump ordered surrogates on a conference call to question Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s credibility and impugn reporters as racists. “An embattled Donald Trump urgently rallied his most visible supporters to defend his attacks on a federal judge’s Mexican ancestry during a conference call on Monday in which he ordered them to question the judge’s credibility and impugn reporters as racists. ‘We will overcome,’ Trump said, according to two supporters who were on the call and requested anonymity to share their notes with Bloomberg Politics. ‘And I’ve always won and I’m going to continue to win. And that’s the way it is.’ There was no mention of apologizing or backing away from his widely criticized remarks about U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing cases against the Trump University real-estate program.”

      Told his staff had previously asked surrogates to stop talking about the lawsuit, Donald Trump told surrogates to “take that order and throw it the hell out.” “When former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer interrupted the discussion to inform Trump that his own campaign had asked surrogates to stop talking about the lawsuit in an e-mail on Sunday, Trump repeatedly demanded to know who sent the memo, and immediately overruled his staff. ‘Take that order and throw it the hell out,’ Trump said. Told the memo was sent by Erica Freeman, a staffer who circulates information to surrogates, Trump said he didn’t know her. He openly questioned how the campaign could defend itself if supporters weren’t allowed to talk. ‘Are there any other stupid letters that were sent to you folks?’ Trump said. ‘That’s one of the reasons I want to have this call, because you guys are getting sometimes stupid information from people that aren’t so smart.’”

    • June 10: Trump Derisively Calls Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” (Again)

      Donald Trump called Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” and said she had a “nasty mouth.” 

      Donald Trump had called Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” on several other occasions. “‘Pocahontas’ has apparently become Trump’s favorite new nickname for Warren, who has said that she had Cherokee ancestors. Trump has used the insult several times in the last month or so, including at a chaotic rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and in an interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.”

    • June 11: Trump Says Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren Is “Very Racist”

      Donald Trump said Elizabeth Warren, “sometimes referred to as Pocahontas,” was “very racist.”

    • June 12: Trump Claims Credit for Predicting Orlando Attack

      After the Orlando attack, Donald Trump tweeted that he “appreciate[d] the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism.” 

      Donald Trump claimed credit for warning of terrorism like the attack on Pulse in Orlando. “Donald J. Trump on Sunday sought to capitalize on the mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, reiterating his controversial call for a temporary ban on Muslim migration to the United States and criticizing Hillary Clinton for what he claimed was her desire to “dramatically increase admissions from the Middle East.’ In a demonstration of his willingness to flout convention and engage in a style of demagogic politics rarely displayed by a presidential nominee, Mr. Trump claimed he had warned of the sort of terrorism that marked the shooting, which killed 50 and was the worst in the country’s history. ‘I said this was going to happen — and it is only going to get worse,’ Mr. Trump said in a statement, arguing that Mrs. Clinton’s presidency would mean ‘hundreds of thousands’ more Middle East migrants.”

    • June 12: Trump Calls for Obama to “Immediately Resign in Disgrace”

      Donald Trump called for President Obama to “immediately resign in disgrace” if he did not say the words “radical Islamic terrorism.”

      June 13: Trump Accuses Obama of Identifying with Radical Jihadist Terrorists

      Donald Trump accused President Obama of having “something going on” because he “can’t even mention the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’” “Donald Trump seemed to repeatedly accuse President Obama on Monday of identifying with radicalized Muslims who have carried out terrorist attacks in the United States and being complicit in the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando over the weekend, the worst the country has ever seen. ‘Look, we’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind,’ Trump said in a lengthy interview on Fox News early Monday morning. ‘And the something else in mind — you know, people can’t believe it. People cannot, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can’t even mention the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ There’s something going on. It’s inconceivable. There’s something going on.’ In that same interview, Trump was asked to explain why he called for Obama to resign in light of the shooting and he answered, in part: ’He doesn’t get it or he gets it better than anybody understands — it’s one or the other, and either one is unacceptable.’”

      Donald Trump said that “many people” think President Obama “doesn’t want to see what’s really happening” with radical jihadist terrorism. “During an appearance on the ‘Today’ show later Monday morning, Savannah Guthrie pushed Trump to explain what he meant in the earlier interview. ‘Well there are a lot of people that think maybe he doesn’t want to get it,’ Trump said. ‘A lot of people think maybe he doesn’t want to know about it. I happen to think that he just doesn’t know what he’s doing, but there are many people that think maybe he doesn’t want to get it. He doesn’t want to see what’s really happening. And that could be.’ Guthrie asked Trump why that would be, and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee responded: ‘Because Savannah, Savannah, why isn’t he addressing the issue? He’s not addressing the issue. He’s not calling it what it is. This is radical Islamic terrorism. This isn’t fighting Germany; this isn’t fighting Japan, where they wear uniforms.’”

    • June 13: Trump Calls for Banning Immigrants from Muslim World

      Donald Trump called for outlawing immigrants from areas of the world with a history of terrorism. “Donald Trump called Monday for outlawing immigrants from areas of the world with a history of terrorism as part of his proposed temporary ban on all Muslims entering the United States — a radical rewriting of U.S. counterterrorism policy that he argued was essential to protect the peace and security of women and gays in particular. The Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee escalated his already controversial rhetoric about immigrants in the wake of Sunday’s massacre at a gay nightclub, even though the shooter was born in New York. Trump accused American Muslims of harboring terrorists and blamed them for the Orlando attack as well as for last December’s shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. ‘The Muslims have to work with us,’ Trump said in a speech Monday afternoon in New Hampshire. ‘They know what’s going on. They know that [Orlando gunman Omar Mateen] was bad. They knew the people in San Bernardino were bad. But you know what? They didn’t turn them in. And you know what? We had death and destruction.’”

    • June 13: Trump Says There Should Have Been More Guns in Orlando Club

      Donald Trump said that the Orlando attack could have been prevented “if you had some guns in the club the night that this took place.” “Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, believes that if there’d been more people with guns at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Saturday night, the horrific massacre that resulted in at least 50 people dead wouldn’t have been as bad. ‘If you had some guns in that club the night that this took place, if you had guns on the other side, you wouldn’t have had the tragedy that you had,’ Trump said in a CNN interview Monday morning.”

      Donald Trump: “If you had guns in that room […] you wouldn’t have had that tragedy.” “Trump, however, insisted that the answer was simply more people firing guns in dark, crowded nightclubs. ‘If you had guns in that room, if you had — even if you had a number of people having them strapped to their ankle or strapped to their waist where bullets could have flown in the other direction right at him, you wouldn’t have had that tragedy,’ Trump said. Attempts by armed civilians to stop mass shooters are incredibly rare — and they often end up being deadly for the well-meaning civilians. It’s also hard in those chaotic, fast-moving situations for untrained civilians to sort out the good guys from the bad guys.”

        • An armed off-duty police officer was working security at the club and traded gunfire with the attacker. “Orlando Police Chief John Mina said an off-duty police officer working security at the club in uniform traded gunfire with the attacker. Officials said that after police responded to reports of the violence, the attacker retreated to a bathroom with hostages. Police held back because the attacker made statements about having explosives, they said.”

    • June 13: Trump Bans Washington Post from Campaign Events

      Donald Trump revoked press credentials for the Washington Post following what he viewed as unacceptably critical coverage. “Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced Monday he was revoking press credentials for The Washington Post, upset with the major newspaper’s coverage of his campaign. The action from the Trump campaign is the latest in a string of moves Trump’s campaign has made to ban reporters and news outlets that, in the mind of the billionaire businessman, have not treated him fairly. According to another Facebook post, the final straw seems to have been a story that the Post originally headlined ‘Donald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shooting.’ The current headline now reads, ‘Donald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando shooting.’”

    • June 14: Trump Says Obama Was “More Angry At Me Than He Was at the [Orlando] Shooter”

      Donald Trump said President Obama was “more angry at me than he was at the [Orlando] shooter.” “Reverting to his free-wheeling attack-dog style, Donald Trump on Tuesday evening accused the president of directing more anger at him than the man who slaughtered dozens in Orlando and bragged about cutting off press credentials to one of the country’s biggest newspapers. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee spoke at a rally in Greensboro, N.C., just hours after President Barack Obama leveled his harshest criticism to date of Mr. Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., which Mr. Trump broadened in a Monday speech responding to the massacre in Orlando. ‘He was more angry at me than he was at the shooter,’ Mr. Trump said in North Carolina. ‘The level of anger, that’s the kind of anger he should have for the shooter and these killers who shouldn’t be here.’”

    • June 15: Trump Says He Would “Accept” A U.S. Visit by Kim Jong Un

      Donald Trump said he would “accept” a visit to the U.S. by Kim Jong Un as part of “opening a dialogue.” “Mr. Trump, who last month said he would be open to negotiating directly with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, went further on Wednesday in his commitment to being open to talk to anyone. ‘I wouldn’t go there, that I can tell you,’ Mr. Trump said of North Korea. ‘If he came here, I’d accept him, but we wouldn’t have a state dinner like we do for China and all these other people who rip us off.’”

    • June 15: Trump Calls for Surveillance of Mosques

      Donald Trump called for surveillance of U.S. mosques. “Mr. Trump also said that ‘we have to go and we have to check, respectfully, the mosques,’ a more explicit position regarding surveillance that he proposed last year after the Paris attacks.”

    • June 15: Trump Predicts More Terrorist Attacks in the U.S.

      Donald Trump predicted more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. “He also continued to predict that there would be more terrorists attacks in the United States. ‘I’ve been saying it’s going to happen,’ Mr. Trump said. ‘And I hate to say it again, but it’s going to happen again and again and again.’”

    • June 19: Trump Calls for Increasing Profiling of Muslims

      Donald Trump called for increasing profiling of Muslims. “DICKERSON: Can I ask you just a bottom-line question before we move on? You like to speak plainly. In December, we talked, and you said there possibly should be profiling. Just as a bottom line here, are you talking about increasing profiling of Muslims in America? TRUMP: Well, I think profiling is something that we’re going to have to start thinking about as a country. And other countries do it. And you look at Israel and you look at others, and they do it. And they do it successfully. And I hate the concept of profiling. But we have to start using common sense, and we have to use — we have to use our heads. I see people that — and I have seen it recently. We had a case where very much in my case, where we had — we had tremendous numbers of people coming into a speech I was making. And people that obviously had no guns, had no weapons, had no anything, and they were being — they were going through screening. And they were going through the same — the same scrutiny, the absolute same scrutiny as somebody else that looked like it could have been a possible person. So, we really have to look at profiling. We have to look at it seriously. And other countries do it. And it’s not the worst thing to do. I hate the concept of profiling, but we have to use common sense. We’re not using common sense.”

    • June 21: FEC Report Reveals Trump Paid $35,000 to Dubious “Mad Men” Ad Agency

      Donald Trump’s campaign paid $35,000 to a just-incorporated firm called “Draper Sterling,” a play on the name of the ad agency from the TV show “Mad Men.” “Donald Trump’s latest campaign finance filing contains the names of dozens of companies that were paid for services, but one really stands out: Draper Sterling, a play on the name of the fictional ad agency from the cable TV series ‘Mad Men.’ The firm that collected $35,000 from Trump for ‘web advertising’ in late April isn’t headquartered in Madison Avenue offices filled with mid-century modern furniture and stylish secretaries; it traces back to a private home in suburban New Hampshire that’s about a 15-minute drive from the home of ousted Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Unraveling what it is and how it wound up getting a big chunk of Trump change is a bit like trying to figure out Don Draper’s true identity. Draper Sterling was only incorporated in March, and the registered agent, according to New Hampshire public records, is a man named Jon Adkins — who separately was paid $3,000 in May for ‘field consulting’ by the Trump campaign. Another man using Adkins’ New Hampshire address, former Navy SEAL Paul Holzer, also pocketed $3,000 for field consulting on the same day, the filing shows.”

    • June 24: Trump Celebrates Brexit Because It Will Be Good For His Businesses

      Donald Trump said a drop in the value of the pound would be a good thing for him because “when the pound goes down, more people are gonna come to Turnberry, frankly.” “At a press conference from the 9th tee of the golf course, a lighthouse along the rocky coast in the southwest of Scotland in the distance, Trump seemed unconcerned about the precipitous, overnight drop in the British pound. the pound fell to a 30-year low following the vote, but Trump said it could be a good thing — at least for businesses like his. ‘Look if the pound goes down, they’re gonna do more business,’ Trump said. ‘You know, when the pound goes down, more people are gonna come to Turnberry, frankly, and the pound has gone down, and let’s see what the impact of that is.’ That is a remarkable suggestion from a man looking to lead the world and who is already facing criticism, even from within his own party, for tending to business interests while running for president of the United States.”

      Donald Trump tweeted that Scotland was “going wild” over the Brexit vote because “they took their country back,” despite the fact that Scotland voted to remain in the E.U. “Upon arriving in Scotland, Trump tweeted, ‘Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back.’ That’s despite the fact that 62 percent of Scots voted to remain in the E.U.”

    • June 25: Trump Says Brexit Is Not the U.S.’s Problem

      Donald Trump: “The U.S. has real, real problems, and Brexit is not their problem.” “A day after the U.K. voted to leave the EU, Trump was nonchalant about the repercussions of that vote for Americans. ‘This shouldn’t even affect them, frankly, if it’s done properly, if we had proper leadership,’ he said on the 10th hole. ‘The U.S. has real, real problems, and Brexit is not their problem,’ he added on the 13th.”

    • June 25: Trump Responds to Question About Financial Turmoil by Congratulating Himself for His “Great” Timing

      Donald Trump responded to a question about falling financial markets by congratulating himself for his “great” timing. “Later, NBC’s Katy Tur had this exchange with Trump at the 18th hole. TUR: The global markets are down and people are worried. TRUMP: My timing was great because I was here, right at the epicenter of the crisis. Given what Tur said, Trump’s response was effectively gibberish. The fact that Brexit is causing global financial unrest is unrelated to Trump’s sense of ‘timing.’ And Trump’s trip to Scotland was itself unrelated to Brexit. And being physically located in Scotland as part of a promotional event is unrelated to being ‘at the epicenter’ of a crisis.”

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