# Most amazing/outlandish Trump facts. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 18, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835 "2018-08-18T16:21:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/1 "2018-08-18T16:21:52Z")
This thread is only for some interesting and outlandish facts about the President of the United States. True facts, not opinions or unverified claims. So saying that Trump is an idiot is not allowed since that is an opinion not a fact. I’ll start. \*Donald Trump has a cabinet member, whose husbands head, Trump once shaved on live TV. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/2 "2018-08-18T16:30:28Z")
- Donald Trump, who promised to “hire only the best people” and “drain the swamp” has mainly hired based on flattery, donations to his campaign and looks, has the highest turnover of any modern president, (with a few exceptions) expresses nothing but support in public up until the moment he gets someone else to fire you, yet retains people he has repeatedly publicly accused of running a treasonous campaign against him ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/3 "2018-08-18T17:40:21Z")
Donald Trump has averaged 6 lies a day since his inauguration, and the trend is _up_. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/4 "2018-08-18T18:14:58Z")
Trump (and Melania) have a brief cameo at the beginning of _Zoolander_. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/5 "2018-08-18T18:19:56Z")
Donald Trump is President of the United States. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/6 "2018-08-18T18:23:17Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Trump (and Melania) have a brief cameo at the beginning of _Zoolander_. And kinda sorta in _Mystic Pizza_. There is a scene where _Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous_ is playing in the background, and Robin Leach is interviewing one Donald J. Trump (pre-Melania, since we’re talking 1980s) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/7 "2018-08-18T19:16:44Z")
He’s a teetotaller who doesn’t smoke and likes his steaks well done. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/8 "2018-08-18T19:25:56Z")
As a presidential candidate, Trump repeatedly threatened to jail his opponent (Hillary Clinton) if he won, incited his followers to violence, and appealed to the leader of a hostile foreign power to undertake an illegal email hacking operation. As President, Trump has made easily falsified statements such as those about the size of and weather at his inauguration crowd, has made unsubstantiated claims like the supposed “three to five million illegal votes” that cost him the popular vote, and refused to shake the hand of the head of state of a key strategic ally in front of cameras. Trump ran “Trump University LLC” until 2010 when it was found that it was not qualified as university under New York state law, and that Donald Trump did not apply for a business license; the name was changed to “Trump Entrepreneurial Institute”, although it was still promoted as “Trump University”. In November 2016 Trump trump settled a suit with the state of New York and two class action lawsuits for a total of $25 million while claiming that this was not an admission of liability. Trump has licensed his name to companies producing vodka, online steaks (sold through _The Sharper Image_ stores), and presciently, “Golden Ale”. All of these brands are defunct, along with his airline and air taxi service, a modeling agency, a short-lived bike race, a mid-level marketing supplement company, his alternative football league and team, and a home mortgage that opened in 2006, just prior to the mortgage housing crisis. Donald Trump has run multiple casinos–a business with a statistically guaranteed gross profit–into bankruptcy. The portrayal of casino owner Biff Tannen from _Back to the Future, Part II_ was based upon Donald Trump. After nearly thirty years Donald Trump still doesn’t understand the actual insult in Graydon Carter’s epithet as a “short-fingered vulgarian”. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/9 "2018-08-18T19:34:27Z")
Trump spent about half what Hillary spent in their Presidential campaigns and won. > [@](#): > > Clinton’s unsuccessful campaign ($768 million in spending) outspent Trump’s successful one ($398 million) by nearly 2 to 1. Article — **Somebody just put a price tag on the 2016 election. It’s a doozy.** > **[Analysis | Somebody just put a price tag on the 2016 election. It’s a doozy.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/14/somebody-just-put-a-price-tag-on-the-2016-election-its-a-doozy/)** > > We spend so much, and yet are so unhappy with what we get in return. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/10 "2018-08-18T19:42:24Z")
Trump once kissed his lawyer spokesman Rudy Giuliani as an act of mock sexual harassment. [https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/trump-stuck-his-face-in-rudy-guilianis-chest-in-2000-drag-comedy-skit-2018-5](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/trump-stuck-his-face-in-rudy-guilianis-chest-in-2000-drag-comedy-skit-2018-5) ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/11 "2018-08-18T19:44:54Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > Trump once kissed his lawyer spokesman Rudy Giuliani as an act of mock sexual harassment. > [Trump stuck his face in Rudy Guiliani's chest in 2000 drag comedy skit](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/trump-stuck-his-face-in-rudy-guilianis-chest-in-2000-drag-comedy-skit-2018-5) How is this not the stock photo for news shows every time they have a story about Trump and Giuliani? Stranger ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/12 "2018-08-18T19:51:19Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > Trump once kissed his lawyer spokesman Rudy Giuliani as an act of mock sexual harassment. > [Trump stuck his face in Rudy Guiliani's chest in 2000 drag comedy skit](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/trump-stuck-his-face-in-rudy-guilianis-chest-in-2000-drag-comedy-skit-2018-5) Photo caption. > [@](#): > > Giuliani, or “Rudia”, making a shocked face after the Trump encounter. I guess he wasn’t expecting the tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Ambrosio\_Spinola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@Ambrosio\_Spinola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambrosio_Spinola)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/13 "2018-08-18T20:15:59Z")
Trump canceled the health insurance of his nephew’s infant son who was suffering from cystic fibrosis. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/14 "2018-08-18T20:20:22Z")
Trump is the only US president who was married 3 times. And although one other president (Reagan) was divorced, Trump is the only president who was divorced twice. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/15 "2018-08-18T23:42:47Z")
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi was considering action against Trump and his fake University. The Trump foundation donated $25000 to her re-election campaign and she decided to not pursue action against the fraudulent Trump University. Trump and his businesses have been involved in at least 3,500 legal actions in federal and state courts during the past three decades. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/16 "2018-08-18T23:52:31Z")
Trump is the first Major Party Presidential candidate in 40 years to refuse to release his tax returns. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/17 "2018-08-18T23:57:30Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Photo caption. > > I guess he wasn’t expecting the tongue. And now he just can’t stop thinking about it. While still married to his first wife, Ivana, Trump began a years-long affair with Marla Maples. Though the affair cost him his marriage, Trump reminisced that during the affair, his “life was so great in so many ways. The business was so great . . . a beautiful girlfriend, a beautiful wife, a beautiful everything. Life was just a bowl of cherries.” ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/18 "2018-08-19T00:40:56Z")
Donald Trump is the first President to marry a Communist. He is also the first President to do so twice. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/19 "2018-08-19T00:42:55Z")
Sunny Isles, Florida (in the North Miami Beach area - I lived there about 25 years ago) has been dubbed Little Moscow because of all of the Russians who have bought condos in Trump properties located there. > **[In ‘Little Moscow,’ Russians helped Donald Trump’s brand survive the recession](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-little-moscow-russians-helped-donald-trumps-brand-survive-the-recession/2016/11/04/f9dbd38e-97cf-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.91e45501841e)** > > Real estate agents say investors from the former Soviet Union are drawn to his brand and image. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835/20 "2018-08-19T00:45:14Z")
Donald Trump has been accused of sexual assault by 16 women, and has openly bragged, on video, about groping women without their consent and barging into locker rooms where underage girls were undressed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-amazing-outlandish-trump-facts/819835.md?page=2)