On Donald Trump's 80th birthday, here are 80 of the most alarming things he's said

On Donald Trump's 80th birthday, here are 80 of the most alarming things he's said President Donald Trump is marking his 80th birthday - and to mark the landmark occasion, we've rounded up some of his comments on women, people of colour and the environment US President Donald Trump is celebrating his landmark 80th birthday. He has chosen to mark the occasion by hosting a massive, three-day event on the White House South Lawn centered around a UFC championship fight. The guest list will feature family, close friends, political allies and a handful of loyal entertainers. But many household names have reportedly declined invitations, wary of being linked to the controversial leader. Perhaps more than any other American president, Trump will go down in history as the most divisive. Both he and his administration have been accused of authoritarian practices, discriminatory and racist policies, and dangerous rhetoric. In honour of his birthday, we've taken a look at Donald Trump in his own words 1. After the first three deaths in the Iran war were reported, Trump seemed to downplay them, telling NBC News: "We have three, but we expect casualties. But in the end, it’s going to be a great deal for the world.” He then seemed to ad-lib while talking about the heavy matter, saying, "That’s the way it is,” and speculating that there would be more deaths. 2. Discussing Palestine, he suggested moving more than 1 million Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries. In January, the former property developer said: "You’re talking about a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing.” "I don’t know, something has to happen, but it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished, and people are dying there, so I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing in a different location where I think they could maybe live in peace for a change.” 3. After an article New York Times' reporter Katie Rogers discussed whether Trump was running low on energy in his 80th year, he raged on Truth Social: "The writer of the story, Katie Rogers, who is assigned to write only bad things about me, is a third-rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out." 4. Trump has repeatedly threatened to take control of Greenland, once saying: "We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not... the nice way or the difficult way." 5. The President also diminished more than 400 British troops in Afghanistan, while speaking about his plans to acquire the semi-autonomous Danish territory. Speaking to Fox News, Trump claimed Britain and Nato had sent "some troops" but "stayed a little back, a little off the front lines", sparking outrage from veterans. Speaking in Davos, he made similar claims again, adding: “I know them all very well. I’m not sure that they’d be there. I know we’d be there for them. I don’t know that they would be there for us.” 6. In March, he was met with silence after joking about Pearl Harbour in front of the Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. The comment was made after a Japanese reporter asked Trump why he didn't inform US allies, including Japan, about his plan to bomb Iran. "One thing, you don't want to signal too much," Trump replied. "We went in very hard, and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise." "Who knows better about surprise than Japan?" he joked, before taking it futher, adding: "Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbour? OK? Right?" To a quietened room, he continued: "He's asking me ...no you believe in surprise much more than us. And we had to surprise them, and that's what we did." 7. Following protests against possible immigration raids in Chicago, he wrote: "I love the smell of deportations in the morning …" on his Truth Social media account in September 2025, alongside an an AI-generated parody image from Apocalypse Now. 8. He's made several vile comments about Kamala Harris over the years, including: "We have to tell Kamala Harris that you’ve had enough, that you just can't take it anymore. We can't stand you, you're a s*** vice president. The worst." On other occasions, he's asked: "Do you want to lose your life savings because we put a weak and foolish woman in the White House?" He separately claimed: "She is slow and lethargic in answering even the easiest of questions." 9. Ahead of the election, he urged his supporters to vote early by telling them to get their “fat pig” husbands off the couch. At a rally in Detroit, Michigan in 2024, he told the crowd: "Early voting is underway so get everyone you know and get out and vote. Go tomorrow, it’s just starting, go and vote, make sure you vote, and bring all our friends that want to vote for us, tell them: ‘Jill, get your fat husband off the couch. Get that fat pig off the couch. 'Time to go and vote for Trump, he’s going to save our country’ … Get him up, Jill. Slap him around, get him up!” 10. Discussing his immigration policy at a rally in Pennsylvania last December: "I've also announced a permanent pause on third world migration, including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries: 11. He allegedly referred to the widow of Corey Comperatore — a Trump supporter killed during the July assassination attempt on the him in Pennsylvania - in a joke at a private fundraiser, according to the Guardian. In a recording leaked to the paper, Trump allegedly said "So they're going to get millions of dollars but the woman, the wife, this beautiful woman, I handed her the cheque - we handed her the cheque - and she said, 'This is so nice, and I appreciate it, but I'd much rather have my husband'. "Now, I know some of the women in this room wouldn't say the same. I know at least four couples. There are four couples, Governor [Abbott], that I know and you're not one of them. At least four couples here would have been thrilled, actually." 12. Renaming the "Gulf of Mexico" the "Gulf of America". 13. Describing Joe Biden as "a broken-down pile of crap” on the verge of "quitting the race” 14. On sending aid to Gaza: "We gave $60 million, two weeks ago - and nobody even acknowledged it – for food. It's terrible. You know, you really at least want to have somebody to say ‘thank you’ … Nobody acknowledged it, nobody talks about it, and it makes you feel a little bad when you do that. "Nobody gave but us, and nobody said, 'gee, thank you very much', and it would be nice to have at least a thank you." 15. On Air Force One when Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey asked him about the Jeffrey Epstein files, he replied: "Quiet. Quiet, piggy." 16. Describing US House member Marjorie Taylor Greene on Truth Social: "Marjorie is not AMERICA FIRST or MAGA, because nobody could have changed her views so fast, and her new views are those of a very dumb person." 17. In March, he said Keir Starmer was a "nice man", but refused to say whether he wanted to see him replaced as Prime Minister. "We have a tremendous, long-term relationship with the UK," Trump said. "It's the oldest, the longest. Should be the best. Always was the best until Keir came along." And asked if he wanted to see Starmer replaced, he would only say it was a matter for the British people, not for him. "He hasn't been supportive and I think it's a big mistake," Trump said, repeating his insult that Starmer is "not Winston Churchill." 18. Rating his US-Israel war with Iran a 15 out of 10: "These are exciting times … We’re doing very well on the war front, to put it mildly I would say. Somebody said on a scale of 10, where would you rate it? I said, about a 15." 19. At his State of the Union address in February, he took aim specifically of people of Somali heritage, branding them "pirates" and accusing them of fraud and corruption. "The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where bribery, corruption, and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception," he said. "Importing these cultures through unrestricted immigration and open borders brings those problems right here, to the USA - and it is the American People who pay the price, in higher medical bills, car insurance rates, rent, taxes, and perhaps most importantly, crime. We will take care of this problem." 20. On giving police "one really violent day" to tackle crime to help to stop people stealing, he opined: "It's so bad. One rough hour, and I mean real rough, and the word will get out and it will end immediately. End immediately." 21. While discussing the election with a reporter who asked for evidence of a "rigged election", he got distracted by the rain, ranting: "I just did an interview in the most beautiful barn I’ve ever seen … it was a beauty, but it was raining, and it was with NBC fake news. And because it was raining, I got a little bit angry at them. I was not happy with them. But we had a good time.” 22. “I probably won all 50 states if we had an honest count,” Trump said. In fact, he actually won 31 states. 23. In January, he claimed Putin agreed to the Ukraine ceasefire because of the Beast from the East. "Because of the cold," Trump said at a Cabinet Meeting. "Extreme cold. They have the same that we do. I personally asked President Putin not to fire on Kyiv and the cities and towns for a week. Because of the...it's not a cold, it's extraordinarily cold. Record setting cold. Over there too. They're having the same...it's a big pile of bad weather, the worst. They said they've never experienced weather like that." He added: "And I personally asked President Putin not to fire into Kyiv and the various towns for a week and he agreed to do that. And I have to tell you, it was very nice." 24. To ABC news reporter Rachel Scott in the White House press corp: "You’re the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious, a terrible, actually a terrible reporter and it’s always the same thing with you." 25. "The doctor said, ‘Man you have the blood pressure of a great, great, athlete who is 20 years old. 110, I like that, because I like being a great athlete." 26. "[Obama] is the founder of Isis. He’s the founder of Isis, OK? He’s the founder. He founded Isis and I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton." 27. "Don’t tell me it doesn’t work - torture works. Half these guys [say]: ‘Torture doesn’t work.’ Believe me, it works." 28. "When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. … They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." 29. "There is something on [Obama’s] birth certificate - maybe religion, maybe it says he’s a Muslim, I don’t know. Maybe he doesn’t want that. Or, he may not have one." 30. "I believe in clean air. Immaculate air. … But I don’t believe in climate change." 31. "The leaks are real, but the news is fake." 32. "I loved my previous life. I had so many things going. This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier." 33. "An 'extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud." 34. "Who wouldn’t take Kate [Middleton’s] picture and make lots of money is she does the nude sunbathing thing. Come on Kate!" 35. Just days after Renee Good was shot dead by an ICE agent on the streets of Minneapolis, Trump claimed anyone protesting against his anti immigrant thug squad must be "practiced" and fake. And for the second time, he referenced seeing a woman in a video of the aftermath of the tragic killing, shouting "shame, shame, shame" at the agent who shot her. In January 2026, he claimed the woman in the video was a "professional troublemaker". He continued: "One of the reasons they're doing these fake riots," he said in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club. "I mean they're just terrible. It's so fake. 'Shame! Shame! Shame!' You see the woman. It's all practiced. They take hotel rooms and they all practice together. It's a whole scam. We're finding out who's funding all this stuff too." 36. In 2013, he tweeted: "26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?" 37. He was forced to apologise after a video emerged in which he made obscene comments about women. In the footage, revealed by the Washington Post, Trump is heard bragging to TV host Billy Bush about trying to have sex with a married woman "You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful - I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything." He added later on: "Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything." 38. While promoting Season Three of The Apprentice, which his children featured on, Trump was asked how he would react if his daughter Ivanka posed for Playboy. He replied: "It would be really disappointing - not really - but it would depend on what's inside the magazine," before adding: "I don't think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her." Joy Behar, one of the show's co-hosts, then exclaimed, "Stop it! Oh, that's so weird. Stop it!" 39. Moaning about his cover on Time Magazine, he wrote on Truth Social: "Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me. But the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture and it deserves to be called out." "What are they doing and why?" 40. At a summit in Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss peace in Gaza last year, he started discussing the looks of Italian PM Giorgia Meloni. "We have a woman, a young woman. Who is, you're not allowed to say it because usually it's the end of your political career, usually if you use the word beautiful about a young woman in the United States it's the end of your political career, but I'll take my chances." He turned round to Meloni, and could be heard saying: "You don't mind being called beautiful right? Because you are." 41 After it was alleged his wife Melania plagiarised her speech from Michelle Obama: "Good news is Melania’s speech got more publicity than any in the history of politics especially if you believe that all press is good press!" 42. On Senator John McCain in 2015: "He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, OK?" 43. In 2016, he boasted: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters." 44. On killing Coronavirus with 'light inside the body': "Suppose that we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light,” Trump said at a White House briefing. He added: "Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way.” 45. "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive." 46. "Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest - and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure, it's not your fault." 47. "Obama's wind turbines kill 13-39 million birds and bats every year! Save our bald eagles, symbol of our nation!" 48. "I will build a great wall -- and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me --and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words." 49. "North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the 'Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.' Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!" 50. "Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY. Problem is, we don't have Stars anymore - except your President (just kidding, of course)!" 51. "Every time I speak of the haters and losers I do so with great love and affection. They cannot help the fact that they were born f**ked up!" 52. "If the morons who killed all of those people at Charlie Hebdo would have just waited, the magazine would have folded – no money, no success!" 53. At a November 2015 rally, Donald Trump claimed he saw thousands of Muslims cheering during September 11: "There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations," he told the crowd. "They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down." 54. In Trump: The Art of the Comeback, he wrote: "Women have one of the great acts of all time. The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers. The person who came up with the expression 'the weaker sex' was either very naive or had to be kidding. I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye -- or perhaps another body part." 55. Asked this week if Starmer could survive as PM, Trump said: "It's a tough thing. Unless he can straighten out immigration where he's weak and uh if he doesn't start drilling and stop with the windmills all over the place and are causing havoc. "They're causing havoc. Most expensive form of energy. They kill the birds. They're unsightly. They're ruining the landscape. If he doesn't stop with the windmills, he's got to do energy. Got to he's got to open up the North Sea." 56. Asked if he'd ever apologised in his life, he told Jimmy Fallon in 2015: "I think apologising's a great thing, but you have to be wrong. I will absolutely apologise, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I'm ever wrong." 57. Surrounded by kids in the Oval Office at an event in May as he signed a proclamation to bring back the Presidential Fitness Test Award, Trump was asked about the possibility of arming Iranians to overthrow the regime, In front of the children, he replied: "You can have 200,000 people protesting and have five or six sick people with guns, and when they start shooting them right between the eyes and you see a guy fall and another one fall and you have no guns, very few people would be able to stand there and do it. "Don't forget, they killed 42,000 people last month. 42,000 unarmed protesters who had no guns, so they had a 250,000 people crowd and they had snipers...and you're standing there and all of a sudden a guy on your left goes down ...that's what happened with a woman protest. All of a sudden a woman dropped dead with a bullet right there." He pointed to his forehead: "Always right there." 58. "I love the poorly educated." 59. On gay marriage: "It's like in golf. A lot of people -- I don't want this to sound trivial -- but a lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive. It's weird. You see these great players with these really long putters, because they can't sink three-footers anymore. And, I hate it. I am a traditionalist. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist." 60. In an interview, Trump claimed the Pope is helping Iran and making the world less safe with his comments about the importance of not treating immigrants with disrespect. "The Pope would rather talk about the fact that it’s OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said in the interview. “And I don’t think that’s very good. I think he’s endangering a lot of Catholics and a lot of people. I guess if it's up to the Pope, he thinks it's just fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.” 61. "I am totally in favor of vaccines. But I want smaller doses over a longer period of time. Same exact amount, but you take this little beautiful baby, and you pump--I mean, it looks just like it's meant for a horse, not for a child, and we've had so many instances, people that work for me. ... [in which] a child, a beautiful child went to have the vaccine, and came back and a week later had a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic." 62. "I love women. They've come into my life. They've gone out of my life. Even those who have exited somewhat ungracefully still have a place in my heart. I only have one regret in the women department - that I never had the opportunity to court Lady Diana Spencer. I met her on a number of occasions." 63. On the pop star: "Cher is somewhat of a loser. She's lonely. She's unhappy. She's very miserable. And her sound-enhanced and computer-enhanced music doesn't do it for me." 64. Lashing out against Bruce Springsteen, after the singer branded the Trump administration "corrupt" and saying the President "can't handle the truth.". He wrote: "Bad, and very boring singer, Bruce Springsteen, who looks like a dried up prune who has suffered greatly from the work of a really bad plastic surgeon, has long had a horrible and incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS. "The guy is a total loser who spews hate against a President who won a Landslide Election, including the popular vote, all Seven Swing States, and 86% of the Counties across America. Under Sleepy Joe and the Dems, our Country was DEAD, and now we have the "hottest" Country, by far, anywhere in the World. MAGA SHOULD BOYCOTT HIS OVERPRICED CONCERTS, WHICH SUCK. SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. AMERICA IS BACK!!!" 65. "I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I'm more honest and my women are more beautiful." 66. "Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich." 67. "I dealt with Qaddafi. I rented him a piece of land. He paid me more for one night than the land was worth for two years, and then I didn't let him use the land. That's what we should be doing. I don't want to use the word 'screwed', but I screwed him. That's what we should be doing." 68. "Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me old, when I would never call him short and fat? Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend and maybe someday that will happen." 69. "I'm an environmentalist. A lot of people don’t understand that. I think I know more about the environment than most people." 70. "Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? It sounds interesting to me, so we'll see. But the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That's pretty powerful." When he suggested injecting bleach as a way of fighting coronavirus. 71. "I wouldn't say I'm a feminist. I think that would be, maybe, going too far." 72. "I had a meeting at the Pentagon with lots of generals ... they were like from a movie, better looking than Tom Cruise and stronger. And I had more generals than I've ever seen." 73 "Nobody's ever been treated badly like me... Although they do say Abraham Lincoln was treated really badly." 74. "We're rounding 'em up in a very humane way, in a very nice way. And they're going to be happy because they want to be legalised. And, by the way, I know it doesn't sound nice. But not everything is nice." On immigration. 75. "When you see the other side chopping off heads, waterboarding doesn't sound very severe." 76. "If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?" 77. "My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body." 78. On Covid: "We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine." 79. On the Mayor of London: "@SadiqKhan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly "nasty” to the visiting President of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom. He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me......" 80. "I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th."