“I do know phrases. I’ve the most effective phrases,” Donald Trump informed a South Carolina crowd as he campaigned for the Republican main in December 2015.
It was simply six months into his first marketing campaign, however the true property mogul turned actuality TV star turned politician had already garnered a status for peppering his speeches with weird adjectives, head-scratching non sequiturs and sudden bursts of superlatives. There are phrases and phrases that he has used for the previous 9 years on repeat, trotting them out with gusto: “Witch hunt.” “Pretend information.” “Super.” “Swamp.” “Enormous/Yuge.”
However there’s one phrase that Trump simply hasn’t gotten sufficient of, whether or not he was talking on the marketing campaign path or waxing philosophic from the Oval Workplace: “stunning.”
In 2017, for instance, within the span of 1 month, at completely different public appearances, he described 35 separate issues and other people as “stunning.” In his palms, “stunning” is an amazingly adaptable adjective, wielded as each a praise — and an insult. Take final month’s live-streamed interview with Elon Musk, when Trump had this to say about his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris: “She’s a good looking lady, so we’ll depart it at that.”
More often than not, there’s little rhyme or motive to what he considers worthy of the adjective. Here’s a collection of 50 instances (curated from many hundreds of situations) that Trump used his favourite phrase:
2 A Rubber Trump Masks.
“Have a look at this masks. Oh wow, it’s stunning. Good head of hair, I’ll inform you that.” | Nov. 7, 2016
3 His Temperament.
“My temperament is completely managed, so stunning.” | June 3, 2016
4 A Police Raid.
“Columbia College was a fantastic college, nevertheless it’s been badly broken, I feel, reputationally. … They might’ve accomplished this with the tents. … However the police got here in and in precisely two hours, every thing was over. It was a good looking factor to observe. New York’s most interesting.” | Might 1, 2024
5 Soil.
“We occur to be fortunate; below our toes, we have now nice wealth. Not solely within the type of your sort of wealth, which is gorgeous, fertile soil, but additionally in different areas within the type of vitality.” | JUNE 21, 2017
6 His Hair.
“You go into a brand new residence, you activate the tap, no water comes out. You activate the bathe – for those who’re like me, you’ll be able to’t wash your stunning hair correctly.”| AUG. 6, 2020
7 Clear water.
“Now not will the EPA be telling you the way to run your corporation or do your job or stay your life. As a substitute, it’ll deal with its true mission: clear air and clear, stunning, crystal water—good, stunning, clear water.” | june 21, 2017
9 A Canine and a Gap in a Wall.
“Our Ok-9, as they name — I name it a canine, a good looking canine, a proficient canine — was injured and introduced again. However we had no soldier injured. They usually did numerous taking pictures, and so they did numerous blasting, even not going by means of the entrance door. You understand, you’ll assume you undergo the door. When you’re a standard individual, you say, “Knock, knock. Might I are available in?” The very fact is that they blasted their method into the home and a really heavy wall, and it took them actually seconds. By the point these issues went off, that they had a good looking, huge gap, and so they ran in and so they acquired all people without warning.” | june 21, 2017
10 White Home Telephones.
“These are stunning telephones.” | jan. 24, 2017
11 Farming.
“Farming — which is one thing that may be very stunning to me. I’m not a farmer, however I’d be very pleased to be one. It’s a really stunning world to me.” | june 22, 2017
12 Coal.
“And we have ended the warfare on clear, stunning coal, and we’re placing our miners again to work.” | june 21, 2017
13 A Photo voltaic Wall on the Border.
“A photo voltaic wall. Is sensible. Let’s have a look at. We’re working it out. We’ll see. Photo voltaic wall—panels. Stunning. I imply, truly, consider it, the upper it goes, the extra worthwhile it’s. It is like—[laughter]. Fairly good creativeness, proper? Good? My thought.” | june 21, 2017
14 Fighter Jets.
“And numerous it is already coming, these brand-new, stunning planes, these unimaginable stealth F-35s, the . . . you might have the F-35, you might have the F-18s, the Tremendous Dupers, the Hornets.” | oct. 18, 2018
15 A Word from Chinese language President Xi Jinping.
“And I acquired alongside very properly with President Xi. He’s a fantastic man, wrote me a good looking word the opposite day when he heard about what occurred.” | july 20, 2024
17 A Telephone Name with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“It was stunning. It was only a good dialog.” | sept. 25, 2020
18 Sleeping Gasoline.
“They’ve a gasoline, that’s a good looking sleeping gasoline, that places [terrorists] to sleep.” | oct. 10, 2001
19 US Army Weapons.
“One of many issues that we are going to focus on is the acquisition of a number of stunning army gear as a result of no person makes it like the USA.” | could 21, 2017
20 Taylor Swift.
“I feel she’s stunning — very stunning! I discover her very stunning. I feel she’s liberal. She in all probability doesn’t like Trump. I hear she’s very proficient. I feel she’s very stunning, truly — unusually stunning!” | novEMBER 2023
21 Carly Fiorina.
“I feel she’s acquired a good looking face and she or he’s a good looking lady.” | july 21, 2016
22 Hillary Clinton.
“I known as her ‘crooked Hillary.’ Now I name her ‘very stunning Hillary’ as a result of she’s meaningless.” | jan. 5, 2024
23 Supreme Courtroom Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Household.
“And what they did to Brett Kavanaugh and his stunning household is a nationwide shame that won’t be quickly forgotten.” | oct. 18, 2018
24 A Feminine Reporter at a Press Name.
“We now have all this stunning Irish press. The place are you from? … She has a pleasant smile on her face.” | june 27, 2017
25 French First Girl Brigitte Macron.
“You’re in such fine condition. She’s in such good bodily form. Stunning.” | july 13, 2017
26 Assist Employee and ISIS Hostage Kayla Mueller.
“She was a good looking lady, stunning younger lady. Helped folks. She was there to assist folks. And he noticed her and he thought she was stunning, and he introduced her into captivity for an extended time period after which he killed her.” | oct. 27, 2019
27 Kim Keon-hee, First Girl of South Korea.
“It’s a fantastic honor to have you ever on the White Home and your very stunning and wonderful spouse.” | june 29, 2017
28 Kamala Harris.
“I noticed an image of her on Time Journal immediately. She seems like probably the most stunning actress ever to stay. It was a drawing. And truly, she appeared very very like our nice first girl, Melania. She didn’t appear like Kamala. However after all, she’s a good looking lady, so we’ll depart it at that.” | aug. 12, 2024
29 Chocolate Cake.
Trump recounted telling President Xi about air strikes he approved in Syria: “I used to be sitting on the desk. We had completed dinner. We’re now having dessert. And we had probably the most stunning piece of chocolate cake that you just’ve ever seen and President Xi was having fun with it.” | April 13, 2017
30 The Colour Crimson.
“And people maps, these electoral maps, they had been all pink. Stunning pink. Stunning.” | june 22, 2017
31 The Supreme Courtroom.
“The Supreme Courtroom is a good looking factor to observe in lots of respects.” | feb. 28, 2024
32 A Soccer Deal with.
“Two guys, JUst actually, stunning deal with. Growth, 15 yards! The referee will get on tv — his spouse is sitting at residence, she’s so pleased with him. They’re ruining the sport!” | sept. 22, 2017
33 Tax {Dollars}.
“We should always instantly cease sending our stunning American tax {dollars} to nations that hate us and snigger at our President’s stupidity!” | nov. 7, 2014
34 Well being Care Negotiations.
About his 2017 plans to switch Obamacare: “It’s an enormous, fats, stunning negotiation. Hopefully we’ll provide you with one thing that’s going to be actually terrific.” | march 13, 2017
35 His Proposed Tax Reduce.
Trump mentioned his plans to assist American companies and staff: “On the very middle of that plan is a huge, stunning, huge, the largest ever in our nation tax lower.” | sept. 29, 2017
36 Accomplice Statues.
“The wonder that’s being taken out of our cities, cities and parks will likely be enormously missed and by no means in a position to be comparably changed!” | aug. 17, 2017
37 His Well being Care Plan.
“I want to terminate Obamacare and provide you with a model new stunning well being care.” | oct. 22, 2020
38 American Lives.
About individuals who had been killed by undocumented immigrants: “These stunning American lives had been stolen as a result of our authorities refused to do its job. If the federal government had merely enforced our immigration legal guidelines, these People would nonetheless be alive immediately.” | aug. 4, 2017
39 ‘Made in America.’
“For greater than two centuries, these three stunning phrases have been the world commonplace for high quality, craftsmanship, and excellence, and so they nonetheless are immediately.” | july 7, 2017
40 Younger Black Conservatives.
Trump hosted friends from the 2018 Younger Black Management Summit: “I can simply have a look at the unimaginable stunning and good-looking faces,” he stated gesturing in direction of the gang. “At this time, you’re not allowed to make use of these phrases as a result of they’ll say you’re — however you realize what, I’ll use it anyway, stunning and good-looking.” | oct. 26, 2018
41 His Personal Sentences.
“For the final month I made a decision to not do interviews, as a result of they provide interviews and so they chop up your sentences and lower them brief. You should have this stunning flowing sentence the place the again of the sentence reverts to the entrance and so they lower the again of the sentence off.” | dec. 13, 2016
43 A Marketing campaign Enviornment.
“To all of these folks watching, it is an unbelievable place. It’s a huge, stunning enviornment, and it’s packed.” | june 21, 2017
44 Belgium (the nation).
“Belgium is a good looking metropolis.” | june 15, 2016
45 Harambe the Gorilla.
“It was superb. There have been moments with the gorilla, the way in which he held that little one, it was nearly like a mom holding a child. It seems so stunning and calm. And there have been moments the place it appeared fairly harmful.” | could 31, 2016
46 Lives misplaced in Afghanistan.
“As of some months in the past, our nation had spent $6 trillion within the Center East — wasted. And the lives — the lives, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of lives — $6 trillion and hundreds of younger, stunning lives.” | june 21, 2017
47 Airports.
“You understand, we was once the chief in airports. We would have probably the most stunning airports. Now we’re like a third-world nation.” | june 21, 2017
48 Otto Warmbier, American Imprisoned in North Korea.
“However you have a look at North Korea, what is going on — have a look at Otto — stunning Otto. Went over there a wholesome, fantastic boy, and also you see how he got here again.” | june 21, 2017
49 The Unknown.
“It’s America’s future to be on the forefront of humanity’s everlasting quest for data and to be the chief amongst nations on our journey into the nice unknown. And I might say the nice and really stunning unknown. Nothing extra stunning.” | june 30, 2017
50 Himself.
“If I took this shirt off, you’d see a good looking, stunning individual.” | june 22, 2024