Clinton or Trump? Who will win US election?

[pc71520]

Still an open Poll/Thread...

[Sylence]

Thread*

[pc71520]

22 hours ago, saeed_dc said:

Thread*

I corrected the typo.

[oliverjia]

On 11/2/2016 at 11:14 AM, Siddharta said:

Hillary wil win by landslide, mark my words!

 

 

LOL, anything to say now?

 

[Siddharta]

4 minutes ago, oliverjia said:

 

 

LOL, anything to say now?

 

You/We are doomed!

[oliverjia]

Just now, Siddharta said:

You/We are doomed!

 

You liberals never learn. Even though your faces are slapped so hard by reality. Amazing. 

[Siddharta]

18 minutes ago, oliverjia said:

 

You liberals never learn. Even though your faces are slapped so hard by reality. Amazing. 

Donald Trump: 24 things the next president believes

• 9 November 2016
• From the section Magazine

 

Trump elected

Republican Donald Trump has won victory in the presidential race, but no one's quite sure what President Trump will actually do in office.

The New York businessman-turned-politician said many controversial things and flip-flopped on a number of policy positions during the campaign.

Here, we look back at 24 of his professed beliefs.

 

1. The US should use waterboarding

This and other methods of "strong interrogation" should be deployed in its fight against the Islamic State group. These methods, Mr Trump said, are "peanuts" compared to the tactics used by the militants, such as beheadings. "I like it a lot. I don't think it's tough enough," he said in June of the banned practice.

 

2. Mexico should pay for the "great, great wall"

Mr Trump has said he wants to start building the much-touted wall on the shared border from the first day of his presidency, and that Mexico will pay for it. In some of his earliest campaign comments, he suggested that Mexicans coming to the US were criminals and "rapists". BBC analysis estimates the border wall could cost between $2.2bn and $13bn.

 

3. Muslims should not be admitted to the US

In the wake of the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, California, Mr Trump wrote that he was "calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on".

He's since gone back on the announcement, instead saying that that he would temporarily suspend "immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism".

 

4. Arab-Americans cheered the attacks on 9/11

Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that on 11 September 2001, there were thousands of Arab-Americans celebrating in New Jersey after two planes flew into the Twin Towers. He says such public demonstrations "tell you something" about Muslims living in the US. However, there are no media reports to back up the claim.

 

5. Obamacare is a "disaster".

Mr Trump says he wants Congress to fully repeal the president's Affordable Care Act, which aims at extending the number of Americans with health insurance, but he believes that "everybody's got to be covered". A spokesman for Mr Trump said he would propose "a health plan that will return authority to the states and operate under free market principles". The increase in premiums revealed just before the election bolstered the Trump attacks.

 

6. Climate change is just "weather"

While Mr Trump believes that maintaining "clean air" and "clean water" is important, he has dismissed climate change science as a "hoax" and believes environmental restrictions on businesses make them less competitive in the global marketplace. "I do not believe that we should imperil the companies within our country," he told CNN on the issue. "It costs so much and nobody knows exactly if it's going to work."

7. The world would be better off if Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were still in power

Mr Trump told CNN that he believes the situation in both Libya and Iraq is "far worse" than it ever was under the leaders of the two countries. While he concedes Saddam was a "horrible guy", he says he did a better job combating terrorists.

 

8. Illegal migrants should be deported

Trump once said that he wanted to deport all of the approximately 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the US, despite criticism that this idea is both xenophobic, next to impossible and prohibitively expensive - the BBC estimates a cost of $114bn. His official policy now says only those with criminal records will be deported immediately, although immigration controls will still be massively beefed up. Any undocumented migrants would also face the risk of deportation.

 

9. Syrian refugees could be a "Trojan horse"

He says that the Paris attacks prove that even a handful of terrorists posing as migrants could do catastrophic damage, and so he will oppose resettling any Syrians in the US, and deport those who have already been resettled. It's unclear if he still believes that deportations are necessary, though he has still vowed to suspend the intake of Syrian refugees.

 

10. Vladimir Putin is a "leader"

He has noted the Russian president's "great control over his country" and criticised the state of the relations between it and the US. He told CNN: "I would probably get along with him very well. And I don't think you'd be having the kind of problems that you're having right now". More recently he has said that Mr Putin doesn't "respect" the US, although that was no reason to get tough on him.

 

11. Taxes should be reduced for everyone

Trump wants to condense the current seven tax brackets to just three, with no income tax for "low-income Americans". He would lower the business tax to 15%, from 35%. He would also allow multinational companies keeping profits overseas to repatriate their cash at a 10% tax rate.

 

12. Hedge fund managers are "getting away with murder"

Mr Trump found common ground with Democrats like Senator Elizabeth Warren when he said that hedge fund managers and the ultra-wealthy did not pay enough taxes. However, after the campaign released specifics of his plan, analysts argued that hedge fund managers would actually get a tax cut along with the middle class.

 

13. China should be taken to task on a number of trade-related issues

He has said he will make China stop undervaluing its currency, and force it to step up its environmental and labour standards. He is also critical of the county's lax attitude towards American intellectual property and hacking.

 

14. The Black Lives Matter movement is "trouble"

Mr Trump mocked former Democratic candidates like Martin O'Malley for apologising to members of the protest movement against police brutality and cast himself as a pro-law enforcement candidate. "I think they're looking for trouble," he once said of the activist group. He also tweeted a controversial and widely debunked graphic purporting to show that African Americans kill white and black people at far higher rates than white people or police officers.

 

15. He's worth $10bn

Based on Mr Trump's 92-page personal financial disclosure form, Bloomberg calculated last year that the real estate mogul was worth about $2.9bn, while Forbes recently put Trump's net worth at $3.7bn. Mr Trump has however insisted that he is worth "in excess" of $10bn.

 

16. Veteran healthcare in the US needs a major overhaul

Mr Trump wants to clear out the executive level in the Department of Veterans Affairs, saying that waiting times for doctor visits have only increased after previous interventions failed. Thousands of veterans have died while waiting for care, he says. He will invest in the treatment of "invisible wounds" like post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. He would also increase the number of doctors who specialise in women's health to help care for the increasing number of female veterans.

 

17. Lobbyists should be more restricted

Mr Trump proposes that there be a five-year ban that prevents government officials and members of congress from leaving and then immediately becoming lobbyists. He also calls for a lifetime ban on senior administration officials from lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.

 

18. He is a "really nice guy"

In Trump's most recent book, Crippled America, he writes that "I'm a really nice guy, believe me, I pride myself on being a nice guy but I'm also passionate and determined to make our country great again". The news site Gawker points out that he calls himself a "nice guy" throughout the book, and Mr Trump repeated that self-assessment in his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live and in an interview with the Washington Post.

 

19. He could not have groped an unattractive woman

A video from 2005 showed Mr Trump making obscene comments about women and triggered numerous claims of alleged sexual harassment. At one rally, he suggested that one of the accusers - a "horrible woman" - was not attractive enough for him to have groped: "I don't think so! I don't think so!"

20. Tokyo and Seoul should build up nuclear arsenals

He has said Japan and South Korea should not rely on the US so much and would benefit from having their own weapons. Nuclear war between Japan and North Korea may be "terrible" but it would be "pretty quick".

 

21. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) is a "rip-off"

Why? Because the US pays more than anyone else. But he later said he was "all" in favour of the alliance.

 

22. Doctors should be punished for administering abortions

Or should they? In an interview with MSNBC, Mr Trump said that if abortion were to become illegal, women should be punished for obtaining them. He then retracted, saying the doctor would be responsible and he or she should be punished, instead.

 

23. The Republican National Committee's rules were "stacked against him"

He called the delegate system "crooked" and "unfair". He repeatedly clashed with the RNC over its nomination process and how it treated his candidacy during the primaries. He called rules that allowed Senator Ted Cruz to gain more delegates than him in some states "rigged", as he did later when talking about the electoral process when polls were showing Hillary Clinton ahead of him.

 

24. The federal minimum wage should be raised

Workers should be paid more than the current level of $7.25/hour, he has said. though this is another issue he has flip-flopped on repeatedly.

[dMog]

you only found 24 ???

[46&2]

There is (at least) one positive thing you can say about Trump. He is not Canadian!

[nIGHT]

I'm not pro-Trump or an anti-Trump though I made comments like these below

Spoiler

 

On 11/13/2016 at 7:31 AM, nIGHT said:

I think this is a balance representation that do justice for any sides be it pro-Trump or anti-Trump.

Removing the very visual analogy and interpreting it plainly, I see it as making just one point.

WHO WILL DO THOSE JOBS FOR YOU?

Oh, the American-born (I guess) doctor specializing in heart surgery, is the protagonist used in this story that was supposed to operate Mr. Trump but since he deported him then no one can be able to operate and save his life.

 

The illegal Mexicans, Latinos,Hispanics, Chinese (the yellows), Indians, Filipinos, Indonesians, Koreans, Vietnamese, and some other Asian countries I have not confirmed, that has its citizen going illegal/TNT there in the U.S., were the ones doing the most dirtiest jobs for you. From cleaning the sewers, toilets, cleaning rooms, cleaning your house, washing dishes and clothes, gardening, to cutting your split ends and cleaning your toes, to scrubbing your rough skins, to caring for you in the hospitals (as a nurse), to giving assistance in caring for your physically immobile kin (as a caregiver), and  all kinds of hard work you do not want to do it by yourself and you probably have no time to do it for yourself were the ones doing it for you at a very cheap cost.

This is the only blue collar jobs, imagine the white collar jobs where you think they were taking it from you.

But if this is what you say has been taken from you, your dream job then you might have a good argument there! Wow!

 

Like being the best heart surgeon (as the protagonist in this movie), scientist, inventors, innovators, specialist in their respective fields, even as executive assistant, movie star, extras, stunt coordinator, could be the kind of job you want for yourself? Really? Why didn't you apply then? Is it because you believe you belong in the higher up chain than those mid-level jobs can offer? Then please do as you may with the help of these colored migrants (as illegal or legal or natural born citizen). They will be glad to help you reach your dreams as they are good to provide assistance and support, and they would be so glad to cheer for you. YOU ARE THE SUPERSTAR ANYWAY!

 

 

For many decades, America became what it is now because of the diverse people in it and several culture contributing to it that makes America become energetic, entertaining and fun to lived! So FUN, that the whites were still the main stars and couldn't have enough of the attention given to them! Without them, America will just be like any country that the white colored people inhabits, flat-boring, and slow progressing especially in technology.

Your movies will be just plain flat-boring white-only cast of actors like other countries produced B movies!

Oh, I forgot! You can give them make-ups to make them look like blacks, hispanics, mexicans and chinese!

 

When your wife/girlfriend shouts at you telling you to fix the clogged toilet and to drained your septic tanks then GOODLUCK doing that!

You even don't know what tools to use for plumbing. You need a AC tester for that!

 

Why then brain-drained term is invented? It's because one country can benefit from external help in order to fasten its progress, technology, culture and creativity.

Deport them then who will do this job?

This is the message of this short movie.

I think this make sense.

That simpson joke about Trump becoming president did really happened!

 

it does not make me belong to any side.

I believe that  any country should encourage immigrants to their benefits.

Like those specialize in technology,medicine, skilled workforce, young creative artist and many more of its type, could boost the progress, development, earnings and tourism of that country.

So my comment above points to that concept.

 

After watching a lot of videos regarding the pre-election day and post-election day protest and supporters clashes against each other, I have seen the ugliness of both sides.

Both sides were afraid of the other. Either of them were always trying to intimidate the other side to  become violent especially the Trump side.

But it does not give the other side (anti-Trump) the right to beat a pro-Trump.

The way these anti-Trump blocking the streets as to harass a little lady and try to gang up on her is not cool, luckily, some of your fellow protesters are quite considerate and stopped you.

Some of the anti-Trump really are destructive, destroying something of electrical like switches, LEDs and car windows, while your fellow protesters tried to stopped you, they got hurt.

They just shows their barbaric nature and a good reason why they should be disliked.

 

Those immigrants and their offspring, mexicans, hispanics,blacks (not as migrants but forced to migrate) did not behave well and does not want to be educated.

They seem to look for trouble and love to indulge in drugs, robbery and some might rape.

The Trump side also have these kind of kids or people that were not so educated and also a trouble maker that again love drugs, and also some might rape too.

With the consideration that all Americans, naturally born, were also immigrants of nature.

The only real Americans were the Native Indians or you called them Native Americans.

The blacks were forced to migrate to America by way of slavery.

These blacks continued to be acting like they were the ones being bullied and acts like the protagonist but in fact half the time they were the ones bullying the other races even the whites.

There is racism of whites against blacks, and that is true, but also the blacks were also been racist to the whites.

Both sides were actually racist, so no one is better than the other. Both were actually racist to the race (hispanic, mexicans) too.

Given the chance, you'll show your bad side

 

The current migrants (Latinos,Hispanics, Chinese (the yellows), Indians, Filipinos, Indonesians, Koreans, Vietnamese) did came late and should be at their best behavior.

The current migrants offspring weren't behaving nicely and acted like they have more right than those who lived in America for a long time (the whites, or migrants from Europe).

And WTF! You don't talk to elders like that! Show some respect even if their opinions are different from yours!

 

The real issue that is ripping the two sides are the illegal current migrants.

These illegal current migrants were the ones mentioned by Trump that rapes and showed the victim's family.

Trump supporters took it as all current migrants were rapist, or all bad and evil.

The other side took it as they were accused of and those whites, who actually hates racist and fascism, did go against Trump.

The Trump side has its point on the Muslim, why it allowed its family members to get recruited by ISIS.

They should be part of the blame too. But issues like these were hard to discuss.

 

So, there were so many issues, from racism, fascism, Jobs and businesses that should be in America and up to (legal and illegal) immigrants, including which of the two candidates is the lesser evil.

I believe these things should be talked upon and discuss how each look up to it, but of course they were those who likes to ridicule the others instead of having a nice discussion.

 

Both of you (pro-Trump and anti-Trump) should be ashamed of the behavior your displaying to the whole world.

You are on the brink of civil war.

The whole world is watching.

 

Note: What I write here may not be entirely correct or may still be biased as I only have the news and youtube as the source of my information. Feel free to correct me if I made a mistake.

I might have watch too much youtubes and my fever is affecting my mind.

[Salafi]

13 hours ago, Siddharta said:

 

3. Muslims should not be admitted to the US

In the wake of the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, California, Mr Trump wrote that he was "calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on".

He's since gone back on the announcement, instead saying that that he would temporarily suspend "immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism".

 

4. Arab-Americans cheered the attacks on 9/11

Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that on 11 September 2001, there were thousands of Arab-Americans celebrating in New Jersey after two planes flew into the Twin Towers. He says such public demonstrations "tell you something" about Muslims living in the US. However, there are no media reports to back up the claim.

 

 

9. Syrian refugees could be a "Trojan horse"

He says that the Paris attacks prove that even a handful of terrorists posing as migrants could do catastrophic damage, and so he will oppose resettling any Syrians in the US, and deport those who have already been resettled. It's unclear if he still believes that deportations are necessary, though he has still vowed to suspend the intake of Syrian refugees.

 

Concerning illegal immigration and refugees : 

 

https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/797833610233577472

 

[jamesbond]

i wonder whereto he wants to deport all of them? probably most won't have any papers once the get them. antarctica?

[pc71520]

What happened to the Hollywood stars?

Did they go to Canada or changed their minds?

 

[knowledge-Spammer]

 

[Mohenjo-daro]

Has USA ever been led by Native Americans? Who were US presidents of a native American ancestry?

[nIGHT]

9 hours ago, jamesbond said:

i wonder whereto he wants to deport all of them? probably most won't have any papers once the get them. antarctica?

"It's easy to say than to do it." It will be a nightmare when they try to implement these purge. I bet people will not only hide but also resist by way of civil war. Quite scary not only for the immigrants, the law enforcement officers (LEO) and the citizens that will get caught in these conflicts. And, of course, the properties that will get damage from these conflicts. There are protesters that already causing damage to properties and some of the protesters tried to stop them. I do not like those kind of protesters, those destructive ones. They are giving the real protesters a bad reputation.

 

6 hours ago, pc71520 said:

What happened to the Hollywood stars?

Did they go to Canada or changed their minds?

hehehe! I thought I was the only curious about it.

Before election:

These 23 Celebrities Said They'll Leave The Country If Trump Wins

After election:

10 Celebs Who Swore To Leave USA If Trump Won Presidency, But Will Now Stay & Fight

 

2 hours ago, Mohenjo-daro said:

Has USA ever been led by Native Americans? Who were US presidents of a native American ancestry?

First question is no.

2nd question are those presidents of U.S.A after they were absorbed by America as citizens.

Almost all people that is in U.S.A. (North America) are migrants in nature except the Native Americans.

The Native Americans were the Native Indians (not the Indians from India but Indians from Antartica, Siberia?, Russia?) later absorb in U.S.A as citizens but they were not migrant as they were there before the whites came from Europe (the Whites are migrants too!).

They literally "owned" the whole America and sold less than half of it for a few cents but the payment wasn't completed.

Like you try to buy a house using mortgage or loan a car, when you fail to complete payments the interest will surely adds up till you reach a certain time it will be deemed as the loaner or the one who is interested to acquire it is no longer interested to complete the deal and hence the deal is off.

Whatever they pay is already been considered as "used to cover cost for whatever like use of land, damage to property, etc"

Literally the land of U.S.A is not owned by them but by the Native American. Get it?

[nIGHT]

In my country, there are Koreans, Taiwanese, Indians from India, Chinese from China (not singapore, thailand, malaysia, indonesia) that tried to migrate here as illegals. They have put up a business and tried to raise a family here. That is ok for me and hopefully for my countrymen as long as their business are not drugs and smuggled goods that can harm people and the environment. I believe that these kind of things (migration) is actually beneficial to both parties. Like Pres. Obama said just a few hours in CNN, it keeps the population young, energetic and oh I think NSA is using my post above. hehehe! (just joking but what a coincidence) Well, Obama did said a lot of my point in my previous post so I think we are alike in looking at those things. But respect is a very important thing to give in return by the immigrants to the locals, even if you are already a natural born citizen there, your parents once was a legal or illegal migrants who they accepted as guest! SHOW SOME GRATITUDE! So please, in return, don't act like you have more rights than those locals and that you are the victim of racism especially if you were the aggressive ones. PLEASE ACT ACCORDINGLY TO WHAT WAS EXPECTED OF YOU!  That goes to the locals too, you don't literally owned that vast amounts of land so you too are guest. Respect one another and stop being so self-centered self-righteous self absorbed creature.

[straycat19]

Those who preach diversity and tolerance are the least diverse and the least tolerant.  I just react to the way I am accused of being treated.  You say I'm racist, fine I'll be a racist.  You say I am a bigot, fine, I'll be a bigot.  It's called a self-fulfilling prophecy.  If you say someone is something long enough then they will become like that. You come to my country illegally then you can expect to be treated like an illegal.  And if you aren't labeled an illegal, since some politicians don't like the word, you must be an invader. And as such, and since you are not in uniform of your country's military, you must be a spy.   In which case I can legally shoot you on sight, anywhere, anytime.  That's the law of land warfare.

[oliverjia]

If I made that kind of stupid statement ("HRC would win with a landslide") and my face were slapped by the fact, I'd be so shamed of my judgement and won't even have the face to reply to others' questioning. 

Libtards don't care. They made a statement and asked others to mark their word. When their faces are slapped so hard by the fact, they ignored their statement just like silently releasing a stinky fart. They don't know what shame is. They eat their own shit like nothing happened. 

These libtards made me puke.

 

 

On 11/13/2016 at 6:20 PM, Siddharta said:

Spoiler

 

Donald Trump: 24 things the next president believes

• 9 November 2016
• From the section Magazine

 

Trump elected

Republican Donald Trump has won victory in the presidential race, but no one's quite sure what President Trump will actually do in office.

The New York businessman-turned-politician said many controversial things and flip-flopped on a number of policy positions during the campaign.

Here, we look back at 24 of his professed beliefs.

 

1. The US should use waterboarding

This and other methods of "strong interrogation" should be deployed in its fight against the Islamic State group. These methods, Mr Trump said, are "peanuts" compared to the tactics used by the militants, such as beheadings. "I like it a lot. I don't think it's tough enough," he said in June of the banned practice.

 

2. Mexico should pay for the "great, great wall"

Mr Trump has said he wants to start building the much-touted wall on the shared border from the first day of his presidency, and that Mexico will pay for it. In some of his earliest campaign comments, he suggested that Mexicans coming to the US were criminals and "rapists". BBC analysis estimates the border wall could cost between $2.2bn and $13bn.

 

3. Muslims should not be admitted to the US

In the wake of the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, California, Mr Trump wrote that he was "calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on".

He's since gone back on the announcement, instead saying that that he would temporarily suspend "immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism".

 

4. Arab-Americans cheered the attacks on 9/11

Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that on 11 September 2001, there were thousands of Arab-Americans celebrating in New Jersey after two planes flew into the Twin Towers. He says such public demonstrations "tell you something" about Muslims living in the US. However, there are no media reports to back up the claim.

 

5. Obamacare is a "disaster".

Mr Trump says he wants Congress to fully repeal the president's Affordable Care Act, which aims at extending the number of Americans with health insurance, but he believes that "everybody's got to be covered". A spokesman for Mr Trump said he would propose "a health plan that will return authority to the states and operate under free market principles". The increase in premiums revealed just before the election bolstered the Trump attacks.

 

6. Climate change is just "weather"

While Mr Trump believes that maintaining "clean air" and "clean water" is important, he has dismissed climate change science as a "hoax" and believes environmental restrictions on businesses make them less competitive in the global marketplace. "I do not believe that we should imperil the companies within our country," he told CNN on the issue. "It costs so much and nobody knows exactly if it's going to work."

7. The world would be better off if Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were still in power

Mr Trump told CNN that he believes the situation in both Libya and Iraq is "far worse" than it ever was under the leaders of the two countries. While he concedes Saddam was a "horrible guy", he says he did a better job combating terrorists.

 

8. Illegal migrants should be deported

Trump once said that he wanted to deport all of the approximately 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the US, despite criticism that this idea is both xenophobic, next to impossible and prohibitively expensive - the BBC estimates a cost of $114bn. His official policy now says only those with criminal records will be deported immediately, although immigration controls will still be massively beefed up. Any undocumented migrants would also face the risk of deportation.

 

9. Syrian refugees could be a "Trojan horse"

He says that the Paris attacks prove that even a handful of terrorists posing as migrants could do catastrophic damage, and so he will oppose resettling any Syrians in the US, and deport those who have already been resettled. It's unclear if he still believes that deportations are necessary, though he has still vowed to suspend the intake of Syrian refugees.

 

10. Vladimir Putin is a "leader"

He has noted the Russian president's "great control over his country" and criticised the state of the relations between it and the US. He told CNN: "I would probably get along with him very well. And I don't think you'd be having the kind of problems that you're having right now". More recently he has said that Mr Putin doesn't "respect" the US, although that was no reason to get tough on him.

 

11. Taxes should be reduced for everyone

Trump wants to condense the current seven tax brackets to just three, with no income tax for "low-income Americans". He would lower the business tax to 15%, from 35%. He would also allow multinational companies keeping profits overseas to repatriate their cash at a 10% tax rate.

 

12. Hedge fund managers are "getting away with murder"

Mr Trump found common ground with Democrats like Senator Elizabeth Warren when he said that hedge fund managers and the ultra-wealthy did not pay enough taxes. However, after the campaign released specifics of his plan, analysts argued that hedge fund managers would actually get a tax cut along with the middle class.

 

13. China should be taken to task on a number of trade-related issues

He has said he will make China stop undervaluing its currency, and force it to step up its environmental and labour standards. He is also critical of the county's lax attitude towards American intellectual property and hacking.

 

14. The Black Lives Matter movement is "trouble"

Mr Trump mocked former Democratic candidates like Martin O'Malley for apologising to members of the protest movement against police brutality and cast himself as a pro-law enforcement candidate. "I think they're looking for trouble," he once said of the activist group. He also tweeted a controversial and widely debunked graphic purporting to show that African Americans kill white and black people at far higher rates than white people or police officers.

 

15. He's worth $10bn

Based on Mr Trump's 92-page personal financial disclosure form, Bloomberg calculated last year that the real estate mogul was worth about $2.9bn, while Forbes recently put Trump's net worth at $3.7bn. Mr Trump has however insisted that he is worth "in excess" of $10bn.

 

16. Veteran healthcare in the US needs a major overhaul

Mr Trump wants to clear out the executive level in the Department of Veterans Affairs, saying that waiting times for doctor visits have only increased after previous interventions failed. Thousands of veterans have died while waiting for care, he says. He will invest in the treatment of "invisible wounds" like post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. He would also increase the number of doctors who specialise in women's health to help care for the increasing number of female veterans.

 

17. Lobbyists should be more restricted

Mr Trump proposes that there be a five-year ban that prevents government officials and members of congress from leaving and then immediately becoming lobbyists. He also calls for a lifetime ban on senior administration officials from lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.

 

18. He is a "really nice guy"

In Trump's most recent book, Crippled America, he writes that "I'm a really nice guy, believe me, I pride myself on being a nice guy but I'm also passionate and determined to make our country great again". The news site Gawker points out that he calls himself a "nice guy" throughout the book, and Mr Trump repeated that self-assessment in his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live and in an interview with the Washington Post.

 

19. He could not have groped an unattractive woman

A video from 2005 showed Mr Trump making obscene comments about women and triggered numerous claims of alleged sexual harassment. At one rally, he suggested that one of the accusers - a "horrible woman" - was not attractive enough for him to have groped: "I don't think so! I don't think so!"

20. Tokyo and Seoul should build up nuclear arsenals

He has said Japan and South Korea should not rely on the US so much and would benefit from having their own weapons. Nuclear war between Japan and North Korea may be "terrible" but it would be "pretty quick".

 

21. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) is a "rip-off"

Why? Because the US pays more than anyone else. But he later said he was "all" in favour of the alliance.

 

22. Doctors should be punished for administering abortions

Or should they? In an interview with MSNBC, Mr Trump said that if abortion were to become illegal, women should be punished for obtaining them. He then retracted, saying the doctor would be responsible and he or she should be punished, instead.

 

23. The Republican National Committee's rules were "stacked against him"

He called the delegate system "crooked" and "unfair". He repeatedly clashed with the RNC over its nomination process and how it treated his candidacy during the primaries. He called rules that allowed Senator Ted Cruz to gain more delegates than him in some states "rigged", as he did later when talking about the electoral process when polls were showing Hillary Clinton ahead of him.

 

24. The federal minimum wage should be raised

Workers should be paid more than the current level of $7.25/hour, he has said. though this is another issue he has flip-flopped on repeatedly.