Donald Trump's most jaw-dropping quotes since his inauguration

Mr Trump made history for his questionable quotes during his first term in office, such as the infamous “grab them” line – among many others. And it appears he wants to add more to the list.

Donald Trump has returned to the White House less than two months after leaving office to begin his second term as president of the United States.

Since his inauguration ceremony on January 20, Mr Trump has already launched a multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency meme coin, had Google rename the Gulf of Mexico and began preparing a migrant detention centre at Guantanamo Bay.

He has also instigated sweeping tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, is planning to bring back plastic straws and accused Volodymyr Zelensky of “gambling with World War Three”.

The former president was known for his questionable quotes during his first term in office, such as the infamous “grab them” line – among many others. And it appears he wants to add more to the list.

Here are several of Mr Trump’s most jaw-dropping quotes since his inauguration on January 20, 2025.

‘I don’t know much about it other than I launched it, other than it was very successful’

Mr Trump kicked off the eve of his inauguration with the launch of a multi-billion-dollar cryptocurrency meme coin.

The digital currency, called $TRUMP, surfaced on his social media pages and swiftly rose to the top of the cryptocurrency market. Within a day, a single coin’s value soared to $75 (£56), but then dropped to $39 (£31).

Mr Trump told reporters when announcing the launch: “I don’t know much about it other than I launched it, other than it was very successful.”

However, industry insiders have openly questioned the introduction of the coin.

Danny Scott, CEO of CoinCorner, said in a statement: “Trump’s comments about not knowing much about the coin back up my opinion that he is making a mockery of the industry. It’s a stunt.”

‘My recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal’

It wouldn’t be a Mr Trump speech if he didn’t comment on the outgoing president.

Using his podium in the Capitol Rotunda to attack his predecessor, outgoing Democratic president Joe Biden, Mr Trump adopted an aggressive stance during his January 20 inaugural address.

He said: “My recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal and all of these many betrayals that have taken place.” Gulf of America has a ‘beautiful ring’ to it

Mr Trump announced at his January news conference at Mar-a-Lago that he would rename the Gulf of Mexico to become the Gulf of America. He claimed. that cartels now control the gulf and that “it’s ours”.

“We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory, the Gulf of America,” he said.

“What a beautiful name. And it’s appropriate. It’s appropriate. And Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country.”

Google is also running with it. It said on January 27: “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”

Read also: Trump v Zelensky timeline: Presidents clash in Oval Office

However, Mexico contends that the US cannot lawfully rename the Gulf. It says the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea stipulates that a nation’s sovereign territory can be extended only 12 nautical miles offshore.

“[The name change] could only correspond to the 12 nautical miles away from the coastlines of the United States of America,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said.

Trump says he is preparing migrant detention centre at Guantanamo Bay

Mr Trump revealed on January 29 that he was overseeing the construction of a detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. He said this would house up to 30,000 unauthorised migrants.

“Today I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay. Most people don’t even know about it,” he said.

After the September 11, 2001 attacks, then-US president George W Bush established the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in 2002 to house suspected foreign militants.

Sky News reported that the facility for migrants was separate from the detention centre on the base.

Slamming the FAA’s disability recruitment programme for hiring ‘people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities’

Speaking after a midair collision between a US military helicopter and an American Airlines flight from Kansas killed all 67 aboard, Mr Trump speculated that diversity hiring may have been a factor in the disaster.

He said during a press conference on Thursday, January 30: “We do not know what led