Donald Trump’s Biggest Feuds, Fights and Foes: From Rosie O’ Donnell to Univision (Photos)
Donald Trump is a businessman who doesn’t seem to be afraid to make enemies. Good thing for him, because his blustery threats and relentless business strategy have caused him to run afoul of politicians, celebrities, models, and various minorities. Here’s just a small sample of the people Trump has locked horns with over the years.
In 1973, the U.S. Justice Department sued Trump’s real-estate company for allegedly refusing to rent apartments in New York and Virginia to African-Americans. Trump counter-sued the DOJ for defamation, seeking $100 million in damages. Trump settled the case out of court, only to get sued again three years later on similar charges and be investigated by the New York City Human Rights Commission.
In the 80s, Trump was a popular target of the New York satirical publication Spy Magazine. After they called him a “short-fingered vulgarian in 1988,” Trump predicted the magazine’s demise and said that his fingers “are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body.”
At the start of his campaign, Univision dropped Trump’s Miss USA pageant from their programming after his comments about Mexican immigrants. Trump responded by suing the network for $500 million. The lawsuit was settled in February.
Another feud he had with Univision came during an August press conference, during which he ejected the network’s main news anchor, Jorge Ramos. Ramos had attempted to ask Trump about his immigration policies, to which Trump removed Ramos for speaking out of turn. “Go back to Univision,” Trump said during the confrontation.
Former Miss USA contestant Sheena Monnin accused the pageant, which Trump owns, of being rigged on NBC’s ‘Today’. Trump responded by filing and winning a defamation lawsuit against Monnin, forcing her to pay $5 million.
Trump repeatedly attacked Sen. Ted Cruz during the Republican Primary. The most infamous attack came on Mar. 22, which he threatened to “spill the beans” on Cruz’s wife on Twitter after a Super PAC affiliated with Cruz posted a picture of Trump’s wife, Melania, from a nude GQ photo shoot.”
Since attaining the nomination, several figures from the left have risen to take a swing at Trump. Among them is Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who tweeted that Trump sounded like a “two-bit dictator” and a “pathetic coward who can’t stand that he’s losing to a girl.” Trump has responded by calling Warren “Pocahontas,” referring to Warren’s highly contested claim in 2012 that she had Native American ancestry.
Perhaps the most notable confrontation Trump has had this year has been with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son was killed in the Iraq War. Khzir Khan declared that Trump “sacrificed nothing and no one,” to which Trump suggested that Khan’s wife did not speak at the convention because she “wasn’t allowed to.”
