Donald Trump's most questionable quotes since he became President for the second time

It’s only been a couple of weeks since Donald Trump became the 47th President of the United States.

However, a lot has happened since Mr Trump’s inauguration ceremony, from launching a meme coin, getting Google to rename the Gulf of Mexico, preparing a migrant detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, sweeping tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China and now threatening to take the Gaza strip.

During his first presidency, Mr Trump made history for his questionable quotes, such as the infamous ‘grab them’ line. And it appears he wants to add more to the list.

Here are a few of Mr Trump’s most questionable quotes so far.

“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 multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency meme coin.

The digital currency known as $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, but it then dropped to $39.

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 so-called meme-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, claiming that cartels now control the gulf and that “it's ours”.

He said: “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.

“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. In a statement on social media on Monday, it said: “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”

However, Mexico contends that the United States cannot lawfully rename the Gulf since the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea stipulates that a nation's sovereign territory can only be extended 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 stated.

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 that will house up to 30,000 migrants who are not authorised to be in the US.

He said: “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.”

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 reports that the facility for migrants is separate from the detention centre on the base.

Slamming the FAA’s disability recruitment program for hiring “people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities”

In his first public speech 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 to this crash, but we have some very strong opinions and ideas.”

He claimed that the FAA website stated that persons with disabilities such as “hearing, vision, missing, extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism” were “all qualified for the position of a controller of airplanes pouring into our country”.

Mr Trump added: “Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the stress where you have many, many planes coming into one target and you need a very special talent and a very special genius to be able to do it,”

There is no proof that the tragedy was caused by the FAA's diversity initiatives.

“You want me to go swimming?”

Also during the with things he said during the press conference on January 30, when asked about his plans to visit the crash site, Mr Trump added: “I have a plan to visit, not the site. Because you tell me, what’s the site? The water? You want me to go swimming?”

“The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too”

On February 4, in an astonishing proposal that would drastically reorient the Middle East and subject a population of over a million to further displacement, Mr Trump stated that the United States would “take over” the Gaza Strip, possibly with the assistance of American troops, and that the Palestinians living there should leave, in order to redevelop Gaza into “the Riviera of the Middle East”.

In a joint press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Trump said: “The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too. We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings.”

Mr Trump did not rule out the possibility of sending US soldiers to Gaza to cover a security void when asked about it.

He added: “As far as Gaza is concerned, we’ll do what is necessary. If it’s necessary, we’ll do that. We’re going to take over that piece that we’re going to develop it”

Meanwhile, the UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer rejected this plan at Prime Minister’s Questions the following day.

Sir Keir said: “I have from the last few weeks two images fixed in my mind. The first is the image of Emily Damari reunited with her mother which I found extremely moving.

“The second was the image of thousands of Palestinians walking through the rubble to try to find their homes and communities in Gaza. They must be allowed home, they must be allowed to rebuild, and we should be with them with that rebuild on the way to a two-state solution.”