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Trump is the complainer in chief — but tells Democrats who complain to leave the country

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump walked onto a rally stage this month and delivered a direct message to those who criticize America: "Tell them to leave it!"

But Trump sometimes sounds like the complainer in chief when it comes to his pet peeves about America.

As a candidate he campaigned almost exclusively on grievance in 2016, asserting just before he ran that the country "is a hellhole. We are going down fast."

He argued that U.S. presidents were "stupid leaders" who made the "stupidest" deals and started stupid wars led by generals who were "reduced to rubble."

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