Yesterday's White House meeting with Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and an unconvincing straw-stuffed mannequin shaped like vice-president Mike Pence didn't go particularly well for Donald Trump.



It was meant to inject a bit of bipartisan warmth into Washington, but the public meeting turned into a squabble which ended with Trump saying he'd gladly shut down the government if he couldn't get funding for his Mexican border wall. Afterwards, he was in a right old funk.

"He stormed out of the Oval, walked into an anteroom just off the Oval Office and had in his hand a folder of briefing papers. And he just scattered them out of frustration — threw them across the room," the LA Times' White House correspondent Eli Stokols told MSNBC.

Anybody who follows Trump knows he loves a good strop. Here are five more of his biggest wobblies:

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All African countries

Probably the Trump tantrum to beat them all came in January this year. "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" he reportedly asked during White House discussion about revoking Temporary Protected Status for migrants from some African countries. On hearing that most people claiming temporary residence are from El Salvador, Haiti and Honduras as well as Africa, he went on: "Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out." Naturally, this didn't go down too well. The African Union, which represents fifty-five nations, said Trump had been "clearly racist", and then the Vatican got involved, saying Trump's outburst was "particularly harsh and offensive".

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Theresa May

Trump gave May an earbashing over the phone in November this year, tearing her Brexit withdrawal agreement to pieces and generally booting off. "Everyone knows he was throwing a complete wobbly for two solid days in France," a British government source told the Telegraph. "Quite what caused it… we don’t know." Au contraire: that was perfectly clear. Emmanuel Macron's speech decrying nationalism was taken as a personal attack by Trump, and the president got huge amounts of flak for skipping the Armistice Day commemorations because rain grounded the presidential helicopter. "He was frustrated with the trip... this is a week where things could get really dicey," one White House official said.

Malcolm Turnbull's anti-boat agenda

Malcolm Turnbull didn't come off as particularly sympathetic during his time as Australian PM, but the transcript of his introductory phone call with Trump a week after he'd been sworn in as president in January 2017 painted him as a paragon of civility. "Malcolm, why is this so important?," Trump whined while they discussed an Obama-era deal that would mean America taking in 1,250 refugees. "I do not understand. This is going to kill me. I am the world’s greatest person that does not want to let people into the country."

"I hate taking these people," Trump went on, apparently unaware that the Australian system of keeping asylum seekers on the islands of Nauru and Manus for processing - harsh as it undoubtedly is - is partly there to stop trafficking and drownings. "I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people."

Having wound himself up ("What is the thing with boats? Why do you discriminate against boats?"), Trump then accused Turnbull of having "brokered many a stupid deal in business," protested that the deal "shows me to be a dope," and moaned that it showed America had become "a dumping ground for the rest of the world".

Iran

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To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2018

I mean. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani clapped back: "America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars."

His own furniture

While having a poke around his Plaza Hotel in Atlantic City in 1989, Trump lost it when he came face-to-face with an armoire he didn't like and "in an expletive-laced explosion, he ripped the door off the subpar piece of furniture", according to CNN. After that, he walked into a newly renovated bathroom where Barbara Res, Trump's former construction manager, was putting in some green Chinese marble with the help of Trump's first wife Ivana. "He started screaming: 'This is cheap shit. This is no good. You are making me look bad," Res said, noting that Trump had signed off on the green marble himself.

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