U.S. President Donald Trump meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House on March 17. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

It’s been a little more than a year since Donald Trump emerged from an election campaign of threats, lies and vitriol as the future president of the United States of America.

His victory speech on Nov. 9, 2016, sparked cautious optimism that perhaps his presidency would not be quite as hate-filled as his campaign.

“We will deal fairly with everyone, with everyone — all people and all other nations,” Trump vowed. “We will seek common ground, not hostility; partnership, not conflict.”

But within weeks, he had unleashed the first of a seemingly endless stream of Twitter tirades from his new bully pulpit. He lambasted the “failing” New York Times, the “highly overrated” Broadway musical “Hamilton,” the “unwatchable” “Saturday Night Live” and, of course, the “crooked” media, to name a few.

By December, Trump had directed his Twitter grievances overseas. Days after accepting a phone call from the leader of Taiwan ― which overturned decades of diplomatic protocol and prompted China to lodge an official complaint ― a clearly agitated Trump began griping about Beijing’s decision to devalue its own currency, echoing his campaign claims that China was “raping our country” by hurting the U.S. economy.

He was just warming up.

Read about some of the many times Trump has insulted foreign leaders and countries since he was elected president:

“Shithole Countries”

Trump reportedly slammed people from African countries and Haiti during a meeting on Thursday with lawmakers about immigration protections, alluding that they weren’t wanted in America.

“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said in the meeting, sources told multiple media outlets. He later noted that more people from countries like Norway should be allowed to immigrate.

Later that day, the White House didn’t deny Trump had made the comment in a statement after the outburst was made public, instead saying the president would “always fight for the American people” and that he was “fighting for permanent solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society.”

The following day, Trump claimed on Twitter that he hadn’t used those specific words, but Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) ― who was in the room at the time ― swiftly contradicted him, saying that the president had in fact “said these hate-filled things and he said them repeatedly.”

View photos Trump speaks by phone with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in the Oval Office on Jan. 28. (Seated across from him are two advisers who have since left the White House, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon.) (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) More

Australia

Almost immediately after Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017, the White House laid out his “America First” foreign policy. It also claimed, “The world must know that we do not go abroad in search of enemies, that we are always happy when old enemies become friends, and when old friends become allies.”

Days later, Trump held one of his first official phone calls with the leader of an allied nation, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Their conversation did not end well.

Turnbull pressed Trump to uphold the U.S. end of an agreement with Australia. The deal, which had been negotiated by President Barack Obama, required the U.S. to accept a number of refugees from the Australian offshore detention centers on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.