Updated Trump Firsts list:
1) First candidate to hint he wouldn't necessarily oppose Putin invading NATO countries:
..... asked about Russia’s threatening activities that have unnerved the small Baltic States that are the most recent entrants into NATO, Mr. Trump said that if Russia attacked them, he would decide whether to come to their aid only after reviewing whether those nations “have fulfilled their obligations to us.”
Read more: http://therightscoop.com/trump-praises-erdogan-says-we-dont-have-moral-authority-to-lecture-him-on-tyrannical-crackdown/#ixzz4F460Xx1V
2) First candidate to send a son to tell a possible Vice President he just wanted to be a figurehead and would let the Vice President handle all foreign and domestic policies:
... Did he have any interest in being the most powerful vice president in history? When Kasich's adviser asked how this would be the case, Donald Jr. explained that his father's vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy. Then what, the adviser asked, would Trump be in charge of? "Making America great again" was the casual reply.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/now-stone-cold-proof-trump-163241983.html
3) First candidate to bill his campaign for salary for running for President
https://twitter.com/StopTrumpPAC
Trump and his kids have payroll costs billed to his campaign. In May the weekly charges for Donald ran from $2574.43 up to $5297.45. Someone (probably a secretary) is tracking his time and the campaign is being billed at an hourly rate for time spent on campaign activities. It's normal for corporate staff and execs payroll costs to be billed to profit centers like this. For instance, when Trump went to Scotland his travel and time would have been billed to the golf course there. When he travels and speaks on his campaign, they bill his campaign just like it was part of the Trump Organization. No one else has expected his campaign to compensate him for running for President.
4) First Republican candidate endorsed by North Korean state media!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/31/north-korea-praises-trump-and-urges-us-voters-to-reject-dull-hillary
5) First candidate ever to denounce his own campaign staff as biased and phony:
 Donald J. Trump
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Don't believe the biased and phony media quoting people who work for my campaign. The only quote that matters is a quote from me!
6) First candidate to work hard to PREVENT unification of his party behind him. In addition to SAYING he doesn't need to unify the party, doesn't WANT all the Republican party ("some of it I don't want"), in recent days and weeks, Trump has bashed current or former Republican governors Susana Martinez (R-NM), Nikki Haley (R-SC), Scott Walker R-WI), Jeb Bush (R-FL), Rick Perry (R-TX) (Trump mocked Perry AFTER(!) Perry endorsed Trump BECAUSE(!) he endorsed Trump) as well as Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Trump has NOT however said a bad word about any Democratic governor or politician other than the Clinton's and Hillary. Trump has also not only not criticized Socialist Bernie Sanders, but instead has PRAISED him and said he and Sanders see a lot of things alike.
Two of those governors are popular governors of swing states that can go either way in elections ... bashing Walker and Martinez make it likely they will never endorse Trump and Trump will almost certainly have no chance of carrying their states in the general election. Attacking Republicans who are no threat to him and aren't actively attacking him is an obvious attempt to maximize division in his own adopted party.
7) First candidate to state on the campaign trail he wants a statue of himself in Washington DC:
"I’d really rather have a statue in Washington, D.C. I don’t want a wall named after me but that’s okay. I want a statue in Washington, D.C! [Loud cheers]"
(Trump in Billings MT)
8) First candidate to challenge an opposing party candidate to a debate one day and chicken out the next day. (Proposed debate with Bernie Sanders.)
9) First candidate to have a former Secretary of Defense (Bob Gates) under two Presidents with a 29 year career in the CIA and National Security say he shouldn't be trusted with nuclear weapons.
10) First candidate to tell his party he was broke immediately after he cinched the party's nomination. Formerly bragged about being "self-funding" as a point in his favor. Furthermore, big donors are shying away because of his wild comments, campaign self-dealing ... that is, almost all of the money he gives to his campaign goes back into Trump pockets as personal and family salary billed to campaign, sky-high rent (and catering etc) at Mar-A-Lago and Trump Tower, above market costs from traveling exclusively on his own jet, etc. Even the water his campaign staff drinks is his own Trump Ice brand sold to the campaign.
11) First Republican candidate to try to intimidate a judge presiding over one of his upcoming fraud trials. But only the Mexican judge, the non-Mexican judge (Cynthia Kern) who ruled EXACTLY the same way wasn't attacked. In fact, Judge Curiel actually "treated him more leniently" by allowing the California trial to be postponed till after the election unlike Judge Kern.
Fraud Case Against Trump U. Will Go To Trial, N.Y. Judge Rules; Trump Could Testify During Campaign
By United Press International -
April 26, 2016 |
