Muammar Gaddafi

“He came to the country, and he had to make a deal with me because he needed a place to stay.”

Gaddafi remains a divisive and controversial character today, five years after his death, but Trump apparently didn’t find him all that terrible during his regime. Though the U.S. openly defied Gaddafi’s politics, the dictator was in the country in 2009 for the United Nations General Assembly meeting. Many others slammed their doors in the Libyan leader’s face, but Trump saw that there was money to be made and rented land to Gaddafi for his stay.