As we cross the halfway point of Donald Trump's presidency, you've probably picked up on the First Law of Trumpodynamics: For every Trump action, there is an Trump tweet criticizing that action.

For example, after winning the 2016 election, Trump tweeted, "Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!" However, after Barack Obama won the 2012 election, he tweeted, "We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!"

Trump's hypocrisy drives many people crazy, but one man felt inspired to create a thought-provoking, hilarious product. Sam Morrison, a Los Angeles-based photographer and artist, made physical flip flops that feature Trump's contradictory tweets. There are three designs:

Syria Edition

Trump implored "foolish" President Obama not to attack Syria in 2013, then he attacked Syria in 2017.

Electoral College

After President Barack Obama was elected in 2012, Trump called the electoral college a "disaster for democracy." Four years later, he won the presidential election, and praised the system as "actually genius" in 2016. (Probably because, unlike Obama, he lost the popular vote by three million votes. Without an electoral college, there would be no President Trump.)

Sources

Trump falsily claimed President Obama's birth certificate was fake in 2012, citing an "extremely credible source." However, in 2016, he urged people not to believe anyone who cites unnamed sources.

Morrison began selling the flip flops on his website, PresidentFlipFlops.com, in September 2017. There five available sizes, with a price of around $30, and he sold out within less than a month. He went to create 1,000 pairs, sourcing his own materials and doing all of the printing and packaging by hand. "I wanted to highlight this hypocrisy," he told Business Insider.

"The minimum order of raw materials was 1,000 pairs, and took two months to ship to me. I hand-printed all 1,000 pairs with a heat press, packaged, and shipped everything myself, so it was a very time-intensive project," Morrison explained. He added that 10% of every purchase was donated to the ACLU.

The 27-year-old could not afford a marketing budget, but luckily there was no need. He received the best marketing possible when his designs went viral. Major news outlets such as MSNBC, the BBC and The Huffington Post covered the shoes, and they also received a lot of attention on Twitter and Reddit.

If you're hoping to buy a pair, bad news: Morrison says President Flip Flops are "permanently sold out," due to the complex production process, and the effort required to produce and ship the shoes while working his full-time job in the advertising industry.

However, President Flip Flops were obviously a huge hit, as Morrison sold pairs to people in 47 states. And there's no shortage of Trump twitter contradictions for inspiration. In fact, there's a whole subreddit dedicated to the phenomenon, called Trump Criticizes Trump.

Over the course of 2018, the Trump family certainly did their best to make most of the world despise them. Melania demonstrated her complete disconnect from real life by attempting to do some gardening in Louboutins, Ivanka attracted a lot of unwanted attention when it was revealed that she'd been using a private email while in her official position at the White House, and Donald... well, what didn't he do?

As the year came to a close, though, one of the Trumps decided he wasn't quite done with making himself a hated public figure, and slipped in one last painfully cringeworthy tweet with just a few hours to go. It was, of course, Donald Jr.

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For some ungodly reason, the Daily Caller decided to celebrate Donald Jr.'s birthday yesterday by posting an article titled, "It’s Donald Trump Jr.’s Birthday. Celebrate With His Most Bada$$ Instagram Photos To Date". And then, for an even ungodlier one, the president's son decided to share the article with the title still intact in the tweet.

No comment, no 'happy birthday to me' statement - just a reiteration of how "bada$$" he must think his Insta is:

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And, boy, did he get ripped to shreds.

"This is just sad," commented one person.

"Did he just promote his own birthday on Twitter? w/an article attachment as well? Is this a thing now?" added another. "How starved for love and attention is he? Someone, please give him a hug."

Perhaps the harshest burn of all, however, came from this comment: "Lmao ur dad forgot ur birthday."

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And at this point, you may be wondering exactly what was so "bada$$" about Donald Jr.'s account in the first place (so "bada$$", in fact, that they couldn't just say "badass"). Well, it's just a bunch of pictures of him holding various animals he's killed and trying not to look like he only learnt to smile that same morning.

Here's one of them:

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And here's another one:

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Aaaand here's a third one:

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Woahhh what a total BADA$$ you guys!! Did you see that HUGE fish he caught? And that amazing orange jacket he was wearing? And that ill-fitting camo hat? What a bro.

Anyway, Donald Jr. seemed to think that was a great way to end the year for him - and, personally speaking, it was quite an entertaining way for me to start the new one. Thanks for the laugh, Don, and no thanks for absolutely everything else.

Even before Donald Trump was voted into power as President of the USA, he was a pretty avid tweeter. The businessman and former The Apprentice host has never been one to shy away from conflict or conceal his viewpoints, and he very frequently used his social media platform in order to express his thoughts. But, while he was still just a member of the general public, there was not much of an issue with this. Since he's become the leader of the free world, however, these habits of his have caused a number of problems. Not only has he damaged international relations with North Korea by tweeting petty insults at Kim Jong Un, he's also alienated the LGBTQ community by trying to ban trans people from the military without consulting the proper channels, and publicly condemned the Muslim population by sharing tweets from a British hate group. And, though he got into some hot water for all of those, none of his tweets have been quite as damaging as this one: [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/937007006526959618]] Obviously, we all know by now that Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about Russia links. However, before this point, Trump had claimed ignorance of Flynn's supposed dishonesty and had actively encouraged James Comey, the former head of the FBI, to drop the investigation into the matter. With this most recent tweet, though, it appears that Trump knew Flynn was lying all along. "I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI," the President wrote, implying that he had attempted to obstruct an investigation into a member of his administration whom he knew to be guilty. Walter Shaub, the former director of the US Office of Government Ethics, was appalled by the tweet, and considered it an admission of obstructing justice. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/937010410946953218]] He then directly addressed the President, asking whether he knew about Flynn's lies before firing the head of the Department of Justice, Sally Yates. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/937011829439631360]] Shaub then added that, during any other presidency, this would have spelled the end - and it still could. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/937012116158066688]] Other people have responded to Trump's outrageous admission, calling him out for essentially confessing to a crime on Twitter. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/ezlusztig/status/937014393690136577]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/Green_Footballs/status/937028715623546880]] Since the first tweet, Trump has not outrightly backtracked on his statement but is apparently doing his best to deflect the matter. First, he changed the subject to "Crooked Hillary", then he claimed that he never actually asked Comey to stop investigating Flynn, and that the whole report was "fake news". [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/937141061343956992]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/937279001684598784]] Unfortunately for him, there's a great deal of evidence that Trump did call for the investigation to be ended. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/creature_dan/status/937282147152547840]] So, along with Flynn's claim that he is willing to testify against Trump about involvement with the Russians, this tweet could spell the end for the President. Will calls for his impeachment getting louder every day, it seems that he may have to work much harder than he previously has done in order to win back favor with American people.

Of all the questionable political opinions and offensive comments the President of the United States has spouted on his Twitter account, there's no denying that Donald Trump's tweets are entertaining. As controversial or upsetting as they may be, every now and again there comes a little nugget of gold from @realDonaldTrump. Like the time he tweeted the ludicrous "It’s freezing and snowing in New York – we need global warming!" or when he took to his favourite platform to tattle on North Korea's tyrannical dictator like a petulant child. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/929511061954297857]] I mean, just yesterday he directed a handful of insensitive tweets at Britain's Prime Minister before realising he accidentally sent them to a @TheresaMay who only had three followers, rather than the correct handle @Theresa_May. How embarrassing. So when at the start of the month Trump's incessantly active Twitter profile disappeared from the internet, it sparked nothing short of a kerfuffle. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/justinjacobs/status/926223343082180608]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/20committee/status/926222452157571073]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/monicapatel917/status/926222363158511616]] The US president's account was deactivated for a total of 11 minutes, and while everyone speculated what force on this earth could've caused the glitch, Twitter came forward with the news that it was all thanks to a bold employee who took the liberty to delete the account on his last day working at Twitter. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/TwitterGov/status/926238960594178048]] The cigar-crunching sportscar enthusiast was having a swell time in the States on a work visa, and towards the end of his stint overseas, he took a job working as a contractor for Twitter. Duysak worked in the department handling reports of bad behaviour and deleting with accounts flagged for violating Twitter's guidelines. And it happened just like it would on any other day, Duysak received a complaint – just so happening to be against Trump – and it was his job to decide to act on it or not. And act on it he did, much to the delight of many. But although he was hailed a hero for silencing the notoriously big-mouthed billionaire businessman, Duysak claims he didn't mean to do it. He told TechCrunch that it was all a "mistake" and that he didn't think the account would actually be shut down. Contrary to the praise he's received for the ballsy move, Duysak says he doesn't feel like a hero and has attracted unwanted attention to himself from the media who have been relentlessly pursuing him for comment. “I didn’t hack anyone. I didn’t do anything that I was not authorized to do,” he said. “I didn’t go to any site I was not supposed to go to. I didn’t break any rules.”

Since Donald Trump took over the role of president last year, he's received a great deal of criticism about how poorly he's handled the role. However, let's be fair to the guy for a moment - it's not just him who's made mistakes.

The rest of his family has, too.

In the last few months alone, Don Jr. turned a few heads after casually discussing his and his father's penis size, Eric Trump made himself the laughing stock of conspiracy theory Twitter after saying that Ellen DeGeneres was part of the deep state, and Tiffany Trump basically humiliated her dad when she made her political opinions very clear on Instagram.

And don't even get me started on Ivanka.

Right from the start, Ivanka's role in the White House was questionable at best. Aside from being the President's daughter (and, at times, the object of his creepy affections), it seemed that the 36-year-old didn't really have any connection to politics whatsoever.

Since then, she's gone on to prove how truly clueless she is in pretty much every aspect of her life - from the time she wished her son "happy birthday" on the day he turned eight months old, to the time she Instagrammed a negative headline about her father, cheerfully captioning it, "Thank you America!"

And that's without even mentioning her recent decision to dress up as a scientist, or the countless times she's spoken out about women's equality or sexual assault without even addressing the fact that her father is accused of sexually inappropriate behavior with more than a dozen women.

Given her track record, then, it was hardly a surprise to see her tweet something like this:

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Now, at first you might be thinking, "What's the issue here?" Ivanka isn't wrong in what she's saying - there is a definite problem with obesity in the states, and kids not having access or interest in sports and physical activities is a huge contributor to that.

The thing is, there's already a whole council dedicated to dealing with it. Unfortunately, under President Trump's government, nobody has been appointed to it - meaning that Ivanka was complaining about something that her father actively allowed by rolling back things that the former government had encouraged.

But, apparently, she wasn't aware of this, so retired general Mark Hertling helped point it out for her:

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In February this year, Trump expanded the number of council members from 25 to 30, but still hasn't actually appointed anyone to the positions. Indeed, the website for the secretary of Health and Human Services - the category the council falls under - still lists members as "to be announced" today.

In the same vein, Trump has also postponed plans for schoolchildren to have access to healthier school lunches, and has very outwardly discussed the prospect of cutting public healthcare.

What's more, if Ivanka actually advised her father (you know, as it's supposedly her job to do), rather than just tweeting about issues - perhaps she'd have more of a chance of making these things happen.

Then again, that might spoil the fun of calling her out on Twitter.