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President Donald Trump has continued to fire away at his perceived rivals through his personal Twitter account, left, since taking office. | Getty

By Aidan Quigley

02/04/17 07:43 AM EST

Updated 02/04/17 09:22 AM EST

During his first two weeks as president, Donald Trump attacked 22 people, places and things on his @realDonaldTrump account, as he shows no sign of breaking his Twitter addiction.

Even though he inherited former President Barack Obama's @POTUS account, Trump has continued to fire away at his perceived rivals through his personal account, which has millions more followers than the official channel.

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Here are the main targets that have drawn Trump's ire since he was sworn in on Jan. 20.

1. Political establishment in Washington D.C. (Jan. 20)

On Inauguration Day, Trump, continuing his populist message from the campaign, criticized the political establishment in Washington D.C. for having consolidated power away from the American people. He also criticized the political establishment for forgetting some Americans.

2. Womens marchers (Jan. 22)

The Jan. 21 Womens March on Washington drew at least 470,000 to Washington and inspired similar marches across the country. Trump blasted the protesters, asking why they didnt vote, and said celebrity supporters hurt the cause.

3. Chicago (Jan. 24)

Trump criticized the citys leadership for crime in the city, saying he would send in the Feds if the city couldn't address the carnage. In response, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel said he wanted greater involvement and funding from the federal government to address the citys violence. 2016 was the citys deadliest year in decades with 762 murders and 4,3000 shooting victims.

4. Chelsea Manning (Jan. 26)

As one of his last moves in office, Obama commuted all but four months of Mannings sentence for revealing American military and diplomatic activity in a 2010 leak. Mannings leak revealed abuses of detainees by Iraqi officials working with U.S. forces and that civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan were higher than estimates from the Pentagon. Trump blasted Manning after she published an op-ed in the Guardian criticizing Obama for not being bold enough.

5. Mexico (Jan. 26-27)

Trump escalated his feud with Mexican president Enrique Pea Nieto by proceeding with his campaign promise to build a wall on the border with Mexico. Trump tweeted that NAFTA was a one-sided deal and said if Mexico wasnt going to pay for the wall, Pea Nieto should cancel his visit. The Mexican president canceled his visit in response. However, Trump and Pea Nieto have since had a constructive phone conversation in which they agreed to stop publicly arguing over Trumps proposed border wall, according to Mexico's foreign minister.

6. The New York Times (Jan. 28-29, Feb. 4) & 7. The Washington Post (Jan. 29) & 8. The media (Jan. 30, Feb. 3)

Trump sharply criticized the New York Times and Washington Post, calling the Times FAKE NEWS and saying the Times and Posts coverage of him has been false and angry. Trump said the Times readership was dwindling," but the Times' number of paid subscribers actually doubled in 2016. He also called the media the opposition party after his chief strategist Steve Bannon used the same language. Furthermore, he said the FAKE NEWS media lied about his conversation with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, which the Washington Post reported featured Trump blasting Turnbull for a refugee agreement he made with President Obama and abruptly ending the conversation 25 minutes into what was supposed to be an hour-long call.

9. Americas borders and vetting of immigrants and refugees (Jan. 29)

The president said America needed stronger borders, as the situation in Europe and the world is a horrible mess.

10. John McCain & 11. Lindsey Graham (Jan. 29)

President Trump went after the two Republicans senators after they released a joint statement criticizing Trumps executive order that temporarily banned travel from seven Muslim-majority countries and indefinitely banned Syrian refugees. Trump said McCain and Graham were weak on immigration and should focus on illegal immigration instead of always looking to start World War III.

12. Delta computers (Jan. 30)

Trump said the big problems at the airports over the weekend to were due to an outage of Delta computers. Deltas major computer outage caused the cancellation of around 300 flights.

13. Immigrants and refugees from the countries included in the ban (Jan. 30, Feb. 1)

In light of the criticism over Trumps order, the president took to Twitter to defend it, saying if it had been announced ahead of implementation, bad dudes would have rushed into the country.

14. Chuck Schumer (Jan. 30-31)

Protests erupted in response to Trumps executive order, and Schumer teared up at a press conference discussing the ban. Trump blamedthe problems at the airports in part on Schumers tears. He later said Schumers tears were fake while criticizing a rally Schumer and Nancy Pelosi held to protest the travel ban.

15. The Democratic Party (Jan. 30-31)

Trump criticized the Democratic Party for not doing enough to keep jobs in the United States. He also echoed a criticism the administration and congressional Republicans have been leveraging against Democrats on the speed of the confirmations of Trump cabinet nominees, which are taking longer than Trumps predecessors.

16. Nancy Pelosi (Jan. 31)

Trump criticized a rally Pelosi and Schumer held to protest the travel ban. The rally was attended by thousands of protesters.

17. Iran (Feb. 1-3)

During the campaign, Trump spoke out against the Obama administration's Iran deal. The Obama administration said the Iran deal would prevent the country from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Trump continued his tough stance on Iran by criticizing the nuclear deal and creating new sanctions on Iran for test-firing a medium-range ballistic missile, which the White House said was in violation of a U.N. resolution.

19. President Obama (Feb. 1-3)

Along with criticizing the Obama administrations Iran deal, Trump criticized Obama for a refugee agreement with Australia.

20. U.C. Berkeley (Feb. 2)

Donald Trump threatened to cut federal funding from U.C. Berkeley after the university canceled an event featuring alt-right figure and controversial Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos due to violent protests.

21. Arnold Schwarzenegger (Feb. 3)

At the annual National Prayer Breakfast, President Trump said Schwarzenegger, his replacement as host of The Apprentice, has been a total disaster and asked the audience to pray for Schwarzenegger and The Apprentice's ratings. After Schwarzenegger replied in a video saying he and Trump should switch jobs so Americans can finally sleep comfortably again. Trump then blasted Schwarzenegger on Twitter as a bad governor and even worse host of The Apprentice.

22. Protesters (Feb. 3)

From the Womens March on Washington to the airport protests on the immigration ban, protests have been common during Trumps presidency. On Friday, Trump criticized the professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters, who have opposed his agenda.

23. The judge who blocked his travel ban (Feb. 4)

Trump quickly lashed out at U.S. District Court Judge James Robart, the federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush who issued a broad block of his travel ban.

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The 23 people, places and things Donald Trump has attacked on Twitter as president - Politico