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During the Oscars this Sunday, there will be at least one person in your Twitter feed who believes their opinions on the proceedings to be of the utmost importance. You know, the one who offers unsolicited criticisms of everything, from the stage design to the speeches to the actual films, as though the world were waiting with bated breath to hear their take.

US president Donald Trump has been among these self-appointed Twitter pundits in years past. Before he controlled the nuclear codes, he blessed his followers with non-stop analysis during the Oscars telecast and then did the same for viewers of the morning talk shows the next day.

This year, now that hes the president, Trump will not be watching the Oscarsat least according to White House press secretary Sean Spicer. That may or may not not stop him from offering his pronouncements.

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel hosts the Academy Awards on Sunday (Feb. 26) at 8:30pm US Eastern time on ABC. Lets take a look back at some memorable tidbits of Trumps Oscars analysis:

On the red carpet in 2012, TV host Ryan Seacrest was interviewing comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who was in character promoting his movie The Dictator, when Cohen pretended to accidentally spill an urn filled with the ashes of recently deceased North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il all over Seacrest. Always a professional, Seacrest played it cool and shrugged off the prank, but Donald Trump would not so quickly forget it.

Trump posted a video onto his YouTube channel attacking the disgraceful Cohen, and also apparently taking issue with how the security guard responded to the situation. Trumps rant quickly devolves into a violent fantasy about Cohen being punched in the face so many times that hes sent to the hospital.

In that same video, Trump offers his thoughts on Vanity Fairs post-Oscars party, which he did not attend. Trump says it was boring and that people were sleeping and there was no good feeling.

He then contends that the boring party was symblomatic (which is not a word) of the magazines declining stature.

After the 2013 ceremony, Trump phoned into the daily morning Fox News program Fox & Friends to gift the world his thoughts on the Oscars telecast the night before.

Trumps chief criticism was that Quentin Tarantinos slavery revenge film Django Unchained was probably one of the most racist movies Ive ever seen. Trump does not explain what he found racist in the film.

But Trump doesnt just review the Oscar-nominated filmshe reviews the event as a whole. Also in that appearance on Fox & Friends, Trump calls the 2013 telecast and its set: very average, okay, tacky, and terrible.

In subsequent years, Trump lambasted everything from the stage design to the singing to the annual In Memoriam segment.

Hidden among Trumps years of piping hot Oscars takes is one criticism that actually made some sense. Trump was very upset that Ben Affleck, who acted in and directed Argo, did not receive a nomination for best director, despite his film winning best picture. Its fairly sound logicdid Argo direct itself?and Trump is not the only one who felt Affleck was snubbed.

Trump is at his xenophobic best when talking about the Oscars. He was highly critical of English actor Daniel Day-Lewiss performance as US president Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielbergs Lincoln, mostly because he thought the actors accent was detectable.

Hes not from this country, Trump complained on Fox & Friends in 2012. I dont think Lincoln had an English accent, to the best of my knowledge.

And then Trump went from pundit to historian: Lincoln never sounded like that, he said. I just dont think that Lincoln behaved like that. He talked very, very slowly. Lincoln, of course, died several years before humans created the ability to record sound, but Trump seemed pretty certain about the presidents vocal cadence. Actual historians arent so sure.

A few years later, in 2015, Trump expressed his resentment at people from foreign countries winning awards. Birdman director Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu took home three awards, a fact that caused Trump some annoyance.

It was a great night for Mexico, as usual, Trump said, again on Fox & Friends the morning after the Oscars that year. Was it that good? I dont hear that.

Trumps only suggestion for improving the Oscars? He should host the event himself.

Who knows? Perhaps in an alternate reality, Trump is hosting the Academy Awards on Sunday, instead of being the president of the United States.

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