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Quiz: Do you remember these famous resignations?
Donald Trump has resigned from the Screen Actors Guild (Sag-Aftra), the union for US performers on film and TV.
FORMER US PRESIDENT Donald Trump resigned from the Screen Actors Guild (Sag-Aftra), the union for US performers on film and TV, as the union’s leadership began moves to expel him.
In a letter dated 4 February 2020 addressed to Gabrielle Carteris, the union’s national president, Trump said: “I write to you today regarding the so-called Disciplinary Committee hearing aimed at revoking my union membership. Who cares!”
Citing his appearances in Home Alone 2, Zoolander, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and the TV show The Apprentice, Trump added: “I’ve also greatly helped the cable news television business (said to be a dying platform with not much time left until I got involved in politics), and created thousands of jobs at networks such as MSDNC [sic] and Fake News CNN, among many others.”
So goeth the former President, adding his name to a long line of famous resignations throughout history.
How well do you remember these other famous moments when people resigned?
Let's start with Richard M. Nixon. In what year did he resign as President of the United States over the Watergate scandal?
1973
1974
1975
1976
True or false, Nixon is the only US President to ever resign from office?
True
False
Onto Irish politics now, which of the following men did not resign over the Golfgate controversy?
Jerry Buttimer
Phil Hogan
Dara Calleary
Barry Cowen
That's right, Cowen was sacked by Taoiseach Micheál Martin after he refused to make a second public statement about a drink-driving ban imposed on him four years ago. What role in Government was he fired from?
Minister for u-turns
Minister for Justice & Equality
Minister for Agriculture
Minister for Finance
Jeff Bezos this week announced plans to stand down as Amazon's Chief Executive. What will his new role within the company be?
Executive Chairman
Chief Operations Officer
Chair of the Board
Delivery man
UK Conservative minister, Edwina Currie, resigned from her position in 1988 after her warning about what did not go down well?
John Major
Nuclear arms
The NHS
Eggs
Greg Smith announced his resignation as Goldman Sachs executive director in 2012 in the New York Times in a piece titled ‘Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs’.
How did he finish his letter?
"Yours, Greg"
"You can shove your job up your hole"
"I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.”
"I've made a huge mistake, can I please have my job back?"
On what date did Bertie Ahern resign as Taoiseach?
2 June 2000
6 May 2008
31 January 2009
He never resigned MWAHAHAHAHA
Who was the last President of the Soviet Union who resigned on Christmas Day, 1991?
Boris Yeltsin
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Khrushchev
Finally, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his cabinet resigned last month over what controversy?
Leaked confidential documents
An expenses scandal
The whole cabinet attended a golf dinner during Covid-19 restrictions
Childcare benefits scandal.
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