"Israel has earned criticism," he said, "but not on this level".
His remarks earned criticism, with defaced posters, a screening canceled by the American Film Institute and numerous op-eds and articles written.
The Obama administration has also been dealing with the fallout from revelations that it has eavesdropped on foreign heads of state, earning criticism from allies of the United States like France and Germany.
Renate Künast, a prominent member of the German Green party and former agriculture minister, earned criticism for a tweet in which she questioned why police had shot the teenager dead rather than merely incapacitating him.
And although some of her rulings have earned criticism, she has kept what could have been a chaotic proceeding, driven by grandstanding lawyers and a swarm of ever-eager journalists, orderly and firmly under her control.
Since their Memorial Day debut, the chairs have quickly entered the zeitgeist, earning criticism from the mayor and wonderment from pedestrians, who have pronounced them both tacky and endearing.
The state's favela "pacification" programme has tackled crime: from their own centralised command centre HQ, the police have cracked down violently on gangs, and earned criticism for using draconian force.
A lower court disagreed; the case is now before the Supreme Court.Mr Obama has occasionally resorted to a tactic favoured by his predecessor, George W. Bush, that enraged the left and earned criticism from Mr Obama himself when he was running for president: the signing statement, a sort of declaration of principles issued when a president signs a bill into law.
Trump has previously earned criticism for suggesting he would be "sort of a neutral guy" on Israel and seek to negotiate peace with the Palestinians, describing himself as best placed to make "probably the toughest deal in the world right now".
His hitting game has also earned criticism at times.
