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===2020===
* My administration will never stop fighting for Americans of faith
** At a rally for evangelicals earlier in 2020 according to [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-secretly-mocks-his-christian-supporters/616522/ Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters] September 29, 2020
 
====January 2020====
* <!--[00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEwTFJG1DQ&t=0s): Tesla's now worth more than GM and Ford; do you have comments on Elon Musk? --><!-- [00:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEwTFJG1DQ&t=4s):--> Well, you have to give [[Elon Musk|him]] credit. I spoke to him very recently, and he's also doing the rockets, he likes rockets, and he does good at rockets too, by the way. I never saw… where [[w:Falcon 9 first-stage booster|the engines]] come down with no wings, no anything, [[w:Falcon 9 first-stage landings|and they're landing]]. I've said I've never seen that before. <!--[00:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEwTFJG1DQ&t=19s):--> And I was worried about him, because he's one of our great geniuses, and we have to protect our genius. We have to protect [[Thomas Edison]], we have to protect all of these people that came up originally with the [[w:light bulb|light bulb]], and the [[w:wheel|wheel]], and all of these things. And he's one of our very smart people, and we want to cherish those people, that's very important. But he's done a very good job. <!--[00:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEwTFJG1DQ&t=41s):--> Shocking, how well, …how it's come so fast. You go back a year, and they were talking about the end of [[w:Tesla, Inc.|the company]] and all of a sudden they're talking about these great things. He's going to be building [[w:Gigafactory|a very big plant]] in the United States. He has to. Because we help him, so he has to help us.
** on [[Elon Musk]], [[Tesla]], and [[SpaceX]] after Tesla stock valuation beat [[w:General Motors|General Motors]] and [[w:Ford Motor Company|Ford]] combined
** {{citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEwTFJG1DQ|title=Trump on Elon Musk: I was worried about him, because he's one of our great geniuses|interviewer=[[w:Joe Kernen|Joe Kernen]]|date=2020-01-22|work=CNBC Television|via=Youtube|location=[[w:World Economic Forum|World Economic Forum]], [[w:Davos|Davos]], Switzerland}}
 
*'''{{w|Joe Kernen}}''': It was a couple of years ago. Before we get started-- with- we're going talk about the economy and a lot of other things--the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|CDC]]-- has identified a case of [[w:2020 coronavirus pandemic in Washington (state)|coronavirus-- in Washington state]]. The {{w|Wuhan}} strain of this. If you remember {{w|SARS}}, that affected [[GDP]]. Travel-related effects. Do you-- have you been briefed by the CDC? And--
:'''Donald Trump''': I have, and--
:'''Joe Kernen''': --are there worries about a pandemic at this point?
:'''Donald Trump''': No. Not at all. And-- we're-- we have it totally under control. <b>It's one person coming in from [[2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in mainland China|China]], and we have it under control.</b> It's—going to be just fine.
:'''Joe Kernen''': Okay. And [[w:President of the People's Republic of China|President]] Xi-- there's just some-- talk in China that maybe the transparency isn't everything that it's going to be. Do you trust that we're going to know everything we need to know from China?
:'''Donald Trump''': I do. I do. I have a great relationship with President Xi. [[w:China–United States trade war#2020|We just signed]] probably the biggest deal ever made. It certainly has the potential to be the biggest deal ever made. And-- it was a very interesting period of time time {{sic}}.
:'''Joe Kernen''': Yeah. Let’s get into that--
:'''Donald Trump''': But we got it done, and-- no, I do. I think-- the [[China–United States relations|relationship]] is very, very good.
:* Interview with {{w|CNBC}}'s {{w|Joe Kernen}} at the {{w|World Economic Forum}} in {{w|Davos, Switzerland}}, January 22, 2020. [https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/cnbc-transcript-president-donald-trump-sits-down-with-cnbcs-joe-kernen-at-the-world-economic-forum-in-davos-switzerland.html Transcript online] at ''{{w|CNBC}}''
 
* China has been working very hard to contain the [[COVID-19 pandemic|Coronavirus]]. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency.
** Cited by {{citation |date=2020-01-24 |title=Trump Is Inciting a Coronavirus Culture War to Save Himself
|author=Adam Serwer |periodical=The Atlantic |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/trump-is-the-chinese-governments-most-useful-idiot/608638/}}
 
*During National African American History Month, we honor the extraordinary contributions made by African Americans throughout the history of our Republic
**[https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-national-african-american-history-month-2020/ 31 January 2020]
***[https://twitter.com/CFTC/status/1233507203853758468 reposted 28 February 2020 by CFTC]
 
====February 2020====
* And by the way, the [[SARS-CoV-2|virus]]. They're working hard. Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. I hope that's true.
** Regarding [[Covid-19 pandemic in the United States|coronavirus]]
** Rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, {{#formatdate:2020-02-10}}, quoted in {{citation|date=2020-02-26|title=Trump’s dangerous message on coronavirus|author=Doyle McManus|periodical=LA Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-02-26/trumps-dangerous-message-on-coronavirus}}
 
* There are a lot of dishonest slimeballs out there. Dishonest scum. Dirty cops, lot of dirty cops … the ones on top, they were absolute scum.
** Trump described former senior law enforcement officials who were involved in the FBI probes into his campaign, as quoted in {{citation|date=2020-02-20|title=Trump repeatedly struggles to pronounce words during conspiracy-laden rally, before suggesting he'll pardon Roger Stone in late-night tweet |author=Tom Embury-Dennis |periodical=Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-rally-twitter-roger-stone-sentence-pardon-2020-election-rally-phoenix-arizona-a9345956.html}}
 
* And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done.
** Regarding known [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|coronavirus cases]].
** White House press conference, {{#formatdate:2020-02-26}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-03-11 |title=Coronavirus: US passes 1,000 cases – two weeks after Trump said number would soon be 'close to zero' |author=Chris Riotta |periodical=The Independent |location=UK |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-cases-us-map-trump-how-many-infected-a9393061.html}}
 
* We know all the people. We know all the good people. It's a question I asked the doctors before. Some of the people we cut, they haven't been used for many, many years, and if we ever need them, we can get them very quickly. And rather than spending the money — I'm a businessperson, I don't like having thousands of people around when you don't need 'em, when we need 'em, we can get them back very quickly.
** Asked about his consistent [[w:Criticism of response to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic#Funding cut by Trump administration|budget cuts]] to the CDC, the NIH, and the WHO.
** White House press conference, {{#formatdate:2020-02-26}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-02-28 |title=As the World Reaches for Face Masks, Trump Buries His Head in the Sand |author=Jonathan Chait |author-link=w:Jonathan Chait |periodical=New York |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/trump-coronavirus-response.html}}
 
* Can we get like ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' back, please? ''[[Sunset Boulevard]]'', so many great movies.
** [https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/trump-slams-oscar-winning-south-korean-film-parasite-praises-gone-with-the-wind/videoshow/74251536.cms]
** [https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/trump-slams-oscar-winning-south-korean-film-parasite-praises-gone-with-the-wind/videoshow/74251536.cms Trump slams Oscar-winning South Korean film 'Parasite', praises 'Gone with the Wind']video posted February 22, 2020
 
* It's going to disappear. One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear. And from our shores, we — you know, it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We'll see what happens. Nobody really knows.
** Regarding coronavirus
** African American History Month reception, White House, {{#formatdate:2020-02-27}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-02-29 |title=Inside Trump’s frantic attempts to minimize the coronavirus crisis |author=
Yasmeen Abutaleb, Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey |periodical=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-frantic-attempts-to-minimize-the-coronavirus-crisis/2020/02/29/7ebc882a-5b25-11ea-9b35-def5a027d470_story.html}}. Video of the event available at [https://www.c-span.org/video/?469786-1/president-trump-hosts-african-american-history-month-reception cspan]
 
=====Donald Trump Charleston, South Carolina Rally (February 28, 2020)=====
:<small>Donald Trump Charleston, South Carolina Rally (February 28, 2020), [https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-charleston-south-carolina-rally-transcript-february-28-2020 transcript online] at ''[[w:Rev (company)|Rev]]''.</small>
 
* Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All I can say is that the fake news just doesn't get it, do they? They don't get it. [inaudible 00:02:54] They just don't get it. Hello Charleston, and I'm thrilled to be back in the great state of [[South Carolina]] with thousands of hardworking American Patriots who believe in faith, family, God, and country. Thank you. It's a phenomenal crowd, only topped by the number of people outside that didn't get in. If anybody would like to give up where you're standing or your seat, please raise your hand. All right. Then let's begin, right? Thank you all very much though. This is great. No, they don't get it. Down the road, they have a rally for one of the people that are going to be running tomorrow. They're trying to get to a hundred, but they're not going to make it. So I think they're going to set up a round table. Well, that's what they do. So people want to go to a rally, they end up sitting at a round table talking about their definition of impeachment. Crazy.
 
* No, it's crazy. Crazy! It's a crazy deal. No, the fake news media, they've been trying to figure this out for years. They still don't get it though. They don't get it. Look at all of those cameras. Look at all of those cameras. That's a lot of cameras. That's a lot of cameras, Lindsey and Tim, that's a lot of... They heard you guys were here. They heard Tim was here and that Lindsey was here and that... And they said, "We're not going to attend that rally," but when we heard those two guys plus our great congressmen, they're here, great congressmen. But this is an incredible time for our nation. We're thrilled to be in the midst of what we call the Great American Comeback and that's what it is. Jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, factories are returning, poverty is plummeting, confidence is surging, and we have completely rebuilt the awesome power of the United States military. Our country is stronger than ever before.
 
* We are stronger, we are better, but while we are building a great future, the radical left Democrats in Washington are trying to burn it all down. They have spent the last three years, and I can even go further than that, three years since the election, but we go before the election, working to erase your ballots and overthrow our democracy. But with your help, we have exposed the far left's corruption and defeated their sinister schemes and let's see what happens in the coming months. Let's watch. Let's just watch. Very dishonest people. Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, you know that right? Coronavirus, they're politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs. You say, "How's President Trump doing?" They go, "Oh, not good, not good." They have no clue. They don't have any clue. They can't even count their votes in Iowa. They can't even count. No, they can't. They can't count their votes.
 
* One of my people came up to me and said, "Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia." That didn't work out too well. They couldn't do it. They tried the [[Impeachment of Donald Trump|impeachment]] hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything. They tried it over and over. They'd been doing it since you got in. It's all turning. They lost. It's all turning. Think of it. Think of it. '''And this is their new hoax.''' But we did something that's been pretty amazing. We have 15 people in this massive country and because of the fact that we went early. We went early, we could have had a lot more than that. We're doing great. Our country is doing so great. We are so unified. We are so unified. The Republican party has never ever been unified like it is now. There has never been a movement in the history of our country like we have now. Never been a movement. So a statistic that we want to talk about, go ahead. Say USA. It's okay. USA. So a number that nobody heard of, that I heard of recently and I was shocked to hear it, 35,000 people on average die each year from the flu. Did anyone know that? 35,000, that's a lot of people. It could go to 100,000, it could be 27,000. They say usually a minimum of 27, goes up to 100,000 people a year die. And so far we have lost nobody to [[w:2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States|coronavirus in the United States]]. Nobody. And it doesn't mean we won't and we are totally prepared. It doesn't mean we won't, but think of it. You hear 35 and 40,000 people and we've lost nobody and you wonder the press is in hysteria mode. CNN fake news and the camera just went off, the camera. The camera just went off. Turn it back on. Hey, by the way, hold it. Look at this, and honestly, all events are like this. It's about us. It's all about us. I wish they'd take the camera, show the arena please. They never do. They never do. They never do it. They never show the arena. You can hear it because when you hear it, that's not 200 people. That's not a hundred people. That's thousands and thousands of people including people outside. You can hear it. They always show my face. See that face? They show my face. I want them to show the arena, not my face, right? [...] While the extreme left has been wasting America's time with these vile hoaxes, we've been killing terrorists, creating jobs, raising wages, enacting fair trade deals, securing our border, and lifting up citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. We added another 225,000 jobs last month alone. And that makes seven million jobs since our election, seven million. The [[unemployment]] rate in the great state of South Carolina. You ever hear of that place?
 
* Practically every one. Can you believe it? I'm sure your husbands are thrilled, right? They're thrilled. Where are you going tonight? I'm going to another Trump rally. Cool. Number 114. What do your husbands say about that? This group up here. She said, "We don't care." Thank you. Thank you. Democrats will only say horrible things even though they know we're doing a great job. We're doing a great job with what we have to work with. It's incredible. The Democrats want us to fail so badly. Even if their actions, and you take a look, hurt the people of this country, they'll hurt the people themselves, their wealth, their everything. They're willing to hurt our country in order to say bad, even if they know it's not so. We made an unbelievable deal with [[Mexico]], with [[Canada]], with [[China]], with South Korea, with [[Japan]]. And if you put a microphone with these people back there like the Academy Awards used to be, not anymore. Best movie of the year. It's made in [[South Korea]]. What's that all about? I'm waiting to see the best movie of the year-
 
* And it's made... He said, "It's garbage." Only in South Carolina can you say that. Only in South Carolina. You're going to get us in trouble. No, I'm just repeating what he said for the fake news. No, but seriously the Academy Awards has gone way, way down in ratings. Do you know why? Because they started attacking us and we don't believe in it anymore. That's why. No, but they had [[Parasite (2019 film)|the best movie of the year made in South Korea]]. They make enough stuff for us, right? And they're good. They're our friends. Take advantage of us, that's okay. Not so much anymore. We are really, you take a look, magnificently organized with the best professionals in the world. We're prepared for the absolute worst. You have to be prepared for the worst, but hopefully it will all amount to very little. That's why I tell you when we have the flu with 35,000 people and this one we have to take it very, very seriously. That's what we're doing. We are preparing for the worst.
 
* My administration has taken the most aggressive action in modern history to prevent the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|spread of this illness in the United States]]. We are ready. We are ready. Totally ready. On January 31st, I ordered the suspension of foreign nationals who have recently been in China from entering the United States. An action which the Democrats loudly criticized and protested and now everybody's complimenting me saying, "Thank you very much. You were 100% correct." Could've been a whole different story. But I say, so let's get this right. A [[SARS-CoV-2|virus]] starts in China, bleeds its way into various countries all around the world, doesn't spread widely at all in the United States because of the early actions that myself and my administration took against a lot of other wishes, and the Democrats' single talking point, and you see it, is that it's Donald Trump's fault, right? It's Donald Trump's fault. No, just things that happened.
 
* But you know what this does show you? Things happen. Whoever thought of this two weeks ago? Who would've thought this could be going on four weeks ago? You wouldn't. But things happen in life and you have to be prepared and you have to be flexible and you have to be able to go out and get it. And my guys that we have the best professionals in the world, the best in the world and we are so ready. At the same time that I initiated the first federally mandated quarantine in over 50 years. We had a quarantine some people. They weren't happy, they weren't happy about it. I want to tell you there are a lot of people that not so happy, but after two weeks they got happy. You know who got happy? The people around them got happy. That's who got happy.
**Note: [[Luciana Borio]], former director of Medical and Biodefense Preparedness Policy at the {{w|National Security Council}}, said at a symposium at {{w|Emory University}} in [[Atlanta]] in 2018, marking the 100th anniversary of [[1918 flu pandemic]]: "[[Disease X|The threat]] of {{w|pandemic flu}} is the number one health security concern, are we ready to respond? I fear the answer is no." As quoted in ''[https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/contrary-to-trumps-claim-a-pandemic-was-widely-expected-at-some-point/ Contrary to Trump's Claim, A Pandemic Was Widely Expected at Some Point]'' (March 20, 2020) by Rem Rieder, ''{{w|FactCheck.org}}''.
 
* I also created a [[White House Coronavirus Task Force|White House virus task force]]. It's a big thing, a virus task force. I requested 2.5 billion dollars to ensure we have the resources we need. The Democrats said, "That's terrible. He's doing the wrong thing. He needs eight and a half billion, not two and a half." I've never had that before. I ask for two and a half, they want to give me eight and a half, so I said, "I'll take it." Does that make me a bad... I'll take it. I'll take it. I never had that before. I never had it. We want two and a half million. That's plenty. We demand you take eight and a half. He doesn't know what he's doing. We want eight and a half. These people are crazy. We must understand that border security is also health security. And you've all seen the wall has gone up like magic. It's gone up like magic. You think that was an easy one? That was not an easy one. It's going up great and we're up now 132 miles and this is the exact wall that border security, water, everything.
 
* So I don't know what the record attendance is in this arena, but I was told that we broke it by a lot. And you got the people outside. Are we allowed to tell them who we would like them to vote for? Because you're allowed to skip. All right, so wait a minute, let's do a poll. We do this for the fake news back there. Ready? Who would be the best candidate for us? Not for them. We're ready. Ready? So let's go through them just quickly. We won't include Steyer because he's a loser. He's out, okay? We won't include him. Who would be the best? This is a real poll. This isn't one of those fake polls taken by ... In all fairness, I love you, [[Fox News|Fox]], taken by Fox, the worst pollster. This guy ... this pollster hates Trump's guts. I was losing the last election by a fortune. They said, "He did great with women." Everything was wrong. And they never replaced this guy. But watch this. You ready?
 
* We had a great event yesterday, an event that was so beautiful, young African American leaders. One of the things I asked them, and I’ve been thinking about this for a long time… And great people, great people. Some of them are here tonight. Do you like the name African American or Black? And they said, “Black!” all at the same time. No, true. I tell you. Because you say, “[[African American]] or Black?” And they said almost immediately, “Black.” But we had an incredible group of people and what happened is {{w|NBC}}… It was such a love fest. It was so incredible. It went on for 45 minutes. It was a love fest. It was incredible. NBC turned down… There they are right there. They turned down… {{w|Comcast}}, which owns NBC… Actually NBC, I think, we call it [[w:List of nicknames used by Donald Trump#Organizations|MSDNC]], right? MSDNC. But NBC I think is worse than CNN. I actually do. And Comcast, a company that spends millions and millions of dollars on their image… I’ll do everything possible to destroy their image because they are terrible. They are terrible. They’re a terrible group of people. And they paid me a fortune for years for [[w:The Apprentice (American TV series)|the Apprentice]]. They paid me a fortune. And when I left the show, it was doing great. When I left the show, 14 seasons, think of that, they got a [[Arnold Schwarzenegger|big movie star]]. I won’t tell you his name. Nobody would know. Actually nobody will know his name because he was on for such a short period of time. But the show went down the tubes very quickly after they had Trump. But the country in five years from now, of course you want to upset them, five years or nine years or 13 years. Or 18 years! 10 more years. Nah. Oh, they go crazy when you say it. When you say to them five more years, so it’s five, but you then say maybe nine, maybe 13, maybe 17, maybe 21, or not, maybe 21. Let’s do this. Let’s term limit ourselves at 25 years. No more than 25 years. No more. Okay. They’ll pass something in the Senate. Tim, pass it in the Senate with Lindsey, a 25 year term limit please.
 
====March 2020====
* Well, I think the 3.4% is really a false number. Now, and this is just my hunch, and — but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this. Because a lot people will have this and it's very mild. They'll get better very rapidly. They don't even see a doctor. They don't even call a doctor. You never hear about those people. So you can't put them down in the category of the overall population in terms of this [[Coronavirus|corona flu and/or virus]]. So you just can't do that. So, if, you know, we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work. Some of them go to work, but they get better.
** ''Hannity'', Fox News, {{#formatdate:2020-03-04}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-03-05 |author=Inae Oh |title=Trump Unleashes More Coronavirus Misinformation on National Television |periodical=Mother Jones |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/donald-trump-coronavirus-sean-hannity/}}
 
* But as of right now and yesterday, anybody that needs a test — That's the important thing. And [[COVID-19 testing|the tests]] are all perfect. Like, the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.
** Comparing coronavirus tests to his Ukraine phone call that led to his impeachment
** during tour of Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, {{#formatdate:2020-03-06}}, quoted in {{citation|date=2020-03-06|title=Trump Says Coronavirus Testing Is as ‘Perfect’ as His Ukraine Call|author=Chas Danner|periodical=New York|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/trump-coronavirus-testing-as-perfect-as-ukraine-call.html}}
 
* They would like to have the people come off. I'd rather have the people stay, but I'd go with them. I told them to make the final decision. I would rather — because I like the numbers being where they are. I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.
** regarding Grand Princess cruise ship with 21 diagnosed cases of coronavirus
** during tour of Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, {{#formatdate:2020-03-06}}, quoted in {{citation|date=2020-03-06|title=Trump Says ‘People Have to Remain Calm’ Amid Coronavirus Outbreak|author=Peter Baker|periodical=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-cdc.html}}
 
* You know, my uncle was a great person. He was at MIT. He taught at MIT for, I think, like a record number of years. He was a great super genius. Dr. John Trump. I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said, "How do you know so much about this?" Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for President.
** during tour of Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, {{#formatdate:2020-03-06}}, quoted in {{citation|date=2020-03-06|title=‘Maybe I have a natural ability’: Trump plays medical expert on coronavirus by second-guessing the professionals|author=David Nakamura|periodical=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/maybe-i-have-a-natural-ability-trump-plays-medical-expert-on-coronavirus-by-second-guessing-the-professionals/2020/03/06/3ee0574c-5ffb-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html}}
 
* I've been briefed on every contingency you can possibly imagine. Many contingencies. A lot of—a lot of positive. Different numbers. All different numbers. Very large numbers. And some small numbers too, by the way.
** Regarding coronavirus. Posed question: "Mr. President, have you been briefed that up to 100 million Americans would ultimately be exposed to the virus?"
** [https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-republican-senators-2/ Briefing at the White House] ({{#formatdate:2020-03-10}})
 
* No, '''I don't take responsibility at all''', because we were given a set of circumstances and we were given rules, regulations and specifications from a different time.
** Asked if he took responsibility for the lag in coronavirus testing
** White House press conference, {{#formatdate:2020-03-13}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-03-13 |title='I don't take responsibility at all': Trump pushes back on complaints about coronavirus testing |author=Zachary Halaschak |periodical=Washington Examiner |url=https://www.washingtonexam9999999iner.com/news/i-dont-take-responsibility-at-all-trump-pushes-back-on-complaints-about-coronavirus-testing}}
 
* They're trying to scare everybody, from meetings, cancel the meetings, close the schools—you know, destroy the country. And that's okay, as long as we can win the [[2020 United States presidential election|election]].
** Fundraiser, Mar-a-Lago, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-03-15 |title=Trump says media 'scare' coverage of coronavirus response OK 'as long as we can win the election': Report |author=Daniel Chaitin |periodical=Washington Examiner |url=https://www.washingtonexam9999999iner.com/news/trump-says-media-scare-coverage-of-coronavirus-response-okay-as-long-as-we-can-win-the-election-report}}
 
* It's a very contagious virus. It's incredible. But it's something we have tremendous control of. I think very important the young people, people of good health and groups of people just are not strongly affected.
** In a White House briefing, as quoted in {{citation |date=2020-03-15 |title=Fact check: Trump falsely claims US has 'tremendous control' of the coronavirus |author=Daniel Dale |periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/15/politics/fact-check-trump-control-coronavirus/index.html}}
 
* Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment—try getting it yourselves. We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself.
** Call with governors, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-03-16 |title=Trump tells governors to seek out respirators and other vital equipment on their own. |author=''The New York Times'' staff |periodical=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/world/coronavirus-news.html}}
 
* We have an invisible enemy. We have a problem a month ago nobody ever thought about. [...] This is a bad one, this is a very bad one. This is bad in the sense that it's so contagious. It's just so contagious. Sort of record-setting type contagion.
** Coronavirus task force press briefing, {{#formatdate:2020-03-16}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-03-17 |title=The Last Great Pandemic |author=Jarrett Stepman |periodical=The Daily Signal |url=https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/03/17/the-last-great-pandemic/}}
 
* <p>''Q:'' Very simple question; does the buck stop with you? And on a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your response to this crisis?</p><p>''Donald Trump:'' I'd rate it a 10. I think we've done a great job. And it started with the fact that we kept a very highly infected country, despite all of the—even the professionals saying no, it's too early to do that, we were very, very early with respect to China. And we would have a whole different situation in this country if we didn't do that. I would rate it a very, very—I would rate ourselves and—and the professionals—I think the professionals have done a fantastic job.</p>
** Coronavirus task force press briefing, {{#formatdate:2020-03-16}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-03-16 |title=Trump: I'd Rate My Response To Coronavirus a 10 |author=Ian Schwartz |periodical=RealClearPolitics |url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/03/16/trump_id_rate_my_response_to_coronavirus_a_10.html}}
 
* <p>''Q:'' Does the buck stop with you, Mr. President? Does the buck stop with you?</p><p>''Donald Trump:'' Yeah, normally. But I think when you hear the—you know, this has never been done before in this country.</p>
** Coronavirus task force press briefing, {{#formatdate:2020-03-16}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-03-16 |title=Trump says buck 'normally' stops with him — but not for coronavirus |author=Oliver Willis |periodical=American Independent |url=https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-coronavirus-response-buck-stops-here-white-house-covid-19/}}
 
* <p>''Peter Alexander:'' How are non-symptomatic professional athletes getting tests while others are waiting in line and can't get them?</p><p>''Donald Trump:'' No, I wouldn’t say so, but '''perhaps that’s been the story of life'''. That does happen on occasion and I’ve noticed where some people have been tested fairly quickly.</p>
** Coronavirus task force press briefing, {{#formatdate:2020-03-18}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-03-18 |title=Coronavirus: Trump says it may be 'the story of life' that well-connected get testing first |author=Janelle Griffith |periodical=NBC News |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-nyc-mayor-slams-nets-over-testing-trump-weighs-n1162971}}
 
* <p>''Peter Alexander:'' What do you say to Americans who are scared though? I guess, nearly 200 dead, 14,000 who are sick, millions, as you witnessed, who are scared right now? What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared?</p><p>''Donald Trump:'' I say that you're a terrible reporter, that's what I say. I think that's a very nasty question.</p>
** Coronavirus task force press briefing, {{#formatdate:2020-03-20}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-03-20 |title=Trump launches into tirade against media, insults NBC reporter at coronavirus briefing |author=Adam Edelman |periodical=NBC News |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-rips-reporter-who-asked-him-calm-scared-americans-terrible-n1165031}}
 
* We're [[w:Trump administration communication during the COVID-19 pandemic#Lifting restrictions|opening up]] this incredible country. Because we have to do that. I'd love to have it open by Easter. I would love to have it opened by Easter. It's such an important day for other reasons, but I will make it an important day for this, too. I would love to have the country opened up and just rarin' to go by [[Easter]].
** Fox News town hall, {{#formatdate:2020-03-24}}
 
* Look, Easter's a very special day for me. And I see it's sort of in that timeline that I'm thinking about. And I say, "Wouldn't it be great to have all of the churches full?" – you know the churches aren't allowed, essentially, to have much of a congregation there. And most of 'em, I watched on Sunday, online. And it was terrific, by the way, but online is never going to be like being there. So I think Easter Sunday, and you'll have packed churches all over our country. I think it would be a beautiful time. And it's just about the timeline that I think is right.
** Fox News interview, {{#formatdate:2020-03-24}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-03-24 |title=Coronavirus: Trump says Easter with ‘packed churches’ would be ‘beautiful time’ to reopen US |author=John T Bennett |periodical=The Independent |location=UK |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-coronavirus-news-reopen-us-borders-easter-holiday-a9423041.html}}
 
* I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be, I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You go into major hospitals sometimes, and they’ll have two ventilators. And now all of a sudden they’re saying, 'Can we order 30,000 ventilators?'
** Speaking with [[Sean Hannity]] on [[Fox News]] on 26 March 2020. As quoted in ''[https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/26/trump-ventilators-coronavirus-151311 Trump: I don't believe you really need that many ventilators]'', 27 March 2020, ''{{w|Politico}}''.
 
* Don't be a cutie pie, okay?
** Trump responding to the question “But everybody who needs one will be able to get a ventilator?” from reporter Jonathan Karl. As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-03-27 |title=Trump to reporter pressing him about ventilators: 'Don't be a cutie pie' |author=Tal Axelrod |periodical=The Hill |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/489958-trump-to-reporter-pressing-him-about-ventilators-dont-be-a-cutie-pie}}
 
* ...young people are really, this is an incredible phenomenon, but they are attacked, successfully attacked to a much lesser extent by [[2019–20 coronavirus pandemic|this pandemic]], by this disease. This whatever they want to call it. '''You call it a germ, you can call it a flu, you can call it a virus. You know, you can call it many different names. I'm not sure anybody even knows what it is''', but the children do very well.
** Coronavirus task force press briefing, {{#formatdate:2020-03-27}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-03-27 |title=Trump on Coronavirus: "I'm Not Sure Anybody Even Knows What It Is"; "You Can Call It A Germ, You Can Call It A Flu" |author=Ian Schwartz |periodical=RealClearPolitics |url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/03/27/trump_on_coronavirus_im_not_sure_anybody_even_knows_what_it_is_you_can_call_it_a_germ_you_can_call_it_a_flu.html}}
 
* Just finished a very good conversation with [[Xi Jinping|President Xi]] of China. Discussed in great detail the CoronaVirus that is ravaging large parts of our Planet. China has been through much & has developed a strong understanding of the Virus. We are working closely together. Much respect!
** Quoted in {{citation |date=2020-03-27 |title=Trump claims Asian Americans are angry at 'what China has done' to U.S. |author=Kimmy Yam |periodical=Yahoo News / NBC News |url=https://news.yahoo.com/trump-claims-asian-americans-angry-190959445.html}}
 
* Nobody could have imagined a thing like this — a tragedy like this would have happened: the invisible enemy.
** As quoted in ''[https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-supply-chain-distributors-covid-19/ Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with Supply Chain Distributors on COVID-19]'' (March 29, 2020), ''{{w|whitehouse.gov}}''.
 
* The [[Federal government of the United States|federal government]] has done something that nobody has done anything like this other than perhaps wartime. And that’s what we’re in: We’re in a war.
** As quoted in ''[https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-supply-chain-distributors-covid-19/ Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with Supply Chain Distributors on COVID-19]'' (March 29, 2020), ''{{w|whitehouse.gov}}''.
 
* My administration has done a job on really working across government and with the private sector, and it’s been incredible. It’s a beautiful thing to watch, I have to say. Unfortunately, the end result of the group we’re fighting — which are hundreds of billions and trillions of germs, or whatever you want to call them — they are bad news. This virus is bad news and it moves quickly, and it spreads as easily as anything anyone has ever seen.
** As quoted in ''[https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-supply-chain-distributors-covid-19/ Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with Supply Chain Distributors on COVID-19]'' (March 29, 2020), ''{{w|whitehouse.gov}}''.
 
* I just want to reiterate, because a lot of people have been asking, well, what would have happened if we did nothing? Did nothing, we just rode it out, and I’ve been asking that question to Tony and Deborah, and they’ve been talking to me about it for a long time, other people have been asking that question, and I think we got our most accurate study today, or certainly most comprehensive. Think of the number, potentially, 2.2 million people if we did nothing. If we didn’t do the distancing, if we didn’t do all of the things that we’re doing. When you hear those numbers, you start to realize that, with the kind of work we went through last week, with the $2.2 trillion, it no longer sounds like a lot, right? You’re talking about, when I heard the number today, first time I’ve heard that number, because I’ve been asking the same question that some people have been asking, I felt even better about what we did last week with the $2.2 trillion, because you’re talking about a potential of up to 2.2 million, and some people said it could even be higher than that. So you’re talking about 2.2 million deaths. 2.2 million people from this. If we can hold that down as we’re saying, to 100,000, it’s a horrible number. Maybe even less, but to 100,000, so we have between 100 and 200,000, we altogether have done a very good job. 2.2, up to 2.2 million deaths and maybe even beyond that? I’m feeling very good about what we did last week.
** Coronavirus Task Force Briefing, March 29, 2020, [https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-task-force-briefing-transcript-march-29-trump-extends-task-force-guidelines-to-april-30 transcript online] at ''[[w:Rev (company)|Rev]]''
 
* I know South Korea better than anybody, it's a very tight — do you know how many people are in Seoul? Do you know how big the city of Seoul is? 38 million people. That's bigger than anything we have.
** Trump talking about Seoul, which is a city with 10 million people according to the city government's English language website. As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-03-30 |title=Trump tried to flex by asking a reporter about the population of Seoul. Then he got it wrong by 28 million. |author=Jake Lahut |periodical=Business Insider |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-trump-got-the-population-of-seoul-wrong-by-millions-2020-3?r=US&IR=T}}
 
====April 2020====
* It's called "[[social media]]." It's social media. It gets out. I have, you know, hundreds of millions of people. Number one on [[Facebook]]. Did you know I was number one on Facebook? I mean, I just found out I'm number one on Facebook. I thought that was very nice for whatever it means. No, it represents something. And when I can explain to people: Just don't do it. You know, it's going to be bad if you do it. It's going to be really bad. And they don't need to do it. They have enough problems. [[Iran]] has enough problems without doing that. But we’ve been pulling back very substantially over the last year, in [[Iraq]]. And so, you know, that's the way it is.
** Coronavirus task force press briefing, {{#formatdate:2020-04-01}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-04-01 |title=Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing |author=James S. Brady |periodical=White House |url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-16/}}.
** Note: At April 1, [https://web.archive.org/web/20200401020635if_/https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/ Trump's official page], with 26.8 million likes and 28.5 million followers, was not among the [[w:List of most-followed Facebook pages|most-followed Facebook pages]]. At January 6, speaking on [[Rush Limbaugh]]'s radio show Trump stated that [[Mark Zuckerberg]] told him that he was "number one on Facebook", claim that was not refuted by Facebook as reported in ''[https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/trump-mark-zuckerberg-facebook_n_5e12e125e4b0843d3615393f Trump Claims Mark Zuckerberg Told Him He's 'Number One On Facebook']'' (January 8, 2020) by Josephine Harvey, ''{{w|HuffPost Australia}}''
 
* We’re working to ensure that the supplies are delivered where and when they’re needed, and in some cases, we’re telling governors we can’t go there because we don’t think you need it and we think someplace else needs it. And pretty much, so far, we’ve been right about that. And we’ll continue to do it. As it really gets — this will be probably the toughest week between this week and next week. And there’ll be a lot of death, unfortunately, but a lot less death than if this wasn’t done. But there will be death.
** As quoted in ''[https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-19/ Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing]'' (April 4, 2020), ''{{w|whitehouse.gov}}''
 
* So we’ve done 1,670,000 tests. Think of that 1,670,000 tests. And we have a great system. Now we’re working with the states in almost all instances, but we have a great system. And the other thing that we bought a tremendous amount of is the [[Hydroxychloroquine|hydroxy chloroquine]]. Hydroxy chloroquine, which I think is, you know, it’s a great [[malaria]] drug. It’s worked unbelievably. It’s a powerful drug on malaria and [[w:Hydroxychloroquine#COVID-19|there are signs]] that it works on this, some very strong signs and in the meantime it’s been around a long time. It also works very powerfully on lupus, so there are some very strong powerful signs and we’ll have to see because again, it’s tested.
** Coronavirus Task Force Briefing, April 5. [https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-task-force-briefing-transcript-april-5 Transcript] at ''[[w:Rev (company)|Rev]]''.
 
* Now this is a new thing that just happened to as the invisible enemy we call it. And if you can, if you have a no signs of heart problems, the {{w|azithromycin}}, which will kill certain things that you don’t want living within your body. It’s a powerful drug. If you don’t have a problem, a heart problem, we would say, let your doctor think about it, but as a combination, I think they’re going to be, I think there’s two things that should be looked at very strongly. Now, we have purchased and we have stockpiled 29 million pills of the hydroxy chloroquine, 29 million. A lot of drug stores have them by prescription and also, and they’re not expensive. Also, we’re sending them to various labs. Our military, we’re sending them to the hospitals, we’re sending them all over. I just think it’s something, you know the expression, I’ve used it for certain reasons.
** Coronavirus Task Force Briefing, April 5. [https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-task-force-briefing-transcript-april-5 Transcript] at ''[[w:Rev (company)|Rev]]''.
 
* What do you have to lose? What do you have to lose? And a lot of people are saying that when … and are taking it, if you’re a doctor, a nurse, a first responder, a medical person going into hospitals, they say taking it before the fact is good, but what do you have to lose? They say, take it, I’m not looking at it one way or the other, but we want to get out of this. If it does work, it would be a shame if we didn’t do it early. But we have some very good signs. So that’s hydroxy chloroquine and as azithromycin, and again, you have to go through your medical people get the approval. But I’ve seen things that I sort of like, so what do I know? I’m not a doctor, I’m not a doctor, but I have common sense.
** Coronavirus Task Force Briefing, April 5. [https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-task-force-briefing-transcript-april-5 Transcript] at ''[[w:Rev (company)|Rev]]''.
 
* The [[w:Food and Drug Administration|FDA]] feels good about it. They’ve, as you know, they’ve approved it. They gave it a rapid approved approval. And the reason because it’s been out there for a long time and they know the side effects and they also know the potential. So based on that, we have sent it throughout the country. We have it stockpiled about 29 million doses, 29 million doses. We have a lot of it. We hope it works. Driven by the goal of the brightest minds in science. We have the brightest minds in science, but we were driven by the goal of getting rid of this plague, getting rid of this scourge, getting rid of this virus. These brilliant minds are working on the most effective antiviral therapies and vaccines. We are working very, very hard. I have met many of the doctors that are doing it. These are doctors that are working so hard on vanquishing the virus.
** Coronavirus Task Force Briefing, April 5. [https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-task-force-briefing-transcript-april-5 Transcript] at ''[[w:Rev (company)|Rev]]''.
** Note: Hydroxychloroquine use is not approved by the FDA [[w:Hydroxychloroquine#COVID-19|for COVID-19]] as of 7 April 2020.
 
* I want them to try it. It may work, and it may not work. But if it doesn’t work, it’s nothing lost by doing it. Nothing. Because we know long-term what I want. I want to save lives, and I don’t want it to be in a lab for the next year-and-a-half as people are dying all over the place. In [[w:2020 coronavirus pandemic in France|France]], they had a very good test. They’re continuing. But we don’t have time to go and say, gee, let’s take a couple of years and test it out, and let’s go and test with the test tubes and the laboratories. We don’t have time. I’d love to do that, but we have people dying today. As we speak, there are people dying. If it works, that’d be great. If it doesn’t work, we know for many years malaria, it’s incredible what it’s done for malaria. It’s incredible what it’s done for lupus, but it doesn’t kill people.
** On using the drug as treatment for [[coronavirus disease 2019]] (COVID-19). Coronavirus Task Force Briefing (April 5, 2020). [https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-task-force-briefing-transcript-april-5 Transcript] at ''[[w:Rev (company)|Rev]]''.
 
* '''Speaker to [[Anthony Fauci]]''': And would you also weigh in on this issue of hydroxychloroquine? What do you think about this and what is the medical evidence?
:'''Donald Trump''': You know how many times he’s answered that question?
:'''Speaker''': I’d love to hear from the doctor.
:'''Donald Trump''': Maybe 15. 15 times. You don’t have to ask the question.
:'''Speaker''': He’s your medical expert, correct?
:'''Donald Trump''': He answered that question 15 times.
:* On using the drug as treatment for [[coronavirus disease 2019]] (COVID-19). Coronavirus Task Force Briefing (April 5, 2020). [https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-task-force-briefing-transcript-april-5 Transcript] at ''[[w:Rev (company)|Rev]]''
 
* She created over 15 million jobs.
** Donald Trump talking about his daughter Ivanka Trump in a call with business leaders. No explanation or supporting evidence was provided. {{citation |date=2020-04-07 |title=Trump claims that his daughter created 10 percent of all the jobs in the United States |author=Ian Millhiser |periodical=Vox |url=https://www.vox.com/2020/4/8/21212802/trump-ivanka-10-percent-jobs-walmart-15-million}}
 
* This is a very brilliant enemy. You know, it's a brilliant enemy. They develop drugs like the antibiotics, you see it. Antibiotics used to solve every problem. Now one of the biggest problems the world has is the germ has gotten so brilliant, that the antibiotic can't keep up with it. And they're constantly trying to come up with a new— People go to a hospital and they catch– They go for a heart operation, that's no problem, but they end up dying from, from... problems. You know the problems I'm talking about.
** Coronavirus task force press briefing, {{#formatdate:2020-04-10}}, quoted in {{citation |date=2020-04-10 |title=Watch: Trump Appears To Believe That Coronavirus Is A Bacteria, Not A Virus |author=Jake Thomas |periodical=The Intellectualist |url=https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/watch-trump-appears-to-believe-that-coronavirus-is-a-bacteria-not-a-virus-qNAKtyts0UCLxCPxQv0EQg}}
* When someone is president of the United States the authority is total.
** Coronavirus task force press briefing, {{#formatdate:2020-04-13}}, quoted by {{citation |date=2020-04-13 |title=CNN reporter flat-out contradicts Trump to his face when he claims king-like authority |author=Cody Fenwick |periodical=RawStory |url=https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/cnn-reporter-flat-out-contradicts-trump-to-his-face-when-he-claims-king-like-authority/}}
 
* The delays the [[WHO]] experienced in declaring a [[w:Public health emergency|public health emergency]] cost valuable time tremendous amounts of time; more time was lost in the delay it took to get a team of international experts and to examine the outbreak which we wanted to do which they should have done. The inability of the WHO to obtain virus samples to this date has deprived the scientific community of essential data. New data that emerges across the world on a daily basis points to the unreliability of the initial reports and the world received all sorts of false information about transmission and mortality. The silence of the WHO on the disappearance of scientific researchers and doctors and new restrictions on the sharing of research into the origins of COVID-19 in the country of origin is deeply concerning especially when we put up by far the largest amount of money, not even close. Had the WHO done its job to get medical experts into China to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out China's lack of transparency, the outbreak could have been contained as a source with very little death, very little death, and certainly very little death by comparison. This would have saved thousands of lives and avoided worldwide economic damage. Instead the WHO willingly took China's assurances to face value, and they took it just at face value and defended the actions of the Chinese government, even praising China for its so-called transparency. I don't think so. The WHO pushed China's misinformation about the virus, saying it was not communicable, and there was no need for travel bans. They told us when we put on our travel ban a very strong travel ban, there was no need to do it. Don't do it; they actually fought us. The WHO's reliance on China's disclosures likely caused a 20-fold increase in cases worldwide, and it may be much more than that.
** White House coronavirus task force briefing (April 14, 2020), [https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/14/trump_halts_who_funding_full_accountability_for_pushing_chinas_misinformation_about_coronavirus.html transcript online] at ''{{w|RealClearPolitics}}''
 
* Look, I could tell you about — and I’m not going to do it, because I didn’t want to bring it up — but I could tell you about events that took place. And I said things like, “You’ll never do that again” or “You’ll never do this again” or — I don’t even want to mention the events. I don’t want to mention what you’re supposed to be doing because — and you know one of them was so horrible.  I said, “A certain industry will be out of business — never happen again.” Two weeks later, it was like nothing ever happened. Hopefully, we get rid of this. We have tremendous talent up here and all over, including governors, including local governments, state governments.
** [https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-april-17-2020/ Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing | April 17, 2020]
 
* That’s why your ratings are so bad because you’re pathetic. Go ahead. Let’s go. Your ratings are terrible. You got to get back to real news. Go ahead.
** Trump interrupting a reporter who started a question with "The first of the month is next week ... " White House coronavirus task force briefing (April 19, 2020), [https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-press-conference-transcript-april-19 Donald Trump Coronavirus Press Conference Transcript April 19]
 
* I think I read yesterday a report that we’ve done more than everybody — every other country — combined, <BR>
* We’ve tested more than every other country in the world even put together.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-04-21 |title=Trump just said the US has done more coronavirus testing than the rest of the world. Not even close. |author=Aaron Rupar |periodical=Vox |url=https://www.vox.com/2020/4/21/21230400/trump-coronavirus-briefing-testing-other-countries-combined}}
** Note: At that time, the US had done just above 4 million tests, while worldwide more than 20 million tests had been done.
 
*And then I see '''the disinfectant''' where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute.<br>And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?<br>Because, you see, it gets on the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs.<br>So it'd be interesting to check that.<br>So that you're going to have to use medical doctors, but it sounds — it sounds interesting to me.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-04-23 |title='It's irresponsible and it's dangerous': Experts rip Trump's idea of injecting disinfectant to treat COVID-19 |author=Jan C. Timm |periodical=NBC News |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/it-s-irresponsible-it-s-dangerous-experts-rip-trump-s-n1191246}}
** Note: Trump's Food and Drug Administration specifically warned against drinking the chemicals in disinfectants, noting that consumption of such products "can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and symptoms of severe dehydration."
***despite this, Biden in July 2020 misquoted Trump as advocating drinking bleach
 
* So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way.
** Trump, suggesting a way to cure COVID-19, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-04-23 |title='Jaw-Dropping’: Trump Slammed for Touting Dangerous New Virus Treatments After Favored Drug Is Discredited |author=Hunter Woodall |periodical=Daily Beast |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-slammed-for-touting-sunlight-uv-light-bleach-as-possible-covid-19-treatments-during-briefing}}
 
* And we’re — really, I’m very happy the governors have been — the governors, really, have been doing a really good job working with us, and it’s — it’s, really, pretty impressive to see. I’ve spoken to numerous leaders of countries over the last 48 hours, and they are saying we’re leading the way. We’re really leading the way in so many different ways.
** White House coronavirus task force briefing (April 23, 2020), [https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-press-conference-transcript-april-23 Donald Trump Coronavirus Press Conference Transcript April 23]
 
* I work from early in the morning until late at night, haven’t left the White House in many months (except to launch Hospital Ship Comfort) in order to take care of Trade Deals, Military Rebuilding etc., and then I read a phony story in the failing @nytimes about my work schedule and eating habits, written by a third rate reporter who knows nothing about me. I will often be in the Oval Office late into the night & read & see that I am angrily eating a hamberger & Diet Coke in my bedroom. People with me are always stunned. Anything to demean!
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-04-26 |title='Hambergers' and 'Noble prizes': Trump attacks press in furious Twitter rant riddled with spelling errors |author=Alex Woodward |periodical=Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-latest-coronavirus-hamburger-nobel-prize-russia-a9485006.html}}
 
* When will all of the 'reporters' who have received Noble Prizes for their work on Russia, Russia, Russia, only to have been proven totally wrong (and, in fact, it was the other side who committed the crimes) be turning back their cherished 'Nobles' so that they can be given to the REAL REPORTERS & JOURNALISTS who got it right.
** Tweet, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-04-26 |title=Trump calls for journalists who covered the Russia investigation to return their 'Noble Prizes' in Twitter rant before deleting it |author=James Pasley |periodical=Business Insider |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-deletes-tweet-calling-for-journalists-to-return-noble-prizes-2020-4?r=US&IR=T}}
 
* What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately. They get record ratings, & the American people get nothing but Fake News. Not worth the time & effort!
** Tweet, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-04-26 |title=Trump says briefings 'not worth the effort' amid fallout from disinfectant comments |author=Lauren Aratani |periodical=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/25/donald-trump-stays-away-from-briefings-amid-fallout-from-disinfectant-comments}}
 
* I can't imagine why.
** Trump was answering a question from a journalist about rise in misuse of disinfectants the last few days, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-04-27 |title=Trump Says He Takes No Responsibility For People Ingesting Disinfectant |author=Lydia O'Connor |periodical=Huffpost |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-no-responsibility-disinfectant-use_n_5ea75b7dc5b6a30004e6e509}}
 
* The only reason the U.S. has reported one million cases of CoronaVirus is that our Testing is sooo much better than any other country in the World.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-04-29 |title=Trump still seems to not understand how bad the coronavirus crisis is |author=Stephen Collinson |periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/29/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-politics-pence/index.html}}
 
* '''Donald Trump:''' And you have to understand: When we took over, the cupboards were bare. And the thing that — frankly, it’s not as tough as the ventilator situation. We’re the king of ventilators. But what we have done is — on testing, we’re doing numbers the likes of which nobody has ever seen before. And I told you, the President of South Korea, [[Moon Jae-in|President Moon]], called me to congratulate me on testing. And we did more tests than any other country anywhere in the world. And I think they told me yesterday a number — if you add up the rest of the world, we’ve done more testing. And it’s a higher quality test. So I think we’ve done a — I think the whole team, federal government — we built hospitals for you and others.
: '''{{w|Phil Murphy}}:''' You bet.
: '''Donald Trump:''' We built medical centers. And I’m talking about thousands and thousands of beds. Many, many medical centers. We had — as you know, we had the governor of Florida and the governor of Louisiana over the last two days. They could not have been — and one was a Democrat, and this gentleman happens to be a proud Democrat. They could not have been more supportive of the effort of the federal government. And I’ll tell you, Jim —
: '''{{w|James Acosta}}:''' But aren’t you seeing massive lines for food?
: '''Donald Trump:''' Let me just tell you, we have — we started off with empty cupboards. The last administration left us nothing. We started off with bad, broken tests and obsolete tests. What we’ve come up with, between the {{w|Abbott Laboratories}}, where you have the five-minute test. Did they test you today?
: '''Phil Murphy:''' They did test me.
: '''Donald Trump:''' Good. Now I feel better. (Laughter.)
: '''Phil Murphy:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m negative.
: '''Donald Trump:''' You did the five-minute — the Abbott test.
: '''Phil Murphy:''' I did the quick turnaround.
: '''Donald Trump:''' It’s so great.
: '''Phil Murphy:''' I feel like a new man.
: '''Donald Trump:''' That’s a brand — you know what? That’s a brand-new test. That didn’t exist eight weeks ago, and now it’s like the rage. Everybody wants that test. No, I think we’ve done — I think we’ve done a really great job.
:* About [[Shortages related to the COVID-19 pandemic|the lack]] of tests for the novel coronavirus, ''[https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-governor-murphy-new-jersey/ Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with Governor Murphy of New Jersey]'' (April 30, 2020), ''{{w|whitehouse.gov}}''. Quoted in ''[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-blame-obama-covid-tests/ Did Trump Blame Obama for ‘Bad’ COVID-19 Tests?]'' by Bethania Palma, 1 May 2020, ''{{w|Snopes}}''
:* Note: No previous administration could have prepared a test for a disease which had yet to emerge. COVID-19 emerged during [[Trump's presidency]], the test was designed in 2020 by the [[Centers for Disease Control]] under the Trump administration. See {{w|Misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic#Presidential}}
 
* These are very good people, but they are angry.
** Trump described armed demonstrators who stormed the state Capitol in Michigan, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-05-01 |title=Trump urges Michigan governor to give in to ‘very good people’ who stormed statehouse with guns |author=Travis Gettys |periodical=Rawstory |url=https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/trump-urges-michigan-governor-to-give-in-to-very-good-people-who-stormed-statehouse-with-guns/}}
 
====May 2020====
* I can't tell you that. I'm not allowed to tell you that.
** Trump was answering what his basis was for claiming that the coronavirus emerged from a virology lab in the Wuhan city of China, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-05-01 |title='It Came Out Of China, Could Have Been Stopped': Prez Donald Trump On Coronavirus |author=PTI |periodical=Outlook |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/world-news-it-came-out-of-china-could-have-been-stopped-prez-donald-trump-on-coronavirus/351848}}
 
* We will be AIDS-free within 8 years. We started, 10 years. Should've started in the previous administration. They did nothing. It started at my administration.
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-05-03 |title=Fact check: Trump peppers Fox News town hall with false claims on coronavirus and other topics |author=Daniel Dale |periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/03/politics/fact-check-fox-news-townhall-trump-may-3/index.html}}
 
* With all of that unity we have, in one sense, we have great unity, in another sense, I think they're going to come along, I mean, you know, I certainly hope so, but the main thing I have to do is bring our country back, and I want to get it back to where it was or maybe beyond where it was, you know, we have tremendous stimulus, all the money we've been talking about so far tonight.
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-05-04 |title=The 45 most shocking lines from Donald Trump's Lincoln Memorial Fox town hall |author=Chris Cillizza |periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/04/politics/donald-trump-fox-lincoln-memorial/index.html}}
 
* So in [[California]], the Democrats, who fought like crazy to get all mail in only ballots, and succeeded, have just opened a voting booth in the most Democrat area in the State. They are trying to steal another election. It’s all rigged out there. These votes must not count. SCAM!
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-05-09 |title=In Deranged Tweets Trump Says that All California Votes ‘Must Not Count’ |author=Mark NC |periodical=News Corpse |url=https://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=45212}}
 
* We are getting great marks for the handling of the [[COVID-19 pandemic|CoronaVirus pandemic]], especially the very early BAN of people from China, the infectious source, entering the USA. Compare that to the Obama/Sleepy [[Joe Biden|Joe]] disaster known as H1N1 Swine Flu. Poor marks, bad polls - didn’t have a clue!
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-05-10 |title=Trump claims he is ‘getting great marks’ for coronavirus response as US death toll nears 80,000
|author=Richard Hall |periodical=Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-coronavirus-us-response-barack-obama-joe-biden-a9507346.html}}
 
* If people want to get tested, they get tested.
** Quoted in {{citation |date=2020-05-11 |title=Fact check: Trump falsely claims, again, that anybody who wants a test can get one |author=By Daniel Dale, David Wright, Arman Azad, Holmes Lybrand | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/11/politics/trump-fact-check-may-11/index.html}}
 
* Coronavirus numbers are looking MUCH better, going down almost everywhere.
** Quoted in {{citation |date=2020-05-11 |title=Trump points to 'the numbers,' which don't say what he thinks they say |author=Steve Benen |periodical=MSNBC | url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-points-numbers-which-don-t-say-what-he-thinks-n1205336}}
 
* We have to close the country. And I said, say it again. They said, sir, you have to close the country. Nobody ever heard of a thing like this but they were right because if I didn't we would have lost two million, two and a half million, maybe more than that people.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-05-11 |title=Why Donald Trump's idea that he saved millions of lives is laughable |author=Chris Cillizza |periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/11/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-quarantine/index.html}}
 
* Asian Americans are VERY angry at what China has done to our Country, and the World. Chinese Americans are the most angry of all. I don’t blame them!
** Quoted in {{citation |date=2020-05-12 |title=Trump claims Asian Americans are angry at 'what China has done' to U.S. |author=Kimmy Yam |periodical=Yahoo News / NBC News |url=https://news.yahoo.com/trump-claims-asian-americans-angry-190959445.html}}
 
* To me it's not an acceptable answer, especially when it comes to schools
** Trump was commenting on a statement from infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, warning that getting businesses and schools back open too quickly would lead to unnecessary suffering and death, as quoted in {{citation |date=2020-05-13 |title=Trump's rebuke of Fauci encapsulates rejection of science in virus fight |author=Stephen Collinson |periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/14/politics/donald-trump-anthony-fauci-science-coronavirus/index.html}}
 
* If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases
** As quoted in {{citation |date=2020-05-16 |title=Trump seems to think there’d be no coronavirus if there was no testing. It doesn’t work like that. |author=Aaron Rupar |periodical=VOX |url=https://www.vox.com/2020/5/15/21259888/trump-coronavirus-testing-very-few-cases}}
 
* A lot of doctors take it. I take it.
* I would have told you that three or four days ago, but we never had a chance, because you never asked me the question.
** Trump, about taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to prevent Covid-19 disease, as quoted in {{citation |date=2020-05-18 |title=FDA: This Drug Could Kill You. Trump: I’m Taking It! |author=Justin Paragona, Adam Rawnsley |periodical=The Daily Beast |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reveals-hes-now-taking-unproven-anti-malarial-drug-fda-warned-against}}
 
* When we have a lot of cases, I don’t look at that as a bad thing — I look at that in a certain respect as being a good thing because it means our testing is much better. ... So I view it as a badge of honour, really,
** Trump talked about the 1.59 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, as quoted in {{citation |date=2020-05-19 |title=Coronavirus: Trump says it’s ‘badge of honour’ for US to lead world in Covid-19 cases |author=Oliver O'Connell |periodical=Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-coronavirus-cases-us-covid-death-toll-a9523166.html}}
 
* Breaking: [[Michigan]] sends absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election. This was done illegally and without authorization by [[Jocelyn Benson|a rogue Secretary of State]]. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!
** As quoted in {{citation |date=2020-05-20 |title=Trump’s False Tweet About Michigan Absentee Ballot Applications |author=D'Angelo Gore |periodical=FactCheck.org |url=https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/trumps-false-tweet-about-michigan-absentee-ballot-applications/}}
 
* And, you know, when you say “per capita,” there’s many per capitas. It’s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we’re really at the top, meaning positive on a per capita basis, too. They’ve done a great job.
** Quoted in {{citation |date=2020-05-20 |title=Did Trump Say There Are ‘Many Per Capitas’ During a COVID-19 Discussion? |author=Kim LaCapria |periodical=TruthOrFiction.com |url=https://www.truthorfiction.com/did-president-trump-say-there-were-many-per-capitas-in-a-covid-19-discussion/}}
 
* I didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it.
** Trump commented on why he didn't wear a face mask as a protection against the coronavirus at a visit to a factory, as quoted in {{citation |date=2020-05-21 |title=Trump Goes Without Mask For Public Tour of Michigan Factory, Says He ‘Didn’t Want to Give the Press the Pleasure’ of Seeing Him Wearing One |author=Madeleine Carlisle |periodical=Time |url=https://time.com/5840833/trump-michigan-ford-plant-tour-mask/}}
 
* Yeah. I tested positively toward negative, right? So, no, I tested perfectly this morning, meaning—meaning I tested negative... But that’s a way of saying it: positively toward the negative.
** On having had a coronavirus test, spoken to reporters on the White House lawn, 2020-05-21. {{citation |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-tested-very-positively/ |title=Did Trump Say He ‘Tested Very Positively’ for COVID-19, Meaning Negative? | publisher={{w|Snopes}} |date=May 22, 2020 |accessdate=May 22, 2020 |author=Bethania Palma}}
 
* I was honored five years ago, ‘man of the year’ in Michigan.
** {{citation |date=2020-05-22 |title=Trump’s Dubious Michigan ‘Man of the Year’ Boast |author=Robert Farley |periodical=FactCheck.org |url=https://www.factcheck.org/2019/08/trumps-dubious-michigan-man-of-the-year-boast/}}
 
* There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The [[Gavin Newsom|Governor of California]] is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!
** [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265255835124539392 Twitter (26 May 2020)]
 
* Imagine if your local phone companies tried to edit or censor what you said. Social media companies have far more power.
** {{citation |date=2020-05-28 |title=Donald Trump just used a ridiculous comparison to justify his social media crackdown |author=Chris Cillizza |periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/28/politics/donald-trump-twitter-facebook-social-media-executive-order/index.html}}
 
====June 2020====
[[File:President Trump Visits St. John's Episcopal Church (49963649028).jpg|thumb|You have to dominate or you'll look like a bunch of jerks, you have to arrest and try people.]]
* You have to dominate or you'll look like a bunch of jerks, you have to arrest and try people.
* You don't have to be too careful.
** Trump ordering US governors on how to react against people protesting against police violence following the death of George Floyd, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-06-01 |title=An agitated Trump encourages governors to use aggressive tactics on protesters |author=Kevin Liptak, Ryan Nobles, Sarah Westwood |periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/01/politics/donald-trump-race-police/index.html}}
 
*[[Washington, D.C.]], was the safest place on earth last night!
**[https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1267959729361485825 2 June 2020 tweet] quoted [https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-06-07/ap-fact-check-trump-exaggerations-on-blacks-economic-gains 8 June 2020] by [[US News]]
 
* It’s a great day for him. It’s a great day for everybody. This is a great, great day in terms of quality.
** Trump claimed that the US economy was "back on track", and connected this with George Floyd, who had been killed by the police some days earlier, as quoted by by {{citation |date=2020-06-05 |title=Trump Criticised For Saying George Floyd Is Looking Down And Calling It ‘A Great Day’
|author=Emma Rosemurgey |periodical=UNILAD |url=https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/trump-criticised-for-saying-george-floyd-is-looking-down-and-calling-it-a-great-day/}}
 
* Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?
** Trump repeated suggestions, without providing evidence, regarding the peaceful protester Martin Gugino who suffered brain damage after being handled brutally by the police. Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-06-09 |title=Trump Accuses 75-Year-Old Knocked Down By Buffalo Police Of Faking Fall
|author=Cameron Frew |periodical=UNILAD |url=https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/trump-accuses-75-year-old-knocked-down-by-buffalo-police-of-faking-fall/}}
 
* I think I’ve done more for the black community than any other President and let’s take a pass on Abraham Lincoln because he did good but although it’s always questionable, you know in other words the end result.
**Trump discussing his leadership and relationship with the African-American community during the {{w|George Floyd killing protests}}, spoken on a Fox News interview, archived at "[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/what-was-trump-trying-to-say-about-abraham-lincoln.html What Was Trump Trying to Say About Abraham Lincoln?]" by Jeremy Stahl (June 12, 2020), published in ''{{w|Slate (magazine)|Slate}}''.
 
* He is a liar ... everybody in the White House hated [[John Bolton]].
** Trump described John Bolton, who was picked by Trump to be Security Adviser, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-06-15 |title=Trump brands John Bolton a ‘LIAR’ and says ‘everybody in the White House hated him’ after bombshell book extracts |author=Nicole Darrah |periodical=The Sun |url=https://www.the-sun.com/news/999925/trump-john-bolton-book-white-house-liar/}}
 
* These are the people – the best, the smartest, the most brilliant anywhere, and they’ve come up with the AIDS vaccine. They’ve come up with ... various things.
** Claimed about scientists, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-06-16 |title=AP FACT CHECK: Trump on an AIDS vaccine that doesn’t exist |author=Calvin Woodward, Hope Yen |periodical=News 12 |url=https://www.kxii.com/content/news/AP-FACT-CHECK-Trump-on-an-AIDS-vaccine-that-doesnt-exist-571309161.html/}}
 
*I did something good: I made [[Juneteenth]] very famous.<br>It’s actually an important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it.
**Wednesday 17 June 2020 interview in the Oval Office according to [https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-talks-juneteenth-john-bolton-economy-in-wsj-interview-11592493771 19 June 2020 article] by [[Michael Bender]] of [[Wall Street Journal]], highlighted [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/donald-trump-tulsa-rally-crowd-empty-seats 21 June 2020] by [[Richard Wolffe]] of [[The Guardian]]
 
* I said, 'General, there's no way I can make it down that ramp without falling on my ass, general. I have no railing.'
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-06-20 |title=1,798 words that prove how obsessed Donald Trump is with the West Point ramp story
|author=Chris Cillizza |periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/22/politics/donald-trump-tulsa-rally-west-point-ramp/index.html |lang=en-US}}
 
* Your 401(k)s and money itself will be worthless.
** Claimed about what will happen if Joe Biden wins the next president election, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-06-20 |title=Lying again about the pandemic, Trump made 200 false claims from early June to early July |author=Daniel Dale, Tara Subramaniam
|periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/18/politics/fact-check-trump-june-july-2020/index.html |lang=en-US}}
 
*By the way, it’s a disease, without question [that] has more names than any disease in history. I can name “kung flu.” I can name 19 different versions of names. Many call it a virus, which it is. Many call it a flu. What difference? I think we have 19 or 20 different versions of the name.
** Discussing the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] at a {{w|Donald Trump's Tulsa rally|campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 21}}, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-06-21 |title=This Is How Trump Plans to Beat Biden |author=Osita Nwanevu |periodical={{w|The New Republic}} |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/158245/trump-plans-beat-biden |lang=en-US}}
 
* RIGGED [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 ELECTION]]: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!
** Claim quoted by {{citation |date=2020-06-22 |title=FACT CHECK: Trump Spreads Unfounded Claims About Voting By Mail |author=Miles Parks |periodical=NPR |url=https://apnews.com/1d1a98892bdc7e1df97807b3be48bb13 |lang=en-US}}
 
* Cases up only because of our big number testing. Mortality rate way down!!!
* It’s fading away, it’s going to fade away.
* We have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world.
* We’ve done too good a job.
* You know testing is a double-edged sword. ... Here’s the bad part. When you test to that extent, you are going to find more people, find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down please.’
** Claimed about the Covid-19 pandemic, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-06-23 |title=AP FACT CHECK: Sober science weighs in on Trump’s virus take
|author=Calvin Woodward, Hope Yen |periodical=AP |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/06/22/881598655/fact-check-trump-spreads-unfounded-claims-about-voting-by-mail |lang=en-US}}
*I said to my people <i>slow the testing down please</i>
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baHR5E952H8 referring to [[COVID-19 testing]] during a Jun 21, 2020 campaign ralley in [[w:Tulsa, Oklahoma]] ]
 
* Well, one of the things that will be really great, you know the word experience is still good. I always say talent is more important than experience. I’ve always said that. But the word experience is a very important word. It’s an — a very important meaning. I never did this before. I never slept over in Washington. I was in Washington, I think, 17 times. All of a sudden, I’m president of the United States. You know the story. I’m riding down Pennsylvania Avenue with our First Lady and I say, ‘This is great. But I didn’t know very many people in Washington. It wasn’t my thing. I was from Manhattan, from New York. Now I know everybody, and I have great people in the administration. You make some mistakes. Like, you know, an idiot like [[John R. Bolton|Bolton]]. All he wanted to do was drop bombs on everybody. You don’t have to drop bombs on everybody. You don’t have to kill people.
** Trump was responding to the question "What are your top priorities for a second term?", as quoted by {{citation |date=2019-07-17 |title=Trump Rambles Unintelligibly About Plan for Second Term |author=Adam K Raymond |periodical= NY Mag|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/trump-hannity-interview-full-of-unintelligible-rambling.html }}
 
* Nobody briefed or told me, @VP Pence, or Chief of Staff [[Mark Meadows|@MarkMeadows]] about the so-called attacks on our troops in [[Afghanistan]] by Russians
** Trump commented on a news report saying that Russian spies are paying Taliban for killing US soldiers in Afghanistan, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-06-28 | title=Trump denies he was briefed on reported bounties on US troops |author=Kyle Balluck |periodical=The Hill |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/504890-trump-denies-he-was-briefed-on-reported-bounties-on-us-troops |lang=en-US}}
 
* Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?
** Said in June 2020, about demonstrators in the streets around the White House following the death of George Floyd, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, quoted in [https://www.axios.com/mark-esper-book-trump-protesters-24e93272-2af5-423d-be3b-164daab7b43d.html "Scoop: Esper says Trump wanted to shoot protesters"], Axios, 2 May 2022
 
====July 2020====
* I think we’re gonna be very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point that’s going to, sort of, just disappear—I hope.
** Spoken on a morning news talk show regarding the [[COVID-19]] pandemic; at the time, the United States had over 120,000 deaths from the virus and over 2.5{{nbsp}}million infections. As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-01 |title=Trump again claims coronavirus is ‘going to just disappear’ as US sees record number of new cases |author=Richard Hall |periodical=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-coronavirus-cases-us-fox-news-interview-today-covid-a9596631.html}}
 
* Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes but that were villains. The radical view of American history is a web of lies, all perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted, and every flaw is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition.
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-03 |title=Biden tells teachers they have ‘the most important’ job on same day Trump says they teach children to ‘hate their country’ |author=Valerie Strauss |periodical=Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/biden-trump-teachers-education-policy-2020-election-a9603156.html}}
 
* In our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far left fascism that demands absolute allegiance.
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-03 |title=The 28 most outrageous lines from Donald Trump's Mount Rushmore speech
|author=Valerie Strauss |periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/04/politics/donald-trump-mount-rushmore-south-dakota-speech-lines/index.html}}
 
* We got hit by the virus that came from China. We’ve made a lot of progress. Our strategy is moving along well.
* We’ve learned how to put out the flame.
* Now we have tested almost 40m people. By so doing, we show cases, 99% of which are totally harmless.
** Trump was describing the situation with Covid-19, where more than 128 000 had died out of around 2,800,000 found cases at that time, a death rate of more than 4 %, and around 40,000 to 50,000 new cases were found per day, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-04 |title=Trump claims 99% of US Covid-19 cases are 'totally harmless' as infections surge |author=David Smith |periodical=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/05/trump-claims-99-of-us-covid-19-cases-are-totally-harmless-as-infections-surge}}
 
* We’re very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools.
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-07 |title=Column: Trump demands schools reopen or funds might be cut — our (expendable) kids must face the virus! |author=Rex Huppke |periodical=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/rex-huppke/ct-coronavirus-schools-trump-reopen-devos-florida-texas-covid-huppke-20200708-eeb6di3ml5cilk35hzl5ix5l6m-story.html}}
 
* We have -- consumer confidence has risen 12 points since April, an all-time high. Think of that.
** Untrue claim, quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-09 |title=Fact check: Exaggerating again, Trump claims four non-record economic figures are records |author=Daniel Dale |periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/06/politics/fact-check-trump-june-jobs-exaggerations/index.html}}
 
* Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not [[Education]]. Therefore, I am telling the [[w:United States Department of the Treasury|Treasury Department]] to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status and/or Funding, which will be taken away if this Propaganda or Act Against Public Policy continues. Our children must be Educated, not Indoctrinated!
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-11 |title=Doctors, teachers reject Trump's pressure to reopen U.S. schools
|author=Susan Heavey |periodical=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-uda-education/in-bid-to-reopen-u-s-schools-trump-threatens-their-tax-exempt-status-idUSKBN24B2D3?il=0}}
 
* Deaths in the U.S. are way down.
* For the 1/100th time, the reason we show so many Cases, compared to other countries that haven’t done nearly as well as we have, is that our TESTING is much bigger and better. We have tested 40,000,000 people. If we did 20,000,000 instead, Cases would be half, etc. NOT REPORTED!
* We have the lowest Mortality Rate in the World.
* Job growth is biggest in history.
* Economy and Jobs are growing MUCH faster than anyone (except me!) expected.
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-11 |title=AP FACT CHECK: Trump keeps repeating false pandemic information |author= Calvin Woodward, Hope Yen, and Christopher Rugaber|periodical=Sentinel Colorado |url=https://sentinelcolorado.com/news/nation-world/fact-check/ap-fact-check-trump-keeps-repeating-false-pandemic-information/}}
 
* I disagreed with doing this very small (tiny) section of wall, in a tricky area, by a private group which raised money by ads. It was only done to make me look bad, and perhsps it now doesn't even work. Should have been built like rest of Wall, 500 plus miles.
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-12 |title=Trump says possibly unstable section of border wall funded by supporters was 'only done to make me look bad'|author= Catherine Garcia | periodical=The Week |url=https://theweek.com/speedreads/925124/trump-says-possibly-unstable-section-border-wall-funded-by-supporters-only-done-make-look-bad}}
 
* I know people that like the [[w:Confederate flag|Confederate flag]] and they're not thinking about [[Slavery in the United States|slavery]].
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-18 |title=Trump keeps fighting a Confederate flag battle many supporters have conceded |author= Tina Nguyen | periodical=Politico |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/18/trump-confederate-flag-battle-368607}}
 
* Look, I take responsibility always for everything because it's ultimately my job, too. I have to get everybody in line.
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-19 |title=Trump pushes back against critics on coronavirus, addresses whether he will accept election results in exclusive interview |author= Ronn Blitzer | periodical=Fox News |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-pushes-back-against-critics-on-coronavirus-addresses-whether-he-will-accept-election-results-in-exclusive-interview}}
 
* I’m not a big fan of [[Fox News|Fox]], I’ll be honest with you.
* We’re signing a healthcare plan within two weeks, a full and complete healthcare plan that the supreme court decision on DACA gave me the right to do. So we’re going to solve – we’re going to sign an immigration plan, a healthcare plan, and various other plans. And nobody will have done what I’m doing in the next four weeks.
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-19 |title=Donald Trump v Fox News Sunday: extraordinary moments from a wild interview |author= Amanda Holpuch | periodical=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/19/donald-trump-fox-news-sunday-chris-wallace-interview}}
 
* We've done much better than most. And with the fatality rate at a lower rate than most, it's something that we can talk about.
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-21 |title=AP FACT CHECK: A More Measured Trump Doesn't Mean Accurate |author= | periodical=VOA |url=https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/ap-fact-check-more-measured-trump-doesnt-mean-accurate}}
 
* Well, you see something that looks good and you don’t investigate it.
** Trump was describing his habit of retweeting content that has sometimes been odd, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-22 |title=Donald Trump admits he regrets his tweets 'too often', says his retweets 'get him in trouble' and reminisces about the 'old days when you could write a letter and let it sit for a day' |author= Ariel Zilber | periodical=DailyMail |url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8558493/Trump-says-regrets-Twitter-posts-admits-times-love-it.html}}
 
* So it sort of is curious. A man works for us, with us, very closely, Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx also, very highly thought of -- and yet, they're highly thought of, but <b>nobody likes me</b>? It can only be my personality, that's all.
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-28 |title='Nobody likes me': Trump ponders pandemic popularity of Fauci and Birx |author= Kevin Liptak | periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/politics/donald-trump-anthony-fauci-approval-rating/index.html}}
 
* If it reached my desk I would have done something about it.
** Trump was commenting on a U.S. intelligence assessment that Russia was paying a bounty to militants in Afghanistan to kill Americans there, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-28 |title=AP FACT CHECK: Trump hype on drug costs, hydroxychloroquine |author=Hope Yen and Calvin Woodward | periodical=Star Tribune |url=https://www.startribune.com/ap-fact-check-trump-hype-on-drug-costs-hydroxychloroquine/571989352/}}
 
* You can look at large portions of our country, it's corona-free.
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-28 |title=Fact check: Trump falsely says 'large portions' of the US are 'corona-free,' repeats claim that protests are leading to rising cases |author=Holmes Lybrand, Tara Subramaniam, Nathan McDermott and Em Steck | periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/politics/coronavirus-trump-kodak-press-briefing-fact-check/index.html}}
 
* Anarchists, Agitators or Protestors who vandalize or damage our Federal Courthouse in Portland, or any Federal Buildings in any of our Cities or States, will be prosecuted under our recently re-enacted [[Statues & Monuments Act]]. MINIMUM TEN YEARS IN PRISON. Don’t do it!
** [https://mobile.twitter.com/Oijans/status/1346916360178302978 Tweet] 28 July 2020
 
* I think she'd be a fine choice, [[Kamala Harris]]. She'd be a fine choice.
** Trump commented on the possibility of Kamala Harris becoming vice president candidate, according to a [https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-marine-one-departure-072920/ White House transcript].
 
* With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
** A tweet ({{citation |url=https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288818160389558273 |title=With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote??? |date=2020-07-30 |accessdate=2020-07-30 |publisher={{w|Twitter}} |lang=en-US |author=Donald Trump}}) that received substantial attention with many further sources quoting it, such as {{citation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53599363 |title=Republicans to Trump: You can't delay 2020 election |date=2020-07-30 |accessdate=2020-07-30 |publisher={{w|BBC}} |lang=en-GB}}
 
* Must know Election results on the night of the Election, not days, months, or even years later!
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-29 |title=AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s election agitations and distortions |author=Calvin Woodward | periodical=Seattle Times |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/ap-fact-check-trumps-election-agitations-and-distortions/}}
 
* Young people are almost immune to this disease.
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-07-30 |title=Trump says he can't assure school safety amid pandemic: 'Can you assure anybody of anything?' |author=Jessie Hellman | periodical=The Hill |url=https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/509902-trump-says-he-cant-assure-school-safety-amid-pandemic-can-you-assure}}
 
* The first questions are very easy. The last questions are much more difficult, like a memory question. It's like you go, '''"Person, woman, man, camera, TV"'''. So, they say, "Could you repeat that?" So I said, "Yeah. So it's person, woman, man, camera, TV." Okay. That's very good. If you get it in order, you get extra points.
**As quoted by {{citation|date=2020-07-23|title=President Trump Stars in Cognitive Test Part Deux: Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV|author=Peter Wade|periodical=Rolling Stone|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-cognitive-test-person-woman-man-camera-tv-1033002}}, on having been given the {{W|Montreal Cognitive Assessment}}.
 
====August 2020====
* When you see the Drug Companies taking massive television ads against me, forget what they say (which is false), YOU KNOW THAT DRUG PRICES ARE COMING DOWN, BIG.
** As quoted by {{citation |date=2020-08-02 |title=AP FACT CHECK: Trump hype on drug costs, hydroxychloroquine |author=Hope Yen and Calvin Woodward | periodical=APNEWS |url=https://apnews.com/d7f1d2003aeaa95466e12b875b7b4619}}
 
* They are dying. That's true. And you -- it is what it is. But that doesn't mean we aren't doing everything we can. <b>It's under control as much as you can control it.</b> This is a horrible plague that beset us.
** As quoted by {{citation | author=Stephen Collinson | date=2020-08-03 |title=Trump spinning virus failure as a win again by celebrating 'encouraging' progress | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/04/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-pence-birx/index.html}}
 
* You can take the number of cases and look <b>we're last, meaning we're first</b>.
** Trump was explaining the virus situation, as quoted by {{citation | author=James Walker | date=2020-08-03 |title=5 Takeaways From Trump's Axios Interview | periodical=Newsweek | url=https://www.newsweek.com/five-takeaways-donald-trump-axios-interview-1522596}}
 
* In an <b>illegal late night coup</b>, [[Nevada]]’s clubhouse Governor made it impossible for Republicans to win the state. <b>Post Office could never handle the Traffic of Mail-In Votes without preparation</b>. Using Covid to steal the state. See you in Court!
** As quoted by {{citation | author=Quint Forgey | date=2020-08-03 |title=Trump threatens lawsuit to block mail-in voting in Nevada | periodical=Politico | url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/trump-nevada-mail-voting-lawsuit-390878}}
 
* Whether you call it Vote by Mail or Absentee Voting, in Florida the election system is Safe and Secure, Tried and True. Florida's Voting system has been cleaned up (we defeated Democrats attempts at change), so <b>in Florida I encourage all to request a Ballot & Vote by Mail! </b>#MAGA,
** As quoted by {{citation | author=Betsy Klein | date=2020-08-03 |title=In apparent reversal, Trump encourages Floridians to vote by mail
| periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/04/politics/donald-trump-mail-in-voting-florida/index.html}}
 
* There is no way you can go through a mail-in vote without massive cheating.
** As quoted by {{citation | author=Daniel Dale | date=2020-08-03 |title=Jonathan Swan reveals the simple secret to exposing Trump's lies: basic follow-up questions | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/04/politics/fact-check-jonathan-swan-axios-hbo-interview-trump-coronavirus/index.html}}
 
* I read a lot. I comprehend extraordinarily well. Probably better than anybody you’ve interviewed in a long time,
** As quoted by {{citation | author=Aaron Rupar | date=2020-08-03 |title=“They are dying. That’s true. It is what it is.” Trump’s Axios interview was a disaster. | periodical=VOX | url=https://www.vox.com/2020/8/4/21354055/trump-axios-interview-jonathan-swan}}
 
* I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know. I don't know John Lewis. He chose not to come to my inauguration. He chose -- I don't -- I never met John Lewis actually, I don't believe.
** Trump was responding to how civil rights icon John Lewis will be remembered, as quoted by {{citation | author=Tyler Olson | date=2020-08-03 |title=Trump withholds praise for John Lewis, notes he 'didn't come to my inauguration'| periodical=Fox News| url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-john-lewis-inauguration}}
 
* When I took over we didn't even have a test.
** Trump pointed out that in 2017, there was no test for the coronavirus that emerged in 2019, as quoted by {{citation | author=Steve Benen | date=2020-08-03 |title=Trump points to imagined 'manuals' to argue against virus tests | periodical=MSNBC | url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-points-imagined-manuals-argue-against-virus-tests-n1235815}}
 
* we have done an incredible job, everything is under control [referring to the United states handling of the [[Covid Pandemic]] ]
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaaTZkqsaxY interview] by [[w:Jonathan Swan]] of [[w:Axios (website)|Axios]] on [[w:HBO]]
 
* It would seem like it based on the explosion. I met with some of our great generals and they just seem to feel that it was. This was not a — some kind of a manufacturing explosion type of a event. … They seem to think it was a attack. It was a bomb of some kind, yes.
** When asked why he called an explosion in Beirut an attack and not an accident, as quoted by {{citation | author=Darlene Superville/AP | date=2020-08-04 |title=Trump Says Massive Explosion in Beirut Likely an 'Attack' | periodical=Time | url=time.com/5875784/trump-explosion-beirut-attack/}}
 
* '''Q''': (Inaudible) if 160,000 people had died on President Obama's watch, do you think you would have called for his resignation?
: '''Trump''': No, I wouldn’t have done that. I think it’s — I think it’s been amazing what we’ve been able to do. If we didn’t close up our country, we would have had one and a half or two million people already dead. We’ve called it right; now we don’t have to close it. We understand the disease. Nobody understood it because nobody has ever seen anything like this. The closest thing is, in 1917, they say — right? The great — the great pandemic certainly was a terrible thing, where they lost, anywhere from 50- to 100 million people. Probably ended the [[Second World War]]; all the soldiers were sick. That was a — that was a terrible situation. And this is highly contagious. This one is highly, highly contagious. No, if I would have listened to a lot of people, we would have kept it open. And, by the way, we keep it open now, all the way. We keep it open. But we would have kept it open and you could be up to a million and a half or two million people right now — one and a half to two million people. Our people have done a fantastic job — our consultants and our doctors. You know, and with disagreements and with a lot of things happening.
:* ''[https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-briefing-august-10-2020/ Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 10, 2020]'', issued on: August 11, 2020, ''{{w|whitehouse.gov}}''
:* Note: In October 2014, Donald Trump [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/525431218910027776 tweeted] that U.S. President [[Barack Obama]] should resign because a doctor who had treated [[Ebola]] patients in Guinea returned to the U.S, reported in ''[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-obama-ebola-tweet/ Did Trump Call for Obama to Resign After Ebola Doctor Returned to U.S.?]'' by David Mikkelson, 15 May 2020, ''{{w|Snopes}}''. And the [[1918 flu pandemic]] lasted from February 1918 to April 1920, years before the [[World War II]] which started in 1939.
 
* If Biden would win, he's going to double, triple, everybody's taxes.
** Quoted by {{citation | author=Daniel Dale, Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam | date=2020-08-04 |title=Fact Check: At briefings, Trump is settling into a routine of false claims and exaggeration | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/12/politics/donald-trump-press-briefing-biden-tax-plan-coronavirus-fact-check/index.html}}
 
* Nasty
* Horrible
* Person who has told many many stories that weren't true
* Extraordinarily nasty
* Nasty to a level that was just a horrible thing
* Very very nasty to [[Joe Biden]]
* Probably nastier even than [[Elizabeth Warren|Pocahontas]]
* Meanest, most horrible, most disrespectful of anybody in the U.S. Senate.
** On [[Kamala Harris]], as quoted by {{citation | author=Andrew Solender | date=2020-08-11 | title=Trump Repeatedly Calls Kamala Harris ‘Nasty’ And ‘Horrible’ In White House Briefing | periodical=Forbes | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/08/11/trump-repeatedly-calls-kamala-harris-nasty-and-horrible-in-white-house-briefing/#440e0fb54570}}
* Europe has experienced a nearly 40% higher excess mortality rate than the United States
** Claimed about the coronavirus, as quoted by {{citation | author=Jessica McDonald | date=2020-08-11 | title=Trump Touts Misleading and Flawed Excess Mortality Statistic | periodical=FactCheck.org | url=https://www.factcheck.org/2020/08/trump-touts-misleading-and-flawed-excess-mortality-statistic/}}
 
* If I don’t win the election, China will own the United States — you will have to learn to speak Chinese!
** Quoted by {{citation | author=Justin Paragona | date=2020-08-12 |title=Trump: If I Lose to Biden, Get Ready to ‘Have to Learn to Speak Chinese’| periodical=Daily Beast | url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-if-i-lose-to-biden-get-ready-to-have-to-learn-to-speak-chinese/}}
 
* So showerheads — you take a shower, the water doesn’t come out. You want to wash your hands, the water doesn’t come out. So what do you do? You just stand there longer or you take a shower longer? Because my hair — I don’t know about you, but it has to be perfect. Perfect.
** Quoted by {{citation | author=Debbie White, Jon Rogers, Fionnuala O'Leary | date=2020-08-12 |title=US proposes change to shower rules after President’s hair-washing complaint | periodical=The SUN | url=https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12369436/donald-trump-latest-news-live-updates/}}
 
* Leave Democrat cities. Let them rot.
** Retweeted by Trump, as quoted by {{citation | author=James Gordon | date=2020-08-16 |title='Let them rot!': Trump retweets supporter's message calling for Democrat-led cities such as NYC and Chicago to be abandoned - along with a video of protesters threatening drivers in Manhattan
| periodical=CNN | url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8633677/Let-rot-Trump-retweets-supporters-message-democrat-cities.html}}
 
* [[New Zealand]], by the way, had a big outbreak
** Said about the Covid-19 virus, which at that time had caused the death of a total of 22 persons in New Zealand. Quoted by {{citation | author=Daniel Dale | date=2020-08-18 |title=Fact check: Trump says New Zealand has had a 'big outbreak.' It reported 5 new cases on Thursday | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/fact-check-trump-new-zealand-outbreak/index.html}}
 
* Don't buy GOODYEAR TIRES - They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS. Get better tires for far less! (This is what the Radical Left Democrats do. Two can play the same game, and we have to start playing it now!)
** Quoted by {{citation | author=Betsy Klein | date=2020-08-19 |title=Trump 'cancels' Goodyear tires as he campaigns against 'cancel culture'
| periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/19/politics/trump-goodyear-cancel-culture/index.html}}
 
* I don't know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate
** Said about the [[QAnon]] group, as quoted by {{citation | author=Kevin Liptak | date=2020-08-20 |title=Trump embraces QAnon conspiracy because 'they like me' | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/19/politics/donald-trump-qanon/index.html}}
 
* I see again the forest fires are starting. They’re starting again in California. I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests — there are many, many years of leaves and broken trees and they’re like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up. Maybe we’re just going to have to make them pay for it because they don’t listen to us.
** Quoted by {{citation | author=Jeremy B. White | date=2020-08-19 |title=Trump blames California for wildfires, tells state 'you gotta clean your floors'
| periodical=Politico | url=https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/20/trump-blames-california-for-wildfires-tells-state-you-gotta-clean-your-floors-1311059}}
 
* I know nothing about the project other than I didn't like when I read about it, I didn't like it.
* I think it's a very sad thing for Mr. Bannon. I didn't know any of the other people, either.
** Trump talked about the private "We build the wall" project, as quoted by {{citation | author=Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck | date=2020-08-20 |title=Fact check: Trump knows most people involved in private border wall project, despite claiming not to | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/fact-check-trump-private-border-wall-project/index.html}}
 
* The only way they're gonna win is by a rigged election. I really believe that. I saw the crowd outside.
** Said about Democrats, as quoted by {{citation | author=Daniel Dale | date=2020-08-20 |title=Fact check: Trump delivers blizzard of false claims in Pennsylvania speech attacking Biden | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/trump-false-claims-pennsylvania-speech-biden-fact-check/index.html}}
 
* We're going to have sheriffs, and we're going to have law enforcement, and we're going to have, hopefully, US attorneys, and we're going to have everybody and attorney generals [sic]
** Trump told about his plan for monitoring and preventing voter fraud, as quoted by {{citation | author=Tara Subramariam | date=2020-08-21 |title=Fact Check: Can the President send law enforcement officers to polling places? | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/21/politics/donald-trump-law-enforcement-election-polls-fact-check/index.html}}
 
* The [[deep state]], or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics. Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd. Must focus on speed, and saving lives
** As quoted by {{citation | author=Hope Yen, Calvin Woodward | date=2020-08-24 |title=AP FACT CHECK: Trump's baseless claim of 'deep state' at FDA| periodical=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | url=https://www.post-gazette.com/business/powersource/2020/08/24/AP-FACT-CHECK-Trump-s-baseless-claim-of-deep-state-at-FDA/stories/202008240037}}
 
====September 2020====
* The entire city is ablaze all the time.
** Claimed about Portland, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-09-01 |title=Fact check: Trump makes more false claims about Biden and protests | author=By Daniel Dale, Tara Subramaniam, Holmes Lybrand | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/31/politics/trump-kenosha-briefing-fact-check/index.html}}
 
* CNN reported that I had a heart attack.
** Claimed as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-09-03 |title=Even Fox News is choosing not to cover Trump's rallies in full, but his falsehoods are still eye-popping |author=Brian Stelter | periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/04/media/donald-trump-pennsylvania-reliable-sources/index.html}}
 
* Hospitalizations and deaths have declined radically over the past week.
** Claimed about the Covid-19 pandemic, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-09-03 |title=Even Fox News is choosing not to cover Trump's rallies in full, but his falsehoods are still eye-popping |author=Brian Stelter | periodical=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/04/media/donald-trump-pennsylvania-reliable-sources/index.html}}
 
* The Dow Jones Industrial just closed above 29,000! You are so lucky to have me as your President. With Joe Hiden’ it would crash.
** [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1301249968091455488 Tweet]
 
* Did you ever see a man who likes a mask as much as him? He has it hanging down. Because it gives him a feeling of security. If I were a psychiatrist, right, you know I'd say: 'This guy's got some big issues. Hanging down. Hanging down'.
** Said about President candidate Joe Biden wearing a face mask for protection against Covid-19, as quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-04 |title=Donald Trump mocks Joe Biden for manner of wearing mask | periodical=Independent.ie | url=https://www.independent.ie/videos/donald-trump-mocks-joe-biden-for-manner-of-wearing-mask-39502878.html}}
 
* If it has not been counted, vote -- which is every citizen's right to do -- you go and vote. You press the lever and vote. So if it hasn't been counted, if it doesn't show up, go and vote, and then, if your mail-in ballot arrives after you vote, which it shouldn't but possibly it could perhaps, that ballot will not be used or counted in that your vote has already been cast and tabulated, so this way you're guaranteed to have your vote count.
** Trump suggested voting twice, which is a federal crime, as quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-04 | title=Ignoring warnings from election officials, Trump again suggests supporters should try to vote twice | author= Dianne Gallagher, Caroline Kelly, Marshall Cohen, Brian Rokus | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/trump-vote-twice-north-carolina/index.html}}
 
* The top people in the [[w:The Pentagon|Pentagon]]... want to do nothing but fight wars so all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy
** In front of the [[w:White House|White House]] at a [https://www.trtworld.com/americas/trump-pentagon-chiefs-fighting-wars-to-oblige-arms-companies-39561 US Labor Day news conference on September 7, 2020]
 
* Under [[w:Operation_Warp_Speed|Operation Warp Speed]], we've pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.
* We're way ahead on the nuclear front. We've upgraded our nuclear.
* When reports come out that certain countries don't really like me too much, that's not because of my personality, although it could be that also, frankly.
** Quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-08 | title=The 37 most absurd lines from Donald Trump's Labor Day 'news conference'
| author= Chris Cillizza | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/08/politics/donald-trump-labor-day-press-conference/index.html}}
 
* The president of the United States calls the shots (Trump says in ~second 50 of video)
* If [[Bob Woodward]] thought what I said was bad then he should have immediately, right after I said it, gone out to the authorities so they can prepare,
** Trump was talking about what he told Bob Woodward regarding downplaying the coronavirus threat, as quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-10 | title=Someone needs to remind Donald Trump that Bob Woodward isn't president of the United States | author= Chris Cillizza | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/10/politics/trump-bob-woodward-rage/index.html}}
 
* I think there’s probably – possibly – drugs involved
** Claimed about President Candidate Joe Biden, as quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-10 | title=Trump uses Fox News interview to accuse Biden of taking drugs | author= Martin Pengelly | periodical=The Guardian | url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/12/trump-biden-drugs-fox-news-interview}}
 
* Tell your governor to open up your state
** On September 14, 2020, in front of hundreds of supporters packed together, according to [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/09/13/donald-trump-latino-voters-las-vegas-ahead-rally/5784501002/ ''Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak says Trump took 'reckless and selfish actions' by holding indoor rally'']
 
* I don't think [[science]] knows, actually.
* It'll start getting cooler. You just watch.
** Trump described his stance on [[Scientific consensus on climate change|climate science]] and [[global warming]], as quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-14 | title=Trump baselessly questions climate science during California wildfire briefing | author= Maegan Vazquez | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/14/politics/donald-trump-wildfires-briefing-climate-change/index.html}}
 
* Nobody knew the seniors are susceptible
** Claimed about the coronavirus, as quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-16 | title=Fact check: Trump made at least 22 false or misleading claims at ABC town hall | author= Daniel Dale | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/16/politics/fact-check-trump-abc-town-hall/index.html}}
 
* We’re on track to deliver and distribute the vaccine in a very, very safe and effective manner. We think we can start sometime in October. So as soon as it is announced, we’ll be able to start. That’ll be from mid-October on. It may be a little bit later than that, but we’ll be all set.
** Quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-16 | title=Trump Again Overstates Speed of COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout | author= Jessica McDonald | periodical=FactCheck.org | url=https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trump-again-overstates-speed-of-covid-19-vaccine-rollout/}}
 
* As soon as the FDA approves the vaccine... we’ll be able to distribute 100 million doses by the end of 2020 and a large number much sooner than that
** Quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-16 | title=Trump says U.S. could distribute at least 100 million COVID vaccine doses by end of 2020 | author= Reuters staff | periodical=Reuters| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/healthcoronavirus-trump-vaccine/trump-says-u-s-could-distribute-at-least-100-million-covid-vaccine-doses-by-end-of-2020-idINW1N2FG089}}
 
* You saw what happened in [[Pennsylvania]]. Some state Supreme Court justice just ruled that they can take as long as they want to count the ballots. That means I’ll be leading and winning Pennsylvania like we did last time. Yeah, yeah. We’ll be leading, we’ll be winning Pennsylvania. We’re going to win it easy.
** Quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-16 | title=Trump’s False Statement About Counting Ballots in Pennsylvania | author= Rem Rieder | periodical=FactCheck.org| url=https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-false-statement-about-counting-ballots-in-pennsylvania/}}
 
* [[Left-wing politics|Left-wing]] mobs have torn down statues of our founders, desecrated our memorials, and carried out a campaign of [[violence]] and [[Anarchism|anarchy]]. Far-left demonstrators have chanted the words “America was never great.” The left has launched a vicious and violent assault on law enforcement — the universal symbol of the [[rule of law]] in America. These radicals have been aided and abetted by liberal politicians, [[Mainstream media|establishment media]], and even large [[corporations]]. Whether it is the mob on the street, or the cancel culture in the boardroom, the goal is the same: to silence dissent, to scare you out of speaking the truth, and to bully Americans into abandoning their values, their heritage, and their very way of life.
** [https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-white-house-conference-american-history/ Remarks by President Trump at the White House Conference on American History] (17 September 2020)
 
* The radicals burning [[Flag of the United States|American flags]] want to burn down the principles enshrined in our founding documents, including the bedrock principle of equal justice under law. In order to radically transform America, they must first cause Americans to lose confidence in who we are, where we came from, and what we believe. As I said at [[Mount Rushmore]] — which they would love to rip down and it rip it down fast, and that’s never going to happen — two months ago, the left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the [[American Revolution]].
** [https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-white-house-conference-american-history/ Remarks by President Trump at the White House Conference on American History] (17 September 2020)
 
* The left has warped, distorted, and defiled the American story with deceptions, falsehoods, and lies. There is no better example than [[the New York Times]]’ totally discredited 1619 Project. This project rewrites American history to teach our children that we were founded on the principle of oppression, not freedom. Nothing could be further from the truth. America’s founding set in motion the unstoppable chain of events that abolished slavery, secured civil rights, defeated communism and fascism, and built the most fair, equal, and prosperous nation in human history.
** [https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-white-house-conference-american-history/ Remarks by President Trump at the White House Conference on American History] (17 September 2020)
 
* Critical race theory, the 1619 Project, and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda, ideological poison that, if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together. It will destroy our country.
** [https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-white-house-conference-american-history/ Remarks by President Trump at the White House Conference on American History] (17 September 2020)
 
* Can you believe it, in one week they nominated me, not for one, but for two Nobel prizes. But you know, you have a president, you love your president, and your president gets honored, because I’m not being honored, you’re being honored with the Nobel Peace Prize, for Israel, what we did with Israel.
** Quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-19 | title=Trump’s Nobel Nonsense | author= Robert Farley | periodical=FactCheck.org| url=https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-nobel-nonsense/}}
 
* I’m the only man that got nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and I didn’t get any press. They wouldn’t. For two of them. Last week, I’m not bragging about it.
** Quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-21 | title=Trump’s Nobel Nonsense | author= Robert Farley | periodical=FactCheck.org| url=https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-nobel-nonsense/}}
 
* I said, ‘Shinzo, please do me a favor, we need more car companies. ... We want them built here, not in Japan, please.’ He said, ‘But we cannot do that, this is a free enterprise system.’ I said, ‘... Please, I need some car companies.’ ... I said, ‘Shinzo, you have to do it.’ Next day, it was the story: ‘Five car companies opened up in Michigan.‘
** Claimed as quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-21 | title=AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s made-up car plants, court revisionism | author= Hope Yen, Calvin Woodward, Tom Krisher | periodical=AP | url=https://apnews.com/ec85b88102464c9651d32b475c01c183}}
 
* I saved it. I put our miners back to work.
** Claimed about the US coal mining industry, as quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-21 | title=Fact check: Trump makes false claims about his record on manufacturing and coal jobs | author= Daniel Dale | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/23/politics/fact-check-trump-jobs-manufacturing-coal/index.html}}
 
* Now we know it. It [the coronavirus] affects elderly people, elderly people with heart problems and other problems. If they have other problems. That's what it really affects. That's it. You know, In some states, thousands of people—nobody young. Below the age of 18, like, nobody. They have a strong immune system, who knows? You look...Take your hat off to the young, because they have a hell of an immune system. But it affects virtually nobody. It's an amazing thing.
** Quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-22 | title=Trump Says Coronavirus 'Affects Virtually Nobody,' As U.S. Has World's Highest Death Toll | author= Kashmira Gander | periodical=Newsweek | url=https://www.newsweek.com/trump-covid-virtually-nobody-rally-ohio-1533452}}
 
* The stated goal of BLM people is to achieve the destruction of the nuclear family, abolish the police, abolish prisons, abolish border security, abolish [[capitalism]] and abolish school choice.
** Claimed about the Black Lives Matter movement, as quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-25 | title=Donald Trump launches blistering attack on the Black Lives Matter movement | author= Graeme Massie | periodical=Independent.co.uk | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-rally-today-blm-black-lives-matter-b604727.html}}
 
* Totally fake news
** [https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/27/trump-calls-nyt-tax-report-totally-fake-news-422330Trump responding] to the NYT report on the alleged tax avoidance by Donald Trump
 
* We’re leading in [[Pennsylvania]]. We’re leading in [[Florida]]. I think we’re leading everywhere.
** Claimed as quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-28 | title=FactChecking Trump’s Weekend Claims
| author=Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, Rem Rieder, Eugene Kiely, Jessica McDonald, D'Angelo Gore | periodical=FactCheck.org | url=https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/factchecking-trumps-weekend-claims/}}
 
* Drug prices will be coming down 80 or 90 percent.
* It's a rigged election.
** Claimed as quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-30 | title=Fact check: False claims flood Trump-Biden debate | author=AP staff | periodical=MPR news| url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/09/30/fact-check-false-claims-flood-trumpbiden-debate}}
 
* I read today where at least 1% of the ballots for 2016 were invalidated. They take 'em. 'We don't like 'em. We don't like 'em.' They throw them out, left and right
* Take a look at West Virginia, mailmen selling the ballots. They're being sold.
* Number two, they cheat. They cheat. Hey, they found ballots in a wastepaper basket three days ago, and they all had the name military ballots -- there were military -- they all had the name Trump on 'em.
** Quoted in {{citation | date=2020-09-30 | title=Fact check: Almost every single one of Trump's debate claims about mail-in voting was wrong | author=Daniel Dale, Marshall Cohen | periodical=CNN| url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/30/politics/fact-check-trump-first-debate-mail-voting-fraud/index.html}}
 
* [[Steve Jobs]] would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine that is run by a con man (Goldberg) and spews FAKE NEWS & HATE. Call her, write her, let her know how you feel!!!
** [[Trump]] in [https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/06/business/donald-trump-laurene-powell-jobs/?iid=ob_lockedrail_longstory_pool Trump attacks the sixth-richest woman in the world for her ties to] [[w:The Atlantic|The Atlantic]] on September 6, 2020
 
====October 2020====
[[File:President Trump Works at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (50423775191).jpg|thumb|[[Feeling]] really [[good]]! Don’t be [[afraid]] of [[COVID-19 pandemic|Covid]]. [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|Don’t let it dominate]] your [[life]]. We have developed, under the [[Presidency of Donald Trump|Trump Administration]], some really great [[drugs]] & [[knowledge]]. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!]]
* Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for [[COVID-19]]. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!
** [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849 through twitter] on October 1, 2020
 
* OUR GREAT USA WANTS & NEEDS STIMULUS. WORK TOGETHER AND GET IT DONE. Thank you!
** [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1312449034154504192 via tweet] on October 3, 2020
 
* If you look at the therapeutics, which I’m taking right now, some of them, and others are coming out soon that are looking like, frankly, they’re miracles, if you want to know the truth, they’re miracles. People criticize me when I say that, but we have things happening that look like they’re miracles, coming down from God.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-03 |title=Trump’s COVID-19 Misinformation Since Testing Positive | author= Jessica McDonald, Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson | periodical=FactCheck.org | url=https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/trumps-covid-19-misinformation-since-testing-positive/}}
 
* I learned a lot about COVID. I learned it by really going to school. This is the real school, this isn’t the let’s-read-a-book school. And I get it and I understand it and it’s a very interesting thing and I’m gonna be letting you know about it.
** Said while being treated in hospital for Covid-19, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-05 |title=Editorial: President Trump’s learn-by-doing approach to COVID-19 | author=LA Times Editorial Board | periodical=LA Times | url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-10-06/trump-covid-school}}
 
* I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!
** [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313186529058136070 Via twitter] posted 11:37 AM · Oct 5, 2020
 
* Flu season is coming up! Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the Vaccine, die from the Flu. Are we going to close down our Country? No, we have learned to live with it, just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!
** Claimed in a tweet that was later labeled as misleading and in a Facebook posting that was later deleted by Facebook, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-06 |title=Facebook, Twitter block Trump post that falsely claims coronavirus is less deadly than flu | author=Jessica Bursztynsky | periodical=CNBC | url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/06/facebook-removes-trump-post-falsely-comparing-coronavirus-and-the-flu.html}}
 
* REPEAL [[SECTION 230]]!!!
** Tweeted about [[w:Section 230|Section 230]] of the United States Communications Decency Act, which allows online platforms to moderate and remove harmful content without being penalized. Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-06 |title=Facebook, Twitter block Trump post that falsely claims coronavirus is less deadly than flu | author=Jessica Bursztynsky | periodical=CNBC | url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/06/facebook-removes-trump-post-falsely-comparing-coronavirus-and-the-flu.html}}
 
*I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election when, immediately after I win, we will pass a major Stimulus Bill that focuses on hardworking Americans and Small Business.
** According to [https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-stimulus-negotiations-7d464d0e-924f-46f5-90d2-9e8097c9c8f7.html Trump says he will not negotiate on COVID relief until after election]
 
* We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas!
** Via [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313984510749544450 tweet] October 7, 2020
 
* I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it. It was a blessing in disguise.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-08 |title=Trump returns to Oval Office and says coronavirus diagnosis was 'blessing from God' | author=Kevin Liptak | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/07/politics/trump-oval-office-coronavirus/index.html}}
 
* I don’t think I’m contagious at all.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-08 |title=President Trump says he’s not ‘contagious at all’ days after leaving hospital with coronavirus | author=Will Feuer | periodical=CNBC | url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/08/president-trump-says-hes-not-contagious-at-all-days-after-leaving-hospital-with-coronavirus-.html}}
 
* I'm not going to do a virtual debate. I’m not going to waste my time at a virtual debate.
** Trump commented on the initiative of having the presidential candidates participating from remote locations for the second presidential debate, in view of his Covid-19 infection, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-08 |title=Trump says he will 'not waste my time' with a 'virtual debate' after CPD announces changes | author=Brooke Singman | periodical=Fox News | url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/second-trump-biden-debate-will-be-virtual-organizers-say}}
 
* Monster .. Communist .. Horrible .. Totally unlikeable
** Trump was referring to Vice President candidate Kamala Harris, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-08 |title=Trump insults Harris as 'a monster' morning after vice presidential debate | author=Elizabeth Thomas | periodical=ABC News | url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-insults-harris-monster-morning-vice-presidential-debate/story?id=73498918}}
 
* We want to do a rally in Florida, probably in Florida on Saturday night, might come back and do one in Pennsylvania on the following night. I feel so good!<br>Well, what we’re doing is probably, the test will be tomorrow, and the actual test, because there’s no reason to test all the time, but they found very little infection or virus, if any. I don’t know if they found any, I didn’t go into it greatly with the doctors.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-08 |title=Coughing Through Hannity Interview, Trump Says He Wants to Do Saturday Rally | author=Justin Baragona | periodical=Daily Beast | url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-coughing-through-hannity-interview-says-he-wants-to-do-saturday-rally}}
 
* Nobody ever even heard of tariffs. They never even heard of tariffs. Nobody. In fact, when I first started doing it, they didn't even know what it meant.
** Claimed about tariffs on imports from China, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-11 |title=Fact check: Trump makes at least 14 false claims in first post-hospital interview on Fox Business
| author=Daniel Dale | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/fact-check-trump-interview-bartiromo-fox-business/index.html}}
 
* I'll walk into that audience. I'll walk in there, I'll kiss everyone in that audience. I'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women and the -- everybody. I'll just give everybody a big, fat kiss.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-12 |title=Trump mocks virus as he launches potential superspreader sprint to win reelection | author=Stephen Collinson | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/13/politics/donald-trump-election-2020-campaign/index.html}}
 
* They say he was born in Scranton, but he left, he left. He abandoned you.
** Trump referred back to when Joe Biden was 10 years old and the family moved from Pennsylvania to Delaware because his father started in a new job, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-14 |title=Fact check: Trump continues dishonesty bombardment at Pennsylvania rally
| author=Daniel Dale | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/14/politics/fact-check-trump-rally-johnstown-pennsylvania/index.html}}
 
* My plan: we’re gonna crush the virus very quickly. It’s happening already. It’s happening.<br>And Mexico is paying for the wall, by the way. You know that. I’ve been saying it. They hate to hear that. But they’re paying.<br>We passed VA Choice.
** Claimed as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-14 |title=Trump’s lies are getting sillier, stupider, and staler. Last night’s superspreader rally was a doozy | author=Aldous Pennyfarthing | periodical=Daily sound and fury | url=https://dailysoundandfury.com/trumps-lies-are-getting-sillier-stupider-and-staler-last-nights-superspreader-rally-was-a-doozy/}}
 
* I’m OK with masks. I tell people, wear a mask. But just the other day they came out with a statement that 85% of the people that wear masks catch it.
** Claimed about the coronavirus, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-16 |title=FactChecking Trump’s Town Hall
| author=Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, Angelo Fichera, Jessica McDonald, Rem Rieder, Katie Busch, Eugene Kiely | periodical=FactCheck.org | url=https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/factchecking-trumps-town-hall/}}
 
* That was an opinion of somebody and that was a retweet. I’ll put it out there. People can decide for themselves.
** Trump explained why he retweeted a claim that Osama bin Laden’s killing was staged and that members of Navy SEAL Team 6 had been killed to cover it up. Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-16 |title=Column: Trump and Biden town halls showed us two worlds, and only one of them is terrifying | author=Rex Huppke | periodical=Chicago Tribune| url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/rex-huppke/ct-trump-biden-town-hall-qanon-rogers-calm-election-polls-huppke-20201016-3oke7rhwhbdrfcshgbnpqmimbe-story.html}}
 
* When I see thousands of ballots dumped in a garbage can and they happen to have my name on it? I’m not happy about it.
** Claimed as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-17 |title=AP FACT CHECK: Trump sees what others do not in the pandemic
| author=Calvin Woodward, Hope Yen | periodical=AP News| url=https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-ap-fact-check-donald-trump-technology-a6ddb8360fa9b1ff95acbbc1e03f437e}}
 
* Would you like a nice low-income housing project next to your suburban beautiful ranch style house? Generally speaking, no. I saved your suburbs -- <b>women -- suburban women, you're supposed to love Trump.</b>
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-17 |title=Trump continues bizarre appeals to suburban women as he campaigns in Covid hotspots | author=Maeve Reston| periodical=CNN| url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/18/politics/donald-trump-women-gretchen-whitmer/index.html}}
 
* Fauci is a disaster. People are tired of coronavirus. People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-17 |title=Trump says Americans 'tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots' discuss Covid | author=Joan E Greve| periodical= The Guardian| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/19/trump-fauci-idiot-experts-criticism-coronavirus}}
 
* Did you see they found 50,000 ballots in like a river?<br>Even without the vaccine, the pandemic's going to end. It's gonna run its course. It's gonna end. They'll go crazy. He said 'without the vaccine' -- watch, it'll be a headline tomorrow. These people are crazy. No, it's running its course. We're rounding the turn. You see the numbers, and we're rounding the turn.<br>The United States shows more CASES than other countries, which the Lamestream Fake News Media pounces on daily, because it TESTS at such a high (and costly) level.<br>Since the China virus, we have created --- a record in the history of our country -- 11.4 million jobs over just a short period of months.<br>We're now setting records for employment, unemployment. We're setting all sorts of records economically<br>I signed a bill that gives you 10 years in jail if you rip down any federal statue.<br>Mexico is paying for the wall.<br>We gave the greatest -- the biggest tax cut in history.
** Claimed as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-20 |title=Fact-checking Trump's dishonest weekend: The President made at least 66 false or misleading claims in three days
| author=Daniel Dale| periodical= CNN| url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/19/politics/fact-check-trump-dishonest-weekend-florida-michigan-georgia-wisconsin/index.html}}
 
* <i> (About “phony fake ballots":) </i> How about the ones that were printed without my name on it, right? They had everything on it. They had every race, they had everything. You had the Senate, you had everything, they forgot to put me down.
** Claimed as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-20 |title=Trump Misleads on Ballots Again | author=Lori Robertson| periodical= FactCheck.org| url=https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/trump-misleads-on-ballots-again/}}
 
* We're not entering a dark winter, we are entering the final turn and the light at the end of the tunnel
** Said on October 23, 2020 According to ''Fox News Sunday with [[Chris Wallace]]'' [https://www.foxnews.com/shows/fox-news-sunday]
 
* We're not supposed to have a socialist — look we're not going to be a socialist nation. <b> We're not going to have a socialist president, especially a female socialist president,</b> we're not gonna have it, we're not gonna put up with it.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-24 |title=Trump targets Kamala Harris in sexist rant against the Democratic vice-presidential nominee | author=Sarah Al-Arshani| periodical= Business Insider| url=https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-targets-kamala-harris-in-sexist-rant-2020-10?r=US&IR=T}}
 
* We won’t have a president that threatens people with jail for just criticizing him
** On the campaign trail for [[Joe Biden]] in [[https://www.wlrn.org/2020-10-25/obama-hits-campaign-trail-in-south-florida-criticizing-trumps-behavior-as-worse-than-florida-man Obama Hits Campaign Trail In South Florida, Criticizing Trump's Behavior As Worse Than Florida Man] October 25, 2020
 
* Lock'em all up.
** Said about an undefined group of people, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-26 |title=Fact check: Trump makes at least 16 false or misleading claims to '60 Minutes' | author=Daniel Dale| periodical= CNN| url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/25/politics/fact-check-trump-60-minutes-lesley-stahl/index.html}}
 
* If I didn’t have social media, I’d have no way of getting out my voice.
** {{citation |date=2020-10-26 |title=CBS releases footage of Trump walking out of 60 Minutes interview
| author=Martin Melam| periodical= The Guardian| url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/26/cbs-releases-footage-trump-walking-out-60-minutes-interview}}
 
* Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA. Must have final total on November 3rd
** Tweet, labelled as "Misleading", as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-26 |title=Twitter slapped yet another Trump tweet about mail-in voting with a 'misleading' label and stopped other users from retweeting it | author=Isobel Asher Hamilton| periodical=Business Insider| url=https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-trump-tweet-mail-voting-warning-label-minsinformation-block-retweet-2020-10?r=US&IR=T}}
 
* We’re rounding the turn,our numbers are incredible.
** at a rally on October 26, 2020 according to [https://www.vox.com/21541967/covid-19-record-cases-us-coronavirus-winter-spike-surge 89,000 new Covid-19 cases per day. And the worst may be yet to come.]
 
* COVID COVID COVID.. we are rounding the turn all they want to talk about is COVID by the way on Nov 4 you won't be hearing much more about it..Cases are up because we TEST TEST TEST
** During election campaign in [[w:Allentown, Pennsylvania|Allentown]] ''Trump calls U.S. coronavirus case spike a media ‘conspiracy’'' [https://globalnews.ca/news/7422033/coronavirus-trump-testing-conspiracy-tweet/ video]
 
* The only thing you can do in Pennsylvania is a protest. You can't go to church. You can't pray to your God. You can't be with your pastors, your priests, your rabbis. You can't be -- none of that. You can't do anything
** Claimed as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-27 |title=Fact check: Trump falsely claims Pennsylvanians 'can't go to church' | author=Daniel Dale | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/27/politics/trump-false-claim-pennsylvania-cant-go-to-church-fact-check/index.html}}
 
* He’ll bury you in regulations, dismantle your police departments, dissolve our borders, confiscate your guns, terminate religious liberty, destroy your suburbs.
* If you vote for Biden, it means no kids in school, no graduations, no weddings, no Thanksgiving, no Christmas and no Fourth of July together
** Claimed about Democrat President Candidate Joe Biden, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-10-29 |title=With typical hyperbole, Trump paints apocalyptic portrait of life under Biden | author=Darlene Superville | periodical=The Times of Israel | url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-typical-hyperbole-trump-paints-apocalyptic-portrait-of-life-under-biden/}}
 
*You know in Germany, if you have a bad heart and you’re ready to die, or if you have cancer and you’re going to be dying soon and you catch Covid, that happens: we mark it down to Covid.<br>You know, our doctors get more money if somebody dies from Covid. You know that, right?<br>I mean our doctors are very smart people. So what they do is, they say, "I’m sorry, but you know everybody dies of Covid."<br>But in Germany and other places, if you have a heart attack, or if you have cancer, you’re terminally ill, you catch Covid, they say you died of cancer, you died of a heart attack.<br>With us? When in doubt, choose Covid.<br>Now, it’s true. Now, they’ll say ‘oh, it’s terrible what he said’, but that’s true. It’s like $2,000 more.
**[https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1322244374479040512 30 October 2020]
***Trump's estimate is too high, as [https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1320492597320863751 Ashish Ja states], the bump for documenting Covid ranges from $1600-$2200 which is an average of only $1900 more.
 
====November 2020====
* We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election. This is a major fraud on our nation. We want the law to be used in a proper manner. So we’ll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop.
** Claimed as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-11-03 |title=U.S. presidency still undecided; Biden opens leads in key Midwestern states | author= Trevor Hunnicutt, Jeff Mason | periodical=Reuters | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election/us-presidency-still-undecided-biden-opens-leads-in-key-midwestern-states-idUSKBN27J0FZ}}
 
*I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!
**[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325099845045071873 7 November 2020]
 
*REPORT: DOMINION DELETED 2.7 MILLION TRUMP VOTES NATIONWIDE. DATA ANALYSIS FINDS 221,000 PENNSYLVANIA VOTES SWITCHED FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TO BIDEN. 941,000 TRUMP VOTES DELETED. STATES USING DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS SWITCHED 435,000 VOTES FROM TRUMP TO BIDEN.
** Disputed tweet, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-11-13 |title=AP fact check: Trump tweets a tall tale of 'deleted' votes | author= Ali Swenson, Amanda Seitz | periodical=AP News | url=https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-ap-fact-check-joe-biden-donald-trump-technology-13c104367924b8192b4fcecf334f7806}}
 
*FoxNews and the Fake News Networks aren’t showing these massive gatherings. Instead they have their reporters standing in almost empty streets. We now have SUPPRESSION BY THE PRESS
**[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1327724046595842049 14 November 2020]
 
* The vaccine will be available to the entire general population with the exception of places like New York state where for political reasons the governor decided to say — and I don’t think it’s good politically, I think it’s very bad from a health standpoint — but he wants to take his time with a vaccine. We can’t be delivering it to a state that won’t be giving it to its people immediately.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-11-30 |title=AP FACT CHECK: Trump distorts on vaccine, state distribution | author= Hope Yen, Laura Neergard, Candice Choi | periodical=AP | url=https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-joe-biden-donald-trump-politics-coronavirus-pandemic-76d1580f82b1586b207990396c1e3b5f}}
 
* Big victory moments ago in the [[Nevada|State of Nevada]]. The all Democrat County Commissioner race, on same ballot as President, just thrown out because of large scale voter discrepancy. Clark County officials do not have confidence in their own election security. Major impact!
** [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1328483862490574849 Tweet] dated November 16, 2020
 
* I won the Election!
** [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1328334945148952576 Tweet] November 16, 2020, with the warning by twitter: "Multiple sources called this election differently"
 
* The recent statement by / [[w:Chris Krebs|Chris Krebs]] on the security of the [[2020 Election]] was highly inaccurate... Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
** Trump fires his Director of the Cybersecurity via twitter according to [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/17/trump-ousts-homeland-security-chris-krebs-called-election-secure/6276676002/ Trump ousts Homeland Security cyber chief Chris Krebs, who called election secure] published November 18, 2020
 
* You wouldn’t have vaccine if it weren’t for me, for another four years.
** Claimed, without evidence, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-11-20 |title=Trump Suggests Vaccine Companies Orchestrated Revenge-Filled Conspiracy to Make Him Lose | author= Rachel Olding | periodical=Daily Beast | url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-suggests-vaccine-companies-orchestrated-revenge-filled-conspiracy-to-make-him-lose}}
 
* Don't talk to me that way, you are lightweight. I'm the president of the United States. Don't ever talk to the president that way.
**Responding to a reporter's questions at a Thanksgiving press conference in [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-news-live-twitter-biden-election-b1762621.html Trump news – live: President promises to leave White House before erupting at #DiaperDon Twitter trend (video)] published November 27, 2020
*[[Big Tech]] and the [[Fake News]] Media have partnered to Suppress. [[Freedom of the press|Freedom of the Press]] is gone, a thing of the past. That’s why they refuse to report the real facts and figures of the 2020 Election...
** [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1332349861774155778?s=20 Tweet] posted November 27, 2020 which [[Twitter]] tagged with "This claim about election fraud is disputed"
 
* Biden can only enter the White House as President if he can prove that his ridiculous '80,000,000 votes' were not fraudulently or illegally obtained. When you see what happened in Detroit, [[w:Atlanta|Atlanta]], [[Philadelphia]] & [[w:Milwaukee|Milwaukee]], massive voter fraud, he's got a big unsolvable problem.
** Claimed, without evidence, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-11-28 |title=Trump implies he won't leave the White House unless Biden 'can prove' he won 80 million votes, as the president continues to tweet lies and conspiracy theories about the election
| author= Grace Panetta | periodical=Business Insider | url=https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-he-wont-leave-white-house-biden-disproves-fraud-2020-11?r=US&IR=T}}
 
* Specific allegations were made, and we have massive proof, in the Pennsylvania case. Some people just don’t want to see it. They want nothing to do with saving our Country. Sad!!!
** [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1332778938121203720 Tweet] posted November 28, 2020
 
* @FoxNews daytime is virtually unwatchable, especially during the weekends.
** Tweet, quoted by {{citation |date=2020-11-29 |title=Trump tells viewers to watch 'anything else' but Fox News ahead of his 1st interview since Election Day | author= Yelena Dzhanova | periodical=Business Insider | url=https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-calls-fox-news-unwatchable-criticism-newsmax-2020-11?r=US&IR=T}}
 
* We don't have freedom of the press in this country, we have suppression of the press
** In a phone interview with [[Maria Bartiromo]] on [[Fox News]] November 29, 2020
 
* I came up with vaccines that people didn't think we'd have for five years
* We had glitches where they moved thousands of votes from my account to Biden's account
* <i> (About the handling of the coronavirus in the US:) </i> We're doing better than the rest of the world
** Claimed, without evidence, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-11-29 |title=Fox News' Maria Bartiromo gave Trump his first TV interview since the election. It was filled with lies | author= Alexis Benveniste | periodical= CNN Business | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/29/media/bartiromo-trump-interview/index.html}}
 
* Who needs Democrats when you have Republicans like [[Brian Kemp]] and Doug Ducey?
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-11-30 |title=Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey defends election process after Trump attack | author= Caroline Kelly, Alison Main | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/30/politics/doug-ducey-defends-election-arizona-trump/index.html}}
 
====December 2020====
* Actually, I won [[Wisconsin]].
** Claimed, without evidence, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-12-05 |title=Fact check: Among baseless claims of rigged election, Trump says he won Wisconsin | author= D.L. Davis, Politifact | periodical=Houston Cronicle | url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/texas-politics/politifact/article/Fact-check-Among-baseless-claims-of-rigged-15794749.php}}
 
* You know we won Georgia, just so you understand.
** Claimed, without evidence, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-12-05 |title=Fact Check: Trump Makes Bogus Swing State Claim During Campaign Stop In Georgia | author= Eugene Kiely | periodical=GA Today | url=https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/12/09/fact-check-trump-makes-bogus-swing-state-claim-during-campaign-stop-in-georgia}}
 
* If I lost, I’d be a very gracious loser.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-12-06 |title=AP FACT CHECK: Trump floods rally with audacious falsehoods | author= Calvin Woodward | periodical=AP News | url=https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-donald-trump-rally-falsehoods-424834660f894040b55b415aecb2a443}}
 
* RINOS @BrianKempGA, @GeoffDuncanGA, & Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, will be solely responsible for the potential loss of our two GREAT Senators from Georgia, @sendavidperdue & @KLoeffler. Won’t call a Special Session or check for Signature Verification! People are ANGRY!
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-12-07 |title=Trump Says 'RINOS' Kemp, Raffensperger 'Solely Responsible' If Loeffler, Perdue Lose Election | author= Jeffery Martin | periodical=Newsweek | url=https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-rinos-kemp-raffensperger-solely-responsible-if-loeffler-perdue-lose-election-1553024}}
 
* The Supreme Court really let us down. No Wisdom, No Courage!
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-12-11 |title='No Wisdom, No Courage!': Trump lashes out at the Supreme Court after it rejected a Texas bid to overturn the election results| author= Kelsey Vlamis | periodical=MSN News | url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/no-wisdom-no-courage-trump-lashes-out-at-the-supreme-court-after-it-rejected-a-texas-bid-to-overturn-the-election-results/ar-BB1bRIqA}}
 
* WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!!!
** Tweeted about contesting the 2020 Presidential election result, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-12-11 |title=Trump engages in self-sabotage ahead of historic vaccine rollout | author= Maeve Reston | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/13/politics/donald-trump-william-barr-pfizer-vaccine/index.html}}
 
* It's not over. We keep going and we're going to continue to go forward.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-12-12 |title=Trump tells 'Fox & Friends' election challenges 'not over' ahead of Electoral College vote | author= Ronn Blitzner | periodical=Fox News | url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-fox-and-friends-election-challenges-not-over-electoral-college-vote}}
 
* Wow! Thousands of people forming in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington (D.C.)]] for [[w:Stop the Steal|Stop the Steal]]. Didn't know about this, but I'll be seeing them! #MAGA
** [https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Conservative_groups_hold_rally_in_Washington_D.C._claiming_U.S._elections_were_stolen_from_President_Trump Conservative groups hold rally in Washington D.C. claiming U.S. elections were stolen from President Trump]December 15, 2020
 
* I saved at least 8 Republican Senators, including Mitch, from losing in the last Rigged (for President) Election. Now they (almost all) sit back and watch me fight against a crooked and vicious foe, the Radical Left Democrats. I will NEVER FORGET!
** Disputed [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1342245390540804096 Tweet], 25 December 2020.
 
{{Anchor|Supreme Court totally incompetent}}
* The [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] has been totally incompetent and weak on the massive Election Fraud that took place in the 2020 Presidential Election. We have absolute PROOF, but they don't want to see it - No 'standing', they say. If we have corrupt elections, we have no country!
** Disputed tweet, quoted by {{citation |date=2020-12-26 |title=With less than a month left in office, Trump lashes out at 'totally incompetent' Supreme Court for refusing to overturn his election loss | author= Connor Perrett | periodical=Business Insider | url=https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-supreme-court-totally-incompetent-for-refusing-to-overturn-election-2020-12?r=US&IR=T}}
 
* Weak and tired Republican “leadership” will allow the bad Defense Bill to pass.
** [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1342245390540804096 Tweet], 29 December 2020.
 
* Republican leadership only wants the path of least resistance. Our leaders (not me, of course!) are pathetic.
** Tweet, quoted by {{citation |date=2020-12-29 | title=Trump lashes out at Republicans after they override his veto | author= Zachary B. Wolfe | periodical=CNN | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/29/politics/donald-trump-house-votes/index.html}}
 
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====January 2021====
*So, look, all I wanna do, is I wanna find 11,780 votes.
**Spoken to Georgia election officials on January 2, pressuring Secretary of State {{w|Brian Kemp}} to recalculate the [[w:2020 United States presidential election|2020 United States presidential election]] vote in his favor. {{citation |date=2020-01-03 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/audio-trump-berates-ga-secretary-of-state-urges-him-to-find-votes/2021/01/03/aba64f5f-8c3c-490f-af34-618ccea732d7_video.html |title=Audio: Trump berates Ga. secretary of state, urges him to ‘find’ votes |publisher=''{{w|The Washington Post}}''}}
 
* So dead people voted. And I think the number is close to 5,000 people [in Georgia] .. [There] were thousands and thousands of ballots in a box that was not an official or a sealed box.<br>They ran out because of a water-main break. And there was no water main, there was nothing. There was no break.<br>You had out-of-state voters - they voted in Georgia but they were from out of state - of 4,925<br>They're shredding ballots. And you should look at that very carefully. Because that's so illegal.<br>We have not gone through your Dominion [voting machines], so we can't give them blessing. I mean, in other states, we think we found tremendous corruption with Dominion machines...
** {{citation |date=2020-01-03 | author = BBC News Reality Check Team | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55529230 |title=Georgia election: Donald Trump's phone call fact-checked |publisher=BBC News}}
 
*One thing we know is you, [[w:Jeffrey A. Rosen|Rosen]], aren't going to do anything to overturn the election
** "[https://www.npr.org/2021/10/07/1044015379/senate-report-details-trumps-efforts-to-use-doj-to-overturn-election-results Senate report details Trump's efforts to use DOJ to overturn election results]" (January 3, 2021)
 
*Rudy, you did a great job. He's got guts. You know what? He's got guts, unlike a lot of people in the Republican Party. He's got guts. He fights, he fights.<br>..<br>We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.<br>..<br>We’re going walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women.<br>I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to '''peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard'''.<br>we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we’re going to the Capitol and we’re going to try and give…<br>our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help,<br>we’re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need<br>So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.
**[https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-save-america-rally-transcript-january-6 Save America Rally Speech] on 6 January 2021
 
* Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!
**[https://archive.is/jCmfK 11:24am tweet] on 6 January 2021
 
*I am asking for everyone at the [[U.S. Capitol]] to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of [[Law & Order]] – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!
**[https://archive.is/IvpaU 12:13pm tweet] on 6 January 2021
 
*We love you. You are very special.
**In video in tweet (later deleted) aimed at protestors who entered into the United States Capitol. Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-01-06 | author = Eliza Relman, Oma Seddiq, Jake Lahut | url=https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-video-statement-capitol-rioters-we-love-you-very-special-2021-1?r=US&IR=T |title=Trump tells his violent supporters who stormed the Capitol 'you're very special,' but asks them 'to go home' |publisher=Business Insider}}
 
*To all of my wonderful supporters, I know you are disappointed, but I also want you to know that our incredible journey is just beginning
** video (2;28) from [https://archive.is/o4JN6 4:28pm tweet] posted by [[Ivanka Trump]] on 7 January 2020
 
*I’d like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on the United States Capitol. Like all Americans I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem. I immediately deployed the [[w:United States National Guard|National Guard]] and federal [[Law enforcement in the United States|law enforcement]] to secure the building and expel the intruders. America is and must always be a nation of law and order. To demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol: you have defiled the seat of American democracy. To those who engage in the acts of violence and destruction: you do not represent our country. And to those who broke the law: you will pay. We have just been through an intense election and emotions are high. But now, tempers must be cooled and calm restored. We must get on with the business of America.
**post-January 6 speech, (7 January 2021), as quoted in ''Vital Speeches of the Day'', 87(3), p. 53.
 
*To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.
**[https://archive.is/tzc2r 7:44am tweet] on 8 January 2021
 
* His ingenuity, genius, and creativity earned him immense wealth, but his character and philanthropic generosity his great name. Sheldon was also a staunch supporter of our great ally the State of [[Israel]]
** [[President Trump]] in [https://www.npr.org/2021/01/12/693679109/sheldon-adelson-conservative-donor-and-casino-titan-dies-at-87 Sheldon Adelson, Conservative Donor And Casino Titan, Dies At 87] January 12, 2021
 
* We will be back in some form
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2020-01-20 | author = Kevin Liptak | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/20/politics/donald-trump-leaves-white-house/index.html |title=Trump departs Washington a pariah as his era in power ends |publisher=CNN}}
 
====February 2021====
* The [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] can never again be respected or strong with political “leaders” like Sen. [[Mitch McConnell]] at its helm. McConnell’s dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse. The Democrats and [[Chuck Schumer]] play McConnell like a fiddle—they’ve never had it so good—and they want to keep it that way! We know our America First agenda is a winner, not McConnell’s Beltway First agenda or Biden’s America Last.
* It was a complete election disaster in Georgia, and certain other swing states. McConnell did nothing, and will never do what needs to be done in order to secure a fair and just electoral system into the future. He doesn’t have what it takes, never did, and never will.
* Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again. He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country.
** [https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000177-ad2a-d713-a777-edee3b100000 Statement by Donald J. Trump, February 16, 2021]
 
====March 2021====
* Do you miss me yet? Do you miss me?
* Mr. McLaughlin just gave me numbers that nobody's ever heard of before, more popular than anybody. That's all of us. It's all of us.
* We won the election twice. I mean, you know, think about it ...
* But who knows? Who knows? I may even decide to beat them for a third time, OK? For a third time.
* This election was rigged. And the Supreme Court and other courts didn't want to do anything about it.
* And the only people that should be allowed to vote by mail are people that can be proven to be either very sick or out of the country or military where they can't do it. One day.
* And then a Republican president will make a triumphant return to the White House. And I wonder who that will be. I wonder who that will be. Who, who, who will that be, I wonder?
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-01 | author = Chris Cillizza | title = The 50 most ridiculous lines from Donald Trump's CPAC speech | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/01/politics/donald-trump-cpac-speech/index.html |publisher=CNN}}
 
* Karl Rove has been losing for years, except for himself.
* He's a RINO of the highest order, who came to the Oval Office lobbying for 5G for him and a group.
* He's a pompous fool with bad advice and always has an agenda.
* If the Republican Party is going to be successful, they're going to have to stop dealing with the likes of Karl Rove and just let him float away, or retire, like Liddle' Bob Corker, Jeff 'Flakey' Flake, and others like Toomey of Pennsylvania, who will soon follow.
* 31 million people listened to my CPAC speech online, and it had among the largest television audience of the week, even though it was on cable at 4pm on Sunday afternoon.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-05 | author = Chris Cillizza | title = The 17 most outlandish lines from Donald Trump's attack on Karl Rove
| url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/05/politics/donald-trump-karl-rove-2020-election/index.html |publisher=CNN}}
 
* I will not be endorsing, under any circumstances, the failed candidate from the great State of Alaska, [[w:Lisa Murkowski|Lisa Murkowski]]. She represents her state badly and her country even worse. I do not know where other people will be next year, but I know where I will be — in Alaska campaigning against a disloyal and very bad Senator.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-06 | author = Alex Isenstadt | title = Trump vows to campaign against 'disloyal' Murkowski
| url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/06/trump-lisa-murkowski-2022-474028 |publisher=Politico}}
 
* No more money for RINOS. They do nothing but hurt the Republican Party and our great voting base--they will never lead us to Greatness. Send your donation to Save America PAC at DonaldJTrump.com.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-10 | author = Michael Warren, Fredreka Schouten, Eric Bradner | title = Trump's clash with GOP over using his name in fundraising ignites midterm worries | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/10/politics/trump-republican-fundraising-midterms/index.html |publisher=CNN}}
 
* I would recommend it, and I would recommend it to a lot of people that don't want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly. But again, we have our freedoms and we have to live by that and I agree with that also. But it is a great vaccine. It is a safe vaccine and it is something that works.
** On the COVID-19 vaccine. Quoted by {{citation|date=2021-3-16|author=Meredith McGraw|title=Trump encourages Americans to get the Covid vaccine|publisher=Politico|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/16/trump-americans-covid-vaccine-476479}}
 
* <i> About the {{w|2021 storming of the United States Capitol}}:</i> It was zero threat, right from the start, it was zero threat. Look, they went in, they shouldn't have done it. Some of them went in, and they are hugging and kissing the police and the guards, you know, they had great relationships. A lot of the people were waved in, and then they walked in and they walked out.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-26 | author = Veronica Stracqualursi | title = Trump lies about Capitol riot by claiming his supporters were 'hugging and kissing' cops | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/26/politics/donald-trump-january-6-rioters-arrests/index.html |publisher=CNN}}
 
* And China, the same thing, they never treated us that way, right? You saw what happened a few days ago, was terrible, and uh, the border is not good, the border is the worst anybody’s ever seen it, and what you see now, multiply it times 10, Jim — he’s the only one I know who would handle the border tougher than me. We have to, and the tough is…in the most humanitarian way, because that’s what it is. What’s happening to the kids, they’re living in squalor, they are living like nobody has ever seen anybody, there’s never been anything like what’s, and you’re gonna have hundreds, and you have it now, they have the airplane photos, the shocks, and they call ’em shocks, and these things are showing thousands and thousands of people coming up from South America and it’s gonna be, it’s just uh, look, it’s a disaster. It’s a humanitarian disaster from their standpoint, and it’s gonna destroy the country, and frankly, the country can’t afford it because you’re talking about massive, just incredibly massive amounts. Our school systems, our hospital systems, everything.
** Wedding toast, quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-29 | author = Bess Levin | title = Of course Donald Trump crashed a wedding a gave a rambling, incoherent speech about Biden, Iran and China | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-wedding-speech |publisher=Vanity Fair}}
 
* Based on their interviews, I felt it was time to speak up about [[Anthony Fauci|Dr. Fauci]] and Dr. Birx, two self-promoters trying to reinvent history to cover for their bad instincts and faulty recommendations, which I fortunately almost always overturned. They had bad policy decisions that would have left our country open to China and others, closed to reopening our economy, and years away from an approved vaccine — putting millions of lives at risk
* Dr. Birx was a terrible medical advisor, which is why I seldom followed her advice.
* I only kept Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx on because they worked for the U.S. government for so long — they are like a bad habit!
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-29 | author = Benjamin Din | title = Trump lashes out at Fauci and Birx after CNN documentary
| url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/29/trump-fauci-birx-cnn-documentary-478422 |publisher=Politico}}
* Dr. Birx is a proven liar with very little credibility left.
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-03-29 | author = Brett Samuels | title = Trump targets Fauci, Birx in lengthy diatribe
| url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/545472-trump-targets-fauci-birx-in-lengthy-diatribe |publisher=The Hill}}
 
====April 2021====
* Happy Easter to ALL, including the Radical Left CRAZIES who rigged our Presidential Election, and want to destroy our Country!
** Quoted by {{citation |date=2021-04-05 | author = Martin Pengelly | title = Who needs Twitter? Trump wishes happy Easter to 'radical left crazies'
| url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/04/trump-wishes-happy-easter-to-radical-left-crazies |publisher=The Guardian}}
 
* I'll give you a little breaking news, [[w:Pfizer|Pfizer]] is in with the FDA. What the FDA did with [[w:Johnson & Johnson|Johnson and Johnson]] is so stupid
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20210627112356/https://www.pharmamanufacturing.com/industrynews/2021/trump-blasts-fda-for-j-and-j-vax-pause-says-pfizer-in-with-the-agency/ TV interview with Sean Hannity]
 
* Getting out of Afghanistan is a wonderful and positive thing to do. I planned to withdraw on May 1st, and we should keep as close to that schedule as possible.
** [https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-biden-afghanistan-pullout-wonderful-and-positive-thing-to-do-2021-4?r=US&IR=T "Trump says Biden's plan to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan is a 'wonderful and positive thing to do'"], Business Insider, 19 April 2021
 
====May 2021====
*If a thief robs a jewelry store of all of its diamonds (the 2020 Presidential Election), the diamonds must be returned.
**[https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-05.10.21-4 10 May 2021]
 
*The entire Database of [[Maricopa County]] in Arizona has been DELETED! This is illegal and the Arizona State Senate, who is leading the Forensic Audit, is up in arms. Additionally, seals were broken on the boxes that hold the votes, ballots are missing, and worse. Mark Brnovich, the Attorney General of Arizona, will now be forced to look into this unbelievable Election crime.
**[https://www.donaldjtrump.com/desk/desk-4yeh37peju/ 15 May 2021]
 
====June 2021====
*Congratulations to the country of [[Nigeria]], who just banned [[Twitter]] because they banned [[Muhammadu Buhari|their President]]. More COUNTRIES should ban Twitter and Facebook for not allowing free and open speech — all voices should be heard. [[Mark Zuckerberg|Zuckerberg]] kept calling me and coming to the White House for dinner telling me how great I was.
** [https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-more-countries-should-ban-twitter-facebook-zuckerberg-2021-6]
 
*They may allow me back in two years. We got to stop that. We can’t let it happen. So unfair. They are shutting down an entire group of people. Not just me. They are shutting down the voice of a much more powerful and a much larger group.
** about Facebook banning him, in rally speech [https://deadline.com/2021/06/donald-trump-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-1234770087/]
 
====July 2021====
*The American people’s birthright of freedom must prevail against [[Big Tech]] and other forces that seek to destroy it.
**7 July 2021 [https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/07/trump-big-tech-lawsuit-498536 Politico, Trump plans class action suit against Twitter, Facebook]
*The de facto [[censorship]] arm of the US government.
**7 July 2021 [https://www.rt.com/usa/528607-donald-trump-facebook-twitter/ Russia Today]
*Many say I am the greatest star-maker of all time. But some of the stars I produced are actually made of garbage.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20210715183933/https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-07.15.21-06 15 July 2021 on DonaldJTrump.com]
 
====August 2021====
*There is massive and unconditional evidence that the election was shattered with fraud and irregularities at a level that our Country has never seen before. Much of it is already public, and a great deal more is coming out in the very near future. Every time you read a statement that there is “no evidence of election fraud,” about the 2020 election scam, just attribute that statement to a crooked and collusive media (they work closely together with the Radical Left Democrats) that will do anything to hide the real facts of this election fiasco.
**[https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-qvb8wmvsyn0 1 August 2021]
 
*If I were President right now, with COVID raging back, people being shot and killed in record numbers all over our cities, and the Border totally open with criminals and heavily infected COVID people pouring through our Southern Border and into our communities, the Fake News Media would be having an absolute field day.
**[https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-kyatp4nd8q0 2 August 2021]
 
* If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they would have won the Gold Medal instead of the Bronze.
* Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad, and our soccer team certainly has.
* They should replace the wokesters with Patriots and start winning again. The woman with the purple hair played terribly and spends too much time thinking about Radical Left politics and not doing her job!
** Said about the US women's national soccer team after winning a bronze medal in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, as quoted in [https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2021/aug/05/donald-trump-uswnt-usa-soccer-olympics-bronze-megan-rapinoe-tokyo-2020 "‘Woke means you lose’: Donald Trump rails at USWNT after Olympic bronze"], The Guardian, 5 August 2021
 
* I have quietly said for years that Mitch McConnell is the most overrated man in politics— now I don't have to be quiet anymore.
** Quoted in [https://www.newsweek.com/trump-calls-mitch-mcconnell-most-overrated-man-politics-ahead-infrastructure-vote-1617944 "Trump Calls Mitch McConnell 'Most Overrated Man in Politics' Ahead of Infrastructure Vote"], Newsweek, 10 August 2021
 
* I recommend: take the vaccines. I did it. It’s good. Take the vaccines.
** [https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/22/trump-booed-at-alabama-rally-after-telling-supporters-to-get-vaccinated.html "Trump booed at Alabama rally after telling supporters to get vaccinated"], CNBC, 22 August 2021
 
====September 2021====
* If they let you do your job you wouldn’t have crime in New York!
* I’ve been given so much support by the people who do what you do.
* We love the blue. I’ll say it loud. You know, you’re not supposed to say that. We love the blue.
**[https://nypost.com/2021/09/11/trump-makes-surprise-visit-to-new-york-police-and-firefighters/ Trump makes surprise visit to New York police and firefighters on 9/11]
 
* We’re not going to have a country left in three years, I’ll tell you that.
** [https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-predicts-america-end-002940784.html "Donald Trump Predicts America Will End Within 3 Years"], quoted by David Moye, Yahoo News, 15 September 2021
 
* [[w:Anthony Gonzalez (politician)|1]] down, 9 to go!
** "[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/17/trump-celebrates-gonzalezs-exit-1-down-9-go/ Trump celebrates Gonzalez’s exit: ‘1 down, 9 to go!’]" (September 17, 2021)
 
* Everybody will be watching [[Arizona]] tomorrow to see what the highly respected auditors and Arizona State Senate found out regarding the so-called Election!
** "[https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/24/arizona-review-draft-report-tally-biden-won-514088 GOP-led Arizona election review closely matches Biden's winning margin]" (September 23)
 
* They want to go after me because I have, they think, a big mouth. I don't have a big mouth, you know what I have, I have a mouth that tells the truth.
** [https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-has-mouth-tells-truth-while-lying-georgia-rally-2021-9?r=US&IR=T "Trump says he has 'a mouth that tells the truth' while making false statements at Georgia rally"], Insider, 26 September 2021
October 2021
“I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit,” Trump said in the October 2021 deposition, according to a transcript of the proceedings.
 
 
====October 2021====
* Nobody has done more for [[Christianity]] or for [[evangelicals]] — or for [[religion]] itself — than I have.
** Quoted in [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-claims-nobody-has-done-more-religion-itself-him-1635036 "Donald Trump Claims Nobody Has Done More 'for Religion Itself' Than Him"], Newsweek, 2 October 2021
 
* the real insurrection happened on November 3rd, the Presidential Election, not on [[January 6th]]—which was a day of protesting the Fake Election results
** [https://www.npr.org/2021/10/06/1043746455/trump-continues-to-lie-says-real-insurrection-happened-when-he-lost-election Trump continues to lie, says 'real insurrection' happened when he lost election]" (October 6, 2021)
* [[Republican]] [[Senators]], do not [[vote]] for this terrible deal ([[debt]] limit) being pushed by folding [[Mitch McConnell]]. Stand strong for our Country. 
* The [[American]] people are with you!
** In an emailed statement "[https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/575876-trump-urged-gop-senators-to-vote-against-mcconnell-debt-deal Trump urges GOP senators to vote against McConnell debt deal]" (October 7,2021)
 
* If we don't solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020 (which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented), Republicans will not be voting in '22 or '24. It is the single most important thing for Republicans to do.
** According to an MSNBC article and a short video "[https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/democrats-finally-have-reason-celebrate-one-trump-s-threats-n1281494 Democrats finally have reason to celebrate one of Trump's threats]" (October 13, 2021)
 
* It’s so sad when you see that they are approving these windmills — worst form of energy, the most expensive. You talk about carbon emissions, well they are making them. More goes into the air than if you ran something for 30 years.
* I’m not into golden showers.
** [https://news.yahoo.com/trump-touts-putin-relationship-rails-233840649.html "Trump Touts Putin Relationship, Rails About Wind Energy's 'Carbon Emissions' In Speech"], Yahoo News (October 16 2021)
 
* After years of litigation, I was pleased to have had the opportunity to tell my side of this ridiculous story — Just one more example of baseless harassment of your favorite president
** "[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-faces-pile-civil-lawsuits-depositions-begin-n1281612 Trump faces a pile of civil lawsuits as depositions begin]" (October 18, 2021)
 
* Wonderful to see [[Colin Powell]], who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media. Hope that happens to me someday. He was a classic RINO, if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!
** {{cite news|author=Chris Cillizza |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/19/politics/donald-trump-colin-powell-death/index.html |title=Donald Trump (yet again) proves there's no bottom |work=cnn.com|date=October 19, 2021 |accessdate=October 19, 2021}}
 
*We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American president has been silenced
**"[https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/20/trump-announces-social-media-platform-launch-plan-spac-deal.html Trump announces social media platform launch plan, SPAC deal]" (October 20, 2021)
 
*[[Israel]] doesn’t even control [[Congress]] anymore.
**29 October 2021 per https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-president-donald-j-trump-speaks-to-the-post-millennial
 
====November 2021====
*RINOs who supported infrastructure bill should be ashamed of themselves
**on Sky News Australia [[Youtube]] channel '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZG-D0e8T0A video]''' (November 7, 2021)
 
====December 2021====
*He was very early. Like earlier than most. I haven’t spoken to him since. Fuck him,
**10 December 2021 interview with Barak Ravid about [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] per [https://www.timesofisrael.com/fck-him-in-interview-trump-rages-at-netanyahu-over-congratulations-to-biden/ Times of Israel]
* I thought the [[Palestinians]] were impossible, and the [[Israelis]] would do anything to make peace and a deal. I found that not to be true.
** [[Donald Trump]], [https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-i-thought-israelis-would-do-anything-for-peace-but-found-that-not-to-be-true/ Trump: I thought Israelis would do anything for peace, but found that not to be true], ''Times of Israel'' (11 December 2021)
*Bibi did not want to make a deal. Even most recently, when we came up with the maps. Now I don’t know if he didn’t want to make it for political reasons, or for other reasons. I wish he would have said he didn’t want to make a deal, instead of…. Because a lot of people devoted a lot of work. But I don’t think Bibi would have ever made a deal. That’s my opinion. I think the general [Gantz] wanted to make a deal.
**11 December 2021 quoted by [https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-i-thought-israelis-would-do-anything-for-peace-but-found-that-not-to-be-true/ Times of Israel]
 
*There’s people in this country that are Jewish that no longer love Israel.<br>I’ll tell you the Evangelical Christians love Israel more than the Jews in this country.<br>It used to be that Israel had absolute power over Congress and today I think it’s the exact opposite, and I think Obama and Biden did that.<br>And yet in the election, they still get a lot of votes from Jewish people…which tells you that the Jewish people, and I’ve said this for a long time.<br>The Jewish people in the United States either don’t like Israel or don’t care about Israel.<br>I mean, you look at The New York Times, The New York Times hates Israel, hates them, and they’re Jewish people that run The New York Times, I mean the Sulzberger family.
**17 December 2021 per [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/12/donald-trump-anti-semitism-jews-israel Vanity Fair]
 
*I think the origins are so obvious. They came out of the Wuhan lab. And I think if anybody thinks anything differently, they’re just kidding themselves. So, you can ask — China has to pay. They have to do something. '''They have to pay reparations'''. And China doesn’t have the money to pay those reparations. I believe that worldwide — I’m not just talking United States — worldwide, '''$60 trillion of damage''', $60 trillion. China doesn’t have $60 trillion. But they have to do something to make up for what they’ve done. What they’ve done to the world is so horrible. It’s been horrible, all over the world. And it doesn’t stop.
**[https://www.breit9999999bart.com/clips/2021/12/19/trump-china-must-pay-for-covid-origins-they-have-to-pay-reparations/ 19 December 2021]
 
* <i> About developing vaccines against Covid-19: </i> Look, we did something that was historic, we saved tens of millions of lives worldwide. We, together, all of us, not me.
** [https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/20/politics/donald-trump-booster-shot-boos/index.html "Trump met with boos after revealing he received Covid-19 booster"], CNN, 21 December 2021
 
* I came up with a vaccine, with three vaccines.
** [https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/587079-trump-pushes-back-on-candace-owens-people-arent-dying "Trump pushes back on Candace Owens: 'People aren't dying when they take the vaccine'"], The Hill, 23 December 2021
 
===2022===
====January 2022====
* If you take [[COVID-19 vaccine|the vaccine]], you're protected. Look, the results of the vaccine are very good, and if you do get it, it's a very minor form. People aren't dying when they take the vaccine.
** 6 January 2022, interviewed by [[Candace Owens]], discussing the [[COVID-19 vaccine]]; reported in Bruce Y. Lee, "[https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/12/24/trump-tells-candace-owens-that-covid-19-vaccines-work-one-of-the-greatest-achievements-of-mankind/ Trump Tells Candace Owens That Covid-19 Vaccines Work: 'One Of The Greatest Achievements Of Mankind']", [[Forbes]] (Jan 6, 2022)
 
*I ran twice and we won twice.<br>This crowd is a massive symbol of what took place, because people are hungry for the truth. They want their country back.
**15 January 2022 [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/01/trump-arizona-rally-2024-election/621244/ via Elaine Godfrey of The Atlantic]
 
*If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from January sixth fairly. We will treat them fairly.<br>And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly.
**30 January 2022 [https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/hope-go-jail-get-book-thrown-deserve-lindsey-graham-susan-collins-buck-trump-vow-persecute-jan-6ers/ reported by TGP]
 
*Actually, what they are saying, is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power. '''He could have overturned the election!'''
**31 January 2022, at a rally in Conroe Texas, as quoted in “[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/31/donald-trump-mike-pence-overturn-election Quiet part loud: Trump says Pence ‘could have overturned the election’]”, by Martin Pengelly, for ''{{w|The Guardian}}''.
 
====February 2022====
*I was right and everyone knows it. If there is fraud or large scale irregularities, it would have been appropriate to send those votes back to the legislatures to figure it out.
**4 February 2022 per 7 February 2022 report by Reuters [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pence-says-trump-was-wrong-that-he-could-have-overturned-2020-election-result-2022-02-04/ Pence says Trump was wrong that he could have overturned 2020 election] by Alexandra Ulmer
 
* I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, 'This is genius.' [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]] declares a big portion of the Ukraine, of [[Ukraine]], Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful. So Putin is now saying, 'It's independent,' a large section of Ukraine. I said, 'How smart is that?' And he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper. That's the strongest peace force. We could use that on our southern border. That's the strongest peace force I've ever seen. ... Here's a guy who's very savvy. ... I know him very well. Very, very well.
** Said about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in an interview at The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, as quoted in [https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/23/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-joe-biden/index.html "Trump sides with Putin as Biden tries to stop a war"], CNN, 23 February 2022.
 
* They say, 'Trump said Putin's smart.' I mean, he's taking over a country for two dollars' worth of [[Sanction|sanctions]]. I'd say that's pretty smart. He's taking over a country — really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and just walking right in.
** [https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/24/politics/donald-trump-praises-putin/index.html "Why Donald Trump can't stop praising Vladimir Putin"], CNN, 24 February 2022
 
====March 2022====
*They laid down the welcome mat and gave Russia the opening, now Putin may be getting everything he wanted, with Ukraine and the rest of the World suffering the consequences. It’s terrible, but this is what you get with Biden, the Democrats, and RINO warmongers! [https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-cxhdzqwssb1663 03/01/22 ]
* The vote counter is often more important than the candidate.
** [https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-gop-needs-tougher-211714688.html "Trump says the GOP needs to get 'tougher' at the ballot box: 'The vote counter is often more important than the candidate'"], yahoo news, 6 March 2022
*Whatever happened to free speech in our Country? Incredibly, but not surprisingly, the Big Tech lunatics have taken down my interview with the very popular NELK Boys so that nobody can watch it or in any way listen to it....In Russia, the people are not allowed to know that they’re fighting a war with Ukraine, that’s where our media is going, and that’s where our Country is going because it quickly follows—just study history.We need freedom of speech again, we don’t have it and it’s getting worse every day!
**[https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-tayryvrzzk1694 Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America 03/11/22]
*She owes me nearly $300,000, Now all I have to do is wait for all of the money she owes me.
**[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/mar/21/donald-trump-crows-liberal-9th-circuit-court-seals/ Trump crows as liberal 9th Circuit seals victory over Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti]
*I listen to him constantly using the n-word, that’s the n-word, and he’s constantly using it, the nuclear word. They didn’t attack any other countries under us. I’m the only one where that didn’t happen. And with Bush, they took Georgia, and they took Crimea with Biden and Obama. And now he said ‘to hell with it. Let’s take the whole thing'.
**[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-putin-nuclear-n-word-b2040702.html Trump says Putin keeps using the ‘n-word’ meaning ‘nuclear’ as he claims Russian leader is ‘different’ man to one he dealt with]
*Single most dangerous time for our country in history... yet you have people like John Kerry worrying about the climate! The climate! Oh, I heard that the other day. Here we are, [Russian President Vladimir Putin is] threatening us [and] he’s worried about the ocean will rise one-hundredth of one percent over the next 300 fucking’ years.
**[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/28/two-stark-reminders-about-political-challenge-tackling-climate-change/ Two stark reminders about the political challenge of tackling climate change]
*The Left has become so extreme that we now have a justice being nominated to the Supreme Court who testified under oath that she could not say what a woman is, And a party that's unwilling to admit that men and women are biologically different in defiance of all scientific and human history, is a party that should not be anywhere near the levers of power in the United States of America.
**[https://www.washingtonexam9999999iner.com/watch-single-most-dangerous-time-trump-blasts-climate-change-crt-and-kbj ‘Single most dangerous time’: Trump blasts climate change, CRT, and KBJ]
====April 2022====
*Happy Easter to all including the Radical Left Maniacs who are trying everything to destroy our country May they not succeed, but let them, nevertheless, be happy, healthy, wealthy and well!
**[https://news.yahoo.com/biden-trump-release-very-different-202600019.html Yahoo!]
*He went out of his way to deceptively edit an interview and got caught. That is a big story, isn’t it?
**[https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-hm9chvnk6z0 Donald Trump], [https://www.mediaite.com/tv/listen-trump-releases-audio-to-ending-of-doctored-interview-with-fool-piers-morgan/ mediaite]
 
* But when I didn’t win the election ..
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DrQC-oNAeQ Marjorie Taylor Greene & Matt Gaetz NOT HAPPY with Jimmy & Trump FINALLY Admits Defeat] (Apr 11, 2022) (video)
 
* Which would you rather be, a dumb person or a dictator? Perhaps a dictator would be better. I don't want to be a dumb person.
** [https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rather-be-a-dictator-than-a-dumb-person-video-2022-4?r=US&IR=T Trump says he'd rather be 'a dictator' than 'a dumb person' after bragging about the cognitive test he took in 2018], Business Insider, 22 April 2022
April 2022
Dictor: Okay. And you said that, ‘If you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, just knock the crap out of them would you.’ That was your statement?
 
Trump: Oh, yeah. It was very dangerous.
 
Dictor: What was very dangerous?
 
Trump: We were threatened.
 
Dictor: With what?
 
Trump: They were going to throw fruit. We were threatened. We had a threat.
 
Dictor: How did you become aware that there was a threat that people were going to throw fruit?
 
Trump: We were told. I thought Secret Service was involved in that, actually. And you get hit with fruit, it’s – no – it’s very violent stuff. We were on alert for that.Trump attorney Jeffrey Goldman: A tomato is a fruit after all, I guess. … It has seeds.
 
Trump: It’s worse than a tomato, it’s other things also. But tomato, when they start doing that stuff, it’s very dangerous. There was an alert out that day.
 
Dictor: Who were you speaking to when you said …
 
Trump: The audience.
 
Dictor: So you were speaking to the audience when you said if they saw someone getting ready to throw a tomato, just knock the crap out of them, would you?
 
Trump: That was to the audience. It was said sort of in jest. Buy maybe, you know, a little truth to it. It’s very dangerous stuff. You can get killed with those things. … I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit. And some fruit is a lot worse than – tomatoes are bad by the way. But it’s very dangerous … they were going to hit – they were going to hit very hard.
 
“So I got a little notice, in case you’re seeing these security guys — we have wonderful security guys,” Trump said at the Iowa rally. “They said, ‘Mr. Trump, there may be somebody with tomatoes in the audience.’ So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. Okay?”
 
 
 
====May 2022====
*With rampant and record setting crime, a 42.8% increase over last year was just announced, and every other unimaginable problem, no wonder everyone is leaving the New York State, including businesses left and right.
**[https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-sarvcupgsh1991 Save America]
 
* I am not currently in possession of any Trump Organization-issued phones, computers or similar devices.
:I believe the last phone or device I was issued by the Trump Organization was a cellphone in 2015. I no longer have the cellphone in my possession and I am not aware of its current location.
:Since January 1, 2010, I previously owned two flip phones and a [[w:Samsung|Samsung]] mobile phone. I do not have the two flips [sic] phones in my possession and I do not know their current whereabouts.”
:[Samsung] it was taken from me at some point while I was president. I do not have the Samsung in my possession and I do not know its current whereabouts.
:* '''[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/11/trump-fine-contempt-new-york-letitia-james Trump must pay $110,000 fine to purge contempt, judge says]''' (Wed 11 May 2022 18.53 BST)
 
*[[w:Kathy Barnette | Kathy Barnette]] will never be able to win the general election against the radical left democrats. She has many things in her past which have not been properly explained or vetted, but if she is able to do so, she will have a wonderful future in the Republican Party — and I will be behind her all the way
** [[Trump]] according to [https://www.smerconish.com/exclusive-content/pennsylvania-my-primary-concern Pennsylvania: My Primary Concern] (May 14)
 
=====NRA convention speech (May 27, 2022)=====
* The existence of evil in our world is not a reason to disarm law-abiding citizens. The existence of evil is one of the very best reasons to arm law-abiding citizens.
* Every time a disturbed or demented person commits a hideous crime there is always a grotesque effort by some in our society to advance their own extreme political agenda.
** Speech at the NRA convention, Houston (May 27, 2022), as cited in [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/28/school-shooting-strengthens-case-for-guns-donald-trump-tells-nra "School shooting strengthens case for guns, Donald Trump tells NRA"] ''The Guardian'' (May 28, 2022)
 
* We need a top-to-bottom security overhaul of schools [...] Every building should have a single entry point. No one should ever be able to get near a classroom until they have been checked, scanned and screened ... Above all, from this day forward, every school in America should have an armed police officer or an armed resources officer on duty at all times. [...] Clearly, we need to make it far easier to confine the violent and mentally deranged into mental institutions.
** Speech at the NRA convention, Houston (May 27, 2022), as cited in [https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/after-horror-failure-of-uvalde-massacre-business-as-usual-at-nra-meeting-in-houston-20220528-p5ap7y.html "After horror, failure of Uvalde massacre, business as usual at NRA meeting in Houston"] ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (May 28, 2022)
 
==== July 2022 ====
* Warmongering and despicable human being [[Liz Cheney]], who is hated by the great people of Wyoming (down 35!), keeps saying, over and over again, that HER Fake Unselect Committee may recommend CRIMINAL CHARGES against a President of the United States who got more votes than any sitting President in history,
** Said about Republican Congress Member Liz Cheney after she mentioned the possibility of raising criminal charges against Trump for his role in connection with the January 6 attack on the Congress of the United States, quoted in [https://nypost.com/2022/07/04/trump-rips-liz-cheney-after-she-suggests-jan-6-charges/ "Trump rips ‘despicable’ Liz Cheney after she suggests Jan. 6 charges for ex-president"], New York Post, 4 July 2022
 
* I feel very confident that, if I decide to run, I’ll win.
* In my own mind, I’ve already made that decision, so nothing factors in anymore. In my own mind, I’ve already made that decision.
* I made America great again, and I may have to do it again.
** [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-2024-decision.html "Donald Trump on 2024: ‘I’ve Already Made That Decision’ The only question left in the former president’s mind is when he’ll announce"], Intelligencer, 14 July 2022
 
==== September 2022 ====
* J.D. is kissing my ass he wants my support so bad.
** Said about [[w:J. D. Vance|James David Vance]], Republican Senate candidate for Ohio, quoted in [https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/19/politics/donald-trump-jd-vance-ohio-rally/index.html "Donald Trump humiliated J.D. Vance for fun"], CNN, 20 September 2022
 
* If you're the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it's declassified, even by thinking about it, because you're sending it to Mar-a-Lago or to wherever you're sending it. And there doesn't have to be a process. There can be a process, but it doesn't have to be.
** [https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/politics/2022/09/22/trump--presidents-can-declassify-files-by--thinking-about-it- "Trump: Presidents can declassify files by 'thinking about it'"], Bay News 9, 22 September 2022
 
==== October 2022 ====
* They actually taunted him, if you really look at it. Our country, and our so-called leadership, taunted Putin. I said, you know, they're almost forcing him to go in with what they're saying. The rhetoric was so dumb.
** [https://www.newsweek.com/trump-blames-us-almost-forcing-putin-invade-ukraine-1750145/ Trump Blames U.S. for 'Almost Forcing' Putin to Invade Ukraine], Newsweek, 8 October 2022
 
==== November 2022 ====
* We're winning big, big, big in the [[Republican Party]] for the nomination like nobody's ever seen before
:There it is, Trump at 71 [percent]. [[Ron DeSanctimonious]] at 10 percent. [[Mike Pence]] at 7 — oh, Mike Pence doing better than I thought​.
:* [https://nypost.com/2022/11/06/trump-mocks-desantis-as-ron-desanctimonious/ Pompeo jumps to defend DeSantis after Trump's 'Ron DeSanctimonious' comments] (By Mark Moore November 6, 2022 1:41pm Updated)
 
*The Absentee Ballot situation in Detroit is REALLY BAD.<br>People are showing up to Vote only to be told 'sorry, you have already voted.'<br>This is happening in large numbers, elsewhere as well.<br>Protest, Protest, Protest!
**8 November 2022 [https://truthsocial.com/embed/109309832870332871 post on TruthSocia] later [https://twitter.com/JocelynBenson/status/1590079320302968832 quoted via screenshot in tweet] by [[Jocelyn Benson]] which was [https://www.yahoo.com/now/trump-amplifies-nonsense-claims-voter-212425641.html quoted by Yahoo News]
 
* Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit. And if they lose, I should not be blamed at all, OK, but it’ll probably be just the opposite.
:* [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/us/politics/trump-endorsements-midterms-gop.html Trump Hoped for a Celebration but Did Not Have Much to Cheer] (By By Michael C. Bender and Maggie Haberman November 9, 2022, 2:33 a.m. ET)
 
* [[Ron DeSantis|Ron DeSanctimonious]] is playing games! The Fake News asks him if he's going to run if President Trump runs, and he says, 'I'm only focused on the Governor's race, I'm not looking into the future.' Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that's really not the right answer.
** Adam Carlson, Jay O'Brien, and Katherine Faulders, [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-takes-aim-ron-desantis-suggesting-2024-rival/story?id=93084111 Trump takes aim at Ron DeSantis, suggesting he's a 2024 rival], ''ABC News'' (November 10, 2022).
 
*He shows up with 3 people, two of which I didn’t know, the other a political person who I haven’t seen in years,” the former president wrote on Truth Social. “Fake News went CRAZY!”
**29 November 2022 on Truth Social (per [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-kanye-west-nick-fuentes-mar-a-lago-dinner-1234638552/ this article] by Charisma Madarang of Rolling Stone) after [[Kanye West]] showed up for dinner with Boeing employee Jamal and [[Nick Fuentes]] (the two unknowns) and [[Karen Giorno]] (an aide from Trump's 2016 campaign) in a meeting arranged by [[Milo Yiannopoulos]] (who did not attend) via Karen
 
====December 2022====
* People have been treated unconstitutionally in my opinion and very, very unfairly, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it.
** Comments made concerning rioters involved in the [[2021 United States Capitol attack]] during a fund raising speech cited in [https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/02/politics/donald-trump-january-6-rioters-support/index.html "Trump expresses support for Capitol rioters as he continues to embrace extremist groups"] ''CNN Politics'' (December 2, 2022)
 
* Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.
** cited in [https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/03/politics/trump-constitution-truth-social/index.html "Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post"] ''CNN Politics'' (December 4, 2022)
 
* Merry Christmas to EVERYONE, including the Radical Left Marxists that are trying to destroy our Country, the Federal Bureau of Investigation that is illegally coercing & paying Social and LameStream Media to push for a mentally disabled Democrat over the Brilliant, Clairvoyant, and USA LOVING Donald J. Trump, and, of course, the Department of Injustice, which appointed a Special "Prosecutor", who, together with his wife and family, HATES "Trump" more than any other person on Earth.
* I had almost nothing to do with January 6th.
** [https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trumps-merry-christmas-message-132006918.html "Donald Trump's 'Merry Christmas' Message Is A Grievance-Filled Lump Of Coal"], Yahoo News, 25 December 2022
 
===2023===
====January 2023====
*So an out-of-control wild man kills beautiful Ashli Babbitt, a true Patriot, who was the only one killed on January 6th.<br>Her mother goes to protest her death and memory, and they arrest her mother.<br>Something has to be done about these [[Communism|Communists]] and [[Marxism|Marxists]] that are taking over and destroying our Country.<br>Pray for Ashli, and her wonderful, brave mother!
**8 January 2023 [https://gab.com/realdonaldtrump/posts/109655572118634418 gab]
 
*The [[left-wing]] [[gender]] [[insanity]] being pushed on our children is an act of child abuse—very simple.
**31 January 2023 [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-attacks-transgender-rights-video-1234671967/ per Rolling Stone]
 
====February 2023====
* Rihanna gave, without question, the single worst Halftime Show in Super Bowl history—This after insulting far more than half of our Nation, which is already in serious DECLINE, with her foul and insulting language. Also, so much for her ‘Stylist!’
** [https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/02/donald-trump-rihanna-super-bowl-halftime-performance-epic-fail-truth-social "Donald Trump Calls Rihanna's Super Bowl Halftime Performance an 'Epic Fail'"], Vanity Fair, 13 February 2023
 
====March 2023====
=====CPAC keynote speech (March 4, 2023)=====
<small>CPAC keynote address, March 4, 2023, reported in {{cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/five-key-moments-donald-trump-cpac-speech-1785586 |title=Five Key Moments from Donald Trump's Crucial CPAC Speech|first1=Khaleda|last1=Rahman|publisher=Newsweek|date=March 5, 2023}}</small>
 
* I'm the only candidate who can make this promise: I will prevent, and very easily, World War III.
 
* We are never going back to a party that wants to give unlimited money to fight foreign endless wars but demands we cut veteran benefits and retirement benefits at home.
 
* We’re not going back to people that want to destroy our great Social Security system – even some in our own party; I wonder who that might be – who want to raise the minimum age of Social Security to 70, 75 or even 80 in some cases, and who are out to cut Medicare to a level that will be unrecognizable
 
* In 2016, I declared: I am your voice. Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution.
 
* I will totally obliterate the deep state. I will fire the unelected bureaucrats and shadow forces who have weaponized our justice system like it has never been weaponized before. And I will put the people back in charge of this country again.
 
*This is the final battle – they know it, I know it, you know it, everybody knows it. Either they win, or we win. And I promise you this: If you put me back in the White House, their reign will be over, and America will be a free nation once again.
 
====April 2023====
=====NRA convention speech (April 14, 2023)=====
* Our country has been chock full of guns for centuries, and there was no talk of [[w:School shooting|massacres of schoolchildren]] until around the year 2000. That's what it really started. They started talking about it. '''This is not a gun problem.''' This is a mental health problem. This is a social problem. This is a cultural problem. This is a spiritual problem.
* I will ask Congress to repeal totally ineffective legislation that makes it harder to protect our schools and easier for criminals to face absolutely no opposition when they go in. I will also create a new tax credit to reimburse any teacher for the full costs of a concealed carry firearm and training from highly qualified experts. Who's better? Who's better? '''If even 5% of teachers, people that are skilled with arms, we want that. 5% were voluntarily armed and trained to stop active shooters. We would achieve effective deterrence and the problem would cease to exist.'''
** From a [[National Rifle Association|NRA]] convention speech in Indianapolis (April 14, 2023), cited in [https://newsroom.ap.org/editorial-photos-videos/detail?itemid=97388003ab4443938dba616244ea0117 "Trump calls for arming teachers at NRA convention"] ''AP Newsroom'' (April 15, 2023)
 
* [T]he only way to stop these wicked actions is to '''ensure that any sicko who would shoot up a school knows that within seconds, not minutes, they will face certain death.'''
** Speech at the NRA convention, Indianapolis (April 14, 2023), cited in [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/14/trump-pence-nra-2024/ "Trump, in legal peril, draws cheers at NRA convention; Pence draws boos"] ''The Washington Post'' (April 14, 2023)
 
==== June 2023 ====
[[File:"TOP SECRET SCI" (Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information) cover sheets - from, Classified intelligence material found during search of Mar-a-Lago (cropped).jpg|thumb|I AM AN [[Innocence|INNOCENT]] MAN!]]
 
* I have been [[Federal prosecution of Donald Trump|summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse]] in [[Miami]] on Tuesday, at 3 PM. I never thought it [[possible]] that such a thing could happen to a former [[President of the United States]], who received far more [[votes]] than any sitting President in the History of our Country, and is currently leading, by far, all Candidates, both [[Democrat]] and [[Republican]], in Polls of the [[2024 United States presidential election|2024 Presidential Election]]. I AM AN [[Innocence|INNOCENT]] MAN!
** Web posting, reported in [https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/06/08/trump-told-to-appear-in-miami-after-indictment-by-federal-grand-jury-abc-reporting/ "Trump told to appear in Miami after indictment by federal grand jury, ABC reporting" in ''WPLG Local 10'' (8 June 2023)]
 
*'''This is the final battle'''. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, and we will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will rout the fake news media, and we will defeat crooked Joe Biden. We will liberate America from these villains once and for all.
**[https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/trump-lists-all-the-villains-he-plans-to-destroy-in-a-second-term Trump told the audience at the Oakland County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner]
 
*For three years, Biden and his radical left allies have waged war on American auto workers in his ridiculous crusade to force everyone into electric cars, ridiculous regulations kill more than half of US auto jobs and decimate the suppliers that they decimated already, decimate the suppliers and it’s going to decimate your jobs.
**[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/26/donald-trump-accuses-joe-biden-environmental-extremism/ Telegraph] , [https://www.candgnews.com/news/trump-headlines-oakland-county-republican-party-lincoln-day-dinner-2796 Trump headlines Oakland County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner]
 
====July 2023====
*“Is it Crooked Joe and his wonderful son, Hunter? Release the findings, release the tapes. We can’t have a crackhead in charge of our Nuclear Arsenal!!
**[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-hunter-biden-cocaine-justice-department-b2373556.html]
*… He’s totally compromised...I don’t like doing the same word for two people. We’re using the word crooked for Joe Biden because Joe Biden is the most crooked president in the history.
**[https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/us-news/trump-says-he-was-very-kind-to-biden-then-tells-us-president-gloves-are-off-articleshow.html republicworld]
*We have potential for a war outside of Ukraine - Russia. We should have kept Bagram because Bagram is one of the largest military bases in the world cost us billions of dollars to build forget about Afghanistan, it's one hour away from where China is building their nuclear weapons.
**[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct2Vl-NO6Og] [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OL8NDU16Ex8] [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZvpAqhMwdg]
*If China takes Taiwan they will turn the world off potentially.
**[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct2Vl-NO6Og] [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OL8NDU16Ex8] [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZvpAqhMwdg]
*Millions of illegal aliens have stormed across our borders. It is an invasion, like a military invasion. Our rights and liberties are being torn to shreds,Your country is being turned into a third-world hellhole, run by censors, perverts, criminals, and thugs.”
**[https://nationalpost.com/news/world/trump-u-s-is-being-turned-into-a-third-world-hellhole-run-by-perverts-and-thugs criminals and perverts]
 
*America is tired of being ruled by radical bureaucrats in Washington the Bidens, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Radical Left Democrats, the Marxists – guys like Paul Ryan and Karl Rove. Their reign will be over, and it will be over quickly, and America will be a free nation once again.
**speech [https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-says-hes-the-only-candidate-that-cant-be-owned-or-controlled/]
* Think of this. We give them everything, including military protection and trade, and now we have to pay them to go there. As President I will not allow this, will end very quickly.
**“U.S. CITIZENS WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR A VISA TO TRAVEL TO EUROPE STARTING IN 2024.” [https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110776705512999901]
*Gloves are off.Under crooked Joe Biden. I never called him that. I took the name away from Hillary Clinton. We call her beautiful Hillary now.Now it's crooked Joe, because it's a much more appropriate name right now for this man who's just destroying our country.
**rally [https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/donald-trump-july-4-south-carolina/2023/07/01/id/1125653/]
*As part of my plan to obtain total independence from China, we will phase in tariffs and import restrictions to bring back production of all essential medicines to the United States of America where they belong. I signed an executive order to begin this process in 2020 but Biden has shamefully failed to follow through. He wants it ended. He wants to take care of China.
*[https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-promises-to-return-production-of-cancer-drugs-essential-medicines-to-u-s/]
 
*They don’t go after the people who cheated in the election, they only go after the people who report on, or question the cheating if you don't have strong borders you don't have a country, right now we don't have a country.
**[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110781850689911246]
 
*Trumpism or America first is very simple low taxes and regulations , the most powerful military , tariffs on countries taking advantage, protection of section amendment , great healthcare , low energy prices, parental power on school boards, life , strong borders.
**[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110781828901024566]
 
*I expect nothing from the meeting with my lawyers and the lunatics in the DOJ regarding January 6th. They just want to interfere with the Presidential Election on 2024. It is their new form of cheating, but we will win !!! How can deranged Jack Smith bring a case on January 6th., as ridiculous as it is anyway, when I have already won such a case, and been fully acquitted, in the U.S. Senate? In other words, I was Impeached on this, and won!!!
**[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110793264554684917] [https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110793284091097891]
 
====August 2023====
*These monsters, all controlled and coordinated by the DOJ and Radical Left Lunatics, are Criminalizing Political Speech, a total SHUTDOWN OF DEMOCRACY!
**Truth Social Post 6:28 PM on August 15, 2023.[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110895990420845351]
 
*CROOKED JOE BIDEN IS TOTALLY CONTROLLED BY CHINA, UKRAINE, & VARIOUS OTHER COUNTRIES. THEY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM - ALL OF HIS MISDEEDS. HE IS A COMPROMISED PRESIDENT WHO IS LEADING OUR COUNTRY TO HELL. HE IS A MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE!
**Truth Social Post 6:20 PM on August 15, 2023.[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110895877441671196]
 
*I believe we have a compromised president. He was bribed, and now he’s being blackmailed. He’s a Manchurian Candidate. That’s why Crooked Joe is letting other countries walk all over the United States.
**Truth Social Post on August 15, 2023.[https://links.truthsocial.com/link/110895072887935769]
 
*IMPOSSIBLE to get a fair trial in Washington, D.C., which is over 95% anti-Trump, & for which I have called for a Federal TAKEOVER in order to bring our Capital back to Greatness. It is now a high crime embarrassment to our Nation and, indeed, the World
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110823476578708544
*I AM NOW GOING TO WASHINGTON, D.C., TO BE ARRESTED FOR HAVING CHALLENGED A CORRUPT, RIGGED, & STOLEN ELECTION. IT IS A GREAT HONOR, BECAUSE I AM BEING ARRESTED FOR YOU. Biden and his family steal Millions and Millions of Dollars, including BRIBES from foreign countries, and I’m headed to D.C. to be ARRESTED for protesting a CROOKED ELECTION. UNFAIR VENUE, UNFAIR JUDGE. We are a Nation in Decline.
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110826519469646840 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110826840688757163
*CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT I HAD TO FLY TO A FILTHY, DIRTY, FALLING APART, & VERY UNSAFE WASHINGTON, D.C., TODAY, & THAT I WAS THEN ARRESTED BY MY POLITICAL OPPONENT, WHO IS LOSING BADLY TO ME IN THE POLLS, CROOKED JOE BIDEN, IT WAS A VERY GOOD DAY!
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110828062805817649
*A very sad day for America, and it was also very sad driving through Washington, D.C., and seeing the filth and decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and the graffiti. This is not the place that I left. It’s a very sad thing to see it.
**https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-tells-reporters-if-you-cant-beat-him-you-persecute-him-or-you-prosecute-him/
*They’re trying to make it illegal to question the results of a bad election…But only a party that cheats in elections would try to make it illegal, on Election Day 2024, we’re going to evict Crooked Joe Biden from the White House…We’re going to expel the criminals and thugs from the halls of power in Washington, D.C.
**[https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-draws-biggest-crowd-ever-to-alabama-gop-dinner/ Alabama]
 
*We are NOT a free nation, We don’t have a free press. We have a corrupt press.
*[https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-the-tables-must-turn-and-we-will-quickly-destroy-the-deep-state/ Alabama]
*OUR HIGHLY PARTISAN, AND VERY CORRUPT, DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE, COULD HAVE BROUGHT THIS BIDIN “OPPONENT” CASE YEARS AGO, BUT CHOSE TO WAIT AND BRING IT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY ELECTION CAMPAIGN. NO WAY!!! I HOPE YOU ARE WATCHING AMERICA. OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED.
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110842856814664717
*This will be the single biggest and most important election in the history of our country - maybe in the history of the WORLD.
**https://truthsocial.com/@RSBN/posts/110840001623943794
 
*The “shocking and totally unexpected” loss by the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to the our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden. Many of our players were openly hostile to America - No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close. WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!
*https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110845290114601452
 
*WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE IS DOING TO ME IS THE SAME THING DONE BY THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD, BUT IT WILL NOT WORK.
**https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-explains-why-he-should-not-have-a-protective-order-placed-on-him-by-deranged-jack-smith/
 
*Let’s see! My political Opponent, Crooked Joe Biden, tells Merrick Garland and the DOJ to indict and arrest me on bogus charges and accusations, trying desperately to steal the Election. But that wasn’t enough! He now wants Thug Prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith, to file for a Court Order taking away my first amendment rights, SPEECH. So, based on yet another Radical Left Hoax, I’ll be the only “Politician” in American history not allowed to SPEAK. THE NEVER ENDING WITCH HUNT CONTINUES.
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110852063479466833
 
*They just found a letter from Crooked Joe Biden directly to Keven Archer. Oh well, so much for “Joe” not knowing anything about all of the money he extorted. At some point the LameStream Media will have to cover this story, perhaps the biggest scandal in U.S. history. When they do, our Country will start to heal!
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110850107581995665
 
*HOW CAN MY CORRUPT POLITICAL OPPONENT PUT ME ON TRIAL(S) DURING A CAMPAIGN THAT I AM WINNING (BY A LOT!), BUT FORCING ME TO SPEND TIME AND MONEY AWAY FROM THE “CAMPAIGN TRAIL” IN ORDER TO FIGHT BOGUS ACCUSATIONS & CHARGES? IS THIS GOING TO BE THE FUTURE OF ELECTIONS IN AMERICA? CAN A PRESIDENT ORDER HIS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO INDICT AN OPPONENT JUST PRIOR TO AN ELECTION?
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110849582956879248
 
*Just found out that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ secretly attacked my Twitter account, making it a point not to let me know about this major “hit” on my civil rights. My Political Opponent is going CRAZY trying to infringe on my Campaign for President. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Does the First Amendment still exist? Did Deranged Jack Smith tell the Unselects to DESTROY & DELETE all evidence?
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110860965885418709
 
*It’s not like the State or Country is coming down on me. It’s a dishonest politician and his gang of Thugs breaking the law in order to get re-elected.
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110859441854770499
 
*So now that I have full Subpoena Power because of the Freedom of Speech Sham Indictment by Crooked Joe Biden, Deranged Jack Smith, and the DOJ, it has just been reported that the Unselect January 6th Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs has illegally destroyed their Records and Documents. This is unthinkable, and the Fake Political Indictment against me must be immediately withdrawn. The system is Rigged & Corrupt, very much like the Presidential Election of 2020. We are a Nation in Decline.
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110857162338915853
*Thousands of veterans were put on secret medial wait lists and many of them were left to die, All of that changed when WE arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
**https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-lays-out-exemplary-agenda-that-will-restore-hope-and-care-to-americas-veterans/
 
*Whenever more Biden corruption is exposed his henchmen charge me with a crime.
**https://truthsocial.com/@RSBN/posts/110855681234356104
*I think that Crooked Joe Biden is not only dumb and incompetent, I believe he has gone MAD, a stark raving Lunatic, with his HORRIBLE AND COUNTRY THREATENING ENVIRONMENTAL, OPEN BORDERS, & DOJ/FBI WEAPONIZATION POLICIES. HE IS A MENTAL CATASTROPHE THAT IS LEADING OUR COUNTRY TO HELL!What Crooked Joe Biden, who can’t string two sentences together, has done to our once great Country through his Open Borders CATASTROPHE, may go down as the greatest and most damaging mistake ever made in USA HISTORY. It is not even believable that such incompetence and stupidity could have been allowed to happen. OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED BY A MAN WITH THE MIND, IDEAS, AND I.Q. OF A FIRST GRADER. THIS INVASION OF OUR COUNTRY MUST STOP IMMEDIATELY. IT CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE!
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110865224814637476 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110865185229848140
 
 
*The Fake Indictments against me didn’t come down from heaven, they came from the most corrupt President in the history of the United States, Crooked Joe Biden, in order to Rig & Steal another Election.
**[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110867274500411944]
 
*Why is “Phoney” (Like in PERFECT “PHONE” CALL, get it?) Fani Willis, the severely underperforming D.A. of Fulton County who is being accused of having an “affair” with a Gang Member of a group that she is prosecuting, leaking my name in regard to a Grand Jury pertaining to Election Fraud & Irregularities that I say took place in Georgia. I made a PERFECT PHONE CALL OF PROTEST. What does Phoney Fani have to do with me? She should instead focus on the record number of murders in Atlanta!
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/110882230702522121
 
*The only Election Interference that took place in Fulton County, Georgia, was done by those that Rigged and Stole the Election, not by me, who simply complained that the Election was Rigged and Stolen. We have Massive and Conclusive Proof, if the Grand Jury would like to see it. Unfortunately, the publicity seeking D.A. isn’t interested in Justice, or this evidence. Also, as in Manhattan, the corrupt DOJ is pushing hard trying to keep Biden in Office. The whole system is dishonest and broken!
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/110882321735123573
 
*To say no comment is oftentimes fine, but to be smiling when you say it, especially again such a tragedy as this, is absolutely horrible and unacceptable, Our government was not prepared. And very importantly, the aftermath is going very poorly with the governor of the island wanting to do nothing but blame it on global warming, and other things that just happen to pop into his head.
**https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4152554-trump-bidens-response-to-maui-fires-disgraceful/
 
 
*“Hey, I’m running against a guy, I’m going to Indict him 3 or 4 times to keep him busy.” Does anyone think that Crooked Joe Biden would have said something like this???
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110914172490735501
 
*David Rivkin, a highly respected Constitutional law scholar, just clearly stated that I have “Constitutionally-based immunity” and “absolute immunity!
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110918895000463495
 
*Why should Crooked Joe Biden be able to force me into the time and expense of trials, especially before the Election, on bogus claims pushed by his chief political supporter, The Department of Injustice? What a horrible precedent this sets for future Presidential campaigns. Crooked Joe Biden’s only campaign strategy is Indicting me, going on extended vacations, and Sleep, Sleep, Sleep!!!
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110918860464876718 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110918173717605996
 
*I easily won the Great State of Georgia in 2016, did a fantastic job, as President, for Georgia and the entire USA, received 10 Million more votes than I got, nationwide, in 2016, got by far the most votes in history for a sitting President, but shockingly, “LOST” Georgia. All this despite winning nearby Alabama and South Carolina in Record Setting Landslides. Why did Georgia officials agree to, and sign, the one sided Consent Decree? Does anybody really believe I lost Georgia? I DON’T!
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110916681777676824
 
 
====September 2023====
*MINORITY VOTERS ARE ABANDONING CROOKED JOE BIDEN & THE DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR “TRUMP.” THANK YOU, A VERY WISE DECISION!
**https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1110151303435539041
 
*It is all a shadow of its former self. Ukraine, Inflation, Bad Economy, Woke Military, No World Standing, No Respect, and today, 6 Billion Dollars for hostages. Where is the call from Republicans for the 25th Amendment.
**Truth social
 
*Can you believe that Crooked Joe Biden is giving $6 Billion to the terrorist regime in Iran? That money be used for terrorism all over the Middle East, and, indeed, the World. This incompetent FOOL is absolutely destroying America He had the audacity to announce this terrible deal today, September 11th. To pay for hostages will lead to kidnapping, ransom, and blackmail against Americans across the globe So, lets get this straight! We did a hostage TRADE with Iran. We gave them 5 very tough, smart people that they desperately wanted. We likewise got back 5 people BUT, we also gave them 6 BILLION DOLLARS! How much of a kickback does Crooked Joe Biden get Does anyone realize how much money 6 Billion Dollars is? When I was President, I got back 58 hostages for ZERO money. Remember Pastor Brunson? It sets a TERRIBLE precedent. Republicans, call out the 25th Amendment, NOW! Biden is INCOMPETENT
**https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4199317-trump-rips-biden-for-release-of-6b-in-iranian-funds/
 
*Early in the administration Education department will be closing . we spend more money on education than any other country yet we are bottom of every list.
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ojRde4zCYd0 Truth social]
 
*Biden’s job killing EV mandate has dictated that nearly seven percent of all cars sold in the US must be fully electric in less than 10 years. Crooked Joe Biden is back like a wretched old vulture.
**[https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-crooked-joe-biden-is-back-like-a-wretched-old-vulture-trying-to-finish-off-his-prey/]
 
*[[Mark Milley]], who led perhaps the most embarrassing moment in American history with his grossly incompetent implementation of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, costing many lives, leaving behind hundreds of American citizens, and handing over BILLIONS of dollars of the finest military equipment ever made, will be leaving the military next week. This will be a time for all citizens of the USA to celebrate! This guy turned out to be a Woke train wreck who, if the Fake News reporting is correct, was actually dealing with China to give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States. This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH! A war between China and the United States could have been the result of this treasonous act. To be continued!!!
**[https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111111513207332826 Truth social]
 
* Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from. And we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions, insane asylums. We know they're terrorists. Nobody has seen anything like we're witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It's poisoning the blood of our country. It's so bad.
** ''The National Pulse'' interview, quoted in {{cite web |date=2023-10-17 |title=Trump - "Migrants Poisoning the Blood of Our Country" |work=Meidas Touch |url=https://www.meidastouch.com/:section/trump-migrants-poisoning-the-blood-of-our-country }}
 
====October 2023====
 
*We will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft. Very simply: If you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store... Shot! The word that they shoot you will get out within minutes and our nation, in one day, will be an entirely different place. There must be retribution for theft and destruction and the ruination of our country
**[https://nypost.com/2023/10/02/trump-calls-for-shoplifters-to-be-shot-to-save-the-nation/ NY Post]
 
====December 2023====
 
*: ''Sean Hannity:'' Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?
*:''Donald Trump:'' Except for day one.
*: ''Sean Hannity:'' Except for—
*: ''Donald Trump:'' ''[aside to audience, pointing at Sean]'' He's doing great. ''[to Sean]'' Except for day one. I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill.
 
* We love this guy. He says, "You’re not going to be a dictator, are ya?" I said: "No, no, no, other than day one. We're closing the border, and we're drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I'm not a dictator."
** Davenport, Iowa town hall, December 5, 2023, quoted in {{cite news |date=2023-12-05 |title=Trump to Hannity on Whether He’ll Abuse Power as President: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |periodical=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-hannity-iowa-town-hall-1234917385/ }}
 
* They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They're poisoning the blood of our country, that's what they've done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just to three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They're coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.
** Durham, New Hampshire rally, December 16, 2023, quoted in {{cite news |date=2023-12-17 |title=Trump says immigrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country.' Biden campaign likens comments to Hitler. |periodical=NBC News |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-immigrants-are-poisoning-blood-country-biden-campaign-liken-rcna130141 }}
 
===2024===
====January====
*“We’re going to place strong protections to stop banks and regulators from trying to debank you from your—our political beliefs what they do. They want to debank you. We’re going to debank—think of this. They want to take away your country. Electric cars... They wanna take away your rights. They wanna take away your country. The things they’re doing. All [[Electric vehicles|electric cars]]. Give me a break. If you want an electric car, great. But they don’t go far. They’re very expensive. They gotta be made in China. That’s why I think I’m gonna get the autoworkers to vote for Trump. You know, we’re having great, great talks. But think of what they wanna do. They wanna take away your rights.”
**Delivered at a campaign rally in New&nbsp;Hampshire on 2024-01-17, reported by several sources.<ref name="evdb">{{Cite web |website={{w|The Daily Beast}} |date=2024-01-21 |accessdate=2024-01-21 |title=We Need an Interpreter to Work Out Trump’s ‘Debanking’ Rant |department=The New Abnormal |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-debanking-rant-in-new-hampshire-and-electric-cars-makes-no-sense}}</ref><ref name="evmed">{{Cite web |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/huh-trump-declares-they-wanna-de-bank-you-and-we-re-going-to-de-bank/ar-AA1n9KYV |title=Huh? Trump Declares, ‘They Wanna De-Bank You and We’re Going to De-Bank’ |first=Michael |last=Luciano |date=2024-01-18 |accessdate=2024-01-21 |website={{w|Mediaite}}}}</ref>
 
* There is a great man, a great leader in Europe — [[Viktor Orbán|Viktor Orban]] [...] He is the Prime Minister of [[Hungary]]. He is a very great leader, a very strong man. Some people don't like him because he's too strong.
** Campaigning at a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire (20 January 2024), as cited in [https://news.yahoo.com/trump-hails-hungarian-pm-orban-162500247.html "Trump hails Hungarian PM Orban as 'great leader' and 'strong man'], ''Yahoo! News, reproduced from The New Voice of Ukraine (21 January 2024)
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== Disputed ==
* These people should be executed. They are scumbags.
** About whistleblowers and journalists. Attributed by [[John Bolton]] in ''{{w|The Room Where It Happened}}'', ''{{w|Simon & Schuster}}'', 2020, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QjTMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT290 p. 290] {{cite book |isbn=978-1-9821-4805-8}}
 
*Do you still like having sex with your wife? How often? You must have had a better fuck than your wife? Tell me about it. I have girls coming in from [[Los Angeles]] at three o'clock. We can go upstairs and have a great time. I promise.
**Reported by Michael Wolff in [http://web.archive.org/web/20180107223847if_/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSpgpeyVMAAMcS1.jpg ''Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House''] (5 January 2018)
 
* I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.
** Reported as being the words of President Trump recorded in a memo that [[James Comey]], FBI Director at the time, wrote shortly after a meeting held in the Oval Office on 14 February 2017, referring to the federal investigation into links to the Russian government of national security adviser, [[Michael T. Flynn]], who had resigned the day before. In a statement, the White House has denied the version of events in the memo. — [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html New York Times (16 May 2017)]
** Comey confirmed under oath his account of Trump's words while [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/politics/senate-hearing-transcript.html appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee] (8 June 2017)
** When asked about Comey's testimony during a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hplM_DYp-Vk press conference on 9 June 2017], Trump said, "I didn't say that. I will tell you I didn't say that. And there'd be nothing wrong if I did say it according to everybody that I've read today, but I did not say that."
 
* Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?
** Reportedly said in a meeting with lawmakers on immigration, as quoted in [http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/368576-trump-rips-protections-for-immigrants-from-shithole-countries-in "Trump criticized immigration from 's---hole' countries: report"] (11 January 2018), by Avery Anapol, ''The Hill''. Variant: "Why do we want all these people from shithole countries coming here?" As quoted in [http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/11/politics/trump-rock-bottom/index.html Trump's 'shithole' comment is his new rock bottom], ''CNN'', 12 January 2018. Trump denied making this comment.
*** "The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used." [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/951793123985973248 Tweet by @realDonaldTrump] (12 January 2018)
 
*Why do we want all these people from Africa here? They're shithole countries ... We should have more people from Norway.
**[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-norway/thanks-but-no-thanks-norwegians-reject-trumps-immigration-offer-idUSKBN1F11QK 12 January 2018, per Reuters' source]
 
*Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out.
**Reportedly said in a meeting with lawmakers on immigration, as quoted in [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-shthole-countries-response-from-haiti-africa-el-salvador/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab8a&linkId=46885064 "'Sh*thole countries' respond to Trump's rhetoric"], ''CBS News''. Trump denied making this comment.
** "Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said "take them out." Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings - unfortunately, no trust!" [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/951813216291708928 Tweet by @realDonaldTrump] (12 January 2018)
 
*[B]lack people are too stupid to vote for me.
**As quoted in [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/michael-cohen-trump-racist-language "Michael Cohen Says Trump Repeatedly Used Racist Language in Private"] (2 November 2018), by Emily Jane Fox, ''Vanity Fair''. In a post-2018 midterm press conference, Trump denied making the comment and dismissed Cohen's claims: "That's false" — as quoted in [https://www.yahoo.com/news/president-trump-says-never-used-racist-remarks-195529076.html "President Trump says he has 'never used racist remarks'"] (7 November 2018), by Hunter Walker, ''Yahoo News''.
 
*Name one country run by a black person that's not a shithole... Name one city.
**As quoted in [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/michael-cohen-trump-racist-language "Michael Cohen Says Trump Repeatedly Used Racist Language in Private"] (2 November 2018), by Emily Jane Fox, ''Vanity Fair''. "White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders denied those comments at the time."
 
*Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers .. suckers .. Who were the good guys in this war?
**[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-decision-cancel-veteran-s-cemetery-france-visit-creates-n934796 Saturday 10 November 2018] two hours before a scheduled 30-minute helicopter ride from Paris to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, the visit was cancelled with White House stating a rainy forecast made it too dangerous
**[https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/ 3 September 2020] TheAtlantic.com writer [[Jeffrey Goldberg]] stated that "four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day" (Goldberg did not provide any names) that "Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead", and described the two-sentence quote above as part of "a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit".
***Goldberg also stated that during the trip (in a separate conversation) that Trump used the term "suckers" to collectively describe the 1800+ marines who died at Belleau Wood, but did not provide any surrounding words (the purported quote was the only word in quotation marks)
***the sentence about "good guys" Goldberg says was stated towards aides (not senior staff members)
****Goldberg did state a number regarding witness count of the other two statements, only for the "losers" one
**[https://nationalpost.com/news/world/donald-trump-the-atlantic-john-mccain-loserstrump-denies-account-of-him-disparaging-u-s-war-dead-mccain 4 September 2020] Trump responded to Goldberg's piece "It’s a total lie. It’s fake news".
**Trump also [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1301893907295371266 tweeted that day]: "The Atlantic Magazine is dying, like most magazines, so they make up a fake story in order to gain some relevance. Story already refuted, but this is what we are up against."
**press secretary [[Layleigh McEnany]] also [https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/09/04/whs_mcenany_atlantic_report_on_trump_has_been_categorically_debunked_by_witnesses_clearly_fake_news.html on September 4th] stated "The story in the Atlantic has been categorically debunked by eyewitnesses and contemporaneous documents", quoting two service members:
***""I was with the president the morning after the scheduled visit. He was extremely disappointed that arrangements could not be made to get him to the site and that the trip had been cancelled. I have worked with the president for his entire administration .. I have never heard him utter a disparaging remark of any kind about our troops." - Derek Lyons
***"there was a bad weather called in France and that the helicopters were unable to safely make the flight. Overall, the president's support and respect for our American troops past and present is unquestionable" - Dan Walsh
**following Goldberg's piece that same day, [[James LaPorta]] wrote [https://apnews.com/article/b823f2c285641a4a09a96a0b195636ed on AP] "A senior Defense Department official with firsthand knowledge of events and a senior U.S. Marine Corps officer who was told about Trump’s comments confirmed some of the remarks to The Associated Press, including the 2018 cemetery comments."
 
 
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== Misattributed ==
* I have a really high IQ, Phil. I mean, c'mon. It's impossible for me to not be atheist.
** Attributed by photo meme to an appearance on ''The Phil Donahue Show'' in 1989. [http://www.snopes.com/trump-donahue-atheist-1989/ According to Snopes.com], there is no evidence he ever said this, nor that he even appeared on ''The Phil Donahue Show'' in 1989.
 
* This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever.
** Actual quote was "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2QShtOwbU NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country.]"
 
* If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific.
** There is no record of Trump ever saying this; sometimes "''People'' magazine, 1998" is ''incorrectly'' given as the "source" of this quotation — [http://www.snopes.com/1998-trump-people-quote/ snopes.com]; [https://www.truthorfiction.com/donald-trump-said-republicans-are-the-dumbest-group-of-voters/ truthorfiction.com]
 
* The harder I work, the luckier I get.
** Originated with [[Samuel Goldwyn]] as a paraphrase of a proverb from a collection by Coleman Cox, but similar proverbs have existed since the 16th century. [http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/21/luck-hard-work/]
 
* Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.
** [[w:Fred Ebb|Fred Ebb]], ''[[w:Zorba (musical)|Zorba]]'' (1968)
 
* People are dying today that have never died before.
** [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-quote-never-died-before/ According to Snopes.com], there is no record of Trump saying this.
 
* The doctors said they've never seen a body kill the Coronavirus like my body. They tested my DNA and it wasn't DNA. It was USA.
** Reportedly said by Trump after he was hospitalized with [[w:Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]], following [[w:White House COVID-19 outbreak|an outbreak of the disease in the White House]]; the quote actually originates from an image featuring a fabricated subtitle overlaid on a video released by the President while he was in [[w:Walter Reed National Military Medical Center|Walter Reed National Military Medical Center]]. [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-kill-body/]
* My blood IS the vaccine!!!!!
** Originates from a fabricated screenshot of a tweet allegedly posted on October 5, 2020, the same day Trump was released from [[w:Walter Reed National Military Medical Center|Walter Reed National Military Medical Center]] after his diagnosis of [[w:Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]]. [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-my-blood-is-the-vaccine/] The fictitious quote likely refers to the donation of the [[w:blood plasma|blood plasma]] of COVID-19 survivors as a treatment method against catching the disease, a treatment of which Trump has been a vocal supporter. Trump has, however, suggested that he would consider donating his own plasma for this purpose. [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-donate-plasma-covid-19-coronavirus/]
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[[File:Lou Barletta.jpg|thumb|Donald Trump's voice is resonating with average Americans who feel their voice has been lost by their party. I believe this will become a new Republican Party, one that we should embrace. We should be the party of working men and women, the party of America first. ~ [[w:Lou Barletta|Lou Barletta]]]]
[[File:Glenn Beck by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg|thumb|Donald Trump, I really truly [[believe]] is a very [[dangerous]] man. If you listen to the things he said... He has joked about killing reporters. ~ [[Glenn Beck]] ]]
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=== A ===
[[File:Bashar al-Assad (cropped).jpg|thumb|I don't know him, when I sit with him face-to-face, I can judge him. But I only look at the person on the TV. ~ [[Bashar al-Assad]]]]
 
*We have a commander-in-chief who has never failed to signal his [[xenophobia]], his racism, his bigotry and his hatred. And that will absolutely filter down to the youngest and most impressionable members of our communities.
**[[Stacey Abrams]] [https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/31/stacey_abrams_we_have_to_work Interview] with Democracy Now (January 2019)
 
* The meta-impact of President Trump routinely doing the "[[impossibility|impossible]]" is that it changes how all of us view our world. If Trump can keep doing the impossible, time and time again, why can't we? [...] [D]on't be surprised if 2018 is the year when people all over the world shed their mental prisons and take on the "impossibles" in ways we have never seen. Thanks to President Trump, people everywhere are beginning to recognize the difference between real impossibilities and simple failures of imagination.
** [[Scott Adams]], [http://blog.dilbert.com/2018/01/02/president-trump-changed-imagination/ "How President Trump Changed Your Imagination"] (2 January 2018)
 
*Trump gives about four months for Syria troop pull-out: NYT
**Aljazeera, [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/trump-months-syria-troop-pull-nyt-190101143234181.html 1 January 2019] in response to [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/us/politics/trump-troop-withdrawal-syria-months.html?action=click&login=smartlock&auth=login-smartlock 31 December 2019] article by Eric Schmitt and Maggie Haberman of New York Times titled "Trump to Allow Months for Troop Withdrawal in Syria, Officials Say" that says "Trump has agreed to give the military about four months to withdraw the 2,000 United States troops in Syria, administration officials said on Monday"
 
* I think it's funny because Donald Trump is kind of in the spirit of old Greek tyrants where they used to vote in a guy that had no encumbrances. So the smartest thing about him, which is probably most overlooked, to me, is that he doesn't owe anybody anything and if he would just stick to fixing the bridges, roads and infrastructures that's what he knows how to do...just keep him doing that.
** [[Tim Allen]], as quoted in [http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/01/13/tim-allen-says-leans-left-leans-right-and-ends-up-center-right.html "Tim Allen says he leans left, leans right, and ends up 'center right'"] by Blanche Johnson, ''FoxNews.com'' (13 January 2016)
 
* I think Trump failed to pull off his [[Coup d'état|coup]] because of three enduring weaknesses in his character. First, many high school students know more about how the American government works than he does. He particularly does not understand the way the Constitution’s division of powers, even after all the growth in executive power over the decades, still can check an overreaching president. Thus he seems to have assumed that Republican judges would agree the election had been rigged simply because they were Republicans, when actually they were foremost judges in an independent judiciary bound by precedent, by a duty to see that justice is done, and by a demand for evidence. Similarly, Congress has many ties to executive agencies such as the FBI and the Department of Defense, especially the ties that bind with purse strings, that give it considerable influence in these agencies. <br>Second, organizing something as complicated as a [[Coup d'état|coup d’etat]] takes some serious cognitive chops, and by 2020 Donald Trump had trouble “staying on topic” for even a minute. If he were huddling with a conspirator over, say, control of the U.S. Marshalls during a takeover, he would soon be talking about how windmills kill eagles or the steam catapults on aircraft carriers. His thinking processes were too chaotic to orchestrate a coup. <br>Third, even though Donald Trump convinced millions that he was a self-assured, super-confident, take-charge [[Individualism|individualist]], he has long lacked resolve. He always had the courage of his convictions, which meant he had almost none. He frequently changed positions on important issues, notoriously being swayed by whoever spoke to him last, and his decision-making could be fairly characterized as “Charge ahead impulsively, then quickly retreat.” For example, two days after the networks declared Joe Biden had won the election, Trump signed an executive order commanding the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and elsewhere by inauguration day. This surprised everyone at the Pentagon, whose officials immediately pointed out the dangers of precipitate withdrawals. Trump almost never went toe-to-toe with advisors who stood up to him. Instead he just sulked and complained about having “too many lawyers.” Like the executive order Trump signed curtailing military aid to [[South Korea]] that an aide simply took off his desk and deep-sixed, the order about Afghanistan was ignored. <br>'''[[Harry S. Truman|Harry Truman]] famously said, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen,” and he had a sign on his desk that read, “The buck stops here.” Trump can’t stand the heat, and accordingly he always makes sure the buck stops somewhere else. Like most [[Bullying|bullies]], he usually gets another person to do his dirty work and face all the danger. The mob who attacked the Capitol on January 6th were the latest version of the throngs who bought Trump’s junk bonds in earlier days, taking all the risks, for his benefit, while he watched.'''
** [[Bob Altemeyer]], [https://theauthoritarians.org/lessons-of-the-2020-american-election-january-6th-and-beyond/ "Lessons of the 2020 American Election, January 6th, and Beyond"], October 20, 2021.
 
* What's more appalling is that huge numbers of those left behind in the wealth transfer genuflected to the new plutocratic class, celebrating the most vicious of the uber- [[Chief executive officer|CEOs]]. This craven CEO-worshipping is still going on today- middle Americans drag themselves home after work in order to gather around the television and watch billionaire assholes like Donald Trump deliver his "You're fired!" line to some desperate, stressed-out [[w:Waylon Smithers|Smithers]]-abee.
** [[Mark Ames]], ''Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond'' (2005), p. 87-88
 
* He really does remind you of the original Narcissus, the frigid pretty boy of [[Greek myths|Greek myth]] who was mortally smitten by his own reflection. Narcissus is autoerotic; he is self-aroused.
** [[Martin Amis]] [https://harpers.org/archive/2016/08/don-the-realtor/ "Don the Realtor"] ''Harper's Magazine'' (August 2016)
 
*[[w:Neo-Nazis|We]] support Trump because he is the savior of the [[White people|White race]], sent by God to free us from the shackles of the Jew occupation and establish a 1000 Reich.
** {{w|Andrew Anglin}}, as quoted in [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-neo-nazis-jews_us_5747397be4b0dacf7ad4480e "Trump's Neo-Nazi And Jewish Backers Are Both Convinced He's Secretly On Their Side"] (26 May 2016), by Jessica Schulberg, ''The Huffington Post''
 
* Yes, Trump is worse than imperfect. So what? We can lament until we choke the lack of a great [[Statesmanship|statesman]] to address the fundamental issues of our time—or, more importantly, to connect them. Since [[Pat Buchanan]]'s three failures, occasionally a candidate arose who saw one piece: [[Dick Gephardt]] on trade, [[Ron Paul]] on war, [[Tom Tancredo]] on immigration. Yet, among recent political figures—great statesmen, dangerous demagogues, and mewling gnats alike—only Trump-the-alleged-buffoon not merely saw all three and their essential connectivity, ''but was able to win on them''. The alleged buffoon is thus more prudent—more practically wise—than all of our wise-and-good who so bitterly oppose him. This should embarrass them. That their failures instead embolden them is only further proof of their foolishness and hubris.
**{{w|Michael Anton}} (as "Publius Decius Mus"), [http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/ "The Flight 93 Election"], ''The Claremont Institute'' (September 5, 2016)
 
* Trump is not the only president in the modern era to have switched sides. [[Ronald Reagan]] famously changed from the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] to the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], but the change was driven by principle, and the change stuck. He didn't sway back and forth, again and again. It would be tough for anyone to claim Donald Trump flipped parties on "principle" like Reagan. Some have sought to dig into Trump's ideological evolution, figuring out what changed or who inspired him to become a Republican. I'll spare them the needless waste of effort. Donald Trump became a conservative when it became politically convenient for him. I have no doubt he would have become the raucous rising star of the Democratic Party, too, if that looked like a shorter path to the Oval Office. Either way, he did with his belief system what he did with any Trump product. He outsourced it for low-cost manufacturing to someone else, then slapped his name on it. A handful of hired minions gave him the bare-bones requirements of a "conservative" platform. And he covered it with gaudy gold plating to make it his own.
** Anonymous, ''A Warning'' (2019), p. 97
 
* Donald Trump has America back on the road to bankruptcy, an area where he has unparalleled expertise for a president of the United States. The small band of fiscal conservatives who remain in the Trump administration warned the president about the eventual dangers of his out-of-control spending addiction. In one such meeting, Trump reportedly said, "Yeah, but I won't be here." I never heard him say those words, but it doesn't come as a surprise. That's how he thinks. What does he care if the federal government goes belly-up? By then it won't be his problem.
** Anonymous, ''A Warning'' (2019), p. 101
 
* The president's denial-turned-apathy to Moscow's actions is why America responded with the diplomatic equivalent of a whimper to one of the biggest foreign affronts to our democracy. Of all the failures of Trump's foreign policy, letting Russia off the hook is perhaps the most frustrating. The outgoing Obama administration imposed modest [[United States sanctions|sanctions]] on [[Moscow]], including expelling several dozen alleged Russian agents from the United States, but it left the rest to the incoming White House. Trump was reluctant to take further action that might offend Putin, with whom he hoped to develop a close working relationship. He hesitated to even raise the subject in conversations with the Russian leader, dumbfounding people on the inside. I remember when [[United States Congress|Congress]] sanctioned Russia in summer 2017. Representatives vented their anger over how little the administration had done to hold Russia accountable, so they took matters into their own hands and passed legislation punishing the country. Though he would later take credit for the sanctions in order to claim our administration had been unusually tough on Moscow, Trump in fact was furious. He felt Congress was getting in the way of his goal of a warm friendship with the Kremlin. Russia responded to the sanctions by kicking out hundreds of US embassy staff from their country and seizing US diplomatic compounds. President Trump's response was startling. "I want to thank him because we're trying to cut down on payroll," Trump told reporters about Putin's move, without a hint of irony. "And as far as I'm concerned, I'm very thankful that he let go a large number of people, because now we have a smaller payroll. There's no real reason for them to go back. So I greatly appreciate the fact that we've been able to cut our payroll of the United States. We'll save a lot of money."
** Anonymous, ''A Warning'' (2019), p. 164-165
 
* Trump's cavalier attitude toward the Russian security threat has had a predictable yet devastating consequence. Moscow has not been deterred from attacking American interests. It has been emboldened. They continue to take advantage of the United States, around the world and on our own soil. Former director of National Intelligence [[Dan Coats]] testified in January 2019 that Russia was still sowing social, racial, and political discord in the United States through influence operations, and several months later, [[Robert Mueller]] said the same. "It wasn't a single attempt," he testified to Congress. "They're doing it as we sit here. And they expect to do it during the next campaign." This should be a national scandal, a cause for outrage and action against the Russian government. Instead, it's being ignored where it should matter most- in the Oval Office. Reporters asked Trump about Mueller's assessment days later and quizzed him again on whether he'd pressed Putin on the topic. "You don't really believe this," he shot back. "Do you believe this? Okay, fine. We didn't talk about it." Then he boarded Marine One.
** Anonymous, ''A Warning'' (2019), p. 167
 
* As we tried to make sense of Donald Trump's positions or when one of us tried to argue against them, we first had to ask: Why is the president so attracted to autocrats? After a contentious meeting about the president's engagement with a foreign dictator, a top national security aide offered me his take. "The president sees in these guys what he wishes he had: total power, no term limits, enforced popularity, and the ability to silence critics for good." He was spot on. It was the simplest explanation.
** Anonymous, ''A Warning'' (2019), p. 171
 
* Mr. Trump is a wild card, but he is likely to sign pro-life measures, and he is seeking advice now from the right people to appoint a plausible successor to [[Antonin Scalia|Justice Scalia]]. In this Guide for the Perplexed, we may find reason to bite our lips and take the Wild Card over the brutal Sure Thing on the other side.
** [[w:Hadley Arkes|Hadley Arkes]], [https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2016/05/04/a-guide-for-the-perplexed/ "A Guide for the Perplexed"], ''The Catholic Thing'' (4 May 2016)
 
* '''I don't know him, when I sit with him face-to-face, I can judge him. But I only look at the person on the TV,''' you know, on the TV you can manipulate everything, you can...rehearse, you can prepare yourself...
** [[Bashar al-Assad]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45odEv_1DAY Interview with Bill Neely] (July 2016) on "[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/syria-s-president-bashar-al-assad-speaks-nbc-news-n608746 NBC: Exclusive Interview with Bashar al-Assad]"
 
* My analysis is that Trump would not be permitted to win. Why do I say that? Because he has had every establishment off his side. Trump does not have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment. Banks, intelligence, arms companies, foreign money, etc. are all united behind [[Hillary Clinton]]. And the media as well. Media owners, and the journalists themselves.
** [[Julian Assange]], interview with John Pilger; [https://www.rt.com/news/365299-assange-pilger-saudi-clinton/ "Assange: Clinton & ISIS funded by same money, Trump won't be allowed to win"], ''[[w:RT (TV network)|RT.com]]'' (4 November 2016)
 
* [Trump] is consistent. He is the same person that you see behind the scenes as he is in the public or through the media.
** [[Jacinda Ardern]] in [https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/20-08-2020/the-complete-history-of-donald-trump-v-jacinda-ardern/ A brief history of Donald Trump v Jacinda Ardern]
 
* There is no greater sacrifice than to lay down one's life for their country, and that's the sacrifice that Captain Humayum Khan made fighting to defend our freedom and our constitutional rights. He was a true American hero. The Khan family deserves nothing less than our deepest support, respect, and gratitude, and they have every right to express themselves in any way they choose. I am appalled that Donald Trump would disparage them and that he had the gall to compare his own sacrifices to those of a Gold Star family.
** {{w|Kelly Ayotte}}, statement regarding Donald Trump's comments about Khizr and Ghazala Khan [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/31/khizr-khan-calls-trump-a-black-soul-says-mcconnell-ryan-have-moral-obligation-to-repudiate-him/] (July 31, 2016)
 
=== B ===
* Attached hereto is a copy of Mr. Trump's birth certificate, demonstrating that he is the son of Fred Trump, not an orangutan.
**Scott Balber, Donald Trump's lawyer, to comedian [[Bill Maher]] (2013), in response to Maher's facetious assertion that he'd pay Trump $5 million dollars upon release of Trump's birth certificate to prove he was not sired by an {{w|orangutan}}. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/celebrity-news/my-dad-was-not-an-orangutan-donald-trump-says-in-lawsuit/article8467052/] [http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-nukes-trump-over-lawsuit-the-law-is-not-a-toy-for-rich-idiots-to-play-with/]
 
* Mr Khan, shame on you & #CrookedHillary (Hillary Clinton) for not being truthful to all in attacks at @realDonaldTrump (Donald Trump).
** {{w|Al Baldasaro}}, [https://twitter.com/Al_Baldasaro/status/760122082323795968 Twitter, August 1, 2016]
 
*Come on. You know it's only socialism when it helps the working class. Farm bailout will primarily help big Ag. (referring to [https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-farm-bailout-20190528-story.html?outputType=amp ''Los Angeles Times'' article: Rich farmers, not mom-and-pop farms, will collect most of Trump's tariff bailout (31 May 2019)]
**[[Krystal Ball]] in [https://twitter.com/krystalball/status/1144018130357882880 ''Twitter Post,''] (26 June 2019)
 
*Interesting nugget here as well. @tparsi had been informed by a Hill staffer in touch with the Pentagon that military strikes were imminent. Apparently everyone thought these strikes were really happening right up until the last moment. @esaagar ... @tparsi also warns that any military strike could easily lead to full blown conflict. "The Idea that there's such a thing as a limited strike on Iran is frankly preposterous." ... Interview with Head of the National Iranian American Council @tparsi . He told us it would be "political suicide" for any Iranian politician to meet with Trump as long as Bolton/Pompeo are around. @esaagar ... #rising #sanctions #Iran #iranwar
**[[Krystal Ball]] in [https://twitter.com/krystalball ''Twitter Post''], (24 June 2019)
 
*Wait... you only thought to ask about how many people would die 10 minutes before the strike??? That's a rather important piece of info to nearly overlook.
**[[Krystal Ball]] in [https://twitter.com/krystalball ''Twitter Post''], (21 June 2019)
 
* As Democrats jeer that Trump has merely laid bare the true soul of the GOP, some Republicans wonder, with considerable anguish, whether they're right.
** {{w|Molly Ball}}, ''[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/can-the-republican-party-survive-trumo/402074/ Can the Republican Party Survive Trump?]'', ''{{w|The Atlantic}}'' (August 24, 2015)
 
* Viewed through any conventional lens, [[President of the United States|President]]-elect Donald Trump's candidacy was [[improbable]] from start to finish. Today, two things about his [[victory]] seem to be in sharper focus: one, that Trump's victory might best be understood as the success of the country's first [[independent]] [[president]], and second, that the Trump coalition may be even more uniquely his than President [[Barack Obama|Obama]]'s has turned out to be.<br>Trump owes his [[success]] in part to the fact that he ran for president in an environment that favored [[change]] over the [[status quo]]. But his [[luck]] or [[genius]] goes beyond that. It has long been noted that the conditions have existed for an independent candidate to run a serious campaign for president.<br>Trump took the elements of an independent candidacy — the lack of clear [[ideology]], the name recognition of a national [[celebrity]] and the personal [[fortune]] needed to fund a presidential campaign — and then did what no one seemed to have thought of before. He staged a hostile takeover of an existing major party. He had the best of both worlds, an outsider candidacy with crosscutting ideological appeal and the platform of a major party to wage the general election. By the time he had finished, he had taken down two political dynasties: the [[w:Bush family|Bush dynasty]] in the primaries and the [[w:Clinton family|Clinton dynasty]] in the general election.
** [[Dan Balz]], ''[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-americas-first-independent-president/2016/11/19/b09e1cc6-ade2-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html Donald Trump, America's first independent president]'' (November 19, 2016)
 
* It should not have taken a pandemic to raise these resources. In June 2019, we presented a [[w:Poor_People’s_Moral_Budget|Poor People’s Moral Budget]] to the House Budget Committee, showing that we can meet these needs for this entire country. '''If you had taken up this Moral Budget, we would have already moved towards infusing more than $1.2 trillion into the economy to invest in health care, good jobs, living wages, housing, water and sanitation services and more.<BR>This is not the time for trickle-down solutions. We know that when you lift from the bottom, everybody rises. There are concrete solutions to this immediate crisis and the longer term illnesses we have been battling for months, years and decades before. We will continue to organize and build power until you meet these demands. Many millions of us have been hurting for far too long. We will not be silent anymore.'''<br>With its broad sweep, the [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic]] has forced us into an unprecedented [[w:State of emergency|national emergency]]. This emergency, however, results from a deeper and much longer term crisis — that of [[Poverty in the United States|poverty]] and [[w:Inequality in the United States|inequality]], and of a [[w:Society of the United States|society]] that ignores the needs of 140 million people who are poor or a $400 emergency away from being poor.
**[[Rev William Barber II]] in Letter to President [[Donald Trump]], Vice President [[Mike Pence]] and Members of the [[w:116th United States Congress|116th Congress]], ''[https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/poverty-amidst-pandemic/ Poverty Amidst Pandemic: A Moral Response to COVID-19]'' (March 19, 2020), co-written with [[Liz Theoharis]], [[Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival]]
 
[[File:Interfaith Health Care Vigil 6291113.jpg|thumb|Trump and Pence need to let the people go. They’ve been holding poor and low-wealth people hostage, essential workers hostage. It’s time for a change in this country. ~ [[Rev. William Barber II]] ]]
*On the issue of the [[Economy of the United States|economy]], I think there couldn’t be a more fundamental difference between Donald Trump and [[Joe Biden]]. Joe Biden believes you measure the health and the strength of America’s economy based on the health and the strength of the American worker and the American family. On the other hand, you have '''Donald Trump, who measures the strength of the economy based on how rich people are doing, which is why he passed a tax bill benefiting the top 1% and the biggest corporations of America, leading to a $2 trillion deficit that the American people are going to have to pay for'''<br>'''Not only will Pence and Trump not acknowledge racism when it comes to police violence, they are not even acknowledging the disparate racism in economics and in healthcare, and... wanting to only secure the wealthy and the greedy...<BR> '''The Trump-Pence plan is talking about giving more money to the wealthy. In fact, the Trump-Pence-McConnell plan, they refuse to pass a stimulus because they want another $200 billion in tax cuts''', they want money for a fighter jet, and they want to protect corporations from liability when those corporations didn’t protect their people from coronavirus.
**[[Rev William Barber II]], quoted in [https://www.democracynow.org/2020/10/8/mike_pence_kamala_harris_vp_debate Rev. William Barber: Millions Are Struggling. So Why Do the Debates Ignore Poverty?, ''DemocracyNow''], (8 October 2020)
 
*What I saw in [[North Carolina]], what we defeated in North Carolina, what we filed suit against in North Carolina, is now what Trump and Pence are talking about doing on the national level: surgical racism with surgical precision... '''Pence and Trump don’t believe in [[W:Voting Rights Act|the Voting Rights Act]]... They know they cannot win if everybody votes. They are terribly afraid of poor and low-wealth Black and Brown people voting.'''<br>And then stop saying Trump won the last time. He was elected by the Electoral College because of 80,000 votes. We have to end this mythology that he had some kind of superpower. The fact of the matter is, 100 million people did not vote. .. I couldn’t help but go to the [[Book of Exodus]], where it talked about where God said, “If you don’t let my people go, I’m going to cause flies to come as a sign of what’s wrong. But I won’t let the flies be on the people, but the fly will be a symbol that you’re just wrong. You’re lying. Let my people go.” And Trump and Pence need to let the people go. They’ve been holding poor and low-wealth people hostage, essential workers hostage. It’s time for a change in this country.
**[[Rev. William Barber II]] in [https://www.democracynow.org/2020/10/8/rev_william_barber_voting_2020 Rev. William Barber on Voter Suppression: Republicans Know They Can’t Win If Everyone Casts a Ballot'], [[w:''Democracy Now!''|''Democracy Now!'']], (8 October 2020)
 
* '''Donald Trump's voice is resonating with average Americans who feel their voice has been lost by their party. I believe this will become a new Republican Party, one that we should embrace. We should be the party of working men and women, the party of America first.'''
** {{w|Lou Barletta}}, as quoted in [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/22/lou-barletta-an-immigration-hard-liner-in-congress-endorses-trump/ "Lou Barletta, an immigration hard-liner in Congress, endorses Trump"] by Robert Costa, ''The Washington Post'' (22 March 2016)
 
* Orchestrating a mob to pressure [[Congress]] is inexcusable.
** William Barr, Former Attorney General, as quoted in [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/barr-says-trump-s-conduct-betrayal-presidency-n1253281 "Barr says Trump's conduct is a 'betrayal' of the presidency"] January 7 2021 <i> NBC News </i>
 
* You can’t trust him.
* He has no principles. None. None.
* His goddamned tweet and the lying, oh, my God.
* The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit.
** [[w:Maryanne Trump Barry|Maryanne Trump Barry]], sister of Donald Trump, as quoted in [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/22/lou-barletta-an-immigration-hard-liner-in-congress-endorses-trump/ Trump’s Sister Says He Is a Liar With “No Principles” in Secret Recordings: “You Can’t Trust Him”] by Daniel Politi, ''Slate'' (22 August 2020)
 
*Iran's actions can hardly be said to have occurred in a vacuum... it has been the recent policy of "maximum pressure" on Tehran under the incoherent foreign policy of the Trump administration that has exacerbated the current tensions... the [[W:United States withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action|Trump administration has withdrawn]] unilaterally from the internationally agreed – and successful – [[w:Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action|Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) of 2015]]... It is not hard, then, to see how these moves might be viewed in Tehran: as part of an escalating offensive from multiple sources threatening its own home front in a campaign of [[w:economic warfare|economic warfare]] designed to weaken the regime....The depth of the US stake in this increasingly dangerous game is far harder to judge, given the usual confusion of Trump's flip-flopping and the machinations of Bolton... All of which leaves us to contemplate the most frightening element of all in a complex crisis: that the current occupant of the White House lacks any of the skills required to successfully defuse it.
**[[Peter Beaumont (journalist)|Peter Beaumont]] in [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/14/trump-iran-oil-tanker-attacks ''Trump's fanned the flames in Iran, now the fire risks getting out of control, The Guardian,''] (14 June 2019)
 
*When conservatives desperately needed allies in the fight against big government, Donald Trump didn't stand on the sidelines. He consistently advocated that your money be spent, that your government grow, and that your Constitution be ignored... Trump's potential primary victory would provide Hillary Clinton with the easiest imaginable path to the White House. But it's far worse than that. If Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination, there will once again be no opposition to an ever-expanding government. This is a crisis for [[conservatism]]. And, once again, this crisis will not go to waste.
**[[Glenn Beck]], [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''
 
*'''Donald Trump, I really truly believe is a very dangerous man. If you listen to the things he said''' this weekend... 'I could go onto Fifth Avenue and shoot people and I wouldn't lose a vote'. '''He has joked about killing reporters''' — and 'not' killing reporters like [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]] does... We don't change with the mood of the country. That is the problem with our country right now. The Constitution is to anchor us in principles that help temper the mood of the country... The mood of the country is very angry, but you never make a good decision when you are angry... The worst thing we can do is to now start looking at, who is going to get revenge? One of the things that Donald Trump does, when you have a guy who is angry and then has an enemies list and starts to just take people down over and over and over again — if you disagree with him, he destroys you. If that is the mood of the country, we are in more trouble than I thought.
**[[Glenn Beck]], [http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/25/politics/glenn-beck-donald-trump-dangerous/index.html interview on ''New Day''] (January 2016), ''CNN'', Georgia: Cable News Network
 
* '''Trump may be vulgar, Trump may be abrasive, but in terms of racism, corruption, and destruction, he is Mr[[Reagan]]'s true heir. Trump's Republican Party is what it has been at least since the 1980s, only more so.'''
** Larry Beinhart ''[https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/donald-ronald-190811202546763.html Donald and Ronald]'', 12 August 2019, ''{{w|Al Jazeera English}}''.
 
* "The words from his mouths begin in foolishness, and his talk ends in wicked madness, yet Trump talks on and on."
** [[w:Shlomo ben David|Shlomo Ben-David]] on [[w:Ro'im Olam|''Ro'im Olam'']], May 12, 2018.
 
* He does not seem to be able to differentiate between fact and fiction.
** Ben Berzin jr., Midatlantic Bank, quoted by Steven Malanga in [https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/donald-trump-art-tease-3007.html Donald Trump: The Art of the Tease] (06 April 2011), ''{{w|Manhattan Institute}}''
 
* The evidence shows: Donald Trump cannot retain an ally, keep a promise, uphold a principle, maintain a story, change a mind or show a heart.
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preet_Bharara Preet Bharara] on [https://twitter.com/preetbharara/status/917198254923710464?lang=de Twitter] (8 October 2017)
 
*When it comes to COVID-19, after months of doing nothing, other than predicting the virus would disappear or maybe, if you drank bleach, you may be okay, Trump has simply given up.
**[[Joe Biden]] on [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-unveils-1st-portion-build-back-economic-plan/story?id=71681986 9 July 2020] regarding Trump's April 2020 citation of [[William Bryan]]'s research regarding disinfectants: Trump never specified using bleach or ingesting it
 
* In an age of pussified [[political correctness]], you have to respect the people who remain unfiltered.
** {{w|Dan Bilzerian}}, as quoted in [http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/263480-instagram-star-praises-unfiltered-trump "'King of Instagram' praises 'unfiltered' Trump"] by Jesse Byrnes, ''The Hill'' (16 December 2015)
 
*Donald found out about [Cohn's [[HIV/AIDS|HIV]] diagnosis] and just dropped him like a hot potato. It was like night and day.
** Susan Bell, longtime secretary of Trump's lawyer {{W|Roy Cohn}}, as quoted in [http://theweek.com/speedreads/617343/donald-trump-turned-back-closest-friend-when-heard-aids Donald Trump turned his back on his closest friend when he heard he had AIDS], at ''{{W|The Week}}'', published April 8, 2016
 
* Donald Trump was a [[joke]] until nominated, unelectable until elected, incompetent until he succeeded on most fronts, and about to be impeached until he debunked the collusion nonsense; he has had a very [[success]]ful year. His enemies have been weighed in the balance and they have been found wanting. They shall have their reward.
** [[Conrad Black]], "[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454754/donald-trump-2017-successful Trump's Whirlwind Year]", ''National Review'' (December 19, 2017)
 
* ...it is merely Marxist drivel to think that employers have more power than employees (tell that to Michael Jordan and Jerry Reinsdorf) or landlords than tenants (tell that to the landlord of Bill Gates or Donald Trump).
** [[w:Walter Block|Walter E. Block]], ''The Case for Discrimination'' (2010, Ludwig von Mises Institute) p. 404
 
*Americans think it would be better to have a businessman than a politician as president, and I sympathize with them. Alas, the only businessmen crazy enough to run for president seem to be, well, crazy. At least [[Ross Perot]] kept his craziness confined mostly to private matters, such as the looming disruption of his daughter's wedding. Donald Trump puts it front and center. From a [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] point of view, and I think serious conservatives and liberals would share this view, Trump's greatest offenses against American tradition and our founding principles are his [[w:Nativism|nativism]] and his promise of one-man rule. Not since [[George Wallace]] has there been a presidential candidate who made racial and religious scapegoating so central to his campaign. Trump launched his campaign talking about Mexican rapists and has gone on to rant about mass deportation, bans on Muslim immigration, shutting down mosques, and building a wall around America. America is an exceptional nation in large part because we've aspired to rise above such prejudices and guarantee life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to everyone.
** {{w|David Boaz}}, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''{{w|National Review}}''
 
* Where Washington and New York-based GOP leaders pledge outreach to immigrants, moderate Muslims and other [[minorities]], the reality TV star plays more overt racial politics than any national candidate since [[George Wallace]]. Trump's brand of nativist, nationalist isolationism marked the path to victory.
** Igor Bobic and Ryan Grim, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-south-carolina_us_56c87f72e4b041136f1725b8 "What Donald Trump's Win In South Carolina Says About The Republican Party"] (20 February 2016), ''The Huffington Post''.
 
* Trump spoke with [[Xi Jinping]] by phone on June 18, ahead of [[w:2019 G20 Osaka summit|2019's Osaka G20 summit]], when they would next meet. Trump began by telling Xi he missed him and then said that the most popular thing he had ever been involved with was making a trade deal with China, which would be a big plus politically. They agreed their economic teams could continue meeting. The [[w:2018 G20 Buenos Aires summit|G20 bilateral]] arrived, and during the usual media mayhem at the start, Trump said, "we've become friends. My trip to Beijing with my family was one of the most incredible of my life." With the press gone, Xi said this is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. He said that some (unnamed) political figures in the United States were making erroneous judgments by calling for a new cold war, this time between [[China–United States relations|China and the United States]]. Whether Xi meant to finger the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]], or some of us sitting on the US side of the table, I don't know, but Trump immediately assumed Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility among the Democrats. He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the [[2020 United States presidential election|coming US presidential election]], alluding to China's economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win. He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump's exact words, but the government's prepublication review process [[w:Censorship in the United States#Trump administration|has decided otherwise]].
** [[John Bolton]], ''{{w|The Room Where It Happened}}'', ''{{w|Simon & Schuster}}'', 2020, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QjTMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT202 p. 202] {{cite book |isbn=978-1-9821-4805-8}}
 
*Trump... though representing the most reactionary US government in recent memory, paradoxically has also led to an opening to challenge US power. The first reason is that he and his administration are much less disciplined about obscuring their true intentions behind insincere proclamations of benevolent motives. Whereas the [[George W. Bush]] administration in the run up to the Iraq War successfully manufactured consent amongst a large swath of the US public by scaring them over false claims about "[[Iraq and weapons of mass destruction|weapons of mass destruction]]," the Trump administration doesn't even hide the fact that its foreign policy is motivated by advancing the US economic interests.
**Peter Bolton of ''[[W:CounterPunch|CounterPunch]]'', [https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/27/the-failed-venezuelan-coup-and-the-decline-of-us-hegemony/ ''The Failed Venezuelan Coup and the Decline of US Hegemony,''] (27 June 2019)
 
* Trump is a [[Fascism|fascist]]. And that's not a term I use loosely or often. But he's earned it.
** [[Max Boot]], [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-isnt-todays-wendell-willkie-hes-todays-benito-mussolini/2015/12/08/77c81b0c-9ddc-11e5-a3c5-c77f2cc5a43c_story.html ''Twitter''] (2015)
 
* Republican Party is dead. ... It has been killed by Donald Trump.
* Trump is an ignorant [[demagogue]] who traffics in [[racist]] and [[misogynistic]] slurs and [[crazy]] [[conspiracy theories]]. He champions protectionism and isolationism — the policies that brought us the [[Great Depression]] and [[World War II]]. He wants to undertake a police-state roundup of undocumented immigrants and to bar [[Muslims]] from coming to this country. He encourages his followers to assault protesters and threatens to sue or smear critics. He would abandon [[Japan]] and [[South Korea]] and break up the most successful alliance in [[history]] — {{w|NATO}}. But he has kind words for [[tyrant]]s such as [[Vladimir Putin]]. There has never been a major party nominee in U.S. history as unqualified for the presidency. The risk of Trump winning, however remote, represents the biggest national security threat that the United States faces today.
* I only know one thing for sure: I won't vote for Trump. My hope is that he will lose by a landslide, and the Republican Party will come to its senses, rejecting both his ugly, nativist [[populism]] and the extreme, holier-than-thou conservatism represented by [[Ted Cruz]].
** [[Max Boot]] {{Cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-boot-republicans-in-exile-20160508-story.html|title=The Republican Party is dead|date=May 8, 2016|website=latimes.com|publisher={{w|Los Angeles Times}}}}
 
* If an unapologetic {{w|ignoramus}} wins the presidency, the consequences will be no laughing matter.
* Donald J. Trump, a presidential candidate who truly is the know-nothing his Republican predecessors only pretended to be ... It is genuinely terrifying that someone who advances such offensive and ridiculous proposals could win the nomination of a party once led by [[Teddy Roosevelt]], who wrote more books than Mr. Trump has probably read. It's one thing to appeal to voters by pretending to be an average guy. It's another to be an average guy who doesn't know the first thing about governing or public policy. The Trump acolytes claim it doesn't matter; he can hire experts to advise him. But experts always disagree with one another and it is the president alone who must make the most difficult decisions in the world. That's not something he can do since he lacks the most basic grounding in the issues and is prey to fundamental misconceptions.
** [[Max Boot]] {{Cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/opinion/how-the-stupid-party-created-donald-trump.html|title=How the ‘Stupid Party' Created Trump|date=August 2, 2016|website=nytimes.com|publisher={{w|The New York Times}}}}
 
* As media scramble to figure out Trump's evolving position on [[immigration]], remember he cares *only* about feeding his ego. Policy irrelevant.
** [[Max Boot]], [https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/767160352262029312 Twitter, August 20, 2016]
 
* The GOP base is clearly disgusted and looking for new leadership. Enter Donald Trump, not just with policy prescriptions that challenge the cynical GOP leadership but with an attitude of disdain for that leadership—precisely in line with the sentiment of the base. Many conservatives are relishing this, but ah, the rub. Trump might be the greatest charlatan of them all.
** [[w:L. Brent Bozell III|L. Brent Bozell III]], [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''
 
* It was spring, four years ago. Donald and Ivana Trump were seated at opposite ends of their long Sheraton table in Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post's former dining room. They were posed in imperial style, as if they were a king and queen. They were at the height of their ride, and it was plenty glorious. Trump was seen on the news shows offering his services to negotiate with the Russians. There was talk that he might make a run for president. Ivana had had so much publicity that she now offered interviewers a press kit of flattering clips. Anything seemed possible, the Trumps had grown to such stature in the golden city of New York.
** [[w:Marie Brenner|Marie Brenner]], [https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner/amp "After the Gold Rush"] (1 September, 1990), ''Vanity Fair''
 
*The [[Christian right|religious Right]] is the latest version of an old model of [[Politics of the United States|American politics]], variously incarnated by [[Puritanism|Puritans]], [[Abolitionism|abolitionists]], and [[William Jennings Bryan]]. It, like its predecessors, has argued that America and individual Americans need to have a godly or at least moral character to thrive. Now the religious Right adores [[w:Donald Trump|a thrice-married cad and casual liar]]. But it is not alone. Historians and psychologists of the martial virtues salute the bone-spurred draft-dodger whose Khe Sanh was not catching the clap. Cultural critics who deplored academic fads and slipshod aesthetics explicate a man who has never read a book, not even the ones he has signed. Followers of [[Harry V. Jaffa|Harry Jaffa]], the most important [[Abraham Lincoln|Lincoln]] scholar of the last 60 years, rally round a Republican who does not know why the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] happened. Straussians, after leaving the cave, find themselves in Mar-a-Lago. Econocons put their money on a serial bankrupt.
**[[w:Richard Brookhiser|Richard Brookhiser]], [https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/02/17/william-f-buckley-trump-conservatism-needs-rebuilding/ "WFB Today"] (16 February 2018), ''National Review''
 
* Donald Trump betrays. It can start with Trump University, where Trump betrayed schoolteachers and others who dreamed of building a better life for themselves.
** [[David Brooks]], [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/opinion/donald-trump-the-great-betrayer.html?rref=opinion "Donald Trump, the Great Betrayer"] (4 March 2016), ''The New York Times''
 
* Donald Trump just has more courage. Whatever you might think of him, and I don't think much of him, but he has more courage than his opponents... He's a marketing genius who offers no substance. And people either got pushed into [[w:Subprime loans|subprime loans]] by [[w:Trump Mortgage|Trump Mortgage]], or they got suckered into racking up huge [[w:Credit card debt|credit card debt]] to buy courses on [[w:Trump University|Trump University]], and they were left high and dry when those things went belly up. And so that's a story that I think can be told. In a country which is feeling betrayed, he is a mass and serial betrayer... Given the numbers now, it's very hard to see he could win, given the huge numbers of Americans, the vast majority of Americans who say they could not support the guy. And I still find it hard to believe that somebody as policy-thin and as knowledge-thin would very well — he might be able to wear well with the electorate that we have.
** [[David Brooks]], as quoted in [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/shields-and-brooks-on-the-gop-push-to-stop-trump/ "Shields and Brooks on the GOP push to stop Trump"] (4 March 2016), ''PBS NewsHour''
 
* Are we really here? Is this really happening? Is this America? Are we a great country talking about trying to straddle the world and create opportunity in this country? It's just mind-boggling. And we have sort of become acculturated, because this campaign has been so ugly. We have become acculturated to sleaze and unhappiness that you just want to shower from every 15 minutes. The Trump comparison of the looks of the wives, he does have, over the course of his life, a consistent misogynistic view of women as arm candy, as pieces of meat. It's a consistent attitude toward women which is the stuff of a diseased adolescent. And so we have seen a bit of that show up again. But if you go back over his past, calling into radio shows bragging about his affairs, talking about his sex life in public, he is childish in his immaturity. And his — even his [[misogyny]] is a childish misogyny. And that's why I do not think Republicans, standard Republicans, can say, yes, I'm going to vote for this guy because he's our nominee. He's of a different order than your normal candidate. And this whole week is just another reminder of that... The odd thing about his whole career and his whole language, his whole world view is there is no room for love in it. You get a sense of a man who received no love, can give no love, so his relationship with women, it has no love in it. It's trophy. And his relationship toward the world is one of competition and beating, and as if he's going to win by competition what other people get by love. And so you really are seeing someone who just has an odd psychology unleavened by kindness and charity, but where it's all winners and losers, beating and being beat. And that's part of the authoritarian personality, but it comes out in his attitude towards women.
** [[David Brooks]], as quoted in [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/shields-and-brooks-on-trump-cruz-wife-feud-isis-terror-in-brussels/ "Shields and Brooks on Trump-Cruz wife feud, ISIS terror in Brussels"] (25 March 2016), ''PBS NewsHour''
 
* You need to be an outsider to be a change agent. There's only one person who can do that. And that is Donald Trump.
** {{w|Scott Brown}} endorsing Donald Trump, as quoted in [http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/267988-brown-trump-is-the-agent-of-change-to-fix-washington "Brown: Trump is the ‘agent of change' to fix Washington"] by Elliot Smilowitz, ''The Hill'' (2 February 2016)
 
*a wartime president, with blue states, rather than any foreign nation, as the enemy.
**[[Ron Brownstein]] attributed in ''The Cruelty is the Point'' by [[Adam Serwer]] (2021), p 228
 
* Trump is sui generis, unlike any candidate of recent times. And his success is attributable not only to his stance on issues, but to his persona, his defiance of [[political correctness]], his relish of political combat with all comers, his "damn the torpedos" charging in frontally where others refuse to tread...
** [[Pat Buchanan]] — [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/12/pat-buchanan-believes-donald-trump-is-the-future-of-the-republican-party/ "Pat Buchanan says Donald Trump is the future of the Republican Party"], ''The Washington Post'' (12 January 2016)
 
*When he looks at a glass, he is mesmerized by its reflection. If Donald Trump were shaped a little differently, he would compete for Miss America.
**[[William F. Buckley]], as quoted in [https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/02/17/william-f-buckley-trump-conservatism-needs-rebuilding/ "WFB Today"] (16 February 2018), by [[w:Richard Brookhiser|Richard Brookhiser]], ''National Review''
 
* I do not support Trump, and believe he would be a disastrous president and {{w|commander in chief}}.<br>Trump has no coherent [[organizing]] economic philosophy, spent decades acting like and supporting traditional [[liberal]] [[Democrats]], has repeatedly shifted his positions on major issues and has little more trust from economists than he has earned among the general electorate.<br>Trump is that he is a {{w|crony capitalist}}, who now states that he supported the Clintons and other liberals with donations for so long because he wanted to obtain influence with them while they were in [[power]]. He has led several businesses to [[bankruptcy]]. He has called himself the "king of debt," a description that [[Gary Johnson|Johnson]] or [[Ron Paul|Paul]] and other leading libertarians would never use to describe themselves. ... The viewpoints offered by Trump seem to change like the leaves that change their colors when summer gives way to fall. ... Can anyone suggest we know what Trump will believe tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow?
** [[Brent Budowsky]], ''[http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/291092-why-libertarian-gary-johnson-must-be-included-in Why Libertarian Gary Johnson must be included in debates]'', ''[[w:The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]'' (August 11, 2016)
 
* He is his own art installation he is his own performance of himself, I don't know what else I can spin other than wonder, you know, who that 5-year old boy was and what his dad was telling him
** [[Bo Burnham]] on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbPxMsOKQ5o video (4:30)] (Writers Roundtable: [[John Krasinski]], Bo Burnham, [[Tamara Jenkins]], [[Peter Farrelly]], [[Eric Roth]] | Close Up) posted February 11, 2019
 
* The President bears responsibility for today’s events by promoting the unfounded conspiracy theories that have led to this point. It is past time to accept the will of American voters and to allow our nation to move forward.
** Richard Burr, quoted in [https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/533034-richard-burr-says-trump-bears-responsibility-for-riot "GOP senator says Trump 'bears responsibility' for Capitol riot"] 7 January 2021 <i> The Hill </i>
 
* And we, all of us, the Jews, helped them get there.
** [[Bradley Burston]], ''[http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/1.752064 Trump's Win, the Greatest Victory for anti-Semitism in America Since 1941]'', ''{{w|Haaretz}}'' (10-11-2016)
 
* It’s difficult to say that the [[prosperity gospel]] itself led to Donald Trump’s inauguration. Again, only 17 percent of American Christians identify with it explicitly. It’s far more true, however, to say that the same cultural forces that led to the prosperity gospel’s proliferation in America — individualism, an affinity for ostentatious and charismatic leaders, the [[Protestant work ethic]], and a cultural obsession with the power of “positive thinking” — shape how we, as a nation, approach politics.
** Tara Isabella Burton, [https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/9/1/15951874/prosperity-gospel-explained-why-joel-osteen-believes-prayer-can-make-you-rich-trump “The prosperity gospel, explained: Why Joel Osteen believes that prayer can make you rich”], ''Vox'', (Sep 1, 2017)
 
*two years into the Trump administration it was obvious to people why we needed unapologetic progressives in the House. The vile, white supremacist, sexist, bigoted Trump administration spewed lies, targeted Black and brown women elected officials, made a mockery of our democracy, and emboldened fascists.
**[[Cori Bush]] The Forerunner: A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America (2022) p 227
 
* '''He's an ass.'''
** [[George H. W. Bush]] in 2011 interviewed by [[Maureen Dowd]] of ''[[w:The New York Times|The New York Times]]'' ({{cite news |first=Maureen |last=Dowd |authorlink=Maureen Dowd |date=December 2, 2018 |accessdate=December 10, 2018 |title=The Patrician President and the Reporterette: A Screwball Story |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/opinion/george-hw-bush-maureen-dowd.html |newspaper=[[w:The New York Times|The New York Times]]}}; {{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/politics/presidents-club-trump-bush-funeral/index.html |agency=[[w:CNN|CNN]] |title=Uneasy presidents club convenes at Bush funeral |first1=Kevin |last1=Liptak |first2=Jeff |last2=Zeleny |authorlink2=w:Jeff Zeleny |date=December 5, 2018 |accessdate=December 10, 2018}}; {{cite news |title=George W. Bush Eulogizes 'Best Father' at Solemn State Funeral |magazine=[[w:Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |date=December 5, 2018 |accessdate=December 10, 2018 |agency=[[w:Bloomberg News|Bloomberg News]] |url=http://fortune.com/2018/12/05/george-hw-bush-eulogy-funeral/}}; {{cite news |title=George W. Bush Eulogizes ‘Best Father' at Solemn State Funeral |first=Jennifer |last=Epstein |date=December 5, 2018 |accessdate=December 10, 2018 |agency=[[w:Bloomberg News|Bloomberg News]] |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-05/trump-bush-family-set-aside-mutual-disdain-for-state-funeral}}; {{cite book |title=The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics |first=Maureen |last=Dowd |authorlink=Maureen Dowd |publisher=[[w:Grand Central Publishing|Grand Central Publishing]] |year=2016 |isbn=9781455539246}}; {{cite news |title=Trump breaks character in show of respect for George H.W. Bush |newspaper=[[w:Newsday|Newsday]] |first1=William |last1=Goldschlag |first2=Dan |last2=Janison |date=December 3, 2018 |accessdate=December 10, 2018 |url=https://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/trump-bush-mueller-china-nafta-1.24156908}})
 
* '''We've seen nationalism distorted into nativism – forgotten the dynamism that [[immigration]] has always brought to America. We see a fading confidence in the value of [[Free market|free markets]] and international trade – forgetting that conflict, instability, and poverty follow in the wake of [[w:Protectionism|protectionism]].'''
** [[George W. Bush]], indirectly referencing Trump, [https://www.npr.org/2017/10/19/558788556/george-w-bush-slams-bigotry-politics-of-populism-that-led-to-trump-sanders "George W. Bush Slams 'Bigotry,' Politics Of Populism That Led To Trump, Sanders"], ''[[w:NPR|NPR]]'', (October 19, 2017)
 
* Whatever his views are this morning, they might change this afternoon, and they were different than they were last night, and they'll be different tomorrow. ... They seem to be ever, ever-changing, depending on what crowd he's in front of. Sounds like a typical politician, by the way, where you get in front of one crowd and say one thing, and then say something else to another crowd that may want to hear a different view. All the things that Donald Trump railed against, he seems to be morphing into — it's kind of disturbing. ... He doesn't believe in things, this is all a game.
** [[Jeb Bush]], about Trump's views — ''[https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/jeb-bush-says-hes-not-buying-the-trump-immigration-shift?utm_term=.xtWW3bwaw#.iaPobDJKJ Jeb Bush Says He's Not Buying The Trump Immigration Shift]'', ''{{w|BuzzFeed}}'' (August 25, 2016)
 
*Donald Trump Is Bad for Israel via @NYTimes. Hopefully our President will reverse his decision to abandon [[Syria]].
**[[Jeb Bush]] on [https://twitter.com/jebbush/status/1078111467558313984 26 December 2018]
 
* [[Donald Trump]] destroyed the Reagan Republican paradigm in 2016, but he didn’t exactly elucidate a new set of ideas, policies, and alliances. Trump’s devastation of the old order produced a grand struggle on the right to build a new one on Trumpian populist lines. <br>The NatCons are wrong to think there is a unified thing called “the left” that hates America. This is just the apocalyptic menace many of them had to invent in order to justify their decision to vote for Donald Trump. <br>They are wrong, too, to think there is a wokeist Anschluss taking over all the institutions of American life. For people who spend so much time railing about the evils of social media, they sure seem to spend an awful lot of their lives on [[Twitter]]. Ninety percent of their discourse is about the discourse. Anecdotalism was also rampant at the conference—generalizing from three anecdotes about people who got canceled to conclude that all of American life is a woke hellscape. They need to get out more. ** [[David Brooks]], as quoted in [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/scary-future-american-right-national-conservatism-conference/620746/ The Terrifying Future of the American Right (18 November 2021), ''The Atlantic'']
 
* In 1995, when he offered this company, if a monkey had thrown a dart, at the stock page, the monkey on average would've made 150 percent. But the people that believed in him, who listened to his siren song, ended up losing well over 90 cents in the dollar. They got back less than a dime.
** [https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-buffett-idCNW1N1A004G Warren Buffett]
 
=== C ===
[[File:Donald Trump supporters (25218962886).jpg|thumb|They love him in spite of everything they've heard. They love him, often, in spite of himself. They're not deluded. They know exactly who Trump is. They love him anyway. They love Donald Trump because no one else loves them. ~ [[Tucker Carlson]]]]
 
* Hillary is stealing America, whereas Donald Trump is trying to save our society.
** [[Herman Cain]], on "{{w|Hannity}}" (29 July 2016) [http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2016/07/29/reince-priebus-reality-will-catch-up-with-hillary-clinton-gorka-dnc-has-been/ transcript]
 
*If this guy pretends that closing the borders to anywhere either for trade (or) for people is going to provide prosperity to the United States, he is completely crazy... He is not very well informed.
** [[w:Felipe Calderón|Felipe Calderón]], [http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/08/mexico-wont-pay-single-cent-for-trumps-stupid-wall.html interview with CNBC] (6 February 2016).
 
* If he came to visit [[United Kingdom|our country]], I think he would unite us all against him.
** [[David Cameron]], as quoted in [http://www.edition.cnn.com/2016/01/18/politics/donald-trump-uk-united-kingdom-ban/index.html "Donald Trump debate: Could UK really ban him?"] (18 January 2016), by Max Foster, ''CNN'', [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]: Cable News Network
 
* He's a talker, a boaster, a booster, a compulsive self-promoter. At times, he's a full-blown BS artist.
** [[Tucker Carlson]], as quoted in ''[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tucker-carlson-fox-news-liar-inauguration-election-a9222061.html Fox News host Tucker Carlson admits media is right about Trump's lying: 'He's a full-blown BS artist']'' by Conrad Duncan, 28 November 2019, ''{{w|The Independent}}''
 
* You can regularly say embarrassing things on [[television]], you can hire [[Omarosa Manigault Newman|Omarosa]] to work at the White House. All of that will be forgiven if you protect your people. But if you do not protect them... then you’re done.
** [[Tucker Carlson]], as quoted in ''[https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-blames-jared-kushner-for-trumps-protest-catastrophe Tucker Carlson Blames Jared Kushner for Trump’s Protest Catastrophe]'' by Justin Baragona, ''Daily Beast'' (June 1, 2020)
 
* Millions of Americans sincerely love Donald Trump. '''They love him in spite of everything they've heard. They love him, often, in spite of himself. They're not deluded. They know exactly who Trump is. They love him anyway. They love Donald Trump because no one else loves them.''' The country they built, the country their ancestors fought for over hundreds of years, has left them to die in unfashionable little towns, mocked and despised by the sneering halfwits with finance degrees -- but no actual skills -- who seem to run everything all of a sudden. Whatever Donald Trump's faults, he is better than the rest of the people in charge. At least he doesn't hate them for their weakness. Donald Trump, in other words, is and has always been a living indictment of the people who run this country. That was true four years ago when he came out of nowhere to win the presidency. And it's every bit as true right now, maybe even more true than it's ever been. It will remain true regardless of whether Donald Trump wins reelection.
**[[Tucker Carlson]], as quoted in {{citation|date=November 2, 2020|first=Tucker|last=Carlson|periodical=Fox News|url=https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-2020-election-trump-supporters-love-him|title=Tucker Carlson: Why Donald Trump's supporters love him so much}}; {{citation|date=November 2, 2020|first=Christina|last=Zhao|periodical=Newsweek|url=https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-says-millions-americans-love-donald-trump-because-no-one-else-loves-them-1544219|title=Tucker Carlson Says Millions of Americans Love Donald Trump 'Because No One Else Loves Them'}}
 
* I've come to know Donald Trump, he is actually a very intelligent man who cares deeply about America.
** [[Ben Carson]] endorsing Donald Trump, as quoted in [http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/6994118/He-is-actually-a-very-intelligent-man-Former-candidate-Ben-Carson-endorses-Donald-Trump.html "'He is actually a very intelligent man'; Former candidate Ben Carson endorses Donald Trump"] by Alain Tolhurst, ''The Sun'' (11 March 2016)
 
* The American people are smart enough to pick a new administration if they don’t like the old one. And they just did.
* He was removed by the voters.
** Bruce Castor, lawyer for Trump, said after Trump lost the 2020 election, as quoted by {{citation
| date = 2021-02-09
| title = WATCH: Lawyer for Trump concedes he lost election during impeachment trial
| newspaper = PBS News Hour
| url = https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-lawyer-for-trump-concedes-he-lost-election-during-impeachment-trial
}}
 
*Trump hit the established world of American politics like a rogue wave, obliterating almost all political precedent. He'd begun his campaign by suggesting that most undocumented Mexican immigrants were rapists and murderers, then later accused an American-born federal judge who was presiding over fraud claims against Trump University of being unable to do his job because of his Mexican heritage.
**[[Julian Castro]] ''An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream'' (2018)
 
*what I think is important for folks to realize out there — and now I’m speaking, you know, directly to the Latinx community — is that it’s night and day with Joe Biden versus Donald Trump. Donald Trump has been the cruelest, most ill-intentioned president when it comes to not only immigrants, migrants, but the broader Latino community, scapegoated the community, otherized the community, uses it as a political piñata. And Joe Biden is somebody who brings compassion, who brings understanding, and, most importantly — because what you want to judge politicians on is, OK, what are you going to do, and what is your track record — has a track record of expanding opportunity, with Barack Obama. The Affordable Care Act expanded healthcare to 4 million — more than 4 million Latinx folks in this country. On educational opportunity, on violence against women, on housing opportunity. I remember going to [[Delaware]] with him — I think it was Veterans Day of 2016 — and marking the effective end of veteran homelessness there in Wilmington, and seeing how much that meant to him. So, this is somebody that is going to work to make life better for everybody in this country, in a way that Donald Trump — as Michelle Obama pointed out, Donald Trump just isn’t up to it and doesn’t want to do it.
**[[Julian Castro]] [https://www.democracynow.org/2020/8/18/julian_castro_dnc_latinx_representation Interview] with Democracy Now (August 2020)
 
* Okay, look, this is weird. Because a lot of people on both sides are saying there's nothing funny about Trump being hospitalized with coronavirus. And those people are obviously wrong. There's a lot funny about this. Maybe not from a moral standpoint. But mathematically, if you were constructing a joke, this has all the ingredients you need. The problem is, it’s almost too funny. Like, it’s so on the nose. It would be like if I were making fun of people who wear belts and my pants just immediately fell down.
** [[Michael Che]] on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', October 3, 2020, quoted in [https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/10/04/snl-premiere-trump-covid-jim-carrey-joe-biden/ "SNL premiere does not hold back on jokes about Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis: ‘It’s almost too funny’"], ''The Washington Post''.
 
* [[Trump]] probably met discharge requirements Sunday
** [[w:Sean Conley|Dr Sean Conley]] (Physician to the President) via [https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/10/05/dr-conley-trump-probably-met-discharge-requirements-sunday.html cnbc video]on October 5, 2020
 
*The myriad vulgarities of Donald Trump—examples of which are retailed daily on Web sites and front pages these days—are not news to those of us who have been living downwind of him for any period of time. I first encountered Trump more than 30 years ago. Back then he was a flashy go-getter from an outer borough eager to make his name in [[Manhattan (borough)|Manhattan]] real estate. Which he succeeded in doing in the only way he knew how: by putting his name in oversize type on anything he was associated with—buildings, yes, but also [[vodka]], golf courses, starchy ties, and even a sham of a [[Real estate|real-estate]] school... Just to drive him a little bit crazy, I took to referring to him as a "short-fingered vulgarian" in the pages of ''Spy'' magazine. That was more than a quarter of a century ago. To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump. There is always a photo of him—generally a tear sheet from a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers.
** {{w|Graydon Carter}}, [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/10/graydon-carter-donald-trump "Why Donald Trump Will Always Be a "Short-Fingered Vulgarian"], ''Vanity Fair'' (November 2015)
 
* I think I would choose Trump, which may surprise some of you, but the reason is Trump has proven already that he's completely malleable. I don't think he has any fixed opinions that he would really go to the White House and fight for. [[Ted Cruz]] is not malleable. He has {{w|far right-wing}} policies, in my opinion, that would be pursued aggressively if and when he would become president.
** [[Jimmy Carter]] to the {{w|House of Lords}}, when asked about the {{w|2016 United States presidential election}}. As quoted in ''[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jimmy-carter-i-would-choose-donald-trump-over-ted-cruz/ Jimmy Carter: I would choose Donald Trump over Ted Cruz]'' (February 3, 2016) by Stephanie Condon, ''{{w|CBS News}}''
 
* I think the media have been harder on Trump than any other president certainly that I’ve known about, I think they feel free to claim that Trump is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation.
** [[Jimmy Carter]], as quoted in [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/10/22/jimmy-carter-media-has-been-harder-trump-than-predecessors/788558001/ "Jimmy Carter: The media has been harder on Trump than predecessors"] by David Jackson, ''[[w:USA Today|USA Today]]'', (October 22, 2017)
 
*At times he is extremely abrasive. I know that's kind of his campaign, but I think time will tell, he's already locked up in some controversial business and it certainly doesn't speak proudly for America that the person who sits in the Oval Office is involved in controversy, so that's never a good thing, but time will tell, a man's legacy is defined by time.
** [[John Cena]], as quoted in [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4642784/If-John-Cena-got-ring-Donald-Trump.html "If John Cena 'got in the ring' with Donald Trump"] by Alex Michael, ''[[w:Daily Mail|Daily Mail]]'' (27 June 2017)
 
*I can no longer in good conscience endorse this person for president. {{W|Donald Trump and Billy Bush recording|It}} is some of the most abhorrent and offensive comments that you can possibly imagine. My wife and I, we have a 15-year-old daughter, and if I can't look her in the eye and tell her these things, I can't endorse this person.
** {{w|Jason Chaffetz}}, [http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/10/08/jason_chaffetz_pulls_trump_endorsement_because_he_has_a_15_year_old_daughter.html Jason Chaffetz Pulls Trump Endorsement Because He Has a 15-Year-Old Daughter] (October 2016)
 
*We're all tying ourselves in knots about what Donald Trump said about Mexicans... Just as [[Dylann Roof]] doesn't represent [[white people]], Mexican rapists don't represent anyone other than themselves either... While I like a good brawl as much as the next person, it seems that Trump is the answer only if the question is: Why can't we get more oafish egomaniacs into politics? Just when the Republican Party needs finesse and sensitivity when discussing immigration; just when it needs to focus on issues that unite all sectors of the electorate, including Hispanic and Asian voters; it gets a blowhard with all the nuance of a grenade... Trump's smear about [[Mexican Americans|Mexican immigrants]] was about as far away as you can get from Ronald Reagan... He tarred most Mexican immigrants as drug dealers, criminals, and rapists, allowing only as an afterthought that some may be good people. He claimed to have discussed the matter with border guards. Would those officers please step forward? In any case, crude and vulgar people always preen that they are brave truth tellers.
** {{w|Mona Charen}}, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420974/donald-trump-immigration-controversy-helps-democrats "The Trump Sideshow Plays Right into Democrats' Hands"] (10 July 2015), ''{{w|National Review}}''
 
*Put aside for a moment Trump's countless past departures from conservative principle on defense, racial quotas, abortion, taxes, single-payer health care, and immigration. That's right. In 2012, he derided Mitt Romney for being too aggressive on the question, and he's made extensive use of illegal-immigrant labor in his serially bankrupt businesses. The man has demonstrated an emotional immaturity bordering on personality disorder, and it ought to disqualify him from being a mayor, to say nothing of a commander-in-chief. Trump has made a career out of egotism, while conservatism implies a certain modesty about government. The two cannot mix... When a con man swindles you, you can sue—as many embittered former Trump associates who thought themselves ill used have done. When you elect a con man, there's no recourse.
** {{w|Mona Charen}}, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''{{w|National Review}}''.
 
*It seems, at times, as though your administration’s approach has more in common with Obama’s foreign policy than traditional Republican foreign policy.
** [[Dick Cheney]], speaking to Mike Pence, [https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/11/cheney-mike-pence-foreign-policy-1216663 "Cheney grills Pence on Trump's foreign policy"], ''[[w:Politico|Politico]]'', (March 11, 2019)
 
* I don't believe that he should be playing a role in the future of the party or the country.
** [[Liz Cheney]], House GOP Conference Chair, R-Wyo., the third-ranking House Republican, as quoted in [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/awkward-moment-house-republican-leaders-clash-trump-speaking/story?id=76090236 "Awkward moment as House Republican leaders clash over Trump speaking at CPAC"], Benjamin Siegel, ABC News (24 February 2021)
 
* It's pretty easy to tell if a picture of Donald Trump is AI-Generated, okay? Here's the trick: If Donald Trump is in a picture and looks completely insane, then it's a real picture.
** [[Ronny Chieng]], ''[[The Daily Show]]'' (5 March 2024)
 
[[File:Nuclear explosion.jpg|thumb| [President Trump] is perfectly right when he says we should have better relations with [[Russia]]... at the Russian border, there are very extreme tensions, that could blow up anytime and lead to... a [[W:Nuclear holocaust|terminal nuclear war]], terminal for the species and life on Earth. We're very close to that... it's because [[NATO]] expanded after the collapse of the [[w:Soviet Union|Soviet Union]], in violation of... promises to [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], mostly under Clinton, partly under first Bush... those are all issues that should be of primary concern. The fate of... organized human society, even of the survival of the species, depends on this. How much attention is given to these things as compared with, you know, whether Trump lied about something? ~ Professor [[Noam Chomsky]]]]
*'''[President Trump] is perfectly right when he says we should have better relations with [[Russia]]'''. Being dragged through the mud for that is outlandish... Russia shouldn't refuse to deal with the United States because the U.S. carried out the worst crime of the century in the invasion of Iraq, much worse than anything Russia has done. But they shouldn't refuse to deal with us for that reason, and we shouldn't refuse to deal with them for whatever infractions they may have carried out, which certainly exist. This is just absurd. We have to move towards better—right '''at the Russian border, there are very extreme tensions, that could blow up anytime and lead to''' what would in fact be '''a [[W:Nuclear holocaust|terminal nuclear war]], terminal for the species and life on Earth. We're very close to that...''' First of all, we should do things to ameliorate it. Secondly, we should ask why. Well, '''it's because [[NATO]] expanded after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in violation of''' verbal '''promises to [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], mostly under Clinton, partly under first Bush''', then Clinton expanded right to the Russian border, expanded further under Obama... '''The fate of... organized human society, even of the survival of the species, depends on this. How much attention is given to these things as compared with, you know, whether Trump lied about something?'''
** [[Noam Chomsky]], [https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/27/noam_chomsky_on_mass_media_obsession ''Noam Chomsky on Mass Media Obsession with Russia & the Stories Not Being Covered in the Trump Era''], ''[[w:Democracy Now!|Democracy Now!]]'' (27 July 2018)
 
*The [[coronavirus]] is serious enough but it's worth recalling that there is a much greater horror approaching, we are racing to the edge of disaster, far worse than anything that's ever happened in human history.... [[Donald Trump]] & his minions are in the lead, in racing to the abyss. In fact there are two immense threats that we are facing... the growing threat of [[Nuclear war|nuclear war,]] which has exacerbated it by the tearing what's left of the [[W:arms control|arms control regime]] and the other of course is the growing threat of [[global warming]]... If we're leaving our fate to [[w:sociopathic|sociopathic]] buffoons, we're finished... Trump is the worst, that's because of US power which is overwhelming. We are talking about U.S. decline but you just look at the world, you don't see that when the U.S. imposes [[W:Economic sanctions|sanctions]], murderous, devastating sanctions, that's the only country that can do that, but everyone has to follow... they have to follow the master, or else they get kicked out of the [[Global financial system|international financial system]]...<BR>And back to the coronavirus, one of the most shocking harsh aspects of it, is the use of [[w:Economic sanctions|sanctions]], to maximize the pain, perfectly consciously, [[Iran]] is in a zone, enormous internal problems by the stranglehold of tightening sanctions, which are consciously designed to make them suffer and suffer bitterly... The Crisis, the civilizational crisis of the West at this point is devastating... it does bring up childhood memories of listening to [[Hitler]] raving on the radio to raucous crowds... it makes you wonder if this species is even viable.
** [[Noam Chomsky]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-N3In2rLI4 Coronavirus - What is at stake?] | [[W:Democracy in Europe Movement 2025|''Democracy in Europe Movement 2025'' (DiEM25)]] (Mar 28, 2020)
 
* The scale of [[Coronavirus pandemic|the plague]] is surprising, indeed shocking, but not its appearance. Nor the fact that [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States|the U.S.]] has the worst record in [[w:COVID-19 pandemic in the United States#Government responses|responding]] to the [[w:Health crisis|crisis]]. Scientists have been warning of a pandemic for years. [...] But scientific understanding is not enough. There has to be someone to pick up the ball and run with it. [...] There will be recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, at severe and possibly horrendous [[w:Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic|cost]], particularly for [[w:Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic#Coronavirus and inequality|the poor and more vulnerable]]. But there will be no recovery from the [[w:Climate change in the Arctic|melting of the polar ice sheets]] and the other devastating [[w:Effects of global warming|consequences]] of [[global warming]]. [...] Trump has reacted during his years in office in the manner to which we have become accustomed: by defunding and dismantling every relevant part of government and assiduously implementing the instructions of his [[Corporatocracy|corporate masters]] to eliminate the [[regulation]]s that impede profits while saving lives — and leading the race to the abyss of {{w|environmental catastrophe}}, by far his greatest crime — in fact, the greatest crime in history when we consider the consequences.
** [[Noam Chomsky]], in an interview with C.J. Polychroniou, ''[https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-ventilator-shortage-exposes-the-cruelty-of-neoliberal-capitalism/ Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism]'' (April 1, 2020), ''{{w|Truthout}}''
 
* Trump was not silent, however. He issued a stream of confident [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States#President Trump|pronouncements]] informing the public that it was just a cough; he has everything under control; he gets a 10 out of 10 for his handling of the crisis; it’s very serious but he knew it was a pandemic before anyone else; and the rest of the sorry performance. The technique is well-designed, much like the practice of reeling out lies so fast that the very concept of truth vanishes. Whatever happens, Trump is sure to be vindicated among his loyal followers. When you shoot arrows at random, some are likely to hit the target. [...] This only skims the surface of [[Trumpian]] malevolence, but there's no space for more here. It is tempting to cast the blame on Trump for the disastrous response to the crisis. But if we hope to avert future catastrophes, we must look beyond him. Trump came to office in a sick society, afflicted by 40 years of neoliberalism, with still deeper roots.
** [[Noam Chomsky]], in an interview with C.J. Polychroniou, ''[https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-ventilator-shortage-exposes-the-cruelty-of-neoliberal-capitalism/ Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism]'' (April 1, 2020), ''{{w|Truthout}}''
 
* Donald is a leader. He is a successful person that, like me, isn't afraid to tell it like it is. Our system is broken and it won't be fixed from the inside. I am proud to offer my endorsement of his candidacy for President.
** [[Chris Christie]], endorsing Donald Trump for President, at a campaign rally in Fort Worth, TX [http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/feb/26/us-election-2016-campaign-live-trump-rubio-cruz-super-tuesday-clinton-sanders] (2016)
 
*Please stop it with voting for Trump. It was funny for a little while. But the guy is [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]. And by that I mean that we are being Germany in the 30s. Do you think they saw the shit coming? Hitler was just some hilarious and refreshing dude with a weird comb over.
*Trump is not your best. He's the worst of all of us. He's a symptom to a problem that is very real. But don't vote for your own cancer. You're better than that.
** [[Louis C.K.]] in an email to fans, quoted in [http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/louis-c-k-donald-trump-insane-bigot-dangerous-1201723679/ Louis C.K. Compares Donald Trump to Hitler: ‘He's an Insane Bigot'] (2016)
 
* A Trump supporter, a middle-aged woman, was asked how she felt about Trump's comments that being a celebrity meant women could expect him to grope their private parts. The woman said he would never have said it if Trump had known he was being recorded. That made me laugh.
** [[John Cleese]], as quoted in [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-cleese-how-donald-trump-is-stealing-comedians-best-lines-1030458 "John Cleese on How Donald Trump Is Stealing Comedians' Best Lines"] by Nick Holdsworth, ''[[w:The Hollywood Reporter|The Hollywood Reporter]]'', (August 17, 2017)
 
* Donald Trump has been uncommonly nice to [[Hillary Clinton|Hillary]] and me. We're all [[New York]]ers. And I like him. And I love playing golf with him.
** [[Bill Clinton]], as quoted in [http://www.salon.com/2012/06/04/bill_clinton_said_what/singleton/ "Bill Clinton Said What?"] (4 June 2012), ''Salon''
 
* '''He's a master brander, and he's the most interesting character out there. And...he says something that overrides the ideological differences. There is a macho appeal to saying, 'I'm just sick of nothing happening. I'll make things – vote for me.''''
** [[Bill Clinton]] on CBS '[[w:The Late Show with Stephen Colbert|Late Show]]' — {{citation
| date = 2015-10-06
| title = Bill Clinton to Stephen Colbert: Donald Trump Has a "Macho Appeal"
| author = Ryan Gajewski
| newspaper = The Hollywood Reporter
| url = http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/bill-clinton-donald-trump-has-830195
}}
 
*Despite what you hear, we don't need to make America great again. America has never stopped being great. But we do need to make America whole again. Instead of building walls, we need to be tearing down barriers.
**[[Hillary Clinton]], [http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-slogan-219908 speech] (February 2016)
 
* We cannot let him roll the dice with America.
**[[Hillary Clinton]] during an election speech, as quoted on [https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2016/06/02/hillary-clinton-trump-cannot-let-roll-dice-america boston.com], 2 June 2016
 
* It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump's predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness—that bloody heirloom which cannot ensure mastery of all events but can conjure a tailwind for most of them. Land theft and human plunder cleared the grounds for Trump's forefathers and barred others from it. Once upon the field, these men became soldiers, statesmen, and scholars; held court in Paris; presided at Princeton; advanced into the Wilderness and then into the White House. Their individual triumphs made this exclusive party seem above America's founding sins, and it was forgotten that the former was in fact bound to the latter, that all their victories had transpired on cleared grounds. No such elegant detachment can be attributed to Donald Trump—a president who, more than any other, has made the awful inheritance explicit.
* Any empirical evaluation of the relationship between Trump and the white working class would reveal that one adjective in that phrase is doing more work than the other. In 2016, Trump enjoyed majority or plurality support among every economic branch of whites. It is true that his strongest support among whites came from those making $50,000 to $99,999. This would be something more than working-class in many nonwhite neighborhoods, but even if one accepts that branch as the working class, the difference between how various groups in this income bracket voted is revealing. Sixty-one percent of whites in this "working class" supported Trump. Only 24 percent of Hispanics and 11 percent of blacks did. Indeed, the plurality of all voters making less than $100,000 and the majority making less than $50,000 voted for the Democratic candidate. So when [[George Packer|[George] Packer]] laments [in the ''New Yorker''] the fact that "Democrats can no longer really claim to be the party of working people—not white ones, anyway," he commits a kind of category error. The real problem is that Democrats aren't the party of white people—working or otherwise. White workers are not divided by the fact of labor from other white demographics; they are divided from all other laborers by the fact of their whiteness.
* Obama himself, underestimating Trump and thus underestimating the power of [[Whiteness studies|whiteness]], believed the Republican nominee too objectionable to actually win. In this Obama was, tragically, wrong. And so the most powerful country in the world has handed over all its affairs—the prosperity of its entire economy; the security of its 300 million citizens; the purity of its water, the viability of its air, the safety of its food; the future of its vast system of education; the soundness of its national highways, airways, and railways; the apocalyptic potential of its nuclear arsenal—to a carnival barker who introduced the phrase "grab 'em by the pussy" into the national lexicon. It is as if the white tribe united in demonstration to say, "If a black man can be president, then any white man—no matter how fallen—can be president."
**[[Ta-Nehisi Coates]], [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/ "The First White President,"] The Atlantic, October 2017 issue.
 
* I would never trust him to follow the law. We're dealing with a dangerous egomaniac who has no control of himself, recognizes no limits, no bounds and does not recognize the constraints of law or anything else.
** {{W|Eliot A. Cohen}}, in [http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/analysis-vengeful-world-donald-trump-why-it-matters-n671721 Analysis: The Vengeful World of Donald Trump, and Why It Matters], at NBC News; published October 31, 2016
 
* [[Donald Trump]] never thought he was going to win this election, he actually did not want to win this election, this was supposed to be the greatest infomercial in the history of politics. If you take that line, and you add the to it the Trump a la Moscow project, you'll understand that this was a branding deal, that's all the presidential campaign started out as.. there only one problem, one problem, he won.
** [[Michael Cohen]] on the [[Rachel Maddow] Show on [https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/cohen-trump-2016-campaign-was-just-a-branding-opportunity-91291717556 September 8, 2020]
 
* Apart from his wife and children, I knew Trump better than anyone else did. In some ways, I knew him better than even his family did because I bore witness to the real man, in strip clubs, shady business meetings, and in the unguarded moments when he revealed who he really was: a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man... He has no one he trusts to keep his secrets. For ten years, he certainly had me, and I was always there for him, and look what happened to me. I urge you to really consider that fact: Trump has no true friends. He has lived his entire life avoiding and evading taking responsibility for his actions. He crushed or cheated all who stood in his way, but I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them
** [[Michael Cohen (lawyer)|Michael Cohen]], as quoted by {{citation
| date = 2020-08-13
| title = Michael Cohen offers preview of tell-all Trump book: 'I know where the skeletons are buried'
| author = Joseph A Wulfsohn
| newspaper = Fox News
| url = https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michael-cohen-trump-disloyal-skeletons
}}
 
*A warning label should be affixed to Trump's forehead.
**Richard Cohen, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/reince-priebus-fool/2016/05/16/decae58a-1b88-11e6-9c81-4be1c14fb8c8_story.html "Reince Priebus, fool"] (16 May 2016), ''The Washington Post'', Washington, D.C.
 
* I can't believe he's doing this to me. Donald pisses ice water.
** {{W|Roy Cohn}}, upon being ostracized by Trump for having contracted HIV. (from {{W|Wayne Barrett}}'s 1992 ''Trump: The Deals and the Downfall'', as quoted in [https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2016/03/27/donald-trump-is-the-red-sanders-candidate-winning-isnt-everything-its-the-only-thing/#7c70fd80358c Donald Trump Is The 'Red' Sanders Candidate: 'Winning Isn't Everything; It's The Only Thing.'] at Forbes.com)
 
*A war crimes complaint has been filed against President Donald Trump, [[Benjamin Netanyahu|Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu]] and Trump adviser [[Jared Kushner]] in the [[International Criminal Court]] (ICC).... The complaint, filed by [[w:Middlesex University|Middlesex University]] law professor [[w:William Schabas|William Schabas]] on June 30 on behalf of four [[Palestinians]] who live in the [[w:West Bank|West Bank]], states “there is credible evidence” that Trump, Netanyahu and Kushner “are complicit in acts that may amount to [[war crimes]] relating to the transfer of populations into occupied territory and the annexation of the sovereign territory of the State of Palestine.” Under article 15 of the ICC’s [[w:Rome Statute|Rome Statute]], any individual, group or organization can bring a complaint to the Office of the Prosecutor. ... Schabas’ complaint comes on the heels of unusual moves last month from the Trump administration, which declared a “national emergency” in June in an effort to shield U.S. and Israeli officials from ICC accountability for war crimes and [[crimes against humanity]].
**[[Marjorie Cohn]] in [https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-trying-to-hide-us-and-israeli-war-crimes-by-attacking-the-icc/ ''Trump Is Trying to Hide US & Israeli War Crimes by Attacking the International Criminal Court, TruthOut,''] (8 July 2020)
* There's a populism to Trump that I found very appealing. The party elders would like him to go away, but the people have decided that he is not going to... [T]here is something really hopeful about the fact that, well, 36 percent of the likely voters want him to win, so the people in the machine don't get to say otherwise.
** [[Stephen Colbert]], as quoted in [http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-very-appealing "Colbert: Trump's populism 'very appealing'"] by Bradford Richardson, ''The Hill'' (23 December 2015)
 
* [[w:John_Dickerson_(journalist)|John Dickerson]] has way too much dignity to trade insults with the President of the United States to his face. But I, sir, am no John Dickerson. Let me introduce you to something we call the [[w:Tiffany_Network|Tiffany Way]]. When you insult one member of the CBS family, you insult us all. Bazinga. All right. Here we go. All right. Mr. Trump, your presidency, I love your presidency, I call it "Disgrace the Nation". You're not the POTUS, you're the BLOATUS. You're the glutton with the button. You're a regular Gorge Washington. You're the presi-dunce, but you're turning into a real prick-tator. Sir, you attract more skinheads than free [[w:Minoxidil|Rogaine]]. You have more people marching against you than cancer. You talk like a sign-language gorilla who got hit in the head. In fact the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's cock holster. Your {{w|presidential library}} is going to be a kids' menu and a couple of {{w|Juggs}} magazines. The only thing smaller than your hands is your "tax returns" [holds up little finger] and you can take that any way you want.
** [[Stephen Colbert]], during his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaHwlSTqA7s opening monologue] of ''{{w|The Late Show with Stephen Colbert}}'', after showing a clip of Trump calling the CBS reporter part of the "fake media" and referring to [[w:Face the Nation|his show]] as "Deface the Nation". The Trump-designated chairman of the FCC, {{w|Ajit Pai}}, has since stated he would investigate the comedian for broadcasting this material (1 May 2017)
 
* '''There once was a man in Nantucket<br>Whose poll numbers really did suck it;<br>At least he is not<br>That orange pol pot<br>Who ate all his meals from a bucket.'''
** [[Stephen Colbert]]; limerick from his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8qFuh-qNaE opening monologue] of ''{{w|The Late Show with Stephen Colbert}}'' of 25 November 2021, after reading about [[President Biden]]'s revival of his family's tradition of visiting Nantucket at Thanksgiving.
 
* Do you know how bad of a job you have to be doing to get fired while you're getting fired?
** Steve Colbert, quoted by {{citation
| date = 2021-01-14
| title = Late night hosts mock Trump's second impeachment: 'I wonder if he's tired of all the winning yet?'
| author = Frank Pallotta
| newspaper = CNN Business
| url = https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/14/media/late-night-trump-impeachment/index.html
}}
 
* Trump denied knowing that [[w:Serge Kovaleski|Serge]] (Kovaleski) was disabled, and demanded an apology, saying that anyone could see his imitation was of a flustered, frightened reporter, not a disabled person. It's true that Trump was not mimicking any mannerisms that Serge has. He doesn't jerk around or flail his arms. He's not retarded. He sits calmly, but if you look at his wrists, you'll see they are curved in. That's not the imitation Trump was doing—he was doing a standard retard, waving his arms and sounding stupid: "'Ahhh, I don't know what I said—ahhh, I don't remember!' He's going, ‘Ahhh, I don't remember, maybe that's what I said!'"
* There's nothing Trump can do that won't be forgiven, except change his immigration policies.
** ''In Trump We Trust'' [http://theslot.jezebel.com/ann-coulter-donald-trump-wasnt-mocking-reporters-disab-1785766218][http://www.nbcnews.com/card/real-quote-ann-coulters-new-book-n637676] (2016)
 
* Trump is an unreflective beneficiary of every sort of white privilege on offer, from his inherited fortune to his mass-media celebrity to his ability to lie with utter impunity about his career, his finances, and his easily documented record of public statements. If Barack Obama had committed but one of the transgressions Trump reveled in during his 2016 presidential run—deriding John McCain's war record, to take a comparatively minor instance—he would have suffered a torrent of righteous white moralizing that would have been unprecedented even in a country renowned for its righteous white moralizing. And if he'd been caught on tape bragging about a celebrity-enabled history of sexual assault—well, suffice it to say that it would have been a high-tech lynching on a scale that [[Clarence Thomas]] could scarcely begin to imagine.
**[[Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw]], ''[https://thebaffler.com/salvos/race-to-bottom-crenshaw Race to the Bottom: How the post-racial revolution became a whitewash]''
 
* President Trump doubled down Sunday on his push for the use of [[Hydroxychloroquine|an anti-malarial drug]] against the [[coronavirus]], issuing {{w|medical advice}} that goes well beyond scant evidence of the [[w:Hydroxychloroquine#COVID-19|drug’s effectiveness]] as well as the advice of doctors and {{w|public health}} experts. Mr. Trump’s recommendation of hydroxychloroquine, for the second day in a row at a White House briefing, was a striking example of his brazen willingness [[w:Veracity of statements by Donald Trump#Coronavirus pandemic|to distort and outright defy]] expert opinion and {{w|scientific evidence}} when it does not suit his [[w:Political agenda|agenda]].
** [[Michael Crowley (journalist)|Michael Crowley]], Katie Thomas and [[Maggie Haberman]], ''[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/politics/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus.html Ignoring Expert Opinion, Trump Again Promotes Use of Hydroxychloroquine]'' (April 5, 2020), ''{{w|The New York Times}}''.
 
* Standing alongside two top public health officials who have declined to endorse his call for widely administering the drug, Mr. Trump suggested that he was speaking on gut instinct and acknowledged that he had no [[expertise]] on the subject. Saying that the drug is “being tested now,” Mr. Trump said that “there are some very strong, powerful signs” of its potential, although health experts say that the data is extremely limited and that more study of the drug’s effectiveness against the coronavirus is needed. [...] Mr. Trump, who once predicted that the virus might “miraculously” disappear by April because of warm weather, and who has [[Denial|rejected]] {{w|scientific consensus}} on issues like [[w:Environmental policy of the Donald Trump administration#Climate change|climate change]], was undaunted by [[skeptical]] questioning. “What do you have to lose?” Mr. Trump asked, for the second day in a row, saying that [[w:Terminal illness|terminally ill]] patients should be willing [[w:Terminal illness#Continued treatment|to try any treatment]] that has shown some promise.
** [[Michael Crowley (journalist)|Michael Crowley]], Katie Thomas and [[Maggie Haberman]], ''[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/politics/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus.html Ignoring Expert Opinion, Trump Again Promotes Use of Hydroxychloroquine]'' (April 5, 2020), ''{{w|The New York Times}}''.
 
* Even as Mr. Trump has promoted the drug, which is also often prescribed for patients with {{w|lupus}}, it has created rifts within his own coronavirus task force. And while many [[w:Medical centers in the United States|hospitals]] have chosen to use hydroxychloroquine in a desperate attempt to treat dying patients who have few other options, others have noted that it carries [[w:Hydroxychloroquine#Side effects|serious risks]]. In particular, the drug can cause a {{w|heart arrhythmia}} that can lead to {{w|cardiac arrest}}.
** [[Michael Crowley (journalist)|Michael Crowley]], Katie Thomas and [[Maggie Haberman]], ''[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/politics/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus.html Ignoring Expert Opinion, Trump Again Promotes Use of Hydroxychloroquine]'' (April 5, 2020), ''{{w|The New York Times}}''.
 
* Hydroxychloroquine has not been proved to work against Covid-19 in any significant clinical trials. A small trial by Chinese researchers made public last week found that it helped speed the recovery in moderately ill patients, but the study was not peer-reviewed and had significant limitations. Earlier reports from France and China have drawn criticism because they did not include control groups to compare treated patients with untreated ones, and researchers have called the reports anecdotal. Without controls, they said, it is impossible to determine whether the drugs worked. But Mr. Trump on Sunday dismissed the notion that doctors should wait for further study.
** [[Michael Crowley (journalist)|Michael Crowley]], Katie Thomas and [[Maggie Haberman]], ''[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/politics/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus.html Ignoring Expert Opinion, Trump Again Promotes Use of Hydroxychloroquine]'' (April 5, 2020), ''{{w|The New York Times}}''.
 
* I have been pointing out, and I have been screaming to the rooftops, that Donald Trump is the Charlie Sheen of politics. [...] I have to tell you, I love Charlie Sheen, I loved working with him when he was sober, but he was, he's full of shit. He has been full of shit, you know, he has serious addiction. You know, his addiction is obviously serious, drugs, and, but, Trump is just addicted to feeling important. You know, and I think if anybody is under the delusion that he cares about, uh, uh, anybody in America besides himself, they are, they are stoned and need to rethink their priorities, 'cause he's, you know, 'cause it's just ridiculous that's he's gotten as far as he has.
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Cryer Jon Cryer] on the May 5, 2016, episode of the podcast Never Not Funny.
 
*When the voters examine Donald, they'll discover he actually embodies Washington corruption, the Washington deal-making that they're so angry about.
**[[Ted Cruz]], [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sen-ted-cruz-on-donald-trump-post-super-tuesday-strongest-campaign/ interview with Charlie Rose] (1 March 2016), ''CBS This Morning''
 
*People are asking themselves, 'How would we feel if our children came in repeating the words of the president of the United States if that president was Donald Trump?' And if it would embarrass you to have your children repeat the words of the president, that's not a good thing... A president should unify us, should appeal to our better angels, should appeal to our shared values that make America who we are.
** [[Ted Cruz]], [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-cruz-criticizes-donald-trump-a-president-should-not-embarrass-election-2016/ interview with John Dickerson] (March 2016), ''Face the Nation''
 
*It's not easy to tick me off... I don't get angry often. But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids; that'll do it every time. Donald, you're a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone.
** [[Ted Cruz]], as quoted in [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-cruz-bashes-sniveling-coward-donald-trump/ "Cruz calls Trump "sniveling coward" and says 'leave Heidi the hell alone'"] (24 March 2016), by Reena Flores, ''CBS News''
 
* Let me be clear: Donald Trump may be a rat, but I have no desire [[w:Ratfucking|to copulate]] with him.
** [[Ted Cruz]], as quoted in [http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a43332/ted-cruz-donald-trump-rat-copulate/ Ted Cruz Will Do Anything for Love, But He Won't Do Rats] [25 March 2016], by Matt Miller, ''Esquire''
 
* The best thing to happen to politics in a long long time. I don't care what his actual positions are. I don't care if he says the wrong thing. He says what's on his mind. He gives honest answers rather than prepared answers. This is more important than anything any candidate has done in years.
** {{w|Mark Cuban}}, as quoted in {{citation
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==== Hillary Clinton, speech in Warren, Michigan (August 11, 2016) ====
:<small> Speech in {{w|Warren, Michigan}}. Transcript by ''{{w|Newsweek}}'' [http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-full-transcript-economic-speech-489602] (August 11, 2016) </small>
 
* He's made a career out of stiffing small businesses from [[w:Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]] to [[Las Vegas]]. There are companies that were left hanging because he refused to pay their bills. A lot of those companies scraped together what the could [sic] to pay their employees, and many of them put their businesses at risk and some of them ended up taking bankruptcy. It wasn't because Trump couldn't pay them, it was because he wouldn't pay them.
 
* It's just not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can't refinance their debt.
 
* Mr. Trump may talk a big game on trade, but his approach is based on fear, not strength. Fear that we can't compete with the rest of the world even when the rules are fair. Fear that our country has no choice but to hide behind walls.
 
* Let's remember where Trump makes many of his own products. Because it sure is not America. ... One positive thing Trump could do to make America great again is actually make great things in America again.
 
* Trump would roll back the tough rules that we have imposed on the [[Financial market|Financial Industry]]. I'll do the opposite – I think we should strengthen those rules so that [[Wall Street]] can never wreck Main Street again.
 
* He called for a new tax loophole – let's call it the Trump Loophole – because it would allow him to pay less than half the current tax rate on income from many of his companies. He'd pay a lower rate than millions of middle class families.
 
* He's making a big promise. But his advisors have said, his own advisors have said, he may not stand by them. ... One of the differences between Donald Trump and me is I'm telling you what I will do, I'm laying out my plans, and I will stand by them, and I want you to hold me accountable for delivering results. This all reminds me of that old saying, ‘if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.'
 
* Guaranteeing equal pay won't just increase paychecks for women – it will boost family budgets and get incomes rising across the board. And I don't understand why Trump's against that. Paid family leave won't only make life easier for Moms and Dads – it will also keep skilled, talented Americans in the workforce and grow our economy. That's why every other advanced country already has it. Again, he's against it. Raising the federal minimum wage won't just put more money in the pockets of low-income families – it also means they will spend more at the businesses in their neighborhoods. Trump's against that as well.
 
* Based on what we know from the Trump campaign, he wants America to work for him and his friends, at the expense of everyone else.
 
==== Hillary Clinton, speech in Reno, Nevada (August 25, 2016) ====
<small> Speech in {{w|Reno, Nevada}}. Transcript by ''[[w:Vox (website)|Vox]]'' [http://www.vox.com/2016/8/25/12647810/hillary-clinton-speech-alt-right] (August 25, 2016) </small>
 
* Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He's taking [[w:Hate groups|hate groups]] mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America's two major political parties. His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous. In just the past week, under the guise of "outreach" to African Americans, Trump has stood up in front of largely white audiences and described black communities in insulting and ignorant terms.
 
* Donald Trump misses so much. He doesn't see the success of black leaders in every field… The vibrancy of [[w:African-American Businesses|black-owned businesses]]…Or the strength of the black church… He doesn't see the excellence of [[historically black colleges and universities]] or the pride of black parents watching their children thrive… And he certainly doesn't have any solutions to take on the reality of systemic racism and create more equity and opportunity in communities of color. It takes a lot of nerve to ask people he's ignored and mistreated for decades, "What do you have to lose?" The answer is everything!
 
* Trump's lack of knowledge or experience or solutions would be bad enough. But what he's doing here is more sinister. Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters. It's a disturbing preview of what kind of President he'd be.
 
* A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far reaches of the internet, should never run our government or command our military. If he doesn't respect respect all Americans, he can't serve all Americans! ... There's no other Donald Trump. This is it.
 
* Well, throughout his career and this campaign, Donald Trump has shown us exactly who he is. We should believe him. When Trump was getting his start in business, he was sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent apartments to black and Latino tenants. Three years later, the Justice Department took Trump back to court because he hadn't changed. The pattern continued through the decades.
 
* Someone detached from reality should never be in charge of making decisions that are as real as they come.
 
* He'd abolish the bedrock constitutional principle that says if you're born in the United States, you're an American citizen. He says that children born in America to undocumented parents are, quote, "anchor babies" and should be deported. Millions of them.
 
* He'd ban Muslims around the world – 1.5 billion men, women, and children –from entering our country just because of their religion.
 
* Ever since the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, America has distinguished itself as a haven for people fleeing religious persecution. Under Donald Trump, America would distinguish itself as the only country in the world to impose a religious test at the border.
 
* Trump likes to say he only hires the "best people." But he's had to fire so many campaign managers it's like an episode of the Apprentice.
 
=== D ===
* Donald Trump...is the last hope for America. I don't want nuance, I want bold colors: red, white, and blue... When I saw those guys on the boats on their knees, I mean, that sends a picture about America that I haven't seen ever before. And I think we need Donald Trump right now. The country needs him.
** {{w|Robert Davi}}, as quoted in [http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/14/die-hard-actor-robert-davi-donald-trump-is-the-last-hope-for-america-video/ "‘Die Hard' Actor Robert Davi: Donald Trump Is The ‘Last Hope For America'"] by Steve Guest, ''The Daily Caller'' (14 January 2016)
 
* Let's say five years ago, someone wanted to tell an end-of-the-world story. Governments have broken down, diplomacy has gone out the window, and lunatic nutbags are running things. If the storyteller wanted to provide a shorthand to establish how things could have possibly gone so wrong, all he would have to do is have a newscaster talking about "President Trump." Because five years ago, the audience would have snorted and said, "Well, sure, I totally believe that if this country was stupid enough to put Trump into office, then it makes sense that the entire world is falling apart."
**{{W|Peter David}}, [http://www.peterdavid.net/2017/08/04/freak-out-friday-august-4-2017/ Freak Out Friday], August 4 2017
 
* Loser of the year <i> German: "Der Verlierer des Jahres </i>
** Der Spiegel, quoted by {{citation |date=2020-12-11 |title=German magazine Der Spiegel names Trump 'Loser of the Year' | author= Celine Castronuovo | periodical=The Hill | url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/529830-german-magazine-der-spiegel-names-trump-loser-of-the-year}}
 
* Trump has been said to have extended his initial 30-day deadline to four months
**Karen DeYoun of Washington Post, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/john-bolton-to-meet-with-turks-to-discuss-announced-us-withdrawal-from-syria/2019/01/04/30e39c92-1044-11e9-8938-5898adc28fa2_story.html 4 January 2019]
 
* The case for constitutional limited government is the case against Donald Trump. To the degree we take him at his word — understanding that Trump is a negotiator whose positions are often purposefully deceptive — what he advocates is a rejection of our [[James Madison|Madisonian]] inheritance and an embrace of Barack Obama's [[authoritarianism]]. Trump assures voters that he will use authoritarian power for good, to help those who feel — with good reason — ignored by both parties. But the American experiment in self-government was the work of a generation that risked all to defeat a tyrannical monarch and establish a government of laws, not men. A government of the people, by the people, and for the people is precisely what the Constitution offers, and what is most threatened by "great men" impatient to impose their will on the nation. Conservatives should reject Trump's hollow, Euro-style [[identity politics]].
**Ben Domenech, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''.
 
* If your claim to fame is that you’ve taken money from other people and haven’t delivered what you promised, that doesn’t make you a genius businessman, that makes you a [[thief]].
**{{w|Kathy Duva}}, as quoted in [http://theboxingtribune.com/2017/01/19/donald-trump-was-awful-at-boxing-too/ "Donald Trump was awful at boxing, too"] by Paul Gagno, ''The Boxing Tribune'' (January 19, 2017)
 
=== E ===
*In his State of the Union address on February 6, 2019, Donald Trump said: ''...we condemn the brutality of the Maduro regime, whose socialist policies have turned that nation from being the wealthiest in South America into a state of abject poverty and despair.'' Trump’s ridiculous comment was not considered controversial, because the Western media, including the anti-Trump outlets like the New York Times, have spent many years conveying a lie: that Venezuela had been very prosperous and democratic until [[Hugo Chávez]], and then his successor [[Nicolás Maduro]], came along and ruined everything. If readers believe that, then they may indeed wonder, “Why shouldn’t the US government help Venezuelans return to that prosperous state?”
**[https://fair.org/home/the-media-myth-of-once-prosperous-and-democratic-venezuela-before-chavez/ The Media Myth of ‘Once Prosperous’ and Democratic Venezuela Before Chávez, Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur, ''Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting'' (FAIR),] (26 August 2021)
 
* People are looking for somebody who is outspoken and who isn't afraid. And [Trump] seems to have kind of a fearless attitude.
** [[Clint Eastwood]], as quoted in [http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/clint-eastwood-praises-trump/2015/12/25/id/707110/ "Clint Eastwood Praises Trump, Carson: 'Really Good People'"] by Todd Beamon, ''Newsmax'' (25 December 2015)
 
* I'd have to go for Trump ... you know, [because] [[Hillary Clinton|she]]'s declared that she's gonna follow in [President] Obama's footsteps. I mean, it's a tough voice to listen to for four years. It could be a tough one. If she's just gonna follow what we've been doing, then I wouldn't be for her. She's made a lot of dough out of a being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that [former President] Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician. ... [Trump]'s onto something, because secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a p-ssy generation.
** [[Clint Eastwood]], interview with ''Esquire'' as quoted in [http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/290324-clint-eastwood-id-have-to-go-for-trump-over-clinton "Clint Eastwood: 'I'd have to go for Trump' over Clinton"] by Mark Hensch, ''The Hill'' (3 August 2016)
 
*The only thing that I can say about President Trump is that he is the only person who, in 2009 when I served a lot of subpoenas on a lot of people, or at least gave notice to some pretty connected people, that I want to talk to them, is the only person who picked up the phone and said, let's just talk. I'll give you as much time as you want. I'll tell you what you need to know, and was very helpful, in the information that he gave, and gave no indication whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever, but had good information. That checked out and that helped us and we didn't have to take a deposition of him in 2009.
**Bradley Edwards (attorney prosecuting [[Jeffrey Epstein]]) in December 2018, according to [https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/prosecutor-in-2009-epstein-case-said-donald-trump-was-the-only-one-who-helped-him/ 7 July 2019 article by Joe Hoft of Gateway Pundit]
 
* (Said in 2016) [Narcissistic] idiot,bully, [and someone who] really cannot be trusted to be consistent or accurate in anything
** [[w:Jenna Ellis|Jenna Ellis]], senior legal adviser to the Trump 2020 campaign and the president, [https://www.axios.com/jenna-ellis-trump-adviser-87cebdba-a44f-4bbb-bdc3-3e044e76b746.html constitutional law attorney] and former law professor from Colorado according to [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-lawyer-jenna-ellis-idiot-campaign-b1731162.htmlTrump’s lawyer once called him an ‘idiot’ who ‘really cannot be trusted’ to tell truth] published November 18, 2020
 
*I will not be voting for Donald Trump in the primary. I take my conservatism seriously, and I also take Saint Paul seriously. In setting out the qualifications for overseers, or bishops, Saint Paul admonished Timothy... We should not put a new conservative in charge of conservatism or the country, so that he does not become puffed up with conceit and fall into condemnation. Republicans have wandered in the wilderness already by letting leaders define conservatism in their own image. Donald Trump needs more time and more testing of his new conservative convictions.
**Erick Erickson, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''
 
*Hitler is not Hillary Clinton either. The neo-nazis and white supremacists backing Donald Trump fetishize Hitler too. Trump dog whistles to them.
**Erick Erickson, [http://theresurgent.com/republicans-for-hitler/ "Republicans for Hitler"] (17 May 2016), ''The Resurgent''
 
=== F ===
*You got to give it up for [[Colorado]] — they’re the first state to legalize [[Cannabis|weed]] and illegalize Trump.
**[[Jimmy Fallon]], as quoted in [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-trump-colorado-ballot.html "Jimmy Fallon Cheers Colorado for ‘Illegalizing’ Trump"] (21 December 2023), By Trish Bendix, ''{{w|New York Times}}''
 
* I was trying to let science guide our policy, but he was putting as much stock in anecdotal things that turned out not to be true as he was in what scientists like myself were saying. That caused unnecessary and uncomfortable conflict where I had to essentially correct what he was saying, and put me at great odds with his people.
** [[Anthony Fauci | Dr. Anthony Fauci]], the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as quoted in [https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/dr-fauci-says-trump-would-do-terrible-things-anytime-he-disagreed-with-him-publicly/ "Dr Fauci Says Trump Would Do ‘Terrible Things’ Anytime He Disagreed With Him Publicly"], Cameron Frew, Unila, 20 February 2021.
*In the United States, Trump’s diversionary theatrics and early failures in Congress kept off the front pages a bonfire of social and environmental regulations as well as a purge of liberal judges from the [[w:federal judiciary in the United Stats|federal bench]] that continued in the background with little resistance and that promised to play out for decades. When thwarted by [[United States Congress|Congress]], Trump resorted to [[w:Executive orders|executive orders]] and [[w:Emergency powers|emergency powers]], as had presidents before him, though with a radical, institution-shaking appeal in justification “to the people” rarely heard since the [[New Deal]]. Internationally, the unconservative revisionism of the [[Far-right politics|hard right]] was evident in Trump’s questioning or pulling back from previous American commitments— the [[w:Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action|Iran nuclear deal]], [[Paris Agreement|world climate accords]], the [[w:Atlantic alliance|Western alliance]] itself. Rather than standing up for liberal democracy and universal values, he praised authoritarians: [[China]]’s [[Xi Jinping|Xi]], [[Russia]]’s [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]], [[House of Saud|Saudi princes]], the [[Philippines]]’ [[Rodrigo Duterte|Duterte]]. Rather than follow every administration, Democrat or Republic, since 1945 and align Americanism, Westernism, and universalism in an avowedly virtuous trinity, the Trump right detached Americanism as justified and defendable on its own.
**[[w:Edmund Fawcett|Edmund Fawcett]], ''Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition'' (2020), p. 348
 
* Trump is Hillary Clinton's Christmas gift wrapped up under a tree.
**[[Carly Fiorina]], [http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/09/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-conspiracy/index.html ''Twitter''] (8 December 2015)
 
*I think Trump says a lot of things that are crazy... [repeating what a 10-year-old girl said] Trump's a moron.
**[[Carly Fiorina]], as quoted in [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/carly-fiorina-repeats-girl-donald-trumps-moron/story?id=36327939 "Carly Fiorina Repeats After Girl: 'Donald Trump's a Moron'"] (16 January 2016), by Ben Gittleson, ''{{w|ABC News}}''
 
*He reminds me of [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]].
**{{w|Vicente Fox}}, [http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/26/politics/vicente-fox-donald-trump-hitler/index.html interview with Anderson Cooper] (February 2016)
 
* Most amateur diagnosticians have mislabeled President Trump with the diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder. I wrote the criteria that define this disorder, and Mr. Trump doesn't meet them. He may be a world-class [[narcissism|narcissist]], but this doesn't make him mentally ill, because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose [[mental disorder]].
:Mr. Trump causes severe distress rather than experiencing it and has been richly rewarded, rather than punished, for his grandiosity, self-absorption and lack of [[empathy]]. It is a stigmatizing insult to the mentally ill (who are mostly well behaved and well meaning) to be lumped with Mr. Trump (who is neither).
:* [[w:Allen Frances|Allen Frances]], [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/opinion/an-eminent-psychiatrist-demurs-on-trumps-mental-state.html?_r=0 "An Eminent Psychiatrist Demurs on Trump's Mental State,"] [[w:The New York Times|The New York Times]], February 14, 2017.
 
*A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not of building bridges, is not Christian. This is not the [[gospel]]... I say only that this man is not Christian if he has said things like that. We must see if he said things in that way and I will give him the benefit of the doubt.
**[[Pope Francis]], as quoted in [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-trump-is-not-christian/ "Pope Francis: Donald Trump 'is not Christian'"] (18 February 2016), by Rebecca Kaplan, ''{{w|CBS News}}''
 
*I was wrong. Weeks ago I said on a number of radio interviews that while I opposed Trump in the primary, I'd back him if he won the GOP nomination. I hadn't yet seen, or had been unwilling to believe, the full extent of his contempt for the truth, his fondness for far-left conspiracy theories, and his sheer malice. When I saw Trump in full, my decision was easy. Never Trump... I cannot abide the notion of voting for a man whose 'war strategy' is a child-killing war crime.
**David French, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432237/donald-trump-why-i-cant-vote-trump-nevertrump "Why I Changed My Mind and Joined the #NeverTrump Movement"] (2 March 2016), ''National Review''
 
*There is an Ivy League grad who has spent most of his life in [[New York City|Manhattan]], where he is chauffeured around in limousines. He frequently brags to strangers about his massive personal wealth. In public statements, he has advocated government healthcare, a woman's right to an abortion, an assault weapons ban, and paying off the national debt by forcing rich people to forfeit 14.25 percent of their total wealth. When the man married his third wife, he invited Bill and Hillary Clinton to the wedding, and he has given many thousands to their political campaigns and their foundation. He's donated many thousands more that helped elect Democrats to the Senate and the House. And George W. Bush was "maybe the worst president in the history of this country," the man said in 2008. "He was so incompetent, so bad, so evil." On paper, this is not someone you'd expect to excel in the 2016 Republican Party primary. But Donald Trump is excelling. Thanks to his celebrity, a few epic flip-flops, and his willingness to pander to the most xenophobic element of the GOP's base, the real-estate developer and reality-TV star is polling near the top of the field.
**Conor Friedersdorf, [http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/donald-trump-running-for-president/398345/ "Donald Trump Is No Conservative"] (13 July 2015), ''The Atlantic''
 
* Trump has made it clear that he would rule as a dictator. His plans include destroying government as we know it, while acting on his desires without guardrails or accountability. He has vowed to use the power of the state to punish political opponents. In short, another Trump presidency would end American [[democracy]] as we know it.
** [[Dan Froomkin]], {{cite web |title=Some Rules for Journalists Reporting on Fascism and Fascists in 2024 |url=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/reporting-on-trump-fascism-in-2024 |publisher=Common Dreams |date=26 January 2024}}
 
=== G ===
* Donald Trump is a serial liar.
** Neal Gabler, [http://www.salon.com/2016/05/15/donald_trump_is_a_serial_liar_more_upsetting_is_that_no_one_seems_to_care_partner/ "Donald Trump is a serial liar. More upsetting is that no one seems to care"] (15 May 2016), ''Salon''
 
* We thought about it when we made the movie! Are you kidding? You watch Part II again and there's a scene where Marty confronts Biff in his office and there's a huge portrait of Biff on the wall behind Biff, and there's one moment where Biff kind of stands up and he takes exactly the same pose as the portrait? Yeah.
**[[w:Bob Gale|Bob Gale]], [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/21/how-back-to-the-future-predicted-trump.html ‘Back to the Future' Writer: Biff Tannen Is Based on Donald Trump], The Daily Beast (October 15, 2015)
 
*Donald Trump rightly criticized the [[w:Humayun Khan (soldier)|Khan]] parents. Clearly, Trump does not oppose Muslim soldiers serving in the military. Nonsense. Trump opposes Muslim immigration from jihad-hot regions. We know Islamic terror groups are plotting attacks on the West and using the migration to import their soldiers.
** [[Pamela Geller]], ''[http://pamelageller.com/2016/07/dnc-mainstream-medias-new-spox-muslim-parents.html/ DNC, Mainstream Media's New SPOX — Muslim Parents of Fallen Soldier WHO OPPOSE TRUMP BUT NOT JIHAD TERROR @chucktodd @meetthepress]'' (July 31, 2016)
 
*I remain a skeptic about Donald Trump. Trump fans look at us skeptics with incredulity that we could possibly object to their man... Yet I see people comparing Trump to Reagan. Donald Trump has been a conservative for about ten minutes.
**[[Jim Geraghty]], [http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/420996/trump-2008-bush-evil-talk-iran-obama-cannot-do-worse-bush-jim-geraghty "The Corner"], ''National Review''
 
* @realdonaldtrump you are full of shit!
**Chrysler executive {{W|Ralph Gilles}}
**[http://jalopnik.com/5956093/chrysler-exec-calls-donald-trump-full-of-shit-on-twitter Chrysler Exec Calls Donald Trump "Full Of Shit" On Twitter], at {{W|Jalopnik}} (2012)
 
* [W]e have to learn something from history here. [[Fascism]] begins with the rhetoric of dehumanization, humiliation, and [[wiktionary:reification#Noun|reification]], right? It starts with the language of brutality, which it normalizes. It legitimates hatred and racism and violence. It views certain groups through rhetoric as enemies of the American people. It operates off of the rhetoric of war, anti-intellectualism, and white supremacy. It operates off of the language of disposability. That language doesn’t just simply normalize increasingly the notions of [[white nationalism]], white supremacy, racism, and [[xenophobia]]; it also enacts policies and it creates a culture of utter stupidity, a culture of ignorance. And, unfortunately, it functions so as to enable violence against groups labeled as dangerous, other, excess, and a threat to the whitewashed notion of citizenship.<br />With respect to the latter, when people can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction, they can’t tell the difference between good and evil. They can’t recognize a crime when they see one or what lawlessness looks like. All standards of truth go out the window. It’s a very dangerous moment because it means that people become more susceptible to [[demagogue]]s, to people like Trump, and I think that the media has played an enormous role in creating a [[wiktionary:formative#Adjective|formative]] culture that at its worst legitimates and at its best enables what we see happening in the United States today.
** [[Henry Giroux]], ''[https://mediaforus.org/interviews/2019/8/12/henrygiroux Henry Giroux on His Latest Book — The Terror of the Unforeseen — and How Neoliberal Capitalism Sets the Stage for Fascism]'' (August 19, 2019), ''Media For Us'' interview.
 
*President Trump made history Sunday when he became the first sitting U.S. president to step foot in North Korea. Trump was there to visit North Korean leader [[Kim Jong-un]] at the military demarcation line at the [[w:Korean Demilitarized Zone|Korean Demilitarized Zone]]. Kim then invited Trump to cross the line, which has divided North and South Korea since 1953. Trump then took about 20 steps into [[North Korea]]. Following the meeting at the DMZ, Trump and Kim held a three-way gathering with South Korean President [[Moon Jae-in]]. Sunday marked Trump and Kim's first meeting since nuclear talks broke down in February... It appears another round of nuclear talks could begin in the coming weeks.
**[[Amy Goodman]] in [https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/1/trump_kim_jong_un_dmz_meeting ''Trump Makes History by Walking into North Korea. Could This Help to Finally End the Korean War?'' DemocracyNow!] (1 July 2019)
 
*As a party, we are better to risk losing without Donald Trump than trying to win with him. Enough already with Mister Trump.
**[[Lindsey Graham]], [http://www.exam9999999iner.com/article/lindsey-graham-better-for-a-democrat-to-win-the-white-house-than-donald-trump ''Twitter'' post] (August 2015)
 
* If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.
** [[Lindsey Graham]], [https://twitter.com/lindseygrahamsc/status/727604522156228608 ''Twitter'' post], (May 2016)
 
*[[Ku Klux Klan]] leader [[David Duke]] told radio show listeners that {{'}}Jewish tribal nature{{'}} is to blame for the media's harsh treatment of Trump and compared Jews to {{'}}a pack of wild dogs.{{'}} The white supremacist is a vocal supporter of Trump.
**Shanika Gunaratna, [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/neo-nazis-tag-jews-on-twitter-harassment-hate-speech-politics/ "Neo-Nazis Tag Jews on Twitter: Harassment, Hate Speech, Politics"] (10 June 2016), ''CBS News'', CBS Interactive, Inc.
 
*Last week, the New York Times reported that the FBI, in 2017, launched an investigation of President Trump "to consider whether the president's own actions constituted a possible threat to national security" and specifically "whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests." ...As usual – this melodrama was accomplished by steadfastly ignoring the now-standard, always-buried paragraph pointing out the boring fact that no actual evidence of guilt has yet emerged.
*The FBI's counterintelligence investigation of Trump is far from the first time that the FBI has monitored, surveilled and investigated U.S. elected officials.... It is not difficult to understand what is so ominous and even tyrannical about the FBI investigating domestic political figures whose loyalties they regard as "suspicious," and whose political career they regard as a "national security threat," simply because those politicians express policy positions about U.S. adversaries that the FBI dislikes... If a politician adopts policy views... which is unduly accommodating to America's adversaries or "enemies," that's not a crime and the FBI thus has no business using its vast investigative powers against...[them]...the FBI investigation... clearly based, at least in part, on the FBI's disagreements with Trump's foreign policy views and the agency's assessment that such policies fail to safeguard "U.S. interests" as the FBI defines them.
** [[Glenn Greenwald]], [https://theintercept.com/2019/01/14/the-fbis-investigation-of-trump-as-a-national-security-threat-is-itself-a-serious-danger-but-j-edgar-hoover-pioneered-the-tactic/ The FBI's Investigation of Trump as a "National Security Threat" is Itself a Serious Danger. But J. Edgar Hoover Pioneered the Tactic] ''[[w:The Intercept|The Intercept]]'' (14 January 2019)
 
[[File:Richard Nixon presidential portrait.jpg|thumb|As you can imagine, [Pat] is an expert on politics and she predicts whenever you decide to run for office you will be a winner! ~ [[Richard Nixon]]]]
 
[[File:Jimmy Carter (cropped).jpg|thumb|I think the media have been harder on Trump than any other president certainly that I’ve known about, I think they feel free to claim that Trump is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation. ~ [[Jimmy Carter]]]]
 
[[File:George H. W. Bush presidential portrait (cropped).jpg|thumb|He's an ass. ~ [[George H. W. Bush]]]]
 
[[File:Bill Clinton.jpg|thumb|He's a master brander, and he's the most interesting character out there. And...he says something that overrides the ideological differences. There is a macho appeal to saying, 'I'm just sick of nothing happening. I'll make things – vote for me.' ~ [[Bill Clinton]]]]
 
[[File:George-W-Bush.jpeg|thumb|We've seen nationalism distorted into nativism – forgotten the dynamism that immigration has always brought to America. We see a fading confidence in the value of free markets and international trade – forgetting that conflict, instability, and poverty follow in the wake of protectionism. ~ [[George W. Bush]]]]
 
[[File:Official portrait of Barack Obama.jpg|thumb|We're shocked that somebody would be saying these things. We're shocked that somebody is fanning anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-Muslim sentiment. We're shocked! We're shocked that somebody could be loose with the facts. Or distort someone's record -- shocked... This is the guy, remember, who was sure that I was born in Kenya. Who just wouldn't let it go. And all this same Republican establishment, they weren't saying nothing. As long as it was directed at me, they were fine with it. They thought it was a hoot. Wanted to get his endorsement... What is happening in this primary is just a distillation of what's been happening inside their party for more than a decade. ~ [[Barack Obama]]]]
 
=== H ===
* When I tell you I’m angry, it’s an understatement. [[Mike Pence|Mike]] has been nothing but loyal to that [[Trump|man]]. He’s been nothing but a good friend of that man... I am so disappointed in the fact that [despite] the [[loyalty]] and [[friendship]] he had with Mike Pence, that he would do that to him. Like, I’m disgusted by it.
** [[Nikki Haley]] in [https://www.politico.com/interactives/2021/magazine-nikki-haleys-choice/ Nikki Haley’s Time for Choosing The 2024 hopeful can’t decide] February 12, 2021
 
* This is a dangerous world. I don't want to hear from him how great [[Hezbollah]] is. I don't want to see him congratulate the Communist Party anymore. I don't want him hitting [[Netanyahu]]. … We can't have someone who is so clouded with the past that they can't see the future.
** [[Nikki Haley]] in [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-israel-netanyahu-hezbollah/ Trump's GOP opponents bristle at his response to Hamas' assault on Israel] (October 13, 2023)
 
* I think he could be a great leader, because he's inspiring a lot of people, and especially people, including me, who are tired of Republicans being weak. I'm so sick of it.
** [[Sean Hannity]] — {{citation
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*The conservative president we desperately need requires a paradoxical combination of boldness and restraint. The president will need to be bold in challenging the runaway power and reach of his own branch, against the fury of the bureaucracy itself, its client groups, and the media. This boldness is necessary to restore the restraint that a republican executive should have in our constitutional order. Trump exhibits no awareness of this supreme constitutional task.
**Steven F. Hayward, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''
 
*Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is a product of our failed democracy. The longer we perpetuate the fiction that we live in a functioning democracy, that Trump and the political mutations around him are somehow an aberrant deviation that can be vanquished in the next election, the more we will hurtle toward tyranny. The problem is not Trump. It is a political system, dominated by corporate power and the mandarins of the two major political parties, in which we don’t count. We will wrest back political control by dismantling the corporate state, and this means massive and sustained civil disobedience, like that demonstrated by teachers around the country this year... <BR>As a foreign correspondent I covered collapsed societies... It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion. All the harbingers of collapse are visible... We suffer the usual pathologies of impending death. I would be happy to be wrong. But I have seen this before. I know the warning signs. All I can say is get ready.
**[[Chris Hedges]] in [https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/05/21/coming-collapse The Coming Collapse], [[w:Common Dreams|''Common Dreams'']], (21 May 2018)
 
*He doesn't know the Constitution, history, law, political philosophy, nuclear strategy, diplomacy, defense, economics beyond real estate, or even, despite his low-level-mafioso comportment, how ordinary people live. But trumping all this is a greater flaw presented as his chief strength. Governing a great nation in parlous times is far more than making "deals." Compared with the weight of the office he seeks, his deals are microscopic in scale, and as he faced far deeper complexities he would lead the country into continual Russian roulette. If despite his poor judgment he could engage talented advisers, as they presented him with contending and fateful options the buck would stop with a man who simply grasps anything that floats by. Following Obama's, a Trump presidency would be yet more adventure [[tourism]] for a formerly serious republic.
**Mark Helprin, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''
 
* What bitch is Donald Trump hanging his dick inside of today?
** {{w|Doug Henderson}}, guitarist/singer/lyricist of {{w|Spongehead}} in the song "Nothing" from ''[[w:Curn Your Dogma|Curb Your Dogma]]'' (Triple X Records, 1993)
 
* There’s no question that America would be better off if the president would resign or be removed from office. If that’s going to happen or how that should happen, I don’t know. But we need leadership right now, and we need to stop all of this craziness.
** Larry Hogan, Republican Governor, as quoted in [https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-hogan-capitol-20210107-7gjx3ksoqrhmrixhqr7zz2byom-story.html "Maryland Gov. Hogan: ‘America would be better off’ if Trump resigns or is removed from office"], 7 January 2021, <i> The Baltimore Sun </i>
 
* <p>Trump undermines the free press because he wants to be the only ''legitimate'' source of information in society. He lies all the time to break down the processes by which we discern the truth about the world around us, and compile the observations and facts which make up the tapestry of reality. He has exposed the paper-thin vulnerability of our democratic society, which depends mightily on observing social norms—like yielding to shame—and a shared acceptance of some common set of truths.</p><p>The American president is determined to bulldoze this architecture of social structures, and usher in an era where force, not deliberation and cooperation, determines the path our society will take. If he never acknowledges any truth besides his own, he never has to do anything outside his own direct interests. He does not have to actually respond to any kind of criticism, or ever reconsider his course of action. Relentless lying, after all, is a form of coercion, in which you bend others to your will by forcing them to accept the infrastructure of your false reality—or to give up caring whether anything is true or false in the first place. Don't believe your eyes and ears. Everybody was cheering for me.</p>
** Jack Holmes, Politics editor at Esquire.com, [https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a27718993/donald-trump-press-conference-theresa-may-thousands-protesters/ "Donald Trump's Press Conference With Theresa May Would Not Be Complete Without an Assault on Truth"], Esquire.com (June 4, 2019)
 
*White tears, as [[Damon Young]] explains in The Root, are why defeated Southerners refused to accept the freedom of black slaves and formed the Ku Klux Klan. And white tears are why 63 percent of white men and 53 percent of white women elected a malignant man-child as their leader.
**[[Cathy Park Hong]] ''Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning'' (2020)
 
* Donald Trump regularly incites political [[violence]] and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and {{w|birther}} who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
** Note appended to every article about Trump published by {{W|the Huffington Post}} as of January 2016, but removed after Trump's presidential victory.
**[http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/01/huffpost-to-publish-anti-trump-kicker-with-all-trump-coverage-218345 HuffPost to publish anti-Trump kicker with all Trump coverage], at {{W|Politico}}, published January 28, 2016
 
* [The] [[w:General Services Administration|agency]]'s ability to manage the [[Trump|former President]]'s [[conflicts of interest]] during his term in office when he was effectively on both sides of the [[contract]], as [[landlord]] and [[tenant]]
** [[w:House Oversight Committee|House Oversight Committee]] "[ https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/politics/trump-hotel-dc/index.html Trump DC hotel incurred more than $70 million in losses while Trump was president, documents show]" (October 8, 2021)
 
*Casting the Trump administration's credibility gap into sharp relief, allies like Japan and [[Germany]] have demanded more "credible" evidence to support the U.S. claim. While President Donald Trump and Secretary of State [[Mike Pompeo]] have been unequivocal in their assertion that Iran was responsible for the attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week, some of America's closest allies are demanding more proof. <BR>Both Japan and Germany have requested more concrete evidence... [[Jeremy Corbyn]], Britain's opposition leader, said more "credible evidence" was needed to support Trump's allegation.... According to ''The New York Times'', other European leaders have also been hesitant to lay the blame on Iran ― a doubt fueled in part by their "distrust of the Trump administration and its hawkish policy toward Tehran," the paper said.
**[[w:Huffington Post|Huffington Post]], [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-administration-allies-iran-tanker-pompeo_n_5d072ea3e4b0985c419ff17d ''Pompeo Claims There's ‘No Doubt' Iran Attacked Tankers, But U.S. Allies Want Proof, Huffington Post,'' Dominique Mosbergen] (17 June 2019)
 
*We do not need to have a president that undermines our [[rule of law]], that goes in the courtroom as he did today in New York and acts like a child, a petulant child. We don't need that in America. We need adults in the room.
**[[w:Asa Hutchinson|Asa Hutchinson]], [https://www.wmur.com/article/asa-hutchinson-trump-courtroom-dispute/45759110|Asa Hutchinson calls Trump a 'petulant child' after courtroom dispute with judge], [[w:WMUR-TV|WMUR-9]] (6 November 2023)
 
=== J ===
 
* Mr. Trump has crossed the line. More than one line. Captain Khan died in battle trying valiantly to save others. There is no place for criticism, stated or implied, of this brave soldier. He served our country. He is buried in [[w:Arlington National Cemetery|Arlington National Cemetery]] along with those of many ethnic backgrounds and religious denominations. They served our country. Mr. Trump did not. Criticizing Mrs. Khan for not speaking on stage is vile beyond words. No Gold Star Mother should ever be treated like that. Mr. Trump, you owe Mrs. Khan and all Gold Star families a huge apology.
** {{w|Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America}}, about Trump's statements on the [[Khizr and Ghazala Khan|Khan family]] ''[http://www.jwv.org/content/press_release/jewish_war_veterans_condemns_remarks_of_donald_trump Jewish War Veterans Condemns Remarks of Donald Trump]'' (2016)
 
*Of course, I recognize the president’s unique relationship with the press and how it compares with past presidents. I am curious myself how it will impact the future, if at all. But the tension between the press and the president is nothing new. President Trump expresses it more frequently and more … colorfully than others.
**[[Weijia Jiang]], as quoted in in [https://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/cbs-news-weijia-jiang-newsroom-diversity-covid-19-racism-and-covering-president-trump "CBS News' Weijia Jiang on Newsroom Diversity, COVID-19 Racism, and Covering President Trump" in ''Asia Society'' (27 May 2020)]
 
* The problem is, I know Trump, so my [[optimism]] has been squashed like a baby bird ... Everything bad I had to say about him, I said to his face. ... I think he's very good, very compelling on that show [''Celebrity Apprentice''] ... I really like him because of his absence of filters. I really like the glimpse we get into the human [[heart]] we get when someone loses their filters ... "[[Thelonious Monk|A genius is the one most like himself.]]" In a really weird way, Donald Trump has achieved that. If he weren't running for president, you'd be seeing essays from me about how much I learned from Donald Trump and how much I loved being on the show ... I'm feeling so, so, so guilty, because I feel like, along with millions of other people, I played right into this. The [[cynicism]] of the Clintons, the careful, tightrope walk of all politicians, forced me, as an atheist, to get down on my knees and [[pray]] that someone would come along with some kind of [[authenticity]]. Well, [[God|someone]] called my bluff, goddamn it. ... The stuff [Trump] is saying on immigration, the stuff he saying on [[torture]], the stuff he is saying on [[war]], is absolutely unforgivable ... He is coming out directly against the Statue of Liberty. I'm a pure and utter peacenik. I want a president who sings the praises of people, sings the praises of [[peace]] and sings the praises of working together for a great country ... [[Abraham Lincoln]] wouldn't have laughed about waterboarding ... I want a president that is [[kinder]], [[smarter]] and more measured than me. ... I disagree with [[Hillary Clinton]] on just about everything there is to disagree with a person about. If it comes down to Trump and Hillary, I will put a Hillary Clinton sticker on my fucking car. ... Someone who is paying [[attention]] can do the same thing that Trump is doing with [[hate]], and do it with [[love]], and become president ... That's kind of beautiful. There's nothing more optimistic than that. ... Donald Trump does, when it comes right down to it, fuck up everything ... He fucks up his casinos. He fucks up his buildings.... Maybe he'll fuck up his campaign before he fucks up the country.
** [[Penn Jillette]], as quoted in [http://www.newsweek.com/penn-jillette-terrified-president-trump-431837 "Why Penn Jillette is Terrified of a President Trump" by Grant Burningham, in ''Newsweek'' (1 March 2016)]
 
* I did two tours of duty on ''{{W|Celebrity Apprentice}}'' and I referred to someone who I knew was a dipshit, who I knew was a loser and a liar, as "Mr. Trump." And I didn't laugh out loud when they said he was a billionaire. And I didn’t laugh out loud when they said he was a good businessman. '''I knew he was a terrible businessman. I knew he wasn't really rich. I knew he was a liar. I knew all of that. And I sat there in a suit. What harm does it do to be on a TV show? To pretend that someone is a successful businessman? Turns out it matters a lot.'''
** Penn Jillette, as quoted in [https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/penn-and-teller-interview-guns-trump-magic-bullet-catch-david-blaine-1234833297/ Penn & Teller on Giving Up Guns and Why Trump Is ‘The End of America’], by Brenna Ehrlich, in ''Rolling Stone'' (1 October 2023)
 
* The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
** [[Boris Johnson]], as quoted in [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson/12039931/Boris-Johnson-The-only-reason-I-wouldnt-visit-some-parts-of-New-York-is-the-real-risk-of-meeting-Donald-Trump.html Boris Johnson: 'The only reason I wouldn't visit some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump'] by Helena Horton, ''[[w:The Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'' (8 December 2015)
 
* Donald Trump's a pussy.
**[[Gary Johnson]], in [http://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/gary-johnson-calls-donald-trump-pussy-at-libertarian-debate/4064122/#.VuDZG5wrLqY U.S. Libertarian Party debate] (2016)
 
=== K ===
*I'm rooting for him to do well for the same reason I root for a pilot on my airplane to do well.
**{{W|John Kasich}}, [http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/332198-kasich-i-dont-know-what-im-going-to-do-in-2020 Kasich: ‘I don't know what I'm going to do' in 2020], ''The Hill'', May 6 2017
 
* The Trump phenomenon is better understood as an amalgam of three different, largely pathological strains in [[American history quotes|American history]] and [[culture]]... The first and perhaps most obvious strain is hostility toward immigrants... In the 1850s, the [[w:American Party|American Party]], labeled the 'Know-Nothings' by its opponents, accused [[Irish people|Irish]] and [[Germans|German]] [[Catholic Church|Catholics]] of being agents of the pope and a threat... Later in the century, white workers on the Pacific coast led a mass campaign against [[Chinese people|Chinese]] newcomers, whom they blamed for undercutting wages... Federal lawmakers affirmed their bigotry by excluding any Chinese laborers... In the 1920s, fears of Slavs, Jews, Italians, and others suspected of being hostile to America's white 'Nordic' heritage persuaded Congress to impose quotas that all but banned immigrants... Trump's attacks on 'rapists and murderers' crossing the southern border and on potential Muslim terrorists jetting across the Atlantic belong to this long and ignominious tradition.
** {{w|Michael Kazin}}, [https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/trump-in-context-us-history-know-nothing "Trump in Context"] (14 December 2015), ''Dissent''
 
* His vow to 'Make America Great Again' lacks any explanation of what or who made it so wonderful before. Searching his website for clues turns up no proposals that might credibly bring about a national revival, unless one believes that a simplified tax code and a stern crackdown on illegal immigration amount to a sufficient blueprint for major change.
** {{w|Michael Kazin}}, [https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/trump-in-context-us-history-know-nothing "Trump in Context"] (14 December 2015), ''Dissent''
 
* The allure of Trump's candidacy and the dread it provokes at home and abroad stem from the same impulses, which run deep in U.S. political culture. A rich man whose name is familiar to everyone bashes people whom many citizens either fear or mistrust and makes vague promises to fix whatever ails the nation. And he does all this with a smirk, a threat, and yet also with a yearning for respect, even from those he routinely assaults in speeches. Trump probably will not be elected president, and it would be a disaster if he was. But his act is hardly as novel as he, and many of his fans and his critics, believe. After he leaves the stage, another wealthy performer with a talent for bombast and no political record to defend may well take his place.
** {{w|Michael Kazin}}, [https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/trump-in-context-us-history-know-nothing "Trump in Context"] (14 December 2015), ''Dissent''
 
* Trump is no true conservative. He's not even a reactionary in the best sense of the word. He's a self-aggrandizing opportunist. His policies go no further than his catchphrase, 'you're fired'. Listening to his first television ad is like a preview for a bad movie; an empty supercut of the highlights, or lowlights, without the plot being revealed because it's so thin. Trump is no everyman. He built his empire with $100 million from his wealthy father. Far from born into working or middle class, Trump never struggled a day in his life except by his own failings in business and the resulting repeated bankruptcies. His privileged background enabled him to make money off money; not exactly high on the hierarchy of middle-class values. As for being incorruptible, Trump gave big to politicians. He admitted that was meant to buy favors. His policy positions are similarly ephemeral; he supported the Big Government policies of Democrats and slippery values of the Clintons when it suited him. Steadfast, he is not.
** Sean Kennedy, [http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/opinions/kennedy-donald-trump/index.html "Donald Trump must be destroyed"] (8 January 2016), ''CNN'', Georgia: Cable News Network
 
* Donald Trump is convincingly playing the role of a pandering demagogue. He seeks to stir up a passionate reaction that serves the purposes of his ambition. [[Founding Fathers of the United States|America's founders]] repeatedly warned against such demagoguery, because it sets people up for tyranny. Given his background, it's advisable to assume Donald Trump is being used by the enemies of rightful liberty to lead otherwise sincerely conservative people down a blind canyon into the withering fire of their elitist foes... Given this track record, before following Trump's lead, shouldn't people sincerely anxious to restore America's constitutional liberty carefully examine the nature of his purported advocacy? With much fanfare, Trump is being attacked by his erstwhile elitist faction buddies. But has he attacked them for treacherous betrayal of the security and sovereignty of the American people?
** [[Alan Keyes]], [http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/is-donald-the-elitist-factions-trump/#edXLUkSiiwg8yZ3j.99 "Is Donald the Elitist Faction's Trump?"] (16 July 2015), ''WND''
 
* Every president lies at some point, for diplomatic or national security reasons or to sell a policy. But Trump is not known for one big lie — just a constant stream of exaggerated, invented, inconsistent, dubious and false claims. In the nine years I have run The Fact Checker, I have never encountered a politician so cavalier about the facts, so unconcerned with accuracy, so willing to attack people for made-up reasons and so determined to falsely depict his achievements.
** Glenn Kessler, editor and chief writer of The Washington Post Fact Checker, in [https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/06/02/fact-checking-donald-trump-essential-american-politics-column/5301135002/ Fact-checking Trump: He's on a dangerous path that must be documented and discouraged (June 2, 2020)]
 
* Donald Trump has asked why I did not speak at the Democratic convention. He said he would like to hear from me. Here is my answer to Donald Trump: Because without saying a thing, all the world, all America, felt my pain. I am a Gold Star mother. Whoever saw me felt me in their heart.
* Donald Trump said I had nothing to say. I do. My son Humayun Khan, an Army captain, died 12 years ago in Iraq. He loved America, where we moved when he was 2 years old. He had volunteered to help his country, signing up for the ROTC at the [[w:University of Virginia|University of Virginia]]. This was before the attack of Sept. 11, 2001. He didn't have to do this, but he wanted to.
* I cannot walk into a room with pictures of Humayun. For all these years, I haven't been able to clean the closet where his things are — I had to ask my daughter-in-law to do it. Walking onto the convention stage, with a huge picture of my son behind me, I could hardly control myself. What mother could? Donald Trump has children whom he loves. Does he really need to wonder why I did not speak?
* Donald Trump said that maybe I wasn't allowed to say anything. That is not true. My husband asked me if I wanted to speak, but I told him I could not. My religion teaches me that all human beings are equal in God's eyes. Husband and wife are part of each other; you should love and respect each other so you can take care of the family. When Donald Trump is talking about Islam, he is ignorant. If he studied the real Islam and Koran, all the ideas he gets from terrorists would change, because terrorism is a different religion. Donald Trump said he has made a lot of sacrifices. He doesn't know what the word sacrifice means.
** [[Ghazala Khan]], mother of fallen U.S. Army Captain [[w:Humayun Khan (soldier)|Humayun S. M. Khan]]. ''[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ghazala-khan-donald-trump-criticized-my-silence-he-knows-nothing-about-true-sacrifice/2016/07/31/c46e52ec-571c-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html Ghazala Khan: Trump criticized my silence. He knows nothing about true sacrifice.]'', ''{{w|The Washington Post}}'' (July 31, 2016)
 
* Muslims are American, Muslims are [[citizens]], Muslims participate in the well-being of this country as American citizens. We are proud American citizens. It's the values of this country that brought us here, not our religion. Trump's position on these issues do not represent those values.
** Khizr M. Khan in an interview with ''{{w|Vocativ}}''. [http://www.vocativ.com/259159/the-father-of-a-muslim-war-hero-has-this-to-say-to-donald-trump/] (December 08, 2015)
 
* If it was up to Donald Trump, he never would have been in America. Donald Trump consistently smears the character of Muslims. He disrespects other minorities, women, [[judges]], even his own party leadership. He vows to build walls and ban us from this country. Donald Trump, you are asking Americans to [[trust]] you with our [[future]]. Let me ask you: Have you even read the U.S. Constitution? I will gladly lend you my copy. In this document, look for the words "liberty" and "equal protection of law." Have you ever been to {{w|Arlington Cemetery}}? Go look at the graves of the brave [[patriots]] who died defending America — you will see all faiths, genders, and ethnicities. You have sacrificed nothing and no one. We can't solve our problems by building walls and sowing division. We are Stronger Together.
** [[Khizr M. Khan]], speech during the final day of the {{w|2016 Democratic National Convention}} in [[Philadelphia]]. [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/dnc-2016-khizr-khan-donald-trump-read-full-transcript-father-muslim-soldier-a7161616.html] (29 July 2016)
 
* His policies, his practices, do not reflect that he has any understanding of the basic, fundamental [[constitutional]] [[principles]] of this country, what makes this country [[exceptional]], what makes this country exceptional in the [[history]] of the mankind. There are principles of equal [[dignity]], principle of liberty. He talks about excluding people, [[disrespecting]] judges, the entire judicial system, immigrants, Muslim immigrants. These are divisive rhetoric that is totally against the basic constitutional principle. If you read the Constitution, you will either deliberately would be violating those principles or you have not read. That is why I have watched whole ear and rest of the world has watched, and the [[love]] and affection and support that we have received after my statement, at every corner of the street, at every place. The [[affection]], the support, the love that I have received, that we continue to receive is a testament that he is talking about [[ignorance]]. He is not fully aware of these principles.
* Two things are absolutely necessary in any [[leader]] or any person that aspires, wishes, to be a leader. That is [[moral]] compass and second is [[empathy]]. This candidate is void of both traits that are necessary for the stewardship of this country.
* I do not believe his whole year-long rhetoric, division, excluding people, talking about them derogatorily, has prepared him. He promised to the Republican leadership that he will change his manner, he will not be as ignorant as he had been. But he had continued. Those two traits of moral compass and empathy are absolutely necessary for the leader of a free world leader of nation like United States.
* This candidate for [[presidency]] to not be aware of the respect of a gold star mother standing there, and he had to take that shot at her, this is height of ignorance. This is why I showed him that Constitution. Had he read that, he would know what status a gold star mother holds in that nation. This country holds such a person in the highest regard. And he has no [[knowledge]], no awareness. That is height of his ignorance. She is ill. She had high blood pressure. People that know her, looked at her face, and she said, "I may fall off the stage." And I told her that, you have to assemble yourself and stand for the [[beauty]] of this tribute that is being paid. This person is total incapable of empathy. I want his [[family]] to counsel him, teach him some empathy. He will be a better person if he could become -- but he is a black soul. And this is totally unfit for the leadership of this beautiful country, the love and affection that we have received affirms that our beliefs, our experience in this country had been correct and positive. The world is receiving us like we have never seen. They have seen the blackness of his character, of his [[soul]], that he is void of recognizing, empathizing with people.
** [[Khizr M. Khan]], on an interview with {{w|CNN}} about Donald Trump saying that Khan's wife didn't speak because she was forbidden. [http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/07/31/cnn-khizr-khan-shreds-trumps-height-ignorance-response-his-democratic-convention-speech/212039] (July 31, 2016)
 
* I have exactly the same rights as he does. He had been abusing, disrespecting women, judges, all decent Americans. He had been so abusive of them. I exercise exactly the same rights. That, again, proves his ignorance. He wants to have one set of rights for himself, and he wants to have another set of rights for others. No, somebody should tell him that there is equal dignity, equal protection of law in this country. That is why that Constitution came to play. I keep that in my pocket, because I cherish this document. I wish somebody would read it to him. Certain fundamental values that enshrine in this document.
* Donald Trump needs to sit with his advisers and portray to this world that he is empathetic. You solve the problems with empathy, putting people together. There are bad people among us, but there are good people among us, as well. You gather good people to get rid of bad people, but you do not malign the whole religion -- the whole culture.
* We are the solution to the dealing with the terrorism in the United States. Join hands with good Muslims. Only war is not the solution. It is one of the solutions. Communities coming together is the solution. We are as concerned as Donald Trump is about the safety of this country. We are testament to the goodness of this country. We need to stop fighting with one another, but we need a leader that will unite us, not disrespect, not by derogatory remarks. I feel bad about the discourse that this campaign -- this election campaign has taken. We need to join hands. We have a very serious problem of this for the safety of the citizens of this country. We are solution. Look, the treatment of Muslims in France and other places, there is much worse security issues than United States does.
** [[Khizr M. Khan]], in an interview in ''New Day'' on CNN Monday [http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/01/nday.03.html] (August 1, 2016)
 
* When a person becomes Commander-in- Chief, president, you are president and Commander-in-Chief of everybody that has supported you and that has not supported you.
** [[Khizr M. Khan]], in an interview in ''{{w|Anderson Cooper 360°}}'' [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/02/acd.02.html Transcript] (August 2, 2016)
 
* But, far from making remarks of any persuasive power that can be viewed to be helpful to defusing tension, he made unprecedented rude nonsense one has never heard from any of his predecessors. A frightened dog barks louder. [...] He is unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country, and he is surely a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire, rather than a politician. [...] Action is the best option in treating the dotard who, hard of hearing, is uttering only what he wants to say. [...] I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire.
** [[Kim Jong-un]], quoted in {{citation |date=2018-09-22 |title=Trump Is A Rogue And Gangster Playing With Fire- North Korean Leader, Kim Jong |author=Seun Oyedele |periodical=Odua Voice |url=https://www.oduavoice.com/2017/09/22/trump-is-a-rogue-and-gangster-playing-with-fire-north-korean-leader-kim-jong/}}
 
* Donald Trump is a [[fascist]]. ... Not in the sense of an all-purpose [[bad]] guy, but in the sense of somebody who sincerely believes that the toxic combination of strong [[government]] and strong [[corporations]] should run the [[nation]] and the [[world]]. He spent his previous career negotiating with the government on behalf of corporations; now he has switched teams. But it's the same game.
** [[Michael Kinsley]], ''[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-is-actually-a-fascist/2016/12/09/e193a2b6-bd77-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.6aa47d53b2b7 Donald Trump is actually a fascist]'', ''{{w|The Washington Post}}'' (December 9, 2016)
 
* If instead of having ten fingers, I had ten combs for fingers, I'd love to meet Donald Trump, just so I could run my fingers through his hair.
** {{citation
| author = Jarod Kintz
| date = 2011-05-18
| title = This Book is Not For Sale
}}
 
* We want every vote counted, yes every legal vote (of course). But, if you have legit concerns about fraud present EVIDENCE and take it to court. <b>STOP Spreading debunked [[misinformation]]... This is getting insane. </b>
** [[Adam Kinzinger]], Republican Congress member (2020-11-06) to Donald Trump about the 2020 election, <i>[https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1324503564891414528 Tweet] </i>
 
* Yesterday, it became evident that not only has the president abdicated his duty to protect the people and the people’s house, he invoked and inflamed passions that only gave fuel to the insurrection that we saw here. When pressed to move and denounce the violence, he barely did so while of course victimizing himself and seeming to give a wink and a nod to those doing it. All indications are that the president has become unmoored, not just from his duty or even his oath but reality, itself. It is for this reason that I call on the vice president and members of the Cabinet to ensure the next few weeks are safe for the American people and that we have a sane captain of the ship.
** Adam Kinzinger, quoted by {{citation
| author = Rick Pearson, Lisa Donovan
| date = 2020-01-07
| title = Republican US Rep. Adam Kinzinger calls for 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office
| url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-adam-kinzinger-trump-calls-for-invoking-25th-amendment-20210107-ldf2chdunbecbo6ry6uino4dpq-story.html
}}
 
* The worst president the USA ever had. He was a liar and a charlatan. And he was a man with a most fragile ego I ever met.
** Adam Kinzinger, quoted by {{citation
| author = Bradley Cortright
| date = 2022-02-07
| title = Kinzinger Ramps Up Criticism of Trump: I Will Tell My Son He Was the 'Worst President'
| url = https://ijr.com/kinzinger-ramps-criticism-trump-will-tell-son-worst-president/
}}
 
* I have spent my life building bridges and tearing down barriers — not building walls. That’s why I find Donald Trump’s belief that an American-born judge of Mexican descent is incapable of fairly presiding over his case is not only dead wrong, it is un-American. As the Presidential campaign progressed, I was hoping the rhetoric would tone down and reflect a campaign that was inclusive, thoughtful and principled. While I oppose the Democratic nominee, Donald Trump’s latest statements, in context with past attacks on Hispanics, women and the disabled like me, make it certain that I cannot and will not support my party’s nominee for President regardless of the political impact on my candidacy or the Republican Party. It is absolutely essential that we are guided by a commander-in-chief with a responsible and proper temperament, discretion and judgment. Our President must be fit to command the most powerful military the world has ever seen, including an arsenal of thousands of nuclear weapons. After much consideration, I have concluded that Donald Trump has not demonstrated the temperament necessary to assume the greatest office in the world.
** [[Mark Kirk]], quoted in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160608015204/http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/sen-mark-kirk-withdraws-support-for-trump/ Sen. Mark Kirk withdraws support for Trump]'' by Lynn Sweet, 7 June 2016, ''{{w|Chicago Sun-Times}}''.
 
* Donald Trump — a political neophyte, a New York loudmouth who plays fast and loose with the truth, a massive [[egotism|egotist]] and a not altogether pleasant human being — has delivered conservatives one of the greatest years in living memory and has made our government more [[morality|moral]] in the process. The left and many on the right didn't see it coming because they [[hate]] the man. And because they didn't see it coming, they won't see that it's come.
** [[Andrew Klavan]], "[https://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/trump-has-made-our-government-more-moral/ Trump Has Made Our Government More Moral]", ''PJ Media'' (December 15, 2017)
 
*these children are ready to deliver their moral verdict on the people and institutions who knew all about the dangerous, depleted world they would inherit and yet chose not to act. They know what they think of Donald Trump in the United States and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Scott Morrison in Australia and all the other leaders who torch the planet with defiant glee while denying science so basic that these kids could grasp it easily at age eight.
**[[Naomi Klein]] ''On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal'' (2019)
 
* President Trump has violated many of the norms and [[w:Law of the United States|laws]] on which our democracy depends. He circumvents [[United States Congress|Congress]] [[w:National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States|by declaring the “crisis” at the border a national emergency]]. He orders his staff to ignore {{w|subpoena}}s. He uses his presidential status to enhance his [[w:Trump family|family]]’s wealth. He demands absolute loyalty from his appointees. He treats truth like a despot and jokes with [[Vladimir Putin]] about his “[[w:Fake news#Usage of the term by Donald Trump|fake news]]” problem. He boasts about [[w:Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations|his misogyny]] and [[Racial views of Donald Trump|spews racist insults]]. Trump is not a [[despot]]. But neither were [[Mussolini]] and [[Hitler]] early on. No [[w:Blackshirts|black]] or {{w|brown shirts}} march in our streets. President Trump’s enablers wear white shirts and black robes. They are unified. Democrats are not.
** [[Claudia Koonz]], ''[https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173030 Autocrats do not need a majority to destroy democracy. A divided opposition helps them.]'' (September 15, 2019), ''{{w|History News Network}}''.
 
* Look, Trump has been elected, he will be our president and he has the right to choose conservatives. But instead of turning to the many principled Republicans available, he seems drawn to hotheads and [[bigots]], embarrassing himself and our nation.
** [[Nicholas D. Kristof]], ''[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/so-many-options-yet-donald-trump-picks-the-ugly.html Trump Embarrasses Himself and Our Country]'', ''{{w|The New York Times}}'' (November 19, 2016)
 
*Isn't Donald Trump the very epitome of vulgarity? In sum... Isn't [[Trumpism]] a two-bit Caesarism of a kind that American conservatives have always disdained? Isn't the task of conservatives today to stand athwart Trumpism, yelling Stop?
** [[Bill Kristol|William Kristol]], [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''.
 
* What do African-Americans have to lose, asks Donald Trump.
** [[Paul Krugman]], about the comments of Trump on African Americans in the United States. [https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/766985736843165696 Twitter, August 20, 2016]
 
=== L ===
 
* There is nothing like a common adversary to make people recognize what they have in common. Once there was consensus that civility, compassion, immigration, equal opportunity and foreign allies were good; that racism, misogyny, discrimination, voter suppression and foreign autocrats were bad; that respect for the U.S. military, intelligence community, political leaders, science, the Constitution and the rule of law was a given; that the American promise was based on good faith, compromise and checks and balances; and that presidents should be role models.
** {{citation |date=2020-10-19 |title=Trump’s COVID-19 Misinformation Since Testing Positive | author= Jill Lawren | periodical=USA Today | url=https://usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/10/19/never-trump-conservatives-for-biden-patriots-role-models-column/3696503001/}}
 
* On January 20, 2017, Donald John Trump became president, unskilled in the machinery of government and unmoved morally by the calling of the position, but aglow in his unmatched power. The first three years of Trump's term revealed a presidency of one, in which the universal value was loyalty- not to the country, but to the president himself. Scandal, bluster, and uninhibited chaos reigned. Decisions were driven by a reflexive logic of self-preservation and self-aggrandizement. Delusions born of narcissism and insecurity overtook reality.
** Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, ''I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year'' (2021), p. 1
 
* The year 2020 will be remembered in the American epoch as one of anguish and abject failure. The coronavirus pandemic killed more than half a million people in the United States and infected tens of millions more, the deadliest health crisis in a century. Through the administration's [[w:Operation Warp Speed|Operation Warp Speed]] helped produce [[COVID-19 vaccine|vaccines]] in record time, its overall coronavirus response was mismanaged by the president and marred by ineptitude and backbiting. The virus was only one of the crises Trump confronted in 2020. The pandemic paralyzed the economy, plunging the nation into a recession during which low-wage workers, many of them minorities, suffered the most. The May 25 killing of [[George Floyd]], a Black man, under the knee of a white police officer ignited protests for racial justice and an end to police discrimination and brutality. Yet Trump sought to exploit the simmering divisions for personal political gain, quickly declared himself "your president of law and order" and relentlessly pressured Pentagon leaders to deploy active-duty troops against [[Black Lives Matter]] protestors. The worsening [[Global warming|climate crisis]], meanwhile, was almost entirely ignored Trump, who earlier in his term had rolled back [[Environmentalism|environmental]] regulations and withdrawn the United States from the [[Paris Agreement]]. The president was instead preoccupied with stoking doubts about the legitimacy of the election. After he lost to Joe Biden, Trump fanned the flames of conspiracies and howled about fraud that did not exist. His false claims of a "rigged election" inspired thousands of people to storm the Capitol in [[2021 United States Capitol attack|a violent and ultimately failed insurrection on January 6, 2021]].
** Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, ''I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year'' (2021), p. 2
 
* Most of Trump's failings can be explained by a simple truth: He cared more about himself than the country. Whether managing the coronavirus or reacting to his election defeat, Trump prioritized what he thought to be his political and personal interests over the common good.
** Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, ''I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year'' (2021), p. 4
 
* ...shrewdness, coupled with shamelessness and unnatural political stamina, allowed Trump to deliver on many of his political promises. He pleased his conservative base by remaking the federal judiciary, including with three nominations to the Supreme Court; cutting taxes on corporations and the wealthy; expanding the military; toughening border enforcement; and weakening the regulatory state. Trump also forged new bilateral trade agreements, negotiated peace accords in the Middle East, and won concessions from European allies he had argued were taking advantage of the United States. Trump nearly won a second term. More than 74 million people voted to reelect him- the second-highest total ever recorded, the highest being Biden's 81 million. Were it not for Biden's victories in a handful of swing states, Trump would have won the electoral college and secured four more years in office. It would be foolhardy then to dismiss his presidency as a failure and to turn the page on this period. Rather, we must try to understand what made him so appealing to so many, and what that reveals about the country.
** Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, ''I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year'' (2021), p. 6-7
 
*Deserate people do desperate things in desperate times, unfortunately the American people are facing desperate times of [[COVID-19]], but '''this president is in desperate times'''... as he speaks ill about senator Harris '''he speaks ill about women''', and we hear it and it is a '''loud siren across this nation'''
**[[Sheila Jackson Lee]] on [https://www.facebook.com/AC360/videos/trump-intentionally-mispronouncing-kamala-harris-name/715040455763281/ Anderson Cooper 360 (video)] on October 26, 2020
* Sadism has even found a prominent position in popular culture. Many prime-time television series now owe their staying power to the sadistic impulses they exploit on the tube. Audience members find tremendous enjoyment in viewing horrified contestants who devour worms and insects on NBC's ''Fear Factor''; Donald Trump who exclaims without nuance, "You're fired" on his wildly popular series, ''The Apprentice''...
** Jack Levin and James Alan Fox, "Normalcy in Behavioral Characteristics of the Sadistic Serial Killer", Chapter 1 in ''Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes'', edited by Richard N. Kocsis, 2008 Humana Press; p. 12-13
 
*Donald Trump is no conservative. That's not a crime, it's just a reason to vote against him. Many fine people are not conservatives. But the reason Trump's candidacy should worry the Right runs much deeper than that. He poses a direct challenge to conservatism, because he embodies the empty promise of managerial leadership outside of politics.
** Yuval Levin, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''.
 
*We have now arrived at a point where what is being spouted by Donald Trump, and others, amounts to a shallow, vulgar, uncompassionate conservatism. Sadly, to many Republicans, [[George W. Bush|Bush]] is now a punchline, and Trump is the fad of the moment.
** Matt Lewis, [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/25/you-guys-i-m-starting-to-miss-dubya.html "You Guys, I'm Starting to Miss Dubya"] (25 November 2015), ''The Daily Beast''
 
*President Trump’s order to take out [[Qasem Soleimani]] was morally, constitutionally and strategically correct. It deserves more bipartisan support than the begrudging or negative reactions it has received thus far from my fellow Democrats.
** [[Joe Lieberman]], [https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-democrats-and-iran-11578262553 "The Democrats and Iran"], ''[[w:The Wall Street Journal|The Wall Street Journal]]'' (January 5, 2020)
 
*I know Donald Trump. He's been a frequent guest on my radio and television programs, and I introduced him at the [[w:Conservative Political Action Conference|Conservative Political Action Conference]] in 2015. He has always been amiable and complimentary. I genuinely like him. But not as my presidential pick.
** [[Dana Loesch]], [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''.
 
* Trump's time in the White House is finally over. His presidency can be summarized as chaos, division, threats and hate. It's a wake up call for what can happen when hate and extremism are let in.
** [[w:Stefan Löfven|Stefan Löfven]], Prime Minister of Sweden, on [https://www.facebook.com/stefanlofven/posts/5326105824096935 FaceBook, January 20 2021] (in Swedish).
 
*While Trump's appeal to various groups may be understandable, he makes a terrible champion for Republicans, and especially for conservatives. By the standards we typically use to evaluate candidates — their records, their views, their popularity with the general public, their experience, their temperament, their character — Trump should be dismissed out of hand. No candidate is perfect, but large numbers of conservatives have never before supported any candidate so obviously deficient in all of these respects. That Trump has a long history of liberal positions that extends even into the fairly recent past should not by itself be disqualifying. Conservatism has always welcomed converts. But conservatives have also expected some demonstrated commitment to their principles, some action that advanced their causes, before seeking to elevate a convert to high office. When Mitt Romney ran for the Senate in 1994, for example, he tried to distance himself from Reagan-era conservatism. He later moved right. But even on his least conservative day, Romney was arguing for a smaller government and lower taxes (and for an end to [[Ted Kennedy]]'s career). Trump, by contrast, has done essentially nothing for any conservative cause prior to deciding to run for the Republican presidential nomination.
** [[Rich Lowry]] and Ramesh Ponnuru, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425010/donald-trump-lowry-ponnuru "Trump Wrongs The Right"] (19 October 2015), ''National Review''.
 
* Trump obviously never meant to impose a wealth test on his administration, or he would have failed it himself. He is proof that a fortune isn't necessarily an obstacle to being a champion of an agenda of {{w|populist}} reform.
** [[Rich Lowry]], ''[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/no-the-swamp-wont-be-drained-214493 No, the Swamp Won't Be Drained]'', ''{{w|Politico}}'' (December 01, 2016)
 
* He wouldn't {{w|drain the swamp}}, but merely feed different alligators.
** [[Rich Lowry]], ''[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/no-the-swamp-wont-be-drained-214493 No, the Swamp Won't Be Drained]'', ''{{w|Politico}}'' (December 01, 2016)
 
* No participant in an administration that caged children, performed involuntary surgeries on captive women, and scoffed at science as millions were infected with a deadly virus should be enriched by the almost rote largesse of a big book deal. And no one who incited, suborned, instigated, or otherwise supported the January 6, 2021 coup attempt should have their philosophies remunerated and disseminated through our beloved publishing houses.
** Barry Lyga, novelist, in a letter signed by more than 250 authors, editors, agents, professors and others in the American literary community, as quoted in {{citation |date=2021-01-15 |title=Hundreds in publishing sign letter objecting to book deals for the Trump administration | author= Dorany Pineda | periodical=Los Angeles Times | url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-01-15/book-world-signs-letter-to-block-trump-book-deals}}
 
* When you get up there and try to say you want to see Hillary Clinton win, that wouldn't go over so big. Trump has sold me. What more can I say? I just think he's the only one who's going to turn this country around.
** [[Loretta Lynn]], as quoted in [http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/13/this-huge-country-star-just-revealed-the-republican-shes-supporting-for-president/ "This Huge Country Star Just Revealed The Republican She's Supporting For President"] by Kaitlan Collins, ''The Daily Caller'' (13 January 2016)
 
=== M ===
* [Trump ... alpha male] they’re overcompensating for how insecure they feel — a man who is secure with himself, a human who is secure with themselves, doesn’t have to go around bullying people all the time.
** [[Madonna]] stating it was not true that she had ever asked Donald Trump for a date according to [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/magazine/madonna-madame-x.html Madonna at Sixty] published June 5, 2019
 
*Donald Trump, for all of his bluster, is at least authentically stupid... All these other guys are clown posers. Trump is the genuine article. And, God help me, I think I'd rather have him sitting in the Oval Office, getting stupidly out-maneuvered by the politicians under him, than bringing in a guy like [[Ben Carson|Carson]] who is willing to shred every last bit of his intellectual credibility in order to lord over a citizenry he doesn't seem to have much respect for.
** {{w|Drew Magary}}, [http://www.gq.com/story/fuck-ben-carson "F*ck Ben Carson"], ''GQ'' (8 October 2015)
 
* New Rule: Whenever you think the [[Tea Party movement|Tea Party]] can't get any dumber, they get dumber. Now they're in love with Donald Trump. Because nothing says "We're serious about fiscal responsibility" quite like a billionaire whose corporations have filed for bankruptcy three times.
** {{citation
| author = [[Bill Maher]]
| year = 2011
| title = The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
| location = New York
| publisher = Blue Rider Press
| isbn = 978-0399158414
}}
 
* Here's the thing about Donald Trump: He never apologizes. He's never wrong, no matter what crazy thing he says. He's totally— he's the white [[Kanye West|Kanye]]. And they are gonna love him. For a party whose base adores belligerence, this is the guy.
** [[Bill Maher]], {{citation
| date = 2015-06-26
| title = Real Time with Bill Maher
| medium = TV
| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTL-M3e6lq0
}}
 
* Did you know that of the 14 states with the highest number of painkiller prescriptions per person, they all went for Trump?
** [[Bill Maher]] ''Real Time with Bill Maher'', January 20th 2017
 
* His behavior defies the traditional definition of what it means to be "manly." He wears bronzer, loves gold and gossip, is obsessed with his physical appearance, whines constantly, can't control his emotions, watches daytime television, enjoys parades and interior decorating, and used to sell perfume.
** Windsor Mann, {{citation
| date = 2019-02-18
| title = The least macho president
| publisher = The Week
| url = https://theweek.com/articles/816310/least-macho-president
}}
 
* He set us back like 10 years. We have worked so hard to promote our values, values that made him president when he hawked them, and now he does this, leaving everything in shambles? Nah, destroy him. Let it be a lesson to every other 'populist'.
** Frances Martel, international news editor at Breitbart News, as quoted by {{citation
| author = Will Sommer
| date = 2021-01-15
| title = ‘Destroy Trump’: Breitbart Staffers Seethe After Capitol Riot
| publisher = Daily Beast
| url = https://www.thedailybeast.com/breitbart-staffers-clashed-over-blaming-trump-for-capitol-riot-leaked-chats-show?ref=home?ref=home
}}
 
* I think even during the campaign I said that Trump reminded me most of [[w:Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey]]. They have the same level of emotional maturity. And Joffrey likes to remind everyone that he's king. And he thinks that gives him the ability to do anything. And we're not an [[w:Absolute monarchy|absolute monarchy]], like [[w:Westeros|Westeros]] is. We're a constitutional republic. And yet, Trump doesn't seem to know what that means. He thinks the presidency gives him the power to do anything. And so, yeah, Joffrey is Trump.
** [[George R. R. Martin]], interviewed by Jamie Sims in the ''T: The New York Times Style Magazine'', [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/t-magazine/george-rr-martin-qanda-game-of-thrones.html "George R. R. Martin Answers Times Staffers’ Burning Questions,"] October 16, 2018.
 
* Today's violent assault on our Capitol, an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by Mr. Trump. His use of the Presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice. Our Constitution and our Republic will overcome this stain and We the People will come together again in our never-ending effort to form a more perfect Union, while Mr. Trump will deservedly be left a man without a country.
** [[Jim Mattis|James Mattis]] {{citation
| date = 2020-01-07
| title = Former Defense Secretary Mattis says Trump 'fomented' the security breach at the US Capitol
| publisher = abc NEWS
| url = https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/defense-secretary-mattis-trump-fomented-security-breach-us/story?id=75100611
}}
 
* Trump is a potential disaster as commander-in-chief—uninformed, volatile, poor judgment. Hard to believe this is the candidate of a major political party.
** [[Barry McCaffrey]], retired four-star U.S. Army general, as quoted in [https://www.yahoo.com/news/does-military-think-donald-trump-204408128.html "What Does the Military Think of Donald Trump?"] (15 June 2016), ''Time''
 
* In recent days, Donald Trump disparaged a fallen soldier's parents. He has suggested that the likes of their son should not be allowed in the United States — to say nothing of entering its service. I cannot emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr. Trump's statement. I hope Americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party, its officers, or candidates.
** [[John McCain]], statement regarding Donald Trump's comments about [[Khizr M. Khan|Khizr]] and Ghazala Khan ([http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/01/politics/john-mccain-statement-khan-family/index.html transcript] by {{w|CNN}}) (August 1, 2016)
 
* I claim no moral superiority over Donald Trump. I have a long and well-known public and private record for which I will have to answer at the Final Judgment, and I repose my hope in the promise of mercy and the moderation of age. I challenge the nominee to set the example for what our country can and should represent.
** [[John McCain]], statement regarding Donald Trump's comments about [[Khizr M. Khan|Khizr]] and Ghazala Khan ([http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/01/politics/john-mccain-statement-khan-family/index.html transcript] by {{w|CNN}}) (August 1, 2016)
 
* [[Arizona]] is watching. It is time for Donald Trump to set the example for our country and the future of the Republican Party. While our Party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us.
** [[John McCain]], statement regarding Donald Trump's comments about [[Khizr M. Khan|Khizr]] and Ghazala Khan ([http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/01/politics/john-mccain-statement-khan-family/index.html transcript] by {{w|CNN}}) (August 1, 2016)
 
* [[2018 Russia–United States summit|Today's press conference in Helsinki]] was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory. The damage inflicted by [[President Trump]]'s [[naiveté]], [[egotism]], [[false]] [[equivalence]], and [[sympathy]] for [[autocrats]] is difficult to calculate. … President Trump proved not only unable, but unwilling to stand up to [[Putin]]. He and Putin seemed to be speaking from the same script as the president made a conscious [[choice]] to defend a [[tyrant]] against the fair questions of a [[free press]], and to grant Putin an uncontested platform to spew [[propaganda]] and [[lies]] to the [[world]]. … No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant. Not only did President Trump fail to speak the [[truth]] about an adversary; but speaking for America to the world, our president failed to [[defend]] all that makes us who we are — a [[republic]] of [[free]] [[people]] dedicated to the cause of [[liberty]] at home and abroad. American presidents must be the champions of that cause if it is to [[succeed]]. Americans are [[waiting]] and hoping for President Trump to embrace that [[sacred]] [[responsibility]]. One can only [[hope]] they are not waiting totally in vain.
** [[John McCain]], official statement: [https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=press-releases&id=A99FDA26-673D-4560-B4EA-5AEDF0685EC5 "SASC Chairman John Mccain on Trump-Putin Meeting" (16 July 2018)]
 
*The presidency's most crucial duty is the protection of American national security. Yet, interviewed by Hugh Hewitt months into his campaign, Donald Trump did not know the key leaders of the global jihad. The man who would be commander-in-chief was unfamiliar with Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader who has been murdering Americans for over 30 years; Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's longtime deputy who has quite notoriously commanded al-Qaeda since the network's leader was killed by U.S. forces in 2011; and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State (ISIS) and a jihadist so globally notorious that many teenagers are aware of him. Of course a man who wants to be president should make it his business to know such things.
**Andrew C. McCarthy, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''.
 
<i> About the [[2021 storming of the United States Capitol|attack on US Capitol]]: </i>
* The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the President and other powerful people.
** Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, Republican, quoted by {{citation
| date = 2021-01-19
| author = Alex Rogers, Clare Foran
| title = Mitch McConnell: Capitol Hill mob was 'provoked' by Trump
| publisher = CNN
| url = https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/19/politics/mitch-mcconnell-rioters-provoked/index.html
}}
<i> About the attack on US Capitol: </i>
* Former President Trump's actions that preceded the riot were a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty. Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day.
* Impeachment was never meant to be the final forum for American justice
* We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former Presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one.
* He did not do his job. He didn't take steps so federal law could be faithfully executed and order restored. No. Instead, according to public reports, he watched television happily -- happily -- as the chaos unfolded.
** Mitch McConnell, as quoted by {{citation
| date = 2021-02-13
| author = Alex Rogers and Manu Raju
| title = McConnell blames Trump but voted not guilty anyway
| publisher = CNN
| url = https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/mitch-mcconnell-acquit-trump/index.html
}}
 
*When you think of how far we have come, and at what cost, and with what faith, to just turn it all over to this monstrous clown with a monstrous ego, with no experience, never served his country in any way — it's just crazy. We can't stand by and let it happen. The Republican Party shouldn't stand by and let it happen.
** {{w|David McCullough}}, quoted by Jim Dwyer in ''{{w|The New York Times}}'', [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/nyregion/donald-trump-david-mccullough-ken-burns.html "Scholars Steeped in Dead Politicians Take On a Live One: Donald Trump,"] July 12 2016.
 
*Trump had been calling for better relations with [[Russia]] during his presidential campaign... Stooping to a new low, Friday's (New York) Times headline screamed: "F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia." For those interested in evidence — or the lack of it— regarding collusion between Russia and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, we can thank the usual Russia-gate promoters at [[Mainstream media|The New York Times and CNN]] for inadvertently filling in some gaps in recent days... NYT readers had to get down to paragraph 9 to read: "No evidence has emerged..."
**[[Ray McGovern]] in [https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/15/russia-gate-evidence-please/ ''Ray McGovern: Russia-gate Evidence, Please,''] (15 January 2019)
 
* Donald Trump is no conservative. He's a populist whose theme is: Our government is broken, and I'll fix it. He's right on point one: Both parties have failed to lead. Obama and congressional Democrats manipulate the levers of power to push America farther toward European socialism; Republicans promise free-market alternatives but end up caving in to pressure or carrying water for the GOP's own big-government special interests. The American people have signaled in recent elections that they've had enough of business as usual, and now they want to clean house. Yet Trump is no better than what we already have. He'll say anything to get a vote but give us more of the same if he gets into office. Trump beguiles us, defies the politically correct media, and bullies anyone who points out that the emperor has no clothes. None of that makes him a conservative who cherishes liberty... For decades, Trump has argued for big government.
** David McIntosh, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''.
 
* Trump himself thought it was a good idea in the recent past to support Hillary Clinton, including to be President.
** Dan McLaughlin, [http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2016/05/17/never-trump-movement-neither-anti-american-hypocritical/ "The Never Trump Movement Is Neither Anti-American Nor Hypocritical"] (17 May 2016), ''Red State''
 
* Trump is unexpectedly increasing my enthusiasm for [[Hillary Clinton|Hillary]]. What he is saying is not based on facts: it's based on immaturity, bad judgment and ignorance, and I think it's going to be hard for people in uniform who are thoughtful about this, to vote for him.
** [[Merrill McPeak]], retired U.S. Air Force chief of staff, as quoted in [https://www.yahoo.com/news/does-military-think-donald-trump-204408128.html "What Does the Military Think of Donald Trump?"] (15 June 2016), ''Time''
 
* Donald Trump is an original
** [[John McWhorter]] '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phsU1vVHOQI Language Expert: Donald Trump's Way Of Speaking Is 'Oddly Adolescent' | The 11th Hour | MSNBC]''' (September 15, 2017)
 
* Trump's brawling, blustery, mean-spirited public persona serves to associate conservatives with all the negative stereotypes that liberals have for decades attached to their opponents on the right. According to conventional caricature, conservatives are selfish, greedy, materialistic, bullying, misogynistic, angry, and intolerant. They are, we're told, privileged and pampered elitists who revel in the advantages of inherited wealth while displaying only cruel contempt for the less fortunate and the less powerful. The Left tried to smear Ronald Reagan in such terms but failed miserably because he displayed none of the stereotypical traits... Trump is the living, breathing, bellowing personification of all the nasty characteristics Democrats routinely ascribe to Republicans.
** {{w|Michael Medved}}, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''.
 
* There are two tactical approaches for candidates seeking their party's nomination in election campaigns. One is to strongly debate the issues and firmly advocate your positions, but to avoid personal attacks on your opponents or needless divisiveness. The other is to vigorously attack your fellow candidates, disparaging them personally and seeking to raise yourself up by dragging them down. Ronald Reagan was famous for epitomizing the former path. Donald Trump, unfortunately, has chosen to follow the latter course... At a time when the nation is suffering under one of the most divisive and incompetent presidents in history, our people need positive, unifying leadership, not negative, destructive political rhetoric.
** [[Edwin Meese]], [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''.
 
* Trump owes less to [[Wendell Willkie|Willkie]]'s tradition than to [[Benito Mussolini]]'s, and not only because of the superficial: Trump's chin-out toughness, sweeping right-hand gestures and talk of his "huge" successes and his "stupid" opponents all evoke the Italian dictator's style. Monday's breathtaking announcement that he would block all Muslims from entering the United States has many pointing out the obvious fascist overtones... Trump uses many of the fascist's tools: a contempt for facts, spreading a pervasive sense of fear and overwhelming crisis, portraying his backers as victims, assigning blame to foreign or alien actors and suggesting only his powerful personality can transcend the crisis. He endorsed the violence done to a dissenter at one of his rallies, and he now floats the idea of making entry to the United States contingent on religion.
** [[Dana Milbank]], [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-isnt-todays-wendell-willkie-hes-todays-benito-mussolini/2015/12/08/77c81b0c-9ddc-11e5-a3c5-c77f2cc5a43c_story.html "Donald Trump, America's modern Mussolini"] (8 December 2015), ''The Washington Post''.
 
* For all the promises Trump is breaking, there is one he has kept without wavering: his vow to be unpredictable. ... Some suggest that there is a method to Trump's [[madness]], that he is trying to make would-be adversaries think he is [[irrational]] and capricious, thereby making [[foes]] and [[rivals]] wary of pushing him too far. ... But in Trump's application of the {{w|Madman Theory}} there seems to be less [[theory]] than madman. There may be advantages to keeping foes and opponents off guard, but Trump is baffling [[friends]] and [[allies]], too. In [[foreign affairs]], unpredictability spooks allies and spreads instability. And unpredictable [[policy]] at home has long been seen as toxic for business. ... The widespread [[chaos]] suggests Trump isn't signaling new policies as much as he's winging it. His unpredictability is not a theory. It's the absence of one.
** [[Dana Milbank]], ''[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-one-consistent-policy-chaos/2016/12/06/f1a5a5ae-bbf7-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html?utm_term=.f664c9ebc888 Trump's one consistent policy: Chaos]'', ''{{w|The Washington Post}}'' (December 6, 2016)
 
* You never know where the president's trigger point is
** Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley according to "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcGUVBJgZnE Milley took top-secret action to limit Trump's ability to order military strike, book says]" (January8, 2021)
 
*He needs no introduction. His name is familiar to every person on the planet Earth. His name comes up in almost every conversation in the world on global politics. His every word is followed by tens of millions. He has left a deep and lasting impact everywhere.
**[[Narendra Modi]], speaking at the "Howdy Modi" rally at NRG Stadium in Houston, United States, ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhFC-Un3J9Q ETV Andhra Pradesh]'' (22 September 2019)
 
[[File:Moon Jae-in presidential portrait.jpg|thumb|President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. ~ [[Moon Jae-in]]]]
* '''President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize.'''
** [[Moon Jae-in]], as quoted in [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-southkorea-trump/trump-should-win-the-nobel-peace-prize-says-south-koreas-moon-idUSKBN1I10OD "South Korea president says Trump deserves Nobel Peace Prize"] by Hyonhee Shin, ''Reuters'' (30 April 2018)
 
* The three primary goals of religious conservatives: to protect all human life, including that of the unborn; to reinforce the sanctity of marriage and the family; and to conserve the religious freedom of all persons. All three goals would be in jeopardy under a Trump presidency. Yes, Trump says that he is pro-life now, despite having supported partial-birth abortion in the past. The problem is not whether he can check a box. Pro-life voters expect leaders to have a coherent vision of human dignity and to be able to defend against assaults on human life in the future—some of which may be unimaginable today and will present themselves only as new technologies develop.
** Russell Moore, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''.
 
* Trump's proposal would assure the enmity of all Muslims, including those whose support we need if we are to prevail. Even assuming an infallible way to identify who is Muslim, the proposal is both under- and over-inclusive. It is under-inclusive because it does not address potential terrorists who have U.S. passports or residence permits, or are already here, or may threaten us abroad; it is over-inclusive because it bars the huge majority of Muslims who are not potential terrorists. Trump says he would order the military to kill the families of terrorists. That would be a direct violation of the most basic laws of armed conflict, which require that deadly force be used only when required by military necessity, under circumstances that allow distinction between military and civilian targets, and when incidental damage to non-military targets is proportional to the military advantage gained. A military that adhered to the laws of armed conflict would necessarily disobey such an order; if it followed the order, both the person who gave it and those who followed it would be subject to prosecution for war crimes.
** Michael B. Mukasey, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''.
 
*What a fucking idiot.
**[[Rupert Murdoch]], as quoted in [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html "Donald Trump Didn't Want to Be President"] (January 2017), by Michael Wolff, ''NY Mag''
 
* I want him out. He has caused enough damage.
** Lisa Murkovski, Republican senator, quoted by {{citation
| date = 2021-01-10
| author = Kate Sullivan, Nicky Robertson
| title = Republican Sen. Pat Toomey says he thinks Trump 'committed impeachable offenses'
| publisher = CNN
| url = https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/09/politics/pat-toomey-trump-impeachable-offenses/index.html
}}
 
*Trump has gotten six or seven stories in his [[President of the United States|presidency]] so far, that if they happened in 1981, there would have been serious talk about the president needing to resign. And that's gone now, that ray gun of, ''"We don't do this. You can't get away with that"'' is pretty much gone... Everything is a [[Bigotry|racial stereotype]] with him half the time. We've got to admit that about [[Trump]].
**[[Mike Murphy]], [http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/mike-murphy/ interview with Bill Kristol] (20 June 2017)
 
*A Moscow loving grifter is on the loose in the White House. Shame on the Vichy Republicans who constantly enable him.
**[[Mike Murphy (political consultant)|Mike Murphy]], [https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/04/playbook-birthday-mike-murphy-620654 interview with Daniel Lippman] (2018)
 
* I don't hate the man, but it's time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset.
* Do we really want a bull in a china shop situation every single day!? Also, I think the legal maximum age for start of Presidential term should be 69.
** Elon Musk, quoted in [https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/other/3554566-elon-musk-time-for-trump-to-hang-up-his-hat-sail-into-the-sunset/ "Elon Musk: Time for Trump to ‘hang up his hat & sail into the sunset’"], 7 July 2022
 
* What kind of son have I created?
** [[w:Mary Anne MacLeod Trump|Mary Trump]] (Trump's mother), [https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/e515a2cd-a51b-4f83-8d61-6ebb9a104e0a is said] to have asked [[Ivana Trump]]
 
=== N ===
* When Trump came for the Mexicans, I did not speak out — as I was not a Mexican. When he came for the Muslims I did not speak out — as I was not a Muslim. Then he came for me.
** [[New York Daily News|The Daily News]], variant of ''{{w|First they came ...}}'' by [[Martin Niemöller]], as quoted in ''[https://www.businessinsider.com/daily-news-donald-trump-muslim-cover-2015-12 Daily News cover shows Donald Trump cutting off the Statue of Liberty's head]'' (December 09, 2015) by Colin Campbell, ''{{w|Business Insider}}''
 
* I love Donald, and he would make a great [[President of the United States|president]]. Number one, he tells the truth. Number two, he's been where most of these guys want to be, in terms of riding on his own plane. He doesn't have to worry about what hotels he stays in, he doesn't have to worry about how his family gets to Hawaii, so on and so forth. I could give you so many reasons. But most of all, most important I think for Mr. Trump, is he tells it like it is. Look, we can talk about these radicals all we want, but it's my opinion, and I heard [Trump] say this too: They're only going to be as radical as we let them be.
** [[w:Wayne Newton|Wayne Newton]] on {{citation
| date = 2015-10-06
| title = [[w:Fox & Friends|Fox & Friends]]
| medium = TV
}} — as quoted in [http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/256070-wayne-newton-all-in-on-trump "Wayne Newton all in on Trump"] by Judy Kurtz, ''The Hill'' (6 October 2015)
 
* Mr President... STOP THE INSANITY You lost the election - here's how to save your legacy
** New York Post, quoted in [https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/28/media/new-york-post-donald-trump-editorial/index.html "New York Post to Donald Trump: Stop the insanity"], David Goldman, ''CNN'' (29 December 2020)
 
*Trump has chosen to identify himself as a Republican as a matter of egotistical convenience.
** Tom Nichols, [http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/24/ill-take-hillary-clinton-over-donald-trump/ "I'll Take Hillary Clinton Over Donald Trump"] (24 February 2016), ''The Federalist''
 
*'''As you can imagine, [Pat] is an expert on politics and she predicts whenever you decide to run for office you will be a winner!'''
** [[Richard Nixon]], crediting his wife [[w:Pat Nixon|Pat Nixon]] in a letter to Trump in 1987, [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nixon-predicted-trump-success/ FACT CHECK: Did Richard Nixon Write a Letter Predicting Donald Trump’s Success in Politics?], ''[[w:Snopes|Snopes]]'', (May 18, 2017)
 
*Have you ever argued with a toddler? Because if you have, you probably lost that argument, or you killed the toddler. Either way, you didn't win the argument, because you can't win an argument against a toddler. Toddlers will say the most outlandish shit. [...] Over the course of this election season, we've come to realize that president-elect Donald Trump might have the mind of a toddler. And if you think about it, it makes sense. He loves the same things that toddlers do. They like building things. They love attention, always grabbing things they're not supposed to. [...] You don't argue with a child if you want to win. Don't amplify the toddler's voice, because you'll just get trapped in the toddler's world. Rather, just keep asking the toddler to elaborate. Because logic is the downfall of every toddler. The point is to gently demoralize the toddler and smother his tantrums. And, as a bonus, stop him from delegitimizing the press.
**[[Trevor Noah]], ''[[The Daily Show]]'', November 30, 2016. Quoted in ''[https://www.businessinsider.com/trevor-noah-trump-toddler-2016-11 Trevor Noah: How journalists really need to deal with Trump]'' (November 30, 2016) by Paul Schrodt, ''{{w|Business Insider}}''
 
* Donald Trump should be given the [[w:Presidential Medal of Freedom|Medal of Freedom]] for speaking his mind in such a bold, honest and straight-forward manner.
** [[Ted Nugent]], ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150710040259/http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/give-trump-the-medal-of-freedom/ Give Trump the Medal of Freedom]'', ''{{w|WorldNetDaily}}'' (August 7, 2015). Quoted in ''[https://www.factcheck.org/2018/09/shaq-didnt-call-trump-the-best-president/ Shaq Didn’t Call Trump the 'Best President']'' (September 17, 2018) by Catherine Monk, ''{{w|FactCheck.org}}''
 
* Donald Trump comes closer than anyone else to being the archetype of the species; crossing genres, he exemplifies all the ways an asshole can capture our attention.
** {{citation
| author = Geoffrey Nunberg
| date = 2012-08-14
| title = [[w:Ascent of the A-Word|Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years]]
| location = New York
| publisher = PublicAffairs
| isbn = 978-1610391757
| pages = 164-165
}}
 
*I'd like to take Donald Trump to Palestine,/set him free in the streets of Ramallah or Nablus/amidst all the winners who never gave up in sixty-/nine years./They'd like to make their country great again too,/if only their hands weren't tied by the weapons/our country donates.
**[[Naomi Shihab Nye]] ''Voices in the Air'' (2018)
 
=== O ===
* [Americans have] a continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and mobility, values that extend far beyond the issue of race in the American mind. The depth of this commitment may be summarily dismissed as the unfounded optimism of the average American—I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don't make it, my children will.
** [[Barack Obama]], in a 1991 law school paper called "Race and Rights Rhetoric", as quoted in ''Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama'' (2017) by David Garrow, and reported in [https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/young-obama-said-the-american-dream-is-to-be-donald-trump "Young Obama Said the American Dream Is to Be Donald Trump", ''Vice'' (12 May 2017)]
 
*We've got a debate inside the other party that is fantasy and schoolyard taunts and selling stuff like it's the Home Shopping Network. And then you've got the Republican establishment -- they're very exercised: We're shocked that somebody would be saying these things. We're shocked that somebody is fanning anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-Muslim sentiment. '''We're shocked! We're shocked that somebody could be loose with the facts. Or distort someone's record -- shocked... This is the guy, remember, who was sure that I was born in Kenya. Who just wouldn't let it go. And all this same Republican establishment, they weren't saying nothing. As long as it was directed at me, they were fine with it. They thought it was a hoot. Wanted to get his endorsement... What is happening in this primary is just a distillation of what's been happening inside their party for more than a decade.''' I mean, the reason that many of their voters are responding is because this is what's been fed through the messages they've been sending for a long time -- that you just make flat assertions that don't comport with the facts. That you just deny the evidence of science. That compromise is a betrayal. That the other side isn't simply wrong, or we just disagree, we want to take a different approach, but the other side is destroying the country, or treasonous. I mean, that's - look it up. That's what they've been saying. So they can't be surprised when somebody suddenly looks and says, you know what, I can do that even better. I can make stuff up better than that. I can be more outrageous than that. I can insult people even better than that. I can be even more uncivil.
**Barack Obama on Trump, [https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/14/remarks-president-dnc-reception-austin-tx March 2016]
 
* I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously … But he never did. For close to four years now, he’s shown no interest in putting in the work; no interest in finding common ground; no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends; no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves. … Trump hasn’t grown into the job because he can’t.
**Barack Obama on Trump, [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/democratic-national-convention-kamala-harris-barack-obama 20 August 2020]
 
* I like Donald Trump because he speaks from the heart. Make America Great Again is a great slogan. I would like to meet him.
** [[w:Family of Barack Obama#Malik_Obama|Malik Obama]], President Obama's half-brother, as quoted in [http://nypost.com/2016/07/24/why-obamas-half-brother-says-hell-be-voting-for-donald-trump/ "Why Obama's half-brother says he'll be voting for Donald Trump"] by Isabel Vincent, ''New York Post'' (24 July 2016)
 
*Let's take a page from Donald Trump's book and ignore [[political correctness]] for a moment. If you support Trump, you support his sexist, bigoted and racist views. There are no ifs, ands or buts about it, and this is especially true for GOP party leaders, elected officials and even community leaders. Some have said things such as, 'I don't like Trump's history of demeaning women, but I think he will be good for the economy'. Sorry, you don't get a pass because you like one of his policy proposals. It's akin to saying, 'I supported Hitler for his tax plan'. And no, I'm absolutely not comparing Trump to Hitler. But Anne Frank's 86-year-old stepsister, Eva Schloss, who survived [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]], did just that a few weeks ago, telling ''Newsweek'' that Trump 'is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism'.
**Dean Obeidallah, [http://www.edition.cnn.com/2016/02/24/opinions/support-trump-support-bigotry-obeidallah/index.html "A Vote For Trump Is A Vote"] (24 February 2016), ''CNN'', State of Georgia: Cable News Network
 
*He’s not all that. And much less impressive in person than on [[television]], as well.
**[[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]], [https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/10/democracy_now_the_squad_sotu Interview] with Democracy Now (2020)
 
*He said to me, "if you're ever caught cheating, you deny, deny, deny, and wear them out, and they will believe you eventually because you've denied so long."
**Jack O'Donnell, former president of the Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City, [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/us/politics/stephen-moore-donald-trump-sexual-misconduct.html Believing Him: For Trump, Sticking With Men Like Stephen Moore Is Nothing New] (26 April 2019), ''New York Times''
 
* <p>This young girl, {{w|Tara Conner}}, how old is she? 20? 21. She went out and she was partying. She's from Kentucky. She went to New York and she was hanging out at all the parties, and doing what [[Paris Hilton|Paris]] and [[Lindsay Lohan|Lindsay]] do — you know, dancing, whatever. And so he held a press conference to announce whether or not she was going to ''retain'' her ''crown''. And then she started to cry, going, "I just want to thank Donald for giving me a second chance." And there he is, hair looping, going ''[flipping hair over top of her head, imitating Trump]'' "Everyone deserves a second chance. I'm going to give her a second chance."</p><p>He annoys me on a multitude of levels. ''He's'' the moral authority? Left the first wife, had an affair. Left the second wife, had an affair. Had kids both times, but ''he's'' the moral compass for 20-year-olds in America. Donald, sit and spin, my friend! I don't enjoy him. No. No, no, no.</p>
* He inherited a lot of money — wait a minute — and he's been bankrupt so many times where he didn't have to pay. But the people beneath him who he owed money to got shorted out of the money, but he got to again, try again and again. And you know what saved him the second time? After his father died, with ''that'' money, he paid off all his bankruptcy. This is not a self-made man.
* I just think that this man is sort of like one of those, you know, snake oil salesmen in ''Little House on the Prairie''.
** Rosie O'Donnell, ''The View'' (2006), quoted in "[http://www.people.com/article/rosie-odonnell-addresses-donald-trump-attack-presidential-debate Rosie O'Donnell Hits Back at Donald Trump After Debate Bashing - and Calls Him an 'Orange Anus']", ''People'' ({{#formatdate:2016-09-27}})
** Referring to Trump's announcement that he would give Miss USA 2006 a "second chance" after her substance abuse scandal.
 
*This man just can't be [[w:President of the United States|president]]. They've got this button — this briefcase. He's going to find it.
**[[P. J. O'Rourke]], alluding to the nuclear codes the commander-in-chief takes control of upon assuming office, [http://www.npr.org/2016/05/09/477339063/conservative-author-pj-orourke-reluctantly-backs-clinton May 7, 2016] on [[w:NPR|NPR]]
 
* The [[w:Founding Fathers of the United States|Founding Fathers]] created a system of {{w|checks and balances}} to limit the power of the President, but it only works if someone fucking checks or balances. And if you don't, it's no longer on Trump, it's on you. Because when you've got the presidential equivalent of a five-year-old shitting on the salad bar of a {{w|Ruby Tuesdays}}, at some point you stop blaming the five-year-old, and you start blaming the people who are not stopping him. Stop that boy, that's what I am saying. Stop that boy, now.
** [[John Oliver]] during a piece on the aftermath of Trump's firing of FBI Director [[James Comey]] on his [[w:Last Week Tonight with John Oliver|Last Week Tonight]] show (14 May 2017)
 
*in 2019, President Trump repeated the baseless conspiracy theory that I had committed immigration fraud, nearly three years after I thought I had answered it once and for all.
**[[Ilhan Omar]] ''This is What America Looks Like'' (2021)
 
* Now that he’s president-elect, you just hope that he can make the world a better place. He won fair and square. We have to give him a chance. There’s no need talking about recounts and this and that.
** [[Shaquille O'Neal]], as quoted in ''[https://www.factcheck.org/2018/09/shaq-didnt-call-trump-the-best-president/ Shaq Didn’t Call Trump the 'Best President']'' (September 17, 2018) by Catherine Monk, ''{{w|FactCheck.org}}''
 
*to me, Trump is more like [former Italian prime minister [Silvio] Berlusconi than like Hitler. Trump is many things. He is pampered, he is an immature man, he is a teenager craving unconditional, endless love from everybody. I don’t think he is fanatic. I’m not sure I would say about his vice president that he is not a fanatic, he probably is, but I don’t think Donald Trump strikes me as a fanatic.
**[[Amos Oz]] [https://forward.com/culture/416752/amos-oz-in-final-q-a-israel-is-a-dream-come-true-and-as-a-dream-come-true/ interview with ''Forward''] (2018)
 
=== P ===
 
*I'm happy with what Trump has done, because he's totally blown up the media! All of a sudden, ‘BOOM!' That lack of caution and shooting from the hip. He's not a president, of course. He's not remotely a president. He has no political skills of any kind. He's simply an American citizen who is creating his own bully pulpit.
** [[Camille Paglia]], as quoted by Luke Morgan Britan, "[http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/before-calling-taylor-swift-a-nazi-barbie-camille-paglia-laid-into-plenty-of-other-celebrities-765347#SFT3Db4CgkKHb7QH.99 Before Calling Taylor Swift A ‘Nazi Barbie', Camille Paglia Laid Into Plenty Of Other Celebrities]", NME.com, Dec 11, 2015; retrieved 15 September 2017
 
*Had Hillary won, everyone would have expected disappointed Trump voters to show a modicum of respect for the electoral results as well as for the historic ceremony of the inauguration, during which former combatants momentarily unite to pay homage to the peaceful transition of power in our democracy. But that was not the reaction of a vast cadre of Democrats shocked by Trump's win. In an abject failure of leadership that may be one of the most disgraceful episodes in the history of the modern Democratic party, [[Chuck Schumer]], who had risen to become the Senate Democratic leader after the retirement of [[Harry Reid]], asserted absolutely no moral authority as the party spun out of control in a nationwide orgy of rage and spite. Nor were there statesmanlike words of caution and restraint from two seasoned politicians whom I have admired for decades and believe should have run for president long ago—Senator [[Dianne Feinstein]] and Congresswoman [[Nancy Pelosi]]. How do Democrats imagine they can ever expand their electoral support if they go on and on in this self-destructive way, impugning half the nation as vile racists and homophobes?<br/>All of which brings us to the issue of Trump's performance to date. The initial conundrum was: could he shift from being the slashing, caustic ex-reality show star of the campaign to a more measured, presidential persona? Perhaps to the dismay of his diehard critics, Trump did indeed make that transition at the Capitol on inauguration morning, when he appeared grave and focused, palpably conveying a sense of the awesome burdens of the highest office. As for his particular actions as president, I am no fan of executive orders, which usurp congressional prerogatives and which I was already denouncing when Obama was constantly signing them (with very little protest, one might add, from the mainstream media).
** [[Camille Paglia]], as quoted by Johnathan V. Last, "[http://www.weeklystandard.com/camille-paglia-on-trump-democrats-transgenderism-and-islamist-terror/article/2008464 Camille Paglia: On Trump, Democrats, Transgenderism, and Islamist Terror]", The Weekly Standard, June 15, 2017
 
* Only one candidate's record of success proves he is the master of [[w:Trump: The Art of the Deal|the art of the deal]]... I'm here to support the next president of the United States, Donald Trump.
** [[Sarah Palin]], [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/sarah-palins-speech-endorsing-donald-trump-in-full-a6822771.html "Sarah Palin's speech endorsing Donald Trump in full"], ''Independent'' (20 January 2016)
 
*With Donald Trump as the presumptive presidential nominee, we are witnessing a populist hijacking of one of the United States' great [[political parties]]... [R]ooted in [[ignorance]], [[prejudice]], fear and isolationism... This troubles me deeply as a Republican, but it troubles me even more as an American... Enough is enough... It's time to put country before party and say it together: Never Trump.
** [[Henry Paulson]], [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-it-comes-to-trump-a-republican-treasury-secretary-says-choose-country-over-party/2016/06/24/c7bdba34-3942-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-f%3Ahomepage%2Fstory "Choose country over party"] (24 June 2016), ''The Washington Post'', Washington, D.C., as quoted in [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-henry-paulson-op-ed-hillary-clinton-election-2016/ ''CBS News''] (June 2016)
 
*Trump has made a living out of preying on and bullying society's most vulnerable, with the help of government. He isn't an outsider, but rather an unelected politician of the worst kind. He admits that he's bought off elected officials in order get his way and to openly abuse the system. The rabid defense he gets from some quarters is astonishing. Trump's liberal positions aren't in the distant past—he has openly promoted them on the campaign trail. Trump isn't fighting for anyone but himself, which has been his pattern for decades. Conservatives have a serious decision. Do we truly believe in our long-held principles and insist that politicians have records demonstrating fealty to them? Or are we willing to throw these principles away because an entertainer who has been a liberal Democrat for decades simply says some of the right things?
** {{w|Katie Pavlich}}, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''
 
* Observing his behavior, I have concluded that he is like the man who refuses to ask for directions.
* All of the answers are there. And yet the president continues to go down the wrong path and refuses to ask for directions from scientists who know better than any of us.
** [[Nancy Pelosi]], talking about the need for testing, contact tracing, treatment, social distancing, masking and equipment for handling the Coronavirus pandemic, as quoted by Marisa Schultz, [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-compares-trump-to-the-man-who-refuses-to-ask-for-directions "Pelosi compares Trump to 'the man who refuses to ask for directions'"], July 17 2020, <i>CNN</i>
 
* We might get somebody of his ilk who's sane, and that would really be dangerous, because it could be who's smart, who's strategic, and the rest. This is a slob. He doesn't believe in science. He's a snake-oil salesman. And he's shrewd. Give him credit for his shrewdness.
** [[Nancy Pelosi]], as quoted by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, ''I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year'' (2021), p. 6
 
* Donald Trump and I believe that Captain [[w:Humayun S. M. Khan|Humayun Khan]] is an American hero and his family, like all Gold Star families, should be cherished by every American. Captain Khan gave his life to defend our country in the global war on terror. Due to the disastrous decisions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a once stable Middle East has now been overrun by ISIS. This must not stand. By suspending immigration from countries that have been compromised by terrorism, rebuilding our military, defeating ISIS at its source and projecting strength on the global stage, we will reduce the likelihood that other American families will face the enduring heartbreak of the Khan family.
** [[Mike Pence]], about the statements of Donald Trump on the fallen Captain {{w|Humayun S. M. Khan}}'s family — [https://www.facebook.com/mikepence/posts/10153921668637862 Facebook, July 31, 2016]
 
* It really is remarkable to think about the progress the American people have made over the last several months. When the president tapped me to lead the [[White House Coronavirus Task Force]], he gave us the first objective is to save lives. And to focus on slowing the spread, [[w:Flattening the curve|bending the curve]]. [...] Secondly, the president made it clear to us that we were to make sure the [[w:Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospitals|hospitals]] in impacted areas had the resources and the [[w:COVID-19 pandemic in the United States#Medical supplies|equipment]] that they needed to be able to save as many lives as possible.
** [[Mike Pence]], in an interview with {{w|Chuck Todd}} at ''{{w|Meet the Press}}'' (April 19, 2020). [https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-april-19-2020-n1187411 Transcript online] at ''{{w|NBCNews.com}}''
 
* The president has made it clear that we want the governors to implement testing and deploy testing where they deem it's most appropriate in their state, we're going to continue to fully partner with states around the country to increase the supply, to make sure that they have the reagents and the test kits necessary to perform those tests. But I want to say again, it is truly -- it's a tribute to the president's leadership that early on in this process he brought in the top commercial labs in the country. They formed an alliance. And we went from one month ago to 80,000 tests being done to four million tests being completed as of yesterday. We'll continue to increase that. We'll continue to make governors aware of that.
** [[Mike Pence]], in an interview with {{w|Chuck Todd}} at ''{{w|Meet the Press}}'' (April 19, 2020). [https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-april-19-2020-n1187411 Transcript online] at ''{{w|NBCNews.com}}''
 
* I've seen that report in the papers this morning. And I know that [[w:United States Department of Health and Human Services|HHS]] is making inquiries. But we believe those issues were resolved on that particular test by early February. But it's important for your viewers to know that that test, the slow lab-based test that is typical for [[CDC]] and {{w|public health}} labs would never have been able to meet the needs of testing in this coronavirus epidemic. That's why President Trump was so right when he brought together these commercial labs and formed a consortium. And literally took us from -- at that time in February we had done some 20,000 tests total across the country. Now we've done more than four million and we believe we'll have done more than five million tests before the end of this month. None of that would have been possible without the president's leadership, without the innovation, without the incredible efforts of companies like [[w:Roche Diagnostics|Roche]] and [[w:Avid Technology|Avid Laboratories]].
** [[Mike Pence]] on a [[w:Food and Drug Administration|FDA]]'s report stating that CDC's initial test was faulty, in an interview with {{w|Chuck Todd}} at ''{{w|Meet the Press}}'' (April 19, 2020). [https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-april-19-2020-n1187411 Transcript online] at ''{{w|NBCNews.com}}''
 
* The American people can be confident that this president wants [[w:Trump administration communication during the COVID-19 pandemic#Lifting restrictions|to reopen]] the American economy as soon as we can safely and responsibly do it.
** [[Mike Pence]], in an interview with {{w|Chuck Todd}} at ''{{w|Meet the Press}}'' (April 19, 2020). [https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-april-19-2020-n1187411 Transcript online] at ''{{w|NBCNews.com}}''
 
* I wrote the scripture reference, which is 2 Corinthians 3:17, which is how it's written, I'm guilty as charged. That's exactly what I did. I sent him a couple of suggestions of some things he could talk about as a connection point. <br /> It shows that he's not familiar with Bible, Donald Trump's a very interesting guy. There are some things about him that I find fascinating, that I like about him, as well as other evangelicals.
** [[w:Tony Perkins (politician)|Tony Perkins]], in an interview with {{w|CNN}}'s {{w|Erin Burnett}} on ''[[w:Erin Burnett OutFront|OutFront]]'', about Trump saying "two Corinthians" instead of "Second Corinthians" during a speech at Liberty University. [http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/20/politics/donald-trump-tony-perkins-sarah-palin/] (January 22, 2016)
 
* He offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as Trumpism: a toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued... Let no one be mistaken: Donald Trump's candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded. ... Donald Trump is the modern-day incarnation of the {{w|Know Nothing}} movement.
** [[Rick Perry]], campaign event, Willard Hotel, {{#formatdate:2015-07-22}}, quoted in {{citation
| date = 2015-07-22
| title = Perry: Trump's campaign ‘a barking carnival act' and ‘a cancer on conservatism'
| first = Jose A.
| last = DelReal
| newspaper = The Washington Post
| url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/07/22/rick-perry-donald-trumps-campaign-a-barking-carnival-act-and-a-cancer-on-conservatism/
}}
 
* I don't know how far Trump will go. But in giving confidence to the American people and exposing establishment hypocrisy, he has already done a great service for our country.
** [[w:Jesse Lee Peterson|Jesse Lee Peterson]], [http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/cowards-join-forces-to-attack-the-bully/ "Cowards join forces to attack the 'bully'"], ''[[w:WorldNetDaily|WND]]'' (21 September 2015)
 
*To most of us, the American presidential campaign is a media freak show, in which Donald Trump is the arch villain. But Trump is loathed by those with power in the United States for reasons that have little to do with his obnoxious behaviour and opinions. To the invisible government in Washington, the unpredictable Trump is an obstacle to America’s design for the 21st century...To the militarists in Washington, the real problem with Trump is that, in his lucid moments, he seems not to want a war with Russia; he wants to talk with the [[President of Russia|Russian president]], not fight him; he says he wants to talk with the president of China. In the first debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump promised not to be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into a conflict. He said, “I would certainly not do first strike. Once the nuclear alternative happens, it’s over.” That was not news... what is clear is that Trump is considered a serious threat to the status quo maintained by the vast national security machine that runs the United States, regardless of who is in the White House. The CIA wants him beaten. The Pentagon wants him beaten. The media wants him beaten. Even his own party wants him beaten. He is a threat to the rulers of the world – unlike Clinton who has left no doubt she is prepared to go to war with nuclear-armed Russia and China... Without a shred of evidence, she has accused Russia of supporting Trump and hacking her emails.
**[[John Pilger]], [http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45752.htm Inside the Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton & Trump], ''Information Clearing House'', October 28, 2016
 
*The coming war on [[China]] is likely to happen by mistake or accident as a result of deliberate provocations by the US and its echoes. Under cover of the pandemic, the Trump regime is sending strategic bombers and spy drones within sight of China itself. Our silence is our peril.
**[[John Pilger]], [https://twitter.com/johnpilger/status/1273141084500250625 Twitter] (17 June 2020)
 
*Trump is an unbalanced force. He is the politicized American id. Should his election results match his polls, he would be, unquestionably, the worst thing to happen to the American common culture in my lifetime.
** {{w|John Podhoretz}}, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''{{w|National Review}}''.
 
*Donald Trump was so awful, so horrible, so disgusting... His lies, his distortions, his deceits, and his libels thicker and fouler than they've yet been... Since he began running he has demonstrated he knows things we don't know about the emotions roiling in the American underbelly. Maybe he knows this too... He interrupts, he yells over them, he insults them, he goes over his allotted time, and the whirlwind he creates turns into a vacuum that sucks all the air out of the place and right into his attention-whore lungs.
** {{w|John Podhoretz}}, [http://nypost.com/2016/02/13/trump-was-out-of-control-in-south-carolina-debate/ "Trump was out of control in South Carolina debate"] (13 February 2016), ''{{w|New York Post}}''.
 
* There is no comparison between the stance of Vietnam’s [[w:Nguyen Xuan Phuc|Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc]] and U.S. President [[Donald Trump]]: the former had a sober, [[science]]-based attitude, while the latter has consistently laughed off the coronavirus as a simple flu as recently as June 24.
** [[Vijay Prashad]] in [https://consortiumnews.com/2020/07/16/covid-19-why-laos-vietnam-china-have-beaten-the-virus-and-india-brazil-and-the-us-have-not/ COVID-19: Why Laos, Vietnam & China Have Beaten the Virus and India, Brazil and the US Have Not, ''Consortium News''] (16 July 2020)
 
* It’s not surprising that a criminal like Trump pardons other criminals. But apparently to get a pardon, one has to be either a Republican, a convicted child murderer or a turkey.
** Senior US District Judge Robert Pratt of the Southern District of Iowa, as quoted by {{citation |date=2020-12-30 |title='A criminal like Trump': Federal judge ridicules President's pardons
| author= Ryan J. Foley | periodical=The Sydney Morning Herald | url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/a-criminal-like-trump-federal-judge-in-iowa-ridicules-trump-s-pardons-20201230-p56qrs.html}}
 
* Donald Trump and his top [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] allies in [[w:115th United States Congress|Congress]] are fighting a war, and the battle lines have begun to clarify themselves. Their war is not being waged against [[COVID-19]], the [[COVID-19 pandemic|pandemic]] that has [[COVID-19 pandemic deaths|killed]] tens of thousands [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|in this nation]] alone. Their war is being waged against the nation itself, and specifically against areas of the nation that are heavy on [[w:Demographics of the United States|population]] but light on Trump supporters. In other words, the big-city [[w:Red states and blue states|blue states]], whose [[w:Governor (United States)|governors]] have refused to fawn over Trump's gibberish-flecked "leadership" during this crisis.
** [[William Rivers Pitt]], ''[https://truthout.org/articles/trump-and-mcconnell-arent-waging-war-on-covid-theyre-waging-war-on-us/ Trump and McConnell Aren’t Waging War on COVID. They’re Waging War on Us.]'' (April 28, 2020), ''{{w|Truthout}}''
 
* Trump has been treating the delivery of [[w:U.S. federal government response to the COVID-19 pandemic#Speculative proposals|federal aid]] to the states like his own personal {{w|spoils system}}: rewarding loyalty, punishing critics, and demanding to be praised for doing his job whenever he actually does it, but especially when he doesn't.
** [[William Rivers Pitt]], ''[https://truthout.org/articles/trump-and-mcconnell-arent-waging-war-on-covid-theyre-waging-war-on-us/ Trump and McConnell Aren’t Waging War on COVID. They’re Waging War on Us.]'' (April 28, 2020), ''{{w|Truthout}}''
 
* If you don’t pay your bills, your bank account stays full. It’s a trick Trump learned a long time ago.
** [[William Rivers Pitt]], ''[https://truthout.org/articles/trump-and-mcconnell-arent-waging-war-on-covid-theyre-waging-war-on-us/ Trump and McConnell Aren’t Waging War on COVID. They’re Waging War on Us.]'' (April 28, 2020), ''{{w|Truthout}}''
 
* Trump and McConnell know these states are reopening too soon, but they don’t care, because they need to make the money happy. [...] The utter cruelty of these tactics, the nihilistic self-destruction of it in the face of more than 55,000 dead and thousands more to follow, has scarce precedent in the annals of [[U.S. politics]]. Instead of helping the entire country in this time of grievous crisis, Trump and McConnell are putting their boots to the neck of every state they deem ideologically unfit. It will be a damn miracle if the nation survives this, and them.
** [[William Rivers Pitt]], ''[https://truthout.org/articles/trump-and-mcconnell-arent-waging-war-on-covid-theyre-waging-war-on-us/ Trump and McConnell Aren’t Waging War on COVID. They’re Waging War on Us.]'' (April 28, 2020), ''{{w|Truthout}}''
 
* Mr. Trump, I know you take your business seriously, and I take mine seriously. I hereby hold you in [[civil contempt]]
** Presiding judge [https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ny-trump-organization-contempt-1.6430134 Donald Trump found in contempt of court in New York civil case] (Apr 25, 2022)
 
*People imnitate Autistic hand flapping when they want to imply a disabled person is stupid, annoying, or out of control. Donald Trump famously did a cruel imitation of hand flapping during his 2016 campaign, while criticizing a physically disabled reporter.
**[[Devon Price]] ''Unmasking [[Autism]]: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity'' (2022)
 
[[File:Vladimir Putin (2020-02-20).jpg|thumb|He's a really brilliant and talented person, without any doubt. It's not our job to judge his qualities, that's a job for American voters, but he's the absolute leader in the presidential race. ~ [[Vladimir Putin]]]]
* '''He's a really brilliant and talented person, without any doubt. It's not our job to judge his qualities, that's a job for American voters, but he's the absolute leader in the presidential race.'''
** [[Vladimir Putin]], as quoted in [http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/263555-putin-praises-trump-hes-a-really-brilliant-and-talented-person "Putin praises Trump: 'He's a really brilliant and talented person'"] by Neetzan Zimmerman, ''The Hill'' (17 December 2015)
 
=== R ===
 
* Donald Trump lost the election fair and square.
** [[w:Brad Raffensperger|Brad Raffensperger]], Republican and top voting official in Georgia, quoted in [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/25/trump-rally-perry-georgia-republican-raffensperger-herschel-walker "‘He knows he lost’: Georgia Republican braces for Trump rally in Perry"], the Guardian, 25 sept 2021
 
* There are [[w:Hydroxychloroquine#Side effects|side effects]] to [[hydroxychloroquine]]. It causes psychiatric symptoms, cardiac problems and a host of other bad side effects. [...] There may be a role for it for some people, but to tell Americans ‘you don’t have anything to lose,’ that’s not true. People certainly have something to lose by taking it indiscriminately.
** [[Megan Ranney]], in response to Trump's statement on using the drug as treatment for [[coronavirus disease 2019]] (COVID-19. Quoted in ''[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/politics/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus.html Ignoring Expert Opinion, Trump Again Promotes Use of Hydroxychloroquine]'' (April 5, 2020) by [[Michael Crowley (journalist)|Michael Crowley]], Katie Thomas and [[Maggie Haberman]], ''{{w|The New York Times}}''.
 
*Your reminder that America's richest 1 percent now own half the value of the U.S. stock market. The richest 10 percent own 92 percent. So when Trump says the stock market is the economy, know who he's really talking about.
**[[Robert Reich]], [https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1279924108411596802 Twitter,] (5 Jul 2020)
 
*As the pandemic surges back, Trump and his lackeys have:
:—Tried to dismantle the Affordable Care Act
:—Rallied to pass a $740,000,000,000 defense spending bill
:—Declined extending additional unemployment benefits to out-of-work Americans
:Their priorities are crystal clear.
:*[[Robert Reich]], [https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1279957396115390466 Twitter,] (5 Jul 2020)
 
* You may not agree with his authenticity but he's authentic. People like that. He speaks his mind, which reminds me of me once in a while. I think that's something that's refreshing.
** [[Harry Reid]], as quoted in [http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/269202-reid-praises-trump-for-being-authentic "Reid praises Trump for being 'authentic'"] by Rebecca Savransky, ''The Hill'' (11 February 2016)
 
*He presents himself as a Strong Man who promises to knock heads and make things right again. In this, he has a lot more in common with South American populist demagogues than with our tradition of political leaders... The middle-class consensus in America has collapsed. This is the most important political and social earthquake since [[World War II]]. The conservative movement's leadership isn't up to the challenge, and a good number of voters are willing to gamble on Trump's bluster. Bad bet. Our nation's solidarity is being tested. It will only make things worse if we go Trumpster diving.
**R.R. Reno, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''.
 
* For anyone to compare their 'sacrifice' to a [[w:Service flag|Gold Star]] family member is insulting, foolish and ignorant. Especially someone who has never served himself and has no children serving, our county has been at war for a decade and a half and the truth is most Americans have sacrificed nothing. Most of them are smart and grounded enough to admit it.
** [[w:Paul Rieckoff|Paul Rieckoff]], in response to Trump's comparison of his sacrifices with those of someone like [[Khizr M. Khan]] — ''[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-father-fallen-soldier-ive-made-lot/story?id=41015051 Donald Trump to Father of Fallen Soldier: 'I've Made a Lot of Sacrifices']'', ''{{w|ABC News}}'' (July 30, 2016)
 
* The most mentally ill human being in America right now seems to be the president.
** Rihanna, pop singer, quoted in [https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/02/donald-trump-rihanna-super-bowl-halftime-performance-epic-fail-truth-social "Donald Trump Calls Rihanna's Super Bowl Halftime Performance an 'Epic Fail'"], Vanity Fiar, 13 February 2023
 
* He is a successful man for a reason. He's actually created a dialogue [and] forced conversations. He has gotten more people engaged in the political process and current events and what's going on in the world than anyone else has for a long time. More people are engaged than ever before. I think whether you agree with Donald or you don't agree with Donald, he starts conversations. That's what democracy is — you've got to get people engaged to make this country run.
** {{w|Melissa Rivers}}, as quoted in [http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/262626-melissa-rivers-trump-is-a-successful-man-for-a-reason "Melissa Rivers: Trump is ‘a successful man for a reason'"] by Mark Hensch, ''The Hill'' (9 December 2015)
 
* With all his talent, and the ability to raise money and draw large crowds, the President still lives in an alternate reality. He really does. People say, 'Well he lies about this, that and the other.' But he isn't lying. To him, that's the truth.
** Pat Robertson, televangelist, as quoted in [https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/22/politics/pat-robertson-trump-2020-election/index.html "Televangelist Pat Robertson says Trump lives in an 'alternate reality' and should move on from election loss"] by Veronica Stracqualursi and Jason Hoffman, ''CNN'' (22 December 2020)
 
* He has by far the largest voice and a big impact in my party. I don't know if he's planning to run in 2024 or not, but if he does, I'm pretty sure he would win the nomination.
** [[Mitt Romney]], as quoted in [https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/mitt-romney-donald-trump-gop-2024/index.html "What Mitt Romney gets *exactly* right about Donald Trump"], Chris Cillizza, CNN, 25 February 2021
 
*It's impossible to ignore the conspicuous regularity with which Donald Trump issues intentionally provocative, news-cycle-dominating comments. It's equally difficult to look past their timing, which tends to often coincide with scandalous revelations that reflect poorly on Democratic politicians... This is far from an isolated event; it's a pattern. First, a Democrat becomes embroiled in a controversy or an external event reflects negatively on the party. Donald Trump then makes an outrageous comment calculated for maximum political impact. Like clockwork, the press abandons their critical examination of Democratic policies, and Republicans are back at each other's throats. This is a measurable phenomenon. In just the last six months, there are almost too many examples to count.
**Noah Rothman, [https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/many-times-donald-trump-rescued-democrats/ "The Many Times Trump Rescued Dems"] (8 December 2015), ''Commentary''
 
* Mr. Trump lacks the focus or self-discipline to do the basic work required of a president. His chronic impulsiveness is apparently unstoppable and clearly self-defeating.
** [[Karl Rove]], Republican strategist, [https://www.wsj.com/articles/political-death-by-1-000-tweets-1496875182 Political Death by 1,000 Tweets], in the {{W|Wall Street Journal}}, June 7, 2017
 
* Donald Trump, champion and avatar of the shallow state, has won power because his supporters are threatened by what they don't understand, and what they don't understand is almost everything. Indeed, from evolution to data about our economy to the science of vaccines to the threats we face in the world, they reject vast subjects rooted in fact in order to have reality conform to their worldviews. They don't dig for truth; they skim the media for anything that makes them feel better about themselves. To many of them, knowledge is not a useful tool but a cunning barrier elites have created to keep power from the average man and woman. The same is true for experience, skills, and know-how. These things require time and work and study and often challenge our systems of belief. Truth is hard; shallowness is easy.
** [[w:David Rothkopf|David Rothkopf]], [http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/22/the-shallow-state-trump/ "The Shallow State,"] Foreign Policy, February 22, 2017.
 
* I think it's time for a war president. Republicans, conservatives and [[Christianity|Christians]], and capitalist, any who love [[capitalism]], any who loves America, patriots, I think we need a war president and I think God sent us someone named Donald Trump, I think he's perfect for this election. We needed someone who is a bit coarse and foul-mouthed and vicious and fights with a gun in a gunfight, not with a knife in a gun fight.
** {{w|Wayne Allyn Root}} [https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/wayne-allyn-root-donald-trump-is-a-vicious-vengeful-foul-mouthed-war-president-sent-by-god] (August 8, 2016)
 
* Voldemort was nowhere near as bad.
** [[J.K. Rowling]], [https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/674196610683940864 ''Twitter'' post] (8 December 2015)
 
* Dishonesty is Trump's hallmark: He claimed that he had spoken clearly and boldly against going into Iraq. Wrong, he spoke in favor of invading Iraq. He said he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating [[9/11]]. Wrong, he saw no such thing. He imagined it. His is not the temperament of a stable, thoughtful leader. His imagination must not be married to real power.
* We have long referred to him as "The Donald." He is the only person in America to whom we have added an article before his name. It wasn't because he had attributes we admired.
** [[Mitt Romney]], remarks on Donald Trump and the 2016 race at the {{w|University of Utah}}. [http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/full-transcript-mitt-romneys-remarks-on-donald-trump-and-the-2016-race-220176] (March 3, 2016)
 
=== S ===
[[File:Bernie Sanders.jpg|thumb|Donald Trump...his entire political strategy is to divide the American people...So you have a president who gives tax breaks to billionaires...who tried to throw 32 million people off health care...who gave 83 percent of the tax benefits to the top one percent...So how do you win an election? What do you say — You see those undocumented people, they all your enemy. 'Stand with me. Hate them. Let's divide this country up.' ~ [[Bernie Sanders]] ]]
*What '''[Donald Trump]''' is doing and this is '''his entire political strategy is to divide the American people''' up based on where we came...'''So you have a president who gives tax breaks to [[Billionaire|billionaires]]''' and wants to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. That's not what he's going to run on. You've got a president '''who tried to throw 32 million people off health care'''. He ain't gonna run on that one. You got a president '''who gave 83 percent of the tax benefits to the top one percent''', not going to run on that one. '''So how do you win an election? What do you say — You see those undocumented people, they all your enemy. 'Stand with me. Hate them. Let's divide this country up.'''' I think that is an incredibly ugly and dangerous thing to be done. And I will do everything I can to stop that."
**[https://www.newsweek.com/stand-me-hate-them-bernie-sanders-says-trumps-reelection-plan-based-dividing-country-1445407 ''Stand With Me. Hate Them: Bernie Sanders says Trump's Relection Plan is Based on Dividing the Country, Newsweek,'' Chris Morran] (23 June 2019)
 
*Attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman are unacceptable and must be fully investigated... but this incident must not be used as a pretext for a war with Iran, a war which would be an unmitigated disaster for the United States, Iran, the region, and the world... The time is now for the United States to exert international leadership,... and bring the countries in the region together to forge a diplomatic solution to the growing tensions...I would also remind President Trump that there is no congressional authorization for a war with Iran... A unilateral U.S. attack on Iran would be illegal and unconstitutional.
** [[Bernie Sanders]], [https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/14/trump-must-not-be-allowed-use-gulf-oman-incidents-pretext-illegal-war-iran-bernie ''Trump Must Not Be Allowed to Use Gulf of Oman Incidents as 'Pretext for Illegal War With Iran': Bernie Sanders, Common Dreams'', Andrea Germanos,] (14 June 2019)
 
* I think that the American people are never going to elect a president who insults [[Mexicans]], who insults [[Muslims]], who insults women, who insults [[African-American]]s. And let us not forget that several years ago, Trump was in the middle of the so- called [[w:Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories|birther movement]], trying to delegitimize the president of the United States of America. You know, I find it very interesting, Karen, my dad was born in [[Poland]]. I know a little bit about the immigrant experience. Nobody has ever asked me for my birth certificate. Maybe it has something to do with the [[color]] of my skin.<br>In this country, [[immigration]] reform is a very hot [[debate]]. It's divided the country. But I would [[hope]] very much, that as we have that debate, we do not, as Donald Trump and others have done, resort to [[racism]] and [[xenophobia]] and [[bigotry]]. '''This idea of suddenly, one day or maybe a night, rounding up 11 million people and taking them outside of this country is a vulgar, absurd idea that I would hope very few people in America support.'''<br>When you have Republican candidates for president and in Congress telling you that climate change is a hoax, which is Donald Trump and other candidates' position, what they are really saying is, we don't have the guts to take on the fossil fuel industry. ... You know what happens to that Republican who listens to the scientists? On that day, that Republican loses his campaign funding from the [[w:Koch family|Koch brothers]] and the fossil fuel industry.
** [[Bernie Sanders]], Democratic Presidential Debate in Miami. [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/us/politics/transcript-democratic-presidential-debate.html?_r=0 transcript] by ''{{w|The New York Times}}'' (March 9, 2016)
 
* Donald Trump is a pathological liar.
** [[Bernie Sanders]], [https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/779795585641615360] (September 24, 2016)
 
*America you were never great./Are you fake news?/America this is the impression I get after feeding from Trump's/Twitter trough.
**[[Craig Santos Perez]] "This Changes Everything" in ''habitat threshold'' (2020)
 
* Yes, we must donate and volunteer and protest and vote, all while reminding ourselves daily that [[Hillary Clinton]] won the popular vote. And we must commit to defending our friends, neighbors, and coworkers who are immigrants (documented or not), Muslims (American born, immigrants, or refugees), people of color, women seeking reproductive health care, trans men and women seeking safety, lesbian and gay men seeking to protect their families, and everyone and everything else Trump has threatened to harm, up to and including the planet we all live on.
: But we must make time for [[joy]] and [[pleasure]] and [[laughter]] and [[friends]] and [[food]] and [[art]] and [[music]] and [[sex]]. During the darkest days of the [[HIV/AIDS]] epidemic, when Republicans and religious conservatives controlled the federal government and were doing everything in their power to harm the sick and dying, [[queer]]s organized and protested and volunteered and mourned. We also made music and theater and art. We took care of each other, and we danced and loved and fucked. Embracing joy and art and sex in the face of fear and uncertainty made us feel better—it kept us sane—and it had the added benefit of driving our enemies crazy. They couldn't understand how we could be anything but miserable, given the challenges we faced—their greed, their indifference, their bigotry—but we created and experienced joy despite their hatred and despite this awful disease. We turned to each other—we turned to our lovers and friends and sometimes strangers—and said, "Fuck them. Now fuck me."
: [...] We may never eradicate racism and sexism and hatred. But fight it we will. And don't listen to anyone who tells you that music and dance and art and sex and joy are a distraction from the fight. They are a part of the fight.
:* [[Dan Savage]], [http://www.thestranger.com/savage-love/2016/11/15/24691092/savage-love ''Mourning in America''], ''Savage Love'' column, ''The Stranger'', 15 November 2016
 
* [[Winston Churchill]] of our time.
** [[Michael Savage]] — {{citation
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| title = Savage: Trump is 'Winston Churchill of our time'
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* I found that when I was briefing him, I had to put pictures of him in the briefing. When I put the pictures in, it was a good sign, and when I didn’t put the pictures in, you couldn’t get him to focus on it.
* Here’s the bad news, though. Even if you got him to focus on it, he wouldn’t listen to you anyway because he’s so maniacally narcissistic.
** [[Anthony Scaramucci]], former White House Communications Director serving under Trump, as quoted by David Smith, {{citation
| date = 2020-07-17
| title = 'The guy stinks and he’s a racist': Anthony Scaramucci on Donald Trump
| newspaper = the Guardian
| url = https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jul/17/the-guy-stinks-and-hes-a-racist-anthony-scaramucci-on-donald-trump
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* No two people on this planet seem less concerned with criticism, more content with themselves, or more oblivious to the obscenity of the words they speak.
** Dave Schilling on Donald Trump and [[Sarah Palin]], [http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/20/sarah-palin-donald-trump-endorsement-speech-quotes "Apocalypse now: Sarah Palin's bizarre Trump endorsement analyzed"] (20 January 2016), ''The Guardian''.
 
* He does look like he's the last hope [for America]. We don't hear anybody saying what he's saying. In fact, most of the people who ought to be lining up with him are attacking him. They're probably jealous of the amount of press coverage he gets. But the reason he gets so much press coverage is the grassroots are fed up with people who are running things, and they do want a change. They do want people to stand up for America. It really resonates when he says he wants to 'Make America Great Again.'
** [[Phyllis Schlafly]], as quoted in [http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/top-conservative-trump-is-last-hope-for-america/ "Phyllis Schlafly: Trump is 'last hope for America'"], ''WND'' (21 December 2015)
 
* It [Trump University] was a classic bait-and-switch scheme
** State Attorney General [[w:Eric Schneiderman|Eric Schneiderman]] in [https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/08/news/trump-university-controversy-donald-trump/ Trump University controversy ... in 2 minutes] March 8, 2016
 
*If Donald Trump becomes the next [[President of the United States|president]] of [[United States|the U.S.]] it would be a complete disaster... I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism... I remember how upset the world was when the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 and now everybody is building walls again to keep people out. It's absurd.
**Eva Schloss, Anne Frank's step-sister, [http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/politics/anne-frank-donald-trump-adolf-hitler/ interview with ''Newsweek''] (January 2016)
 
*When that trial ends senators will have to decide if they believe Donald John Trump incited the erection
**[[Chuck Schumer]] on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n4_3u1DQjc 22 January 2021] (also quoted by [https://www.thewrap.com/chuck-schumer-erection-freudian-slip-majority-leader The Wrap])
 
*I put lipstick on a pig. I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is. I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the [[w:Gold Codes|nuclear codes]], there is an excellent [[possibility]] it will lead to the [[w:Global catastrophic risk|end of civilization]].
**[[Tony Schwartz (author)|Tony Schwartz]], as quoted in ''[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all Donald Trump's Ghostwriter Tells All]'' (July 25, 2016) by {{w|Jane Mayer}}, ''{{w|The New Yorker}}''.
 
* There are two Trumps. The one he presents to the [[world]] is all bluster, {{w|bullying}} and certainty. The other, which I have long felt haunts his inner world, is the [[frightened]] [[child]] of a relentlessly critical and bullying [[w:Fred Trump|father]] and a distant and disengaged [[w:Mary Anne MacLeod Trump|mother]] who couldn't or wouldn't protect him.<br>Trump's [[temperament]] and his habits have hardened with age. He was always cartoonish, but compared with the man for whom I wrote [[w:Trump: The Art of the Deal|The Art of the Deal]] 30 years ago, he is significantly [[angrier]] today: more reactive, deceitful, distracted, vindictive, impulsive and, above all, self-absorbed – assuming the last is possible.<br>Fear is the [[hidden]] through-line in Trump's [[life]] – fear of [[weakness]], of inadequacy, of [[failure]], of [[criticism]] and of insignificance. He has spent his life trying to outrun these fears by "[[winning]]" – as he puts it – and by redefining [[reality]] whenever the facts don't serve the narrative he seeks to create. It hasn't worked, but not for lack of effort.<br>Whatever happens, may the worst of Trump [[inspire]] the best in us.
** [[Tony Schwartz (author)]], ''[https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2018/jan/18/fear-donald-trump-us-president-art-of-the-deal I wrote The Art of the Deal with Trump. He's still a scared child]'' (18 January 2018), ''{{w|The Guardian}}''.
 
* Lying is second nature to him. More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.
** [[Tony Schwartz (author)]], ''[https://www.thejournal.ie/trump-ghostwriter-regrets-art-of-the-deal-2884723-Jul2016/ 'Lying is second nature to him': Trump's ghostwriter regrets penning Art of the Deal]'' (19 July 2016), ''{{w|TheJournal.ie}}''.
 
* President Trump sought to overturn the results of an election, of a fair election. He sought a coup by misleading people with lies.
* President Trump is a failed leader. He will go down in history as the worst President ever.
** Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Republican governor, quoted by {{citation
| date = 2021-01-11
| title = Arnold Schwarzenegger calls Trump 'worst president' ever, 'failed leader' after Capitol riot
| newspaper = abc7
| url = https://abc7.com/politics/arnold-schwarzenegger-calls-trump-worst-president-ever/9533922/
}}{{dead link}}
 
* He is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man.
** [[Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.]], in ''The New York Times'', February 28, 2017.
 
* Trump wants to institute a ban that will keep all Muslims out of America... Of course such a ban will not come to pass. The Constitution forbids it. Republicans and Democrats oppose it. Even Israeli politicians, who have a far longer history of confronting terrorism, have chided him for equating Islam with terrorism... Republicans support Trump because he appears to be authentic, isn't afraid to tell it like it is and is not worried about being politically correct. I see the opposite. He isn't authentic, he is cynically opportunistic.
** Khosrow Semnani, [http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865643874/Trump7s-fear-mongering-threatens-Republican-Party.html?pg=all "My view: Trump's Fear-Mongering Threatens Republican Party"] (17 December 2015), ''Deseret News''
 
* Their cruelty made them feel good, it made them feel proud, it made them feel happy. And it made them feel closer to one another…Their shared laughter at the suffering of others is an adhesive that binds them to one another, and to Trump.<br>Donald Trump, whose uncritical support for Israel and belief that America is fundamentally a nation for white Christians exacerbates a divide between the two largest Jewish populations in the world.
** [[Adam Serwer]], The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America (2021)
 
*Trump and Barr let the biggest drug dealers in America off with a slap on the wrist. Law and Order indeed.
**[[Adam Serwer]] 11/18/2020 on Twitter, responding to story about "the $8.3 billion settlement between the Justice Dept. and Purdue Pharma over its marketing of Oxycontin and other addictive opioids. Under the deal, the Sackler family will admit no wrongdoing and face no criminal charges."
 
*And [then] you end up in idiocies like Donald Trump on stage waiving around a [[The Bible|Bible]], pretending he gives a damn what's in it. Right, after two marriages, and several adulterous affairs, and all that and bragging about having his experiences with married women; standing up there with a Bible and going 'this is an even better book than the odd of the deals'."
** {{w|Ben Shapiro}}, ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rQ_mphb7HU Ben Shapiro on Gay Marriage, Gun Control, and Piers Morgan]'', The Rubin Report on ''{{w|YouTube}}''. (12:39 to 13:07) (February 18, 2016)
 
* We know Hillary will be a terrible, hard-core ideological leftist; there is probably a 75 percent chance that Trump would govern less badly than Hillary. There is also a 25 percent chance that Trump would do something so catastrophically awful that he seriously harmed the country in ways Hillary wouldn't dream of. His trade policy alone could cast America back into recession; his foreign policy is a shambles. Any talk of him listening to advisers must be based on conjecture — so far, Trump hasn't just been a bull in a china shop, he's been a tank in a glass factory.
** {{w|Ben Shapiro}}, ''[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438623/conservatisms-moral-crisis-defending-trumps-lies Conservatism's Sad and Ugly Transformation into Trumpism]'', ''{{w|National Review}}'' (August 3, 2016)
 
*We have predicted nine of his last eight stumbles, and they have yet to all materialize... I think it's more than childish and juvenile and adolescent. There is something creepy about this, his attitude toward women. Take [[Megyn Kelly]] of FOX News, who he just has an absolute obsession about, and he's constantly writing about, you know, how awful she is and no talent and this and that. It's an obsession. And I don't know if he's just never had women — strong, independent women in his life who have spoken to him. It doesn't seem that way. His daughter... But there is something really creepy about this that's beyond locker room. It's almost like a stalker, and I just — I thought this was — it actually did the impossible. It made Ted Cruz look like an honorable, tough guy on the right side of an issue.
** Mark Shields, as quoted in [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/shields-and-brooks-on-trump-cruz-wife-feud-isis-terror-in-brussels/ "Shields and Brooks on Trump-Cruz wife feud, ISIS terror in Brussels"] (25 March 2016), ''PBS NewsHour''
 
*The 2017 World Environment Day was dominated by US President Donald Trump walking out of the Paris agreement. What does Trump's arrogance imply for international obligations to protect the earth, for a future based on ecological justice, for sowing the seeds of earth democracy?
**[[Vandana Shiva]] ''Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom'' (2018)
 
* I've known Donald for a few decades, and what you can say without argument is that he's a good father. His kids have turned out really well. There's nothing bad you can say about that.
** [[Gene Simmons]], [http://radio.com/2016/07/06/gene-simmons-on-trump-hes-a-good-father/ Interview with ''Radio.com''] (July 6, 2016)
 
* [Trump] is not someone who would rule justly or wisely. His track record shows that he is a man of coveting and self-serving – a liar and a cheat should not hold that position.
** Art Sisneros, Republican member of the Electoral College who resigned rather than vote for Trump.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/30/faithless-electors-electoral-college-donald-trump Teen becomes seventh 'faithless elector' to protest Trump as president-elect] at ''{{w|the Guardian}}'', November 30 2016
 
* Quite simply: there never would have been a president Donald Trump without talkshow host [[Rush Limbaugh]] paving the way
** [[Michael Smerconish]] on [[CNN]] "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxF_SN2-zyc]" (February 20, 2021)
 
*Before the 2016 election I dreaded a return to the Jim Crow era signaled by the slogan “Make America Great Again”, which obviously meant white. Tragically that is exactly what happened. Four more years is unthinkable. That is why I am working to elect President [[Bernie Sanders]].
**[[Barbara Smith]] [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/10/identity-politics-bernie-sanders-endorsement article] in ''The Guardian''
 
* For the first time in our Nation’s [[history]], a grand jury has charged a former President with committing [[crimes]] while in office to overturn an election that he lost. In response, the defendant claims that to protect the institution of the Presidency, he must be cloaked with absolute immunity from criminal prosecution unless the House impeached and the Senate convicted him for the same conduct. He is wrong.
** [[Jack Smith]], filing with United States Court of Appeals quoted in [https://www.rawstory.com/jack-smith-trump-immunity-appeal-filing/ ''RawStory''] December 30, 2023
 
* A great leader treats people with respect even when they present different opinions. Without a variety of views and opinions, we would have no innovation or creativity in our nation. Being a bully and being strong are not the same thing. Being strong is standing up for your convictions. Being a bully is trying to intimidate those who are perceived to be weaker or a threat. As a proud nerd, I had to deal with bullies over many years; it is tragedy watching our world suffer from one. In addition, President Trump lacks a moral compass. He ignores the truth.
** [[w:Rick Snyder|Rick Snyder]], Republican governor of Michigan from 2011 to 2018. [https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/09/03/rick-snyder-why-im-voting-joe-biden-even-republican-column/5696508002/ Former Michigan governor Rick Snyder: I am a Republican vote for Biden] at USA Today, September 3 2020
 
*It's very difficult to respond in a serious way to any statement that's made by Donald Trump.
** [[Edward Snowden]] in response to Trump calling Snowden "a total traitor" and "a bad guy" and saying "there is still a thing called execution."
**"[http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/03/edward-snowden-hillary-clinton-email-server Edward Snowden says Hillary Clinton 'ridiculous' to think emails were secure]", ''The Guardian'' (3 September 2015)
 
* Donald Trump is a thin-skinned reality TV star with an authoritarian streak.
** Robby Soave, [http://www.edition.cnn.com/2016/06/01/opinions/third-party-candidate-options-robby-soave/index.html "Don't fall for 'lesser of two evils' argument"] (1 June 2016), ''CNN'', State of Georgia: Cable News Network
 
* He is, as of this writing, the most mocked man in the world. (...) He is the {{W|The Fisherman and His Wife|old fisherman's wife who wished for everything and sooner or later he will end up with nothing}}.
**{{w|Rebecca Solnit}}, [http://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-the-loneliness-of-donald-trump/ The Loneliness of Donald Trump], May 30, 2017
 
* Let me put this in language Donald Trump understands... You're a loser. You're a third-rate politician, who clearly doesn't understand issues, and is so scared of Megyn Kelly exposing it, that you're looking to use veterans to protect you from facing her questions.
** Jon Soltz, [https://www.yahoo.com/politics/veterans-to-trump-were-not-your-megyn-kelly-170202551.html ''VoteVets''] (January 2016)
 
*Trump (and Bannon and other right-wing authoritarian leaders around the world) is often referred to as a "populist" because he displays faux concern for the working class and a resentment of science and education, but his policies are in fact grotesquely elitist. If by "populist" we mean whipping up resentment against immigrants and people of color, then we should say that. Otherwise, "populism" is just a lazy euphemism for racism.
**[[Jen Sorensen]] ''Greetings from the Wasteland'' (2020)
 
* Donald Trump is the son of a rich father, who was raised on money since he was a child. I grew up in wealth too. My father would jokingly warn me when I was a child, "Don’t be like Trump."
** {{w|Alexander Soros}}, interviewed by Nahum Barnea for {{w|YNet}}, [https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5241290,00.html "Why they hate George Soros"].
 
*In a country with more than 300 million people, it is remarkable how obsessed the media have become with just one—Donald Trump. What is even more remarkable is that, after seven years of repeated disasters, both domestically and internationally, under a glib egomaniac in the White House, so many potential voters are turning to another glib egomaniac to be his successor.
**[[Thomas Sowell]], [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''.
 
* I had some friends over for dinner and we were of course talking about Trump. People are saying, we don't think Trump's going to be the nominee. I said, I'll tell you what: I think he is. I'll tell you why I think he's going to be the nominee: he's proven that no matter what he says, people dig him. ... I think more or less, people are super tired of politicians, meaning that they like the idea of a successful businessman running the country who might actually be able to get shit done.
** [[Howard Stern]] — as quoted in {{citation
| date = 2015-08-24
| author = Matt Wilstein
| title = Howard Stern Predicts Trump Will Be GOP Nominee: He 'Gets Sh*t Done'
| newspaper = Mediaite.com
| url = http://www.mediaite.com/online/howard-stern-predicts-trump-will-be-gop-nominee-he-gets-sht-done/
}}
 
*His stance on Muslim immigration, which he would cease until the terror threat is brought under control, is racist. Trump does not care about the things that regular conservatives have dedicated their lives to fighting for: controls on abortion, protection of marriage, reform of the healthcare market. His inclination towards expanding the government and putting it on the side of his people isn't terribly constitutional. And his claim in a debate that the purpose of conservatism is to conserve wealth is spiritually impoverished. The Republican Party needs to stop him; and sooner rather than later.
**Timothy Stanley, [http://www.edition.cnn.com/2016/02/10/opinions/donald-trump-republican-party-stanley/index.html "Donald Trump can win &ndash; and he must be stopped"] (10 February 2016), ''CNN'', State of Georgia: Cable News Network
 
*In the past few months, a Republican front-runner has emerged who has praised Planned Parenthood, pushed elements of a big [[Government spending|spending]] agenda and questioned the [[Neoconservatism|neoconservative]] agenda. There's a case for saying that some or all of these were in need of analysis and revision. But Trump has taken a wrecking ball to the American conservative movement that threatens to leave it in pieces. It's a revolutionary moment and, unless I'm very much mistaken, conservatives are not supposed to be the revolutionaries. They exist to bring order to chaos, rationality over passion. Trump seems to exist to "mix things up." He is "nasty" and "fun" - although more the former than the latter. His enthusiasm for torture is unpleasant to say the least.
**Timothy Stanley, [http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/20/opinions/trump-south-carolina-victory-opinion-timothy-stanley/index.html "Trump is blowing up conservatism - can he be stopped?"] (21 February 2016), ''CNN'', State of Georgia: Cable News Network
 
*In January 2018, the experts at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock to two minutes before midnight, where it had stood during the darkest days of the Cold War, from 1953 to 1960. The latest move of the hands was precipitated by the recklessness in Trump's nuclear thinking... Trump wondered aloud about the point of having nuclear weapons if he couldn't use them.<BR> His answer was to make them more usable, which he did with his new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the first since Obama's 2010 NPR, which had reduced the role of nuclear weapons in the US defense posture. The 2018 NPR significantly elevated their role, permitting use in response to vaguely defined "extreme circumstances," such as cyberattacks or attacks on the infrastructure of both the United States and its "allies and partners." The review doubled down on Obama's unconscionable 30-year trillion-dollar modernization of all parts of the nuclear arsenal. The actual cost looks to be closer to $1.7 trillion and climbing. To make matters worse, all eight other nuclear powers are undertaking their own modernizations, though on a far more modest scale. Russia, it should be noted, actually cut its defense spending this past year.
*On top of this, we have the rapid and accelerating drift toward planetary disaster exacerbated by the climate change–denying troglodytes in the Trump administration.
**[https://www.thenation.com/article/untold-history-of-the-united-states-rerelease/ ''2 Minutes and Counting, Crises that seemed contained not long ago have now spiraled out of control—and the prospects for resolving them peacefully look depressingly bleak, the Nation,''] [[Oliver Stone]] and [[w:Peter Kuznick|Peter Kuznick]], (April 2019)
 
* Trump is not just a wacky politician of the far right, or a riveting television spectacle, or a Twitter phenom and bizarre working-class hero. He is not just another candidate to be parsed and analyzed by TV pundits in the same breath as all the others. '''In terms of our [[liberal democracy]] and constitutional order, Trump is an extinction-level event. It's long past time we started treating him as such.'''
** [[Andrew Sullivan]], in [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny-donald-trump.html "America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny" in ''New York'' (2 May 2016)]
 
* Trump is, of course, a master of distraction and {{w|media ma­nipu­la­tion}}. It's possible to resist being his chump, but it takes continued self-regulation.
** [[Margaret Sullivan (journalist)|Margaret Sullivan]], ''[https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/journalists-in-the-age-of-trump-lose-the-smugness-keep-the-mission/2016/11/29/1ee85a28-b64b-11e6-a677-b608fbb3aaf6_story.html Journalists in the age of Trump: Lose the smugness, keep the mission.]'', ''{{w|The Washington Post}}'' (November 29, 2016)
 
* The press often will ask me if I think Donald Trump is crazy. And I’ll say it this way: I don't think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he ain’t getting out!
** [[w:Chris Sununu | Chris Sununu]], Republican, governor in New Hampshire, quoted in [https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/04/03/a-night-of-laughter-and-cringe-at-the-gridiron-00022578 "POLITICO Playbook: A night of laughter and cringe at the Gridiron"], Politico, 4 April 2022
 
* Premise: [[Twitter]] did @[[Glenn Youngkin]] a solid by banning Donald Trump from tweeting, since voters were not reminded of the bogeyman himself, not via [[McAuliffe]]’s lame efforts, but in daily insanities. Discuss and vote!
** [[w:Kara Swisher|Kara Swisher]] via a [https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1455912695899766784 tweet] (November 3, 2021)
 
*But at some point—if you understand, and this is not just ideological, it's not just the fact that he's abandoned one position after another or that he has the penchant for internet hoaxes or conspiracy theories. I mean a week ago tonight, remember, he was peddling the notion that Ted Cruz's dad had something do with the JFK assassination. So there are people who say that just because of party loyalty we're supposed to forget all of that. I just don't buy that. Because I've cautioned my fellow conservatives, you embrace Donald Trump, you embrace it all. You embrace every slur, every insult, every outrage, every falsehood. You're going to spend the next six months defending, rationalizing, evading all that. And afterwards, you come back to women, to minorities, to young people and say, that wasn't us. That's not what we're about. The reality is, if you support him to be president of the United States, that is who you are, and you own it.
**Charlie Sykes, on [http://www.weeklystandard.com/sykes-if-you-embrace-trump-you-embrace-every-slur-insult-outrage-falsehood/article/2002334 ''The Kelly File''] (2016), FOX News
 
=== T ===
*All of Trump's constant bragging about his money and his poll numbers and his virility speak directly to this surprisingly vibrant middle American fantasy about a castrated white America struggling to re-grow its mojo... as basketball star turned pundit Kareem Abdul-Jabbar pointed out earlier this week, PC isn’t a new thing, or even a thing at all. It’s just an “emotional challenge every generation has had to go through.” We get older, our kids correct our bad habits, it happens. Not to Trump’s supporters. They’ve turned some minor cultural changes into a vast conspiracy of white victimhood. They're eating up Trump's ''Make America Great Again'' theme, which one supporter hilariously explained must be his true goal, because 'it's on his hat', because it's a fantasy tale of a once-great culture ruined by an invasion of mongrel criminals.
**Matt Taibbi, [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gop-is-now-officially-the-party-of-dumb-white-people-20150904 "The Republicans Are Now Officially the Party of White Paranoia"], ''Rolling Stone''.
 
* The [[Biden]] team is trying to go on with business as usual, but at some point, barring Trump getting a personality transplant, this is going to come to a head. The President is refusing to concede, he is refusing to allow the transition process to begin...
** [[w:Jake Tapper|Jake Tapper]] on CNN's [https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2020/11/18/lead-warner-live-jake-tapper.cnn The lead with Jake Tapper (video)] November 18, 2020 at 4:22et
 
* What we saw week in and week out, for me, after two and a half years in that administration, was terrifying. We would go in to try to talk to him about a pressing national security issue -- cyberattack, terrorism threat -- he wasn't interested in those things. To him, they weren't priorities.
* Given what I have experienced in the administration, I have to support Joe Biden for president and even though I am not a Democrat, even though I disagree on key issues, I'm confident that Joe Biden will protect the country and I'm confident that he won't make the same mistakes as this President.
* I saw firsthand how dangerous Trump is for America.
** Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff to Department of Homeland Security Secretary in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2019. Quoted by {{citation
| date = 2020-08-17
| author = Gillian Turner, Paul Steinhauser
| title = Former senior Trump administration official backs Biden
| newspaper = Fox News
| url = https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-senior-trump-administration-official-backs-biden
}}
 
* What we saw week in and week out and for me after two and a half years in that administration was terrifying
** Miles Taylor, former DHS chief of staff [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/miles-taylor-homeland-security-trump-terrifying/ on CBS News]
* [T]he media always is taking Trump literally. It never takes him seriously, but it always takes him literally. I think a lot of the voters who vote for Trump take Trump seriously, but not literally.
** [[Peter Thiel]], [http://www.press.org/sites/default/files/20161031_thiel.pdf Speech at the National Press Club] (October 31, 2016)
 
*Trump has given more than $100,000 to the Democratic House and Senate campaign committees. In 2006, the year Democrats took back Congress, he gave $25,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee... Trump wanted Nancy Pelosi to be speaker of the House and Harry Reid the Senate majority leader. Which is not surprising. At the time he made those contributions, from August 2001 to September 2009, Trump was a registered Democrat... Trump continued to support Reid as majority leader in the election immediately after the passage of Obamacare... With all his past support for Democrats, Trump ought to be asked: Will he commit to supporting whoever is the eventual Republican nominee? After all, why should he be welcomed into the Republican fold if he is going to end up throwing his support to Clinton? The fact is, Trump isn't a Democrat or a Republican; he is an opportunist... He's less a candidate than a brand. And running for president is great for the Trump brand, an opportunity for Donald Trump to take the national stage and tell us all how great he is. He pretty much admitted as much during his announcement speech, when he pointed out that some questioned whether he was really as successful as he claimed.
** Marc A. Thiessen, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-donald-trump-helped-democrats-pass-obamacare/2015/06/22/002f4c7c-18ea-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html "How Donald Trump helped Democrats pass Obamacare"] (22 June 2015), ''The Washington Post''
 
*I wanted to like Donald Trump, much as I wanted to like Richard Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew. Both men have said many things with which I agree. Agnew attacked media bias, and Trump attacks the establishment's failure to "make America great," as he nonspecifically puts it. But a proper diagnosis does not equal competence in administering a cure. If I developed a brain tumor, I would want Ben Carson to operate on me, but do I want Donald Trump "operating" on America? Everyone has a temperament. The dictionary defines it as "the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person." Would Trump's "combination" make him a good president? I think not.
**Cal Thomas, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination "Conservatives Against Trump"] (21 January 2016), ''National Review''.
 
* I do think the President committed impeachable offenses.
** [[w:Pat Toomey|Pat Toomey]], Republican senator, quoted by {{citation
| date = 2021-01-10
| author = Kate Sullivan, Nicky Robertson
| title = Republican Sen. Pat Toomey says he thinks Trump 'committed impeachable offenses'
| newspaper = CNN
| url = https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/09/politics/pat-toomey-trump-impeachable-offenses/index.html
}}
 
* There was a strange aftertaste to many of the calls for grand social [[reform]] in 2020. As the [[COVID-19 pandemic|coronavirus crisis]] overtook us, the [[Left-wing politics|left wing]] on both sides of the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]], at least that part that had been fired up [[Jeremy Corbyn]] and [[Bernie Sanders]], was going down to defeat. The promise of a radicalized and reenergized left, organized around the idea of the [[Green New Deal]], seemed to dissipate amidst the pandemic. It fell to [[Government|governments]] mainly of the [[Centrism|center]] and the [[Right-wing politics|right]] to meet the crisis. They were a strange assortment. [[Jair Bolsonaro]] in [[Brazil]] and Donald Trump in the United States experimented with denial. For them [[Climate change denial|climate skepticism]] and [[wikipedia:COVID-19_misinformation|virus skepticism]] went hand in hand. In [[Mexico]], the notionally left-wing government of [[Andrés Manuel López Obrador]] also pursued a maverick path, refusing to take drastic action. [[Nationalist]] strongmen like [[Rodrigo Duterte]] in the [[Philippines]], [[Narendra Modi]] in [[India]], [[Vladimir Putin]] in [[Russia]], and [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] in [[Turkey]] did not deny [[SARS-CoV-2|the virus]], but relied on their patriotic appeal and bullying tactics to see them through. It was the managerial centrist types who were under most pressure. Figures like [[Nancy Pelosi]] and [[Chuck Schumer]] in the United States, or [[Sebastián Piñera]] in [[Chile]], or [[Cyril Ramaphosa]] in [[South Africa]], [[Emmanuel Macron]], [[Angela Merkel]], [[Ursula von der Leyen]], and their ilk in [[Europe]]. They accepted the [[science]]. [[Denial]] was not an option. They were desperate to demonstrate that they were better than the '[[Populism|populists]].' To meet the crisis, very middle-of-the-road [[politicians]] ended up doing very [[Radicalism|radical]] things. Most of it was improvisation and compromise, but insofar as they managed to put a programmatic gloss on their responses—whether in the form of the [[EU]]'s [[wikipedia:Next_Generation_EU|Next Generation program]] or [[Joe Biden|Biden]]'s [[Build Back Better Plan|Build Back Better program]] in 2020—it came from the repertoire of [[Climate action|green modernization]], [[sustainable development]], and the [[Green New Deal]].
** [[wikipedia:Adam Tooze|Adam Tooze]], ''Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World Economy'' (2021)
 
* [[w:Criticism of response to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic|The governments]] that have been negligent from the beginning [...] are afraid of demonstrating their ineptitude in the face of such a health crisis. At the last minute, Trump declared a "[[w:Public health emergency (United States)|national emergency]]" and agreed with the Democrats in Congress on a special package for {{w|sick leave}} and rapid testing. If he appears incompetent in the face of a crisis and thousands of [[w:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic#Deaths|people die]], he could lose the [[2020 United States presidential election|U.S. presidency]], even to Biden.
** [[Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International]], ''[https://www.leftvoice.org/coronavirus-and-the-healthcare-crisis-our-lives-are-worth-more-than-their-profits Coronavirus and the Healthcare Crisis: Our Lives Are Worth More than Their Profits!]'' (March 14, 2020), ''Left Voice''.
 
* He's got to condemn this sh*t ASAP.
* We need an Oval office address. He has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand.
** Donald Trump Jr. writing [https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/13/politics/trump-jr-text-mark-meadows-january-6/index.html text messages] to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on January 6 2021, urging Meadows to make Donald Trump stop the attack on the Congress Building.
 
* I think he would be a great president... He is one of the most dynamic people in the world. He looks presidential, and he talks presidential, and he would make the changes he promises.
** [[w:Ivana Trump|Ivana Trump]], as quoted in {{citation
| date = 2016-02-11
| author = Eddie Roche
| title = Daily Exclusive: Ivana Trump Uncensored
| newspaper = Daily Front Row
| url = http://fashionweekdaily.com/daily-exclusive-ivana-trump-uncensored/
}}
 
* My father is an unbelievable listener, and I don't think people realize that until they actually know him. And he ultimately makes his own decisions and that's what any leader needs to do.
** [[Ivanka Trump]], as quoted in {{citation
| date = 2015-10-14
| author = Judy Kurtz
| title = Ivanka Trump: Dad's conflict with Megyn Kelly 'very sensationalized'
| newspaper = The Hill
| url = http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/256903-ivanka-trump-dads-conflict-with-megyn-kelly-very
}}
 
* Today, Donald is much as he was at three years old: incapable of growing, learning, or evolving, unable to regulate his emotions, moderate his responses, or take in & synthesize information.
** {{citation
| date = 2020-07-07
| author = Mary Trump (niece of Donald Trump)
| title = The explosive tell-all book by Trump's niece is coming out two weeks earlier than expected
| newspaper = CNN
| url = https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/06/media/mary-trump-book-release-date/index.html
}}
 
* Donald's pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neurophysical tests that he'll never sit for
** {{citation
| date = 2020-07-08
| author = William Goldschlag, Dan Janison
| title = Donald Trump's niece: He lies, cheats, is cruel, incompetent and cheap
| newspaper = Newsday
| url = https://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/trump-niece-mary-book-conway-coronavirus-schools-reopening-biden-who-jacksonville-rnc-tiktok-1.46510343
}}
 
* I have no problem calling Donald a narcissist — he meets all nine criteria.
** Mary Trump, as quoted by {{citation
| date = 2020-07-14
| author = Kurt Andersen
| title = Review: The most devastating thing about Mary Trump’s portrait is her empathy for Donald Trump
| newspaper = Los Angeles Times
| url = https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-07-14/the-most-devastating-thing-about-mary-trumps-portrait-of-trump-is-i
}}
 
* In order to understand what brought Donald- and all of us- to this point, we need to start with my grandfather and his own need for recognition, a need that propelled him to encourage Donald's reckless hyperbole and unearned confidence that hid Donald's pathological weaknesses and insecurities. As Donald grew up, he was forced to become his own cheerleader, first, because he needed his father to believe he was a better and more confident son than Freddy was; then because Fred required it of him; and finally because he began to believe his own hype, even as he paradoxically suspected on a very deep level that nobody else did. By the time of the election, Donald met any challenges to his sense of superiority with anger, his fear and vulnerabilities so effectively buried that he didn't even have to acknowledge they existed. And he never would.
** Mary L. Trump, ''Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man'' (2020), p. 11
 
* In the [[1970s]], after my grandfather had already been preferring and promoting Donald for years, the New York media picked up the baton and began disseminating Donald's unsubstantiated hype. In the [[1980s]], the banks joined in when they began to fund his ventures. Their willingness (and then their need) to foster his increasingly unfounded claims to success hung on the hopes of recouping their losses. After a decade during which Donald floundered, dragged down by bankruptcies and reduced to fronting for a series of failed products from steaks to vodka, the television producer Mark Burnett gave him yet another chance. ''The Apprentice'' traded on Donald's image as the brash, self-made dealmaker, a myth that had been the creation of my grandfather five decades earlier and astonishingly, considering the vast trove of evidence disproving it, had survived into the new millennium almost entirely unaltered. By the time Donald announced his run for the Republican Party nomination in 2015, a significant percentage of the American population had been primed to believe that myth.
** Mary L. Trump, ''Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man'' (2020), p. 11
 
* To this day, the lies, misrepresentations, and fabrications that are the sum total of who my uncle is are perpetuated by the Republican Party and white evangelical Christians. People who know better, such as Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell; true believers, such as Representative Kevin McCarthy, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Attorney General William Barr; and others too numerous to name, have become, unwittingly or not, complicit in their perpetuation.
** Mary L. Trump, ''Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man'' (2020), p. 11-12
 
* The fact is, Donald's pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuropsychological tests that he'll never sit for. At this point, we can't evaluate his day-to-day functioning because he is, in the West Wing, essentially institutionalized. Donald has been institutionalized for most of his adult life, so there is no way to know how he would thrive, or even survive, on his own in the real world. At the end of my aunt's birthday party in 2017, as we lined up for our pictures, I could see that Donald was already under a kind of stress he'd never experienced before. As the pressures upon him have continued to mount over the course of the last three years, the disparity between the level of competence required for running a country and his incompetence has widened, revealing his delusions more starkly than ever before. Many, but by no means all of us, have been shielded until now from the worst effects of his pathologies by a stable economy and a lack of serious crises. But the out-of-control COVID-19 pandemic, the possibility of an economic depression, deepening social divides along political lines thanks to Donald's penchant for division, and devastating uncertainty about our country's future have created a perfect storm of catastrophes that no one is less equipped than my uncle to manage. Doing so would require courage, strength of character, deference to experts, and the confidence to take responsibility and to course correct after admitting mistakes. His ability to control unfavorable situations by lying, spinning, and obfuscating has diminished to the point of impotence in the midst of the tragedies we are currently facing. His egregious and arguably intentional mishandling of the current catastrophe has led to a level of scrutiny and pushback that he's never experienced before, increasing his belligerence and need for petty revenge as he withholds vital funding, personal protective equipment, and ventilators that your tax dollars have paid for from states whose governors don't kiss his ass sufficiently.
** Mary L. Trump, ''Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man'' (2020), p. 13-14
 
* After the election, Donald called his big sister, ostensibly to find out how he was doing. Of course, he thought he already knew the answer; otherwise he wouldn't have made the call in the first place. He merely wanted her to confirm very strongly that he was doing a fantastic job. When she said, "Not that good," Donald immediately went on offense. "That's nasty," he said. She could see the sneer on his face. Then, seemingly apropos of nothing, he asked her, "Maryanne, where would you be without me?" It was a smug reference to the fact that Maryanne owed her first federal judgeship to Donald because Roy Cohn had done him (and her) a favor all those years ago. My aunt has always insisted that she earned her position on the bench entirely on her own merits, and she shot back at him, "If you say that one more time, I will ''level'' you." But it was an empty threat. Although Maryanne had prided herself on being the only person on the planet Donald ever listened to, those days were long past, which was illustrated not long after, in June 2018. On the eve of Donald's first summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, Maryanne called the White House and left a message with his secretary: "Tell him his older sister called with a little sisterly advice. Prepare. Learn from those who know what they are doing. Stay away from Dennis Rodman. And leave his Twitter alone." He ignored all of it. The ''Politico'' headline the following day read "Trump Says Kim Meeting Will Be About 'Attitude,' Not Prep Work." If Maryanne had ever had any sway over her little brother, it was gone now. Aside from the requisite birthday call, they didn't speak much after that.
** Mary L. Trump, ''Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man'' (2020), p. 188-189
 
* Donald was to my grandfather what the border wall as been for Donald: a vanity project funded at the expense of more worthy pursuits.
** Mary L. Trump, ''Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man'' (2020), p. 194
 
* He's smart, he's tough, he knows what he's doing. He's speaking from his heart. He's the best.
** {{w|Melania Trump}}, as quoted in [http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/263527-melania-trump-not-nervous-for-husband "Melania Trump not nervous for husband"] by Judy Kurtz, ''The Hill'' (16 December 2015)
 
*Trump's entire personal and professional history is Obama-esque. When it serves his interests, Trump lies. He has lied to business associates, employees, friends, spouses, and now to millions of prospective voters. Anyone who thinks that Trump will not lie to them, or that he will at least tell the truth about 'important things', immigration or ISIS or whatever, is deluding himself. When it becomes expedient for Trump to lie, he will.
**Ian Tuttle, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431755/donald-trumps-huge-lies "Donald Trump's Huge Lies"], ''National Review''
 
* After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.
** Twitter, as quoted by {{citation
| date = 2021-01-08
| author = Brian Fung
| title = Twitter bans President Trump permanently
| newspaper = CNN Business
| url = https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/08/tech/trump-twitter-ban/index.html
}}
 
* Right now, I’m not sure whether he should stay in place for a week or step down immediately.
** Christian Tybring-Gjedde, quoted in [https://www.thelocal.no/20210107/trump-scares-norwegian-politician-who-nominated-him-for-nobel-peace-prize "Trump 'scares' Norwegian politician who nominated him for Nobel Peace Prize"] 7 January 2021
 
* We're really good friends, we go back to '86, '87. Most of my successful and best fights were at [[w:Trump International Hotel and Tower|Trump's hotels]]. He didn't manage me, though. He was just helping me with my [[w:Mike Tyson#Rape conviction, prison, and conversion|court case]]. '''We're the same guy, a thrust for power, a drive for power. Whatever field we're in, we need power in that field. That's just who we are. Balls of energy. We're not even who we think we are. We're fire. We're made of this crap—water, motion, dirt, diamonds, emeralds. We're made out of that stuff, can you believe it?'''
* That shit is the real deal. Listen: I'm a black motherfucker from the poorest town in the country. I've been through a lot in life. And I know him. When I see him, he shakes my hand and respects my family. None of them—[[Barack Obama|Barack]], whoever—nobody else does that. They're gonna be who they are and disregard me, my family. So I'm voting for him. If I can get 20,000 people or more to vote for him, I'm gonna do it.
** [[Mike Tyson]], in an interview with {{w|The Daily Caller}}. [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/21/mike-tyson-why-i-m-a-muslim-for-donald-trump.html] (January 21, 2016)
 
=== U ===
[[File:Trump Second Impeachment Vote.png |thumb|President Trump gravely [[endangered]] the [[security]] of the [[United States]] and its [[institutions]] of [[Government]]. He threatened the [[integrity]] of the [[democratic]] [[system]], interfered with the [[peaceful]] transition of [[power]], and imperiled a coequal branch of Government.]]
 
* President Trump gravely [[endangered]] the [[security]] of the [[United States]] and its [[institutions]] of [[Government]]. He threatened the [[integrity]] of the [[democratic]] [[system]], interfered with the [[peaceful]] transition of [[power]], and imperiled a coequal branch of Government. He thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest [[injury]] of the [[people]] of the United States. <br /> Wherefore, Donald John Trump, by such [[conduct]], has [[demonstrated]] that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy, and [[United States Constitution|the Constitution]] if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the [[rule of law]]. Donald John Trump thus warrants [[impeachment]] and [[trial]], removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of [[honor]], [[trust]], or [[profit]] under the United States.
** [[United States Congress|United States House of Representatives]]; the concluding lines of [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/24/text "H.Res.24 - Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors", introduced 11 January 2021, and approved 13 January 2021]
 
=== V ===
* you have to remember that Trump has no shame. There’s nothing that we can say to him, or nothing that he can say, that will make him blush. However, he’s only in power because of all these seemingly normal people supporting him. If we can make all of them radioactive, beyond radioactive, then we can take some steps towards hopefully neutralizing this larger threat.
**[[Eli Valley]] [https://www.tcj.com/eli-valley-and-the-plight-of-the-secular-jew/ Interview] (2018)
 
*I wrote about him as a buffoon, a dangerous buffoon, someone who wouldn’t actually become president. And so I spoke about him in terms of what it revealed about Jewish leaders who were supporting him despite his being a hero of American naziism — this was clear long before Charlottesville...I call Trump Netanyahu with smaller hands in the introduction. Netanyahu shares a lot in common with Trump. Including demagoguery, bigotry, attacks on the press, attacks on institutions of democracy, attacks on human rights organizations. I don’t know if Trump has gone that far yet, but he will. It’s a similar method of autocrats.
**[[Eli Valley]] about Donald Trump [https://electricliterature.com/how-donald-trump-changed-political-comics/ Interview] (2017)
 
* People no longer trust the career politicians, no longer trust the status-quo because they screwed it up so bad. I loved listening to you talk to those other talking heads about 'Donald Trump could be the destruction of the whole Republican party.' I throw my hands up in the air and cheer. I hope it happens! And I hope [[Bernie Sanders]] is the destruction of the Democratic Party. It's time to break up the two party dictatorship.
** [[Jesse Ventura]] on CNN with Don Lemon, as quoted in {{citation
| date = 2015-10-07
| author = Chris Enloe
| title = Jesse Ventura Wants to Destroy the Political Establishment and He's Named Two Guys to Do It
| newspaper = IJ Review
| url = https://www.ijreview.com/2015/10/439711-jesse-ventura-supports-donald-trump-bernie-sanders-destroying-political-establishment/
}}
 
*We believe your final decision yesterday was the right one — given the so-called "fog of war" and against the background of a long list of intelligence mistakes, not to mention "cooking" shenanigans. We... think Tucker Carlson had it right yesterday evening: "The very people — in some cases, literally the same people who lured us into the Iraq quagmire 16 years ago — are demanding a new war — this one with Iran. Carlson described you as "skeptical." We believe ample skepticism is warranted.
**[[Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity]], in [https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/21/vips-memo-to-the-president-is-pompeos-agenda-the-same-as-yours/ ''VIPS Memo to the President: Is Pompeo's Iran Agenda the Same As Yours?''] (21 June 2019)
 
*After the close call yesterday when you called off the planned military strike on Iran, we remain concerned that you are about to be mousetrapped into war with Iran. You have said you do not want such a war (no sane person would), and our comments below are based on that premise. There are troubling signs that [[Mike Pompeo|Secretary Pompeo]] is not likely to jettison his more warlike approach, More importantly, we know from personal experience with Pompeo's dismissive attitude to instructions from you that his agenda can deviate from yours on issues of major consequence... Pompeo's behavior betrays a strong desire to resort to military action — perhaps even without your approval — to Iranian provocations (real or imagined), with no discernible strategic goal other than to advance the interests of Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
**[[Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity]], in [https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/21/vips-memo-to-the-president-is-pompeos-agenda-the-same-as-yours/ ''VIPS Memo to the President: Is Pompeo's Iran Agenda the Same As Yours?''] (21 June 2019)
 
*If Pompeo failed to report back to you on the conversation you instructed him to have with [[William Binney|Binney]], you might ask him about it now (even though the flimsy evidence of Russia hacking the DNC has now evaporated, with Binney vindicated). There were two note-takers present at the October 24, 2017 meeting at CIA headquarters. There is also a good chance the session was also recorded. You might ask Pompeo about that... Binney had the impression Pompeo was simply going through the motions — and disingenuously, at that. If he "really wanted to know about Russian hacking," he would have acquainted himself with the conclusions that VIPS, with Binney in the lead, had reached in mid-2017, and which apparently caught your eye.... Had he pursued the matter seriously with Binney, we might not have had to wait until the Justice Department itself put nails in the coffin of Russiagate, CrowdStrike, and Comey. In sum, Pompeo could have prevented two additional years of "everyone knows that the Russians hacked into the DNC." Why did he not?
**[[Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity]], in [https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/21/vips-memo-to-the-president-is-pompeos-agenda-the-same-as-yours/ ''VIPS Memo to the President: Is Pompeo's Iran Agenda the Same As Yours?''] (21 June 2019)
 
* We are all Gold Star Families, '''who have lost those we love the most in war. Ours is a sacrifice you will never know. Ours is a sacrifice we would never want you to know.'''
* Your recent comments regarding the Khan family were repugnant, and personally offensive to us. When you question a mother's pain, by implying that her religion, not her grief, kept her from addressing an arena of people, you are attacking us. When you say your job building buildings is akin to our sacrifice, you are attacking our sacrifice. You are not just attacking us, you are cheapening the sacrifice made by those we lost. You are minimizing the risk our service members make for all of us. This goes beyond politics. It is about a sense of decency. That kind decency you mock as "political correctness."
** [[w:VoteVets.org|VoteVets]]' Gold Star Family Members, open letter to Trump [http://www.votevets.org/press/gold-star-letter] (August 1, 2016)
 
=== W ===
* We've never had a president whose business created as many potential {{w|conflicts of interest}} as Donald Trump, and at the same time we've never had a president who cared less about conflicts of interest as Donald Trump. Indeed, he and his children are making it quite clear that they will use the presidency as a tool to make as much money as they can. And Republicans, particularly [[United States Congress|Congress]], have apparently decided that if Trump does it, it's okay.
** [[Paul Waldman]], ''[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/12/05/republicans-are-already-making-it-clear-trump-can-do-whatever-he-wants/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-f%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.4d816d92b558 Republicans are already making it clear: Trump can do whatever he wants]'', ''{{w|The Washington Post}}'' (December 5, 2016)
 
* Can we get Trump to prove he's a good citizen or we'll deport him?
** {{w|Shannon Wheeler}}, cartoonist, [https://twitter.com/muchcoffee twitted] 10.10
 
* Trump actually faces unique obstacles as he courts black voters. The mogul has a long history of using racially charged rhetoric and his real estate company was sued for allegedly discriminating against black renters in the 1970s. His stance on Muslims, which has drawn praise from white supremacists, could also prove problematic, since over 25 percent of American Muslims are black.
**Hunter Walker, [https://www.yahoo.com/politics/donald-trump-has-a-huge-1317867072716854.html "Donald Trump has a plan to win ‘100 percent' of the black vote and prove he's not a racist"] (10 December 2015), ''Yahoo! News''
 
*America has lost more than 12 million jobs in the last six months. An estimated 12 million people have lost their employer-sponsored health insurance during the worst pandemic in a century. Tens of millions report not having enough to eat. But one month ago, tens of millions of unemployed Americans lost... a $600 weekly federal unemployment insurance benefit that Congress failed to renew... How can this happen in a democracy? This is a question that everyone who works for a living... might want to consider on this Labor Day... If the facts of this political disaster were more widely known and understood, Republicans could lose not only the presidency but also the Senate in November. After all, millions of unemployed Republicans lost most of their income as a result of what their political party...did... Who would want to be forcing layoffs — potentially totaling millions at the state and local level — during a depression and pandemic? Ask Sen. McConnell and Donald Trump.
**[[Mark Weisbrot]], [https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/opinion/times-commentary/story/2020/sep/06/weisbrot-whour-government-doing-labor/531611/ What is our government doing to labor?], [[w:Chattanooga Times Free Press|Times Free Press]], (6 September 2020)
 
* You will never hear me say a negative thing about Donald Trump. Me and Donald are cool. ... Donald will get my vote.
** [[Dana White]], as quoted in [http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/263033-ufc-chief-dana-white-endorses-trump "UFC head Dana White endorses Trump"] by Sylvan Lane, ''The Hill'' (12 December 2015)
 
* He will be a real American leader, who might not always be the best one from Europe's perspective but defends the interests of his own people. I wish we had political leaders like this in the Netherlands who defend their own country... and forget the rest.
** [[Geert Wilders]], on BNR radio, as quoted in [http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/07/93300-2/ "Geert Wilders says the Netherlands needs a leader like Donald Trump"] (18 July 2016), ''DutchNews.nl''.
 
* I'd vote for a bowling ball covered in dog shit and pubic hair before I vote for Trump.
** bestselling author {{W|Chuck Wendig}}, [http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2016/06/08/im-with-her/ "I'm With Her"], June 8, 2016
 
* The cost of appearing with a bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.
** [[George Will]] on {{citation
| date = 2012-05-27
| title = This Week
| publisher = ABC
}}, quoted in {{citation
| date = 2012-05-27
| title = George Will Calls Donald Trump a ‘Bloviating Ignoramus'
| first = Jake
| last = Tapper
| periodical = ABC News
| url = http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/george-will-calls-donald-trump-a-bloviating-ignoramus-on-this-week/
}}
 
*It has come to this. The GOP, formerly the party of Lincoln and ostensibly the party of liberty and limited government, is being defined by clamors for a mass roundup and deportation of millions of human beings. To will an end is to will the means for the end, so the Republican clamors are also for the requisite expansion of government's size and coercive powers... Trump evidently plans to deport almost 10 percent of California's workers, and 13 percent of that state's K–12 students. He is, however, at his most Republican when he honors family values: He proposes to deport intact families, including children who are citizens... Trump proposes seizing money that illegal immigrants from Mexico try to send home. This might involve sacrificing mail privacy, but desperate times require desperate measures. He would vastly enlarge the federal government's enforcement apparatus, but he who praises single-payer health care systems and favors vast eminent domain powers has never made a fetish of small government.
**George Will, [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422916/donald-trump-immigration-deportation-republicans "Trump Should Have No Place in the Party of Liberty and Limited Government"] (22 August 2015), ''National Review''
 
*If Donald Trump were a Democratic mole placed in the Republican Party to disrupt things, how would his behavior be any different? I don't think it would be.
**George Will, as quoted in [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35066940 "Is Donald Trump a Democratic secret agent?"] (11 December 2015), by Anthony Zurcher, ''BBC News'', United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation
 
* What you saw was the real Trump, unbound by facts, reason, logic, the law, or the Constitution
** Conservative campaign consultant Rick Wilson, commenting on a coronavirus press briefing [https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/rick-wilson-trumps-press-conference-meltdown-was-a-manic-ragefest-by-americas-worst-president/ "Rick Wilson: Trump’s press conference meltdown was a ‘manic ragefest by America’s Worst President’"] (14 April 2020), ''Rawstory''
 
* Shortly after 8pm on Election Night, when the unexpected trend - Trump might actually win - seemed confirmed, Don Jr told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he calls him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania was in tears - and not of joy. There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon's not unamused observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump and then into a horrified Trump. But still to come was the final transformation: Suddenly, Donald Trump became a man who believed that he deserved to be, and was wholly capable of being, the president of the United States.
** p. 18
* Trump did not enjoy his own inauguration. He was angry that A-level stars had snubbed the event, disgruntled with the accommodations at Blair House, and visibly fighting with his wife, who seemed on the verge of tears. Throughout the day, he wore what some around him had taken to calling his golf face: angry and pissed off, shoulders hunched, arms swinging, brow furled, lips pursed.
* In pursuing a friend's wife, he would try to persuade the wife that her husband was perhaps not what she thought.
** p. 23
* Trump, in fact, found the White House to be vexing and even a little scary. He retreated to his own bedroom - the first time since the Kennedy White House that a presidential couple had maintained separate rooms. In the first days, he ordered two television screens in addition to the one already there, and a lock on the door, precipitating a brief standoff with the Secret Service, who insisted they have access to the room.
* She [Ivanka Trump] treated her father with a degree of detachment, even irony, going so far as to make fun of his comb-over to others. She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate - a contained island after scalp-reduction -surgery - surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray. The color, she would point out to comical effect, was from a product called Just for Men - the longer it was left on, the darker it got. Impatience resulted in Trump's orange-blond hair color.
* [[Rupert Murdoch]], heretofore doubtlessly certain Trump was a charlatan and a fool, said he and his new wife, Jerry Hall, would pay a call on the president-elect. But Murdoch was late- quite late. Trump kept assuring his guests that Rupert was on his way, coming soon. When some of the guests made a move to leave, Trump cajoled them to stay a little longer. ''You'll want to stay to see Rupert''. (Or, one of the guests interpreted, you'll want to stay to see Trump with Rupert.) It was a matched set of odd reversals- an ironic symmetry. Trump, perhaps not yet appreciating the difference between becoming president and elevating his social standing, was trying mightily to curry favor with the previously disdainful media mogul. And Murdoch, finally arriving at the party he was in more than one way sorely late to, was as subdued and thrown as everyone else, and struggling to adjust his view of a man who, for more than a generation, had been at best a clown prince among the rich and famous.
** p. 20
* Murdoch suggested that taking a liberal approach to [[w:H-1B visas|H-1B visas]], which open America's doors to select immigrants, might be hard to square with his promises to build a wall and close the borders. But Trump seemed unconcerned, assuring Murdoch, 'We'll figure it out.' "What a fucking idiot," said Murdoch, shrugging, as he got off the phone.
** p. 36
* The unique problem here was partly how to get information to someone who did not (or could not or would not) read, and who at best listened only selectively. But the other part of the problem was how best to qualify the information that he liked to get... The information he did not get was formal information. The data. The details. The options. The analysis. He didn't do PowerPoint. For anything that smacked of a classroom or of being lectured to- "professor" was one of his bad words, and he was proud of never going to class, never buying a textbook, never taking a note- he got up and left the room.
** p. 188
* The president liked generals. The more fruit salad they wore, the better. The president was very pleased with the compliments he got for appointing generals who commanded the respect that Mattis and [[John F. Kelly|Kelly]] and [[H. R. McMaster|McMaster]] were accorded (pay no attention to Michael Flynn). What the president did not like was ''listening'' to generals, who, for the most part, were skilled in the new Army jargon of PowerPoint, data dumps, McKinsey-like presentations. One of the things that endeared Flynn to the president was the fact that Flynn, quite the conspiracist and drama queen, had good storytelling sense.
** p. 188
** [[w:Michael_Wolff_(journalist)|Michael Wolff]], ''Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House'' (2018)
 
*Let's begin with [Trump's] the simplest assertion: we are doing "great" economically... over the last 20 years the United States has had a hard time achieving economic growth. The last year or two are slightly better... because the government gave an enormous boost... not private capitalist corporations, the government gave... The [[w:Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017|2017 tax cut]]... gave corporations... hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes they don't have to pay anymore... and they mostly used it to increase salaries of executives... very good for the top one percent, but not for the rest of the American people.
*Chinese workers, the average amount of money they get adjusted for inflation, has quadrupled in the last 12, 15 years. What happened to the average wage in America, adjusted for inflation? It hardly budged... Excluding that from the conversation - prancing around as if the economy here is the envy of the world - that's not just nonsense.
*...he spent more time... demonizing [[immigrants]] than on any other topic.... the United States is an economy of three hundred and twenty five million people; the number of [[w:Illegal immigration to the United States|undocumented immigrants in the United States is estimated between 10 and 12 million [~3.4]%]] ...Focusing on immigrants is pure scapegoating; it's focusing people on something that doesn't matter because you don't want them to focus on what does matter.
**[[Richard Wolffe]] in [https://www.rdwolff.com/prof_wolff_on_sotu '''''Wolff responds to Trump's "State of the Union" address,'''''] (6 February 2019)
 
* I still call myself a [[conservative]], but only in full knowledge that there is a blot on the escutcheon, and many a writer who claims that title is an open [[treason|traitor]] to all I in truth uphold and he in word only. Because, honestly, a conservative who opposes Trump on the grounds of [[ideal]]s, despite what this administration has already done in deregulating and defanging the [[bureaucracy]], reversing foreign policy mistakes, and appointing originalist judges, falls into the same error of being a [[cult]]ist and not a political thinker.
** [[John C. Wright]], [http://www.scifiwright.com/2017/06/objectivism-and-alt-right/ "Objectivism and Alt-Right"] (2017)
 
=== Y ===
* He's the classic demagogue described well in the [[The Federalist|Federalist Papers]] that our system is designed to stop.
** {{W|John Yoo}}, [http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/analysis-vengeful-world-donald-trump-why-it-matters-n671721 Analysis: the Vengeful World of Donald Trump and Why It Matters], at NBC News, published October 31, 2016
* Donald Trump is also a coward. For all of his tough talk and bluster, the president of the United States is a punk ass bitch. And this has also been apparent for as long as we've known who he is.
* He slipped out of draft duty because of ... bone spurs. Bone spurs don't even get you on the NFL injury report, but he used it to stay the fuck away from actually having to fight. We know his history of bullying and insulting women. And, since he's been in office, we've seen him cower to Kim Jong Un and literally get Deeboed by Vladimir Putin — two men who, for all of their faults, would definitely whoop Trump's ass.
* We've had racist presidents before. We've had malignant misogynists in office before. But never has our president been such a fucking wimp.
** Damon Young, [https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/just-remember-that-your-punk-ass-president-would-never-1828105410 Just Remember That Your Punk-Ass President Would Never, Ever, Ever Call LeBron James Dumb to His Face], in {{W|The Root (magazine)|The Root}}, published August 4, 2018.
 
=== Z ===
*Donald Trump would be an awesome GOP nominee if he was remotely conservative, suited to beat Hillary, or had the temperament of a good POTUS.
**John Ziegler, [https://twitter.com/Zigmanfreud/status/697866127163043841 ''Twitter'' post] (February 2016)
 
* His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the world. We removed these statements yesterday because we judged that their effect — and likely their intent — would be to provoke further violence.
* We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great. Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.
** [[Mark Zuckerberg]], CEO Facebook, quoted in [https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/07/mark-zuckerberg-announces-trump-banned-from-facebook-and-instagram-for-at-least-the-next-two-weeks/ "Mark Zuckerberg announces Trump banned from facebook and instagram for 'at least the next two weeks'"] (January 7 2021) <i> Tech Crunch </i>
 
*Could Donald Trump be a secret double-agent, sent by Democrats to destroy their party from within? Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who has borne the brunt of more than a few Trump barbs, seems to think there's a possibility... He's belittling his Republican colleagues. He's pulling the party to the nativist right in direct conflict with the goal set by strategists in 2013 to appeal to a more ethnically diverse nation. And he's generally sucking up all the political oxygen, making it harder for other candidates to get their message out. All in all, many experts say he's making it much more difficult for a Republican to win the general election next fall. Maybe he's doing it on purpose... But as the saying goes, even paranoids have enemies. And, at least for the moment, there are some Republicans who see Donald Trump much more of an enemy than a friend.
**Anthony Zurcher, [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35066940 "Is Donald Trump a Democratic secret agent?"] (11 December 2015), ''BBC News'', United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation
 
*Trump has forged a coalition between the workers and the patriotic elite. I strongly believe in the coalition that has brought Trump together. Just like Boris Johnson. That, I think, is the political axis of the future.
** [https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2402214-hoe-de-franse-trump-eric-zemmour-de-politiek-op-zijn-kop-zet How the 'French Trump' Éric Zemmour is turning politics upside down.]
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