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Thursday 2nd of October 2025

Losers In fact, year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than any other individual American taxpayer, the Times found when it compared his results with detailed information the I.R.S. compiles on an annual sampling of high-income earners. His core business losses in 1990 and 1991 – more than $250 million each year – were more than double those of the nearest taxpayers in the I.R.S. information for those years. Over all, Mr. Trump lost so much money that he was able to avoid paying income taxes for eight of the 10 years. New York Times, May 8, 2019, on his IRS transcripts from 1985 to 1994 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Racism Racists always back up racists. Ruben Gallego, explaining why he wasn't surprised when Trump granted a full pardon to Sheriff Joe Arpaio  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone. But your dishonor will remain.  Liz Cheney, June 9, 2022, during the opening public hearing of the  Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I think it was Roger's dying wish to elect Donald Trump president. Roger Ailes portrayed by Ted Cruz © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You know Roger is crazy. He really believes that stuff. Roger Ailes portrayed by Rupert Murdoch © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It's the ideological equivalent of tertiary syphilis The alt right portrayed by Rudyard Kwipler, who expects alt righters to wear their “I'm deplorable” and “I'm syphilitic” T-shirts on alternating days © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot His aim was the emancipation of the arts, the sublime at a reasonable price. Jacques Arnoux portrayed by Gustave Flaubert in A Sentimental Education Trans. by Robert Baldick © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A modest man who has much to be modest about. Clement Attlee portrayed by Winston Churchill © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot They get paid like geniuses, and yet, every ten years, they need bailing out. Bankers portrayed by Nick Paumgarten in The New Yorker, April 20, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted on all seven counts of fraud and money laundering after the jury deliberated just long enough to collect their full $40 per diem for their last day of work. Sam Bankman-Fried portrayed by Robert Armstrong, Financial Times, December 22, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If there's an explosion or fire somewhere, Steve's probably nearby with some matches. Steve Bannon portrayed by Matthew Boyle, former colleague of Bannon's at Breitbart News © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The handsomest guy in the liquor store. Steve Bannon portrayed by Stephen Colbert © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He is a vindictive, nasty figure, infamous for verbally abusing supposed friends and threatening enemies. Steve Bannon, now CEO of Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign, portrayed by Ben Shapiro, former colleague of Bannon's at Breitbart News, which he now calls “Trump Pravda” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I have trouble dealing with people who are slovenly. If you want to know what Steve Bannon had for lunch, just look at the front of his shirt. Steve Bannon portrayed by Roger Stone © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It's not that they like him, or care if he goes to jail. They are getting so much power out of this and they don't want it to stop. William Barr, Mike Pompeo and Mitch McConnell portrayed by Mary Trump, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Barr and Trump are pursuing very different projects – the one a crusade to align government with his idea of religious authority, the other a venal quest for self-aggrandizement. But they serve each other's purpose by collaborating to destroy the independence of anything – federal agencies, the public servants who work in them, even the other branches of government – that could restrain the president. William Barr and Donald Trump portrayed by George Packer, The Atlantic, April 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Valium for breakfast, marijuna for lunch, and quaaludes for dinner. Jordan Belfort, the real Wolf of Wall Street, portrayed by an unnamed associate quoted by The Guardian, September 30, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot What Biden offers voters is much of the substance of populism without the attendant noise and danger. And that very restraint might be the result of never having to prove his Everyman bona fides. Joe Biden portrayed by Janan Ganesh © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot By the standards of most US presidents, Biden's ego is modest. That is an admittedly low bar. But at 78, it is hard to claim you personify the wave of the future. The best kind of politics is to govern, rather than fret about your brand. This sets Biden apart from Obama as well as Trump. Not everything needs to be about him. Joe Biden portrayed by Edward Luce Financial Times, March 18, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Similar obituaries were being penned  only two weeks ago as Biden's poll numbers  dropped below even Donald Trump's nadir. Yet here we are. America's oldest president can now boast of a stronger legislative record in less than two years than either Obama or Bill Clinton achieved in eight. It turns out that low expectations are Biden's secret weapon. Joe Biden portrayed by Edward Luce Financial Times, Auguest 9, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Young people look at him like a typewriter is running for president. Joe Biden portrayed by Bill Maher © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot What leaps out about Biden's people is their competence. Neither he nor his team need training wheels. Joe Biden portrayed by John Podesta, former Clinton and Obama official © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Say what you will about Joe Biden: He's allowd us to go days at a time without remembering he's there. Joe Biden portrayed by Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, January/February 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He doesn't suffer from inner demons, he doesn't bear grudges and he loves being around people. Joe Biden portrayed by Louis Susman, former US ambassador © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Representative Lauren Boebert celebrated winning her new Colorado district’s Republican primary wearing a MAGA hat and an admittedly counterfeit pair of Donald Trump’s golden sneakers. … “These are very China, but I’m OK with that,” Boebert said at Tuesday night’s victory party, laughing.  “If I could’ve bought the OGs, I would have.” Lauren Boebert portrayed by The New Republic, June 26, 2024 [“OG” is slang for “original gangster,” meaning  “authentic” in neighborhoods she's never been in] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Freshman Colorado rep and high school dropout, Lauren Boebert, is someone you may have already thought of, if you ever thought, What would happen if Michele Bachman smoked bath salts? Josh Hawley portrayed by Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Jan. 20, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I don't consider him credible. John Bolton portrayed by George W. Bush in 2008, three years after apppointing him ambassador to the United Nations as a recess appointment because the Senate wouldn't confirm him  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The joke goes that Mr Bolton never met a war he did not like. That may be an understatement. Mr Trump's new national security adviser rarely sees a peaceful entanglement that could not be improved by artillery. John Bolton portrayed by Edward Luce © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mr Bolton has no patience for US democracy promotion, which gels with Mr Trump's worldview. Contrary to popular opinion, Mr Bolton is not a neoconservative. Neocons believe US values should be universal. Mr Bolton believes in aggressive promotion of the US national interest, which is quite different. John Bolton portrayed by Edward Luce © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A high-up official recently called this boss a “serial abuser” of low-level employees and a “quintessential kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy.” John Bolton portrayed by Washington Post, May 29, 2005 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot But her  life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in every corner of her heart. Emma Bovary portrayed by Gustave Flaubert in Madame Bovary Trans. by Francis Steegmuller © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Poor little thing! She's grasping for love like a carp on a kitchen table grasping for water. Emma Bovary portrayed by Rodolphe Boulanger in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary Trans. by Francis Steegmuller © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot if they award a cake for phony she should win the bakery Katie Britt portrayed by @busstop1100 after watching her deliver the Republican's response to Biden's 2024 SOTU speech © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I don't even know this woman but after watching this, I'm filing a restraining order. Katie Britt portrayed by @rainesalatte after watching her deliver the Republican's response to Biden's 2024 SOTU speech © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The range of emotion Brown displayed on the screen was no wider than a mail slot. Jim Brown portrayed by James Wolcott © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  He thought he was fighting the plutocracy: as a matter of fact he was fighting something much deeper than that;  he was fighting the larger scale of human life. The Eastern money power controlled the new industrial system, and Bryan fought it. But what he and his people hated from the bottom of their souls were the economic conditions that had upset the old life of the prairies, made new demands on democracy, introduced specialization and science, and had destroyed village loyalties, frustrated private ambitions, and created the imper- sonal relationships of the modern world. William Jennings Bryan portrayed by Walter Lippmann in Drift and Mastery  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Poor George, he can't help it.  He was born with a silver foot in his mouth. George H. W. Bush portrayed by Ann Richards © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He never hated anyone. He knew what his mother and my mother always knew: hatred corrodes the container it's carried in. George H. W. Bush portrayed by Alan Simpson © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  Bush didn't win an election; he won a court case. George W. Bush portrayed by Gary Younge © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Branding his campaign “Jeb!” has fooled nobody. What they read instead is “Bush?!” Jeb Bush portrayed by Edward Luce © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Jeb Bush lost [in the 2016 presidential primaries] for many reasons, but the base one is that he was running to win a race in a party that no longer existed. He was like a guy who showed up with a tennis racket at a bowling alley. Jeb Bush portrayed by Stuart Stevens © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Low Energy Jeb Bush portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot But if Jeb's campaign was born with a silver spoon in its mouth, it ended screaming in its high chair with strained peaches all over the floor. Jeb Bush's presidential campaign portrayed by Dara Lind © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's 37. He looks 27. He's the only veteran who came back from Afghanistan looking refreshed. When he campaigns door-to-door, nobody answers because they'e afraid he's a Mormon. Pete Buttigieg portrayed by Bill Maher June 21, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Tremendous talent – we're seeing tremendous talent. People that, as I say, we will “make America great again.” These are really great people. These are really, really talented people. Candidates for a position in his cabinet portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices. Truman Capote portrayed by Gore Vidal © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson, a prep school frozen food heir from the mean streets of La Jolla. Tucker Carlson portrayed by Chris Hayes © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and will have war. Neville Chamberlain portrayed by Winston Churchill © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Just iron-ass. Dick Cheney portrayed by George H. W. Bush © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Her fixation on bringing about Donald Trump’s political demise — possibly in the form of a jail sentence — has turned Cheney into America's most celebrated electoral suicide. Unlike the real thing, the politicl version can become a platform for rebirth. Liz Cheney portrayed by Edward Luce in Financial Times, August 17, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot While many men in the Reublican Party do a lot of talking about “strength”, Cheney is the one walking the walk. Beyond the labels of “Never Trump” or “RINO”, she has carried the most important mantle: “Never Coup”. She has fought for what is right, at great personal cost — the truest definition of leadership there is. Liz Cheney portrayed by Christine Todd Whitman in Financial Times, December 4, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He makes enemies and keeps them. Chris Christie portrayed by his mentor, former New Jersey governor Thomas Kean © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I guess, in a way, my mother was an asshole. His mother portrayed by John Cleese © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is. Bill Clinton portrayed by Barbara Bush © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A hard dog to keep on the porch. Bill Clinton portrayed by Hillary Rodham Clinton © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot White skin notwithstanding, this is our first black president. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. Bill Clinton portrayed by Toni Morrison © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot My new nickname for her is Preparation H. It's a compliment. Hillary Clinton portrayed by Stephen Colbert, after she showed how prepared she was during her first debate with Donald Trump, who tried winging it and thereby failed to clear the very low bar set for him © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Crooked Hillary Hillary Clinton portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Such a nasty woman. Hillary Clinton portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If you need someone vicious, hire Roy Cohn. Roy Cohn portrayed by Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I wouldn't have had my nostril on the same straw as that pig. Roy Cohn portrayed by John Waters © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If you're indicted, you're invited. Roy Cohn's parties portrayed by Joey Adams © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She disappoints  at a rate normally associated with dinners cooked by divorced dads. Susan Collins portrayed by John Oliver © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot This guy swung an election. He thought the wrong person would win. James Comey portrayed by Kellyanne Conway © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Lucifer in the flesh. Ted Cruz portrayed by John Boehner © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot That jackass. Ted Cruz portrayed by John Boehner © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot There is nothing more dangerous than a reckless asshole who thinks he is smarter than everyone else. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Senator Ted Cruz.  Ted Cruz portrayed by John Boehner © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot His thirst for the spotlight is unquenchable. His arrogance is unalloyed. He actually takes pride in being abrasive, as if a person's tally of detractors measures his fearlessness, not his obnoxiousness. Ted Cruz portrayed by Frank Bruni © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I just don't like the guy. Ted Cruz portrayed by George W. Bush © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He doesn't have any friends in Congress. He called the leader of the Republicans a liar on the Senate floor. If you want to call somebody a liar in the Senate, you go to their office — you don't go on the Senate floor and make it public. Ted Cruz portrayed by Bob Dole © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot We hadn't left Manhattan before he asked my IQ. Ted Cruz, portrayed by a female Harvard Law School student who agreed to carpool with him © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I like Ted Cruz more than most of my colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz portrayed by Senator Al Franken © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He is an opportunist. Ted Cruz portrayed by Lindsey Graham © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you. Ted Cruz portrayed by Lindsey Graham © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It was my distinct impression that Ted had nothing to learn from anyone else. The only point of Ted talking to you was to convince you of the rightness of his views. Ted Cruz portrayed by Erik Leitch, a Princeton classmate © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot More than anyone I knew, Ted seemed to have arrived in college with a fully formed worldview. And what strikes me now, looking at him as an adult and hearing the things he's saying, it seems like nothing has changed. Four years of an Ivy League education, Harvard Law, and years of life experience have altered nothing. Ted Cruz portrayed by Erik Leitch, a Princeton classmate © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot What goes better with cheese than a cracker? Ted Cruz's victory in the 2016 Wisconsin Republican presidential primary explained by Bill Maher © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Getting emails blaming me not smothering Ted Cruz in his sleep in 1988. What kind of monster do you think I am? A really prescient one? Ted Cruz portrayed in a tweet by Craig Mazin, his former Princeton roommate © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I remember very specifically that he had a book in Spanish and the title was “Was Karl Marx a Satanist?” And I thought, who is this person? Ted Cruz portrayed by Craig Mazin, his former Princeton roommate © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I would rather have anybody else be the president of the United States. Anyone. I would rather pick someone from the phone book. Ted Cruz portrayed by Craig Mazin, his former Princeton roommate © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A nightmare of a human being. Ted Cruz portrayed by Craig Mazin, his former Princeton roommate © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Ted Cruz is not the Zodiac Killer. The Zodiac Killer actually got things done. Ted Cruz portrayed in a tweet by Craig Mazin, his former Princeton roommate © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot When I met Ted in 1988, I had no word to describe him, but only because I didn't speak German. Thank you, Germans, for “Backpfeifengesicht.” [a face that should be punched] Ted Cruz portrayed by Craig Mazin, his former Princeton roommate © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Maybe it was through, you know, hand telegraph; maybe sign language. Ask him how he communicated with me because I'd be very interested. Ted Cruz portrayed by John McCain, who Cruz claimed he had been pressuring to reduce restrictions on guns on military bases © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Several fellow classmates who asked that their names not be used described the young Cruz as “abrasive,” “intense,” “strident,” “crank,” and “arrogant.” Four independently offered “intense,” with some pointing to Cruz's habit of donning a paisley bathrobe and walking to the opposite end of their dorm's hallway where the female students lived. Ted Cruz portrayed by Patricia Murphy, The Daily Beast, August 19, 2013 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot #SCOTUS sources say Cruz asked to sit w Scalia clerks @ funeral. They said no. Then GOP leadership said no bc he wasn't 1 of them either. Ted Cruz portrayed by @NinaTotenberg, February 24, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's a nasty guy. Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him. Ted Cruz portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Lyin' Ted Ted Cruz portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He would come to meetings where he wasn't invited — and wasn't wanted. The quickest way for a meeting to end would be for Ted to come in. … People wouldn't go to a meeting if they knew he would be there. It was his inability to be part of the team. That's exactly what he was: a big asshole. Ted Cruz portrayed in Mother Jones  by an unnamed campaign veteran who worked with him © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Happens to be, we believe, Mexican Gonzalo Curiel, the judge overseeing the class action suit against the defunct Trump University, portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She was apparently the only contractor who got paid. Stormy Daniels portrayed by Adam Schiff © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He told me once that I was someone to be reckoned with,  beautiful, smart, just like his daughter. Stormy Daniels portrayed in 2006 by Donald Trump, presumably referring to Ivanka, not Tiffany, who was a teenager at the time © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot His pre-politics career as a rat and bug killer was marked by a continual failure that has to be considered shocking in a state so teeming with vermin. An exterminator failing in southeast Texas is like a pimp failing in Bangkok during tourist season. Tom DeLay portrayed by Matt Taibbi © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  I'm not calling Mr. DeSantis a racist. I'm simply saying the racists believe he's a racist. Ron DeSantis, supported by white supremacists, portrayed by Andrew Gillum, his opponent in Florida's 2018 gubernatorial race © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The least qualified nominee in a historically unqualified Cabinet. Betsy DeVos portrayed by Chuck Schumer © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Take the word “choice”. You hear it all the time these days. School “choice”. Betsy DeVos uses it in practically every sentence. You could show her, as I did, an award-winning robotics programme, and she'd say, “What about choice?” which she actually said. You could probably say “Good morning, Betsy,” and she'd say, “That's my choice.” She must love restaurant buffets. Betsy DeVos portrayed by David Richard Smith in The Guardian, July 26, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot There is something feudal about Dickens. The rich man in his castle should be nicer to the poor man at his gate, but each is in his rightful station. Charles Dickens portrayed by Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, March 27, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A parrot can say anything Albert Einstein could say, as well as mimicking the sound of phones ringing, doors slamming and sirens wailing. Whatever advantage Einstein had over a parrot, it wasn't vocal. Albert Einstein portrayed by Yuval Noah Harari © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He sleeps until he is awakened; he stays awake until he is told to go to bed; he will go hungry until he is given something to eat; and then he eats until he is stopped. Albert Einstein portrayed by his friend, Janos Plesch © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He'll sit there, and he'll say, “Do this! Do that!” And nothing will happen.  Dwight Eisenhower portrayed by Harry Truman, his predecessor as president  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A marshmellow made on a welding machine. Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, portrayed by Cecil Beaton © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Without the queen, how will anyone know how to be British anymore? At the risk of sounding like Maggie Smith’s dowager  Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey,“ she was the last well-behaved person in our coarsening, transactional world. Elizabeth II portrayed by Tina Brown in New York Times, September 9, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The royal role involves being constantly in the public eye while keeping personal views entirely private. Any sign of partiality would have undermined her ability to represent all her compatriots; instead she appeared always to be interested, without ever saying anything of interest. That unwavering professionalism helped  ensure the survival of the British monarchy. Queen Elizabeth II portrayed by the Economist, Sep. 8, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She can walk as fast as I can. 93-year-old Queen Elizabeth II portrayed by 72-year-old Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Erdös himself, though raised in a Jewish family, had no use for religion. He called God “The Supreme Fascist,” and once remarked, on visiting Notre Dame, that the campus was very charming but there were too many plus signs. Paul Erdös, the mathematician, portrayed by Jordan Ellenberg in Shape © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A business with an exceedingly low ratio of invention to success. Facebook portrayed by Timothy Wu in The Attention Merchants © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If only Falcone would stay in front of the camera. Ben Falcone, the screenwriter who appeared in Thunder Force,  a film he wrote, portrayed by reviewer Raphael Abraham in Financial Times, April 14, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Jerry Falwell found out you could launder your hate through the cover of “God's will” — he didn't hate gays, God does.  Jerry Falwell portrayed by Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's huge. He's so unattractive. It's unbelievable. Brent Farenthold, portrayed by Susan Collins, who Farenthold said he'd challenge to a duel if she were man because she voted against repealing Obamacare © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Fauci doesn’t care about ratings, and this, paradoxically, has made him a television star. He is a master of anti-style style. Everything about him speaks of seriousness of purpose and absence of ego. … He is the ultimate adult in the room, and he dresses the part. Dr. Anthony Fauci portrayed by Robert Armstrong in Financial Times, April 14, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Carly Fiorina portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She knew publicly reliving the most traumatic event in her life could have absolutely no effect on anything and yet she spoke up anyway. It is absolutely incredible the lengths to which some people will go for a free polygraph test. Christine Blasey Ford portrayed by John Oliver, September 30, 2018  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot When this week began, the biggest fear for many was that the [Senate Judiciary] Committee would not believe Christine Blasey Ford. But, by the time the week ended, it seemed that something darker might have happened because it seems their response was, “Oh, we believe you. We just don't care.” Christine Blasey Ford portrayed by John Oliver, September 30, 2018  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He is something. Pope Francis portrayed by Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Many people love Al  because he's funny. I love him because he's wonky. Al Franken portrayed by Elizabeth Warren © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Almost nothing remains of his intellectual legacy. It has proven to be a disastrous misdirection for the world's economies. Milton Friedman portrayed by Jeffrey Sachs © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Garland could be Mueller’s heir. He is a public servant who goes by the book in an America that has given up reading. Merrick Garland portrayed by Edward Luce, Financial Times, June 22, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He can't see a belt without hitting below it. Lloyd George portrayed by Margot Asquith © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Gingrich's career can perhaps be best understood as a grand exercise in devolution – an effort to strip American politics of the civilizing traits it had developed over time and return it to its most primal essence. Newt Gingrich portrayed by McKay Coppins © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot [He] transformed American politics from one in which people presume the good will of their opponents, even as they disagreed, into one in which people treated the people with whom they disagreed as bad and immoral. He was kind of a McCarthyite who succeeded. Newt Gingrich portrayed by Barney Frank © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot [It] was the “Contract with America” election that made Newt Gingrich into the Death Star of the Republican Party. No single political figure better illustrates the predicate for Donald Trump than Newt Gingrich. Newt Gingrich portrayed by Stuart Stevens [1994 election] © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11. Rudy Giuliani portrayed by Joe Biden © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He is a small man in search of a balcony. Rudy Giuliani portrayed by Jimmy Breslin © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot At the sound of his voice, roses drop their petals. Rudy Giuliani portrayed by Frank Bruni © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I know Stormy Daniels is an adult film star, but Rudy Giuliani might be the biggest dick she's ever seen. Rudy Giuliani portrayed by Stephen Colbert after he showed a video of Giuliani making intentionally insulting remarks about Daniels at a press conference  [Responding to the audience's laughter, he added, “Unpleasant person. Unpleasant person.”] © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He drank morning, noon, and night, and was frequently intoxicated, and therefore, his behavior was always unpredictable. Giuliani also took Viagra constantly. Rudy Giuliani portrayed by Noelle Dunphy, former Business Development director for him and his companies © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He was always falling shitfaced somewhere. Rudy Giuliani portrayed by Judith Giuliani, his third wife © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If a person's past were another country, Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s lawyer, would be refused a visa. Rudy Giuliani portrayed by Edward Luce, Financial Times, December 5, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Rudy Giuliani's first wife was his cousin. Did you know this? I think that's a very cheap way to go after the Southern vote. Rudy Giuliani portrayed by Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot God is the ultimate. God portrayed by Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Michael Goldhaber is the internet prophet you've never heard of.  Here's a short list of things he saw coming: the complete dominance of the internet, increased shamelessness in politics, terrorists co-opting social media, the rise of reality television, personal websites, oversharing, personal essay, fandom and online influence cullture – along with  the near destruction of our ability to focus. Michael Goldhaber portrayed by Charlie Warzel, New York Times, February 4, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot There was no room for two in that apartment — or in that life. Edward Gorey portrayed by Jason Epstein © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  You know why Lindsey kisses my ass? So I'll endorse his friends. Lindsey Graham portrayed by Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach blonde, bad built, butch body,  that would not be engaging in personalities, correct? Marjorie Taylor Greene portrayed by Jasmine Crockett after Greene attacked Crockett's appearance during a House Oversight Committee meeting, to which Republican Chairman James Comer responded by saying, “A what now?” © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Here's three words no one ever has to say to Marjorie Taylor Greene: Dumb it down. Marjorie Taylor Greene portrayed by Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, June 3, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Marjorie Taylor Greene, the congresswoman who makes most people say, “How is she not a teacher from Florida who fucks her students?” Marjorie Taylor Greene portrayed by Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Jan. 20, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Why is this chick so hyperactive? She looks like Cocaine Bear. If she actually were four years old and acted out this much, they'd arrest her stepfather. Honey, sit down. This is Congress, not the Waffle House at 3 o'clock in the morning. Marjorie Taylor Greene portrayed by Bill Maher, after her outbursts during Biden's 2023 State of the Union Address while draped in a white fur boa © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I don't know them, but I'm reminded of that old line from the “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” movie where – where one character says, “Morons, I've got morons on my team.” And I have to think anybody that would sit down with white nationalists and speak at their conference was certainly missing a few IQ points. Marjorie Taylor Greene portrayed by Mitt Romney, after Greene spoke at the white nationalist America First Political Action Conference in Florida on February 25, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The bitch got a gun! Marion Hammer, NRA leader and lobbyist, portrayed by a passenger in a car full of men who, she says, would have accosted her © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Harrington has shewn that Power always follows Property. James Harrington portrayed by John Adams © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Loathsome and transparently ambitious, Josh was the first Senator to formally chose Trumps's baseless election fraud conspiracy over his constitutional pledge to uphold the Constitution. But before you say he's anti-democratic, he just wants you to know that he's just asking questions. Questions like, Why does the winner of an election always have to be the guy who gets the most votes? Josh Hawley portrayed by Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Jan. 20, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot No hocus-pocus about death and God or obsolete fantasies of heaven for him. There was only our bodies, born to live and die on terms decided by the bodies that had lived and died before us. If he could be said to have located a philosophical niche for himself, that was it—he'd come upon it early and intuitively, and however elemental, that was the whole of it. He, protagonist portrayed in Philip Roth's Everyman © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. Ernest Hemingway portrayed by William Faulkner © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You know, Hezbollah is very smart. They’re all very smart. Hezbollah and other terrorists portrayed by Donald Trump after Hamas invaded Israel  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She has an incredible skill set in dealing with the media. Hope Hicks portrayed by Paul Manafort © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I would have preferred it if he'd followed his original ambition and become an architect. Adolf Hitler portrayed by his sister, Paula © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Hitler did a lot of good things. Adolf Hitler portrayed by Donald Trump © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., portrayed by Theodore Roosevelt, who appointed Holmes to the Supreme Court but felt betrayed when Holmes dissented in United States v. Northern Securities, the biggest railroad trust-busting case at the time © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Since time has not been generous with her memory, I had better remind some of the younger readers, and even, thank Heaven, some of the older ones, that Hedda Hopper, in her time a useful starlet, became, in her dotage, a feared columnist  whose value was that she said what she thought, and whose vice was that what she thought didn't amount to much. Hedda Hopper portrayed by Peter Ustinov in Dear Me © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right? He was a bad guy, a really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn't read them their rights. They didn't talk. They were terrorists. It's over. Saddam Hussein portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A startling example of executive success.  Jesus portrayed by Bruce Barton in The Man Nobody Knows  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot His way to achieve catharsis is to hurt somebody. And I think he feels he has a liberty and license to do that. The normal rules of social engagement, he feels, don't apply to him. Steve Jobs portrayed by Jony Ive © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Perhaps Johnson’s best legacy will, perversely, be rule breaking. Like Donald Trump, he has acted like a burglar testing the locks of the country’s constitution. Unlike US Republicans, the Commons could now add the missing bolts by restricting political donations and defining the consequences if a PM misleads parliament or breaks the law. Boris Johnson portrayed by Simon Kuper in Finacial Times, February 3, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot That fucking guy Jim Jordan. That son of a bitch. While these maniacs are going through the place, I'm standing in the aisle and he said, “We need to get the ladies away from the aisle. Let me help you.” I smashed his hand away and told him, “Get away from me. You fucking did this.” Jim Jordan during the assualt on the Capitol, portrayed by Liz Cheney © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The Ohioian, who combines an extreme lack of interest in governing with a governing interest in extremism, would be the perfect leader of this lapsed party. Jim Jordan portrayed by Matt Ford, in New Republic, October 17, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I'd never kill them. … But I do hate them. Some of them are such lying, disgusting people. Journalists portrayed by Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I just have to add that he plays a mean harmonica. Tim Kaine portrayed by Hillary Clinton © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Tim Kaine is so boring his Secret Service code name is “Tim Kaine.” Tim Kaine portrayed by Al Gore © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Who would say that? My virgin justice. The man has no pride! … Virgin-man will sell me out. Brett Kavanaugh portrayed by Donald Trump, commenting on Kavanaugh defending himself against charges of sexual harassment by claiming to have been a virgin in high school and for years afterwards  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out her, whatever. Megyn Kelly portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She's got the hammer and all she sees are nails. Lina Khan portrayed by a policy researcher in the June 18, 2021, Financial Times, shortly after she was appointed as head of the Federal Trade Commission, which monitors competition © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot We've arranged the carrots in  different ways in different administrations. But all we’ve learnt . . . is that Kim Jong-un is not a rabbit. Kim Jong-un portrayed by Sydney Seiler, national intelligence officer for North Korea at the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence, in Financial Times, August 10, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's quite a guy and quite a character. Kim Jong-un portrayed by Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's a zero-sum game motherfucker from New York. Jared Kushner portrayed by Joe Grogan, director of Trump's Domestic Policy COuncil © 20201 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He made conflicts of interest is business model. Jared Kushner portrayed by George Packer © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Has anyone ever seen The Silence of the Lambs ? The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He’s a wonderful man. He oftentimes would have a friend for dinner. Remember the last scene? “Excuse me, I’m about to have a friend for dinner,” as this poor doctor walked by. “I’m about to have a friend for dinner.” But Hannibal Lecter. Congratulations. The late, great Hannibal Lecter. Fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter portrayed by Donald Trump at a rally in New Jersey © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot LeMay also had a shooting range in his basement. Naturally. Curtis LeMay portrayed by Malcolm Gladwell © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I believe that Dave would run into a burning house to save my children. And I hope and know, Dave, that I would do the same for you, should you some day feel comfortable enough to tell me where your house is. David Letterman addressed by Paul Shaffer,  his musical director, bandleader and sidekick  on his late night shows from 1982 to 2015,  at the 2017 Mark Twain Prize ceremony  honoring Letterman © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You could fuck everyone and trust no one. Life in East Germany portrayed by the writer Annegret Gollin © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If you married a manic-depressive, three of your children died, and while you were president civil war broke out and someone shot you in the head, your coin really shouldn't say, “In God We Trust.” Abraham Lincoln portrayed by Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Never was he able to think of himself as a man no more important than other men. Never could he involve himelf deeply in the give and take of politics. Yet neither did he choose the easy alternative of a monkish withdrawal from the world of men. He remained a detached man who sought involvement. Walter Lippmann portrayed by William E. Leuchtenburg © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It may be that saying nobody owns you, as Logan so often does, helps dull the reality that very few people claim you. Lara Logan portrayed by Elaina Plott Calabro © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Be loving to him. Because he's only a little boat looking for a harbor. Willy Loman portrayed by his wife, Linda, in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I don't say he's a great man. Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. Willy Loman portrayed by his wife, Linda, in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trent Lott took a whip as long as a car off his office table, where it lay coiled and shiny brown, and said to my one male schoolmate who grinned at Lott enthusiastically: Let's show ’em how us good old boys do it.  And then he swung that whip through the air and cracked it above our heads again and again. I remember the experience in my bones. Trent Lott portrayed by Jesmyn Ward © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She saw the votes on the board and said, “Fuck it, I'm just gonna vote for it just so I can go on TV and talk about it.” A former staffer's explanation of why Nancy Mace voted to oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives even though he had directed millions of dollars to her 2020 election campaign [Mace is a poster child for the old adage, If you want a friend in Washington, get yourself a dog.] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She supported an insurrection for the "likes". Nancy Mace,  Republican Representative from South Carolina, who criticized the Big Lie like Liz Cheney did and then voted to remove Cheney from her leadership position in the party after Trump's base howled, portrayed by Bill Maher © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Bruce Makowsky knew exactly what he wanted: a gigantic photograph of a statuesque blonde clad in a black gown and standing on the trunk of a Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead, a $500,000 coupe with interiors swathed in Hermès leather. In her hands would be a chainsaw branded with Rolls Royce emblems. Bruce Makowsky portrayed by The Wall Street Journal in an article about megamansions being built in Los Angeles, including his “Billionaire,” a 38,00 square foot, 12 bedroom, $188 million spec home featuring a 40-seat movie theater, crocodile skin-lined elevator, helipad and wall of candy dispensers each several feet tall © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Senator Joe Manchin made a promise to  President Biden to support a framework that  would help lower health costs, cap the price of insulin and other prescription drugs, lower child care costs for Americans, address the climate crisis, and give working people and poor people a shot in America. Today, Senator Manchin has betrayed his commitment not only to the President and  Democrats in Congress but most importantly, to the American people. He routinely touts that he is a man of his word, but he can no longer say that. Joe Manchin portrayed by Pramila Jayapal after Manchin announced on Dec. 19, 2021, he would not support the Build Back Better Act © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Congressman Massie has tested positive for being an asshole. He must be quarantined to prevent the spread of his massive stupidity. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) portrayed by John Kerry after Massie forced hundreds of his fellow Representatives, many of whom are elederly, to return to Washington, DC, in the midst of the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus, to participate in a roll-call vote instead of a simple voice vote on the $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill, which passed nearly unanimously, as was expected © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A third rate Grandstander. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) portrayed by Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured. John McCain portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He had a certain raw wit and charm when he had not had too much to drink. Joseph McCarthy portrayed by Eunice Kennedy, who dated him © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If none of us ever read a book that was “dangerous,” had a friend who was “different,” or joined an organization that advocated “change,” we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Joseph McCarthy portrayed by Edward R. Murrow © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A man with all the backbone of one of those inflatable tube men outside a car dealership. Kevin McCarthy portrayed by Bill Maher © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell portrayed by Christopher Browning © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot To call Mitch a ‘people person’ would be like calling Jared Kushner a ‘self-made man.’ Mitch McConnell portrayed by Matt Jones in Mitch, Please!  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot “Moscow Mitch” Mitch McConnell portrayed by Joe Scarborough © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The Old Crow's a piece of shit. Mitch McConnell portrayed by Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The mastermind of the damage [to democratic norms], Mitch McConnell will come to be considered one of the greatest traitors to this country since Robert E.Lee, with this difference — McConnell has been trying to take us down from within. Mitch McConnell portrayed by Mary Trump in The Reckoning  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He never had any core principles. He just wants to be  something. He doesn't want to do  anything.  Mitch McConnell portrayed by John Yarmouth, Democratic congressman from Louisville © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot When McNamara wants to know what Ho Chi Minh is thinking, he interviews himself. Robert McNamara portrayed by James Willbanks, Army strategist during the Vietnam War © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. Mexican immigrants portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I saved his ass. Mohammed bin Salman portrayed by Donald Trump after convincing Congress to ignore the fact thst bin Salman's ordered his minions to chop up and dispose of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He was deplorable before being deplorable was cool. Roy Moore portrayed by Sarah Palin © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If curiosity killed the cat, then any cat owned by Robert Mueller can look forward to a long, full life. Robert Mueller portrayed by David Frum © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot In the light of a rubber-stamp Senate and a stooge Attorney General, it fell to Robert Mueller alone to right the ship of state. Mueller heard that call from history and let it go to voicemail. Robert Mueller portrayed by Bill Maher © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The world's richest man is dismembering one of the world's most importnt websites in large part because he believes letting people choose their pronouns will prevent the human race from colonizing Mars. Elon Musk portrayed by Ben Tarnoff, New York Review of Books, January 18, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, and then mount the stump and make a speech on conservation. Richard Nixon portrayed by Adlai Stevenson © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Noem is Trumpism with a cowgirl face. Kristi Noem portrayed by Stephen Rodrick in Rolling Stone, March 16, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The Republican Party is the frog carrying the scorpion of Grover Norquist across the river. Grover Norquist portrayed by Stuart Stevens © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's a mainstream Democrat. We got the change that he wanted, which was minimal. But he campaigned on a promise of change with a capital C, with the backing of large numbers of people — whom he then demobilized. Barack Obama portrayed by Eric Foner © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The man is not an asshole, and indeed something of an antiasshole. For many progressives, this is a problem, as we  can see from their objections: he pulls back from using the powers he clearly has; he fails to respond to the opposition, allowing it to define the debate; he is too eager to listen, to understand, so as not to offend, to the point of being dragged away from his convictions by people stubborn in theirs; he makes premptive concessions in approaching the bargaining table and then further concessions down the line; he favors compromised policies that absorb everyone's concerns and that do much less good than they could. In short, progressives wish Obama could behave a lot more like an asshole. Barack Obama portrayed by Aaron James © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I am not saying that President Obama is the Antichrist. I am not saying that at all. One reason I know he's not the Antichrist is the Antichrist is going to have much higher poll numbers when he comes. Barack Obama portrayed by Robert Jeffress © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Looks and sounds so ridiculous. Barack Obama portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot There is a very large segment of our society who believe that Barack Obama, indeed, was not born in the United States. Barack Obama portrayed by Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot [T]he Green New Deal is already branded in the public's mind. Just as Ms Ocasio-Cortez is known by her initials – AOC – her bill is already known by its shorthand, GND. Few politicians, or bills, make that distinction. Think of John F Kennedy (JFK) or Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). The fact that a 29-year-old former bar- tender has gone from zero to ubiquitous abbreviation in a few months tells us something about America's appetite for change. She is now the most influential figure in US politics after Mr Trump. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez portrayed by Edward Luce, Financial Times, February 15, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She's not good at being full of shit. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez portrayed by Corbin Trent, co-founder of Justice Democrats and an early supporter © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Palin was nothing if not prolific,  the Charles Dickens of the Age of Ignorance. Sarah Palin portrayed by Andy Borowitz in Profiles in Ignorance © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot With her toxic brew of ignorance and grievance, Sarah Palin was the gateway ignoramus who led to Donald Trump. Sarah Palin portrayed by Andy Borowitz in Profiles in Ignorance © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Ronald Reagan used to say the nine most terrifying words in the English language were: “I'm from the government  and I'm here to help you.” But that was before: “I'm Sarah Palin, now show me the launch codes.” Sarah Palin portrayed by Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Sarah Palin reading off her hand. Did you see that? You saw this? She wrote “tax cuts” on her hand. A Republican so stupid she has to be reminded of the one thing – Tax cuts! This is like if you saw the coyote's paw and it said “Road Runner.” Sarah Palin portrayed by Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She was Donald Trump's John the Baptist. Sarah Palin portrayed by George Packer © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot This is a guy that was all man. This man was strong and tough, and I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, “Oh my God, that's unbelievable.” I had to say it. Arnold Palmer portrayed by Donald Trump at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Palmer's birthplace © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If California is America's America,  then Palo Alto is America's America's America. Palo Alto, California, portrayed by Malcolm Harris in Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mother. Karen Pence portrayed by her husband, Mike Pence © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot They [the victims] stood up for me. I forgive the prosecutor. He wrote a letter. And the parole board? They saw that justice happened. But I don't forgive Mike Pence, and never will. He talks all this God stuff, but he's biased. He hates Muslims, he hates gay people, and he hates minorities. He didn't want to be the first white man in Indiana to pardon an innocent black man. Mike Pence portrayed by Keith Cooper who then-Governor Pence refused to pardon after having been released because of new DNA evidence, recantations by victims and witnesses, and recommendations to do so by the prosecutor and Indiana Parole Board © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You are Donald Trump's apprentice. Mike Pence portrayed by Tim Kaine © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mr Pence is an evangelical who has vowed never to dine alone with a woman except his own wife.  He has been pilloried for his prudishness.  How can anyone work in today's world without being alone with a female colleague? It is altogether Saudi Arabian. Mike Pence portrayed by Edward Luce © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot In a letter to The New York Times in 2005, Donald Trump wrote that “some people cast shadows, and other people  choose to live in those shadows.” Mike Pence went a little further and chose to be Trump’s shadow. He has ended up as a gray man of no substance, who has to insist ever more emphatically on his own godliness because he has no soul left to sell. Mike Pence portrayed by Fintan O'Toole © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Pence is a reminder that no one can have sustained transactions with Trump without becoming too soiled for subsequent scrubbing. Mike Pence portrayed by George F. Will © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  Pence is what he has chosen to be, which is horrifying. Mike Pence portrayed by George F. Will © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Should be forced to take an IQ test Rick Perry portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Look at those losers. Poker players at Trump's Taj Mahal casino portrayed by Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Secretary of State Pompeo. Mike Pompeo portrayed by Joe Biden, laughing and not commenting further © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mike Pompeo: Last in his class at West Point on ethics in leadership. Mike Pompeo portrayed by Thomas L. Friedman, after it was revealed that Pompeo, as Secretary of State, participated in a smear campaign to remove Marie Yovanovitch, ambassador to Ukraine, because she would block Trump's attempt to bribe Ukraine's president © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Obviously, a tough time for him. He did a very good job when he was in the White House, and we hope he has a wonderful career ahead of him. But it was very sad when we heard about it. And certainly he's also very sad. Now, he also, as you probably know, says he's innocent, and I think you have to remember that. Rob Porter portrayed by Donald Trump after Porter, his White House Secretary, was forced to resign following revelations of domestic abuse of both his ex-wives and a girlfriend  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac. Reince Priebus portrayed by Anthony Scaramucci © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot We don't know what the Proud Boys are proud of, but it's not their grades. Proud Boys portrayed by Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, March 5, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You have set an example of moral leadership that has shamed the governments of Western Europe and North America and inspired the peoples of the world. Vladimir Putin portrayed by Scott Lively, leader of Abiding Truth Ministries, evangelcial anti-homosexual activists who promote “kill the gays” laws worldwide, after Russia passed anti-LGBT legislation he and his group advocated for during their fifty-city tour of the country © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I understand why he has to do this, to prove he's a man. He's afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this. Vladimir Putin portrayed by Angela Merkel, who he forced to wait for hours before starting their scheduled meeting, took a long call during it and then unleashed a huge dog next to her, knowing she was afraid of dogs © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot But he's a killer. Vladimir Putin portrayed by Bill O'Reilly responding to Donald Trump's declaration of respect for Putin © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A wolf circling sheep. Vladimir Putin portrayed by Christopher Steele © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Well, he does have an 82 perecent approval rating, according to the different pollsters, who, by the way, some of them are based right here. Vladimir Putin portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He said he didn't meddle. I asked him again. You can only ask so many times. I just asked him again. He said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what they are saying he did. Every time he sees me he says: “I didnt do that,” and I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it. I think he is very insulted by it, which is not a good thing for our country. Vladimir Putin portrayed by Donald Trump, November 11, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I looked into those blue eyes, and I might as well have been looking out the window. Dan Quayle portrayed by one of his professors at DePauw University © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If you put that man's brain in a bumblebee, it would fly backwards. Dan Quayle portrayed by Molly Ivins © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Alpha dogs never die. Never. Anthony Quinn had a baby out of wedlock at 78. His wife was very mad at him. And then he did it again at 81. Anthony Quinn portrayed by Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, November 11, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You're just scum. Vivek Ramaswamy portrayed by Nikki Haley  after Ramaswamy began attacking her daughter during a 2023 Republican presidential debate © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot His name was Ronald Reagan, and it's in no small part thanks to him that today we can say: It's Moronic in America. Ronald Reagan portrayed by Andy Borowitz in Profiles in Ignorance © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You could walk through Ronald Reagan's deepest thoughts and not get your ankles wet. Ronald Reagan portrayed by a California legislator © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The new crop [of Republicans] are such foamimg-at-the-mouth Kraken releasers  that Clarence Thomas wants to marry them. Republicans running for office in 2022 portrayed by Bill Maher, April 1, 2022  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Republicans restock douchebags with the efficiency of an Amazon warehouse. They churn our new crazies like the Hallmark channel makes Christmas movies. Republican Party portrayed by Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Jan. 20, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump was the moral test, and the Republican Party failed. It's an utter disaster for the long-term fate of the Party. The Party has become an obsession with power without purpose. Republican Party portrayed by Stuart Stevens © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake. Cecil Rhodes portrayed by Mark Twain © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I imagine [Chief Justice John] Roberts as a worker who, on his way out of the factory at 5:05, notices that the building has caught fire. There's a fire extinguisher right there on the wall — he could  grab it and spray foam all over the problem, but wait a minute, there's a principle at stake here. It's after five and he's not on the clock. Union rules are pretty clear that he's not supposed to put in unpaid overtime. If he puts out this  fire, he sets a precedent;  now is he on the hook every time the building catches fire after the whistle blows? John Roberts portrayed by Jordan Ellenberg in Shape © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The only difference between us and Westminster Abbey, you know, is we don't do weddings and coronations. The Rolling Stones portrayed by Charlie Watts © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot [He] looks like the guy who fired you. Mitt Romney portrayed by Mike Huckabee © 20213 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A stone cold loser Mitt Romney portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Roth was never to be a mute inglorious Milton. To imagine him without fame is to strip him bare. Philip Roth portrayed by Cynthia Ozick © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Turd blossom. Karl Rove portrayed by George W. Bush © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Little Marco Marco Rubio portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot There's a lack of humility, a lack of seeing what the other guy thinks. He's more kick-ass and take names, take numbers. Donald Rumsfeld portrayed by George H. W. Bush © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A ruthless little bastard. Donald Rumsfeld portrayed by Richard Nixon © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot In a city of egos, he stood out as someone who was so confident that he would never accept blame. Donald Rumsfeld portrayed by Demetri Sevastopulo © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It will wash in this shame for decades. Russia after invading Ukraine portrayed by Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian TV journalist who waved a sign reading “Stop the war — Don't believe propaganda — They're lying to you” during a live broadcast to the nation and who now lives in exile in safe houses in Europe  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Every time I see the sentence “Paul Ryan is the conscience of the Republican Party,” I think: What is that? Is that like being the quarterback of the New York City Ballet? Paul Ryan portrayed by Fran Lebowitz © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Crazy Bernie Bernie Sanders portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He thinks life begins at erection Rick Santorum portrayed by Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He lies like a goose shits. If he's not doing it at the very moment, he's about to. George Santos portrayed by Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Jan. 20, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Santos is the first one to realize that, since we are all in our hermetically-sealed media bubble now, you can pretend to be everything to voters in both parties  and no one on either side will notice. … Everyone saw in George Santos what they wanted to see. Republicans saw a Trump-loving rich prick,  Democrats saw a proudly gay person of color, and the Proud Boys saw a guy who would blow them after a couple of beers and not tell anyone. George Santos portrayed by Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Jan. 20, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If confirmed, Senator Sessions will be required to pursue justice for women, but his record indicates that he won't. He will be expected to defend the equal rights of gay and lesbian Americans, but his record indicates that he won't. He will be expected to defend voting rights, but his record indicates that he won't. He will be expected to defend the rights of immigrants and affirm their human dignity, but his record indicates he won't. His record indicates that as Attorney General he would obstruct the growing national bipartisan movement toward criminal justice reform. Jeff Sessions portrayed by Cory Booker © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli can't find jurors who don't already hate him — — — — — — — — — — — One potential juror admitted, “I looked right at him and, in my head, I said ‘that's a snake’” Martin Shkreli portrayed by Salon headlines, June 27, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The Silicon Valley billionaires and CEOs are libertarian, low-tax deregulation buddies of the Koch brothers when it comes to talking to Republicans, and dope-smoking, gay rights activist hipsters when they mix with the Democrats. Silicon Valley honchos portrayed by Robert W. McChesney © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Politics is just a transaction to these people. Silicon Valley honchos portrayed by Jonathan Taplin © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He weighs 120 but a 110 of those pounds are pure cock. Frank Sinatra portrayed by Ava Gardner © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  He’s a whoremonger. A real whoremonger. He loves the titty bars. The only people he likes go to the titty bars with him. Those are the only people he trusts. He also goes out to Vegas all the time. He goes to the high-end titty bars. He’s always getting the private upstairs rooms, champagne, the works. David D. Smith, CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, new owner of the Baltimore Sun newspaper, and renowned advocate of “family values,” portrayed by a friend © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.  Anastasio Somoza García, Nicaraguan dictator, portrayed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He was being involved in a domestic political errand, and we were being involved in national security foreign policy. And those two things had just diverged. Gordon Sondland portrayed by Fiona Hill, on realizing that Sondland's mission in the Ukraine had nothing to with advancing America's bipartisan foreign policy objectives © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She can make a theory out of a potato peel. Susan Sontag portrayed by Herbert Marcuse © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I must confess a certain perverse admiration. To lie in the way that Santos has requires reserves of audacity, creativity and nerve that most people can scarcely imagine. And where but New York could someone lie about being Jewish to gain political advantage? George Santos portrayed by Joshua Chaffin, Financial Times, January 6, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most. Adlai Steenson portrayed by Elvis Presley © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Ed Stone could draw anything except a sober breath. Edward Durrell Stone portrayed by a fellow architecture student at Harvard © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot In finance, his [UK prime minister Rishi Sunak's] former line of work, everyone is, almost by definition, open to a deal. And once it is negotiated, it is enforceable through the commercial courts. There couldn't be a worse grounding for politics, where neither condition obtains. Here is a world of entrenched positions (whether tribal or philosophical) and no  third party enforcement mechanism for those pragmatic compromises that do get made. No wonder he treats the right as just another market participant seeking terms. He has spent his political career offering half a loaf to people who want the whole boulangerie. Rishi Sunak portrayed by Janan Ganesh © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot To a great extent, though, and starting with Brexit, he rode the tiger that now devours him. If he has an excuse, it is that Stanford business school, Goldman Sachs and the hedge fund world were the worst possible places in which to learn a central lesson of politics: some people have no price, or at least no price that it is conscionable to pay. Rishi Sunak portrayed by Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, December 12, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Society's best-connected man … a card-carrying hoot. David Tang portrayed by Hannah Betts © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I need the leg. That's Andrea Tantaros. Andrea Tantaros portrayed by Roger Ailes on hiring her for Fox News “The Five” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Always a bride, never a bridesmaid. Elizabeth Taylor portrayed by Oscar Levant © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He says he plans to be rich, says that means more than just a few hundred thousand dollars a year. Clarence Thomas portryed by Legal Times in a profie of him it published in the 1980s [Thomas apparently decided that becoming a judge is the road to riches — or at least to living among the rich — if he played his cards right] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Clarence Thomas, you're the best man walking the face of the earth Clarence Thomas portrayed by his wife, Ginni © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot David Treen is so slow it takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. Louisiana governor David Treen portrayed by his successor, Edwin Edwards © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He refused to tip, considering it an insult to the dignity of the waiters, and the waiters retaliated with poor service, accidental spillings of hot soup and insults. Leon Trotsky portrayed by Ben Katchor in The Dairy Restaurant © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He leaves behind no treatise and few epigrams, much less in translated Sanskrit. But he knew a liberal must learn to walk with, if not the devil, then the brute. Harry Truman portrayed by Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, July 25, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot In ending American isolation, his predecessor Franklin Roosevelt had the “advantage” of a world war. Truman set himself a harder task: to maintain a forward US posture during peace time. The result, an empire in all but name, has had costs. But the past 18 months have been a sublime education in its uses. Imagine Ukraine right now without a committed US. In another 18, depending how Americans vote, you might not have to. Harry Truman portrayed by Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, July 25, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She is willing to say that Trump “came into office on the back of a revolution” and has been “massively disruptive.” Warming to the subject, she says she got to experience Russian history – inside the White House. “I kept thinking ‘Bolshevik Revolution’,” she says, pointing to the infighting. “I had always wondered what it was like … and then I found myself in the middle.” Trump administration portrayed by Fiona Hill, former National Security Council official specializing in Russian and European affairs, in a Financial Times interview, June 12, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It's like fucking Game of Thrones  around here. Trump administration portrayed by Peter Navarro, his trade adviser © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot To the millenarianism of the far right and the revolutionary nihilism of the far left he adds the deep cynicism of someone who has spent years running unsavory business schemes around the world. Trump has no knowledge of the American story and so cannot have any faith in it. He has no understanding of or sympathy for the language of the founders, so he cannot be inspired by it. Since he doesn't believe American democracy is good, he has no interest in an America that aspires to be a model among nations. Donald Trump portrayed by Anne Applebaum © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I'm sick of being a wet nurse for a 71 year old. Donald Trump portrayed by Steve Bannon in 2018 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Even when he was running, I don't think anybody thought he would be as bad as he is. Donald Trump portrayed by Joe Biden in 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The only thing he knows  is being in the mosh pit. He's been there his whole life. Donald Trump portrayed by Joe Biden © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He is talking and tweeting himself into legal jeopardy. He can't seem to help himself. Something in the man is broken. Donald Trump portrayed by Charles M. Blow, May 15, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot His weakness is an unending need for affirmation. Anyone who provides it, he abides. It's simple. Also sad. Actually, pathetic. Donald Trump portrayed by Charles M. Blow, January 8, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot This is the problem we face: We have a person occupying the presidency who is impetuous, fragile, hostile, irrational, intentionally uniinformed, information-averse and semiliterate.  Donald Trump portrayed by Charles M. Blow, January 8, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump is a racist. We can put that baby to bed. Donald Trump portrayed by Charles M. Blow, January 15, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot What happens when you combine ignorance with performance talent? A president who tells the country to inject bleach. Donald Trump portrayed by Andy Borowitz © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot [H]e is the exclamation point on our consistent failure to live up to our own self-image. Donald Trump portrayed by Jamelle Bouie © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The Russians may have something on him personally that they could always roll out and make his life more difficult. Donald Trump portrayed by John Brennan, C.I.A. durector from 2013 to 2017 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump is like a one-man Gilded Age, carrying opulence wherever he goes. We've never had someone running for president who is a bling artist. Donald Trump portrayed by Douglas Brinkley © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot For Trump, the whole point of political office is adulation, and adulation is the entire proof of a person's worth. Rectitude pales next to ratings. Ethics are a sorry substitute for applause. And the methods by which a crowd is fired up don't matter, so long as he can bask in the clapping. Donald Trump portrayed by Frank Bruni © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot His words can be counterfeit. His gestures are genuine. Donald Trump portrayed by Frank Bruni © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I seldom feel sorry for President Trump – O.K., I never  do – but if I were going to it would be on account of his spawn and spawn-in-law. He has given them celebrity, fancy government titles, security clearances and entry into circles they'd never penetrate otherwise. They have given him humiliating headlines to go along with the mortifying ones that he already had in abundance. Talk about a trade imbalance. Donald Trump portrayed by Frank Bruni © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It's inadvertent but indisputable. He doesn't hide his pettiness, bury his petulance or successfully distract us from his vulgarity and bigotry. He's too needy an exhibitionist to wear a mask, too sloppy a manager to prevent leaks, and his universe is too chaotic for its mess not to spill ceaselessly into public view. Donald Trump portrayed by Frank Bruni © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot That's Trump's edge over everybody. That's his gift. He can do no wrong because he's all  wrong. He never really shocks because he's a perpetual shock. When someone frolics at the nadir for as long as he has, there's nowhere to go but sideways. Donald Trump portrayed by Frank Bruni © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Winning the most powerful office in the world did nothing to diminish his epic ache for adoration or outsize need to tell everyone how much he deserves it. Donald Trump portrayed by Frank Bruni © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Nothing makes a man feel better than making a fake cover of a magazine about himself, lying every day and destroying the country. Donald Trump portrayed by Mika Brzezinski © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot This president, like all grotesque things, is hard to look away from. [but it's important to try] Because if it's all about him, it's not about you. Donald Trump portrayed by Pete Buttigieg © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I looked out, and he was nothing. He was nothing. He was a phantom. It was the people around him who were giving him power. He himself was nothing. It was an astonishing discovery for me. He’s nothing. We don’t need to be afraid of him. He can be knocked down. Donald Trump portrayed by E. Jean Carroll, January 29, 2024, who feared being in the same room with him for the first time since he raped her in 1996, after being awarded a total of $88.3 million in her second defamation suit against him [She was awarded $5 million in her first suit] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot In the end, the most salient fact about Donald Trump may simply be that he is a crook. Jonathan Chaitt, New York, September 14-27, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Every president in our history has defended this orderly transfer of authority except one. January 6, 2021, was the first time an American president refused his constitutional duty to to transfer power peacefully to the next. … Among the most shameful of this committee's findings was that President Trump sat in the dining room of the Oval Office, watching the violent riot at the Capitol on television. For hours, he would not issue a public statement instructing his supporters to disperse and leave the Capitol. … In addition to being unlawful, as described in our report, this was an utter moral failure and a clear dereliction of duty. … No man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any office of authority in our nation again. He is unfit for any office. Donald Trump portrayed by Liz Cheney © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The beasty is called an American Trump. Its skin is bright orange, its figure is plump; Its fur so complex, you might get enveloped. Its hands are, sadly, underdeveloped. Donald Trump portrayed in A Child's FIrst Book of Trump by Michael Ian Black and Marc Rosenthal © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He has given no evidence of humility or dependence on others, let alone on God his Maker and Judge. He wantonly celebrates strongmen and takes every opportunity to humiliate and demean the vulnerable. He shows no curiosity or capacity to learn. He is, in short, the very embodiment of what the Bible calls a fool. Donald Trump portrayed by the evangelical magazine Christianity Today, October 10, 2016 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald Trump wants you to be angry every day because he’s angry. He wants you to be angry so that you’ll relate to his anger and then to vote for him. Please understand this. I have known him well for 22 years, more  than anybody else in this race has known him, and I can promise you this. If you put him back behind the desk in the Oval Office and the choice comes and the decision is needed to be made as to whether he puts himself first or he puts you first, how much more evidence do you need that he will pick himself? Donald Trump portrayed by Chris Christie Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  I think we see a pretty consistent pattern of him wishing he was a dictator, wishing he could be Putin in America. That’s what's dark to me about it. That's what he really wants. He wants to be a dictator. Donald Trump portrayed by Chris Christie © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's written a lot of books about business. They all seem to end at Chapter 11. Donald Trump portrayed by Hillary Clinton © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. They're racists, sexists, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up. … He cosies up to white supremacists, makes racist attacks, calls women pigs, mocks people with disabilities. You can't make this up. Donald Trump portrayed by Hillary Clinton © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump truly is something new – the first president whose entire political existence hinges on the fact of a black president. And so it will not suffice to say that Trump is a white man like all the others who rose to become president. He must be called by his rightful honorific – America's first white president. Donald Trump portrayed by Ta-Nehisi Coates © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump's legacy will be exposing the patina of decency for what it is and revealing just how much a demagogue can get away with. Donald Trump portrayed by Ta-Nehisi Coates © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He is a racist. He is a con man. And he is a cheat. Donald Trump portrayed by Michael Cohen © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I always knew, you know, who he was and what he was and so on, but it didn't really matter because it's – he's a small microcosm of New York real estate. Donald Trump portrayed by Michael Cohen, who added that it's a “very different” matter to accept that behavior in a president © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He pisses ice water. Donald Trump portrayed by Roy Cohn, his mentor, who Trump refused to visit in the hospital when Cohn way dying from AIDS © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He could be on the course for any reason. We know he loves making fun of people's handicaps. Donald Trump portrayed by Stephen Colbert during comments on White Houses aides who acknowledged that Trump went golfing six times during his first thirty days in office, but refused to admit he played golf each time © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Here's some shocking news: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is officially shutting down. Apparently the circus doesn't think they could compete against a Trump presidency. … What with all the marriages, he does have three rings. Donald Trump portrayed by Stephen Colbert, January 16, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I'm not ready to say that our president is a Russian agent, but I have an agent and he doesn't do much for me as Trump does for Russia. Donald Trump portrayed by Stephen Colbert © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Oh, Stormy, you don't know Donald Trump at all. Not paying people is how he screws them.  Donald Trump portrayed by Stephen Colbert, commenting on Stormy Daniels' statement, “I do remember while we were having sex, I was like, ‘Please, don't try to pay me.’” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot When he can, he tells the truth. When he can't, he talks. Donald Trump portrayed by Stephen Colbert © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Yesterday, Trump signed an order slashing the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase national monuments. Hey, come on – it's reasonable that he doesn't care about them: they're just national monuments; they're not Confederate monuments. Donald Trump portrayed by Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, December 5, 2017, after Trump withdrew protections from two million acres of federal land in Utah sacred to Native Americans to open it up to miners, loggers, oil and gas companies  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It is understandable that Democrats in the House believe they must follow the Constitution and consider an impeachment. It is also a political gamble. Trump is the opposite of a Teflon President; everything sticks to him, and yet he blusters on, unburdened by shame. Donald Trump portrayed by Steve Coll, The New Yorker, November 11, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mr. Trump eats your soul in small bites. Donald Trump portrayed by James Comey © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The silent circle of assent. The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth. Donald Trump portrayed by James Comey as a mob boss © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values.  Donald Trump portrayed by James Comey © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He knows he’s not that smart, he knows he’s not that rich, he knows that he’s not that good. And so, if you go and attack him  for the things he knows he is not deep down, it makes him crazy. Donald Trump portrayed by George Conway © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Shrugging off Mr. Trump’s 2024 candidacy or writing his political obituary is a fool's errand — he endures persecution and eludes prosecution like no other public figure. That could change, of course, though that cat has nine lives. Donald Trump portrayed by Kellyanne Conway, New York Times, January 13, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I don't know why the president tweets out things that are not true. You know he does it, everybody knows he does it, but he does.  Donald Trump portrayed by Bob Corker © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it's a situation of trying to contain him. Donald Trump portrayed by Bob Corker © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Defendant Donald J. Trump a.k.a. David Dennison (“Mr. Trump”) Donald Trump specified by Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit alleging that the nondisclosure agreement requiring her to be quiet about their affair is invalid because he never signed it and his lawyer revealed it to the press © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's undermining the credibility of himself, the courts, Congress, the media. He's a one-person cultural vandal. Donald Trump portrayed by Daniel Dennett © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He gives me the creeps. Donald Trump portrayed by Diana, Princess of Wales © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald Trump, the ultimate “me” guy, is in a “we” crisis and it isn't pretty.  Maureen Dowd, New York Times, March 21, 2020, on his response to COVID-19 coronavirus © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He would rather blow up our democracy than admit he's a loser, and that makes him a traitor. Donald Trump portrayed by Maureen Dowd, New York Times, November 19, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot As a populist Trump is happy to exploit anger; as the Toddler in Chief, howerver he is a slave to his own temper. Donald Trump portrayed by Daniel W. Drezner in The Toddler in Chief © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot There is an abundance of evidence that Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, has the emotional and intellectual range of a misbehaving toddler.  Outside observers, family members, and Trump's biographers have all reached this conclusion. … The reason the staff turnover [at the WHite House] is so high is the same reason turnover is so high at a daycare center: the pay is meager compared to what is demanded of employees. Donald Trump portrayed by Daniel W. Drezner in The Toddler in Chief © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I don't think Donald Trump has figured out that he chained himself to the Apostle Paul. Donald Trump portrayed by Ralph Drollinger, the pastor who leads about a dozen evangelical members of Trump's cabinet in weekly Bible studies sessions © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot This is how the Republiican Party has gotten votes for fifty years. Trump is just tearing off the mask. Now he just says right out the racism that was only barely hidden for so long. Donald Trump portrayed by Eric Foner (2016) © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The president has first and foremost his interests at the top of his mind, as opposed to the government's. That's very clear over the past week and a half, between shitting on our NATO allies and kissing Putin's ass. He cares more about himself than the nation and any of us who serve it. Either he's compromised by Putin or he's a pussy, in which case he should grab himself. Donald Trump portrayed by a former CIA analyst quoted by DailyBeast, July 18, 2018, after reports Trump was considering Putin's request to send anti- Putin Americans to Russia for interrogation © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump is, in short, a workingman's plutocrat: a nonbusinessman's idea of what a businessman should be. Donald Trump portrayed in Fortune magazine, April 3, 2000 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald Trump is a “legal alien.” That's right, the man who has spent the last year railing against those dastardly “illegal aliens” supposedly wreaking havoc on our country turns out to be a legal alien – someone born in America but whose values are completely alien to all that has made this country great. Donald Trump portrayed by Thomas L. Friedman New York Times, October 26, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot [E]ither Trump's real estate empire has taken large amounts of money from shady oligarchs linked to the Kremlin – so much that they literally own him; or rumors are true that he engaged in sexual misbehavior while he was in Mos- cow running the Miss Universe contest, which Russian intelligence has on tape and he doesn't want released; or Trump actually believes Russian President Vladimir Putin when he says he is innocent of intervening in our elections over the explicit findings of Trump's own C.I.A., N.S.A. and F.B.I. chiefs. Donald Trump portrayed by Thomas Friedman © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump is a chump. Donald Trump portrayed by Thomas Friedman, referring to his laughable deal-making © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  Trump is susceptible to such giveaways, not only because he is ignorant, but because he does not see himself as the president of the United States. He sees himself as the president of his base. And because that's the only support he has left, he feels the need to keep feeding his base by fulfilling crude, ill-conceived promises he threw out to them during the campaign. Donald Trump portrayed by Thomas Friedman, referring to Trump's having given China and Israel what they wanted most (scrapping TPP and recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital) while getting nothing in return © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  He loved nobody and nobody loved him. Donald Trump portrayed by David Frum © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The rooster who took credit for the sunrise was outraged to be blamed for the sunset. Donald Trump portrayed by David Frum © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump loves nobody and has no sense of tomorrow.  Like an animal, he lives only in the present. Yet even an animal will avoid fouling the place in which it lives and sleeps. Trump cannot even meet that test. Donald Trump portrayed by David Frum © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump's superpower is his absolute shamelessness. He steals in plain view. He accepts bribes in a hotel located smack in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue. His supporters do not object. His party in Congress is acquiescent. Donald Trump portrayed by David Frum © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The worst human being ever to enter the presidency, and I include all the slaveholders. Donald Trump portrayed by David Frum, 8:06 AM – Jan 20, 2017 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He means it when he calls himself a dealmaker. The mistake is to assume that he is a tough one. Donald Trump portrayed by Janan Ganesh, October 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He still has more than two years in which to attract more suspicions of wrongdoing. Counting in Mr Trump's favour is the fact that he never relied on a good name to win votes. Donald Trump portrayed by Janan Ganesh, August 23, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot His life-long idée fixe – that every exchange creates a winner and a loser – is the germ of economic nationalism. Donald Trump portrayed by Janan Ganesh © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The kindest interpretation is that Mr Trump has a sort of anti-talent for recruitment. Donald Trump portrayed by Janan Ganesh © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Nothing in his presidency became him less than his leaving of it. Donald Trump portrayed by Janan Ganesh, January 5, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot What Mr Trump has in common with Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, is less ideology than a bone-deep aversion to being disliked. Tellingly, their nationalism tends not to appeal to duty and sacrifice as much as a can-do bullishness. It makes them both world-class boosters. And reluctant bearers of bad news. Donald Trump portrayed by Janan Ganesh, March 25, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump does much more than appeal to emotion. He insists that, in politics, emotion is all there is.  He interprets liberty as freedom from facts. More than a year after Trump lost the 2020 election, one of his voters was  asked why he continued to doubt the defeat. His reply: “It didn't smell right.” Donald Trump portrayed by Megan Garber, The Atlantic, January/February 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald Trump is the grizzly bear in The Revenant. If you get his attention, he will get awake. He will walk over, bite your face off, and sit on you. Donald Trump portrayed by Newt Gingrich © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot [S]leeping with a porn star while your wife has a new baby,  then paying the porn star to be quiet? That's what everyone expects of this president. Donald Trump portrayed by Michelle Goldberg © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He needs two separate cars, one for himself and one for his hair. Donald Trump portrayed by Laura Ingraham © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He doesn't believe he did anything wrong with the Russians and I tend to believe him. He can't collude with his own government. Why do you think he is colluding with the Russians? Donald Trump portrayed by Lindsey Graham © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot For Mr. Trump, every day is an hour-by-hour  battle for self-preservation. … Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals. Donald Trump, portrayed by Maggie Haberman, Glenn Thrush and Peter Baker New York Times, December 9, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people, so let’s be clear about that, and clearly he is having a very difficult time processing that, but we cannot afford to have a President of the United States who attempts, as he did in the past, to upend the will of the voters in a free and fair election. Donald Trump portrayed by Kamala Harris © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot In those roles [prosecutor, district attorney, and state attorney general] I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type. Donald Trump portrayed by Kamala Harris © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He lies like a woodpecker attacks a tree: compulsively, insistently, instinctively. Donald Trump portrayed by Chris Hayes © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot President Trump has a magnetic personality  and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him. He has an unparalleled ability to communicate with people, whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000. He has built great relationships throughout his life and treats everyone with respect. He is brilliant with a great sense of humor … and an amazing ability to make people feel special and aspire to be more than they even thought possible. Donald Trump portrayed by Hope Hicks, White House spokeswoman and Trump groupie © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I believe President Trump's decision to cut funding to WHO in the middle of a global pandemic constituted a crime against humanity. Donald Trump portrayed by Richard Horton in The COVID-19 Catastrophe  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot For someone who is head of a party that's all about government backing off, he's very much for telling people what to think, what to watch, who shouldn't be speaking out –he's very authoritarian. The rule of law is his  law, which I find quite menacing. Donald Trump portrayed by Armando Iannucci © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He hates the press, and yet cannot live without it. It is his oxygen; it is what keeps him alive, emotionally and politically.  Donald Trump portrayed by Marvin Kalb © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot With all due respect to the office you hold, Mr. President, the “enemy of the people” is not the press. It is you. Donald Trump portrayed by Marvin Kalb © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump is no feeble martyr. He is something altogether more “based” — to borrow the internet slang-word for someone who is respected for paying no regard to political correctness or even basic morality. Trump is the ultimate American anti-hero. Donald Trump portrayed by Jemima Kelly, Financial Times, September 3, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's an idiot. It's pointless to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off the rails. We're in crazytown. Donald Trump portrayed by John F. Kelly © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He has no sense of decency. He has a dark heart. Donald Trump portrayed by Khizr Khan © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You have sacrificed nothing and no one. Donald Trump portrayed by Khizr Khan, father of Army Captain Humayun Khan, killed in Iraq while protecting his troops © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I’m genuinely surprised how people close to Trump haven’t talked about the odor. It’s truly something to behold. Wear a mask if you can. Donald Trump portrayed by Adam Kinzinger, 9:15 AM – Dec 16, 2023 [This is some old news. Back in 1988, Spy Magazine described Trump as “Donald ‘Stinky’ Trump”] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  He doesn't even care who he pisses off. He just sends out a tweet so that he controls the news cycle. Sometimes, guys? You ignore him. Donald Trump portrayed by Amy Klobuchar, talking to reporters © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Greedy, greedy, greedy — — — — — Piggy, piggy, piggy Donald Trump portrayed by Ed Koch, after Trump asked for tax breaks for building in Manhattan during boom times © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  No one can go as low as the president. You shouldn’t even try. Donald Trump portrayed by Jared Kushner © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Amoral . applause-seeking . Belligerent . bo astful . bullshitting . Chin-jutting . cocksure . crass . cruel . Delusional . demagogic . divi sive . draft-evading . Ego-centric . erratic . F act-free . faithless .  fraudulent . friendless . Gauche . greedy .  Heedless . hypocritical . I gnorant . impulsive . inconsiderate . insultin g . irresponsible . Jealous . joyless . Knavish .  Litigious . lying  .  Mean-spirited . miserly . Narcisstic . narrow-minded . Offensive . Pee vish  .  petty .  philandering . phony . pompo us . prattling . Quarrelsome  .  Racist . rash . remorseless . rudderless . Self-serving . sex ist . sociopathic . Thin-skinned . transaction al . Uncharitable .  ungrateful . unprepared . unscrupulous . unshameable . unrepentant . untrustworthy . Vain  .  vulgar  . Warmonger ing . witless . Xenophobic . Yuge  . Zigzaggy Donald Trump portrayed by Rudyard Kwipler © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Having never served his country before being elected President, he chose to serve his family instead. Donald Trump portrayed by Rudyard Kwipler © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's the cold sore on America's lips Donald Trump portrayed by Rudyard Kwipler © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's everything you never wanted your kids to be Donald Trump portrayed by Rudyard Kwipler © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's proof that even if you don't grow up, you can still become President of the United States  Donald Trump portrayed by Rudyard Kwipler © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The Pied Piper of hamlet America Donald Trump portrayed by Rudyard Kwipler © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The guy won't pay and he won't listen. Donald Trump portrayed by a lawyer explaining why he turned down a request from the White House to represent President Trump in the ongoing Russia probe © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Everybody says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don't. Donald Trump portrayed by Fran Lebowitz © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He might be strutting around like a peacock today,  but he's gonna be a feather duster tomorrow. Donald Trump portrayed by Samuel J. Lefrak © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The characteristics of Trump's leadership, blazingly evident during the first three years of his presidency, had deadly ramifications in his final year. He displayed his ignorance, his rash temper, his pettiness and pique, his malice and cruelty, his utter absence of empathy, his narcissism, his transgressive personality, his disloyalty, his sense of victmhood, his addiction to television, his suspicion and silencing of experts, and his deception and lies. Each trait thwarted the response of the world's most powerful nation to a lethal threat. Donald Trump portrayed by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker in I Alone Can Fix It © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot This wss one of the traits that had led Trump to the White House on full display: his extraordinary capacity to say things that were not true. He always seemed to to have complete conviction in whatever product he was selling or argument he was making. He had an uncanny ability to say with a straight face, things that are not as you've been told or even as you've seen with your own eyes. He could commit to a lie in the frame of his body and in the timbre of his voice so fully, despite all statistical and even video evidence to the contrary. Donald Trump portrayed by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker in I Alone Can Fix It © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump, even before his inauguration, tested positive on all four measures on our litmus test for autocrats [authoritarians]. Donald Trump portrayed by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president. I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hill Clinton. Donald Trump portrayed by John Lewis © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Are they “laughing their asses off” in Moscow, as Mr Trump tweeted last weekend? They ought to be. America's president is a gift that keeps on giving. Donald Trump portrayed by Edward Luce Financial Times, February 22, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald Trump has altered what it means to run for high office. No White House contender ever came near his blend of fantasy and falsehood. He won all the same. He may well do so again. The least bad thing you could say about Mr Trump's fabulism is that he paid no price for it. But the truth is uglier: it may well have brought him victory. Donald Trump portrayed by Edward Luce in Financial Times, March 21, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Flattery gets you everywhere with Donald Trump. But only while it lasts. … The law of diminishing returns applies to favors already bestowed. At a certain point, the ratio of Trump flattery to loss of self-respect would be too high. Donald Trump portrayed by Edward Luce © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  He altered the nature of American politics by making it an all or nothing battle in which winning was the only goal, no matter what the outcome. Donald Trump portrayed by Edward Luce Financial Times, August 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He is the Houdini of bankruptcy court. Donald Trump portrayed by Edward Luce Financial Times, March 30, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It is easy to mock those who think he “tells it like it is.” What they mean is that he speaks plainly. Even when he lies, Mr Trump's meaning is easy to grasp. Donald Trump portrayed by Edward Luce Financial Times, March 8, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It is often tempting to think Donald Trump can do no worse. Yet he keeps finding that extra mile. Donald Trump portrayed by Edward Luce © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mr Trump is everywhere at all times. If you measure a presidency by media saturation, Mr Trump is already on his fourth term. Donald Trump portrayed by Edward Luce in Financial Times, July 25, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mr Xi [Jinping] holds a telescope. Mr Trump stares at the mirror. Donald Trump portrayed by Edward Luce © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Somewhere in our bourgeois subconscious is the  realisation that Mr Trump is no accident. He holds up a cracked mirror to our illusions. When we mock him, he draws strength. When he provokes, we stumble. Yet we cannot help ourselves. He is deeply outrageous. Donald Trump portrayed by Edward Luce © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump will operate as a kind of Ku Klux Kardashian, combining hard-right pubilism with the best of postmodern vaudeville. Donald Trump portrayed by Edward Luce © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot We need Mr Trump just as he needs us. It is a ghastly symbiosis. Without Mr Trump, there would be no distraction. We might be forced to examine whether we live up to our own values. Do we love the highly educated? Do they deserve by virtue of credentials to be celebrated? Or should we revisit what we mean by a fair society? Donald Trump portrayed by Edward Luce Financial Times, February 8, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The simple truth is, the more provocative his language, the deeper and more passionate his support. Donald Trump portrayed by Frank Luntz, pollster © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Blob the Builder Donald Trump portrayed by Bill Maher © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The first guy ever to pay a porn star to shut her mouth. Donald Trump portrayed by Bill Maher Real Time with Bill Maher, March 24, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's the only man ever to pay a porn star to keep her mouth shut.  Donald Trump portrayed by Bill Maher © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He's the white Kanye West. Donald Trump portrayed by Bill Maher © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  Trump didn't survive the attempt on his life because of divine intervention. He survived because a virgin couldn't hit the fattest president since Taft. And again, make no mistake. I'm glad he couldn't. But Trump is alive because he is the single luckiest motherfucker that ever lived. His whole life is a string of you-gotta-be-fucking-kidding-me. Donald Trump portrayed by Bill Maher © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I don't think Trump hates Jews. There are too many rich ones. Donald Trump portrayed by Bill Maher © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  I'm not saying Trump is Hitler. Hitler volunteered for the army. Donald Trump portrayed by Bill Maher © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I wouldn't be surprised if you nicknamed your penis Mike Pence because it's not hung like it should be. Donald Trump portrayed by Bill Maher Real Time with Bill Maher, November 11, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Illiteracy isn't Trump's shame. It's his bond with us, a sub-literate president for a sub-literate country. Donald Trump portrayed by Bill Maher © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The only time corruption bothers Donald Trump is when he's not in on it. Donald Trump portrayed by Bill Maher © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Some politicians don't answer the question. Mr. Trump can't answer the question. Donald Trump portrayed by Henry Mance, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I earned my spurs on the battlefield … and Donald Trump earned his spurs in a letter from a doctor. Donald Trump portrayed by Jim Mattis © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Most candidates want to win the election so that they can become president, but it seems like Donald Trump wanted to become president so that he could win the election. It's all about winning, but even now that he's won he can't seem to let go of the fight. Donald Trump portrayed by Dan P. McAdams © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot There is very little by way of a narrative arc to Trump's consciousness. Instead, he lives in the angry contractual moment, moment to moment, deal-making scene to deal-making scene, episodic – more like an episode of Seinfeld than a feature-length movie. The goal for each moment is to win the moment. And that is it. There is no story- line beyond beyond winning the moment. There is no overarching moral narrative of atonement or liberation or progress. There is no valued end state toward which you and the people you lead strive in the long term. Donald Trump portrayed by Dan P. McAdams © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot There's a lot less behind the mask than you expect. Donald Trump portrayed by Dan P. McAdams © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A despicable human being. Donald Trump portrayed by Mitch McConnell © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  Donald Trump, if we're going to be honest, is a progressive. Donald Trump portrayed by Kayleigh McEnany © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot This guy's the president and he doesn't even know basic geography. If you said “Bangladesh” to Trump, he'd go, "Why? Is Ladesh hot?" Donald Trump portrayed by Seth Meyers, Late Night with Seth Meyers, February 6, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The big idea about Trump was that he was talking plain and telling it like it is, even though he was lying all the time. It was authentic lying. Donald Trump portrayed by Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign manager © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I expect the president to lie to the American people. Why do I expect this? Because he has been lying to the American people. Donald Trump portrayed Jerrold Nadler, House Judiciary Committee Chairman, before Trump's January 9, 2019, Oval Office address to the nation about the southern border wall  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Dr. [Allen] Frances, author of “Twilight of American Sanity: A Psy-  chiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump,” said the president's bad behavior should not be blamed on mental illness. “He is definitely unstable,” Dr. Frances said. “He is definitely impulsive. He is world-class narcissistic not just for our day but for the ages. You can't say enough about how incompetent and unqualified he is to be leader of the free world. But that does not make him mentally ill.” Donald Trump portrayed by The New York Times, January 6, 2018  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mr. Trump rarely tweets in front of others, those close to him say, because he does not like to wear the reading glasses he needs he needs to see the screen. Donald Trump, portrayed by the New York Times, November 2, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The president's primary problem as a leader is not that he is impetuous, brash or naive. It's not that he is inexperienced, crude, an outsider. It is that he is weak and sniveling. It is that he undermines himself almost daily by ignoring traditional norms and forms of American masculinity. He's not strong and self-controlled, not cool and tough, not low-keyed and determined: he's whiny, weepy and self-pitying. He throws himself, sobbing, on the body politic. He's a drama queen. Donald Trump portrayed by Peggy Noonan © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't. And the consequences of that failure are severe. Donald Trump portrayed by Barack Obama © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He is not normal. He is abnormal. He's a human what-is-wrong-with-this-picture. Donald Trump portrayed by John Oliver © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A Klan-backed misogynist internet troll is going to be delivering the next state of the union address, and that is not normal. Donald Trump portrayed by John Oliver, November 15, 2016  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Someone who's always acted like the most powerful man in the world has now actually become the most powerful man in the world. Donald Trump portrayed by John Oliver © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump is basically the propagandist of Putin's dreams, and who knows why  he's  acting  this  way. Maybe he's compromised. Maybe he's an idiot. Donald Trump portrayed by John Oliver © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A little shit. Donald Trump portrayed by one of his elementary school teachers quoted by Daniel W. Drezner in The Toddler in Chief  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  If lying was his means for using power, corruption was his end. Donald Trump portrayed by George Packer © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Throughout his adult life, Trump has been hostile to Black people, contemptuous of women, vicious about immigrants from poor countries, and cruel toward the weak. He's an equal-opportunity bigot. Donald Trump portrayed by George Packer © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He, as he builds things, he builds big things. Things that touch the sky. Donald Trump portrayed by Sarah Palin © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He is the master of the art of the dill. Donald Trump portrayed by Sarah Palin © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I don't want to see him impeached. I want to see him in prison. Donald Trump portrayed by Nancy Pelosi, June 4, 2019 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I'm the mother of five, grandmother of nine. I know a temper tantrum when I see one. Donald Trump portrayed by Nancy Pelosi after he walked out of a meeting with her © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump is a weak man's idea of a strong one. Donald Trump portrayed by Drew Philp © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Religion has been as much in evidence in Donald Trump's public life as vegetables have been. Donald Trump portrayed by Charles P. Pierce © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He was able to get elected on an ideology where you don’t redistribute between the rich and the poor but rather you protect Americans, especially white male Ameri- cans, against anybody who looks foreign. The risk is that neoliberalism is replaced by this form of neo-nationalism in order to avoid redistribution. Donald Trump portrayed by Thomas Piketty, New York Times, April 1, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Полезная идиома Donald Trump portrayed by Vladimir Putin © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mr Trump … is in a different category of dishonesty from the villains of yesteryear, such as Dick Cheney, George W Bush's vice-president. With Mr Trump, the lies are so frequent and so flagrant that they are undeniable. Donald Trump portrayed by Gideon Rachman © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mr. Trump sprays out lies like a skunk trying to repel its enemies. Donald Trump portrayed by Gideon Rachman © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot When Donald Trump described himself as a “very stable genius”, even some of his supporters sniggered. … Mr Trump has a legitimate claim to three other kinds of “genius”: political genius, instinctive genius and evil genius. Moral disgust with Mr Trump means that his opponents are reluctant to credit him with any kind of intelligence or success. But that kind of thinking, while under- standable, is also dangerous. It is one reason why the president frequently wrongfoots his opponents. Donald Trump portrayed by Gideon Rachman © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot By 2044 whites will be a minority in the US. They sense this, they feel fearful, and that is why Donald Trump is their symbol, the man who will keep the “others” out. But that's not the future. Trump will be the last person to seek the presidency with only the white vote. Donald Trump portrayed by Jorge Ramos © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump doesn't just cheat at golf. He cheats like a three-card Monte dealer. He throws it, boots it, and moves it. He lies about his lies. He fudges and foozles and fluffs. At Winged Foot where Trump is a member, the caddies got so used to seeing him kick his ball back onto the fairway they came up with a nickname for him: “Pele.” Donald Trump portrayed by Rick Reilly © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump's nose has grown so long he could putt with it. Donald Trump portrayed by Rick Reilly © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Future scholars will sift through Trump's digital proclamations the way we now read the chroniclers of Nero's Rome–to understand how an unhinged emperor can make a mockery of republican institutions, undo the collective nervous system of a country, and degrade the whole of public life. Donald Trump portrayed by David Remnick in The New Yorker, January 15, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The President of the United States has become a leading security threat to the United States. Donald Trump portrayed by David Remnick in The New Yorker, January 15, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Agent Orange  Donald Trump portrayed by Busta Rhymes © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald Trump proves daily that there is no longer any penalty for doing wrong as long as you deny everything, never say you’re sorry, and have co-conspirators stashed in powerful places to put the fix in. Donald Trump portrayed by Frank Rich © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot This president, perhaps more than any of his modern predecessors, encourages flattery. He likes it, he expects it, and he seems ot eat it up. Donald Trump portrayed by Roxanne Roberts © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He is our native 9/11. Donald Trump portrayed by Corey Robin © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The Trumps are a special problem, unembarrassed money-grubbers in whom other motives seem undeveloped. Donald, Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka Trump portrayed by Marilynne Robinson © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. Donald Trump portrayed by Mitt Romney © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He is an unbelievable politician. Donald Trump portrayed by Anthony Scaramucci, White House Communications Director © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot This president, he's like a planetary object. He warps time. And things that you think happened a couple weeks ago, it turns out, only happened a day or two ago. Donald Trump portrayed by Adam Schiff © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He wears you down. Donald Trump portrayed by Tony Schwartz, ghostwriter of Trump: The Art of the Deal © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I can say, with great confidence, that Donald Trump has not read a book other than those written for him in his adult life. Donald Trump portrayed by Tony Schwartz, ghostwriter of Trump: The Art of the Deal, which Trump calls his second favorite book of all time, after the Bible © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot This man needs help. Donald Trump portrayed by Brent Scowcroft, who, being a diplomat and not a psychologist, was presumably referring to Trump's lack of foreign policy experience © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump lost his moral compass when he made an alliance with Roy Cohn. Donald Trump portrayed by Liz Smith © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He himself is  a political fiction. What do I mean by that? I mean, there is no such person, as far as we know, anyway, as Donald Trump, successful businessman. That is a political fiction that has been brought to us. Donald Trump portrayed by Timothy Snyder © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot His vision never went further than a mirror. Donald Trump portrayed by Timothy Snyder © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It is true that all presidents lie: the difference is that for Trump, telling the truth was the exception. Donald Trump portrayed by Timothy Snyder © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The way that Mr Trump worked was as a fictional character. There is no Mr Trump, successful buinessman. That person never walked the earth. There is Mr Trump, successful entertainer. There is Mr Trump, purveyor of spectacle. And in 2015 and well into 2016, this was very attractive to the major television networks. Today, Mr. Trump complains unceasingly about them and says they're sources of “fake news” and so on, but, if it weren't for the couple billion of dollars in free coverage that they gave him in 2015 and 2016, he never would have had a chance. Donald Trump portrayed by Timothy Snyder in 2017 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I would bring Donald Trump to our CEO summit years ago and the top tier CEOs would say “Don't bring him in here. We don't consider him a top CEO.” Donald Trump portrayed by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He lives in the 1950s. In those days, things were made in one country – usually America – and then sold in another – preferably just about everywhere else. The modern world of bits and pieces, with components and semi-finished products moving to and fro across borders, does not fit the president's template. Donald Trump portrayed by Philip Stephens © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot There is nothing strange or unexpected about Donald Trump. He is the logical conclusion of what the Republican Party became over the last fifty or so years, a natural product of the seeds of race, self-deception, and anger that became the essense of the Republican Party. Trump isn't an aberration of the Republican Party; he is  the Republican Party in a purfied form. Donald Trump portrayed by Stuart Stevens © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot When you make political ads, half the fun is wondering if the other guy will be dumb enough to take the bait. Trump never disappoints. That dog chases every car. Donald Trump portrayed by Stuart Stevens, 9:51 PM - May 24, 2020, commenting on Trump's angry tweet about a Biden ad showing him socially distancing by playing golf during a pandemic © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot In Trump,  the age of unreason has at last found its hero. The “self-made man” is always the idol of those who aren’t quite making it.  He is the sacred embodiment of the American dream, the guy who answers to nobody, the poor man's idea of a rich man. It's the educated phonies this group can't stand. With his utter lack of policy knowledge and belligerent commitment to maintaining his ignorance, Trump is the perfect represen- tative for a population whose idea of good  governance is just to scramble the eggheads. When reason becomes the enemy of the common man, the common man becomes the enemy of reason. Donald Trump portrayed by Matthew Stewart © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot We may have our first post-rational president. Mr Trump has rejected the view of modern science on global climate change, has embraced economic forecasts and trade theories outside the range of reputable opinion, and relied on the idea of alternative facts rather than evidence-based truth. Donald Trump portrayed by Lawrence Summers © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A fucking moron. Donald Trump portrayed by Rex Tillerson © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized. Donald Trump portrayed by Alair Townsend, former New York City deputy mayor © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You just love your money. Donald Trump portrayed by Donald Trump, Jr. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He has told me he can't be sexually attracted to a woman who has had children. Donald Trump portrayed by Ivana Trump, with whom he had three children before replacing her with Marla Maples © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald today 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 and synthesize information. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump in Too Much and Never Enough  [2020] © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald was the Republican Party without the pretense. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump in The Reckoning  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald was to my grandfather  what the border wall has been for Donald: a vanity project funded at the expense of more worthy pursuits. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump in Too Much and Never Enough  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald's ego has been and is a fragile and inadequte barrier between him and the real world, which, thanks to his father's money and power, he never had to negotiate by himself. Donald has always needed to perpetuate the fiction my gandfather started that he is strong, smart, and otherwise extraordinary, because facing the truth — that he is none of those things — is too terrifying for him to contemplate. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump in Too Much and Never Enough  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot 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, essentally institutionalized. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump in Too Much and Never Enough  [2020] © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He can never escape the fact that he is and always will be a terrified little boy. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump in Too Much and Never Enough  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I think he is a fucking loser. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump, after being sued for helping the New York Times report on his long history of tax dodging © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The only thing that matters to him is saving his own skin. He is the kind of man who, if he feels he is going down, he's going to take all of us down with him. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The Defendant Donald Trump portrayed throughout United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He can't afford to lose Fox, because it's all he's got. Donald Trump portrayed by an unnamed former Fox host quoted by Jane Mayer in The New Yorker, March 8, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He thinks, “Just get me in the room with the guy [Kim Jong-un] and I'll figure it out.” Donald Trump portrayed by an unnamed source who discussed North Korea with Trump; quoted by Axios, April 19, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot A president who'd all but call a senator a whore is unfit to clean toilets in Obama's presidential library or to shine George W. Bush's shoes: Our view Donald Trump portrayed by USA Today, December 12, 2017, editorial about Trump's tweet that Kirsten Gillibrand “would do anyting for contributions” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot What Trump is is just another opioid. Donald Trump portrayed by J.D. Vance © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If somebody loved him, they'd give him a pet. Donald Trump portrayed by Nicole Wallace © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  Donald doesn't do due diligence. Donald Trump portrayed by Abe Wallach, a former Trump Organization official © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Spanky. Donald Trump nicknamed by Washington insiders  after revelations about his sexual proclivities by Stormy Daniels in a 60 Minutes  interview © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Anyone who goes into the orbit of the former president is virtually doomed. Because saying no to Trump is like spitting into a raging headwind. It was not just Mission Impossible; it was Mission Self-Destruction. Donald Trump portrayed by Jack Watson, Jimmy Carter’s former chief of staff © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Kids lie without any real strategy. That's why Trump seems so much like a toddler sometimes. His tendency to lie, when it's clearly a lie, is something small children do. They also bully and take toys from each other. It's something you're supposed to grow out of by the time you're 70. Donald Trump portrayed by Olivia Wilde © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He only cares about self-gratification and self-glorification. His towering ego is his only ideal. Donald Trump portrayed by Sean Wilentz © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He has an advantage over me because he can say everything he knows about any subject in 140 characters and I can't. Donald Trump portrayed by George F. Will © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump is what he is, a floundering, inarticulate jumble of gnawing insecurities  and not-at-all compensating vanities, which is pathetic. Donald Trump portrayed by George F. Will © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The leader of the world's most powerful country is a dangerous ignoramus. Donald Trump portrayed by Martin Wolf © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mr Trump is the logical outcome of a politics that serves the interests of the plutocracy. He gives the rich what they desire, while offering the nationalism and protectionism wanted by the Republican base. It is a brilliant (albeit unplanned) combination, embodied in a charismatic personality that offers validation to his most passionate supporters. Will Trump's protectionism do many in his base any good? No. But, in their eyes, he is a real leader, at last. Donald Trump portrayed by Martin Wolf © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mr Trump has the attention span of a goldfish. Mrs. Clinton, meanwhile, has the memory of an elephant. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton portrayed by Edward Luce © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot This is my diplomatic way of saying it: They’re misogynistic pigs. Donald Trump and J. D. Vance portrayed by Liz Cheney © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It’s not good. The best way to describe it… take armpits, ketchup, a butt and makeup and put that all in a blender and bottle that as a cologne. Donald Trump's body odor portrayed by Adam Kinzinger © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Both market bullying as bravery. Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson portrayed by Frank Bruni © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Look at these people. It's literally a little bit sad. Donald Trump fans pursuing his limo portrayed by Donald Trump  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV. Donald Trump, Jr. portrayed by Steve Bannon discussing Robert Mueller's investigation into contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia and Jr.'s meeting with Russians offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton [quoted by Michael Wolff in Fire and Fury ] © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot My son is a high-quality person and I applaud his transparency.  Donald Trump, Jr. portrayed by Donald Trump after Jr. released emails proving the Trump campaign's williingness to collude with the Russian government to defeat Hillary Clinton © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower on the 25th floor – with no lawyers. They didn't have any lawyers. Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad shit, and I happen to think it's all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately. Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort portrayed by Steve Bannon in a quotation from Fire and Fury, by Michael Wolff, about their meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who promised them damaging information about Hillary Clinton s © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It's like a weird bid to prove how tough they are, and I mean, how tough is it to kill an elephant? I don't think it's very difficult when you have a bazooka. Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump,  mucho macho big-game hunters, portrayed by Mary Trump, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Tailgating in parking lots. Vendors selling Hillary Sucks But Not Like Monica shirts. General awfulness. Donald Trump rally, Greensboro, North Carolina, June 14, 2016, portrayed by Jared Yates Sexton in a live tweet that triggered death threats against him © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot On my honor I will do my best To serve myself And screw the rest. Donald Trump's Boy Scout Oath portrayed by cartoonist Tom Toles, February 23, 2020 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I think he got more subpoenas than any man in the history of our country. Eric Trump portrayed by Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She moves slowly. Her face seems almost frozen by cosmetic intervention. Ivana Trump portrayed by Michael D'Antonio in Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot There's no corner of the world or cranny of existence that isn't enhanced by her presence. That was the joke in a Zelig-inspired, Gump-reminiscent meme that exploded in tweets over the past few days. Look: There's Ivanka between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee at Appomattox. And here's Ivanka teaming with Jonas Salk to develop the polio vaccine. She stretches out in bed with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. She peeks through a window in the background of the painting “American Gothic.” Ivanka Trump portrayed by Frank Bruni, July 2, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot This week, America's self-named First Daughter urged America's almost 30m unemployed to “find something new”. Learn another skill, Ms Trump advised. Look for a different job. … No one wants to hear they are to blame for being unemployed. … As a benchmark of disconnectedness, Marie Antoinette could hardly have done better. … It would be tempting to treat Ms Trump's “find something new” campaign as a Freudian slip about her father's job. Ivanka Trump portrayed by Edward Luce, July 16, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I don't think Ivanka would do that [pose for nude photographs] inside the magazine [Playboy], although she does have a very nice figure. I've said that if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I would be dating her. Ivanka Trump portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Just like me, she wants no credit. Ivanka Trump portrayed by Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot They have no respect for him, indeed they seem to palpitate with contempt for him, and to regard their mission as equivalent to being stewards for a syphilitc emperor. Trump White House staff members portrayed by Ross Douthat, New York Times, May 6, 2017 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Holy shit, Mary. You're stacked. Mary L. Trump, then aged 29, portrayed by her uncle Donald, then aged 48 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If Donald Trump gets up and tells them that, “I didn’t know there’s a moon that circles the earth,” they’d believe it. Trump's supporters portrayed by Michael Steele, former RNC Chair © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot They're fucking crazy. Trump's supporters portrayed by Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He refused to debate before his primary and general elections, and it's a good thing because he could lose a game of tic tac toe to a St. Bernard.  Tommy's a model of today's constitutional conservative who has absolutely no idea of what's in the Constitution.  He got wrong the answer to the question, What are the three branches of our government? Strippers can get this one. I know. I've asked. Tommy Tuberville portrayed by Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Jan. 20, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  The apex predator of corporate influence, red in tooth and claw. United States Chamber of Commerce portrayed by Sheldon Whitehouse © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mr. Vanderbilt has no time for dentists, he has to work, work hard and always. Cornelius Vanderbilt portrayed by Billy Wilder, who noticed Vanderbilt's bad teeth while interviewing him for a newspaper © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Warren was the first love interest of the [Democratic] party's grassroots since Obama. Elizabeth Warren portrayed by Joshua Green in Rebels © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She's a three-syllable woman in a one-syllable country. A lot of Americans see a woman with a bunch of plans who seems to know everything making demands for change and they think, I already have a wife. Elizabeth Warren portrayed by Bill Maher © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I hit her too hard, too early. Now it looks like she's finished. Elizabeth Warren portrayed by Donald Trump, March, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Pocohontas Elizabeth Warren portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot In John Wayne's world, John Wayne was supposed to give the orders.  John Wayne portrayed by Joan Didion © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot [He] is just somebody that's very respected. … I knew him only as he pertained, you know, as he was with Jeff Sessions. And, you know, look, as far as I'm concerned this is an investigation  that should have never been brought. It's an illegal investigation. … And you know, it's very interesting because when you talk about not Senate confirmed, well, Mueller's not Senate confirmed. Matthew Whitaker portrayed by Donald Trump, Nov. 14, 2018 [Attorney General Whitaker needs but lacks confirmation; Special Counsels don't need it] © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  [He] made even the most concrete things seem like abstractions. … His mind is like a light which destroys the outlines of what it plays upon; there is much illumination, but you see very little. Woodrow Wilson portrayed by Herbert Croly © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He allowed himself to be closeted, unsupported, unadvised, and alone, with men much sharper than himself, in situations of supreme difficulty. Woodrow Wilson, at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, portrayed by John Maynard Keynes  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If Ms Winfrey  is the answer to Mr Trump, what was the question? Oprah Winfrey portrayed by Edward Luce © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot One of the arguments for Oprah is 45. One of the arguments against Oprah is 45. Oprah Winfrey portrayed by Nancy Pelosi, referring to Donald Trump, America's 45th president  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot His mea culpas are tempered by a refrain that the emergence of those problems, [disinformation, privacy leaks, etc.] and Facebook's inattention as they proliferated, were results of over-optimism rather than complacency or greed. Mark Zuckerberg portrayed by Steven Levy in Facebook: The Inside Story © 2020 Kwiple.com
 
State of the union c Trump's lawyers  don't want him to testify under oath  before special council Robert Mueller because, they say, he's incapable of not lying and not committing perjury  Gist of “In Russia Inquiry, Lawyers Tell  Trump to Refuse Mueller Interview,” New York Times, February 5, 2018  © 2018 Kwiple.com