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Donald Trump

Thursday 28th of March 2024

9/11 After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Mr. Trump lined up a $150,000 grant for one of his buildings near ground zero [a 71-story skyscraper 8 blocks away], taking advantage of a program to help small businesses in the area recover, even though he had acknowledged on the day of the attacks that his building was undamaged. New York Times, Sepatember 17, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
9/11 Nobody’s gotten to the bottom of 9/11, unfortunately. They should have, as to the maniacs that did that horrible thing, to our city, to our country, to the world. So nobody's really been there. But I can tell you that there are a lot of  really great people that are out here today. And we’re going to have a lot of fun and we’re going to celebrate. Donald Trump, July 28, 2022, defending hosting the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Tournament at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey © 2022 Kwiple.com
9/11 They say there is a lot of people watching. I can’t imagine why. Donald Trump, on memorializing the 20th anniversary of 9/11 by watching him and Junior gigging for an undisclosed sum as ringside commentators for a pay-per-view boxing match in Florida between washed up fighters whose combined ages exceeded 100 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2007 financial crisis That's called business, by the way. Donald Trump, responding to the criticism that in 2006 he rooted for the impending financial crisis because it would give him an opportunity to buy real estate cheap © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election And now the gloves are off. The tiny, tiny gloves. Stephen Colbert, on Donald Trump's hiring of Steve Bannon, the ex-head of frothing Breitbart News, as CEO of his presidential campaign © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Fuck the law. I don't give a fuck about the law. I want my fucking money. Shut it down. Donald Trump, reacting to the news that his campaign was paying for its transition team members, as is required by federal law © 2019 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election I had nothing to do with Russia helping me get elected. Donald Trump, 7:57 AM – May 30, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election, if I win. Donald Trump, makig it clear once and for all that he's indisputably a modern Republican by promising to continue their attempts to deligitimize government and the presidency  © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election In a choice between two aging boomers, victory went to the older and less evolved of the two. It's as if, by electing Donald Trump, voters angrily decided, “Enough with all this ‘audacity of hope,’ let's give necrosis a try.” James Wolcott, Vanity Fair, September, 2017 © 2018 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to. Donald Trump, after dozens of leading Republicans withdrew their support for him following the release of a video in which he boasts about grabbing women by their genitals © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election It's a mess — he's going to be subpoenaed [and] deposed. He's a litigation magnet and there's no relief because you're president. The Supreme Court has held that. Donald Trump's plight described by a former chief ethics officer for president George W. Bush, Financial Times, November 3, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Jeff Jarvis @jeffjarvis Hey @Snowden, for context, how long would it take the NSA to dedupe 650k emails? Edward Snowden @Snowden @jeffjarvis Drop non-responsive To:/CC:/BCC:, hash both sets, then subtract those that match. Old laptops could do it in minutes-to-hours. 5:19PM - 6 Nov 2016 Edward Snowden, responding to Jeff Jarvis, debunking Donald Trump's claim it would be impossible for the FBI to review 650,000 Hillary Clinton emails in 8 days, most of which were duplicates © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Make sure you get out and vote on November 28. Donald Trump's slip of the tongue revealing his worries about November 28, 2016, when he is scheduled to appear in court before judge Gonzalo Curiel in a civil suit accusing him of fraud related to Trump University, which is one of 75 civil suits he's facing for actions that took place before the election, from which even presidents are not immune © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Mike looks more like a vice-president — he's out of central casting. Donald Trump's explanation to Chris Christie of why he chose Pence as his running mate instead of him © 2023 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election The president's intense resistance to the assessment of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia systematically interfered in the 2016 campaign – and the blame he cast instead on a rival country – led many of his advisers to think that Putin himself helped spur the idea of Ukraine's culp- ability, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions. One former senior White House official said Trump even stated so explicitly at one point, saying he knew Ukraine was the real culprit because “Putin told me.” Washington Post, December 19, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Putin and Assange win big, aided by FBI, white insurgents, minority disenfranchisement Canadian immigration website crashes after tallying begins Trump will be told bit-by-bit what winners know and want © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election She was asked. … Little bit difficult because of, you know, it's a long ways away. Donald Trump, explaining why Sarah Palin didn't travel from Alaska to the Republican convention in Cleveland, Ohio © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election They came from the valleys, they came from the rivers, they came from the cities, they came from all over, they voted in one of the greatest elections in the history of our country. Donald Trump, March 22, 2018, reminiscing about his 2016 victory © 2019 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election To believe that Trump's presidency came out of nowhere, without warning, is the political version of creationism.  I, on the other hand, believe in devolution. The election of a serially bankrupt, functionally illiterate reality TV host was the logical consequence of the five decades preceding it, which, with apologies to Edith Wharton, I'll call the Age of Ignorance. Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance © 2023 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. ¶ Now some of those folks are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America. … the other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they're just desperate for change. ¶ He seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead- end. Those are people we have to under- stand and empathize with as well. Hillary Clinton © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Trump supporters, from most to least important: Vladimir Putin and his Russian hackers digging/creating dirt on Democrats ↓↓↓ Julian Assange and his Wikileakers distributing Russian-dug/made dirt ↓↓ Stephen Bannon, of Breitbart News, & Sean Hannity, Fox News dumbass, spreading conspiracy theories Uneducated blue-collar whites mistaking Trump for someone who cares for anyone other than himself © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Trump's rebellion was born at the intersection of two toxic American myths, the post-racial society and the classless society. Matt Taibbi © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Were you paid $1,500 to be a thug? Donald Trump, to a black rallier seated near the podium who he ordered to be removed without realizing the man was a supporter who sat up front so he could give Trump a note saying he'd get more black votes if he showed blacks more respect © 2019 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election What I'm saying is that I will tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense. O.K.? Donald Trump, when asked, if he were to lose the election, would he accept the results and concede to assist a peaceful transition of power © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election What the geographic numbers do show is that the specific subset of Mr Trump's voters that won him the election – those in counties where he outperformed Mr Romney by large margins – live in communities that are literally dying. Even if Mr Trump's policies are unlikely to alleviate their plight, it is not hard to understand why they voted for change. Economist, November 19, 2016, commenting on the fact that an index of public-health statistics pertaining to life expectancy and the prevalence of diabetes, heavy drinking and obesity is an even better predictor of a county's change from 2012 to 2016 in the share of eligible voters that voted Republican than the % of non-college whites © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics! Donald Trump, Hispanic outreach on Twitter, May 5, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries He deserved it. Next time, we might have to kill him. John McGraw, who sucker-punched a protester at a Trump campaign rally in Fayetteville, NC © 2016 Kwiple.com
o 2016 Presidential primaries I think you'd have riots. Donald Trump, when asked by a reporter what he thought would happen if he went to the Republican convention with a few delegates short of the number needed to win the nomination outright and didn't end up the party's nominee © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries Jeb Bush's campaign never bought JebBush.com so its owner redirected it to Donald Trump's website © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries Presidential? They were menopausal. Bill Maher, on Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio & Donald Trump braying at each other during the televised Feb. 25, 2016, presidential primary debate  © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries This is a strange election, isn't it? Man! You stab somebody and the newspapers say you didn't do it. And you say, “Yes, I did. I did it.” “No, you didn't.” “Yes, I did! I stabbed him and it hit the belt.” Donald Trump, on Ben Carson's insistence that, as a child, he tried to stab a classmate with a knife © 2015 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries Trump Digs Coal Sign worn by unemployed West Virginia coal miners at a Charleston rally for Donald Trump, who promised to re-open closed mines  © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries You wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about. Donald Trump, when asked about the Ku Klux Klan after former Grand Wizard David Duke told Klansmen to support Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
2018 midterm elections As long as I campaign and/or support Senate and House candidates (within reason), they will win! I LOVE the people, & they certainly seem to like the job I'm doing. If I find the time, in between China, Iran, the Economy and much more, which I must, we will have a giant Red Wave! Donald Trump, 8:25 AM – 8 Aug 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
2018 midterm elections I thought it was very close to complete victory. Donald Trump's view of the elections despite losing the majority in the House of Representatives and giving subpoena powers to the Democrats © 2018 Kwiple.com
2018-2019 Government shutdown I will be the one to shut it down. I'm not going to blame you for it. I will take the mantle of shutting down. Donald Trump, December 11, 2018, to Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Shumer, Democratic leaders in the House and Senate © 2018 Kwiple.com
2018-2019 Government shutdown I wish people would read or listen to my words on the Border Wall. It was taking care of millions of people who were getting badly hurt by the shutdown, with the understanding that in 21 days, if no deal is done, it's off to the races! Donald Trump, 4:33 PM – 25 Jan 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Also at 2:24 p.m., knowing the riot was underway and that Vice President Pence was  at the Capitol, President Trump sent this tweet: Mike Pence didn't have have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth! Evidence shows that the 2:24 p.m. tweet immediately precipitated further violence at the Capitol. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election An honorable man receiving the information and advice that Mr.Trump received from his campaign experts and his staff — a man who loved his country more than himself — would have conceded this election. Indeed, we know that a number of President Trump's closest aides urged him to do so. Liz Cheney, June 16, 2022, during the third public hearing of the  Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election At first he feared Joe Biden, then he thought he was a joke, and then the joke was on him.  Olivia Nuzzi, New York, November 6, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election At some point after 3:05 p.m. that afternoon, President Trump's Chief of Staff — and President Trump himself — were informed that someone was shot. That person was Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot at 2:44 p.m. as she and other rioters tried to gain access to the House chamber. There is no indication that this affected the President's state of mind that day, and we found no evidence that the President expressed any remorse that day. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The Defendant's conspiracy to impair, obstruct, and defeat the federal government function through dishonesty, fraud, and deceit included the following manner and means: … false claims of election fraud … fraudulent slates of electors in seven targeted states … attemted to use the power and authority of the Justice  Department to conduct sham election crime inves- tigations and to send a letter to the targeted states that falsely claimed that the Justice Department had identified significant concerns  that may have impacted the election outcome … attempted to enlist the Vice President to use his ceremonial role at the January 6 certification proceeding to fraudulently alter the election re-  sults … convince Members of Congress to further delay the certification based on those claims United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The district court did not err in concluding that the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, constituted an “insurrection.” The district court did not err in concluding that President Trump “engaged in” that insurrection through his personal actions. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Fee-fi-fo-fum, Jack stalks Trump to see if he did something dumb. Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Novwember 19, 2022, on the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate Trump's role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol and in taking classifed documents to Mar-a-Lago © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Get rid of the [mail-in] ballots and we'll have a very peaceful — there won't be a transfer, frankly. There'll be a continuation. Donald Trump © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The Committee's principal concern was that the President actually intended to participate personally in the January 6th efforts at the Capitol, leading the attempt to overturn the election either from inside the House Chamber, from a stage outside the Capitol, or otherwise. The Committee regarded these facts as important because they are relevant to President Trump's intent on January 6th. There is no question from all the evidence assembled that President Trump did have that intent. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election [Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony] Ornato had access to intelligence that suggested violence at the Capitol on January 6th, and it was his job to inform [Chief of Staff Mark] Meadows and Trump of that. Although Ornato told us that he did not recall doing so, the Select Committee found multiple parts of Ornato's testimony questionable.  The Select Committee finds it difficult to believe that neither Meadows nor Ornato told Trump,  as was their job, about the intelligence that was emerging as the January 6th rally approached. … By the time President Trump was preparing to give his speech, he and his advisors knew enough to cancel the rally. And he certainly knew enough to cancel any plans for a march to the Capitol. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election How did President Trump continue to make false allegatons despite all this unequivocal information? Trump sought out those who were not scrupulous with the facts, and were willing to be dishonest. He found a new legal team to assert claims that  his existing advisors and the Justice Department had specifically informed him were false. President Trump's new legal team, headed by Rudolph Giuliani, and their allies ultimately lost  dozens of lawsuits in Federal and state courts. … Indeed, eleven of the judges who ruled against  Donald Trump and his supporters were appointed  by Donald Trump himself. … Not a single witness — nor any combination of witnesses — provided  the Committee with evidence demonstrating that fraud occurred on a scale even remotely close to changing the outcome in any state. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election I don't fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me. Take the fucking mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here. Let the people in. Take the fucking mags away. Donald Trump, on January 6, 2021, in the tent before going on stage to speak at his rally in the Ellipse park between the White House and Constitution Avenue, angry at learning the park was half empty because many supporters refused to enter it after learning that Secret Service agents were scanning for weapons using magnetometers and confiscating those they found © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election I said, “Mike, you have a chance to be Thomas Jefferson or you can be Mike Pence.” He chose to be Mike Pence.  Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election I was somewhat demoralized because I thought, boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has, you know, lost contact with — detached from reality. There was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. William Barr, testimony presented to the Select Committee to Investigate the Attack on the United States Capitol concerning Trump's professed belief in allegations of widespread voter fraud and vote flipping by machines from Dominion Voting Systems, which Barr called “bullshit”  © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election In addition to this plan to create and transmit fake electoral slates, Donald trump as also personally and substantially involved in multiple efforts to pressure State election officias and State legislatures to alter official lawful election results. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election In perhaps the most chilling moment of the hearing, Cheney spoke of former White House officials' testimony about Trump's bloodthirstiness toward his own vice president. “Aware of the rioters' chants to hang Mike Pence, the president responded with this sentiment, quote, ‘Maybe our supporters have the right idea.’ Mike Pence, quote, ‘deserves it.’” Dana Mibank, Washington Post, June 9 2022, on the opening public hearing of the  Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election In short, you were at the center of the first and only effort by any U.S. President to overturnn an election and obstruct the peaceful transfer of power, ultimately culminating in a bloody attack on our own Capitol and on Congress itself. The evidence demonstrates that you knew this activity was illegal and unconstitutional, and also knew that your assertions of fraud were false. But to be clear, even if you now claim that you actually believed your own false election claims, that is not a defense; your subjective belief could not render this conduct justified, execusable, or legal. Subpoena to Trump from the Select Committee © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election In the committee's hearings, we presented evidence of what ultimately became a multi-part plan to overturn the 2020 Presidential election. That evidence has led to an overriding and straight-forward conclusion: the central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed. None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election It is almost impossible for Mr Trump to disappoint people. They never had hopes to dash. … Many others never believed that he or anyone else could, in that tellingly vague aspiration, make America great again. Their vote was more a howl against perceived national decline than a calculated attempt to arrest it. They are not standing over his shoulder with key performance indicators. That would imply some hope in the first place. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, January 1, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election It'll end up being a rigged election or  they will never come out with an outcome. They'll have to do it again and nobody wants that and I don’t want that. Donald Trump bullshitting about mail-in voting to discredit the election in case he loses © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Martha, come up just fast! Fast! Fast! Come on. Quick! You got one minute! One minute, Martha! They don't want to hear this, Martha. Come on. Let's go. Quick, quick, quick, quick. Come on. Let's go! Donald Trump, commanding hitherto sycophantic Arizona Republican Senator Martha McSally, behind in the polls and a woman, to join him on the stage at his October 28, 2020, rally in Goodyear, Arizona, to laughing rally goers  © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election No intelligence collection was apparently performed on President Trump's plans for January 6th, nor was there any analysis performed on what he might do to exacerbate potential violence. … And, on January 4, 2021, another rally organizer texted Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO, that President Trump would “unexpectedly” call on his supporters to march on the Capitol: This stays only between us … it can not get out about the march because I will be in trouble with the national park service and all the agencies but POTUS is going to just call for it “unexpectedly.” January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is rigged. Remember that. It's the only way we're going to lose. Donald Trump, at a rally in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, delegitimizing a Biden presidency, should Biden win in 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election President Trump is wrong: I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone. And, frankly, there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person can choose the American president. Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of the election. Mike Pence, February 4, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election President Trump'a speech inciting the crowd that breached the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not protected by the First Amendment. Anderson v. Griswold, mqjority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The purpose of the conspiracy was to  overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by using knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the federal government function by which those results are collected, counted, and certified. United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Shortly after election day, the Defendant also pursued unlawful means of discounting legitimate votes and subverting the election results. In so doing, the Defendant perpetrated three criminal conspiracies: a. A conspiracy to defraud the United States … b. A conspiracy to corruptly obstruct and impede the January 6 congressional proceeding at which the collected result of the presidential election are counted and certified … c. A conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one's vote counted … United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election  Suburban women, will you please like me? I saved your damn neighborhood, OK? Donald Trump, Johnstown, PA, rally, October 13, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Taking all these facts into account, and based on the breadth of the evidence it has accumulated,  the Committee makes the following criminal refer-  rals to the Department of Justice Special Counsel: I. Obstruction of an Official Proceeding  (18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)) … [Trump, Eastman, others] II. Conspiracy to Defraud the United States (18 U.S.C. § 371) … [Trump, Eastman, Chesebro, Giuliani, Meadows, others] III. Conspiracy to make a False Statement (18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1001) … [witness tampering; Trump, Eastman, Chesebro, fake electors] IV. "Incite," "Assist" or "Aid and Comfort" an Insurrection (18 U.S.C. § 2382) … [Trump] V. Other Conspiracy Statutes (18 U.S.C. §§ 372, 2384) … [individual insurrectionists] VI. Possible violators (18 U.S.C. §§ 1505, 1512)  [Lawyers who may have advised witnesses to lie] January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Testimony obtained by the Committee indicates that President Trump knew about the rioters' anger at Vice President Mike Pence, and indicated something to the effect that “Mike [Pence] deserves it.” January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated, seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. 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
2020 Presidential election United States House of Representatives Reso- lution 503 instructs the Select Committee to  Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol ("Select Committee") to investi- gate the facts, circumstances, and causes of the January 6th attack and issues relating to the peaceful transfer of power. Pursuant to that directive, we have interviewed thousands of wit- nesses, reviewed over a million documents, con- ducted public hearings, and vindicated our right in court against those who have tried to keep relevant information from the Select Committee. As demonstrated in our hearings, we have assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your former appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power. Subpoena to Trump from the Select Committee © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election A Washington Post investigation found that more than a year would pass before prose- cutors and FBI agents jointly embarked on a formal probe of actions directed from the White House to try to steal the election. Even then, the FBI stopped short of identifying the former president as a focus of that investigation. The Justice Department's painstaking approach to investigating Trump can be traced to [Attorney General Merrick] Garland’s desire to turn the page from missteps, bruising attacks and allegations of partisanship in the depart- ment’s recent investigations of both Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election  and Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. Carol D. Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, Washington Post, June 20, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election What I'm asking you to do is just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen. Donald Trump, to acting attorney general Richard Donoghue © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Why aren't you guys fighting harder? Where's my Roy Cohn? Donald Trump, dissatisfied with his campaign managers and lawyers for failing to convince courts he lost because the election was stolen from him © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election You have the hostages, the J6 hostages, I call them. Nobody has been treated ever in history so badly as those people. [Not even John McCain?] You know what they ought to do? They ought to release the J6 hostages; they've suffered enough. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
2022 midterm elections It's crystal, crystal, crystal clear.  We lose with Trump if we stick with Trump. If we dump Trump, we start winning. Paul Ryan, retired Republican Speaker of the House © 2023 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential election A Trump victory is likely to mean at least the temporary suspension of American democracy as we have known it. Robert Kagan, Washington Post, September 23, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential election I like Tucker a lot! I guess I would, I think I say I would. He's got great common sense. Donald Trump,  responding when asked if he would consider Tucker Carlson to be his running mate in 2024 © 2023 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential primaries The Election Code [of Colorado] allows  the Electors to challenge President Trump’s status as a qualified candidate based on Section Three [of the 14th Amendment]. Indeed, the Election Code provides the Electors their only viable means of litigating whether President Trump is disqualified from holding office under Section Three. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential primaries A majority of the Court holds that President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under  Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Colorado Secretary of State to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential primaries [N]othing about the district court's process suggests that President Trump was deprived of notice or opportunity to fully respond to the claim against him or to mount a vigorous defense. If any case suggests that it is not  impossible to “fully litigate a complex constitutional issue within days or weeks,” this is it. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential primaries Rapist Republican Frontrunner Heads Straight to Court After Iowa Win headline, article in The New Republic, January 16, 2024, about Trump flying to New York City after winning the Iowa caucuses to attend a trial to set damages after a jury unanimously decided he had sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and defamed her in 2019, and the judge declared him to be a “rapist” as the term is “commonly understood by most people,” instead of flying to New Hampshire, the site of 2024's second presidential primary © 2024 Kwiple.com
Abortion Know what I like about 16? It’s even. It’s four months. Donald Trump, on why he supports a 16-week nationwide ban on abortion © 2024 Kwiple.com
Abortion [T]here has to be some form of punishment [for the women]. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Abortion Yeah, well, they'll perhaps have to go, they'll have to go to another state. Donald Trump, on what women wanting abortions may have to do after judges he appoints to the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, turning abortion law over to the states © 2016 Kwiple.com
Abortion You can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month, on the final day. Donald Trump, describing what doesn't happen even in cases of late term abortion under current abortion laws © 2016 Kwiple.com
Academic achievement [He] directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges, and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores. Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer, on Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Accountability What the fuck are you doing? Are you fucking taking notes? Donald Trump's reaction to anyone caught trying to keep a record of meetings © 2019 Kwiple.com
Accountability While we have not concluded that the various financial statements,  as a whole, contain material discrepancies,  based upon the totality of the circumstances we believe our advice to you to no longer rely upon those financial statements is appropriate. From a Feb. 9, 2022, letter from Mazars USA, the Trump Organization's longtime auditors, to its chief legal officer notifying him that “Statements of Financial Condition for Donald J. Trump” for 2011 through 2020 cannot be relied on, and that it was dumping it as a client based on information gathered by the New York State Attorney General's investigation of possible fraud by it © 2022 Kwiple.com
Activism Thirty years ago, anti-Vietnam War protesters presented themselves to those in Washington as authentic individuals bent on challenging a state gone off the rails. Today, their place has been taken by Donald Trump. Fred Turner, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Afghanistan War I started the process. All the troops are coming back home. They [Biden] couldn't stop the process. Twenty-one years is enough. Don't we think? Twenty-one years. They [Biden] couldn't stop the process. They wanted to, but it was very tough to stop the process. … Twenty-one years by a government that wouldn't last — the only way they last is if we're there. What are we going to say? We'll stay for another twenty-one years. Then we'll stay for another fifty. The whole thing is ridiculous. So we're bringing our troops back home. citation Donald Trump, June 26, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Alt-righters  The crap you think of is unbelievable. Donald Trump, on Twitter content created by far-right activists and provocateurs attending a July 2019 social media summit at the White House © 2018 Kwiple.com
American Dream I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
American Dream Sadly, the American Dream is dead. But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before, and we will make America great again. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Anti-intellectualism I have a gut and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
Anti-science I don't believe it. Donald Trump, explaining why the 2018 National Climate Assessment report, which was prepared by 300 scientists in 13 federal agencies and predicts dire economic consequences of global warming, was released on Black Friday, when few people would hear about it © 2018 Kwiple.com
The arts Get yourself a different woman. Donald Trump's takeaway from Citizen Kane © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ass Yeah. Donald Trump, responding affirmatively when Howard Stern asked on the air if he could call Trump's daughter, Ivanka, “a piece of ass” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Ass You know, it really doesn't matter what the media write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Asses So please, get your asses out tomorrow and vote. Donald Trump, June 26, 2016, at a rally to elect Henry McMaster governor of South Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
Assholes Every asshole succeeds until finally they don't.  John Oliver, taling about Trump and impeachment © 2019 Kwiple.com
Assholes say I say that you're a terrible reporter. That's what I say. I think it's a very nasty question, and I think it's a very bad signal that you're putting out to the American people. Donald Trump, responding to NBC News reporter Peter Alexander, who gove him an opportunity to provide a reassurring and uplifiting message to Americans by asking him what his message was to millions of Americans “scared” by the COVID-19 coronavirus © 2020 Kwiple.com
Authoritarianism Building on [Juan] Linz's work [in The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes ], we have developed a set of four behavioral warning signs that can help us know an authoritarian when we see one. We should worry when a politician 1) rejects, in words or action, the democratic rules of the game, 2) denies the legitimacy of opponents, 3) tolerates or encourages violence, and 4) indicates a willingness to curtail the civil liberties of opponents, including the media. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bad news As world leaders spent the weekend making final preparations for the G20 meeting in Germany this week, US president Donald Trump tweeted a doctored video of himself wrestling to the ground a man with a CNN logo for a head. citation Financial Times, July 3, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters – rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented act. citation Donald Trump [hours later, Trump re-tweeted the message to say China's act was “unprecedented”] © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news Donald Trump can't tell fact from fiction © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news Donald Trump can't tell a refugee from an immigrant © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news The free press joins Trump's enemies list, along with intelligence agencies, civil rights leaders, Meryl Streep, and non-absorbent hotel mattresses. citation Stephen Colbert, The Late Show, January 16, 2017, on reports Trump may evict reporters from their office in the White House, which they've had since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, because, according to his aide, “they're the opposition party” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news I have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. They sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community. citation Donald Trump, who has made hundreds of recorded and reported statements criticizing America's intelligence agencies, including comparing them to Nazis © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news I've made stuff up forever, and they always print it. citation Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bad news Most reporters accurately quote what they are told, but don't know much about the underlying issues. For Trump and others like him, this makes it easy to manipulate most of the press. Those who see through that manipulation and make connections themselves get a different response: complaints to editors, threats of litigation, and occassionally public denunciations. David Cay Johnston, The Making of Donald Trump  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court Barack Obama, who won the popular vote by 9.5 million votes in 2008 and five million in 2012 and served eight years in office, was able to appoint only two Supreme Court justices. Donald, who lost  the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by almost three million votes and was in office only four years (and impeached twice), was able to appoint three. Mary Trump, The Reckoning  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Nobody believes in the First Amendment more than I do. citation Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bad news One of the things I'm goin to do if I win … I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun. In the months ahead I have much to share with you, and I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all of our people. There has never been anything like it! citation  Donald Trump, February 13, 2021, after his second, historic acquital for high crimes and misdemeanors © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bad news This is what makes covering Donald Trump so difficult: what does he mean when he says words? citation Zachary Wolf, CNN editor © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news A Time magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It's fake. citation headline, Washington Post, June 27, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news Today I am keeping another promise to the American people by nominating Judge Neil Gorsuch of the United States Supreme Court to be of the United States Supreme Court. citation Donald Trump, January 31, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news Trump sets tone for presidency with attack on ‘dishonest’ media First news briefing stuns nation Priebus says press want to ‘deligitimise’ president headline, Financial Times, January 23, 2017 [Reince Priebus is White House chief of staff] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news We will be back in some form . . . we will see you soon. citation Donald Trump, on his final day in office, telling a small crowd of supporters at Joint Base Andrews, before heading to Mar-a-Lago, his resort in Florida, that he wants the limelight again © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bad news What do I know about it? All I know is what's on the Internet. on the Internet. citation Donald Trump, responding to a reporter who pointed out that law enforcement officials had investigated his claim that a man who rushed the stage at one of his rallies had ties to ISIS and found his claim to be untrue and the video he linked to to support it was a hoax © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news Wow! in the sense of What The Fuck??? Nearly universal response, even among his supporters, to Donald Trump's hastily-called, seventy-seven minute, lie-laden and unhinged February 16, 2017, press conference © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bankers They just announced earnings and they were incredible. They were very substantial. Will you say, “Thank you, Mr. President, at least, huh?” Donald Trump, to Mary Erdoes, head of asset and wealth management at JPMoran Chase, at the signing of the U.S.-China Phase One Trade Agreement, January 15, 2019 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Banks Virtually no big United States banking institution has done new business with Mr. Trump in years, in part because of his history of bankruptcies and his penchant for litigation. During orientation for new employees, Goldman Sachs specifically used to use Mr. Trump as an example of the kind of prospective client to avoid. Andrew Ross Sorkin, September 27, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Blacks You can't leave me with these people. Donald Trump to Omarosa, who had accompanied him to a black church in Detroit in an effort to win black voters © 2018 Kwiple.com
Books After having written many best selling books, and somewhat priding myself on my ability to write, it should be noted that the Fake News constantly likes to pour over my tweets looking for a mistake. Donald Trump, 5:19 PM – 3 Jul 2018 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Books How to Get Rich. That's what I decided to call it, because, whenever I meet people, that's usually what they want to know from me. You ask a baker how he makes bread. You ask a billionare how to make money. … Billionaire authors are harder to find. Donald Trump, Trump: How to Get Rich © 2016 Kwiple.com
Books A: “Imagine Donald Trump's library.” B: “You'd have to.” Dick Cavett, 5:31 PM - 5 May 2017 © 2018 Kwiple.com
o Branding We need somebody that can take the brand of the United States and make it great again. It's not great. Donald Trump, presidential announcement speech, June 16, 2015 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bribery It's a horrible law and it should be changed. Every other country in the world is doing it and we're not allowed to. It puts us at a huge disadvantage … the world is laughing at us. Donald Trump, on the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which outlaws using bribery to win business © 2016 Kwiple.com
Budgets I want to thank him because we're trying to cut down our payroll and as far as I am concerned I'm very thankful that he let go of a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll. Donald Trump, thanking Vladimir Putin for expelling 755 members of America's diplomatic mission in Russia © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bullshit  I never heard him saying anything like that, and the way the conversation goes doesn't sound real. You know, he makes up a lot of conversations where people are always calling him “Sir.” You know, maybe his subordinates are calling him sir, because that’s the right thing to do. But foreign leaders don’t call him sir. They either call him Mr. President or Donald, number one. … But number two, the fact that it’s an imag- inary conversation that makes Trump look very good — as all of Trump’s imagined conversations do — doesn’t mean that he doesn’t believe what he’s saying. John Bolton, Trump's National Security Adviser, on Trump's story encouraging Russia to invade  NATO allies and do "whatever the hell they want” © 2024 Kwiple.com
Bullshit “I saw Trump's ball go in the lake,” one of the caddies told me. “I mean, I saw the ripples! But by the time we caught up to him and his cart, the ball was back on the fairway. When we asked him what happened, he said, “'Must've been the tide.'” Rick Reilly, Commander in Cheat © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I've done before!). Donald Trump, 8:38 AM – 7 Oct 2019, after greenlighting Turkey to slaughter Kurds, our ally with no Trump hotels in their lands © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say The best thing that ever happened to the farmers is me. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say But the DACA situation is a very very, it's a very difficult thing for me because you know, I love these kids. Donald Trump, referring to the Dreamers © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say Easter's a very special day for me. Donald Trump, a nullifidian, playing to his evangelical Christian base © 2020 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say Every time I talk with a foreign leader, I put American interests first, just as I did with President Zelensky. Donald Trump, letter to Nancy Pelosi, Dec. 17, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say Every time the radical Left Democrats, Marxists, communists, and fascists indict me, I consider it to be a great badge of honor and courage. I'm doing it for you. I’m being indicted for you. Donald "Orange Don" Trump, boss of the notorious Trump family, currently operating out of Florida, with hopes of reestablishing itself  in Washington, DC, by 2025 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say A friend of mine recently said that I was the most persecuted person in the history of our country. Me. The most persecuted. I never thought of it that way. I never had time. I was always fighting these people that were trying to persecute me. [silence]  I didn't have time to think about being per-  secuted because I was fighting persecution.  When I thought about it, though, I sat back.  He's a very smart guy, succesful. I thought,  sit back. You know, he may very well be right. Certainly, there's been no politician or president treated like I've been treated. [silence] Donald Trump, July 23, 2022, to Turning Point USA Student Action Summit © 2022 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say From day one I wanted a strong military. He doesn't want to see that. … He would like Hillary where she wants to have windmills. He would much rather have that, because energy prices will go up. And Russia as you know, relies very much on energy. Donald Trump, explaining why Vladimir Putin wanted Hillary Clinton and not him to be elected president © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say He certainly didn't dictate. But he weighed in, offered suggestions, like any father would.  Sarah Huckabee Sanders, denying Trump wrote Donald Trump Jr.'s knowingly false first public explanation of his meeting with Russian agents to get incriminating information they claimed to have about Hillary Clinton © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say He wasn't doing a good job. Very simply. He was not doing a good job. Donald Trump, on firing FBI director James Comey supposedly for mishandling last year's investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails but days after Comey requested additional resources to expand his investigation of Team Trump's connection and possible collusion with Russians, and hours before meeting with Russia's foreign minister and ambassador © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I am an innocent man being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted & corrupt people in a Witch Hunt that is illegal & should never have been allowed to start – And only because I won the Election! Donald Trump, 7:44 AM – 3 Mar 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I am fighting for future Presidents and the Office of the President. Other than that, I would actually like people to testify [before Congress]. Donald Trump, 7:43 AM – 26 Nov 2019, defending his claim that his associates have absolute immunity from testifying © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I am the law and order candidate. Not only am I the law and order candidate, but I am also the candidate of compassion, believe it. The candidate of compassion. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I called the fake news the “enemy of the people” because they have no sources – they just make it up. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say  I did everything right, and they indicted me! Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I do not watch much television. I know they like to say – people that don't know me – they like to say I watch television. People with fake sources – you know, fake reporters, fake sources. But I don't get to watch much television, primarily because of documents. I'm reading documents a lot. Donald Trump, quoted by New York Times, December 9, 2017, which reported, “People close to him estimate that Mr. Trump spends at least four hours a day, and sometimes as much as twice that, in front of a television” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I don't do coverups. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I look forward to testifying. Donald Trump, a perjury-producing machine, on possible trials to keep him off 2024 primary ballots because he violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment on January 6, 2021, and therefore is ineligible to hold office in the United States © 2023 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I'm the best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico. … I have many Puerto Rican friends. I have a real understanding of Puerto Rico. I've had jobs in Puerto Rico. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I onky ask for fairness, especially when it comes to decisions made by the United States Supreme Court! Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I think that the last person Russia wants to see in office is Donald Trump, because nobody's been tougher on Russia than I have, ever. Donald Trump © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT! Donald Trump, 10:36 AM - Nov 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I would say it was bravado, if you want to know the truth. It was bravado. I was talking and just holding up papers and talking about them, but I had no documents.  Donald Trump, after an audio tape was released in which he bragged about taking classified documents home, keeping them, showing them to people who didn't have security clearances, and admitting he lacked authority to declassify them now that he's no longer president © 2023 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I would venture to say it was the largest crowd I had ever spoken [to] before. It was a loving crowd, too, by the way. There was a lot of love. I've heard that from everybody. Many, many people have told me that was a loving crowd. Donald Trump, on his supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say In addition to winning the electoral college in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally. Donald Trump discharging more dangerous bullshit © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say In the end, they're not coming after me, they're coming after you — and I'm just standing in their way. Donald Trump, on his being indicted for mishandling classified documents © 2023 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials. Donald Trump, kvetching about his impeachment, letter to Nancy Pelosi, Dec. 17, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say Only if your mind is in the gutter would you have read it that way. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, defending Trump against charges of sexism and defamation of character for tweeting that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a female, “would do anyting for contributions”  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say Our Country is being systematically destroyed by the Radical Left Marxists, Fascists and Thugs - THE DEMOCRATS. UNLESS YOU GET EVERYTHING, SHUT IT DOWN! Close the Border, stop the Weaponization of “Justice,” and End Election Interference — WE MUST HAVE HONEST ELECTIONS. It’s time Republicans learned how to fight! Are you listening Mitch McConnell, the weakest, dumbest, and most conflicted “Leader” in U.S. Senate history? HE's AREADY GIVEN THE DEMOCRATS EVERYTHING. THEY CAN’T BELIEVE HOW LUCKY THEY GOT. Donald Trump, Sep 24, 2023, 9:22 PM ordering Republicans to shut down government © 2023 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say The people that know me and know the history of our Country say that I am the hardest working President in history. Donald Trump, 2:21 PM – Apr 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say President Trump has always stood for law and order, and protecting the Constitution. Steven Cheung © 2023 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say Remember, these were just ordinary inexpensive folders with various words printed on them, but they were a 'cool' keepsake.  Perhaps the Gestapo took some of these empty  folders when they raided Mar-a-Lago, & coun- ted them as a document, which they are not. It's also possible that Trump Hating Marxist Thugs in charge will "plant" documents while they're in possession of the material. As President, and based on the Presidential Records Act & Socks Case, I did NOTHING WRONG. JOE DID! Donald Trump, @realDonaldTrump, 10:03 AM – Jan 18, 2023,  justifying classified documents at Mar-a-Lago but forgetting he earlier said they were his by right and that he declassified them using his mind © 2023 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say That kid from the mean streets of Queens came out in the campaign. He thought – if I'm gonna survive, I've got to fight. Christopher Ruddy, long-time friend of Donald Trump, bullshitting about a guy who grew up in a 2,000-square-foot, five-bedroom Tudor-style house built by his millionaire father in the swish neighborhood of Jamaica Estates in the borough of Queens in New York City, and not, for God's sake, in South Jamaica, a neighborhood of hard knocks and public housing  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say There was no 'second meeting' between President Trump and President Putin, just a brief conversation at the end of a dinner. The insinuation that the White House has tried to 'hide' a second meeting is false, malicious and absurd. A “senior administration official” quoted by The Guardian, July 18, 2017, commenting on the hour-long conversation that they and Putin's translator engaged in out of earshot of other G20 dinner guests, that the White House failed to disclose, and for which there is no official government record © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say There was such love at that rally. They were peaceful people. These were great people. The crowd was unbelievable and I mentioned the word love, the love in the air. I've never seen anything like it. Donald “Don the Delusional” Trump, July 11, 2021, on the January 6 mob assault on the Capitol © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say This guy turned out to be a a Woke train wreck who, if the Fake News reporting is correct, was actually dealing with China to give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States. This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH! Donald Trump, Sep 22, 2023, 7:59 PM, calling for the execution of Mark Milley, his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [Milley's phone call after the January 6, 2021, insurrection to resassure China the US would not go to war with it was, in fact, explicitly authorized by Trump administration officials] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say Totally clears the President. Thank you! Donald Trump, 3:00 PM – 7 Dec 2018, commenting on the US Attorney's Office multi-year sentencing recommendations for Michael Cohen, which says Cohen committed two felonies by paying hush money to ex-Trump mistresses in a scheme Trump coordinated and directed © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say We are not even into February and the cost of illegal immigration so far this year is $18,959,495,168. Cost Friday was $603,331,392. There are at least 25,772,342 illegal aliens, not the 11,000,000 that have been reported for years, in our Country. So ridiculous! DHS Donald Trump, 5:44 AM – 27 Jan 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say You don't think I wanted them to do that, do you? Donald Trump, who waited hours before calling off his supporters' violent assault on the Capitol by telling them, “Go home — we love you, you're very special” © 2021 Kwiple.com
By the numbers As of September, Trump had made an average of 8.3 UNTRUE or misleading statements a day – more than 5,000 total – since taking office Mother Jones, November/December 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Estimated number of votes by which Donald Trump won the state of Wisconsin: 27,000 Of registered Wisconsin voters who lacked voter identification: 360,000 Harper's Index, January 2017 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Estimated ratio of time Trump spent in intelligence briefings to golfing during his presidency's first month: 1:4 Harper's Index, May 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Factor by which the gender pay gap in the White House has increased under Trump: 3.4 Harper's Index, October 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers In the year leading up to Trump's election victory, the word “transgender” appeared  in the New York Times 1,169 times. The word “opioid” appeared just 284 times.  Edward Luce, Financial Times, January 13-14, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Minimum number of times since September 2015 that Donald Trump has referrred to Christmas in speeches: 23 Number of those references that suggest the holiday was under attack: 19  Harper's Index, December 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Number of times Donald Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment during divorce proceedings with Ivana Trump: 97 Mother Jones, September 30, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Odds on an online bet that Donald Trump will win the Nobel Peace Prize this year: 20:1 That he will announce the existence of aliens: 20:1 Harper's Index, June 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers On all three issues overwhelming majorities of likely Republican voters supported his [Trump's] positions: almost three quarters (73 percent) favored banning Muslims from entering the US, 90 percent favored identifying and and deporting illegal immigrants as quickly as possible, and 85 percent favored building a wall on the Mexican border. Ronald B. Rapoport, Alan I. Abramowitz, and Walter J. Stone, New York Review of Books,  June 23, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Percentage of DC residents making less than $50,000 a year who have marched in protests against Donald Trump: 16 Of residents making more than $100,000: 50 Harper's Index, October 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Percentage of news stories about Donald Trump during his first sixty days that were positive: 5 Harper's Index, January 2018 © 2017 Kwiple.com
a By the numbers A person who is flat-chested is very hard to be a 10. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Preferred sources for election news according to Pew Research Center ALL voters TRUMP's CLINTON's Fox News 19% Fox News 40% CNN 18% CNN 13% CNN 8% MSNBC 9% Facebook 8% Facebook 7% Facebook 8% Local TV 7% NBC 6% Local TV 8% NBC 6% Local TV 5% NPR 7% MSNBC 6% ABC 3% ABC 6% ABC 5% CBS 3% NY Times 5% NPR 4% Locl radio 3% CBS 5% CBS 4%     NBC 4% NY Times 3%     Locl papers 4% Locl papers 3%     Fox News 3%  Financial Times, January 19, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers President Trump has broken 2000. With just 10 days before he finishes his first year as president, Trump has made 2,001 false or misleading claims in 355 days, according to our database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president. That's an average of more than 5.6 claims a day. Washington Post, January 10, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Rank of “smart” among words that occur to U.S. voters when they think of Donald Trump: 28 Of “idiot”: 1  Harper's Index, August 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers The revised Trump plan would reduce the top individual income tax rate to 33 per cent and the corporate tax rate to 15 per cent. It would also eliminate the estate tax. The highest-income taxpayers – 0.1 per cent of the population, those with incomes over $3.7 million in 2016 dollars – would receive an average tax cut of more than 14 per cent of after-tax income. The poorest fifth's taxes would fall by an average of 0.8 per cent of taxed income. To those who hath, it shall be given. Martin Wolf, Financial Times, November 16, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Trump's accusers by the numbers Kissing without consent: 3 Harassment: 1 Groping: 8 Assault: 1 Walking in while changing: 7 Rape: 2 New York, October 31-November 13, 2016 [names of accusers omitted above] © 2016 Kwiple.com
Campaign finance While it is true that he [Trump] hasn't taken corporate money, the implication that he has personally spent 20 to 25 million dollars is a bit of a stretch because what he's actually done is loaned his own campaign 17 and a half million dollars and personally given just $250,000. That's important because up until the convention, he can pay himself back the loan with campaign funds. And if you don't think there's a significant difference between a gift and a loan, try giving your spouse an anniversary loan and see how that goes. John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, February 28, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Car culture If we dont have barriers, walls – call them what you want – but if we don't have very strong barriers, where people can not any longer drive right across – they have unbelievable vehicles; they make a lot of money. They have the best vehicles you can buy. They have stronger, bigger, and faster vehicles than our police have, and than ICE has, and than Border Patrol has. So they're pretty good at that. Donald Trump on migrants crossing the southern border © 2019 Kwiple.com
Children Statistically, my children have a very bad shot. Children of successful people are generally very, very troubled, not successful. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
China I'd give them 48 hours to get out. And if they didn't get out, I'd charge them a 100% tariff on everything they sell to the United States, and they'd be gone within two days. They'd be gone within one hour. Donald Trump, foreign policy maven, when asked about a Chinese spy base in Cuba © 2023 Kwiple.com
Christianity Donald Trump's leaked remarks to evangelical leaders last month contained a telling choice of possessive pronoun: “I just ask you to go out and make sure all of your people vote.” Another Republican president might have referred to “our people”. This one does not feign membership of the flock. He tables an earthly bargain: it is me, or a Democrat; Brett Kavanaugh, or a liberal justice, on the US Supreme Court. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 5, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Christianity Two Corinthians 3:17, that's the whole ballgame. … Is that the one you like? Donald Trump, to students at evangelical Liberty University, where the verse is etched on a building © 2016 Kwiple.com
Christianity What has happened to American Christianity is there is this afterglow of what a candidate is supposed to represent. It is no longer moral character. It is policy positions on things that bother evangelicals. Wayne Flynt, reflecting on the overwhelming support among evangelicals for Trump in 2016  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Christmas Under the Trump administration, you'll be saying Merry Christmas  again when you go shopping. They've been downplaying that little beautiful phrase. You're going to be saying Merry Christmas again, folks. Donald Trump, at the 19th National Boy Scout Jamboree, July 25, 2017, five months before Christmas © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say ….Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star…. ….to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius…. and a very stable genius at that! @realDonaldTrump 4:27 AM - 6 Jan 2018 4:30 AM - 6 Jan 2018 on his mental stability and fitness for office © 2018 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Because I'm going to tell them. Donald Trump, when asked, How will people know that America is great again? © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Bring me my tariffs! Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Chris, you and I are so smart that we can leave the victory party two hours early and do the transition ourselves. Donald Trump to Chris Christie, his transition team leader © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Did you know I was number one on Facebook? I just found out I'm number one on Facebook. I thought that was very nice. For whatever it means, it represents something. Donald Trump, to an April 1, 2020, conference about COVID-19 coronavirus © 2020 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Disloyal R[epublican]s are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary. They come at you from all sides. They don't know how to win – I will teach them. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Do this: ‘Keep America Great,’ with an exclamation point. With and without an exclamation. ‘Keep America Great’ Donald Trump, instructing his lawyer to register a trademark for his 2020 reelection campaign, two days before being inaugurated for his first term © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say He'll be here, in my opinion, for the entire remaining seven years. Donald Trump, September 30, 2017, the 254th day of his first term, denying rumors that there's friction between himself and John Kelly, his chief of staff © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Here's the story. If you win, they're going to make it like, ho hum. And if you lose, they are going to say Trump suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the world. You can't let that happen to me! Donald Trump, urging attendees at his rally in Kentucky, which he won by 30 percentage points in 2016, to re-elect Matt Bevin as governor, the day before Bevin lost to his Democratic opponent © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Here's the thing. I don't have teams. Everyone's talking about teams. I'm the team. Donald Trump, dismissing the need for impeachment advisers © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Howard Schultz doesn't have the “guts” to run for President! Watched him on @60Minutes last night and I agree with him that he is not the “smartest person.” Besides, America already has that! I only hope that Starbucks is still paying me their rent in Trump Tower! Donald Trump, 5:41 AM – 28 Jan 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I always hear about the elite. You know, the elite. They're elite? I went to better schools than they did. I was a better student than they were. I live in a bigger, more beautiful apartment, and I live in the White House, too, which is really great. Donald Trump, Phoenix rally, August 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I am a man of great achievement. I win, Maureen, I always win. Knock on wood. I win. It’s what I do. I beat people. I win.  Donald Trump to Maureen Dowd, New York Times, August 15, 2015  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I am pleased to inform you that I have just granted a full pardon to 85 year old American patriot Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He kept Arizona safe! Donald Trump, 7:00 PM - 25 Aug 2017, displaying his eagerness to pander to his base's prejudices and enough deep-rooted contempt for judges, the rule of law, and the Constitution to act as a warning that he'll pardon any associate or family member convicted of any crime, however egregious © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I am smarter than anybody. Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I am the least racist person there is. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say  I can invite anyone for dinner, and they will come! Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I can't lose to this fucking guy. Donald Trump, expecting a different outcome in 2020 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot people and I wouldn't lose voters. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I have the world's greatest memory. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I hear he's nice looking. I think I'm better looking than him. I do. I do. Donald Trump comparing himself to Conor Lamb, who's 38 years younger and not orange © 2018 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I know the Russians better than anybody. Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I'm a dealmaker. I'm the best dealmaker there is. Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I'm intelligent. Some people would say I'm very, very, very intelligent. Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say  I'm not a schmuck. Even if the world goes to hell in a handbasket, I won't lose a penny.  Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say  I'm speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I've said a lot of things. Donald Trump, whose experience of the world is being deeply indebted to Russians, playing at his golf courses overseas, and staying in hotel suites with waterproof sheets, when asked who he consults with about foreign policy © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I think apologizing's a great thing, but you have to be wrong. I will absolutely apologize, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I'm ever wrong. Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I think nobody knows more about campaign finance than I do because I'm the biggest contributor. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I think I know more about it [NATO] than he does. Donald Trump on James Mattis, Secretary of Defense and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander © 2018 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I was a good student. I understand things. I comprehend very well, OK? Better than, I think, almost anybody. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I was an elite person. When I graduated, [from New York Military Academy] I was a very elite person. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I will be the greatest jobs producer that God ever created. Donald Trump, America's conflict of interest king and biggest loser, by 2,864,974 votes © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I will be their worst nightmare. I'm gonna be their worst nightmare. Ugh. Donald Trump, on ISIS © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I would give myself, I would – look, I hate to do it, but I will do it. I would give myself an A-plus. Is that enough? Can I go higher than that? Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I would love to be able to be the one that made peace with Israel and the Palestinians. I have reason to believe I can do that. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say  Jimmy Carter used to get off Air Force One carrying his luggage. I don't want a president carrying his luggage. Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Look, if I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm  the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time.  Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Look, if I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm  the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time.  Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say A lot of people love Trump, right. A lot of people love me. You see them all the time, right? I guess I'm here for a reason, you know? To the best of my knowledge, I won and I think we're going to win again. I think we're going to win in a landslide. Donald Trump, responding to a reporter's question at a COVID-19 coronavirus press briefing about people who got sick because he was perceived as having downplayed it © 2020 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY. Problem is, we don't have Stars anymore - except your President (just kidding, of course)! Donald Trump. 5:25 AM - 6 Mar 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say My whole life is about winning. I don't lose. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say No one reads the Bible more than me. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say No one respects women more than me. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Nobody builds better walls than me. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Nobody ever  cashes my checks. They frame them! Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Nobody knows politicians better than I do. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Nobody's done more for religion than I have. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Nobody's ever been more successful than me. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say  Only nine people in the world have that! Donald Trump, on a card he carries proclaiming, Bearer Eats Free at Any McDonald's Worldwide © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Putin says, “Trump is brilliant.” I love it when he says I'm brilliant. I don't know if he means it or he doesn't mean it. I don't care. I like it, okay?  Donald Trump, at a 2016 rally © 2018 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say There's nobody that has the cash flow that I have. I want to be king of cash.  Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Ultimately I'm always right. Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Technology — nobody knows more about technology than me.  Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say That makes me smart. Donald Trump, responding to the allegation that he has paid no federal taxes for years © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say We have the greatest face in the history of politics. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say We want to create peace between Israel and the Palestinians. We will get it done. … It is something that I think is frankly, maybe, not as difficult as people have thought over the years. Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say What a crowd! What a turnout! Donald Trump, August 29, 2017, Corpus Christie press conference about flooding from hurricane Harvey © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say What if he's a loser? Donald Trump, responding to Ivana Trump, his first wife, who she said whe wanted to name her first born child after his father  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say When it comes to golf, very few people can beat me. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk Will be making a decision soon on the appointment of new Chief Economic Advisor. Many people wanting the job - will choose wisely! Donald Trump. 4:49 PM - 6 Mar 2018 after his chief economic adviser resigned because Trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum © 2018 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say With the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. That I can tell you. It's real easy. Donald Trump, Phoenix rally, August 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say  With Trump, everybody becomes a star. I'm the greatest star-maker in history. Donald Trump © 2021 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Worry? I don't worry. I make other people worry. Roger Stone, when asked if he was worried about Mueller's investigation into links between Trump's campaign and Russia © 2019 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say You know, nobody has done more for Christianity, nobody has done more for religion of all types, than me. Donald Trump, May 4, 2022, to CBN News, an evangelical network © 2022 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say You know the NFL ratings are down massively. Massively. The NFL ratings are down massively. Now the number one reason happens to be they like watching what's happening on … [pointing to his midriff with both hands] Donald Trump [Ratings are down for all sports not because people prefer watching Trump's midriff but because young people prefer being online to watching sports on TV] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say You should say, “Congratulations, great job,” instead of being so horrid in the way you ask a question. Donald Trump. responding to a Fox News reporter who asked about the delay in getting COVID-19 tests at hospitals nationwide © 2018 Kwiple.com
Collusion It's not an interference, they have information. I think I'd take it.  If I thought there was something wrong, I'd go maybe to the FBI. If I thought there was something wrong. Donald Trump, asking for foreign nationals to help him get reelected in 2020 by dishing dirt on his opponents, as he did in 2016 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Collusion You don't call the FBI every time you hear something that maybe – now, you see the people. The meeting, it also sounds to me – I don't know anything  about that meeting – but it sounds to me like it was a big nothing. Donald Trump, defending his son, Don, Jr., who violated federal law by not reporting offers he received from Russians to meddle in the 2016 election to the FBI © 2019 Kwiple.com
Collusion [T]his is someone who said, “We have information on your opponent.” Oh, let me call the FBI. Give me a break. Life doesn't work that way. Donald Trump, defending his son, Don, Jr., who violated federal law by not reporting offers he received from Russians to meddle in the 2016 election to the FBI © 2019 Kwiple.com
Conspiracy theories I've heard these are people that love our country. So I don't know really anything about it other than they do supposedly like me. Donald Trump on QAnon conpsiracy theorists who believe he's fighting a war against a Satanic cult of Democratic pedophiles and whose tweets he reposts © 2020 Kwiple.com
Conspiracy theorists say The Deep State is out to get me © 2018 Kwiple.com
Corruption The results of a survey released today by Transparency International show that compared to early 2016 more Americans now believe corruption is on the rise in the US and that the White House is the most corrupt of nine key institutions. Transparency International, December 12, 2017 © 2019 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus All I want them to do — very simple — I want them to be appreciative. Donald Trump, making it clear that governors who praise his administration's response to the COVID-19 coronavirus will receive what they ask for and those who don't, won't © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus As you are aware, the Federal Government is merely a back-up for state government. Donald Trump, self-proclaimed “wartime president,” in an April 2, 2020, letter to Senator Chuck Schumer, a critic of Trump's response to the COVID-19 coronavirus © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus Because you know why, I'm on a stage, it's very far away, so I'm not at all concerned. Donald Trump, explaining why he's not afraid of catching coronavirus at his indoor superspreader rallies [He wasn't asked why people in crowds packed like sardines shouldn't be afraid of catching it] © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus COVID, turns out, not good. Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic. Donald Trum, quoted in Bob Woodward's book, Rage, explaining why he lies to the American public about its ease of transmission and deadliness, which he's known about and understood since January , 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus In several phone calls last weekend from the presidential suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Mr. Trump shared an idea he was considering: When he left the hospital, he wanted to appear frail at first when people saw him, according to people with knowledge of the conversations. But underneath his button-down dress shirt, he would wear a Superman T-shirt, which he would reveal as a symbol of srength when he ripped open the top layer. New York Times, October 12, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus Maybe this COVID thing is a good thing. I don't like shaking hands with people. I don't have to shake hands with these disgusting people. Donald Trump [The “disgusting people” are people attending his rallies] © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus The simple fact is that Donald is fundamentally incapable of acknowledging the suffering of others. Telling the stories of those we've lost would bore  him Mary Trump, Too Much and Never Enough  © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus Testing is a double-edged sword. We've tested now 25 million people. … When you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more cases, so I said to my people, “Slow the testing down, please.” Donald Trump, Tulsa rally, June 20, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus They are dying, that's true. And you have – it is what it is. But that doesn't mean we aren't doing everything we can. It's under control as much as you can control it. Donald Trump, August 4, 2020, bullshitting about doing everything we can as the US averages about 65,000 new cases and a 1,000 deaths per day from COVID-19  © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus Whatever happens, we're totally prepared.  Donald Trump, February 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD [March 31, 2020], WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO! Donald Trump, 11:50 PM - Mar 22, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus We're backing you a hundred per cent. Also, though,  respirators, ventilators, all the equipment, — try getting it yourelf. Donald Trump, during a March, 2020, conference call with governors © 2021 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus Whatever happens, we're totally prepared.  Donald Trump, February 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Crime If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. Robert Mueller © 2019 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice Before trial begins in this case, prospective members of the jury will have the opportunity to cast their vote for president. It is in the ballot box where they are free to judge Mr. Trump based on all this and more. Donald Trump's lawyers justifying his request to prevent jurors at his upcoming trial for fraud related to Trump University from hearing evidence based on: recordings of campaign events, his tweets, his speeches, his tax returns, his charity, his beauty pageants, his casinos, his alleged sexual misconduct, his corporate bankruptcies, or the students' finances © 2016 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice Queens man indicted _______________ A Queens man was indicted Thursday for allegedly making hush money payments to a porn star shortly before he was elected president of the United States in 2015. headline and lead, Queens Daily Eagle, March 30, 2023  [Trump was born in Jamaica Hospital and grew up in Jamaica Estates, a neighborhood in Queens, a borough in New York City] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice UNITED STATES * CRIMINAL NO. OF AMERICA * v. * GRAND JURY ORIGINAL DONALD J. TRUMP, * Defendant * VIOLATIONS: * * Count 1: 18 U.S.C. § 371 * (Conspiracy to Defraud the * United States) * * Count 2: 18 U.S.C. § 1512(k) * (Conspiracy to Obstruct an * Official Proceeding) * * Count 3: 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2),2 * (Obstruction of and Attempt to * Obstruct an Official Proceeding) * * Count 4: 18 U.S.C. § 342 * (Conspiracy Against Rights) © 2023 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice While it is true that no former former US president has before been indicted on criminal charges, little else about the indictment of Donald Trump is as “unprecedented” as the headlines have so endlessly declared. If there’s one thing that American politics has established a precedent for, it's pretending that its own corruption is unprecedented. Wikipedia helpfully curates a list of 134 (by my count) federal US politicians who  have been convicted of criminal wrongdoing. Sarah Churchwell, Financial Times, April 3, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads How stupid are the people of Iowa? Donald Trump, addressing a 2015 rally in Iowa, which he won in 2016 by the largest margin of any Republican presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1980 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say My voice was fine.  What did I say wrong on those recordings? Donald Trump. when asked if he's concerned about his voice on a recording released to the public in which he bragged about taking classified documents home, keeping them, showing them to people having no security clearances, and admitting he lacked authority to declassify them now that he's no longer president © 2023 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say No, I don't take any. Zero, to put it mildly. They took a perfect phone call that I had with the president of Ukraine, an absolutely perfect call, you know it, they know it, nothing was said wrong in that call – to impeach the President of the United States for that is a disgrace and it's a mark against our country. Donald Trump, responding to a reporter who asked, “Do you take an responsibility for the fact that you are about to be impeached?” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say All talk, talk, talk – no action or results. Sad! Donald Trump, who has only fought for draft deferrals, tax breaks and young pussy to grab, denigrating John Lewis, who has spent his life fighting for civil rights © 2016 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally. They can't. If we had a Wall, they wouldn't even try! Donald Trump, 10:30 AM - 29 Dec 2018 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say At some point, I'm going to sit down perhaps as a fireside chat on live television, and I will read the transcript of the call. Donald Trump, who believes the transcript of his call with Ukraine's president exonerates him of wanting a quid pro quo with Ukraine © 2019 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say “@backupwraith: i firmly believe that @realDonaldTrump is the most superior troll on the whole of twitter, that is all.” A great compliment!  Donald Trump, 1:05 AM – 24 Apr 2013 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS – Whatever happened to Global Warming? Donald Trump, 4:23 PM - 21 Nov 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Claiming COVID-19 coronavirus “affects virtually nobody" on the very day America surpassed 200,000 deaths Donald Trump, the claimant © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say The defendants' actions were motivated by a personal vendetta and a desire to gain fame, notoriety, acclaim and a financial windfall and were further intended to advance their political agenda. The brazenness of the defendants' actions cannot be understated. From page one of Donald Trump's lawsuit against Mary Trump, the New York Times and its three reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on his history of tax dodges — for “no less” than than $100 million each © 2021 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Different people say different things but as I understand it, if you're the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying  it's declassified, even by thinking about it. Because you’re sending it to Mar-a-Lago or wherever you’re sending it. There doesn't have to be a process. There can be a process, but there doesn’t have to be. You're the president — you make that decision. Donald Trump, when asked by Sean Hannity about his process for declassifying the documents he took to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House © 2022 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I'd rate it a 10. I think we've done a great job. Donald Trump, responding to a reporter who asked, “And on a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your response to this [COVID-19 coronavirus] crisis?” © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I didn't need to do this. Donald Trump, declaring a national emergency because he didn't get the funding he wanted to fulfill his campaign promise to build a southern border wall © 2019 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I got it. I got it. Why don't we nuke them? They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that? Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I had a small number of boxes in storage. There is no crime. They should give me immediately back everything they have taken from me because it's mine. Donald Trump,  talking about 11,000+ government documents he took to Mar-a-Lago after leaving office, includng hundreds of classified documents  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I hadn't had a chance to go through all the boxes. It's a long tedious job, it takes a long time — which I was prepared to do, but I have a very busy life. I've had a very busy life. Donald Trump, trotting out his "I'm-a-busy-guy" defense for not returning government documents to the governmet after he left office and was subpoenaed to do so © 2023 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I haven't heard about testing in weeks. Donald Trump, March 30, 2020, during a conference call with governors, responding to Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who had just finished explaining how impossible it is to get test kits to track down people who had contacts with people who tested positive for COVID-19 coronavirus © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I meant exactly that. He's the founder of ISIS. Donald Trump, given the opportunity to walk back his claim that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the true founders of ISIS, doubles down instead © 2016 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I was against going into war in Iraq. Donald Trump, who was for it in September, 2002, six months before it began, but opposed to it in August, 2004, seventeen months after it began © 2016 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say If he was smart, he would've put his name on it. You've got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you. Donald Trump, on learning that George Washington was the real estate developer responsible for Mount Vernon  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say If the ban were announced with a one week notice, the “bad” would rush into our country during that week. A lot of bad “dudes” out there! Donald Trump, tweet defending issuing his executive order banning Muslims from entering the U.S. without vetting it or informing affected agencies first © 2016 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say If we can teach young people not to take drugs … it's really, really easy not to take them.  Donald Trump, on his prescription for eliminating the nation's opioid addiction epidemic — an anti-drug ad campaign targeted at kids © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say If we have to close down our government, we're building that wall. We're going to have our wall. The American people voted for immigration control. We're going to get that wall. Donald Trump, Phoenix rally, August 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Looks like many anti-police agitators in Boston. Police are looking tough and smart! Thank you. Donald Trump, describing anti-fascist and anti-racist counter-protesters at Boston Common, 12:22 PM – 19 Aug 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads Many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case…don't believe the Fake News narrative that it is hard to find a lawyer who wants to take this on. Fame & fortune will NEVER be turned down by a lawyer, though some are conflicted. Problem is that a new…… ……lawyer or law firm will take months to get up to speed (if for no other reason than they can bill more), which is unfair in our great country - and I am very happy with my existing team. Besides, there was NO COLLUSION with Russia, except by crooked Hillary and the Dems! Donald Trump, 7:40 AM + 7:49 AM - Mar 25, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Nobody has done the job that we've done. And it's lucky that you have this group here, right now, for this problem, or you wouldn't even have a country left. Donald Trump, acclaiming his administration's response to the COVID-19 coronavirus © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Nobody knew health care could be so complicated. Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Nobody's been tougher on Russia than I have. And I know you're nodding yes because everybody agrees when they think about it.  Donald Trump, to reporters © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say The only people giving a platform to these hate groups is the media itself and the fake news. Donald Trump, Phoenix rally, August 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say The only way we can lose, in my opinion — I really mean this, Pennsylvania — is if cheating goes on. I really believe this. Donald Trump, trailing in the polls, fearing becoming a loser and just another face in the crowd, doing what comes naturally to him: pissing in waters others must swim in © 2016 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say  Our country needs a good "shutdown" Donald Trump, 8:07 AM - May 2, 2017 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say The Republican Party will become “the Party of Healthcare!” Donald Trump, 9:58 AM – 26 Mar 2019, after having having announced his plan to to use the courts to overturn Obamacare in its entirety and to deprive tens of millions of Americans of healthcare insurance © 2019 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say The Republicans [in California] don't win and that's because of potentially illegal votes, which is what I've been saying for a long time. I have no doubt about it. And I've seen it, I've had friends talk about it when people get in line that have absolutely no right to vote and they go around in circles. Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again.  Donald Trump, Nov. 14, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in! Donald Trump, 10:17 PM - 17 Jul 2017, either unaware or not caring that repealing without replacing Obamacare is likely to raise premiums by 50% and result in 32 million people losing coverage – 10 million more than by repealing it and replacing it with either GOP-concocted Trumpcare bill, which GOP senators killed rather than pass into law © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Sheriff Joe Arpaio is now 85 years old and after more than 50 years of admirable service to our nation, he is [a] worthy candidate for a Presidential pardon. White House press release announcing — prior to Arpaio's sentencing, without him having shown remorse for his crimes, and without the standard prior review  by the Department of Justice — that Trump granted a full pardon to Joe Arpaio, the virulently xenophobic and racist deposed sheriff of Maricopa Country, Arizona, who was convicted of contempt of court for refusing to comply with a judge's order for 17 months to stop racially profiling Latinos, which he did for 24 years as a thug with a badge © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Donald Trump, urging Georgia's secratary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to "recalculate" Georgia's thrice-audited election returns to give him a one-vote margin of victory in an election in which over 5,000,000 people voted, which he believes would be credible © 2021 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say So many people at the higher ends of intelligence loved my press conference performance in Helsinki. Putin and I discussed many important subjects at our earlier meeting. We got along well which truly bothered many haters who wanted to see a boxing match. Big results will come! Donald Trump, 2:53 AM - 18 JUL 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Someone's going to leak this whole damn speech to the media. Donald Trump, in a speech to the National Republican Congressional Committee that was broadcast live by C-SPAN © 2019 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say There is nobody that loves this country more or Hispanic more than Steve Cortes. Steve. Thank you Steve. Nobody loves the Hispanics more. Who do you like more, the country or the Hispanics? Donald Trump addressing the broadcaster, Steve Cortes, at a New Mexico rally © 2019 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say There's a very good chance you're not going to die. Donald Trump, consoling the nation about coronavirus © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say These lowlifes Impeached me TWICE (I WON!), and Indicted me FOUR TIMES — For NOTHING! Either IMPEACH the BUM, or fade into OBLIVION. THEY DID IT TO US! Donald Trump, @realDonaldTrump, Aug 27, 2023, 5:40 PM, directing Republicans to impeach Biden [NOTE: "me" is "US" in his mind] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say … trade wars are good, and easy to win. Donald Trump, 2:50 AM - 2 MAR 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Trump's candidacy, it has exposed not just that tragic ramifications of that betrayal of the transformation of our country, but too, he has exposed the complicity on both sides of the aisle that has enabled it, OK? Sarah Palin, endorsing Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Under the Presidentisl Records Act,  I had every right to have these documents. Donald Trump, following his arraignment on 37 counts, with 31 pertaining to mishandling classified documents and 6 pertaining to participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice [The Presidential Records Act is irrelevant in his case and guarantees no such right] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say We can't take you anymore. We can't take you. Our country is full.  Donald Trump, to Latin American immigrants and asylum seekers © 2019 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say We need a Donald Trump to show some authoritarian power in our country. Paul LePage, Maine's Republican governor choosing dictatorship over democracy © 2016 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST ME, APOLOGIZE, AND RETURN EVERYTHING THAT WAS ILLEGALLY TAKEN (FOURTH AMENDMENT) FROM MY HOME? THIS WAS NOTHING OTHER THAN ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!! Donald Trump, @realDonaldTrump, Jun 15, 2023, 5:10 PM © 2023 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done. Donald Trump, February 26, 2020, on his administration's response to the COVID-19 coronavirus © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say When you're working for Hillary [Clinton], she wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it. That's what could happen. You triple the size of our country in a week. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Why shouldn't the president surround himself with successful people? Wealthy folks have no need to steal or engage in corruption. … And most of these folks aren't political. They won't be afraid to reach across the aisle for bipartisan solutions. And that includes Mr. Trump himself. Larry Kudlow © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say You have some very good reporters, you have some very fair journalists. But for the most part, these are really, really dishonest people. They're bad people and I really think they don't like our country. I really believe that. Donald Trump, Phoenix rally, August 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say You know what I did? A big favor. I caught the swamp. I caught them all. Lets see what happens. Nobody else could have done that but me. I caught all this corruption that was going on and noboby else could have dont it. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Debt crisis I won't be there when it blows up. Donald Trump, explaining why he's not worried about having to shoulder the blame if America's $21 trillion national debt becomes unsupportable © 2018 Kwiple.com
Decision making When you put a snake and a rat and a falcon and a rabbit and a shark and a seal in a zoo without walls, things start getting nasty and bloody. That's what happens. Reince Priebus, Trump's former Chief of Staff, on decision making in Trump's White House © 2018 Kwiple.com
Democracy The soft power of democracy is not what it was. It has produced Mr Trump as leader of the world's most important country. It is not an advertisement. Martin Wolf, Financial Times, May 31, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Democracy Trump's fate will shape the future of liberal democracy. That is what makes it so alarming.  Edward Luce, Financial Times, January 13-14, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Democracy The two countries that saved liberal democracy in the 20th century have lost their moral compass. Many citizens no longer seem to care whether their leaders are scoundrels. Not long ago, people viewed these nations as models of successful democracy. Now the US is viewed as a bully and the UK as a fool. Messrs Trump and [Boris] Johnson [the expected next prime minister] are seen as contemptible, ludicrous or both. Martin Wolf, Financial Times, June 27, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Diets I'm not eating Oreos any more. Neither is Chris. [pointing to Chris Christie] You're not eating Oreos any more. No more Oreos for either of us. Donald Trump, at a May 19, 2016, New Jersey rally, vowing to never eat Oreos again to protest the announcement by Nabisco, Oreo's parent, that it would move bakery jobs from Chicago to Mexico © 2018 Kwiple.com
Divorce The fact is, no courts, no judges – Saudi Arabia sounds like a very good place to get a divorce. Donald Trump, praising Shariah law by which a Saudi man was allowed to divorce his wife for watching a television show at home without him because he considered it equivalent to her being with another man © 2016 Kwiple.com
Dog whistlers say Well, I just don't think she has a presidential look, and you need a presidential look. Donald Trump, about Hillary Clinton © 2016 Kwiple.com
Drugs This American carnage stops here and stops right now. Donald Trump, inaugural speech, January 20, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Duh obvious You know,  we have so many people in government, even me. Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Economic growth We are bringing our country back and a big focus is exactly that, with the, uh, minorities, specifically, if you look at, uh, the Asians. Donald Trump, May 19, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Economic growth We have an economy that’s so fragile, and the only reason it’s running now  is it’s running off the fumes of what we did. It’s just running off the fumes. And when there’s a crash — I hope  it’s going to be during this next 12 months  because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover. Donald Trump, January 8, 2024, hoping for an economic disaster for millions because he thinks it's good for him politically [Trump and Hoover are the only presidents to leave office with fewer people employed  than when they entered —  2 million in his case. He didn't leave fumes behind; he left odors.] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Election meddling Yes I did. Yes I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal. Vladimir Putin, responding to a reporter who asked him at the Helsinki summit press conference, “Did you want President Trump to win the election? And did you direct  any of your officials to help him do that?” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Elites The most important social tensions are within the elite — not, as a decade of populism has pretended, between the elite and the people.  The person likeliest to tear down a nation's establishment is a half-member of it. He or she is close enough to have felt its condescension (which must be largely theoretical for a total outsider) and to know its weak points. Donald Trump, disdained as a bridge-and-  tunnel vulgarian for all his material privilege, is the most famous example. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, February 16, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Elites We got more money, we got more brains, we got better houses and apartments, we got nicer boats, we're smarter than they are and they say they're the elite. You're the elite, we're the elite. Donald Trump, comparing his supporters to his critics © 2018 Kwiple.com
Elites say Why'd they ever vote for Trump? © 2018 Kwiple.com
Electoral College I used to like the idea of the Popular Vote, but now realize the Electoral College is far better for the U.S.A. Donald Trump, 7:17 PM – 19 Mar 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Employment There's a beauty in those two words. When you utter those words, there's very little that can be said. There's a succinctness to those words. Donald Trump on his catchphrase, “You're fired!” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Enquiring minds Am I a fucking baby? Am I a fucking baby?  Donald Trump, to Paul Manafort © 2019 Kwiple.com
Ethics There are a lot of killers. You think our country's so innocent? Donald Trump's so-what-so-do-we reply to Bill O'Reilly's statement that Vladimir Putin is a killer © 2017 Kwiple.com
Evasiveness Just to sum up: I would do various things very quickly. Donald Trump, on what he'd do if elected president © 2015 Kwiple.com
Fake tears Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. Donald Trump, justifying bombing a Syrian airbase because babies were among the dozens killed in a government-led chemical attack on nearby rebel positions, which took place after more than 55,000 children had already been killled in its civil war and after he had banned all Syrians from entering the US © 2017 Kwiple.com
Fall guys say Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford [porn star Stormy Daniels], and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly. The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone. Michael D. Cohen, Donald Trump?s longtime personal lawyer, claiming he paid $130,000 to Stormy Daniels out of his own pocket just before Election Day to keep her quiet about her affair with Trump soon after his wife gave birth to their son © 2018 Kwiple.com
Family values Did you notice that there were no charges? Well, if there are no charges that means it shouldn't be mentioned. Donald Trump, on newspaper reports about his father, Fred, who was arrested but not prosecuted for participating in a 1927 battle between Ku Klux Klan members and supporters and New York City policemen © 2016 Kwiple.com
Fascism It matters less than we might think whether Trump or any other figure is “fascist” in some academic sense. The real question is moral – do we see their policies as morally acceptable? And if history teaches anything, it is that people who called themselves neither fascist or Nazi were capable of complicity in repugnant acts. Kevin Passmore, The Guardian, November 7, 2016 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Fascists say I'd like to punch him in the face. Donald Trump, about a protester at a Las Vegas rally © 2016 Kwiple.com
Fascists say In 2016, I declared, “I am your voice.” Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution. Donald Trump, March 6, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Fascists say It is frankly disgusting the press is able to write whatever it wants to write. Donald Trump,  complaining about fact-checked reporting, especially about himself  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Fascists say Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Fascists say Who the hell are the 17 percent [of farmers reported to disapprove of Trump]? Anybody in here from the 17 percent? Don’t raise your hand; it may be dangerous. Donald Trump, to farmers attending the 2020 American Farm Bureau Federation Annual Convention and Trade Show © 2020 Kwiple.com
Fearmongers say If you want to protect criminal aliens – VOTE DEMOCRAT. If you want to protect Law-Abiding Americans – VOTE REPUBLICAN! Donald Trump, 6:46 PM – 3 Nov 2018 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Feelings When Mr Trump divorced the first of his three wives, Ivana, he let the New York tabloids know that one reason for the separation was that her breast implants felt all wrong. The Economist, October 1, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Food At least you know what they are putting in it. Donald Trump, explaining why he eats so much fast food © 2016 Kwiple.com
Food Tic Tac respects all women. We find the recent statements and behaviour completely inappropriate and unacceptable. Tic Tac USA tweet denouncing Donald Trump's comment that “I've got to use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Food The waiters know well Trump's personal preferences. As he settles down, they bring him a Diet Coke, while the rest of us are served water, with the Vice President sitting at one end of the table. With the salad course, Trump is served what appears to be Thousand Island dressing instead of the creamy vinaigrette for his guests. At the dessert course, he gets two scoops of vanilla ice cream with his chocolate cream pie, instead of the single scoop for everyone else. Time magazine, “Donald Trump After Hours” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Food What are you feeding him? Potica? Pope Francis to Melania Trump, pointing to Donald Trump [potica is a traditional Slovenian pastry] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Foreign relations From this day forward, it's going to be only America first. Donald Trump, Inaugural speech, January 20, 2017 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Foreign relations I love the Bangles! You know that song Walk Like an Egyptian? Donald Trump, on being told the president of Egypt called to congratulate him on becoming president © 2020 Kwiple.com
Freedom of speech The Defendant had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely, that there had been outcome-determinative fraud during the election and that he had won. He was also entitled to formally challenge the results of the election through lawful and appropriate means, such as by seeking recounts or audits of the popular vote in states or filing lawsuits challenging ballots and procedures. Indeed, in many cases, the Defendant did pursue these methods of contesting the election results. His efforts to change the outcome in any state through recounts, audits, or legal challenges were uniformly unsuccessful. United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Freedom of speech Get him out. Try not to hurt him. If you do, I'll defend you in court. Donald Trump, telling his supporters to remove a critic from his rally, February 29, 2016, Warren, MI and elsewhere © 2016 Kwiple.com
Freedom of speech Wouldn't you love to see one of the NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, “Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He's fired. He's fired!” Donald Trump, on NFL players who kneel during singing of the national anthem as a protest against racial injustice © 2017 Kwiple.com
Freedom of the press I strongly hope that Donald Trump sues The New York Times for publishing his tax returns, just as I strongly hope that in the two debates to come, Donald Trump once again attacks Rosie O'Donnell and utters more gibberish. Any such lawsuit – which in all likeli- hood would be shot down by the courts on First Amendment grounds – is likely to further unravel the candidacy of man who is, among other disqualifying flaws, an enemy of a free press. Gabriel Schoenfeld, a lawyer who sued the New York Times for publishing news about warrantless wiretapping © 2016 Kwiple.com
Fright wingers say They are hoping and praying that Hillary Clinton becomes president of the United States because they'll take over not only that part of the world, they'll take over this country, they'll take over this part of the world. Believe me. They are hoping. They are hoping. Donald Trump, on ISIS © 2016 Kwiple.com
Fright wingers say We have cities that are far more dangerous than Afghanistan. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Fright wingers say The world is a mess. The world is as angry as it gets. What, you think this is going to cause a little more anger? The world is an angry place. Donald Trump, on suspending immigration from some Muslim countries © 2017 Kwiple.com
Global warming I'm not a believer in climate change. … Look, it's weather and it's been that way for so long. Donald Trump, September 24, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Global warming If we fail to act now, it is scientifically irrefutable that there will be catastrophic and irreversible consequences for humanity and our planet. December 6, 2009, open letter to President Obama and the Congress, from liberals and business leaders, including “Donald J. Trump, Chairman and President, Donald Trump, Jr., EVP, Eric F. Trump, EVP, Ivanka Trump, EVP, The Trump Organization” © 2017 Kwiple.com
God  People say, how do you get through that whole stuff? How do you go through those witch hunts and everything else? And you know what we did, Mike, we just do it. Right? And we think about God. Donald Trump, National Prayer Day, May 2, 2019 [Mike = Mike Pence] © 2019 Kwiple.com
Good news Trump gets a folder full of positive news about himself twice a day It's known as the “propaganda document” citation headline, Vice News, August 9, 2017 [it's also known as the “flattery folder”] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Good news Trump hasn't started a war … yet July 25, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Guns Through stupidity, in a very hardcore prison, two vicious murderers escaped, and nobody knows where they are. And a woman up in the prison area was on television this morning and she said, “You know, Mr. Trump, I always was against guns. I didn't want guns. And now since this happened, my husband and I are finally in agree- ment, because he wanted the guns. We now have a gun on every table. We're ready to start shooting.” I said, “Very interesting.” Donald Trump, June 16, 2015, speech © 2016 Kwiple.com
Healthcare Obamacare will be replaced with a MUCH better, and FAR cheaper, alternative if it is terminated in the Supreme Court. Would be a big WIN for the USA! Donald Trump, 10:09 AM – Sep 27, 2020, instructing Amy Coney Barrett and sitting Republican justices on the Court to kill Obamacare during a pandemic and in a transition period between administrations  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Healthcare You have better healthcare than we do. Donald Trump to Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister of Australia, which has government-funded healthcare for all Australians and permanent residents, just hours after House Republicans repealed parts of Obamacare, which Trump called for during his campaign © 2017 Kwiple.com
Higher education “I recall the day that I took Trump's SATs as clearly as if it were yesterday” Putin said. “I totally aced them.” As the years rolled by, Putin followed with intense interest the career of the man whose SATs he took. “I often asked myself, ‘How will Donald Trump every repay me for putting him on the path to Wharton?’” Putin said, with a devilish smile. “As it turned out, I found a way.” Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, July 7, 2020 [Satire - his sister Mary says Joe Shapiro, “a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker,” sat in for Trump] © 2020 Kwiple.com
History He didn’t want a record of anything. He never stopped ripping things up. Do you really think Trump is going to care about the records act? Come on. A "former senior Trump official" quoted in Washington Post, February 5, 2022, on Trump's habit of repeatedly and knowingly tearing up official White House documents in violation of the Presidential Records Act © 2022 Kwiple.com
The Holocaust It is a great honor to be here with my friends! So amazing and will never forget! Donald Trump's message in the Book of Remembrance at Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum © 2017 Kwiple.com
Homelessness My father and I were walking down Fifth Avenue and there was a homeless person sitting right outside Trump Tower. I remember my father pointing to me and saying, “You know that guy has $8 billion more than me,” because he was in such extreme debt at that point, you know? Ivanka Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Housing Adorned with gold and marble, it looks like Saddam Hussein went on a shopping spree with Liberace. Edwin Heathcote, on Donald Trump's penthouse apartment at Trump Tower Fifth Avenue, in New York Financial Times, February 17, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Housing If you have a windmill anywhere near your home, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Housing Would it have been nicer if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that, wouldn't it been nice? Living – think of this, living in Pakistan, beautifully in Pakistan and what I guess in what they considered a nice mansion. I don't know, I've seen nicer. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say I find in life,  you can’t let people get away with bullshit. Donald Trump, whose entire career is based on getting away with bullshit © 2024 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say Because I'm not president. Donald Trump, responding to CNN moderator Kaitlin Collins's question, "So what's different now?" during a May 10, 2023, televised "town hall" meeting after Trump had encouraged Republicans to vote to default on the nation's debt and she had reminded him that he had said, when he  was president, that it was wrong for Democrats to use the prospect of defaulting on it as a negotiating tactic [The audience of staunch Trump supporters responded with peals of laughter and applause at the prospect of ruining the country's credit rating; the loss of 6-8 million jobs; increases in all interest rates; reductions in Social Security/ veterans/other welfare programs; reductions in investor confidence/stock market prices, etc.] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say But we must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise and the common good. Donald Trump, 2019 State of the Union Address © 2019 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say David Duke endorsed me? O.K., all right. I disavow, O.K.?   Donald Trump's “disavowal” of David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan © 2017 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say I don't blame China. Donald Trump, standing beside Chinese President Xi Jinping to speak to China's leading businessmen, who, fully aware of Trump's repeated claims that they were raping America on trade, gasped and laughed out loud © 2017 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say  Maxine [Waters], she's a beauty! I mean she was practically telling people the other day to assault. Can you imagine if I said the things she said? … Horrible what she said. Donald Trump, who often explicitly asks supporters at his rallies to punch out his critics and promises to pay their legal bills  if they're charged with assault  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say The mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth? Donald Trump, who invoked it when asked about adultery during divorce proceedings from Ivana, blew off congressional subpoenas often during his administration and instructed dozens of staff to do the same © 2021 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me “old,” when I would NEVER call him “short and fat?”  Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen! Donald Trump, 4:48 PM - 11 Nov 2017 from Vietnam © 2017 Kwiple.com
Ideas Trump told the lawmakers they could talk about the solar-paneled wall as long as they said it was his idea. Axios, June 6, 2017, reporting on Trump's White House meeting with Republican Congressional leaders, during which he described his vision of the Mexican border wall as being 40 to 50 feet high and covered in solar panels so they'd be "beautiful structures" [A solar-panel-covered wall was among the designs proposed when the U.S. requested designs for the wall] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Ignorance Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets' red glare, it had nothing but victory. Donald Trump on the War of 1812 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ignorance  Trump thought Colorado bordered Mexico. He thought Finland was part of Russia, and that Belgium is a city. He pronounced Namibia “Nambia” and called Thailand “Thighland,” as if it were a strip club. He thought Nepal and Bhutan were parts of India, and called them “Nipple” and “Button.” Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Immigration As the leader of our party, there is zero chance I will support this horrible open borders betrayal of America. I’ll fight it all the way. A lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they’re blaming it on me.  I say, that’s OK. Please blame it on me.  Please. Donald Trump, January 28, 2024, proudly trying to block a bipartisan Senate border security bill that gives Republicans every border security provision they've been  clamoring for for years without providing a path to citizenship for immigrsnts already here, because he believes border security will be a winning issue for him in the 2024 election © 2024 Kwiple.com
Immigration The secret's out. For Republicans, the border is a moneymaking grievance machine. And if we passed our border bill and fixed the problem, Republicans literally wouldn't know what to do with their days. Republicans killed the toughest bipartisan border bill that they have ever seen because they don't want to fix the border. They want to keep it a mess because they think it helps them politically. Chris Murphy,  the Democrat who negotiated the border bill with Republican James Lankford that Trump ordered Republican senators to kill, which they did © 2024 Kwiple.com
Immigration Shinzo, you don't have this problem, but I can send you 25 million Mexicans and you'll be out of office very soon. Donald Trump to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe © 2018 Kwiple.com
Immigration Trump Highlights Immigrant Crime to Defend His Border Policy. Statistics Don't Back Him Up.  headline, New York Times, June 22, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Immigration We have some bad hombres here, and we're going to get them out. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Impeachment All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here – a lynching. Donald Trump, 4:52 AM -– 22 Oct 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Impeachment DONALD TRUMP: When she [Nancy Pelosi] first got in and was named Speaker, I met her. And I'm very impressed by her. I think she's a very impressive person. I like her a lot. But I was surprised that she didn't do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush. It was almost – it just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which personally I think would have been a wonderful thing. WOLF BLITZER: Impeaching him? DONALD TRUMP: Absolutely. For the war. For the war! Well, he lied! He got us into a war with lies, and I mean, look at the trou- ble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant and they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense. From a 2008 interview © 2020 Kwiple.com
Impeachment I can't imagine the courts allowing it. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Impeachment Later can't mean never because the case for inaction here is starting to get pretty weak. John Oliver, June 16, 2019, after Trump said he would accept foreign meddling again in American elections in order to get rerelected in 2020 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Impeachment There was no crime. You know, it's high crimes AND – not with or or. It's high crimes and misdemeanors. There was no high crime and there was no misdemeanor. So how do you impeach based on that? Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Impeachment When you look at past impeachments, whether it was president Clinton or, I guess president Nixon never got there, he left. I don't leave. There's a big difference. I don't leave. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Inheritance Well, I think that she's got a lot of Marla. She's a really beautiful baby. She's got Marla's legs. We don't know whether or not she's got this part [gesturing to signify large breasts] yet, but time will tell. Donald Trump, responding to a question from Robin Leach, host of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, about which attributes Tiffany, his then-1-year-old daughter, inherited from him and his wife  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Japan The Japanese, when they negotiate with us, they have long faces. But when the negotiations are over, it is my belief–I've never seen this– they laugh like hell. Donald Trump, 1988 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Jews A lot you are in the real estate business, because I know you very well. You're brutal killers, not nice people at all, but you have to vote for me. You have no choice. You're not gonna vote for Pocahontas [Elizabeth Warren], I can tell you that. You're not gonna vote for the wealth tax. Some of you don't like me. Some of you I don't like at all, actually. And you're going to be my biggest supporters because you're going to be out of business in about 15 minutes if they get it. So I don't have to spend a lot of time on that. Donald Trump, speaking to the Israeli American Council, December 8, 2019, about the 2020 elections © 2019 Kwiple.com
Jews No President has done more for Israel than I have. Somewhat surprisingly, however, our wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the U.S. Those living in Israel, though, are a different story — Highest approval rating in the World, could easily be P.M.! U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel — Before it is too late! Donald Trump, 9:29 AM – Oct 16, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Journalism No matter where you stand  in the cable-news wars, Trump is a lucrative story. Amanda Hess, New York Times Magazine, October 6, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Journalism You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that  when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you. Donald Trump to Leslie Stahl, who asked him, while taping for 60 Minutes, why he continually attacks the press © 2021 Kwiple.com
Judges Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, but you do indeed have "Obama judges,” and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safey of our country. Donaldl Trump, 12:51 PM – 21 Nov 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary the Honorable (thə on'ər ə bəl) adjectival phrase. A gender-neutral adjectival phrase traditionally placed before the name of a current or past holder of a high office. When in used before Donald Trump's name or the name of one of his kiss-asses, such as Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Devin Nunes, Mike Pence or Betsy DeVos, the usage is ipso facto  ironic. © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary Republican Party (ri pub'li kən pär'tē), n. The native habitat of the North American long-tongued lickspittle. © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Celebrate April 15 by anonymously filing an IRS Form 3949A, Information Referral, to report suspected tax law violations by 1a. Donald J. Trump 1c. June 14, 1947 1d. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue 1g. 37188 1h. President 1i. president@whitehouse.gov 1j. Married 1k. Melania Trump for failing to report personal income from Public/Political Corruption Kickbacks © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Donald Trump is America's biggest loser © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Donald Trump is America's Vladimir Putin © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Donald Trump is making anti-Americanism reasonable and respectable  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Donald Trump is the poster child for sucking at the public tit © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Donald Trump is proof self-centered little snots can grow old without growing up © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Donald Trump is proof you can have lots of money and be worthless © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Donald Trump is the Martin Shkreli of presidents © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Donald Trump is Vladimir Putin's bitch © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Enquiring minds want to know: Is Trump Putin's poodle or Bannon's bitch? © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Having small hands doesn't prevent you from stepping on your own dick © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say If you don't know whose ass Republicans are kissing, you're not paying attention  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Imagine what Trump would be like if Obama were only white  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say The lying has to stop. The liars have to be put down. © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Not everyone who voted for Trump is a liar and a racist and a sexist, but everyone who did is someone who wanted one in the White House  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Of Donald Trump: All action, action, action – no knowledge, no forethought, no moderation, no integrity, no dignity, no virtue. Worse than sad! © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say To Donald Trump: Urine trouble. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Trump and his ilk call mass shootings “evil”  to imply they're part of human nature, and therefore can't be regulated © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Trump can accelerate – but not reverse – America's relative decline © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Trump officially declares class war decades after it started His proposed tax plan overwhelmingly benefits him, his kids, his ilk © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Trump's real campaign slogan: Make America's white men feel great again © 2016 Kwiple.com
Lame-ass excuse In a key sentence in my remarks I said the word “would” instead of “wouldn't.” The sentence should have been: “I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be Russia.” Sort of a double negative. Donald Trump, who, at the Helsinki summit, accepted Putin's denials of Russian interference in American elections, adding, “I don't see any reason why it would be,” which contradicts findings by every American intelligence agency © 2018 Kwiple.com
Lame-ass excuse The President's new at this. He's new to government. So, he probably wasn't steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between DOJ, FBI and White Houses. He's just new to this. Paul Ryan explaining why Donald Trump asked FBI director James Comey to drop his investigation of Michael Flynn after everyone else at a meeting with them had been asked to leave the room © 2017 Kwiple.com
Law and order It was the most beautiful thing. It's called law and order. Punchline to the tale Donald Trump tells attendees at his rallies about how Minneapolis police shot an MSNBC reporter covering protests of George Floyd's murder in the knee with a rubber bullet while fleeing marauding police, which tale invariably ignites Day-of-the-Locust-worthy cackling and blood lust © 2020 Kwiple.com
Leadership The Federal government is not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping. You know, we're not a shipping clerk. Donald Trump, leaving it to state and local governments to compete with one another to obtain hospital beds, face masks, ventilators, personal protective equipment, test kits and other equipment needed to fight the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic © 2020 Kwiple.com
Leadership I don't take responsibility at all. Donald Trump, deflecting blame for his administration's COVID-19 coronavirus testing fiasco onto the Obama administration © 2020 Kwiple.com
Leadership I just don't want to be doing – somehow sitting in the Oval Office behind that beautiful Resolute Desk, the great Resolute Desk, I think wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, I don't know, somehow I don't see it for myself. I just don't. Donald Trump, defying advice from the CDC to wear a protective mask during a pandemic © 2020 Kwiple.com
Liars A man arrives at the pearly gates and asks Peter about all the clocks he sees, each at a different time. “A clock measures the number of lies you've told,” said Peter. “If you never told any, it's at midnight. If you told just a few, like Abe Lincoln, it's a few minutes past midnight.” “Where's Trump's?,” asks the man. “Oh, his,” said Peter. “We're using it as a ceiliing fan.” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Liars say And to this day, I get people coming up to me, and they said,“You know what one of the most amazing things I've ever seen about you? Is that you predicted that Osama bin Laden had to be killed before he knocked down the World Trade Center.” It's true. Now, most of the press don't want to write that, but you know – but it is true. If you go back, look at my book, I think it was “The America We Deserve,” I made that prediction. and I – let's put it this way: If they would have listened to me, a lot of things would have been different. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Liars say During the meeting [on Jan. 4, 2021], as reflected in the Vice President's contemporaneous notes, the Defendant made knowingly false claims of election fraud, including, “Bottom line — we won every state by 100,000s of votes” and “We won every state,” and asked — regarding a claim his senior Justice Department officials previously had told him was false, including as recently as the night before — “What about 205,000 votes more in PA than voters?” United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Liars say He [Ted Cruz] said I was in favor in Libya. I never discussed that subject. Donald Trump, who supported helping Libyans oust Muammar Gaddafi, saying, “Now we should go in, we should stop this guy, which would be very easy and very quick. We could do it surgically.” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Liars say I did not know he took views on the Mueller investigation as such. Donald Trump, claiming he didn't know Matthew Whitaker, who he made temporary Attorney General to smother the Mueller investigation, which he now oversees, often publicly opposed it, including on Fox News, his favorite channel  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Liars say I did not support the war in Iraq. Donald Trump, who supported the impending invasion in an interview with Howard Stern in September, 2002, six months before the invasion in March, 2003 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Liars say I didn’t know practically what a subpoena was. Now I’m, like, becoming an expert. I have no choice because we have to. It’s a disgrace. Donald Trump billionaire New York real estate developer who'd been involved in thouands of suits prior to being sued by the DOJ, playing the victim card © 2023 Kwiple.com
Liars say I don't need anybody's money. I'm using my own money. I'm not using donors. I don't care. I'm really rich. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Liars say I have no idea what a burner phone is, to the best of my knowledge I have never even heard the term. Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Liars say I LOVE TRUTH! Donald Trump, @realDonaldTrump : Oct 28, 2022, 9:10 AM © 2022 Kwiple.com
Liars say I must state that you, sir, under historic scrutiny, were proven innocent. Donald Trump, to Brett Kavanaugh during Kavanuagh's swearing in ceremony at the White House, even though Kavanaugh was never on trial and if he had been and had been found “not guilty,” it would only mean he had not been proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, not that he had been proven innocent © 2018 Kwiple.com
Liars say I'm not into coups! Donald Trump, July 15, 2021 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Liars say I'm okay with masks. I tell people to wear masks. CDC comes out with a statement that 85% of the people wearing masks catch it. Donald Trump  answering a question about COVID-19 during his televised October 15, 2020, town hall meeting © 2020 Kwiple.com
Liars say I'm very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for Democrats. They definitely don't want Trump! Donald Trump, 8:50 AM - 24 Jul 2018, after standing beside Putin in Helsinki as Putin admitted that he ordered Russian interference in the 2016 election to help Trump win, which puts this statement beyond mere lying and deep into the depths of scumbaggery © 2018 Kwiple.com
Liars say I never threatened, or spoke about, to anyone, a coup of our Government. So riduculous! Sorry to inform you, but an Election is my form of “coup,” Donald Trump, July 15, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Liars say I try to stay out of politics. Ivanka Trump, special adviser to and surrogate for her dad, with an office in the White House © 2017 Kwiple.com
Liars say I've always known this is a real — this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. All you had to do was look at other countries. Donald Trump, March 17, 2020, who called COVID-19 coronavirus a "hoax" © 2020 Kwiple.com
Liars say I was having meetings.  I was also with Mark Meadows and others. I was not watching television. Donald Trump, on what he was doing on January 6 while his supporters attacked the Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
Liars say The “Intelligence” briefing on so-called “Russian hacking” was delayed until Friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case. Very strange! Donald Trump, 8:14 PM - 3 Jan 2017, future “President” of the “United” States, lying about a meeting that was never delayed © 2017 Kwiple.com
Liars say It was a complete and total exoneration. Donald Trump, commenting on William Barr's letter quoting special counsel Mueller's findings about possible obstruction of justice: “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Liars say Many of those affected were firefighters, police officers and other first responders. And I was down there also, but I'm not considering myself a first responder. But I was down there. Donald Trump, when signing a law extending healthcare for real first responders © 2019 Kwiple.com
Liars say Nothing more could have been done. Donald Trump, summarizing his administrations's response to the COVID-19 pandemic © 2020 Kwiple.com
Liars say Obama had a separation policy, but people don't like to talk about that. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Liars say One thing I can promise you – this: I will always tell you the truth. Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Liars say Republicans will totally protect people with Pre-Existing Conditions, Democrats will not! Vote Republican. Donald Trump, 5:45 AM – 24 Oct 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Liars say That night [January 5, 2021], the Defendant approved and caused the Defendant's Campaign to issue a  public statement that the Defendant knew, from his meeting with the Vice President only hours earlier, was false: “The Vice President and I are in total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act [to overturn elections]." United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Liars say They were incredible. When I went to the courthouse, which is also a prison in a sense, they signed me in and I'll tell you people were crying. People that work there — professionally work there — that have no problems putting in murderers and they see everybody. It's a tough, tough place. And, they were crying. They were actually crying. They said, “I'm sorry,” they’d say, “2024 sir,” and tears were pouring down. I've never seen anything like that. Donald Trump, on police and court officers' reaction to his arraignment in Manhatten on 34 felony counts © 2023 Kwiple.com
Liars say This has nothing to do with race. Donald Trump, on calling any NFL player who kneels during singing of the national anthem in protest of racial injustice in America a “son of a bitch” who should be fired  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Liars say This is going to cost me a fortune, this thing, believe me, believe me. This is not good for me. I have some very wealthy friends. Not so happy with me, but that's OK. You know, I keep hearing [New York Democratic Senator Chuck] Schumer, “This is for the wealthy.“ Well, if it is, my friends don't know about it. Donald Trump, on the 2017 Republican tax bill © 2017 Kwiple.com
Liberalism In which half of the West is liberalism more vulnerable: the US or Europe? Well, the raw individual clout of Trump unites and fuels America’s hard right. What serves the equivalent role in Europe  is a sense of demographic and cultural siege. The difference is that Trump will one day be gone. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, November 28, 2023 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Lies It's now clear that just because Trump is lying to us, that doesn't mean he's lying to himself. Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, September 13, 2020, on tapes revealing that Trump knew COVID-19 was "deadly stuff" in January, 2020, but continued telling Americans it wasn't © 2020 Kwiple.com
Lies Lying is the message.   It's not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way and for the same purpose: blatantly, to assert power over truth itself. Mascha Gessen, New York Review of Books, December 13, 2016 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Lies Mr. Trump knew of and directed the Trump Moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it. He lied about it because he never expected to win. He also lied about it because he stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars on the Moscow real estate project. Michael Cohen © 2019 Kwiple.com
Lies That's the great thing about having tiny hands: it makes it easier to pull stuff right out of your ass. Bill Maher, March 17, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Lies When the attorney general lies to Congress, it is a crime. When the president does it, it is the state of the union. Stephen Colbert, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, 5/2/2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Local news Former Jamaica Estates resident Donald Trump was impeached Wednesday by the U.S. House of Representatives. He is the third president to be impeached in United States history – and the first from Queens. Queens Daily Eagle, Dec. 19, 2019, p. 16 © 2019 Kwiple.com
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
Losers More than 500,000 individual taxpayers took advantage of the same tax rule as Mr. Trump in 1995, according to the Internal Revenue Service. The average loss they claimed, however, was just $97,600. Mr. Trump's $916 million loss accounted for almost 2 percent of the national total. New York Times, October 4, 2016 Trump's $915,729,293 loss divided by $97,600 average loss equals 9,382 times the average loss © 2016 Kwiple.com
Looks Heidi Klum. Sadly, she's no longer a 10. Donald Trump [It's unclear whether Trump was referring to the fact that Klum had turned 40 or that she had had children, or both] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Looks It's like we're twins. Donald Trump to Viktor Orbán, Hungary's pudgy strongman  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Losers When Trump broke tradition with every modern president and refused to sell his businesses or at least put them in a blind trust, he must have figured he'd make much more money his way. Turned out just the opposite. Most financial experts say if he'd have sold it all and put everything into America's bull market, he'd be worth $500 million more today. Rick Reilly, Commander in Cheat  [April, 2019] © 2019 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing Remember in the old days they used to have “Made in USA” … We're going to start doing that again. Donald Trump, speaking about companies other than his and Ivanka's at a White House event, Made in America Day, which launched Made in America Week, which he promised would lead to Made in America Decades © 2017 Kwiple.com
Marriage I would never buy Ivana any decent jewels or pictures. Why give her negotiable assets? Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
Marriage When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece of ass — a good one! — there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who was left. Donald Trump, after leaving wife Ivana for Marla Maples © 2024 Kwiple.com
Memory I don't remember ever buying something for myself. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
Memory I don't remember that. Donald Trump, responding when asked under oath, “So you don't remember saying you have one of the best memories in the world?” © 2024 Kwiple.com
Mental health Don't testify. It's either that or an orange jump suit. John M. Dowd, Trump's former lawyer, doubting Trump is mentally capable of testifying to Speclal Counsel Robert Mueller without lying  © 2018 Kwiple.com
The military It didn’t sound too important to me. --> Donald Trump, defending wanting to divert $3.6 billion in funds to build base housing, schools, gyms and other projects benefitting service members and their families to build his pet project, a southern border wall © 2024 Kwiple.com
The military Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic. headline, article by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic, September 3, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Military parades Check your cards! Who has dictator bingo? I was close. I had rallies and attack the free press. I didn't have military parade. Stephen Colbert, The Late Show, February 8, 2018, on Trump wanting one of his own  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Military parades I will say this: it won't make him happy. And I think it's important  that he knows that. Whatever this presidency is about –the search for a lost father's love, trying to fill a void with something tangible– that parade is going to go past him and he's going to realize this isn't it either. It's not gonna happen. Those phallic missiles, he'll think, “No, okay, it must be something else then.” And that–that–is when we're really fucked. John Oliver, on Trump wanting a parade of his own © 2018 Kwiple.com
Military parades The marching orders were: “I want a parade like the one in France,” said a military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the planning discussions are supposed to remain confidential. “This is being worked at the highest levels of the military.” Washington Post, February 6, 2018, on “a Jan. 18 meeting between Trump and top generals in the Pentagon's tank – a room reserved for top-secret discussions,” during which Trump said he wanted a parade like he saw in France on Bastille Day, 2017 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Mob bosses say IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I'M COMIG AFTER YOU! Donald “Orange Don” Trump, a.k.a. “The Defendant,” @realDonaldTrump Aug 04, 2023 – 4:49 PM © 2023 Kwiple.com
Mob violence I think her bodyguards should drop all weapons. I think they should disarm. Immediately. Let's see what happens to her. Take their guns away, O.K. It'll be very dangerous. Donald Trump, again invoking the possibility of assassination as a way to prevent Hilllary Clinton from being elected  [without, being the chickenhawk he is, offering to disarm his own bodyguards] © 2016 Kwiple.com
Mob violence If she [Hillary Clinton] gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people – maybe there is, I don't know. Donald Trump, suggesting gun rights supporters take matters into their own hands if Hillary Clinton is elected President and gets to choose Supreme Court judges © 2016 Kwiple.com
Mob violence If you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them. I promise you I will pay for the legal fees. Donald Trump, February 1, 2016, Cedar Rapids, IA and elsewhere © 2016 Kwiple.com
Mob violence In the good old days, they'd rip him out of that seat so fast, but today everybody's politically correct. Our country's going to hell with being politcally correct. Donald Trump, February 26, 2016, Oklahoma City, OK © 2016 Kwiple.com
Mob violence Isn't this more fun than a regular boring rally? To me, it's fun. Donald Trump, after having his private security force physically remove protesters from his rally and encouraging supporters to help them and to drown out protesters by chanting “Trump Trump Trump” or “USA USA USA” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Money All of those golfers that remain "loyal" to the very disloyal PGA, in all of its different forms, will pay a big price when the inevitable MERGER with LIV comes, and you get nothing but a big "thank you" from PGA officials who are making Millions of Dollars a year. If you don't take the money now, you will get nothing after the merger takes place, and only say how smart the original signees were. Donald Trump, July 19, 2022 [Trump says he and Saudis backing LIV Golf "have been friends … for a long time." The PGA moved a scheduled tournament from his club in Bedminister, NJ, to one in Oklahoma after the January 6 attack on the Capitol.] © 2022 Kwiple.com
Money in politics Anybody that makes a “Contribution” to Birdbrain, from this moment forth, will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp. Donald Trump, Jan 24, 2024, 8:49 PM [By “Birdbrain,” Trump means Nikki Haley, not himself or his spawn. “MAGA camp” is a nationwide day camp where disinformed adults frolic and wallow.] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Money in politics As a businessman and a very substantial donor to very important people, when you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do. As a businessman, I need that. Donald Trump, justifying hiis donating to politicians to reap benefits from paying-to-play Wall Street Journal, August 25, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Money in politics I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them. They are there for me. And that's a broken system. Donald Trump © 2021 Kwiple.com
Money in politics I would do that, yeah, if I had to. I make $400 million a year, so what difference does it make? Donald Trump, answering a question about whether he would be willing to spend $1 billion of his own money to get elected President © 2016 Kwiple.com
Money in politics The president reimbursed it over a period of several months. Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's lawyer, on Michael Cohen's $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 presidential election © 2018 Kwiple.com
Money in politics The president repaid it … He didn't know about the specifics of it, as far as I know, but he did know about the general arrangement that Michael would take care of things like this, like I take care of things like this for my clients. I don't burden them with every single thing that comes along. These are busy people. Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's lawyer, on Michael Cohen's $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 presidential election © 2018 Kwiple.com
Money in politics  Report: Trump lawyer  brokered $130,000 payment to porn star headline, Washington Post, January 12, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Money in politics Somebody should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over! Donald Trump, 9:13 AM – 16 Apr 2017, questioning the motivation of the 125,000+ people who took part in April 15 Tax Day rallies in 200 communities to demand that he release his tax returns © 2017 Kwiple.com
Money in politics There's … there's two people, I think, Putin pays. Putin pays: [California Representative Dana] Rohrabacher and Trump … [laughter]… swear to God. Kevin McCarthy, 2017, now a devout Trumpist  © 2019 Kwiple.com
National security I will say there are specific rules about where to store classified information  and that those need to be stored in a SCIF – a  sensitive compartmented information facility – and in my experience, ballrooms, bathrooms, and bedrooms are not SCIFs. FBI Director Christopher Wray on classified documents at Mar-a-Lago © 2023 Kwiple.com
National security 3. The classified documents TRUMP stored in his boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs; potential volnerabilities of the United States and it allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack. The unauthorized disclosure of these classified documents could put at risk the national security of the United States, foreign relations, the safety of the United States military, and human sources and the continued viability of sensitive intelligence collection methods … 5. … TRUMP stored his boxes containing classified documents in various locations at the Mar-a-Lago Club—including a ballroom, a bathroom and shower, an office space, his bedroom, and a storage room. USA v. DONALD J. TRUMP and WALTINE NAUDA © 2023 Kwiple.com
National security [Special counsel Jack] Smith’s job is straight- forward. He must … make clear to the jury that this case is about two simple things: First, a former president took documents con- taining some of our nation's most sensitive se- crets, which he was no more entitled to remove than the portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin hanging on the walls of of the Oval Office. Second, when he was caught, he persistently made up excuses, lied and tried to cover up his behavior, which he continues to do. It is impossible to overstate how essential it will be for Mr. Smith to … persuade the trial jury … he committed serious criminal acts. The conse- quence of doing that would be nothing short of affirmation of the rule of law in this country. The alternative is too grim to contemplate. Norman Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, Joyce Vance. New York Times, June 9, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Native Americans In 2000, as the expanding Native American casino industry in upstate New York threatened his own gambling interests in New Jersey, the businessman took aim at the St Regis Mohawk tribe. Trump secretly spent $1m on local newspaper adverts that portrayed the tribe as organized criminals and cocaine pushers. Under a photograph of syringes and lines of powder ran the question: “Are these the new neighbors we want?” The Guardians, September 29, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
NATO I don't give a shit about NATO. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
NATO One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, “Well, sir, if we don’t pay and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?”  I said, “You didn’t pay. You’re delinquent.” He said, “Yes, let’s say that happened.” No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them [Russians] to do whatever the hell they want. You got to pay. You got to pay your bills. Donald Trump, February 10, 2024, who thinks NATO is like a golf club, with annual fees, during at rally at Coastal Carolina University [The irony of him complaining about people who don't pay their bills went unremarked] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Net worth My net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down with markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings … as to where the world is, where the world is going, and that can change rapidly from day to day. Donald Trump, who will sue you if you publicly say he's not a billionaire, which is disputed © 2016 Kwiple.com
Never Trumpers Watch out for them. They are human scum.  Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Nukes If we have them, why can't we use them? Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Nukes Putin has built up their military again and again and again. Their military is much stronger. He's doing nuclear. We're not doing anything. Our nuclear's old and tired and his nuclear is tippy-top from what I hear. Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Obituary notice  He passed away May 3, 2017, at his home in Altoona, IA. We told him the process to impeach Trump had begun – so that he could rest in peace. from the obituary for Corliss D. Gilchrist, The Des Moines Register, May 7, 2017 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Obituary notice Mike ran out of family long ago and is survived by his ex-wife and best friend, Teresa Elliott. Though their marriage ran aground, their friendship only grew stronger and hers was the last voice Mike heard. And the last thing she said to him was “Donald Trump has been impeached.” Upon hearing that he took his final gentle breath, his earthly work concluded. from the obituary for Michael Garland Elliott , The Oregonian, Apr 11-16, 2017 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Obstruction of justice Each of us believes that the conduct of president Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report would, in the case of any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting president, result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice. Statement By Forner Federal Prosecutors, a May 6, 2019, letter signed by more than 500 Department of Justice alumni from all parties, all regions and all levels of the Department during Democratic and Republican administrations © 2019 Kwiple.com
Offshoring You can tell them to go fuck themselves. Donald Trump, on businesses that went offshore because, “we're the highest-taxed nation in the entire world,” which is false even for the top marginal corporate income tax rate © 2016 Kwiple.com
Pardons and commutations He [Giuliani] also asked Ms. Dunphy if she knew anyone in need of a pardon, telling her that he was selling pardons for $2 million, which he and President Trump would split. He told Ms. Dunphy that she could refer individuals seeking pardons to him, so long as they did not go through “the normal channels” of the Office of the Pardon Attorney, because correspondence going to that office would be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. From the verified complaint against Rudy Giuliani filed by Noelle Dunphy, his former Business Development director © 2023 Kwiple.com
Pardons and commutations   I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong? Donald Trump, 8:35 AM – Jun 4, 2018 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Penny pinchers in 1990, Trump and Khashoggi were again linked through a prank designed to find out who was the cheapest rich person in New York. The satirical magazine Spy created a phony business and sent $1.11 refund checks to fifty-eight rich New Yorkers. Those who cashed the checks then got another refund check from the fake firm for half as much money. The prank ended when only two self-proclaimed billionaire penny pinchers Donald Trump and Adnan Khashoggi had the dubious distinction of endorsing and depositing into their bank accounts fake refund checks for thirteen cents each. David Cay Johnston, The Making of Donald Trump  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Populism What does he think Trump has that the others lacked, I ask? The short answer is that Trump understood that that America's “aspirational” working class had become “desperational”. Edward Luce, from his interview with Anthony Scaramucci © 2018 Kwiple.com
Populist leaders Notice how many populist leaders are what might be called relative  outsiders. Privileged by almost all standards, these people feel shut out of what they regard as the true in-crowd. Nigel Farage: a former stockbroker, but also a non-graduate and much-mocked seven-time loser of elections to parliament. Boris Johnson: Etonian and Oxonian but neither posh nor rich. Marine Le Pen: a dynast, but not one who passed through France’s top school for technocrats. And then the ultimate case in point: Donald Trump, an outer-borough arriviste, ridiculed by the smart set for his ghastly taste and paprika tan. Janan Ganesh, Financial Time, August 22, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Populists say It's not just the political system that's rigged. It's the whole economy. It's rigged by the big donors who want to keep down wages, fire our workers, and sell their products back in the U.S. with absolutely no consequences for them. It's rigged against you, the American people. Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Populists say January 20th, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation. Donald Trump, to whom “the people” means only his family, entrouage, appointees, and the 27% of eligible voters who voted for him, which was 4% less than those who voted against him © 2017 Kwiple.com
Populists say The only important thing is the unification of the people — because the other people don't mean anything. Donald Trump, equating his supporters with the people and opponents with enemies of the people © 2017 Kwiple.com
Populists say We have a silent majority that's no longer so silent. It's now the loud, noisy majority, and we're going to be heard. Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Post-truth Post-truth is pre-fascism, and Trump has been our post-truth president. When we give up on truth, we concede power to those with the wealth and charisma to create spectacle in its place. Post-truth wears away the rule of law and invites a regime of myth. Timothy Snyder, New York Times, January 9, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Power Real power is – I don't even want to use the word – fear. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Presidency Donald Trump did not — and does not — recognize any distinction between himself and the office of the presidency. He is it, and it is him. This view is as close a fundamental rejection of American constitutionalism as you can imagine — and it helps explain much of the former president’s behavior in and out of office. It is why he could not abide any opposition to anything he tried to  pursue, why he raged against the “deep state,” why he strained against every limit on his authority, why he rejected the very idea that he could lose the 2020 presidential election and why he decided he could simply take classified documents to his home in Florida. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, June 23, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Presidency The greatest presidents  end up on our currency. Donald Trump could end up on our hush money. Stephen Colbert © 2018 Kwiple.com
Presidency Imagine just for a moment, if 9-11 had happened with Donald Trump behind the desk. The first thing he would’ve done was run to the bunker to protect himself. He would’ve put himself first, before the country. And anyone who is unwilling to say that he is unfit to be President of the United States is unfit themselves to be President of the United States. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidency The question I get asked more than any other question: “If you had to do it again, would you have done it?” The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here's the way I look at it. I have [made] so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are. Donald Trump, on running for, and being, president © 2022 Kwiple.com
Profiles in courage I really believe I'd run in there, even if I didn't have a weapon. Donald Trump, who stayed home to tend bone spurs  rather than go to Vietnam fully armed, telling governors at a meeting concerning school safety that he would have rushed into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to protect children not his own © 2018 Kwiple.com
Profiles in courage A little over a month after his inauguration, on Feb. 28, 2017, President Trump signed HJ Resolution 40, a bill that made it easier for people with mental illness to obtain guns. CBS News then asked the White House to release the photograph of Mr. Trump signing the bill, making the request a total of 12 times. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders finally responded to repeated emails and phone calls with a one-line note on April 19, 2017, writing to CBS News, “We don't plan to release the picture at this time.” CBS News. February 15, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Promises Promises made, promises kept. You know, I've actually kept more promises than I've made. When did you ever hear that from a politician? Maybe never. Never. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Psychopaths say Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the “birther” controversy. I finished it — I finished it, you know what I mean. President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period. Donald Trump denying responsibility for starting birtherism and making false claims for five years about Obama in order to deligitimize him and and his pesidency and to stir up racist waves he hoped to surf to personally beneficial shores, while propagating a new lie his supporters are likey to believe as fervently as the old one © 2016 Kwiple.com
Psychopaths say That was a retweet. That was an opinion of somebody. And that was a retweet. I put it out there. People can decide for themselves. I don't take a position. Donald Trump, justifying retweeting a QAnon conspiracy theory to his 87 million followers that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had members of Navy SEAL Team 6 killed to cover up the fake death of Osama bin Laden © 2021 Kwiple.com
Psychopaths say We don't think that was my voice. Donald Trump, referring, apparently, to voices in his head that are now telling him that the voice heard on the “Access Hollywood” tape bragging about grabbing women by their pussy, which he admitted in the past is his, is really maybe perhaps not his © 2017 Kwiple.com
Public discourse And the greatest phrase, I think, in the history of politics is on all of those red and white hats that I see out there: “Make America Great Again.” Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Bing Bing Bong Bong Bing Bing Bing Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Missile launch. Woosh. Boom.  Donald Trump, describing a missile launch © 2024 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Even when a comment is so extreme that it does break into the mainstream, what happens next is predictable. The first time Trump says something, people react with shock and compare him to Hitler. The second time, people say Trump is at it again. By the third time, it becomes background noise — an appalling but familiar part of the Trump shtick. David A. Graham, The Atlantic, January/February 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Following Trump's victory, an ancient Greek term suddenly suddenly re-entered English usage: demophobia – literally fear of the mob. What if conveys is cold feet about democracy. The Trump era's changing vocabulary also includes a word of more recent coinage: oikophobia, literally an aversion to home surroundings. In reality, it means fear of your own people – the opposite of xenophobia. Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism © 2017 Kwiple.com
Public health We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC and World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock market starting to look very good to me! Donald Trump consoling the nation about the coronavirus © 2020 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Four score and seven years ago – that's a long time ago, very long – our fathers, who spoke about this at great length, did what perhaps has virtually never been done before: brought forth on this continent, a new nation, a very great new nation – there's no question about that – conceived in liberty – and that is so important! – and dedicated to the amazing proposition – and they felt very strongly about this, I can tell you – that all men are created equal. Number one for me. Donald Trump's Gettysburg Address, imagined by Dana Milbank © 2017 Kwiple.com
Public discourse God Emperor What American neo-Nazis call Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Humor … may be a way of telling us not to feel sorry for ourselves. But it is more often way of telling us not to feel sorry for others. It creates an economy of compassion, limiting it to those who are laughing and excluding those who are being laughed at. It makes the polarization of humanity fun. Trump is America's biggest comedian.  His badinage is hardly Wildean, but his put-  downs, honed to the sharpness of stilettos, are many people's idea of fun. For them, he makes anger, fear and resentment entertaining. Fintan O'Toole, NY Rev. of Books, Mar. 21, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Public discourse “It sounds like something I would say. That's how President Trump and I communicate, a lot of four-letter words, in this case three letters,” Mr Sondland quipped, adding that the phrase “loves your ass” was his way of conveying the situation in ”Trump-speak.“ Financial Times, November 22, 2019, on Sondland's response when asked if he had told Trump that Ukrainian President “Zelensky loves your ass,” as others had testified during the impeachment inquiry © 2019 Kwiple.com
Public discourse That was some weird shit. George W. Bush, commenting on Donald Trump's “carnage in America” inaugural address © 2018 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Trump reminded them [Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller, who had suggested softening remarks about immigrants], the crowds loved his rhetoric on immigrants along the campaign trail. Acting as if he was at a rally, he then read aloud a few made up Hispanic names and described potential crimes they could have committed, like rape or murder. Then, he said, the crowds would roar when the criminals were thrown out of the country – as they did when he high- lighted crimes by illegal immigrants at his rallies … Miller and Kushner laughed. Washington Post, May 24, 2018, on an Oval Office meeting © 2017 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Trump told one ally this week that he wanted “to brand” the informant [the FBI used in the early stages of its investigation of possible collusion with Russia by Trump's associates] a “spy,” believing the more nefarious term would resonate more in the media and with the public. NBC Miami, May 23, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Public discourse  We’re also going to place strong protections  to stop banks and regulators from trying to debank you from you — you know, your political beliefs what they do. They want to debank you, and we’re going to debank — think of this. They want to take away your rights, they want to take away your country, the things you’re doing. Donald Trump, at a New Hampshire rally in January, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Publicity stunt Smack in the middle of his cockamie interview with The Times last week, Ivanka dropped by the Oval Office so that her daughter, Arabella, could give Grandpa a kiss. How precious. How humanizing. How entirely choreographed. Frank Bruni, New York Times, July 23, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Punt returner With only a photo and no words, [Mika] Brzezinski shared a photo of a Cheerios box that featured a child reaching for a piece of cereal. The box included the phrase, “Made for small hands.” Washington Examiner, June 29, 2017, on “Morning Joe” host Mika Brzezinski's tweet responding to Trump's that insulted her intelligence and appearance, thereby ended the game with her winning 1-0 and him being relegated to the minors  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Ah, I think I can set him up with somebody. Donald Trump, responding to a staffer who told him that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his wife would not be joining him on his trip to India because Modi and his wife were separated © 2023 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say By the way, “corrupt intent” is also what you call it when Trump goes camping. Stephen Colbert responding to Senator Ted Cruz's claim that “a quid pro quo is not illegal unless there is ‘corrupt intent’” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Hey Donald, I have a great idea. Why don't we switch jobs? You take over TV, cause you're such an expert in ratings. And I take over your job, and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. Arnold Schwarzenegger, responding to Donald Trump, who had asked the foreign dignitaries, lawmakers and religious leaders at a National Prayer Breakfast to pray for an increase in the ratings of NBC's The Apprentice, which fell after Schwarzenegger replaced Trump as its host © 2017 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say I agree with that description, if you remove the “et” Stephen Curry, responding when asked about a statement made by the chief executive of Under Armour, his team's primary sponsor, that Trump is “a real asset” to the country  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say I hope he takes his kids with him. Manhattanite responding to the news that Donald Trump changed his official residence from Manhattan to Palm Beach, Florida, quoted in Financial Times, Nov. 2/3, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard. I've created thousands and thousands of jobs – tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. I've had tremendous success. I think I've done a lot. Donald Trump, fumbling his response to a father whose son was killed in Iraq trying to save others and who criticized Trump for sacrificing nothing and no one for his country © 2016 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say If the US president will only talk about things he has thoughts on, we will be hearing much less from him. Henry Mance responding to Donald Trump's statement about the Tory election campaign while in London for the 2019 NATO meeting: “It's going to be a very important election for this great country, but I have no thoughts on it.” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning. Bob Corker, 8:13 AM – 8 Oct 2017, responding to Trump's earlier tweet accusing Corker of “not having the guts” to run for re-election [In September, Corker had announced his decision to retire from the Senate in order to be able to criticize Trump without having to kowtow to right-wing Republicans] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say The reality about what Governor Kasich said about wanting your pilot to succeed because he's flying your plane is that your pilot has actually been trained to fly it. Maya Wiley, responding to the Ohio governor's comment that he roots for Donald Trump to do well for the same reason he roots for the pilot of a plane he's on to do well © 2017 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say May I point out that only one of you is sitting on Putin's lap with his hand up your butt. Stephen Colbert responding to Donald Trump, who said: “Joe Biden is a dummy” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say That's not fair. Mob bosses know how to run a casino — allegedly . . . allegedly. Stephen Colbert responding to news that James Comey compared Donald Trump to a mob boss  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say We would prefer something of value. Stephen Colbert responding to Donald Trump, who said: – after pulling a folded sheet of paper out of his jacket pocket, waving it about and claiming it was a secret agreement with Mexico to prevent migrants from entering the U.S. – “I just give you my word” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Well Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. Donald Trump, responding to Kevin McCarthy, Republican and minority leader of the House, who asked him to call off his supporters who were assaulting the Capitol © 2021 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Well, there's truth to that. There is truth to that. There are certainly no corners. And you look, there's a certain openness. But there's nobody out there. You know, there is an openness, but I've never seen anybody out there actually. Donald Trump, pointing to a window in the Oval Office, thereby fumbling his response to a request to reflect on George W. Bush's comment that the Oval Office is round and has no corners to hide in, meaning accountability ends there © 2017 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Wow, Mr. President, that's a good one. Was that like your answers to Mr. Mueller's questions, or did you write this one yourself? Adam Schiff, 10:36 AM – 18 Nov 2018, responding to Donald Trump, who called him, in his role as 72-year-old kindergartner, “little Adam Schitt” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Yes. Donald Trump responding to Howard Stern, who asked about Trump's daughter Ivanka, “Can I say this? A piece of ass.” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Yes, he's not a baby, because a baby wets his own bed. Stephen Colbert, responding to Donald Trump, who told Lesley Stahl, “I'm not a baby” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say You're the president. Your're not, like, somebody's crazy uncle who can just retweet whatever. Savannah Guthrie, responding to Trump's defense for retweeting a QAnon theory that Obama and Biden had members of SEAL Team 6 killed to cover up the fake death of Osama bin Laden by saying, “That was a retweet. That was an opinion of somebody. And that was a retweet. I put it out there. People can decide for themselves. I don't take a position.” © 2021 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say You're not wrong. I do occasionally use adult language and I do it in public instead of the privacy of an Access Holywood bus. Stephen Colbert, responding to Donald Trump, who said in a Time magazine interview that “There's nothing funny about what he says. And what he says is filthy.” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Racism If you accept the support of a Klan sympathizer, the Klan, and hesitate when asked about that support [as Donald Trump did], then you'll tolerate that support once in office. Barack Obama © 2016 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
Racists say The left is now rationing lifesaving therapeutics based on race, discriminating against and denigrating white people to determine who lives and who dies. If you’re white you don’t get the vaccine or if you’re white you don’t get therapeutics. … In New York state, if you're white, you have to go to the back of the line to get medical health. Donald Trump, January 15, 2022, at a rally in Florence, Arizona, a town which was 82.2% white in 2015 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Racists say Black guys counting my money! I hate it. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. Donald Trump, on a black accountant at one of his casinos © 2018 Kwiple.com
Racists say I heard today that she doesn't meet the requirements. Donald Trump, repeating a right-wing conspiracy theory that Kamala Harris is ineligible to run for vice president because her parents weren't citizens when she was born © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racists say Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? Donald Trump, asking about immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries  at a White House meeting on immigration, where he also suggested we should bring in more people from countries like Norway © 2018 Kwiple.com
Racketeering Defendants Donald John Trump [& 18 indicted & 30 unindicted co-defendants] …  constituted a criminal organization whose  members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities including, but not limited to, false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer,  forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, acts involving theft, and perjury. State of Georgia Fulton County v. Donald John Trump and 18 others © 2023 Kwiple.com
Reading If  I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them. Donald Trump, denyimg he kept a copy of My New Order, a volume of Hitler's speeches, in a cabinet beside his bed  © 2024 Kwiple.com
Reich wingers say I think it was disgraceful – disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out. That's something that Nazi Germany would have done, and did do. Donald Trump, on reporting about the existence of – and one public disclosure of – an unflattering dossier about his and his campaign's connections to Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence, which intelligence analysts and reporters kept silent about for six months as they tried, but failed, to verify its contents © 2017 Kwiple.com
Reich wingers say This is your family when Trump wins. Get your Israeli passport ready. Bridgett Williamson (@Bridget62945958), caption to a picture of lampshades sent to a Washington correspondent for the New York Times © 2016 Kwiple.com
Reich wingers say Trump comments were good. He didn't attack us. He just said the nation should come together. Nothing specific against us. He said that we need to study why people are so angry and implied that there was hate … on both sides. So he implied the antifa [anti-fascists] are haters. There was virtually no counter-signaling of us at all. The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi publication, on Trump's not blaming white supremacists for the violence at a Unite the Alt-Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a neo-Nazi drove into anti-racists, killing 1 & injuring 19 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republican Party Donald Trump didn't hijack the G.O.P. He understood it. Ezra Klein, May 5, 2022 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Republican Party If Mr Trump were a marsupial, the Republican party would be in his pouch.  Edward Luce, Financial Times, January 18, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republican Party [T]he Republican Party has come to shape itself around his [Trump's] person, it has also adopted his worldview, which is to say, the worldview and ideology of the boss. No longer content to run government for  business, the Republican Party  now hopes to run government as  a business. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, June 23, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Republicans Party  The Republicans are just too crazy right. What's going on is just nuts. Donald Trump, 1999, explaining why he quit the Republican Party to join Ross Perot's Reform Party © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republican Party The second unforgivable sin is Trump's encouragement of a foreign adversary's interference in U.S. electoral processes. Leave aside the question of whether Trump's cooperation with the Russians violated the law. He at least tacitly collaborated with a foreign intelligence operation against his country–sometimes in full public view. This started during the campaign, when he called upon the Russians to steal and release his opponent's emails, and has continued during his presidency, as he equivocates on whether foreign intervention occurred and smears intelligence professionals who stand by the facts. Meanwhile, the Republican Party has confirmed his nominees, doggedly pursued its agenda on tax reform and health care and attacked–of course–Hillary Clinton. Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans Party Trump brought the three horsemen of the apocalypse — immorality, dishonesty and bigotry. The party, complicit in all that, is dead to me, even though, I have to say,  a good chunk of my friends are Republicans. David Brooks, New York Times, January 13, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Republicans The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left, are in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our Country than the Do Nothing Democrats. Watch out for them, they are human scum!  Donald Trump, 10:48 AM – 23 Oct 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Republicans say )))Donald Trump((( © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say It's bigly easy to fuck over people economically if you convince them they're winning the culture war  a.k.a. Trump's Law  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Patriotism is when we release classified intelligence data, methods and sources to the public Treason is when others do it  The Putin Posse  Donald Trump, founder and motivator Devin Nunes (CA), memo writer Mike Conaway (TX) Tom Rooney (FL) Rick Crawford (AR) I. Ros-Lehtinen (FL) Trey Gowdy (SC) Elise Stefanik (NY) Will Hurd (TX) Chris Stewart (UT) Peter King (NY) Mike Turner (OH) Frank LoBiondo (NJ) Brad Wenstrup (OH) © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Personal loyalty to the President far outweighs your eligibility for some damn security clearance heretofore needed for a job he wants you to have © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say So what if Donald Trump pays no federal taxes | thinks those who do are stupid | evaded the draft |  belittles POWs & go ld star parents | denies having supported the Ir aq war | calls Mexicans rapists | wants to build a wall, exclude Muslims | insults & lies incessan tly | interrupts critics to divert attention | perso nifies narcissism |  is an adulterer | stalks, grop es women  | can't tell banter from bragging abo ut sexual assault | delegitimizes government, li beral democracy, a free press | wants nuclear w eapons to spread, a trade war with China | prais es dictators | asked Russians to hack Americans | never apologized for birtherism | defrauded in vestors & students | called it “Two Corinthians” | increases disrespect for America abroad | brag s about making money by running for president? He's for cutting taxes on the rich and packing the Court with right wingers  W H I C H   I S   A L L  T H A T  M A T T E R S © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say So what if Donald Trump stiffs contractors who work for him |  uses only offshore manufacturers  |  hires undocumented immigrants  |  is a “business genius” who's had six bankruptcies and was bailed out by banks  | bans some news networks from his events | en courages libel suits against journalists | is only suddenly pro-life  | claims to read the Bible but can't name his favorite verse  |  is not an active member of any church | is among the least cha ritable billionaires ever  |  uses his foundation's money to buy things for himself and make polit ical contributions  |  is a fear mongerer | thinks saying things again and again makes them true | humiliates prominent Republicans  | is loweri ng support for us among groups our survival de pends upon | is killing our downballot chances? He's for cutting taxes on the rich and packing the Court with right wingers  W H I C H   I S   A L L  T H A T  M A T T E R S © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republican Party [T]he Republican Party has come to shape itself around his [Trump's] person, it has also adopted his worldview, which is to say, the worldview and ideology of the boss. No longer content to run government for  business, the Republican Party  now hopes to run government as  a business. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, June 23, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Donald Trump has gone and done it © 2018 Kwiple.com
Resisters say The Siberian candidate Referring to Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say We're not his people. He's not our president.  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Respect For the most part, you can't respect people because most people aren't worthy of respect. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Right-wing populism Poland's ruling Law and Justice party lured Donald Trump to speak in Warsaw by promising him a rapturous rally, to which paid supporters were bussed in from provincial areas to chant “theives” and “traitors” at opposition party members and “Donald Trump!” and “USA!” throughout his speech praising Poland's support for Western values, and, at a press conference afterwards, joking about its supression of the press July 6, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
The Russia thing  But regardless of the recommendation, I was going to fire Comey, knowing there was no good time to do it! And in fact when I decided to just do it I said to myself, I said, “You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should've won.” Donald Trump on firing James Comey © 2018 Kwiple.com
The  scandal In 2016, Vladimir Putin's regime mounted information warfare against the United States, in part to help Trump become pres- ident. While this attack was underway, the Trump crew tried to collude covertly with Moscow, sought to set up a secret communications channel with Putin's office, and repeatedly denied in public that this assault was happening, providing cover to the Russian operation. Trump and his lieutenants aligned themselves with and assisted a foreign adversary, as it was attacking the United States. The evidence is rock-solid: They committed a profound act of betrayal. That is the scandal. David Corn, Mother Jones, June 5, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I hate him passionately. Tucker Carlson on Donald Trump, but only off the air to his colleagues and never on the air, where he remains Fox's most popular Trump sycophant © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I have often wondered how I missed the coming tragedy. It is not so much that I should have predicted that Americans would elect Donald Trump. It's just that I shouldn't have put it past us. Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Guardian, September 29, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm the guy who stops the leaks. I'm the guy who protects  the president and the family. I'm the guy who would  take a bullet for the president. Michael Cohen © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie He[Trump]'s tweeted at me probably fifty times. I've been gone for a year. I'm like a breakup he can't get over. James Comey © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie Let me be clear. Donald Trump may be a rat, but I have no desire to copulate with him. Ted Cruz © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump. Boris Johnson, 2015 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie All the women on The Apprentice  flirted with me, consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie Appreciate the congrats for being right about radical Islamic terrorism Donald Trump, on the June 12, 2016, mass shooting in which 49 were killed and 53 wounded at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, Florida © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie Aren't you glad I don't drink? Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie Do you know it's my dream to have my face on Mount Rushmore? Donald Trump to South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie Every time I speak of the haters and losers I do so with great love and affection. They cannot help the fact that they were born fucked up. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie He became a different man when the Democrats viciously stated that they wanted to impeach him. They went wild. We want to impeach him. We're gonna impeach Bill Barr. We're gonna impeach him. He became different. I understand that. I didn't become different. I got impeached twice. I didn't change. I became worse. I became worse.  Donald Trump, July 11, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier. Donald Trump, who avoided serving during the Vietnam War, on being given the Purple Heart by the Vietnam veteran who won it © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am a very proud election denier. Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am a big fan of Hindu. and I am a big fan of India. Big, big fan. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am a Tariff Man. Donald Trump, 7:03 AM – 4 Dec 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am a young, vibrant man. Donald Trump, April 26, 2019  © 2019 Kwiple.com
- Selfie I am an extremely stable genius. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am the least anti-Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in your entire life. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am your voice. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I can turn anyone into a successful real estate investor, including you. Donald Trump, in a letter he signed to solicit customers for Trump University, his fake university, which promised to provide “professors and adjunct professors that are absolutely terrific —terrific people, terrific brains, successful,” but weren't © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I do play with the bankruptcy laws – they're very good for me. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I don't discard people. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I don't do it for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry.  I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I don't feel good about turning down money because, my whole life, I've been greedy, greedy, greedy. I've grabbed all the money I could get. But now I want to be greedy for the United States. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I don't get too angry. I get even. Donald Trump  © 2024 Kwiple.com
Selfie I don't kid. Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I don't like to analyze myself because I might not like what I see. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I don't stand by anything. Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie I don't throw temper tantrums. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I guess I have a perverse personality. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
Selfie I have a gut and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else's brain can ever tell me. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I have a natural instinct for science. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I have featured and will always continue to feature my name prominently in all my enterprises. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I have a great relationship with the blacks. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye — or perhaps another body part. Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist. Donald Trump  [Presumably referring to Roy Cohn, his mentor] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I have so many websites. I have them all over the place. I hire people, they do a website. It costs me $3. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don't play it tough – until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad. Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Selfie I know fucking krauts. I was raised by the biggest kraut of them all. Donald Trump, pointing to a picture of his father, Fred © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie I know words. I have the best words. I have the best, but there is no better word than stupid. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I like having friends, but I like having enemies more. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I like [reading] as little as possible. I don't need, you know, 200-page reports on something that can be handled on a page. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I like the challenge [of dealmaking] and tell the story of the coal miner's son. The coal miner gets black-lung disease, his son gets it, then his son. If I had been the son of a coal miner, I would have left the damn mines. But most people don't have the imagination – or whatever – to leave their mine. They don't have “it.” Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I lived in New York City and Manhattan my whole life, OK. So, you know, my views are a little different than if I lived in Iowa. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'll let you know how I fell about it after it happens. Donald Trump, failing to dispel rumors he may walk away from the Presidency if he wins it © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I love eminent domain, it's how I built my hotels. Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Selfie I love loans. I love other people's money. Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Selfie I love losers because they make me feel so good about myself. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I love the poorly educated. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I’m a counterpuncher. I can't hit people who don’t hit me. Maybe that’s my weakness. Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm a germaphobe … There's no way I would let people pee on each other around me. No way. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm a negotiator, like you folks. Donald Trump, to the Republican Jewish Congress © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm a smart person. I don't need to be told the same thing every day. If something should change, let me know. Donald Trump, on deciding he doesn't need daily intelligence briefings like other presidents © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm a total act and I don't understand why people don't get it. Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm a very instinctual person, but my instincts turn out to be right. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm cognitively there. Donald Trump, boasting about “acing” the 10-minute Montreal Cognitive Assessment test to detect incipient cognitive impairment, which he believes proves he has a high IQ  © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm not a baby. Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm president and you're not. Donald Trump, the puerile president (The Pee Pee) © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm really rich. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm the guy that gets away with it. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm the one who got rid of Roe v. Wade and everyone said that was an impossible thing to do. Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I never had a lawyer who took notes. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I never read Mein Kampf. Donald Trump  [He listened to the audio book or he channels Adolf Hitler] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I never worked for Russia. Donald Trump, January 14, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I only do 10s. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I only have one regret in the women department — that I never had the opportunity to court Lady Diana Spencer. Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I play to people's fantasies. Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I should be impeached more often. Donald Trump, after his second impeachment © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie I spent a couple of bucks on legal fees and they spent a lot more. I did it to make his life miserable, which I'm happy about. Donald Trump, on spending two years before his case was dismissed suing Tim O'Brien, author of TrumpNation, for writing that his net worth was most likely not in the billions as he frequently claimed but in the low hundreds of millions © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I started off in Brooklyn. My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.  Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I think I'm much more humble than you would understand. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I think I'm a nice person. Does my family like me? I think so. Donald Trump, presidential announcement speech, June 16, 2015 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I think my strongest asset, maybe by far, is my temperament. I have a winning temperament. I know how to win. Donald Trump, America's conflict of interest king and biggest loser, by 2,864,974 votes © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie I've said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I want five children, like in my own family, because with five, then I will know that one will be guaranteed to turn out like me. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
Selfie I want great climate. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I want to be associated with interesting quotes. Donald Trump,  explaining why he retweeted a quotation from Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I was the Earnest Hemingway of 140 characters. Donald Trump responding when Twitter raised the maximum size of an individual tweet from 140 to 280 characters © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I went to the Wharton School of Business. I'm, like, a really smart person. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me — and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I would bring back waterboarding. And I would bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding. Donald Trump, 2016 Repubican candidates' debate, New Hampshire © 2020 Kwiple.com
Selfie I would say that I have never been given the credit that I'm due. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I wouldn't want to be in a foxhole with a lot of these people. Donald Trump, a draft evader who left serving in foxholes to others, after singling out John McCain as one of “these people” — Republicans who don't avidly support him for president  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie If I do something wrong, I try to do something right. I don't bring God into that picture. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie If I don't have social media, I probably would not be standing. Donald Trump, Phoenix rally, August 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie If I don't tweet it, don't listen to my staff. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie If somebody screws you,  you screw ’em back ten times over. At least you can feel good about it. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie If you really like Donald Trump, that's good. But if you don't, you have to vote for me anyway. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie It's very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it. Donald Trump, when considering running for President as the Reform Party candidate in 2000 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie A lot of people don’t want that. They don’t want to hear negativity toward me. Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Selfie My whole life has been money. I want money. I want money. Greedy. I was greedy. Greedy. I want more money. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie One of the greatest of all terms I've come up with is “fake.” Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie One of the problems that a lot of people like myself – we have very high levels of intelligence,  but we're not necessarily such believers. You look at our air and our water, and it's right now at a record clean. Donald Trump, responding to the 2018 National Climate Assessment report, which predicts dire economic consequences of global warming © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie The only kind of people I want counting my money are little short guys that wear yamakas every day. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie Part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie The people that don’t like me are the rich people. It’s a funny thing. They can't stand me. I sort of love it. Donald Trump, 1995 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Selfie Sometimes you have to toot your own horn because nobody else is going to do it. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest – and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it's not your fault. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie Stephen Vaughn, King and Spalding. Stephen. King and Spalding. I could use some good legal advice. Do you have some good lawyers over there? I could use some good lawyers, right? Ah, the hell with it! I just have to suffer through it the way I have all my life. Donald Trump, the Self-Pitying Don, reflecting on impeachment at the signing of the U.S.-China Phase One Trade Agreement, January 15, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Selfie They're people just like me, only they're poor. Donald Trump, when asked to define “white trash” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie This is not your typical advice, get even, but this is real-life advice. If you don't get even, you're a schmuck! I really mean it, too. Donald Trump, Think Big © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie What are they talking about, if I wanted to do quid pro quo, I would've done the damn quid pro quo. Donald Trump objecting to a Wall Street Journal editorial suggesting he was too inept to execute a quid pro quo with Ukraine © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie What I love just about more than anything are waffles when they're done properly with butter and syrup. There's nothing better  than properly done waffles with butter and syrup all over them. Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie When he calls me “brilliant,” I'll take the compliment. … If he says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him. Donald Trump, referring to Vladimir Putin, who described him as “YARKII” (ЯРКИЙ), initially incorrectly translated as “brilliant” but shortly afterwards correctly translated as “shiny” or “bright” or “flamboyant” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie When I can, I tell the truth. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie With the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that's ever held the office. That I can tell you. It's real easy. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie You know, I'm not a big sleeper. I like three hours, four hours, I toss, I turn, I beep-de-beep, I want to find out what's going on. Donald Trump © 2020 Kwiple.com
Selfie When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same. The temperament is not that different. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Sex He arrived here and immediately ran off to meet with Moscow prostitutes? This is an adult and, moreover, a man who for many years has organised beauty contests. He socialised with the most beautiful women in the world. I can hardly imagine he rushed to the hotel to meet our girls of lower social responsibility – even though they are the best in the world, of course. Vladimir Putin, on allegations concerning Trump's behavior with prostitutes at a hotel in Moscow during a visit for the 2013 Miss Universe pageant © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sex I'm not into golden showers. Donald Trump, answering a question the GOP donors he was addressing didn't ask © 2021 Kwiple.com
Sex If you need Viagra, you're probably with the wrong woman. Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Sexual harassment I'm with perv Trump endorses accused kidmolester Moore  Front-page headline, November 22, 2017, The New York Daily News, an anti-Trump paper I'm with the perv Trump backs Roy Moore Front-page headline, November 22, 2017,  The New York Post, a pro-Trump paper © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sexual harassment I've gotta use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful–I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Sexual harassment I would like to think she would find another career or find another company if that was the case. Donald Trump, responding to a question about what his daughter Ivanka should do if she were sexually harassed on the job © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sexual harassment If one person in your life accused you of pooping in their kitchen sink, I could be persuaded to believe that that is a lie. But, if over the course of 73 years of your life, 22 separate people came forward with detailed accounts of times you pooped in their kitchen sinks, I'm gonna start thinking you're a sink pooper. There's no difference here. Stephen Colbert, commenting on the 22nd accusation of sexual assault against Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Sexual harassment “Oh, I was with Donald Trump in 1980. I was sitting with him on an airplane and he went after me on the plane.” Yeah, I'm going to go after her. Believe me, she would not be my first choice. That I can tell you. Donald Trump, describing one of his accusers © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sexual harassment Senator Franken has admitted wrongdoing and the president hasn't. That's a very big distinction.  Sarah Huckabee Sanders, when asked about the difference between accusations of sexual misconduct against Al Franken, a Democrat, which she harps on, and accusations against Donald Trump, a Republican, whose denials she boasts of © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sexual harassment Well, historically that's true with stars. If you look over the last million years, I guess that's been largely true. Not always, but largely true. Unfortunately — or fortunately. Donald Trump, in his deposition in the civil case brought by E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of raping her, responding when her lawyer asked him if he actually thought, as he was recorded saying in a conversation with Billy Bush in 2005, that stars could grab women by the pussy, and, when then asked if he considered himself to be a star, responded by saying, “Yeah” © 2023 Kwiple.com
Sexual harassment Well he denies it, look, he denies it. If you look at what is really going on and you look at all of the things that have happened over the last 48 hours, he totally denies it. He says it didn't happen. And you know, you have to listen to him also. Donald Trump, defending Roy Moore against the women who've accused him of sexual harassment, most of whom were underage at the time  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sexual harassment The winner was the #MeToo wave against sexual harassment. … The #MeToo road leads to the White House. Edward Luce, Financial Times, December 14, 2017, on Roy Moore's defeat in Alabama and accusations of sexual harassment against Donald Trump by at least 16 women © 2017 Kwiple.com
Slavery Boy, that is just not good. Donald Trump, reflecting on slavery at the National Museum of African American History and Culture © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Absolutely I would do that. Kelly Ayotte, Republican Senator from New Hampshire, when asked if she would point to Trump as a good role model for kids [later she said she “misspoke”] © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say And we love it when you build cars – if you're a Japanese firm, we love it – try building your cars in the United States instead of shipping them over. Is that possible to ask? That's not rude.  Is that rude? I don't think so. Donald Trump, Tokyo speech, November 6, 2017, to American and Japanese business leaders © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Donald Trump would never lie under oath © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Donald Trump's not a racist © 2018 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Evangelicals would stop supporting Donald Trump if evidence came forward that the phrase “paternity information” in his boilerplate non-disclosure agreement for women he's had an affair with is aimed at preventing them from disclosing information about abortions he's paid for © 2018 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Fox News commentators  can run government better than politicians © 2018 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say He's just simply saying, “Gosh, if they're out there somewhere, I would like to see them.” Mike Pence, explaining why Donald Trump asked Russian hackers to illegally hack into Hillary Clinton's emails © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say I don't even know — nobody even knows what it is. Donald Trump, claiming no knowledge of the nativist and white supremacist alt-right movement, whose members strongly support him, and despite the fact that Steve Bannon, CEO of his presidential campaign, described Breitbart News, the company he led before being appointed CEO, as “the platform for the alt-right” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say I don't know anything about him. Somebody told me yesterday, whoever he is, he did endorse me. Donald Trump, on David Duke, antisemitic white supremacist and former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, who has been in the news since the 1970s and who Trump has commented on since the early 1990s © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say I don't think they care at all. I think you care. Donald Trump, claiming only reporters, and not the public, care whether he releases his tax returns © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say I had no choice. Donald Trump, on his decision to run for President © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say I trust Donald's judgment. Paul Ryan on Donald Trump  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say If he succeeds, we succeed © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say  It is our love that defines us today. And always will. Forever. Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Last quarter, it was just announced, our gross domestic product — a sign of strength, right? but not for us — was below zero. Who ever heard of this? Donald Trump, presidential announcement speech, June 16, 2015 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Look at the way I've been treated lately, especially by the press. No politician in history –and I say this with great surety– has been treated worse, or more unfairly. Donald Trump, Coast Guard Academy graduation address, May 17, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say The major God-given responsibility, the state's primary calling, is to moralize a fallen world through the use of force. I think the best President is the one who is best going to use government as an adjudicator of wrongdoing. And I always thought that Trump would be the best at that. Ralph Drollinger, host of a Trump White House Bible-study group for Cabinet officers © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say President-elect Donald Trump's transition  continues to go smoothly. Better than  smoothly. Confidently. More than  confidently. Transcendently. Larry Kudlow © 2018 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Prior to the election, it was well known that I have interests in properties all over the world. Only the crooked media makes this a big deal! Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Republicans would impeach Trump if he pardoned himself © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say  There is no real evidennce that Mr. Trump wants to seize power unconstitutionally, and there is no reason to think he could succeed. Paranoia alone explains why fear that the republic is in imminent danger has been the dominant response [to Trump's election]. Samuel Moyn and David Priestland, New York Times, August 17, 2017  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Trump  has the interests of the nation at heart © 2018 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Trump is of such a sensitive heart; he wants to please God. If he knew more of the Bible from a good Bible teacher it would really change his heart. Ralph Drollinger, host of a Trump White House Bible-study group for Cabinet officers © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Trump will grow in office © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Trump won the 2016 election fair and square © 2018 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Trumpism will not do lasting damage to the U.S. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say The United States, under the Trump administration, will continue to be the cleanest and most environmentally friendly country on earth. Donald Trump, announcing America's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Voter fraud is very, very common. Donald Trump, explaining why “the election is rigged” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say We got over Watergate; we'll get over Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say We have no choice. Donald Trump, on building a wall on the Mexican border, preventing Muslims from entering the U.S. © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say We're gonna make a bundle by licensing Trump's name © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say What kind of person is Donald Trump? © 2018 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say What's that? Donald Trump, when asked if he knew that he had just attacked a Gold Star family © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say When did we beat Japan at anything? Donald Trump, presidential announcement speech, June 16, 2015 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say When you say divided states of America, I didn't divide them. I'm not president yet, so I didn't do anything to divide. Donald Trump, critcizing Time magazine's statement in its 2016 man-of-the-year issue that he will lead a divided states of America © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Whoever follows Trump in office will make America great again in the eyes of the world © 2018 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say You understand the expression “prime the pump”? Have you heard that expression used before? I mean, I just…I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good. It's what you have to do. Yeah, what you have to do is you have to put something in before you can get something out. Donald Trump, defending raising deficits by cutting taxes on the rich, to the editors of The Economist, the world's foremost business magazine © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say  You've restored American credibility on the world stage. Mike Pence, third of the fourteen praises he lavished on Donald Trump in less than three minutes at the Cabinet meeting on December 20, 2017 © 2017 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 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 Low Energy Jeb Bush portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 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 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 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 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 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 Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Carly Fiorina portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He is something. Pope Francis portrayed by Donald Trump © 2017 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 God is the ultimate. God portrayed by Donald Trump © 2017 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 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 Hitler did a lot of good things. Adolf Hitler portrayed by Donald Trump © 2021 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 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 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 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 He's quite a guy and quite a character. Kim Jong-un portrayed by Donald Trump © 2019 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 The Old Crow's a piece of shit. Mitch McConnell portrayed by Donald Trump © 2022 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 A stone cold loser Mitt Romney portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Little Marco Marco Rubio portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Crazy Bernie Bernie Sanders portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Only I can Make Science Great Again Donald Trump portrayed by @ScientistTrump © 2016 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Holy shit, Mary. You're stacked. Mary L. Trump, then aged 29, portrayed by her uncle Donald, then aged 48 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot They're fucking crazy. Trump's supporters portrayed by Donald Trump © 2022 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 [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
Social media My use of social media is not Presidential - it's MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again! Donald Trump, 3:41 PM - Jul 1, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Southern border wall Cutting is one thing. But it is easily fixed. One of the reasons we did it the way we did it, it's very easily fixed. You put the chunk back in. We have a very powerful wall. But no matter how powerful, you can cut through anything.  Donald Trump, responding to reports that rapscallions are using $100 reciprocating saws to cut through his $10 billion wall  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Southern border wall If my speeches ever get a little off, I just go: “We'll build a wall!” You know, if it gets a little boring, if I see people starting to sort of maybe thinking about leaving – I can sort of tell the audience – I just say, “We will build the wall,” and they go nuts. “And Mexico will pay for the wall!” But – ah, but I mean it. But I mean it. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Southern border wall It's like a manhood thing for him. As if manhood could ever be associated with him. This wall thing. Nancy Pelosi, on Trump's desire to get the wall built © 2019 Kwiple.com
Southern border wall It's not going to change a damn thing but I'm still doing it. Donald Trump on being convinced to visit the border by Bill Shine, Kellyanne Conway and Sarah Huckabee Sanders  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Southern border wall  When during the campaign I would say, ‘Mexico's going to pay for it,’ obviously I never said this and I never meant they're  going to write out a check. I said they're going to pay for it. They are. They are paying for it with the incredible deal we made, called the United States, Mexico and Canada – USMCA – deal. Donald Trump, who apparently believes reducing our trade deficit with Mexico – should that happen – will generate money the government can use to pay for building a wall © 2019 Kwiple.com
Space exploration For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon – We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science! Donald Trump, 10:38 AM – 7 Jun 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Sports If God wanted football in the spring, he wouldn't have created baseball. Donald Trump, who bought a team in the USFL, which played football in the spring, and then sued the NFL to force it to merge with the USFL, which would thereafter play in the fall and share in the NFL's television advertising revenue without having to create a fan base large enough to attract advertisers © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sports It was fun. We had a great lawsuit. Donald Trump, recapping his experience as an owner in the United States Football League (USFL), which he convinced to sue the NFL to force a merger with the USFL, which lost, causing its demise © 2016 Kwiple.com
Spying Hee hee hee hee Vladimir Putin, snickering before verbally responding to a reporter at the Helsinski summit press conference, who asked him, “Does the Russian government have any compromising material on president Trump or his family?” © 2018 Kwiple.com
State of the union An adviser allegedly involved in a plot to force a migrant to return to his home country. An attorney general who seems conveniently forgetful when testifying before Congress. A president's son exchanging messages with an agent of a hostile foreign power. In past administrations any of these things would have caused shock, hand-wringing and, probably, Congressional hearings and sackings. But it's just another week in Donald Trump's America. The Economist, November 18, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
State of the union The anti-democrat-in-chief asked, “Where's my Roy Cohn?” Anti-tyrants responded, “Where's our Gavrilo Princip?” © 2018 Kwiple.com
State of the union The anti-democrat-in-chief asked, “Where's my Roy Cohn?” Republicans responded, “Here, boss!  Right here!”  © 2018 Kwiple.com
State of the union Brian Pannebecker, a 58-year-old autoworker with a presidential inauguration coffee mug and T-shirt, says President Trump is “a flawed human being, a narcissist, an egomaniac, he exaggerates, embellishes, but we true Trump supporters don't care, we just don't care, because . . . they are all liars and perverts and sex maniacs, Congress is full of them”. Financial Times, December 30, 2017, reporting on Macomb County, Michigan, voters who helped make Trump president © 2017 Kwiple.com
State of the union Declinism is no longer just a trope of current affairs non-fiction. It is the national mood, and it predates Mr Trump. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, January 1, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
State of the union Donald Trump has always benefited from the inability to imagine Donald Trump. It was unimaginable that a man who talked in public about having sex with his daughter would be the Republican nominee for president or that he would win. It was unimaginable to me that Republican Senators and elected officials would not concede an election that wasn't even close. North of 300 electoral votes, eight million more votes, but that's what happened. Stuart Stevens, April 20, 2022, once a Republican campaign adviser © 2022 Kwiple.com
State of the union Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people –does not even pretend to try. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. James Mattis, The Atlantic, June 3, 2020, 69-year-old former Secretary of Defense commenting on Trump's threat to deploy active-duty military to "dominate" protesters protesting George Floyd's 9-minute suffocation by four policemen in Minneapolis © 2020 Kwiple.com
State of the union A fish rots from the head down Crux of the Trump era © 2018 Kwiple.com
State of the union Our democracy is in serious danger. President Trump is either totally compromised by the Russians or is a towering fool, or both, but either way he has shown himself unwilling or unable to defend America against a Russian campaign to divide and undermine our democracy. Thomas Friedman, New York Times, February 18, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
State of the union There are two words for those who think the US republic is teetering: Donald Trump. There is also a two-word riposte: Robert Mueller. While Mueller stays in his job, the US system is working as it should. Edward Luce, Financial Times, November 2, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
State of the union This is code red. The biggest threat to the integrity of our democracy today is in the Oval Office. Thomas Friedman, New York Times, February 18, 2018 © 2018 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
State of the union  The United States is coming to an end. The question is how. Trump is far less meaningful than either side understands. The smartest thing he himelf ever said about his political career was in a 2017 press conference: “I didn't come along and divide the country. The county was already divided before I got here.” Trump is, at most, a sympton. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  © 2022 Kwiple.com
State of the union We are barely two months into the republic’s year from hell. In 2024, US politics is hitting a perfect storm of partisan loathing in a society where algorithms become ever more skilled at generating outrage among the exhausted majority. Conditions are as good as they get for an outrage entrepreneur like Trump. The rest of this year promises to be nastier than anything we have seen. Edward Luce, Financial Times, February 29, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Success Always be around unsuccessful people because everybody will respect you. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest According to his doctor, Trump is 6'3" and 239 pounds, which means that, at age 71, he avoided official obesity by guzzling and growing an inch taller January, 2018 --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest After someone wrote “Trump 2016” in chalk on a campus sidewalk at Emory University, students erupt in protest, calling it hate speech that makes them feel unsafe © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest America is a welcoming country. And under my leadership it's a welcoming country. Donald Trump --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Believe me. Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest But it is a beautiful sinkhole. The best sink hole in history. A model sinkhole for all future sinkholes. @JohnMag99047565 7:54 AM - 22 May 2017, commenting on a 4-foot-wide sinkhole that opened in front of Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Didn't you guys burn down the White House? Donald Trump to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Do I think? Yes, I think.  Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest  Donald Trump had Stormy Daniels spank him using a Forbes magazine with photos of him, Donald Jr. and Ivanka on the cover  Reported in Mother Jones, January 18, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Everybody wants to work in the White House. They all want a piece of that Oval Office. They want a piece of the West Wing. … So many people want to come in. I have a choice of anybody. I could take any position in the White House and I'll have the choice of the top ten people having to do with that position. Everybody wants to be there. Donald Trump, talking about his White House, which has never attracted A-listers and can't keep its flock of B- and C-listers --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Have you heard of Susan B. Anthony? Donald Trump, at a White House women's empowerment event © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest I don’t do things wrong. I do things right. I’m a legitimate person.  Donald Trump, echoing mob bosses in films and real life --> © 2023 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest I have been saying even against me the system is rigged. Donald Trump, when asked what he would say to African Americans who believe that the system is rigged against them, comparing opposing institutionalized racism to opposing Republican Party delegate allocation rules © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest I'm not into popularity, I'm into getting something done that's good. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest I'm pretty good at estimating crowd size. Donald Trump --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest I will be a great unifier for our country. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest The media is even more biased this year than ever before. You want the proof? Michelle Obama gives a speech and everyone loves it. It's fantastic. They think she's absolutely great. My wife Melania gives the exact same speech and people get on her case. And I don't get it. I don't know why. citation Donald Trump, plagiarizing cartoonist R.J. Matson's joke © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest My father will make us all proud! Ivanka Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest One of the things with the wall is, you need transparency. You have to be able to see through it. … I'll give you an example. As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don't see them – they hit you in the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It's over. As crazy as that sounds, you need transparency through that wall. Donald Trump, explaining why the Mexico border wall must be made from transparent materials © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest People don't know this about Iraq but they have among the largest oil reserves in the world. Donald Trump --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Picture him chasing me around his hotel room in his tighty-whities. Stormy Daniels, asking a fellow porn star to  imagine her cavorting with Donald Trump after the friend declined his invitation to participate in a threesome © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest  The president is an incredible advocate of the First Amendment. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, getting the “incredible” part right when asked about Trump's call for the Senate Intelligence Committee to look into what he calls “fake news” broadcast he claims by NBC and other “Fake News Networks” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Proud to have the Caisson Platoon, home of the army's oldest & most famous horse, “Black Jack,” take part in Inauguration Day 2017! Donald Trump, January 2, 2017, 14,491 days after Black Jack died  (February 6, 1976)  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Texas is heeling fast thanks to all of the great men & women who have been working so hard. But still, so much to do. Will be back tomorrow!  Donald Trump, the guy who knows all the best words, 7:50 AM - 1 Sep 2017 [deleted and corrected at 8:58 AM] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest That changes everything. He didn't say “shithole” – he said “shithouse.” Either way, Trump is being a complete asshouse who maybe, maybe, just maybe, doesn't belong in the White Hole. Stephen Colbert, commenting on reports Republicans are defending Trump by saying he called Haiti, El Salvador and African countries “shithouses,” not “shitholes.” The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, January 16, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest This memo totally vindicates “Trump” in probe. Donald Trump, 6:40 AM - 3 Feb 2018, referring, apparently, to the character forced to submit to a colonoscopy as a public health measure in  Gibbon Ape's best-selling bodice-ripper, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Trump can dish it out and take it too © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Trump plays the Rolling Stones' “You Can't Always Get What You Want” before officially introducing Mike Pence as his running mate © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Trump, speaking about claims of sexual harassment “I believe the women” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Unlike you and unlike the media, before I make a statement, I like to know the facts.  Donald Trump, addressing reporters about the Charlotteville, Virginia, riot © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest We are lucky we have a president who can focus. citation Rudy Giuliani on Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Taxes As often as Trump overstates his properties' worth … he also understates or even hides debts and other liabilities and encumbrances, like mortgages. … Trump's ninety-two page [financial] disclosure report [that Congress requires of presidential candidates] valued one of his best-known properties at $50 million. But he told tax authorities the same property was worth $1 million. David Cay Johnston, The Making of Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Taxes Because he's got a 12,000-page tax return that would create … financial auditors out of every person in the country asking questions that would detract from his main message. Donald Trump, Jr., explaining why his father won't release his tax returns and implying that something in them may be politically damaging © 2016 Kwiple.com
Taxes Contrary to Mr. Trump's claim that the United States is one of the most heavily taxed nations, only South Korea, Chile and Mexico, among [the 35] O.E.C.D. countries, collect less in tax revenue  as a share of the economy. That means the American budget for things like prenatal care, low-income housing and worker training is simply not up to the task. Eduardo Porter, New York Times, October 11. 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Taxes He'll release his taxes once the audit is finished. (You remember that audit. Its friends call it Godot.) Gail Collins, New York Times, January 11, 2017, on what Trump promised during his press conference that day © 2017 Kwiple.com
Taxes  In the early 1990s … Congress reinstated a tax rule allowing real estate professionals who manage their property to take unlimited deductions against their other income. … The reinstated tax provision … meant that legally Trump would not pay income taxes, provided he had enough depreciation to offset his other income. Trump would likely have that much depreciation every year, assuming that the value of his buildings is indeed as high as listed on the financial disclosure form he filed as a candidate for president. David Cay Johnston, The Making of Donald Trump  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Taxes It's none of your business. You'll see it when I release. But I fight very hard to pay as little tax as possible. Donald Trump, whose refusal to release his tax returns has fueled speculation that they would reveal he is not as rich as he claims, gives $0 to charity, pays $0 in taxes and stores money offshore © 2016 Kwiple.com
Taxes A lot of them: they are paper-pushers They make a fortune. They pay no tax. It's ridiculous. Donald Trump on hedge fund managers © 2016 Kwiple.com
Taxes Mr. Trump's accounting “genius” adds up, for the nation, to an existential threat. Eduardo Porter, New York Times, October 11. 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Taxes Mr. Trump's proud dodge should draw attention to one of America's most damaging weaknesses: The nation does not manage to provide its people with a minimum standard of well-being, something commonplace across the rest of the industrial world. Eduardo Porter, New York Times, October 11. 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Taxes There's nothing to learn from them. Donald Trump, on his tax returns, which he refuses to release knowing that voters would learn why he's being audited, how much he earned, how much he gave to charity, which loopholes he took advantage of, how close he came to skirting the law, how much he paid in taxes (if anything), how much he'd benefit from the changes he's proposed to tax law, etc. © 2016 Kwiple.com
Taxes Trump Could Save More Than $1 Billion Under His New Tax Plan headline, New York Times, September 28, 2107, based on information from his 2005 federal tax return and an estimated net worth of $2.86 billion © 2017 Kwiple.com
Taxes Trump's 1995 Tax Records Claim a $916 Million Loss Deduction Means He Could Have Avoided Federal Income Taxes for 18 Years headline, New York Times, October 2, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Television Most people look at Sesame Street and they see a show that educates children. Trump sees a show where a landlord is being forced to rent to black people. Bill Maher, March 17, 2017 on Trump's proposal to defund PBS © 2017 Kwiple.com
Television Never underestimate the power of being in people's living rooms for decades. That's what got Trump elected. This is now a as-seen-on-TV kind of country. Bill Maher © 2019 Kwiple.com
Treason The notion that America's president could be an agent of the Kremlin is so outlandish that it is almost self-discrediting. People who happily speculate about UFOs, or an inside job on 9/11, steer clear of portraying Mr Trump as the Manchurian candidate. To float the idea is to risk being labelled a conspiracy theorist. In private, however, it is a serious topic. Edward Luce, Financial Times chief US commentator, January 18, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trump's philosophy of life It's called “get even.” Get even. This isn't your typical business speech. What this is, is a real business speech. You know in all fairness to Wharton, I love ’em, but they teach you some stuff that's a lot of bullshit. When you're in business, you get even with people that screw you. And you screw them 15 times harder. And the reason is, the reason is, the reason is, not only, not only, because of the person that you're after, but other people watch what's happening. Donald Trump, 2007 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say He’s become a Christian, but he won't admit it now or tell people about it because they'll put him down; they'll kill him. All the Christians are being killed today. Jimmy Fisher, an 84-year-old Georgia Republican attending the June 9, 2023, state GOP convemtion, on Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The insurrection took place on November 3, Election Day. January 6 was the Protest!  Donald Trump © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Resolved. That it the sense of the House of Representatives that former President Donald J. Trump did not engage in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or give aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. Resolution that Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Marjorie Taylor Greene and other far-righters are trying to get passed by the House © 2024 Kwiple.com
Truth There's no proof of anything, there very well could be. Donald Trump, acknowledging that there is no evidence for his claims that Middle Easterners are among the Honduran migrants heading toward the U.S. © 2018 Kwiple.com
Tweeting  Why does Donald Trump tweet so much? Why do his supporters love it when he does? It is because a tweet gives the illusion of a direct relationship between leader and follower. For the follower, the tweet is addressed just to him- or herself with no intermediary. The follower imagines a personal relationship with the president. The pretense of presence and the person- alization of power go hand in hand.  Albert Weale, The Will of the People  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Ukraine As president, I will bring back peace through strength. Peace through strength. It would never have happened. If I was president, there would not have been a war with Russia in Ukraine. Zero chance. …  Even now, despite tremendous loss of lives and destruction of much of that country, I would have a peace deal negotiated within 24 hours. Donald Trump, January 28, 2023, launching his 2024 presidential campaign © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ukraine FIRST COME THE TANKS, THEN COME THE NUKES. Get this crazy war ended, NOW. So easy to do! Donald Trump, @realDonaldTrump – Jan 26, 2023, 5:44 AM © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ukraine He [Putin] would have never done it. That's without even negotiating a deal. I could have negotiated. At worst, I could’ve made a deal to take over something, there are certain areas that are Russian-speaking areas, frankly, but you could’ve worked a deal. Donald Trump's peace-by-appeasing-Putin peace plan © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ukraine I want people to stop dying over this ridiculous war. Donald Trump, who refuses to side with Ukraine in its war with Putin's Russia and says Ukrainians “earned a lot of respect” for defending their territory but have to give it up if they want peace © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ukraine I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, “This is genius.” Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful.  So, Putin is now saying,  “It’s independent,” a large section of Ukraine. I said, “How smart is that?” And he's gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s strongest peace force … We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I've ever seen. There were more army tanks than I've ever seen. They're gonna keep peace all right. No, but think of it. Here’s a guy who's very savvy … I know him very well. Very, very well. Donald Trump, February 22, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Ukraine Obama looked at Ukraine [after Russia seized Crimea in 2014] and asked, “What’s in it for us?” Trump looked at Ukraine and asked [in trying to shake down Zelensky], “What’s in it for me?” For neither president was the question of staving off another Russian invasion, much less of encouraging Ukraine's democratic development, a particular priority. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin looked at Ukraine and concluded: “It's all for me.” Bret Stephens, New York Times, March 8, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
o Veterans say The military teaches you to kill, it doesn't teach you how to live with killing. Nobody wants to say, “I'm at the lowest point in my life, and I need help.” Nobody wants to say that. And nobody's saying, “Hey buddy, you fought for us, lemme help you.” We're forgetting them. Trump doesn't. A Gulf War veteran quoted in The Gilded Rage, by Alexander Zaitchik © 2016 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War When I was going to high school, when I was going to college Vietnam was like the big deal. Like you have to leave college and go fight. And I said, “excuse me?” Donald trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Villains say They [Congressional Democrats] were like, death. And un-American. Un-American. Somebody [pointing to the audience] said, “treasonous.” I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not? I mean they certainly didn't seem to love our coutnry very much. Donald Trump, to a rally of his supporters, who, like him, are too stupid to know why not clapping during his State of the Union address is neither un-American nor treasonous  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Violence Any guy that can do a body slam, he's my kind of guy. Donald Trump, complimenting Greg Gianforte for punching and body slamming a reporter during the 2016 campaign, for which he later pled guilty to misdemeanor assault © 2019 Kwiple.com
Violence They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back. We'll consider – and I told them – consider it a rifle. When they throw rocks like they did at the Mexico military and police, I say consider it a rifle. Donald Trump, warning Central American refugees walking from southern Mexico to America's border they could be killed if they try to enter the United States © 2018 Kwiple.com
Voter suppression Republicans should fight very hard when it comes to state wide mail-in voting. Democrats are clamoring for it. Tremendous potential for voter fraud, and for whatever reason, doesn't work out well for Republicans. Donald Trump, 8:20 AM · Apr 8, 2020, endorsing voter suppression © 2020 Kwiple.com
Voting So please get your asses out tomorrow and vote. Donald Trump, to a June 26, 2018, South Carolina rally supporting the reelection of Gov. Henry McMaster © 2018 Kwiple.com
Voting This voting system is out of control. There are people, in my opinion, voting many, many times. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Voting Trump asking Kobach to help him restore integrity in voting is like Hitler asking Goebbels to help put out the Reichstag fire. Steven Thrasher, The Guardian, May 12, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Voting Well, look, we have a couple of problems in this country. Number one, mail-in voting. Mail-in voting will always be dishonest. OK? And it’s a shame that we have it. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats Donald Trump and his allies have begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute and his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations. Much of the planning for a second term has been unofficially outsourced to a partnership of right-wing think tanks in Washington. Dubbed ”Project 2025,” … Project 2025 comprises 75 groups in a collab- oration organized by the Heritage Foundation. Washinton Post, November 5, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats On January 1 [2021], the Defendant [Donald Trump] called the Vice President [Pence] and berated him because he had learned that the Vice President had opposed a lawsuit seeking a judicial decision that, at the certification, the Vice President had the authority to reject or return votes to the states under the Constitution. The Vice President responded that he thought there was no constitutional basis  for such authority and that it was improper. In response, the Defendant told the Vice President, “You're too honest.” United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats That is not normal. That is not OK. First of all, he's just making stuff up. But, most importantly, the president of the United States is calling for the imprisonment of a private citizen, as he's done for a whole lot of people  who criticize him. That is not acceptable in this country. The president doesn't get to decide who goes to jail. James Comey, on Trump's call to imprison him for allegedly leaking classified information and lying to Congress © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say Because then you won't give me what I want. Donald Trump, responding to Chuck Schumer, who asked him why he didn't just reopen the government and negotiate border policy as part of a separate bill  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say He [Kim Jong-un] speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.  Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say He's now President for life. President for life. No, he's great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot some day. Donald Trump, on China's President Xi Jinping getting its parliament to abolish its constitutional presidential term limits, to applause and cheers from attendees at a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say I do it to discredit you all, and demean you all, so that when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you. Donald Trump, answering Lesley Stahl, who asked him why he kept attacking the press © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say I have an Article II where I have the right to do whatever I want as president. But I don't even talk about that. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say I have the absolute right to PARDON myself Donald Trump, 5:35 AM – 4 Jun 2018 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say I just want to find 11,780 votes. Donald Trump, pressuring Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secratary of state, to overturn his loss to Joe Biden by 11,779 votes in Georgia in 2020 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say I know all of them. I don't know if they're sitting like you people are sitting. You're actually sitting too close. We should probably get rid of another 75, 80 percent of you. I'll have just 2 or 3 that I like in this room. Donald Trump, to the smaller-then-usual-number of reporters maintaining social distancing at his COVID-19 coronovirus briefings in the press briefing room © 2020 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say I'll be the oversight. Donald Trump, volunteering to provide the oversight not called for in the proposed Republican stimulus package to combat coronavirus, which includes a $500 billion “corporate rescue fund” that his administration could dispense in secret to companies they deem worthy, like Trump International Hotels Management LLC in the hard-hit travel and leisure sector © 2020 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say I said I want to be a dictator for one day. You know why I wanted to be a dictator? Because I want a wall, and I want to drill, drill, drill. Donald Trump, doubling down on wanting to be a dictator © 2023 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say I WILL APPOINT A REAL SPECIAL “PROSECUTOR” TO GO AFTER THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE USA, JOE BIDEN, THE ENTIRE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY, & ALL OTHERS INVOLVED WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR ELECTIONS, BORDERS & COUNTRY ITSELF! Donald Trump, @realDonaldTrump, Jun 16, 2023, 1:27 PM © 2023 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say If I renounce my beliefs, if I agree to stay silent, if I stayed at home and just took it easy, the persecution of Donald Trump would stop immediately, it would stop. But that's not what I will do. I can't do that. [Applause] A much simpler life. I have to save our country. Donald Trump, July 26, 2022, at America First Agenda Summit © 2022 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say  If I say do it, they're going do it. Donald Trump, when asked what he would do if the US military refused to follow the [illegal] order he vowed to issue to kill ISIS family members in reprisal for attacks © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say It's a disgrace. It's frankly a real disgrace. It's an attack on our country in a true sense. Donald Trump, conflating law enforcement – executing a search warrant for records pertaining to fraud and campaign finance violations by his lawyer, Michael Cohen – with an attack on the country © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say It's nice to have a strongman running your country. Donald Trump, January 20, 2024  © 2024 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. congressmen From notes taken by Richard P. Donoghue, Acting United States Deputy Attorney General, during a December 27, 2020, meeting in which Trump pressured Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting United States Attorney General, to have the Department of Justice overturn the election on the basis of claims of widespread voter fraud, for which it could find no evidence © 2021 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say The one that matters is me. I'm the only one that matters. Because when it comes [to] it, that's what the policy is going to be. Donald Trump, when asked about his administration's failure to staff the State Department with people having expertise in foreign countries © 2017 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say The people won't stand for it. Donald Trump, on what will happen if special counsel Robert Mueller's report makes him look bad © 2019 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say The saddest thing is that because I'm the President of the United States, I am not supposed to be involved with the Justice Department. I am not supposed to be involved with the FBI. … I am not supposed to be doing the kind of things that I would love to be doing. And I am very frustrated by it. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION?  A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Donald Trump, @realDonaldTrump, Dec 03, 2022, 7:44 AM © 2022 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say Stick with us. Don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening. Donald Trump, telling veterans he and his kiss-asses are the sole source of truth about trade and other issues © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away from great patriots. Donald Trump, justyifying the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by his supporters © 2021 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say They need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots. If they don't get those two items, that means you can't have universal mail-in voting because they're not equipped to have it. Donald Trump, admitting he's authorized sabotaging the US Postal Service by denying it money needed to function and to support universal mail-in voting during a pandemic because polls show 74% of Democrats but only 22% of Republicans are likely to vote using mail-in ballots © 2020 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say They spend a couple of days in jail, make a new friend, and they are ready to talk. Donald Trump on findiing leakers by jailing journalists, as quoted in James Comey's 2/14/17 memo © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say This is third-world-country stuff, “arrest your opponent.” And that means I can do that, too. Donald Trump, promising to take revenge against those he holds responsible for state and federal crimnal prosecutions of him and his cronies, and against government officials he deems insufficiently loyal to him and them, if he's re-elected in 2024 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections. They’ll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American dream. Donald Trump, November 7, 2023, calling the kettle black  © 2024 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say We won. We won in a landslide. This was a landslide.  Donald Trump's Big Lie, January 6, 2021, and for weeks beforehand © 2021 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say We'll have to see what happens. You know that I've been complaining very strongly about the [mail-in] ballots, and the ballots are a disaster. Get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very transfer, we'll have a very peaceful. There won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation. Donald Trump, when asked if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses his reelection bid  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say With Universal Mail-in Voting (and Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 wil be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarassment to the U.S.A. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote??  Donald Trump, 8:46 AM – Jul 30, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Wannabe heroes say As President, I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor, but they wouldn’t let me do it. I said I'm going to give myself . . . I've always wanted that. But they wouldn't let me do that. They said that would be inappropriate. I said, okay. Donald Trump, July 23, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Want ad I am in the process, along with my team, of  interviewing various law firms to represent me  in an Appeal of one of the most ridiculous and  unfair Witch Hunts our Country has ever seen—  The defamation Sham presided over by a Clinton appointed, highly partisan, Trump Hating Judge, Lewis Kaplan, who was, together with certain other Radical Left Democrat Judges, one of the most partisan and out of control activists that I have ever appeared before. …  Any lawyer who takes a TRUMP CASE is either “CRAZY,” or a TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT. I will make my decision soon! Donald trump, Jan 30, 2024, 11:08 PM,  after a jury awarded E. Jean Carroll $88.3 million in her second defamation suit against him © 2024 Kwiple.com
Warmongers Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that President Trump was treating his office like “a reality show,” with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation “on the path to World War III.” New York Times, October 8, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Warmongers say I love war, in a certain way. Donald Trump, Vietnam-era chickenhawk whose way is to have others fight it for his benefit  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Warmongers say North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. Donald Trump, aping Kim Jong-un's bluster and bombast after Kim threatened to retaliate for sanctions imposed on North Korea by the UN Security Council © 2017 Kwiple.com
Warmongers say North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works! @realDonaldTrump 4:49 PM - 2 Jan 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Warmongers say The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. Donald Trump, debut UN speech, September 19, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Warmongers say We have many options for Venezuela including a possible military option if necessary. Donald Trump, aping Yankee imperialists after Venezuela elected a new national assembly stuffed with leftwing supporters of its president © 2017 Kwiple.com
Wealth inequality When Donald was still in diapers, he and his siblings had a trust fund. His share was about $12,000 a year, which in the late nineteen forties was roughly four times the typical income for a married couple with children if the husband held a full-time job. David Cay Johnston, The Making of Donald Trump  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Women You have to treat them like shit. Donald Trump, 1992 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Working class Mr Trump promises a burst of infra- structure spending, regressive tax cuts, protectionism, cuts in federal spending and radical deregulation. A big rise in infrastructure spending would indeed help construction workers. But little else in these plans would help the working class. Overall, his plans might indeed generate a brief economic surge. But the longer-term consequences are likely to be grim, not least for his angry, but fooled, supporters. Next time, they might be even angrier. Where that might lead is terrifying. Martin Wolf, Financial Times, November 16, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Working class What's the difference between what you do and driving a bus? Donald Trump, to his older brother, Fred Trump, Jr., who quit the family real estate business to become an airline pilot, which paid too little to ever become really rich © 2016 Kwiple.com
Wretched excess In Cabinet meeting, Pence praises Trump once every 12 seconds for three minutes straight headline, Washington Post, December 20, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Yachts Seventy to 80 million – that would be a yacht. This would be a lot more fun than a yacht! Donald Trump, responding to Newt Gingrich, who answered Trump's question about the cost of running for president, that it would cost about $70 to $80 million to fund a competitive campaign through the South Carolina primary © 2018 Kwiple.com