Donald Trump

thumb|You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America. You can be a Communist, or you can be a Patriot. You cannot be both. ...we are all made in the image of one almighty God. And a communist will never say that, that's for sure thumb|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. Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is serving as the 47th president of the United States of America since January 20, 2025. He previously served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. See also: Quotes about Donald Trump Donald Trump on social media First presidency of Donald Trump Second presidency of Donald Trump Racial views of Donald Trump Trumpism lv:Donalds Trumps __NOTOC__ Quotes by year: 1980s · 1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1996 · 1997 · 1999 · 2000 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2019 · 2020 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025 · 2026 Disputed · Misattributed · Quotes about Trump · See also · External links Quotes thumb|I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do. In America, the impossible is what we do best... We will stand bravely, we will live proudly, we will dream boldly, and nothing will stand in our way because we are Americans.thumb| I believe it is God’s job to sit in judgment; my job, to defend America and to promote the fundamental interests of stability, prosperity, and peace. thumb| They let—I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country.|alt=File:Main-qimg-021d8d22e0438179020144bbb4821733.jpgthumb| That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates. thumb|I know the best people. To me, it's all about people. You got to have the right people. When we have the right people, it runs beautifully 1980s Rona Barrett: If you lost your fortune today, what would you do tomorrow?Donald Trump: Maybe I’d run for president. I don’t know. An interview with Rona Barrett (1980) Rona Barrett: Would you like to be the President of the United States?Donald Trump: I really don't believe I would, Rona. But I would like to see somebody as the president who could do the job, and there are very capable people in this country.Barrett: Why wouldn't you dedicate yourself to public service?Trump: Because I think it's a very mean life. I would love, and I would dedicate my life to this country but I see it as being a mean life, and I also see it in somebody with strong views, and somebody with the kind of views that are maybe a little bit unpopular, which may be right, but may be unpopular, wouldn't necessarily have a chance of getting elected against somebody with no great brain but a big smile. An interview with Rona Barrett (1980) Rona Barrett: How would you like to be remembered?Donald Trump: Well, as somebody that’s contributed something to the United States and to the City of New York, and to the various other places that I’m going, and somebody that’s done a little bit better than other people at what he does. An interview with Rona Barrett (1980) I really enjoy when I think about my business. I think about it literally 24 hours a day, and I really enjoy it. If I didn't, I will stop. There's no question in my mind that I'll stop because I do understand it's all basically a game. We're all here to play the game, and we're all hopefully going to play it well. But some people obviously can't play it well because if everyone played it well, you'd have a pretty unusual situation. But the game is being played now by me and by plenty of other people, and the people that enjoy it are the people that have been winner, in my opinion. Rona Barrett interview transcript (1980) I said, 'I will build you this incredible, gorgeous, gleaming hotel. I will put people to work in the construction trades and save hotel jobs and the Grand Central area will come around.' So the city made the deal. The Empire and Ego of Donald Trump The New York Times August 7, 1983 Marilyn Bender http://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/07/business/the-empire-and-ego-of-donald-trump.html "Give them the old Trump bullshit," he told the architect Der Scutt before a presentation of the Trump Tower design at a press conference in 1980. "Tell them it is going to be a million square feet, sixty-eight stories." Marie Brenner "After the Gold Rush", Vanity Fair (September 1, 1990) Some people have an ability to negotiate. It's an art you're basically born with. You either have it or you don't. It would take an hour-and-a-half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles. I think I know most of it anyway. You're talking about just getting updated on a situation Donald Trump, Holding All The Cards The Tower! The Team! The Money! The Future! Washington Post November 15, 1984 Lois Romano https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/archive/lifestyle/1984/11/15/donald-trump-holding-all-the-cards-the-tower-the-team-the-money-the-future/8be79254-7793-4812-a153-f2b88e81fa54/?resType=accessibility, talking about his desire to be involved in negotiations with the then Soviet Union I have featured and will always continue to feature my name prominently in all my enterprises. Business Week (July 22, 1985) I look at things for the art sake and the beauty sake and for the deal sake. New York (July 11, 1988), p. 24 I'm not big on compromise. I understand compromise. Sometimes compromise is the right answer, but oftentimes compromise is the equivalent of defeat, and I don't like being defeated. Life, Vol. 12 (January 1989), p. iii Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. I do not think so. "Bring Back the Death Penalty. Bring Back Our Police!" An advert taken out by Trump in the New York Daily News and other newspapers in the wake of the arrests of the Central Park Five (whose convictions were eventually vacated in 2002 after Matias Reyes confessed to the assault) (May 1, 1989) How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits? Criminals must be told that their CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS! "Bring Back the Death Penalty. Bring Back Our Police!" An advert taken out by Trump in the New York Daily News and other newspapers in the wake of the arrests of the Central Park Five (whose convictions were eventually vacated in 2002 after Matias Reyes confessed to the assault) (May 1, 1989) Let our politicians give back our police department's power to keep us safe. Unshackle them from the constant chant of "police brutality" which every petty criminal hurls immediately at an officer who has just risked his or her life to save another's. "Bring Back the Death Penalty. Bring Back Our Police!" An advert taken out by Trump in the New York Daily News and other newspapers in the wake of the arrests of the Central Park Five (whose convictions were eventually vacated in 2002 after Matias Reyes confessed to the assault) (May 1, 1989) Of course I hate these people and let's all hate these people because maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done. In 1989 interview with Larry King, about the Central Park Five (whose convictions were later vacated) I like to hire people that I've seen in action. I often hire people that were on the opposing side of a deal that I respect. The Washington Post (September 23, 1989), as quoted in The World According to Trump (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 25 I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it's literally going to cease to exist. Playboy (March 1990) Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987) The Art of the Deal 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. I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage. I'm a great believer in asking everyone for an opinion before I make a decision. ... I ask and I ask and I ask, until I begin to get a gut feeling about something. And that's when I make a decision. I have learned much more from conducting my own random surveys than I could ever have learned from the greatest of consulting firms. You can't con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don't deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on. You can't be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens. 1990 thumb|I'm very liberal when it comes to health care. I believe in universal health care. I believe in whatever it takes to make people well and better. thumb|upright|When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. Trump: Surviving at the Top (1990), p. 3 She turned out to be the wife of a man who was then the prime minister of a major country. I'd heard stories about this lady, but I never thought much of them until that night. We met at the house of the friend who'd phoned me. After we'd all chatted for a while in the living room, the four of us who already knew each other drifted out to the kitchen, leaving Ben and Madame X in the living room to get better acquainted. Which they did. In fact, when we drifted back in, about ten minutes later, she and Ben were involved in an incredibly torrid scene on the couch. I remember standing there and thinking to myself, "Well, Donald, you're not in Queens anymore." Trump: Surviving at the Top (1990), p. 52 "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," he told me. September 1, 1990 After the Gold Rush Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner by Marie Brenner "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 told a close friend. September 1, 1990 Marie Brenner After the Gold Rush Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner Very good question. (pause) I don't think it's a sin but I don't think it should be done. in response to the question, "Is adultery a sin?" in the New York Post (February 23, 1990), as archived at the Daily Beast Leona Helmsley is a truly evil human being. She treated employees worse than any human being I've ever witnessed and I've dealt with some of the toughest human beings alive. 1990 March Glenn Plaskin The Playboy Interview with Donald Trump Playboy https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview-donald-trump-1990 When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. 1990 March Glenn Plaskin The Playboy Interview with Donald Trump Playboy https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview-donald-trump-1990, quoted in 2016-10-20 Bury Trump in a Landslide New York Daily News http://interactive.nydailynews.com/2016/10/daily-news-editorial-bury-trump-in-landslide/ I said to the bankers, "Listen, fellows, if I have a problem, then you have a problem. We have to find a way out or it's going to be a difficult time for both of us." Fortune (August 13, 1990), as quoted in The World According to Trump (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 44 Cf. J. Paul Getty: "If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." 1991 You know, it doesn't really matter what the media writes as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass. Esquire Interview (1991) 1992 You have to treat 'em [women] like s--- Reported in Fighting Back: Trump Scrambles off the Canvas Julie Baumgold New York 25 44 1992-11-09 43 https://books.google.com/books?id=BeUCAAAAMBAJ&q=%22trump+is+talking+about+women+and+says%22#v=snippet&q=%22trump%20is%20talking%20about%20women%20and%20says%22&f=false. Bowdlerization in the original. Wow! Just think — in a couple of years I'll be dating you. to two 14-year-old girls in 1992 from the Chicago Tribune, as archived at Slate He's a good guy, and he's not going to hurt anybody. . . . He treated his wife well and . . . he will treat Marla well. Actresses, people that you write about just call to see if they can go out with him and things. I mean, he's living with Marla and he's got three other girlfriends. He does things for himself. When he makes a decision, that will be a very lucky woman. Speaking about himself under the pseudonym of John Miller in a 1991 interview with a People reporter, Donald Trump masqueraded as publicist to brag about himself, Washington Post I'm gonna be dating her in ten years. of a 10-year-old girl, in 1992 2016-10-13 Emily Schultheis More allegations, questionable Trump comments on women surface CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-unearthed-footage-trump-says-of-10-year-old-i-am-going-to-be-dating-her-in-10-years/ 1993 Howard Stern: So, you treat women with respect?Donald Trump: Uh, I can't say that either.Stern: Alright, good. An interview on The Howard Stern Show, 1993 You know, if you’re young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam—it’s called the dating game... Dating is like being in Vietnam. You’re the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam. An interview on The Howard Stern Show, 1993, archived by People I am not a law enforcement officer. I am not supposed to be going around checking Indian reservations. That is what you have the FBI for, and they are very capable, the most capable. Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, October 5, 1993: In Implementation of Indian Gaming Regulatory Act: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress ... Public Law 100-497, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, Part 5, page 187 1994 Well, I think that she's got a lot of Marla [Maples, Trump's second wife], she's a really beautiful baby, and she's got Marla's legs. We don't know whether she's got this part yet [gestures toward own chest], but time will tell... On his then-one year old daughter Tiffany, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, 1994 Everybody's always blaming me for everything. 16 May 1994 in "For Sale by Owner" s4e24 of "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", video here 1996 Let's make a deal; if you promise not to get "personal" with me, I will promise not to show you as the crude, fat and obnoxious slob which everyone knows you are. Sincerely, Donald J. Trump. Letter to journalist Shannon Donnelly, 1996 1997 “It’s amazing, I can’t even believe it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider” speaking of having sex and referring to women's genitals as “potential landmines”. An interview on The Howard Stern Show, 1997, archived by People 1999 I'm conservative, and even very conservative. But I'm quite liberal and getting much more liberal on health care and other things. I really say: What's the purpose of a country if you're not going to have defensive and health care? If you can't take care of your sick in the country, forget it, it's all over. I mean, it's no good. So I'm very liberal when it comes to health care. I believe in universal health care. I believe in whatever it takes to make people well and better. Interview with Larry King CNN (October 1999) I surround myself with the best people. I know the best people. On an interview (1999 November 26) The part of my life I think I'm most disappointed in is that I have not had the great marriage. And I would have thought that would have happened, because I came from a home—you know, it's not like some of my friends, they get divorced, but their parents were divorced twice or three times. I came from a home where marriage was just incredible. I mean, my parents truly loved each other. Good Morning America (2 December 1999), as quoted in The World According to Trump (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 46 I'm on the conservative side, but [Pat] Buchanan is Attila the Hun. As quoted in Selected Quotes from Newsweek Magazine, 1999 — https://web.archive.org/web/20001015150910/http://www.sph.umich.edu/~rwatt/old_nw3.htm Richard Watanabe - Newsweek Quotes, 1999 Sph.umich.edu 2010-06-13 People want me to [run for president] all the time … I don't like it. Can you imagine how controversial I'd be? You think about him [Bill Clinton] and the women. How about me with the women? Can you imagine? On Hardball with Chris Matthews, as quoted in 1999-07-12 Deborah Orin Trump ‘toys’ with prez run New York Post http://nypost.com/1999/07/12/trump-toys-with-prez-run 2000 I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons. The America We Deserve w:Donald Trump Donald Trump Dave Shiflett 2000 Renaissance Books 1580631312; Trump's Evolving Positions on Gun Issues Linda Qiu Kitty Bennett March 12, 2018 The New York Times September 6, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/us/politics/trump-evolving-positions-gun-issues.html So the Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep. As quoted in 14 February 2000 QUOTATION OF THE DAY http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/14/nyregion/quotation-of-the-day-815233.html The New York Times I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit. "Trump towers", interview with Paul Alexander, The Advocate (15 February 2000), p. 23 It's very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it. Reported by Jerry Useem, "What Does Donald Trump Really Want?", Fortune, 3 April 2000. 2002 I think the regulations are very tough, but I think they could be made tougher. And where they really have to be made tougher is when somebody is proven to be dishonest, not a mistake, not an honest mistake because look, people make bad business deals all the time. When somebody is proven to be dishonest, really harsh punishment has to take place. Hardball with Chris Matthews (15 July 2002), as quoted in The World According to Trump (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 23 Howard Stern: Are you for the invasion of Iraq? Donald Trump: Yeah, I guess so. I wish, uh, I wish the first time it was done correctly. Interview on Howard Stern Show (11 September 2002), reported by BuzzFeed (19 February 2016) I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life. On Jeffrey Epstein. Quoted in New York, 28 October 2002. I don't know how you do it. I've put together some really impressive deals, but this thing you've pulled off, it's amazing: a Big N' Tasty for just a dollar. How do you do it? What's your secret? Together Grimace, we could own this town. Trump's lines in a McDonald's advert (2002), quoted in 2019-01-15 Rachel Desantis Donald Trump’s lifelong love of fast food, from his 2002 McDonald’s commercial to ‘hamberders’ New York Daily News https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-donald-trump-has-always-loved-fast-food-20190115-story.html 2003 I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways. Interview with Norwegian talk show host Fredrik Skavlan in (November 2003). 2004 Trump: My daughter is beautiful, IvankaStern: By the way, your daughter,Trump: She’s beautifulStern: Can I say this? A piece of assTrump: Yeah September 2004 exchange with Howard Stern reported in 2016 by CNN Now, if your boss is a sadist, then you have a big problem. In that case, fire your boss and get a new job. Trump: How to Get Rich (2004) If you don't tell people about your success, they probably won't know about it. Trump: How to Get Rich (2004), p. xiii Get going. Move forward. Aim high. Plan for a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. Trump: How to Get Rich (2004), p. 74 In business—every business—the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process. Trump: How to Get Rich (2004), p. 86 Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself—anyone who thinks that they do is destined for mediocrity. Trump: The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received (2004), p. 20 I don't like firing people. It's not a pleasant thing and it's sad. ... In some cases, it's a terrible, terrible situation for the person who gets fired, how strongly they take it. So it's not something that any rational or sane person can love doing, but it also happens to be a fact of life in business. Boston Herald (7 January 2004), as quoted in The World According to Trump (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 16 People say, "Do you have the same opportunity today as you had years ago?" And I said, "Absolutely." You always have an opportunity. There's always an opportunity, especially in this country. Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, CNN (21 March 2004) All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected. Ny Daily News (24 March 2004) [On "You're fired!":] 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. Trump TV / 'The Apprentice' takes realistic inside look at corporate world San Francisco Chronicle 2004-03-28 David Armstrong http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Trump-TV-The-Apprentice-takes-realistic-2802491.php My life is seeing everything in terms of "How would I handle that?" Look at the war in Iraq and the mess that we're in. I would never have handled it that way. Does anybody really believe that Iraq is going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to step up to lead the county? C'mon. Two minutes after we leave, there's going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over. And he'll have weapons of mass destruction, which Saddam didn't have. What was the purpose of this whole thing? Hundreds and hundreds of young people killed. And what about the people coming back with no arms and legs? Not to mention the other side. All those Iraqi kids who've been blown to pieces. And it turns out that all of the reasons for the war were blatantly wrong. All this for nothing! Esquire magazine (August 2004); "Donald Trump: How I'd Run the Country (Better)" (18 August 2015) Pregnancy is "a wonderful thing for the woman, it's a wonderful thing for the husband, it's certainly an inconvenience for a business." About pregnancy (2004) The concept of shaking hands is absolutely terrible, and statistically I’ve been proven right. Playboy, 2004 In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat. It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't be that way. But if you go back, I mean it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats. ...But certainly we had some very good economies under Democrats, as well as Republicans. But we've had some pretty bad disaster under the Republicans. Said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, as quoted by Trump in '04: 'I probably identify more as Democrat' CNN Chris Moody https://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/21/politics/donald-trump-election-democrat/index.html 2005 I'll go backstage, before a show, and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else. And you know, no men are anywhere. And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it. You know I'm inspecting, I want to make sure everything is good, the dresses, "Is everyone OK?", you know they're standing there with no clothes, "Is everybody OK?", and you see these incredible-looking women, and so I sort of get away with things like that. Comments about his ownership of Miss Universe on the Howard Stern Show (11 April 2005) They had a person who was extremely proud that a number of the women had become doctors. And I wasn't interested. Comments about his ownership of Miss Universe on the Howard Stern Show (11 April 2005) I did try and fuck her. She was married. I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn't get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look. 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. When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything. To Billy Bush in 2005; "Transcript: Donald Trump's Taped Comments About Women", The New York Times (8 October 2016) 2006 It would be really disappointing — not really — but it would depend on what’s inside the magazine. I don’t think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her. On 7 March 2006 during an appearance on the daytime talk show The View while discussing the possibility of Ivanka Trump’s posing for Playboy magazine. As quoted in Did Donald Trump Say He’d Like to Date His Daughter? by Dan Evon, 10 July 2015, Snopes, and quoted with video clip in 2016-10-10 Adam Withnall Donald Trump's unsettling record of comments about his daughter Ivanka The Independent UK https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-creepiest-most-unsettling-comments-a-roundup-a7353876.html originally reported in 7 March 2006 article on Today via AP I thought today's women were independent and had a lot of sexual freedom. ... Well, I guess they fooled me. In April 2006, about women's disaproval of one-night stands. As quoted in Trump on Clinton in 2008: ‘She'd make a good president' (July 11, 2016) by Michael Rothfield and Mark Maremont, MarketWatch. She’s actually always been very voluptuous. She’s tall, she’s almost six feet tall and she’s been, she’s an amazing beauty. October 2006 interview with Howard Stern about Ivanka Trump reported 2016 by CNN Jon Ward: There's a lot of talk, which you no doubt heard too, about a sort of real estate bubble. What's your take on that pessimism? Donald Trump: Well, first of all, I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy. How to Build a Fortune (2006), Trump University audiobook, quoted in 2016-05-19 Jeremy Diamond Donald Trump in 2006: I 'sort of hope' real estate market tanks CNN https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/politics/donald-trump-2006-hopes-real-estate-market-crashes/index.html No, I have no age — I mean, I have age limit. I don't want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds, Donald Trump Howard Stern Tapes Show Him Saying 35 Is 'Check-Out Time' For Women And Agreeing His Daughter Is A 'Piece Of Ass' (2006) When asked if he has an age limit for women he'll sleep with. 2007 Since I love what I do, I do it vigorously and I do it better. Because I inject it with enthusiasm and passion, it doesn't feel like work. My passion spills over to everyone around me and motivates them to do their very best. Trump 101 The Way to Success (2007), p. 1 Passion is absolutely necessary to achieve any kind of long-lasting success. I know this from experience. If you don't have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. Trump 101 The Way to Success (2007), p. 2 The war is total disaster. It's a catastrophe, nothing less. It is such a shame that this took place. In fact, I gained a lot of respect for our current president's father by the fact that he had the sense not to go in to Iraq. He won the war and then said let's not go the rest of the way and he turned out to be right. And Saddam Hussein, whether they like him or didn't like him, he hated terrorists. He'd shoot and kill terrorists. When terrorists came in to his country, which he did control and he did dominate, he would kill terrorists. Now it's a breeding ground for terrorists. So, look, the war is a total catastrophe...and they have a civil war going on. Interview on "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer (16 March 2007) I make that --- twice now, on a Monday I let returning Iraqi injured soldiers come to the premises. The most beautiful people I've ever seen. But they're missing arms and legs, they're with their wives, sometimes they're with their girlfriends. And the tears are coming down the faces of these people. I mean, thousands and maybe hundreds of thousands, and the Iraqis that have been just maimed and killed. This war is a horrible thing. Now, President Bush says he's religious. And yet 400,000 people, the way I count it, have died, and probably millions have been badly maimed and injured. What's going on? What's going on? And the day we pull out it's going to explode. We're keeping the lid on a little bit. It's still a catastrophe, but the day we pull out, because they're in a civil war. Whether we want to admit it or not, they're in a civil war. Interview on "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer (16 March 2007) Hillary Clinton I think is a terrific woman. I am biased because I have known her for years. I live in New York. She lives in New York. I really like her and her husband both a lot. I think she really works hard. And I think, again, she's given an agenda, it is not all of her, but I think she really works hard and I think she does a good job. I like her. 2007 CNN interview, reported in Zeke J. Miller, "When Donald Trump Praised Hillary Clinton", Time (July 17, 2015). Trump Steaks are the world's greatest steaks, and I mean that in every sense of the word. Treat yourself to the very, very best life has to offer you. And as a gift, Trump Steaks are the best you can give. One bite, and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about, and believe me. I understand steaks, it's my favorite food. Lines marking the introduction of Trump Steaks by The Sharper Image (2007) My net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down with the markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings, but I try. Claimed in December 2007, quoted in "Trump: I'm worth whatever I feel", CNN (April 21, 2011) Congratulations on being named Time magazine's 'Man of the Year' — you definitely deserve it. As you have probably heard, I'm a big fan of yours! Letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin 2008 They'll walk up, and they'll flip their top, and they'll flip their panties. Interview on The Howard Stern Show (2008) Hillary Clinton said she'd consider naming Barack Obama as her vice president when she gets the nomination, but she's nowhere near a shoo-in. About the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries in audio released by the Journal. As quoted in Donald Trump Once Said Hillary Clinton Would Make A 'Good President' (July 12, 2016) by Tara John, The Times. For his part, Obama said he's just focused on winning the nomination although at least one member on his team said Clinton would make a good vice president. Well, I know her and she'd make a good president or good vice president. About the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries in an audio from "Trumped!", a syndicated radio feature that aired from 2004 to 2008. As quoted in Donald Trump Once Said Hillary Clinton Would Make A 'Good President' (July 12, 2016) by Tara John, The Times. It's very exciting we have a new president. It would have been nice if he ended with a 500 point up instead of down. It's certainly very exciting. His speech was great last night. I thought it was inspiring in every way. And, hopefully he's going to do a great job. But the way I look at it, he cannot do worse than Bush. "Donald Trump on President-Elect Obama: 'He Cannot Do Worse Than Bush'" Interview with Greta Van Susteren Fox News (6 November 2008) 2009 If I'd started in business thinking I knew everything, I'd have been sunk before I started... Never think of learning as being a burden or studying as being boring. It may require some discipline, but it can be an adventure. It can also prepare you for a new beginning. Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life (2009), pp. 16–17 Without passion, you don't have energy; without energy, you have nothing. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. As quoted in Social Networking for Authors: Untapped Possibilities for Wealth (2009) by Michael Volkin, p. 60 let's just talk. I'll give you as much time as you want. I'll tell you what you need to know 2009 to Bradley Edwards (attorney prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein) as narrated by Edwards in December 2018 interview, according to 7 July 2019 article by Joe Hoft of Gateway Pundit 2010 Well, I think I was born with a drive for success. I had a father who was successful. He was a builder in Brooklyn and Koreans. And he was successful. And, you know, I have a certain gene. I'm a gene believer. Hey, when you connect two race horses, you usually end up with a fast horse. And I really was -- you know, I had a -- a good gene pool from the standpoint of that. CNN interview (February 2010) 2011 Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich. Interview with Ashleigh Banfield on ABC's Good Morning America (17 March 2011); also in 2011-03-17 Neil King Jr. Trump on 2012: ‘Part of Beauty of Me Is I'm Very Rich’ Washington Wire Wall Street Journal http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/03/17/trump-on-2012-part-of-beauty-of-me-is-im-very-rich/ They asked John McCain for his birth certificate. They've asked others for their birth certificate. They asked Bush for his birth certificate, by the way. I just found out over the weekend. And they would ask me for my birth certificate and by the way, it's sitting on the top of my desk. They give you a certificate of live birth, which anybody can get, just walk into the hospital, and you get a certificate of live birth. It's not even signed by people. Now, this guy either has a birth certificate or he doesn't. And I didn't think this was such a big deal, but I will tell you, it's turning out to be a very big deal because people now are calling me from all over saying, please don't give up on this issue. If you weren't born in this country, you cannot be president. About Barack Obama's birth certificate. Fox & Friends Television Fox News 2011-03-28 Fox Goes Birther: Trump Tells Unquestioning Co-hosts, "I'm Starting To Wonder...Whether Or Not [Obama] Was Born In This Country" Media Matters for America 2011-03-28 http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201103280006 2011-03-30 So he could have come into the country, and they did it for social reasons they put it in! They did it for whatever reason. There are a lot of reasons you could have put an ad in. But he could have been born outside of this country. Why can't he produce a birth certificate and by the way, there is one story that his family doesn't even know what hospital he was born in! About Barack Obama's birth certificate. Fox & Friends Television Fox News 2011-03-28 Fox Goes Birther: Trump Tells Unquestioning Co-hosts, "I'm Starting To Wonder...Whether Or Not [Obama] Was Born In This Country" Media Matters for America 2011-03-28 http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201103280006 2011-03-30 I start off every time I talk about the birthers, I start off by saying, and it's very interesting, I was a great student at the best college in the country. You know? I want to let people know. I'm a smart guy. Because what they do to the birthers, and I don't even like the term, the birthers. I think it's unfair to them. These are people that want to see a birth certificate. They want to know that the president was born here! About Barack Obama's birth certificate. Fox & Friends Television Fox News 2011-03-28 Fox Goes Birther: Trump Tells Unquestioning Co-hosts, "I'm Starting To Wonder...Whether Or Not [Obama] Was Born In This Country" Media Matters for America 2011-03-28 http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201103280006 2011-03-30 Because if you're not born in the United States, you cannot be president. And, there is a real question. And if this birth certificate exists, you know what I get a kick out of? The Governor of Hawaii says, "I remember when he was born 50 years ago." I doubt it. I think this guy should be investigated. I doubt it. He remembers when Obama was born? Give me a break! He's just trying to do something for his party. The fact is, if you're not born in the United States, you cannot be president. He is having a hard time — he spent millions of dollars trying to get away from this issue, millions of dollars in legal fees trying to get away from this issue. And I'll tell you what, I brought it up just routinely and all of a sudden, a lot of facts are emerging, and I'm starting to wonder myself whether or not he was born in this country. About Barack Obama's birth certificate. Fox & Friends Television Fox News 2011-03-28 Fox Goes Birther: Trump Tells Unquestioning Co-hosts, "I'm Starting To Wonder...Whether Or Not [Obama] Was Born In This Country" Media Matters for America 2011-03-28 http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201103280006 2011-03-30 Donald Trump: Meredith, he spent two million dollars in legal fees trying to get away from this issue. And if he weren't lying, why wouldn't he just solve it? And I wish he would, because if he doesn't, it's one of the greatest scams in the history of politics, and in the history period. You are not allowed to be a president if you're not born in this country. He may not be born in this country. And I'll tell you what, three weeks ago I thought he was born in this country. Right now, I have some real doubts. I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding.Meredith Vieira: You have people now, down there searching—Trump: Absolutely.Vieira: I mean, in Hawaii?Trump: Absolutely. And they cannot believe what they're finding. I would like to have him show his birth certificate, and can I be honest with you, I hope he can. Because if he can't, if he can't, if he wasn't born in this country, which is a real possibility, I'm not saying it hap— I'm saying it's a real possibility, much greater than I thought two or three weeks ago, then he has pulled one of the great cons in the history of politics. And beyond politics. Today 2011-04-07 NBC Television regarding Barack Obama Two million dollars is the sum of all the Obama presidential campaign's post-election legal expenses. David Brody: Radical Islam: to Evangelicals, this is a bread and butter issue. You said there's a Muslim problem in this country. What do you mean by that exactly? Donald Trump: Bill O'Reilly asked me is there a Muslim problem? And I said absolutely, yes. In fact I went a step further. I said I didn't see Swedish people knocking down the World Trade Center. It was very interesting. I thought that was going to be a controversial statement and somebody, I think it was Dennis Miller introduced me, he was doing like an analysis of me, he said, I love it. The guy said what the truth is. He didn't mince his words. He didn't say, 'Oh, gee, no there's not a Muslim problem, everybody's wonderful.' And by the way, many, many, most Muslims are wonderful people, but is there a Muslim problem? Look what's happening. Look what happened right here in my city with the World Trade Center and lots of other places. So I said it and I thought it was going to be very controversial but actually it was very well received. I think people want the truth. I think they're tired of politicians. They're tired of politically correct stuff. I mean I could have said, 'Oh absolutely not Bill, there's no Muslim problem, everything is wonderful, just forget about the World Trade Center.' But you have to speak the truth. We're so politically correct that this country is falling apart. Brody: With some evangelicals there are some problems with the teachings of the Koran. Do you have concerns about the Koran? Trump: Well, I'll tell you what. The Koran is very interesting. A lot of people say it teaches love and there is a very big group of people who really understand the Koran far better than I do. I'm certainly not an expert, to put it mildly. But there's something there that teaches some very negative vibe. I mean things are happening, when you look at people blowing up all over the streets that are in some of the countries over in the Middle East, just blowing up a super market with not even soldiers, just people, when 250 people die in a super market that are shopping, where people die in a store or in a street. There's a lot of hatred there that's some place. Now I don't know if that's from the Koran. I don't know if that's from some place else. But there's tremendous hatred out there that I've never seen anything like it. So, you have two views. You have the view that the Koran is all about love and then you have the view that the Koran is, that there's a lot of hate in the Koran. On CBN News' "The Brody File" (12 April 2011) (video) (transcript) I look very much forward to showing my financials. Because they are huge. Michael Scherer In the presence of Donald Trump 2011-04-11 Time http://swampland.time.com/2011/04/14/in-the-presence-of-donald-trump/ 2019-10-28 I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records. Associated Press interview, 2011-04-25 Lucy Madison Trump: How did Obama get into the Ivy League? 2011-04-25 CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20057214-503544.html 2011-05-01 https://archive.is/dnCsg 2013-06-28 About Barack Obama's education, who graduated from Columbia University in 1983 and graduated magna cum laude with a Juris doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1991 Today I'm very proud of myself, because I've accomplished something that nobody else has been able to accomplish. I was just informed, while on the helicopter, that our president has finally released a birth certificate. I want to look at it, but I hope it's true, so that we can get on to much more important matters, so the press can stop asking me questions. He should have done it a long time ago. Why he didn't do it when the Clintons asked for it, why he didn't do it when everyone else was asking for it, I don't know. But I am really honored, frankly, to have played such a big role in hopefully, hopefully getting rid of this issue. Now, we have to look at it, we have to see, is it real? Is it proper? What's on it? But I hope it checks out beautifully. I am really proud, I am really honored. press conference, 2011-04-27 Trump Questions Obama Birth Certificate 2011-04-27 TMZ http://www.tmz.com/2011/04/27/donald-trump-barack-obama-birth-certificate-comment-quote/ 2011-05-01 Regarding the release of Barack Obama's full birth record from Hawaii that morning The word is, according to what I've have read, is that he was a terrible student when he went to Occidental. He then gets to Columbia and then gets to Harvard. I heard at Columbia he was not a very good student, and then he then he gets into Harvard. How do you get into Harvard if you are not a good student? Maybe that's right, maybe that's wrong, but I don't know why he doesn't he release his records. Why doesn't he release his Occidental records? press conference, New Hampshire, 2011-04-27 Schieffer: Racism underlying Trump's assertions 2011-04-27 CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20058072-503544.html 2011-05-01 https://archive.is/ryIny 2013-06-28 About Barack Obama, who transferred to Columbia from Occidental College in 1981, graduated from Columbia in 1983, and graduated magna cum laude with a Juris doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1991 It's like in golf. A lot of people — I don't want this to sound trivial — but a lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive. It's weird. You see these great players with these really long putters, because they can't sink three-footers anymore. And, I hate it. I am a traditionalist. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist. After Roasting, Trump Reacts In Character 2011-05-01 New York Times Michael Barbaro http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/nyregion/after-roasting-trump-reacts-in-character.html 2011-05-06 on his opposition to same-sex marriage I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind. As quoted in 2011-05-03 Tony Pierce Donald Trump has read a lot of books on China: 'I understand the Chinese mind' Los Angeles Times http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/05/donald-trump-i-understand-the-chinese-mind.html, and in 2015-08-24 John Mauldin Playing the Chinese Trump Card Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmauldin/2015/08/24/playing-the-chinese-trump-card/ I dealt with Gaddafi. I rented him a piece of land. He paid me more for one night than the land was worth for two years, and then I didn't let him use the land. That's what we should be doing. I don't want to use the word 'screwed,' but I screwed him. That's what we should be doing. As quoted in 2015-07-22 Donald Trump: In his own colourful words BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33619045 She's a slob, she talks like a truck driver. If I were running my business, I'd fire Rosie, I mean, I'd look her right in that fat ugly face of hers and say, "Rosie, you're fired." On an interview on why he hates Rosie O'Donnell (28 August 2011) Barney Frank looked disgusting--nipples protruding--in his blue shirt before Congress. Very very disrespectful. Twitter, quoted by the Washington Post (20 December 2011) Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He is weak and he is ineffective. So the only way he figures he is going to be reelected and as sure as you are sitting there, is to start a war with Iran. A now-deleted video on his YouTube video blog. 2020-01-03 Trump repeatedly claimed in 2011 and 2012 that Obama would start a war with Iran to win reelection Andrew Kaczynski CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/03/politics/kfile-trump-obama-2012-iran-war-reelection/index.html 2012 Mitt is tough. He is smart. He is sharp. He is not going to allow bad things to continue to happen to this country that we all love. So Gov. Romney, go out and get em. You can do it. Quoted in 2012-02-02 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57370443-503544/trump-endorses-mitt-romney-for-president/ Corbett B. Daly Trump endorses Mitt Romney for president CBS News No, I've never really changed. Nothing's changed my mind. And by the way, you know, you have a huge group of people — I walk down the street, and people are screaming, "Please don't give that up." A lot of people are questioning his birth certificate. They're questioning the authenticity of his birth certificate. I've been known as being a very smart guy for a long time. I don't consider myself birther or not birther, but there are some major questions here and the press doesn't wanna cover it. The press just refuses to cover it. Now if that were somebody else, they would be covering it, and they'd be throwing people out of office. But they don't want to cover it. So it's interesting. Telephone interview CNBC 2012-05-29, quoted in 2012-05-29 Donald Trump Goes On Epic Birther Rant The Huffington Post Melissa Jeltsen http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/29/donald-trump-romney-obama-birther_n_1553074.html Wolf Blitzer: Donald, you're beginning to sound a little ridiculous, I have to tell you.Donald Trump: No I think you are, Wolf. Now let me tell you something, I think you sound ridiculous, and if you'd ask me a question and let me answer it —Blitzer: Here's the question, did the conspiracy start in 1961 where the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and the Honolulu Advertiser contemporaneously published announcements that he was born in Hawaii?Trump: That's right. That's right. And many people put those announcements in because they wanted to get the benefit because of getting so-called born in this country. Many people did it. It was something that was done by many people even though they weren't born in the country. You know and so do I... And so do a lot of your viewers. Although you don't have too many viewers. Donald Trump (clip): I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding.Meredith Vieira (clip): You have people now, down there searching—Trump (clip): Absolutely.Vieira (clip): I mean, in Hawaii?Trump (clip): Absolutely. And they cannot believe what they're finding.Wolf Blitzer: All right, tell us what your people who were investigating in Hawaii, what they found.Trump: Oh, we don't have to go into old news. That's old news.Blitzer: Well, what did they find?Trump: There's been plenty found. You can call many people. You can read many, many articles on the authenticity of the certificate. You can read many articles from just recently as to what the publisher printed in a brochure as to what Obama told him, as to where his place of birth is. And that's fine, Wolf.Now, it's appropriate, I think, that we get to the subject of hand, which is — at hand, which is jobs, which is the economy, which is how our country is not doing well at all under this leadership, which is how are we going to do something about energy, which is really that things that I wanted to talk to you about, but you like to keep going back to the place of birth. The Situation Room CNN 2012-05-29, quoted in 2012-05-29 Wolf Blitzer Spars With Donald Trump Over Obama's Birth Certificate Elizabeth Flock US News & World Report http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/05/29/wolf-blitzer-spars-with-donald-trump-over-obamas-birth-certificate Referring to a 1991 promotional booklet by literary agency Acton & Dystel with bios of 89 authors, that erroneously described Barack Obama as "born in Kenya". He [Obama] lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country! The phoney [sic] electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser one! More votes equals a loss... revolution! This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy! The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy. Tweets on November 6 and 7, 2012, some of which were later deleted. Trump falsely believed Barack Obama had lost the popular vote. Trump’s flip-flop on the electoral college: From ‘disaster’ to ‘genius’ Republicans didn't have anything going for them with respect to Latinos and with respect to Asians... The Democrats didn't have a policy for dealing with illegal immigrants, but what they did have going for them is they weren't mean-spirited about it... They didn't know what the policy was, but what they were is they were kind... He had a crazy policy of self deportation which was maniacal... It sounded as bad as it was, and he lost all of the Latino vote... He lost the Asian vote. He lost everybody who is inspired to come into this country... Take care of this incredible problem that we have with respect to immigration, with respect to people wanting to be wonderful productive citizens of this country. Interview with Newsmax (November 2012), quoted in 2015-07-10 Jim Geraghty Trump 2008: Bush Is Evil, Talk to Iran, Obama Cannot Do Worse Than Bush National Review http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/420996/trump-2008-bush-evil-talk-iran-obama-cannot-do-worse-bush-jim-geraghty [climate change was] "created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive" said in 2012 according to What does Trump actually believe on climate change? "It doesn't matter who you vote for--it matters who is counting the votes." Be careful of voter fraud!. Oct 10 2012 2013 Must be a pretty picture you dropping to your knees. " to Brande Roderick, From The Apprentice, Season 6, Episode 1" (3 March 2013) I keep asking, how long will we go on defending South Korea from North Korea without payment? South Korea is a very very rich country. They're rich because of us. They sell us televisions, they sell us cars. They sell us everything. They are making a fortune. We have a huge deficit with South Korea. They're friends of mine. I do deals with them. I've been partners with them, no problem. But they think we're stupid. They can't believe it. We are defending them against North Korea, we're doing it for nothing. We're not in that position. When will they start to pay us for this defense? Isn't it really ridiculous when you think of it? They make a fortune on the United States and then they got some problems, and what happens? They call the United States to defend them, and we get nothing? "From the Desk of Donald Trump: South Korea" YouTube (10 April 2013) I’m a very compassionate person (with a very high IQ) with strong common sense. "Donald Trump's IQ obsession, in 22 quotes" (April 21, 2021) I do have a relationship and I can tell you that he's very interested in what we're doing here today, he's probably very interested in what you and I are saying today, and I'm sure he is going to be seeing it in some form. But I do have a relationship with him, and I think, er, it's very interesting to see what's happened. I mean, look, he's done a very brilliant job in terms of what he represents and who he's representing, if you look at what he's done with Syria, if you look at so many of the different things, he has really eaten our president's lunch, let's not kid ourselves. Trump responding to a question about whether he had a relationship with Vladimir Putin during an interview with MSNBC's Thomas Roberts while visiting Moscow for the Miss Universe competition (November 2013) 2014 Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases! Twitter, 28 March 2014 If this doctor, who so recklessly flew into New York from West Africa, has Ebola,then Obama should apologize to the American people & resign! Snopes fact check: Did Trump Call for Obama to Resign After Ebola Doctor Returned to U.S.? (23 Oct) 2015 May 2015 There is a way of beating ISIS so easily, so quickly, so effectively, and it would be so nice...I know a way that would absolutely give us guaranteed victory...the problem is then everybody will take the idea, run with it and then people will forget where it came from...I ran it past two or three people. [It's] so simple. It's like the paper clip. On his plan to defeat ISIS (May 2015) June 2015 Presidential bid announcement (June 16, 2015) "Remarks Announcing Candidacy for President in New York City", The American Presidency Project thumb|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. They all said, a lot of the pundits on television, "Well, Donald will never run, and one of the main reasons is he's private and he's probably not as successful as everybody thinks." So I said to myself, you know, nobody's ever going to know unless I run, because I'm really proud of my success. Our country is in serious trouble. We don't have victories anymore. ... When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let's say, China in a trade deal? They kill us. ... When did we beat Japan at anything? They send their cars over by the millions, and what do we do? When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Tokyo? ... When do we beat Mexico at the border? They're laughing at us, at our stupidity. ... The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. ... They're sending us not the right people. It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South and Latin America, and it's coming probably – probably – from the Middle East. But we don't know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don't know what's happening. And it's got to stop and it's got to stop fast. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. 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. July 2015 Donald Trump: Oh, well, if you look at the statistics, of people coming— I didn't say about Mexic— I say the illegal immigrants— if you look at the statistics on rape, on crime, on everything, coming in illegally into this country, they're mind-boggling. If you go to Fusion, you will see a story about 80% of the women coming in– I mean, you have to take a look at these stories. And you know who owns Fusion? Univision. It was in The Huffington Post. I said, let me get some of these articles because I've heard some horrible things. I deal a lot of talking with people on the border patrol. They're incredible people. They help our country.Don Lemon: But I want some clarification–Trump: No, but Don, all you have to do is go to Fusion and pick up the stories on rape, and it's unbelievable when you look at what's going on. So all I'm doing is telling the truth.Lemon: I've read The Washington Post, I read the Fusion, I read The Huffington Post. And that's about women being raped, it's not about criminals coming across the border entering the country.Trump: Somebody's doing the raping, Don, I mean, you know– I mean, somebody's doing it. You think it's women being raped, well who's doing the raping? Who's doing the raping? I mean how can you say such a thing. So, the problem is you have to stop illegal immigration coming across the border. You have to create a strong border. If you don't, we don't have a country. 2015-07-01 The Situation Room TV CNN http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/01/politics/donald-trump-immigrants-raping-comments/ thumb|I can't apologize for the truth. I can never apologize for the truth. I don't mind apologizing for things but I can't apologize for the truth. 2015-07-02 TRUMP: 'I use the word rape and all of a sudden everyone goes crazy' finance.yahoo.com https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-word-rape-sudden-everyone-172614480.html The Obama Administration's agreement with Iran is very dangerous. Iran developing a nuclear weapon, either through uranium or nuclear fuel, and defying the world is still a very real possibility. The inspections will not be followed, and Iran will no longer have any sanctions. Iran gets everything and loses nothing. Every promise the Obama Administration made in the beginning of negotiations, including the vow (made at the beginning of the negotiations) to get our great American prisoners returned to the U. S. has been broken. This is a bad deal that sets a dangerous precedent. This deal sets off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, which is the most-unstable region in the world. It is a horrible and perhaps catastrophic event for Israel. Furthermore, we should have kept the billions of dollars we have agreed to pay them. Any great dealmaker would know this is a perfect example of "tapping along" and because they have been unchecked for so long throughout this extremely lengthy process, I guarantee they are much closer to producing a nuclear weapon than they were at the start of negotiations. The fact is, the US has incompetent leaders and even more incompetent negotiators. We must do better for America and the world. We have to Make America Great Again. Statement by Donald J. Trump on the Iran Agreement, American Presidency Project, 14 July 2015 And I had an idea recently. When they send illegals into our country, we charge Mexico $100,000 for every illegal that crosses that border because it's trouble. 2015-07-15 Fox News "Hannity"- Transcript: Trump On El Chappo And Undocumented Immigration Fox News https://votesmart.org/public-statement/1113598/fox-news-hannity-transcript-trump-on-el-chappo-and-undocumented-immigration#.XxcUdZMzbOQ Donald Trump: 15,000 people showed up to hear me speak. Bigger than anybody and everybody knows it. A beautiful day with incredible people that were wonderful, great Americans, I will tell you. John McCain goes, "Oh, boy, Trump makes my job difficult. He had 15,000 crazies show up." Crazies. He called them all crazy. I said, they weren't crazy. They were great Americans. These people— if you would have seen these people— you— I know what a crazy is. I know all about crazies. These weren't crazy. So he insulted me and he insulted everybody in that room...Frank Luntz: He's a war hero.Donald Trump: He's not a war hero.Luntz: He's a war hero.Trump: He is a war hero—Luntz: Five and a half years in a POW camp.Trump: He's a war hero 'cause he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, OK? I hate to tell you.Luntz: Do you agree with that?Trump: He's a war hero. He's a war hero because he was captured, OK? You can have— and I believe— perhaps he's a war hero, but— but right now he said some very bad things about a lot of people. Family Leadership Summit 2015, quoted in 2015-07-18 Donald Trump tells John McCain: 'I like people who weren't captured' Harriet Alexander The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/republicans/11748859/Donald-Trump-tells-John-McCain-I-like-people-who-werent-captured.html Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it's true!—but when you're a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it's four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us. 2015-07-21 Speech in Sun City, South Carolina Slate http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2015/07/31/donald_trump_this_run_on_sentence_from_a_speech_in_sun_city_south_carolina.html If you can't get rich dealing with politicians, there's something wrong with you. Campaign Rally in South Carolina YouTube I'm a Republican, I'm a conservative, I'm in first place, I want to run as a Republican and I think I'll get the nomination... [Hillary Clinton] is easily the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. She's going to be beaten and I'm the one to beat her. 2015-07-23 Donald Trump tours Mexican border with Texas BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33645971 Jose Diaz-Balart: Mr. Trump, you know 53,000 Hispanics turn 18 years of age in this country every month, born in the country of voting age. 54 million plus Hispanics — many feel that what you said when you said that the people who cross the border are rapists and murderers—Donald Trump: No, no, no! We're talking about illegal immigration and everybody understands that. And you know what? That's a typical case. That's a typical case of the press with misinterpretation. They take a half a sentence, they take a half a sentence, then they take quarter of a sentence and put it all together. It's a typical thing...Diaz-Balart: I'm not finished with my question.Trump: No, no! You're finished! 2015-07-23 Crowd Erupts in Applause at How Donald Trump Handles MSNBC Host at Presser: 'You're Finished!' Oliver Darcy TheBlaze http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/07/23/crowd-erupts-in-applause-at-how-donald-trump-handles-msnbc-host-at-presser-youre-finished/ I think that I would be a great uniter. I think that I would have great diplomatic skills. I think that I would be able to get along with people very well. I've had a great success in my life. I think the world would unite if I were the leader of the United States. 2015-07-30 Trump: 'World would unite if I were the leader' Jesse Byrnes The Hill http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/249875-trump-world-would-unite-if-i-were-the-leader August 2015 thumb|I do whine because I want to win and I’m not happy about not winning and I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win. I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. Republican Presidential Debate 2015 — 2015-08-06 Annotated transcript: The Aug. 6 GOP debate The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/06/annotated-transcript-the-aug-6-gop-debate/ You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. On Megyn Kelly (7 August 2015) I cherish women. I want to help women. I'm going to do things for women that no other candidate will be able to do. 2015-08-09 12 times Donald Trump declared his 'respect' for women Gregoy Krieg CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/07/politics/donald-trump-respect-women/index.html I will be phenomenal to the women. I mean, I want to help women. Face the Nation, 9 August 2015 I think there has to be a trust. There actually has to be a trust. If you don't trust, you're not going to do very well. In response to a reporter's line of questioning on what his specific plans will be to achieve the goals of his campaign. "Trump on Specifics of His Proposals: ‘Trust Me'" (12 August 2015), by Melanie Hunter We have to keep the families together, but they have to go. What if they have no place to go? During the Iowa State Fair (2015 August 15) You know, when you put out policy, like a 14-point plan? A lot of times in the first hour of negotiation, that 14-point plan goes astray, but you may end up with a better deal. That's the way it works. That's the way really life works. When I do a deal, I don't say, "Oh, here's 14 points." I got out and do it. I don't sit down and talk about 14 points. Appearance at Iowa State Fair - 2015-08-15 Donald Trump's surprisingly savvy analysis of American politics The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/16/donald-trumps-surprisingly-savvy-comment-about-american-politics/ What's the difference between a wet raccoon and Donald J. Trump's hair? A wet raccoon doesn't have seven billion fucking dollars in the bank. 20 August 2015 roast on Comedy Central transcribed by Newsweek Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign... I will be the one to beat Hillary.If you start adding it up, our real unemployment rate is 42%. 2015-08-20 Donald Trump Explains All Time http://time.com/4003734/donald-trump-interview-transcript/. For a discussion of this figure, see "The Real Jobless Rate Is 42 Percent? Donald Trump Has a Point, Sort Of" by Neil Irwin, The New York Times (10 February 2016). You've seen my statements, I do very well, I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing and it's ridiculous. Interview on Bloomberg's With All Due Respect — 2015-08-26 Donald Trump Says He Wants to Raise Taxes on Himself David Knowles Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-26/donald-trump-says-he-wants-to-raise-taxes-on-himself I do whine because I want to win and I’m not happy about not winning and I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win. Interview with Chris Cuomo 2015-08-11 Donald Trump: ‘I keep whining and whining until I win’ Jeremy Diamond CNN https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/11/politics/donald-trump-refutes-third-party-run-report/index.html September 2015 We're a nation that speaks English. I think that, while we're in this nation, we should be speaking English... that's how we assimilate. 2015-09-03 Donald Trump: "While We're in This Nation, We Should Be Speaking English" The Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-trump-speak-english-spanish-820215 "Look at that face! [of Carly Fiorina] Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!" 2015-09-09 Trump Seriously: On the Trail With the GOP's Tough Guy Rolling Stone http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trump-seriously-20150909 The fact is all lives matter. That includes black, and it includes white, and it includes everybody else. And we have... Democrats that are afraid to even say that. As quoted in 2015-09-09 Donald Trump trashes Black Lives Matter: 'I think they're trouble' Colin Campbell Business Insider http://uk.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-black-lives-matter-2015-9?r=US&IR=T This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish. Criticizing Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish on the campaign trail during a Republican Presidential Debate on CNN (16 September 2015) Audience member: We have a problem in this country, it's called Muslims. Our current President is one. We know he's not even an American. We have training camps growing where they want to kill us. That's my question, when can we get rid of them? Donald Trump: We're going to be looking at a lot of different things. A lot of people are saying that and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. We're going to be looking at that and a lot of different things. At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire — as quoted in 2015-09-17 Here's How Donald Trump Responded to a Person Saying President Obama is Muslim Maya Rhodan Time http://time.com/4039658/trump-obama-muslim/ Am I morally obligated to defend the president every time somebody says something bad or controversial about him? I don't think so! This is the first time in my life that I have caused controversy by NOT saying something. Tweets — quoted in 2015-09-20 Trump defend Obama? 'I don't think so!' Doina Chiacu Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/20/us-usa-election-trump-idUSKCN0RJ0KT20150920 You can be politically correct if you want, but are you trying to say we don't have a problem? ... Most Muslims, like most everything, I mean, these are fabulous people... But we certainly do have a problem, I mean, you have a problem throughout the world. ... It wasn't people from Sweden that blew up the World Trade Center. On CNN's "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper — as quoted in 2015-09-20 Trump: 'We certainly do have a problem' with some Muslims Timothy Cama The Hill http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/254307-trump-we-certainly-do-have-a-problem-with-some-muslims The first thing I'd do in my first day as president is close up our borders so that illegal immigrants cannot come into our country. Twitter question and answer session from Twitter's New York office — as quoted in 2015-09-21 Trump: I'll close US borders 'in my first day' Jesse Byrnes The Hill http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/254391-trump-ill-close-us-borders-in-my-first-day You ever see guys with nothing on their desk? They always fail. I don't know what it is. I've seen it for years. Explaining his messy desk, The New York Times Magazine interview. 2015-09-21 Donald Trump is not going anywhere Mark Leibovich The New York Times Magazine http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/magazine/donald-trump-is-not-going-anywhere.html Why aren't we letting ISIS go and fight Assad and then we pick up the remnants? Interview in 60 Minutes, 2015-09-27 Cited by Mitt Romney in Business Insider, 2016-03-03 I will tell you in terms of leadership he is getting an 'A,' and our president is not doing so well. They did not look good together. 2015-09-30 Reena Flores Donald Trump gives Russia's Putin an 'A' in leadership CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-gives-russias-putin-an-a-in-leadership/ October 2015 All my friends who work out all the time, they’re going for knee replacements, hip replacements — they’re a disaster 4 October 2015 interview with New York Times I've always said, if you run for president, you shouldn't be allowed to use teleprompters. Because you don't even know if the guy is smart. Norcross, Georgia, , quoted in 2016-07-21 Teleprompter Trump: the right temperament or low-energy Donald? Joe Concha The Hill https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/288626-teleprompter-trump-the-right-temperament-or-low He was such a nice guy. And he said, Oh, I'm never going to attack. But then his poll numbers tanked. He's got -- that's why he's on the end -- and he got nasty. And he got nasty. So you know what? You can have him. Response to John Kasich 2015-10-28 CNBC Republican debate transcript CNBC http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/29/cnbc-full-transcript-cnbcs-your-money-your-vote-the-republican-presidential-debate-part-2.html November 2015 Trump: I'm Donald Trump, and I'm running for president. Our country is in deep trouble because let's face it: politics are all talk and no action. My opponents have no experience in creating jobs or making deals. The fact is, I'm going to make the greatest trade deals we've ever made in our country. And I'm going to bring jobs and money back to the United States. I'll take care of our veterans and make our military so strong that nobody will ever mess with us. I'll secure our borders, and yes, we will have a wall. You can't have a country without borders. Obamacare is a great plan . It will be repealed and replaced with something much better. If the people of Iowa vote for me, you'll never be disappointed. I don't disappoint people, I produce. Together, we're going to Make America Great Again. I'm Donald Trump, candidate for president, and I hate this message.Female V/O: Paid for by Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. Radio ad aired in Iowa (5 November 2015) Watch and study the mosques, because a lot of talk is going on at the mosques. As quoted in "Donald Trump: 'Strongly consider' shutting mosques" (16 November 2015), by Gregory Krieg, CNN (2015), Atlanta, Georgia: Cable News Network. I would certainly implement that. Absolutely... There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases. We should have a lot of systems... They have to be. They have to be... It's all about management. As quoted in "Donald Trump Says He Supports a Database and ID Cards to Track Muslims in the U.S.: 'We're Going to Have to Look at the Mosques'" (20 November 2015), by Char Adams, People. Somebody said I’m the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters. Quoted by 2015-11-20 Trump says he’s the Hemingway of Twitter The Hill Bradford Richardson https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/260949-trump-says-hes-the-hemingway-of-twitter Get him the hell out of here. As quoted in "Trump supporters, Black Lives Matter protester clash at rally" (21 November 2015), by Reena Flores, CBS News, CBS Interactive, Inc. I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.It was on television. I saw it. It was well covered at the time, George. Now, I know they don't like to talk about it, but it was well covered at the time. There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down. Not good. 21 November 2015 speech in Birmingham, Alabama, then next-day reply to George Stephanopoulos, according to 22 November 2015 PolitiFact article Written by a nice reporter. Now the poor guy - you ought to see the guy: ‘Uhh I don't know what I said. I don't remember!' He's going, ‘I don't remember! Maybe that's what I said.' As quoted in "Trump mocks reporter with disability" (25 November 2015 by CNN) and "Donald Trump accused of mocking disabled reporter" (26 November 2015), by Rob Crilly regarding Serge Kovaleski Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (November 2015) published 3 November 2015 The enthusiasm was based on pure love and love of what we were doing. Preface, p. xiv The fact is I give people what they need and deserve to hear - exactly what they don't get from politicians - and that is The Truth. Our country is a mess right now and we don't have time to pretend otherwise. We don't have time to waste on being politically correct. p. 8 I use the media the way the media uses me—to attract attention. Once I have that attention, it's up to me to use it to my advantage. p. 10 I've seen these so-called journalists flat-out lie. I say that because incompetence doesn't begin to explain the inaccurate stories they have written. p. 12 Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority. p. 30 Citizenship is not a gift we can afford to keep giving away. p. 28 I want good people to come here from all over the world, but I want them to do so legally. We can expedite the process, we can reward achievement and excellence, but we have to respect the legal process. And those people who take advantage of the system and come here illegally should never enjoy the benefits of being a resident--or citizen--of this nation. So I am against any path to citizenship for undocumented workers or anyone else who is in this country illegaly. They should--and need to--go home and get in line. p. 30 Depending on the price of oil, Saudi Arabia earns somewhere between half a billion and a billion dollars every day. They wouldn't exist, let alone have that wealth, without our protection. We get nothing from them. Nothing. We defend Germany. We defend Japan. We defend South Korea. These are powerful and wealthy countries. We get nothing from them. It's time to change all that. It's time to win again. p. 34 When Kuwait was attacked by Saddam Hussein, all the wealthy Kuwaitis ran to Paris. They didn't just rent suites—they took up whole buildings, entire hotels. They lived like kings while their country was occupied. Who did they turn to for help? Who else? Uncle Sucker. That's us. p. 34 We can't be afraid to use our military, but sending our sons and daughters should be the very last resort. I've seen what wars do to our kids. I've seen their broken bodies, know all about the horrors that live in their heads, and the enormous effects of trauma. We cannot commit American troops to battle without a real and tangible objective. p. 35 To me, for politicians to claim that we have an answer to every problem is silly. When you listen to some politicians reeling off their prepared answers, you almost fall for it. They're all experts. But nothing ever happens. p. 73 I manage to blast through the ridiculous liberal bias of the media and speak right to the hearts of the people - or at least I try. p. 80 It's not just jobs that are being lost to other countries. We are seeing whole industries vanish overseas. p. 85 A great leader has to be flexible, holding his ground on the major principles but finding room for compromises that can bring people together. A great leader has to be savvy at negotiations so we don't drown every bill in pork barrel bridges to nowhere. I know how to stand my ground — but I also know that Republicans and Democrats need to find common ground to stand on as well. p. 96 We look at politicians and think: This one's owned by this millionaire. That one's owned by that millionaire, or lobbyist, or special interest group. Me? I speak for the people. So the establishment attacks me. They can't own me, they can't dictate to me, so they search for ways to dismiss me. p. 97 December 2015 My policy has always been the same. We're fighting ISIS and Assad is fighting ISIS, but we're backing rebels to fight Assad. You can't fight everybody, you have to pick who you want to fight. And now you've got Turkey, who like ISIS more than they like others, no one really knows because we don't have people that know what they're doing. So in my opinion, you go along, and Russia does not like ISIS, and people are starting to find out. I mean in all fairness lost an airplane, got blew out of the air. So Russia is not a fan of ISIS. Russia is bombing the hell out of them, starting to bomb them. I say isis is our number one threat. We can't be fighting everybody at the same time. ISIS is our number one threat. I would bomb the hell out of them -- I like to do one thing at a time. I would knock the hell out of ISIS. I would hit them ... so hard like they've never been hit before. In an interview with Fox & Friends. (December 2, 2015) They're using them as shields. It's a horrible thing. They're using them as shields. But we're fighting a very politically correct war. And the other thing is with the terrorists. You have to take out their families. When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives. Don't kid yourself. But they say they don't care about their lives. You have to take out their families. When asked how he would deal with civilian casualties. In an interview with Fox & Friends. (December 2, 2015) If you're in the White House, who wants to take a vacation? You're in the White House!… What's better than the White House? Why these vacations? Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017 December 5, 2015 rally Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on... According to Pew Research, among others, there is great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim population. Most recently, a poll from the Center for Security Policy released data showing "25% of those polled agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad" and 51% of those polled, "agreed that Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to Shariah." Shariah authorizes such atrocities as murder against non-believers who won't convert, beheadings and more unthinkable acts that pose great harm to Americans, especially women. Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration (December 7, 2015) archived here We are losing a lot of people to the Internet. We have to do something. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them [about], maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Some people will say, ‘Freedom of speech, Freedom of speech'. These are foolish people. Google's Eric Schmidt calls for 'spell-checkers for hate and harassment', 8 December 2015, by Alex Hern. We have places in London and other places that are so radicalised that the police are afraid for their own lives. We have to be very smart and very vigilant. As quoted in "Donald Trump claims parts of London are 'so radicalised' police officers are 'afraid for their lives'" by Rose Troup Buchanan, The Independent (8 December 2015); also in "'Trump's not wrong – we can't wear uniform in our OWN cars': Five police officers claim Donald Trump is RIGHT about parts of London being so 'radicalised' they are no-go areas" by Martin Robinson, Daily Mail Online (9 December 2015) These are people that are outside the country, so we're really not talking about the Constitution. And it's not about religion. This is about safety. This has nothing to do with religion. It's about safety. Interview on ABC's "Life with Kelly and Michael", as quoted in "Trump: Muslim ban 'not about religion'" by Jesse Byrnes, The Hill (9 December 2015) We're doing really well with the evangelicals, and, by the way: And again, I do like Ted Cruz -- but not a lot of evangelicals come out of Cuba, in all fairness. It's true. Not a lot come out. But I like him nevertheless. But I think we're going to do great, and we are doing great with evangelicals.I'm with you. I'm with everybody. I'm with everybody, look, I'm self-funding. I have no oil company. I have no special interest. I have no lobbyists.Well look he's from Texas -- to the best of my knowledge, there's a lot of oil in Texas, right? So, he gets a lot of money from the oil companies, and he's against ethanol and everything you're else talking about. And I'm not I'm totally in favor. And you know it's a big industry here, it's a big industry. You know if that industry is upset Iowa's got problems.I really do, I like Ted Cruz a lot, I would say that we would certainly have things in mind for Ted, to be honest with you. I mean, he's somebody that I could certainly say that [about] because I like him. 11 December 2015 during a rally in Iowa, according to Washington Post article by Jenna Johnson, CBS News article by Kylie Atwood, and Reuters article by Emily Stephenson We're rounding 'em up in a very humane way, in a very nice way. And they're going to be happy because they want to be legalized. And, by the way, I know it doesn't sound nice. But not everything is nice. 27 December 2015 on 60 Minutes I know words. I have the best words. 30 December 2015 speech in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina reported by Gawker and The Daily Caller I'm trying to figure out, let's see, I'm in my room, in New York city, and I want to put a little spray, so I can, you know [mimes spraying] right, right, but I hear they don't want me to use the hairspray, they want me to use the pump, because the other one, which I really like better than going [mimes pumping] bang, bang, bang, and then it comes out in big globs, right, and it's stuck in your hair and you say, "Oh my god I've got to take a shower again, my hair's all screwed up", right, I want to use hairspray, but they say "Don't use hairspray, it's bad for the ozone", so I'm sitting in this concealed [sic] apartment, this concealed unit (you know I do live in a very apartment, right) but it's sealed (it's beautiful) I don't think anything gets out, and I'm not supposed to be using hairspray! 30 December 2015 speaking at a rally in Hilton Head, SC 2016 January 2016 thumb|I'm very angry. Because our country is being run horribly. I will gladly accept the mantle of anger. Our military is a disaster. Our healthcare is a horror show. Obamacare, we're going to repeal it and replace it. We have no borders. Our vets are being treated horribly. Illegal immigration is beyond belief! Our country is being run by incompetent people and yes, I am angry. I'm angry because our country is a mess! The entire world has been upset. The entire world, it's a different place. During Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's term, she's done a horrible job.She has caused death. She has caused tremendous death with incompetent decisions. I was against the war in Iraq. I wasn't a politician, but I was against the war in Iraq. She voted for the war in Iraq.Look at Libya. That was her baby. Look. I mean, I'm not even talking about the ambassador and the people with the ambassador. Young, wonderful people. With messages coming in by the hundreds, and she's not even responding. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about all of the death that's been caused and not only our side.There was nothing saved. If we would have never done anything in the Middle East, we would have a much safer world right now. ... All of this has led to the migration. All of this has led to tremendous death and destruction. And she for the most part was in charge of it along with Obama.She's constantly playing the woman card. It's the only way she may get elected. I mean frankly... Personally, I'm not sure that anybody else other than me is going to beat her. And I think she's a flawed candidate. And you see what's happened recently. And it hasn't been a very pretty picture for her or for Bill. Because I'm the only one that's willing to talk about his problems. I mean, what he did and what he has gone through I think is frankly terrible, especially if she wants to play the woman card.I have more respect for women by far than Hillary Clinton has. And I will do more for women than Hillary Clinton will. I will do far more including the protection of our country. She caused a lot of the problems that we have right now. CBS interview with John Dickerson (taped 1 January 2016) for Face the Nation — as quoted in "Trump: Clinton has ruined the world" by Nick Gass, Politico (3 January 2016) They've created ISIS. Hillary Clinton created ISIS with Obama; created with Obama. But I love predicting because you know, ultimately, you need somebody with vision. At a rally, as quoted in "TRUMP: 'Hillary Clinton created ISIS with Obama'" by Colin Campbell, Business Insider (3 January 2016) She [Clinton] has a terrible record as secretary of state. I mean, she's literally created ISIS. If you look at her, between her and Obama, they're the ones — we have this big ISIS problem they created with their bad policies and their bad thinking. On Fox & Friends, as quoted in "TRUMP: 'Hillary Clinton created ISIS with Obama'" by Colin Campbell, Business Insider (3 January 2016) Mexico is going to be the new China because what they're doing to us is unbelievable, although they did catch El Chapo. Good? Good? They did catch El Chapo, that's good. I mean I don't know, he better not escape a third time, you know? Those tunnels, bing, boom, right under the toilet, bing boom, right up. It's pretty amazing when you think about it, right? But anyway. I have an idea: Put him on the fourth floor this time, right? No more, no more first floors. Speech (9 January 2016), as quoted in "El Chapo on Donald Trump: 'Mi Amigo!", by Rebecca Kaplan, CBS News (10 January 2016). I'm very angry because our country is being run horribly and I will gladly accept the mantle of anger. Our military is a disaster. Our healthcare is a horror show. Obamacare, we're going to repeal it and replace it. We have no borders. Our vets are being treated horribly. Illegal immigration is beyond belief. Our country is being run by incompetent people. And yes, I am angry. I'm angry because our country is a mess. Full Transcript of the Sixth Republican Debate in Charleston, Time (14 January 2016). And just so — if I could, because he insulted a lot of people. I've had more calls on that statement that Ted made — New York is a great place. It's got great people, it's got loving people, wonderful people. When the World Trade Center came down, I saw something that no place on Earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than New York. You had two one hundred, you had two 110-story buildings come crashing down. I saw them come down. Thousands of people killed, and the cleanup started the next day, and it was the most horrific cleanup, probably in the history of doing this, and in construction. I was down there, and I've never seen anything like it. And the people in New York fought and fought and fought, and we saw more death, and even the smell of death — nobody understood it. And it was with us for months, the smell, the air. And we rebuilt downtown Manhattan, and everybody in the world watched and everybody in the world loved New York and loved New Yorkers. And I have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement that Ted made. Full Transcript of the Sixth Republican Debate in Charleston, Time (14 January 2016). The truth is, he's a nasty guy. He was so nice to me. I mean, I knew it. I was watching. I kept saying, 'Come on Ted. Let's go, okay.' But he's a nasty guy. Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him. He's a very –- he's got an edge that's not good. You can't make deals with people like that and it's not a good thing. It's not a good thing for the country. Very nasty guy. About Ted Cruz in an interview on This Week (January 17, 2016) Tony Perkins wrote that out for me -- he actually wrote out 2, he wrote out the number 2 Corinthians, I took exactly what Tony said, and I said, 'Well Tony has to know better than anybody. It's a very small deal, but a lot of people in different sections of the world say two, and I've had many, many people say that to me. My mother, as you know, was from Scotland, and they say two. In an interview with CNN's Don Lemon, about saying "two Corinthians" instead of "Second Corinthians" during a speech at Liberty University. (January 22, 2016) Ted Cruz lies. He's a liar. And that's why nobody likes him, that's why his Senate people won't endorse him. That's why he stands on the middle of the Senate floor and can't make a deal with anybody. He looks like a jerk. He's standing all by himself. And you know, there's something to say about having a little bit of ability to get other people to do things. You can't be a lone wolf and stand there. That's sort of what we have right now as a president. Morning Joe (26 January 2016) But you cannot say anymore that the United States is going to pay for the wall. I am just going to say that we are working it out. Believe it or not, this is the least important thing that we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important talk about. Full transcripts of Trump's calls with Mexico and Australia By Greg Miller, Julie Vitkovskaya and Reuben Fischer-Baum; Aug. 3, 2017 (Friday, January 27, 2017) So what I would like to recommend is – if we are going to have continued dialogue – we will work out the wall. They are going to say, "who is going to pay for the wall, Mr. President?" to both of us, and we should both say, "we will work it out." It will work out in the formula somehow. As opposed to you saying, "we will not pay" and me saying, "we will not pay." Full transcripts of Trump's calls with Mexico and Australia By Greg Miller, Julie Vitkovskaya and Reuben Fischer-Baum; Aug. 3, 2017 (Friday, January 27, 2017) Up in New Hampshire – I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den – is coming from the southern border. Actually, Clinton took NH; Full transcripts of Trump's calls with Mexico and Australia By Greg Miller, Julie Vitkovskaya and Reuben Fischer-Baum; Aug. 3, 2017 (Friday, January 27, 2017) Speech at Liberty University (18 January 2016) Presidential Candidate Donald Trump at Liberty University, C-SPAN (18 January 2016) We've done great with the evangelicals. The evangelicals have been amazing. The Tea Party has been amazing and we're doing really well. We're going to protect Christianity, and I can say that. I don't have to be politically correct. We're going to protect it. I hear this is a major theme right here, but two Corinthians, 3:17, that's the whole ball game. "Where the Spirit of the Lord", right, "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty", and here there is Liberty College, but Liberty University, but it is so true. You know, when you think -- and that's really -- is that the one? Is that the one you like? I think that's the one you like because I loved it, and it's so representative of what's taken place. But we are going to protect Christianity. And if you look what's going on throughout the world, you look at Syria where if you're Christian, they're chopping off heads. You look at the different places, and Christianity, it's under siege. I'm a protestant. I'm very proud of it, Presbyterian to be exact, but I'm proud of it, very, very proud. And we've got to protect because bad things are happening, very bad things are happening, and we don't -- I don't know what it is. We don't band together, maybe. Other religions, frankly, they're banding together. This is a movement. It is a movement going on. We want to take our country back. Our country is disappearing. You look at the kind of deals we make. You look at what's happening, our country is going in the wrong direction, and so wrong, and it's got to be stopped and it's got to be stopped fast. When our sailors were captured last week, I said that's one of the saddest things that I have seen when those young people were on their hands and knees in a begging position with their hands up and thugs behind them with guns, and then we talk like it's OK. It's not OK. It's lack of respect. We can't let that happen to this country. It's lack of respect. The Persians, very good negotiators. Great negotiators, legendary negotiators. They're known for it. They're sitting across the table. I hate to tell this to the woman, they're behind the fact, they're a little behind the fact. They haven't figured out that women may be in certain ways much better than men. But I don't want to say that because I will get myself in trouble with men. But they haven't figured this out yet but that's OK. We spent 5 trillion dollars in the Middle East and our country is going to hell. We gotta bring it back. We gotta knock the hell out of ISIS. I want to see a woman president soon, but not [Hillary Clinton]. She's a disaster. She's a disaster. She's a disaster. I mean, just think of the corruption and the scandal... We don't want to go through it. We want to see winning. We want to see win, win, win – constant winning. And you'll say – if I'm president... 'Please, Mr. President, we're winning too much. We can't stand it anymore. Can't we have a loss?' And I'll say no, we're going to keep winning, winning, winning... because we're going to make America great again. And you'll say, 'Okay, Mr. President. Okay.' Speech at Dordt University (23 January 2016) shoot somebody linked to from w:en:Template:FBDBThe people, my people, are so smart, and you know what they say about my people? The polls. They say I have the most loyal people — did you ever see that? Where I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters. It's like incredible. No, they say, "Trump we love you too." Trump's voters are by far, ya know, I'm at sixty-eight and sixty-nine percent, I'm at ninety percent, total, like, "Will you say absolutely?" I think it's sixty-eight and sixty-nine percent. "Will you most likely stay?" That gets into the nineties. Other guys like a ten. A guy like Jeb Bush, he has a nobody, but he's like, they don't have people. They have nothing. Rubio, soft. They're all soft. My people stay, by the way, Cruz, soft. When they heard about this thing with that he was bordering Canada, nobody knew them? He lost a lot of people! He's gone down big in the polls. Ted Cruz has gone down big in the polls. That doesn't mean he's giving us a fight in Iowa, that doesn't mean you can stay home, okay, see, you with the smile? It doesn't mean that. You gotta go out cause we can't take any chances. Speech at campaign rally (23 January 2016), Sioux Center, Iowa. February 2016 To have a crowd like this on our final day, can you believe it, this is the day. This is the day we take our country back. Remember that. This is the day we take our country back. So I got a little notice in case you see it. It's security guys. We have wonderful security guys. They said, "Mr. Trump, there may be somebody with tomatoes in the audience." So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously... Okay? Just knock the hell... I promise you I will pay for the legal fees, I promise. I promise. There won't be so much cause the courts agree with us too. What's going on in this country. At a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (1 February 2016) This has been going if it's not going to happen anymore, folks. We're going to bring businesses back. We're going to have businesses that used to be in New Hampshire, that are now in Mexico, come back to New Hampshire and you can tell them to go f--- themselves...because they let you down, and they left. We want the businesses that stay. I know a lot of businesses up here and I knew a lot of businesses up here. These are great people, they could've left and they wanna stay. They willing to stay, they're fighting to stay. It's hard. With a highest tax nation in the entire world. It's hard for them to stay and they stay. Those are the people we have to cherish and love. These are the people that are great. At a rally in New Hampshire. (4 February 2016) Trump: No, I didn't use the word. I never said the word, Bill. I don't know who told you -- I would never use the word. I didn't say the word. I said, "you can tell them to go [beat of silence] themselves."O'Reilly: But the lips kind of moved in the --Trump: Well, they might have. No, I didn't say the word. I wouldn't do that. Even I -- hey Bill, even I wouldn't do that, okay. No, I never said the word. On an interview on The O'Reilly Factor (6 February 2016) It's the Harvard of Terrorists. Interview with Charlie Rose (17 February 2016) Torture works, okay folks? [...] Believe me, it works. [...] Waterboarding is your minor form. Some people say it's not actually torture. Let's assume it is. But they asked me the question. What do you think of waterboarding? Absolutely fine. But we should go much stronger than waterboarding. That's the way I feel. Donald Trump: "Torture works". CBS News (17 February 2016). Bluffton, South Carolina. They were having terrorism problems, just like we do, and he caught 50 terrorists who did tremendous damage and killed many people. And he took the 50 terrorists, and he took 50 men and he dipped 50 bullets in pigs' blood — you heard that, right? He took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pigs' blood. And he had his men load his rifles, and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people. And the 50th person, he said: You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened. And for 25 years, there wasn't a problem. Okay? Twenty-five years, there wasn't a problem. During a campaign stop in Pawley's Island, South Carolina (February 19, 2016) . Referring to a false story about John J. Pershing which has circulated on the Internet. Bye bye. Look, see? He's smiling. See, he's having a good time. Oh, I love the old days, you know? You know what I hate? There's a guy, totally disruptive, throwing punches, we're not allowed to punch back anymore. I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks. You know, I love our police, and I really respect our police, and they're not getting enough. They're not. Honestly, I hate to see that. Here's a guy, throwing punches, nasty as hell, screaming at everything else when we're talking, and he's walking out, and we're not allowed -- you know, the guards are very gentle with him, he's walking out, like, big high fives, smiling, laughing -- I'd like to punch him in the face, I'll tell you. At a rally in Las Vegas (22 February 2016) We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated. Donald Trump declares 'I love the poorly educated' as he storms to victory in Nevada caucus, 24 February 2016 Ted Cruz: Donald, relax.Donald Trump: I'm relaxed. You're the basket case. Go ahead, don't get nervous. CNN-Telemundo Republican debate (25 February 2016) If and when the Vatican is attacked by Isis, which as everyone knows is Isis’s ultimate trophy, the pope can have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president because this would not have happened. Isis would have been eradicated unlike what is happening now with our all talk, no action politicians. As quoted in Ben Jacobs, Donald Trump calls Pope Francis 'disgraceful' for questioning his faith, The Guardian (February 18, 2016) March 2016 Donald Trump: I think you've become very negative.Bill O'Reilly: Why would I do that?Trump: Who knows. You'll have to ask your psychiatrist. "Trump to O'Reilly: 'I think you've become very negative'" by Nick Gass, Politico (3 March 2016) Bret Baier: So what would you do as commander in chief if the U.S. military refused to carry out those orders?Donald Trump: They won't refuse. They're not going to refuse me, believe me.Baier: But they're illegal.Trump: Let me just tell you, you look at the Middle East, they're chopping off heads. And now we're talking about waterboarding. We should go for waterboarding, and we should go tougher than waterboarding….And I'm a leader. I'm a leader. I've always been a leader. I've never had any problem leading people. If I say do it, they're going to do it. That's what leadership is all about. Fox News Republican debate, , quoted in Trump Attacked From All Sides In Bitter, Chaotic Debate NPR (March 4, 2016) Look at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands — if they're small, something else must be small. I guarantee you there's no problem, I guarantee. Fox News Republican debate, , quoted in 2016-03-04 Gregory Krieg Donald Trump defends size of his penis CNN https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/donald-trump-small-hands-marco-rubio/index.html Anderson Cooper: Is Islam at war with the West?Donald Trump: I think Islam hates us. There is something there, there is a tremendous hatred there, and we have to get to the bottom of it. There is an unbelievable hatred of us.Cooper: In Islam itself?Trump: You're going to have to figure that out, but there is a tremendous hatred and we have to be very vigilant, we have to be very careful and we can't allow people coming into this country who have this hatred of the United States and of people that are not Muslim.Cooper: The question is is there a war between the West and radical Islam or is it between the West and Islam itself?Trump: Well it's radical but it's very hard to define, it's very hard to separate because you don't know who's who. 9 March CNN interview, as quoted in "US Election 2016: Donald Trump tells CNN TV interviewer 'Islam hates us'" by Harriet Sinclair, International Business Times (10 March 2016) Come on, get 'em out, police, please. Let's go! ... Nobody wants to hurt each other anymore. During a St Louis, Mo., rally, as quoted in "‘Get 'em out!' Racial tensions explode at Donald Trump's rallies", by Jose A. DelReal, The Washington Post (12 March 2016), Washington, D.C. I promise you, I will not be taking very long vacations, if I take them at all. There's no time for vacations. We're not going to be big on vacations. Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017 March 14, 2016 rally Iran has already, since the deal is in place, test-fired ballistic missiles three times. Those ballistic missiles, with a range of 1,250 miles, were designed to intimidate not only Israel, which is only 600 miles away, but also intended to frighten Europe and someday maybe hit even the United States. And we're not going to let that happen. We're not letting it happen. And we're not letting it happen to Israel, believe me.Thank you. Thank you.Do you want to hear something really shocking? As many of the great people in this room know, painted on those missiles in both Hebrew and Farsi were the words "Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth." You can forget that.What kind of demented minds write that in Hebrew? 21 March 2016 address to AIPAC (America-Israel Public Affairs Committee) Obama: But you would rule in the possibility to fight against ISIS.Trump: Well, I'm never gonna rule anything out. And I wouldn't wanna say. Even if I felt -- it wasn't going -- I wouldn't wanna tell you that because, at a minimum, I want them to think maybe that we would use it. As part of a conversation with Barack Obama about ruling out the use of nuclear weapons (March 23, 2016) reported 24 March 2016 by CBS If Saudi Arabia was without the cloak of American protection, I don't think it would be around. Interview on foreign policy given on 25 March 2016, published: In Donald Trump's Worldview, America Comes First, and Everybody Else Pays, The New York Times (26 March 2016) Talking about success, most people think success is measured in the form of monetary success. It's not really. I mean to be a successful person is to have a great family, is who loves the family, loves the children and the children love him or her. To me that's a much more successful person than a person that has made a billion dollars or ten billion dollars, and is miserable and doesn't have a good family and nobody likes that person. I think I've seen every type of person there is that God created. Donald Trump talks about Success and Happiness - Motivational speech held in Wisconsin on March 30, 2016, Mike Mohamed on YouTube. (2:37 to 3:05) April 2016 I can be presidential, but if I was presidential I would only have - about 20% of you would be here because it would be boring as hell. At a rally in Superior, Wisconsin (4 April 2016) REPORTER: Mr Trump, please be specific and tell us your views on LGBT, how you plan to be inclusive as president. Speak about North Carolina bathroom law in particular. Trump: [...] One of the best answers I heard was from a commentator yesterday saying "leave it the way it is right now." There have been no-- very few problems. Leave it the way it is. North Carolina, what they're going through, with all of the business that's leaving and all of the strife and... and that's on both sides. You leave it the way it is. There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. There has been so little trouble and the problem with what happened in North Carolina is the strife and the economic- I mean economic punishment that they're taking. REPORTER: If Caitlyn Jenner were to walk into Trump Tower, and want to use the bathroom, you would be fine with her using any bathroom she chooses? Trump: That is correct. On policies on bathroom use for transgender individuals: You know, there's a big move to create new bathrooms. Problem with that, is — for transgender — that would be a, first of all I think that would be discriminatory in a certain way. It would be unbelievably expensive for businesses and for the country. Leave it the way it is. Donald Trump Town Hall: Abortion Exceptions, Immigration, Raising Taxes (Full) | TODAY April 21, 2016 I love working. I'm not a vacation guy. Right? Like Obama, he plays golf in Hawaii. He flies in a 747. Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017 April 21, 2016 rally If you love what you do, you're happy. You don't take vacations. Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017 April 22, 2016 rally Foreign Policy Speech (27 April 2016) thumb|No country has ever prospered that failed to put its own interests first. Transcript: Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Speech, The New York Times (27 April 2016) It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy. My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people and American security above all else... That will be the foundation of every single decision that I will make. America First will be the major and overriding theme of my administration. Our foreign policy is a complete and total disaster. No vision. No purpose. No direction. No strategy. President Obama has weakened our military by weakening our economy. He's crippled us with wasteful spending, massive debt, low growth, a huge trade deficit and open borders. Our allies are not paying their fair share... The countries we are defending must pay for the cost of this defense, and if not, the U.S. must be prepared to let these countries defend themselves. We have no choice. Israel, our great friend and the one true democracy in the Middle East has been snubbed and criticized by an administration that lacks moral clarity... President Obama has not been a friend to Israel. He has treated Iran with tender love and care and made it a great power. We've let our rivals and challengers think they can get away with anything, and they do... If President Obama's goal had been to weaken America, he could not have done a better job. We've made the Middle East more unstable and chaotic than ever before. We left Christians subject to intense persecution and even genocide. We have done nothing to help the Christians, nothing, and we should always be ashamed for that lack of action. Hillary Clinton refuses to say the words radical Islam, even as she pushes for a massive increase in refugees coming into our country. After Secretary Clinton's failed intervention in Libya, Islamic terrorists in Benghazi took down our consulate and killed our ambassador and three brave Americans. Then, instead of taking charge that night, Hillary Clinton decided to go home and sleep. Incredible. Clinton blames it all on a video, an excuse that was a total lie, proven to be absolutely a total lie. Our ambassador was murdered and our secretary of state misled the nation. We're also going to have to change our trade, immigration and economic policies to make our economy strong again. And to put Americans first again. This will ensure that our own workers, right here in America, get the jobs and higher pay that will grow our tax revenues, increase our economic might as a nation. I believe an easing of tensions, and improved relations with Russia from a position of strength only is possible. Americans must know that we're putting the American people first again on trade, on immigration, on foreign policy. The jobs, incomes and security of the American worker will always be my first priority. No country has ever prospered that failed to put its own interests first. Both our friends and our enemies put their countries above ours and we, while being fair to them, must start doing the same. We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism. The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony. I am skeptical of international unions that tie us up and bring America down, and will never enter America into any agreement that reduces our ability to control our own affairs. May 2016 We have a 500 billion dollar deficit, trade deficit with China. We're going to turn it around and we have the cards, don't forget, we're like the piggy bank that's being robbed. We have the cards, we have a lot of power with China. When China doesn't want to fix the problem in North Korea we say "Sorry folks, you've got to fix the problem." Because we can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing. It's the greatest theft in the history of the world. "China accused of trade 'rape' by Donald Trump" BBC (2 May 2016) You've been hearing me say it's a rigged system, but now I don't say it anymore because I won. It's true. Now I don't care. "Trump: GOP 'rigged,' but I don't care because I won" by Ryan Lovelace, Washington Examiner (5 May 2016) June 2016 It's going to be like this. I'm not changing. Answer to the question whether the American public could expect a similar dynamic if he would win the presidential elections, quoted in 2016-06-01 Donald Trump: Questions on money for war veterans Alan Fisher Al Jazeera http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/americas/2016/05/donald-trump-fumes-veterans-money-questions-160531203455389.html He's a Mexican. We're building a wall between here and Mexico. About American judge Gonzalo Curiel (3 June 2016), as quoted in 2016-06-04 Trump Presses Case That 'Mexican' Judge Curiel Is Biased Against Him Nina Totenberg National Public Radio http://www.npr.org/2016/06/04/480714972/trump-presses-case-that-mexican-judge-curiel-is-biased-against-him I'm truly honored by your support. Together, we accomplished what nobody thought was absolutely possible and you know what that is and we're only getting started and it's going to be beautiful, remember that. Tonight we close one chapter in history and we begin another. Our campaign received more primary votes than any GOP campaign in history, no matter who it is, no matter who they are, we received more votes. This is a great feeling. That's a great feeling. This is not a testament to me but a testament to all of the people who believed real change, not Obama change, but real change is possible. You've given me the honor to lead the Republican Party to victory this fall. Victory speech after winning New Jersey and other states Tuesday night (7 June 2016) – Time transcript To those who voted for someone else in either party, I will work hard to earn your support and I will work very hard to earn that support. To all of those Bernie Sanders voters who have been left out in the cold by a rigged system of super delegates, we welcome you with open arms. And by the way, the terrible trade deals that Bernie was so vehemently against and he's right on that will be taken care of far better than anyone ever thought possible and that's what I do. We are going to have fantastic trade deals. We're going to start making money and bringing in jobs. Victory speech after winning New Jersey and other states Tuesday night (7 June 2016) – Time transcript My goal is always again to bring people together. But if I'm forced to fight for something I really care about, I will never, ever back down and our country will never, ever back down. Thank you. I've fought for my family. I've fought for my business. I've fought for my employees. And now, I'm going to fight for you, the American people like nobody has ever fought before. Victory speech after winning New Jersey and other states Tuesday night (7 June 2016) – Time transcript We're led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he's got something else in mind. And the something else in mind, you know, people can't believe it, people cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can't even mention the words 'radical Islamic terrorism. There's something going on — it's inconceivable. There's something going on. He doesn't get it, or he gets it better than anybody understands. It's one or the other, and either one is unacceptable. Phone interview on Fox and Friends, as quoted in 2016-06-13 Trump on Obama and Islam: 'There's something going on' Jesse Byrnes The Hill http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/283246-trump-on-obama-and-islam-theres-something-going-on Belgium is a beautiful city. Belgium is not the Belgium that you and I knew, Matt, from 20 years ago, which was one of the most beautiful cities and one of the safest cities in the world. Belgium is a horror show right now. "Belgium is a “beautiful city”, according to Donald Trump", The Bulletin (June 16, 2016) Look, companies now are leaving the United States. Corporate inversion, they're leaving the United States, we have almost $5 trillion sitting out there, where they can't get the money back, they can't bring it in because there's no mechanism to bring it back in and the tax is so high. I'm going to bring tremendous amounts of money, tremendous amounts of jobs, tremendous numbers of companies, and yes the tax is going to be cut from the highest tax nation anywhere in the world to a fairly low tax. Not the lowest in the world, but to a fairly low tax. Norah O'Donnell: Hillary Clinton called you the king of debt.Donald Trump: Well, no she didn't call me, I called myself the king of debt. I'm the king of debt. I'm great with debt, nobody knows debt better than me. I made a fortune by using debt. And if things don't work out I renegotiate the debt, I mean that's a smart thing not a stupid thing. And I made a fortune.O'Donnell: How do you renegotiate the debt?Trump: Because you go back and you say, hey, guess what, the economy just crashed, I'm going to give you back half. I like debt for me, I don't like debt for the country. I like debt for my company, but I don't like debt for the country. For the country we have $19 trillion in debt, it's going to be very soon $21 trillion, not billion, $21 trillion in debt. And I will tell you we are sitting on a time bomb and Hillary Clinton doesn't have a clue. And President Obama has pretty much doubled the debt since he's been in office and somebody's going to pay a big price. We have to start chopping that debt down.O'Donnell: Janet Yellen, who you know, the chairman of the Federal Reserve blasted you for saying that the U.S. could load up on debt and then make a deal with creditors if the economy has soured. She said there would be very severe consequences if an elected president tried to renegotiate the nation's debt.Trump: I wouldn't renegotiate the debt. In an interview with CBS This Morning' Norah O'Donnell, , quoted in 2016-06-22 CBS' Norah O'Donnell Challenges Trump On His Economic Plan Media Matters for America https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/cbs-norah-odonnell-challenges-trump-his-economic-plan Our enemies probably know every single one [of Clinton's deleted emails]. So they probably now have a blackmail file. . . . We can't hand over our government to someone whose deepest, darkest secrets may be in the hands of our enemies. Can't do it." speech, , quoted in 2016-06-22 Nobody brings the crazy quite like Trump Dana Milbank Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/nobody-brings-the-crazy-quite-like-trump/2016/06/22/74ba5692-38bd-11e6-9ccd-d6005beac8b3_story.html July 2016 Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Right? He was a bad guy, really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn't read them the rights—they didn't talk, they were a terrorist, it was over. [...] Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism. You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard. Okay? So sad. At a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina (July 5, 2016), as cited in "Donald Trump praises Saddam Hussein for killing terrorists ‘so good’" The Washington Post (July 5, 2016). Jake Sullivan, then a policy advisor to Hillary Clinton, stated: "Hussein's regime was a sponsor of terrorism — one that paid families of suicide bombers who attacked Israelis, among other crimes." I'll stand up for Article Two, Article 12, you name it of the Constitution. About the U.S. Constitution, which only has seven articles and 27 amendments; as recounted by Mark Sanford, quoted in "Trump Manages To Give Some House GOPers More Heartburn In Hill Meeting" (2016), Talking Points Memo (July 7, 2016). [Interviewer: You're not known to be a humble man. But I wonder—] I think I am actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand. During an interview by Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes (17 July 2016) Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Press conference, reported in Ashley Parker and David E. Sanger, "Donald Trump Calls on Russia to Find Hillary Clinton's Missing Emails, The New York Times (July 27, 2016). Though Bernie is exhausted and has given up on his revolution, many of his voters still want to keep up the fight. I expect that millions of Bernie voters will refuse to vote for Hillary because of her support for the War in Iraq, the invasion of Libya, NAFTA and TPP, and of course because she is totally bought and sold by special interests. She and her husband have been paid millions and millions by global corporations and powerful interests who will control her every decision. She is their puppet, and they pull the strings. We welcome with open arms all voters who want an honest government and to fix our rigged system so it works for the people. This includes fixing one of Bernie's biggest issues, our terrible trade deals that strip our country of its jobs and wealth. How Donald Trump Beat Reddit, The Atlantic (July 28, 2016) The things that were said about me. … You know what, I wanted to hit a couple of those speakers so hard. ... I was gonna hit one guy in particular, a very little guy. I was gonna hit this guy so hard, his head would spin. He wouldn't know what the hell happened. Press conference, reported in Jacob Bogage, "‘I wanted to hit a couple of those speakers so hard', Trump says of Democratic convention", The Washington Post (July 29, 2016). A guy who didn't have the guts to run for president. Little Michael. He doesn't know anything about me. But he never had the guts to run. He probably wished he did but he didn't. He spent millions of dollars on polling but he was missing one thing: guts. Little Michael. On Michael Bloomberg's speech about Trump. At an interview with The New York Times' Maureen Dowd. (July 29, 2016) Obama gave a good speech but not nearly as good as the press would have you believe. Whether it's good or bad, the press will say it's fantastic. In many ways, I like Obama. It's hard to define. There's something about him I do like. I'm embarrassed to admit it. I give him a lot of credit. It's very unique and very hard to do and I give him tremendous credit. He became a two-term president of the United States. He's got some quality going. At an interview with The New York Times' Maureen Dowd. (July 29, 2016) Emails in general are terrible. There's no security. It happens so often. I'm old-fashioned. I put a letter in an envelope and have it hand delivered. My son is 10 years old, and he has grown up computer literate. They start using computers before they can walk. His computer was locked and he unlocked it. And I said, ‘Barron, how did you do that?' And he said, ‘I won't tell you, Dad. At an interview with The New York Times' Maureen Dowd. (July 29, 2016) Putin said I was a genius. I do say this: Wouldn't it be wonderful if we actually could get along with Russia and China and some other countries that we don't get along with, and then we go out and knock the hell out of ISIS? Wouldn't it be nice if we cleaned that mess up? Wouldn't it be smart? At an interview with The New York Times' Maureen Dowd. (July 29, 2016) I think he's a pervert. It's dangerous to allow him on the convention floor. About Anthony Weiner on the 2016 Democratic National Convention. At an interview with The New York Times' Maureen Dowd. (July 29, 2016) Captain Humayun Khan was a hero to our country and we should honor all who have made the ultimate sacrifice to keep our country safe. The real problem here are the radical Islamic terrorists who killed him, and the efforts of these radicals to enter our country to do us further harm. Given the state of the world today, we have to know everything about those looking to enter our country, and given the state of chaos in some of these countries, that is impossible. While I feel deeply for the loss of his son, Mr. Khan who has never met me, has no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim I have never read the Constitution, (which is false) and say many other inaccurate things. If I become President, I will make America safe again. Hillary Clinton should be held accountable for her central role in destabilizing the Middle East. She voted to send the United States to war against Iraq, helped lead the disastrous withdrawal of American troops years later that created the vacuum allowing the rise of ISIS, and has never met a regime change she didn't like (which have all been disasters) – not to mention her invasion of Libya and her abandonment of American personnel in Benghazi. The loss of these lives in Libya is directly traceable to Clinton, but their families' testimonials were rejected by the media. Clinton's actions have been reckless and have directly led to the loss of American lives. And her extreme immigration policies, as also laid out by American victims in Cleveland, will cause the preventable deaths of countless more -- while putting all residents, from all places, at greater risk of terrorism. As Bernie Sanders said on numerous occasions, Hillary Clinton suffers from "bad judgement." She is not qualified to serve as Commander in Chief. Written statement responding to Khizr M. Khan (July 30, 2016) 2016 Republican National Convention (21 July 2016) thumb|I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves. Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it. "Full transcript of Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the RNC", Vox (22 July 2016) · "Donald Trump's entire Republican convention speech", CNN (21 July 2016) · Donald Trump 2016 RNC draft speech transcript, Politico (21 July 2016) The attacks on our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way of life. Any politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our country. Americans watching this address tonight have seen the recent images of violence in our streets and the chaos in our communities. Many have witnessed this violence personally. Some have even been its victims. I have a message for all of you: The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon — and I mean very soon come to an end. Beginning on January 20th 2017, safety will be restored. The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead. It is finally time for a straightforward assessment of the state of our nation. I will present the facts plainly and honestly. We cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore. So if you want to hear the corporate spin, the carefully-crafted lies, and the media myths — the Democrats are holding their convention next week. Go there. But here, at our convention, there will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth, and nothing else. Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this Administration's rollback of criminal enforcement. America is far less safe – and the world is far less stable – than when Obama made the decision to put Hillary Clinton in charge of America's foreign policy. I am certain it is a decision he truly regrets. Her bad instincts and her bad judgment – something pointed out by Bernie Sanders – are what caused the disasters unfolding today. This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction and weakness. The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them. A change in leadership is required to change these outcomes. There can be no prosperity without law and order Our plan will put America First. Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo. As long as we are led by politicians who will not put America First, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect. Big business, elite media and major donors are lining up behind the campaign of my opponent because they know she will keep our rigged system in place. They are throwing money at her because they have total control over everything she does. She is their puppet, and they pull the strings. That is why Hillary Clinton's message is that things will never change. My message is that things have to change – and they have to change right now. Every day I wake up determined to deliver for the people I have met all across this nation that have been neglected, ignored, and abandoned. I have visited the laid-off factory workers, and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country, and they are forgotten, but they're not going to be forgotten long. These are people who work hard but no longer have a voice. I AM YOUR VOICE. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens. When innocent people suffer, because our political system lacks the will, or the courage, or the basic decency to enforce our laws – or worse still, has sold out to some corporate lobbyist for cash – I am not able to look the other way. When a Secretary of State illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see her crime, puts our country at risk, lies about it in every different form and faces no consequence – I know that corruption has reached a level like never before. I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves. Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it. I have seen firsthand how the system is rigged against our citizens, just like it was rigged against Bernie Sanders – he never had a chance. He (Mike Pence) is a man of character and accomplishment. He is the right man for the job. An attack on law enforcement is an attack on all Americans. I have a message to every last person threatening the peace on our streets and the safety of our police: when I take the oath of office next year, I will restore law and order our country. In this race for the White House, I am the Law And Order candidate. ... I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally, and protected equally. "I am the law-and-order candidate" was a phrase used by Richard Nixon during his 1968 presidential campaign. Once again, France is the victim of brutal Islamic terrorism. Men, women and children viciously mowed down. Lives ruined. Families ripped apart. A nation in mourning. I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBT citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology. We must work with all of our allies who share our goal of destroying ISIS and stamping out Islamic terror. This includes working with our greatest ally in the region, the State of Israel. We must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place. I only want to admit individuals into our country who will support our values and love our people. Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in our country and never will be. Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people. Of all my travels in this country, nothing has affected me more deeply than the time I have spent with the mothers and fathers who have lost their children to violence spilling across our border. We are going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities. We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone. But my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens. I pledge to never sign any trade agreement that hurts our workers, or that diminishes our freedom and independence. Instead, I will make individual deals with individual countries. No longer will we enter into these massive deals, with many countries, that are thousands of pages long – and which no one from our country even reads or understands. We are going to enforce all trade violations, including through the use of taxes and tariffs, against any country that cheats. My Dad, Fred Trump, was the smartest and hardest working man I ever knew. America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics. All of the people telling you that you can't have the country you want, are the same people telling you that I wouldn't be standing here tonight. No longer can we rely on those elites in media, and politics, who will say anything to keep a rigged system in place. My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three word loyalty pledge. It reads, "I'm with her." I choose to recite a different pledge. My pledge reads, "I'm with you – the American people." I am your voice. So to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for a better future, I say these words to you tonight: I'm with you, and I will fight for you, and I will win for you. To all Americans tonight, in all of our cities and towns, I make this promise: We will make America proud again, we will make America strong again, we will make America safe again, and we will Make America Great Again! God bless you and good night! I love you! August 2016 thumb|In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law. He’s not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want. Claimed about the Russian president Vladimir Putin after Putin had invaded Crimea, Ukraine and while fighting a war in Donbass, Ukraine, quoted in "Trump says Putin is ‘not going to go into Ukraine,’ despite Crimea", CNN (August 1, 2016) Don't worry about that baby. I love babies. I hear that baby crying, I like it. What a baby. What a beautiful baby. Don't worry, don't worry. The mom's running around like—don't worry about it, you know. It's young and beautiful and healthy and that's what we want. [...] Actually, I was only kidding, you can get the baby out of here. That's all right. Don't worry. I, I think she really believed me that I love having a baby crying while I'm speaking. That's OK. People don't understand. That's OK. At a rally in Ashburn, Virginia. (August 2, 2016) He's a terrible president, he'll probably go down as the worst president in the history of our country, he's been a total disaster. On Barack Obama during an interview with WJLA. 2016-08-02 Eric Bradner Trump responds to Obama: 'He's a terrible president' CNN http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/02/politics/donald-trump-obama-election-2016/ Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the second amendment. If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know. But I'll tell you what, that will be a horrible day. Rally in Wilmington, North Carolina on August 9, 2016 (Donald Trump Suggests ‘Second Amendment People' Could Act Against Hillary Clinton The New York Times Nick Corasaniti w:Maggie Haberman Maggie Haberman August 9, 2016 November 15, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton.html; Donald Trump hints at assassination of Hillary Clinton by gun rights supporters David Smith August 10, 2016 November 15, 2018 The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/09/trump-gun-owners-clinton-judges-second-amendment). In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law. Statement in a campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina (18 August 2016), as quoted in "Yes, Trump Said 'No One Will Be Above the Law' Regarding Protection of Classified Information" (9 June 2023) ISIS is honoring President Obama. He is the founder of ISIS. He founded ISIS. And I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton. During a Florida rally at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, as quoted in "Donald Trump: President Barack Obama 'Is the Founder of ISIS'" by David Caplan, ABC News (August 10, 2016) I will always tell you the truth. "Trump: “I will always tell you the truth” up to 30 percent of the time", Daily Kos (August 19, 2024) No group in America has been more harmed by Hillary Clinton's policies than African-Americans. If Hillary Clinton's goal was to inflict pain on the African-American community, she could not have done a better job. It's a disgrace. Tonight, I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen in this country who wants to see a better future. The inner cities of our country have been run by the Democratic party for more than fifty years. Their policies have reduced only poverty, joblessness, failing schools and broken homes. It's time to hold Democratic politicians accountable for what they have done to these communities. At what point do we say, "enough?" It's time to hold failed leaders accountable for their results not just their empty words over and over again. Look at what the Democratic party has done to the city as an example and there are many others of Detroit: forty percent of Detroit's residents live in poverty. Half of all Detroit residents do not work and cannot work and can't get a job. Detroit tops the list of most dangerous cities in terms of violent crime. This is the legacy of the Democratic politicians who have run this city. This is the result of the policy agenda embraced by Hillary Clinton: thirty-three thousand emails gone. The only way to change results is to change leadership. We can never fix our problems by relying on the same politicians who created our problems in the first place. A new future requires brand new leadership. Look how much African-American communities suffered under Democratic control. To those I say the following: What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump. What do you have to lose? I say it again, what do you have to lose. Look, what do you have to lose? You're living your poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs. Fifty-eight percent of your youth is unemployed? What the hell do you have to lose? And at the end of four years, I guarantee you, that I will get over ninety-five percent of the African-American vote. I promise you. Speech to the African-American community in Dimondale, Michigan (August 19, 2016) I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf. Trump used to have a slightly different opinion of presidents playing golf by Phillip Bump, Washington Post, August 8 Virginia rally (August 20, 2016) Immigration security, we need to protect American jobs. We need to protect American safety. We're going to build a wall folks, don't worry, we're going to build a wall. That wall will go up so fast, your heads will spin. And you'll say, "you know, know he meant it!" And you know what else I mean? Mexico is going to pay for the wall. On immigration at a rally in Akron, Ohio (22 August 2016) It's our right as a sovereign nation to choose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us. Immigration speech (31 August 2016), quoted in "Donald Trump delivers immigration speech after meeting with Mexican president" by CNN Wire, Fox 59. The fundamental problem with the immigration system in our country is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and powerful politicians. Let me tell you who it doesn’t serve: it doesn’t serve you, the American people. Immigration speech, Arizona (31 August 2016) When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following: amnesty, open borders, and lower wages. Immigration reform should mean something else entirely: it should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens. But if we are going to make our immigration system work, then we have to be prepared to talk honestly and without fear about these important and sensitive issues. Immigration speech, Arizona (31 August 2016) To all the politicians, donors and special interests, hear these words from me today: there is only one core issue in the immigration debate and it is this: the well-being of the American people. Nothing even comes a close second. Immigration speech, Arizona (31 August 2016) You’re stealing my money! You’re stealing my fucking money! What the fuck is this? Why are you letting him steal my fucking money?Fuck the law. I don’t give a fuck about the law. I want my fucking money. ??? when informed he was required to fund a transition. 27 September 2018 article in The Guardian by Michael Lewis Speech in Jackson, Mississippi (August 24, 2016) Speech in Jackson, Mississippi. As quoted by CBS and The Hindu (August 24, 2016) Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future. She's going to do nothing for African-Americans. She's going to do nothing for the Hispanics. She's only going to take care of herself, her consultants, her donors, these are the people she cares about. She doesn't care what her policies have done to your communities. She doesn't care. Remember this, you've had her policies — Democrats running some of the inner cities for 50, 70, 80, even over 100 years. And look what you have right now: poverty, no education, crime, you can't walk down the street with your child. We're going to fix it. Hillary Clinton has no remorse. I will fight to create a better future for every American. Eight years of Obama-Clinton policies have sacrificed our safety and undermined our freedom and independence. ... The Obama-Clinton foreign policy has unleashed ISIS, destabilised the Middle East and put the nation of Iran — which chants Death to America — in a dominant position of regional power and, in fact, aspiring to be a dominant world power. Our jobs have moved overseas, Islamic terrorism has spread within our shores and an open border has crushed low-income workers and threatened our security. The issues we face here in America are similar to the issues faced in Britain during their referendum on membership in the EU. This is the movement known as Brexit Hillary wants to surrender America to globalism. She wants a country without borders. She wants trade deals written for the benefit of foreign corporations. She wants a government that ignores the will of the people. She wants to sell out American security to the Clinton Foundation for a pile of cash. It is hard to tell where the Clinton Foundation ends and the State Department begins. ... Hillary Clinton has betrayed her duty to the people. The job of a public official is to serve and protect the citizens of the United States. Not illegal immigrants, not foreign nationals seeking entry, but the people living here lawfully today — including millions of African-American and Hispanic citizens. I will fight for their security, I will fight for their jobs, I will fight for their families. One American Nation. It's time for America to recapture its destiny. Our government, our leaders, and our media have lost touch with the people. You need no better evidence of that than the fact that the media ignores the plight of Americans who have lost their children to illegal immigrants, but spends day after day pushing for amnesty for those here in violation of the law. This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction, terrorism and weakness. But Hillary Clinton's legacy doesn't have to be America's legacy. I have a message for the terrorists trying to kill our citizens: we will find you, we will destroy you, and we will win. This is not only a military fight, but we will also require cyberwarfare and financial warfare. It is also an ideological fight. We will confront directly the hateful ideology of Radical Islam — and promote American values, and American culture, and America's system of government. September 2016 We can't have someone in the Oval Office who doesn't understand the meaning of the word "confidential" or "classified". Trump campaign speech in Greenville, North Carolina (6 September 2016) For the first time in a long while, her true feelings came out, showing bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans. How can she be President of our country when she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans? Clinton walks back 'deplorables' comment: I 'regret' using the term to describe 'half' of Trump's supporters Beremy Berke Business Insider 10 September 2016 http://www.businessinsider.com/clinton-regrets-deplorables-comment-2016-9/ While my opponent slanders you as deplorable... I call you hard-working, American patriots. Donald Trump Campaign Rally in Ashville, North Carolina, C-SPAN.org (12 September 2016). OK, what I do is, wash it with Head and Shoulders. I don't dry it, though. I let it dry by itself. It takes about an hour. Then I read papers and things…I also watch TV…OK, so I've done all that. I then comb my hair. Yes, I do use a comb…Do I comb it forward? No, I don't comb it forward…I actually don't have a bad hairline. When you think about it, it's not bad. I mean, I get a lot of credit for comb-overs. But it's not really a comb-over. It's sort of a little bit forward and back. I've combed it the same way for years. Same thing, every time. 15 September 2016 to Jimmy Fallon 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. Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again. Trump finally says Obama born in U.S., blames Clinton for controversy USA Today 16 September 2016 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/09/16/donald-trump-barack-obama-hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-birtherism/90471868/ Conspiracy theories about Barack Obama's citizenship were not started by Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign according to PolitiFact.com, and Trump continued to question Obama's citizenship for years after he released his long-form birth certificate in 2011. People don't know how great you are. People don't know how smart you are. These are the smart people. These are the smart people. These are really the smart people. And they never like to say it, but I say it. And I'm a smart person. These are the smart. We have the smartest people. We have the smartest people. And they know it. Some say it, but they hate to say it. But we have the smartest people. Council Bluffs, Iowa, quoted in 2016-09-29 Donald Trump's Bizarre Speech: 'You Are The Smartest People' Leading Britain's Conversation https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/us-election/donald-trump/donald-trumps-bizarre-speech-smartest-people/ On the question if he would honor the results of the election should he lose:"We're going to have to see. We're going to see what happens. We're going to have to see." In an interview with the New York Times; Trump Appears to Back Off Pledge to Support Clinton If She Wins, NBC News (30 September 2016) First presidential debate (September 26, 2016) Transcript, Washington Post Our jobs are fleeing the country. They're going to Mexico. They're going to many other countries. You look at what China is doing to our country in terms of making our product. They're devaluing their currency, and there's nobody in our government to fight them. And we have a very good fight. And we have a winning fight. Because they're using our country as a piggy bank to rebuild China, and many other countries are doing the same thing. ... We have to stop our jobs from being stolen from us. We have to stop our companies from leaving the United States and, with it, firing all of their people. ... We cannot let it happen. Under my plan, I'll be reducing taxes tremendously, from 35 percent to 15 percent for companies, small and big businesses. That's going to be a job creator like we haven't seen since Ronald Reagan. It's going to be a beautiful thing to watch. Companies will come. They will build. They will expand. New companies will start. And I look very, very much forward to doing it. We have to renegotiate our trade deals, and we have to stop these countries from stealing our companies and our jobs. Our country's in deep trouble. We don't know what we're doing when it comes to devaluations and all of these countries all over the world, especially China. They're the best, the best ever at it. What they're doing to us is a very, very sad thing. But in all fairness to Secretary Clinton, when she started talking about this, it was really very recently. She's been doing this for 30 years. And why hasn't she made the agreements better? The NAFTA agreement is defective. Just because of the tax and many other reasons, but just because of the fact Secretary Clinton and others, politicians, should have been doing this for years, not right now, because of the fact that we've created a movement. The first thing you do is don't let the jobs leave. The companies are leaving. I could name, I mean, there are thousands of them. They're leaving, and they're leaving in bigger numbers than ever. And what you do is you say, fine, you want to go to Mexico or some other country, good luck. We wish you a lot of luck. But if you think you're going to make your air conditioners or your cars or your cookies or whatever you make and bring them into our country without a tax, you're wrong. And once you say you're going to have to tax them coming in, and our politicians never do this, because they have special interests and the special interests want those companies to leave, because in many cases, they own the companies. So what I'm saying is, we can stop them from leaving. We have to stop them from leaving. And that's a big, big factor. CLINTON: Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, "Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money." Well, it did collapse. TRUMP: That's called business, by the way. We invested in a solar company, our country. That was a disaster. They lost plenty of money on that one. Now, look, I'm a great believer in all forms of energy, but we're putting a lot of people out of work. Our energy policies are a disaster. Our country is losing so much in terms of energy, in terms of paying off our debt. You can't do what you're looking to do with $20 trillion in debt. The Obama administration, from the time they've come in, is over 230 years' worth of debt, and he's topped it. He's doubled it in a course of almost eight years, seven-and-a-half years, to be semi- exact. We have to do a much better job at giving companies incentives to build new companies or to expand, because they're not doing it. NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country. And now you [Hillary Clinton] want to approve Trans-Pacific Partnership. You were totally in favor of it. Then you heard what I was saying, how bad it is, and you said, I can't win that debate. But you know that if you did win, you would approve that, and that will be almost as bad as NAFTA. Nothing will ever top NAFTA. You are going to approve one of the biggest tax cuts in history. You are going to approve one of the biggest tax increases in history. You are going to drive business out. Your regulations are a disaster, and you're going to increase regulations all over the place. And by the way, my tax cut is the biggest since Ronald Reagan. I'm very proud of it. It will create tremendous numbers of new jobs. But regulations, you are going to regulate these businesses out of existence. ... The things that business as in people like the most is the fact that I'm cutting regulation. You have regulations on top of regulations, and new companies cannot form and old companies are going out of business. And you want to increase the regulations and make them even worse. I'm going to cut regulations. I'm going to cut taxes big league, and you're going to raise taxes big league, end of story. She's telling us how to fight ISIS. Just go to her website. She tells you how to fight ISIS on her website. I don't think General Douglas MacArthur would like that too much. ... See, you're telling the enemy everything you want to do. No wonder you've been fighting ISIS your entire adult life. I'm really calling for major jobs, because the wealthy are going create tremendous jobs. They're going to expand their companies. They're going to do a tremendous job. I'm getting rid of the carried interest provision. And if you really look, it's not a tax -- it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand. We have the worst revival of an economy since the Great Depression. And believe me: We're in a bubble right now. And the only thing that looks good is the stock market, but if you raise interest rates even a little bit, that's going to come crashing down. I will release them as soon as the audit. Look, I've been under audit almost for 15 years. I know a lot of wealthy people that have never been audited. I said, do you get audited? I get audited almost every year. And in a way, I should be complaining. I'm not even complaining. I don't mind it. It's almost become a way of life. I get audited by the IRS. But other people don't. I will say this. We have a situation in this country that has to be taken care of. I will release my tax returns -- against my lawyer's wishes -- when she [Hillary Clinton] releases her 33,000 e-mails that have been deleted. As soon as she releases them, I will release. About releasing his tax returns. That makes me smart. About that Trump didn't pay federal income taxes. That was more than a mistake. That was done purposely. OK? That was not a mistake. That was done purposely. When you have your staff taking the Fifth Amendment, taking the Fifth so they're not prosecuted, when you have the man that set up the illegal server taking the Fifth, I think it's disgraceful. About Hillary Clinton email controversy As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns. That I can tell you. You learn a lot from financial disclosure. And you should go down and take a look at that. I am very underleveraged. I have a great company. I have a tremendous income. And the reason I say that is not in a braggadocios way. It's because it's about time that this country had somebody running it that has an idea about money. Maybe he didn't do a good job and I was unsatisfied with his work ... On occasion, four times, we used certain laws that are there. And when Secretary Clinton talks about people that didn't get paid, first of all, they did get paid a lot, but taken advantage of the laws of the nation. Now, if you want to change the laws, you've been there a long time, change the laws. But I take advantage of the laws of the nation because I'm running a company. My obligation right now is to do well for myself, my family, my employees, for my companies. And that's what I do. ... She [Hillary Clinton] doesn't say is that tens of thousands of people that are unbelievably happy and that love me. About not having paid to some of his employees. We need law and order. If we don't have it, we're not going to have a country. ... We need law and order in our country. We have a situation where we have our inner cities, African- Americans, Hispanics are living in hell because it's so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot. Now, whether or not in a place like Chicago you do stop and frisk, which worked very well, Mayor Giuliani is here, worked very well in New York. It brought the crime rate way down. But you take the gun away from criminals that shouldn't be having it. We have gangs roaming the street. And in many cases, they're illegally here, illegal immigrants. And they have guns. And they shoot people. And we have to be very strong. And we have to be very vigilant. Our police, in many cases, are afraid to do anything. We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated. HOLT: Stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York, because it largely singled out black and Hispanic young men. TRUMP: No, you're wrong. It went before a judge, who was a very against-police judge. It was taken away from her. And our mayor, our new mayor, refused to go forward with the case. They would have won an appeal. If you look at it, throughout the country, there are many places where it's allowed. HOLT: The argument is that it's a form of racial profiling. TRUMP: No, the argument is that we have to take the guns away from these people that have them and they are bad people that shouldn't have them. You need more police. You need a better community, you know, relation. ... You need better relationships between the communities and the police, because in some cases, it's not good. So when you [Hillary Clinton] tried to act holier than thou, it really doesn't work. It really doesn't. We should be better than anybody else, and perhaps we're not. I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She's saying Russia, Russia, Russia, but I don't -- maybe it was. I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK? We have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out -- what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed. I said it to you once, had we taken the oil -- and we should have taken the oil -- ISIS would not have been able to form either, because the oil was their primary source of income. And now they have the oil all over the place, including the oil -- a lot of the oil in Libya, which was another one of her disasters. You [Hillary Clinton] look at the Middle East, you started the Iran deal, that's another beauty where you have a country that was ready to fall, I mean, they were doing so badly. They were choking on the sanctions. And now they're going to be actually probably a major power at some point pretty soon, the way they're going. I think we have to get NATO to go into the Middle East with us, in addition to surrounding nations, and we have to knock the hell out of ISIS, and we have to do it fast, when ISIS formed in this vacuum created by Barack Obama and Secretary Clinton. And believe me, you were the ones that took out the troops. ... When they formed, this is something that never should have happened. It should have never happened. Now, you're talking about taking out ISIS. But you were there, and you were secretary of state when it was a little infant. Now it's in over 30 countries. And you're going to stop them? I don't think so. I think the best person in her [Clinton's] campaign is mainstream media. The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming, like you think and your -- your president thinks. October 2016 I'd never withdraw. I've never withdrawn in my life. phone call to the Washington Post (8 October 2016) So important that you get out and vote. So important that you watch other communities, because we don't want this election stolen from us. We don't want this election stolen from us. Transcript of speech at Ambridge, Pennsylvania (October 10, 2016) Donald Trump: Now, he's supposed to look like Donald Trump, but he's actually much too good looking. [to toddler] You are really handsome... Do you want to go back to [your parents] or do you want to stay with Donald Trump?Toddler: Trump. Little Trump Look-Alike Comes on Stage with Donald in Wilkes-Barre 10/10/16, Right Side Broadcasting, YouTube. Quoted in "Donald Trump Meets His Mini-Me at Pennsylvania Rally" by Dave Quinn, People.com (October 11, 2016). Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors. Honestly, she should be locked up. She should be. Should be locked up. at a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida (October 13, 2016) She [Clinton] walks in front of me, she walks in front of me, you know. And when she walked in front of me, believe me I wasn't impressed. Reporters at The New York Times are not journalists. They're corporate lobbyists for Carlos Slim and Hillary Clinton. Believe me: She [one of the women accusing him of sexual assault] would not be my first choice, that I can tell you. at a rally in Greensboro, N.C. Also quoted in Donald Trump's Barrage of Heated Rhetoric Has Little Precedent (October 14, 2016) Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt - and when I say corrupt, I'm talking about totally corrupt - political establishment [Obamacare] with a new government controlled by you, the American people. There is nothing the political establishment will not do. No lie that they won't tell to hold their prestige and power at your expense and that's what's been happening. The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that funded exist for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself. The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election. As an example, just one single trade deal they'd like to pass involves trillions of dollars controlled by many countries, corporations, and lobbyists. For those who controlled the levels of power in Washington, and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind. Our campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven't seen before. At a campaign rally in Florida (13 October 2016) No, no, lot of things are going on folks, lot of things. I think she's actually getting pumped up, if you want to know the truth, she's getting pumped up, you understand? In fact we're going to be talking about that in a few minutes. She's getting pumped up for Wednesday night. Let's see. You know, I don't know, maybe, we're like athletes, right? Hey, look, I beat seventeen senators, governors, I beat all these people, we're like athletes. Hillary beat Bernie, although it looks like Bernie got a little bit of a bad deal based on Wikileaks, right? If you look at Wikileaks. But we're like athletes, right? So athletes, they're making them more and more, but athletes, they make them take a drug test, right? I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate, I do. I think we should, why don't we do that? We should take a drug test, prior, because I don't know what's going on with her. But at the beginning of her last debate, she was all pumped up at the beginning, and at the end it was like, "Uh, take me down." She could barely reach her car. So I think we should take a drug test, I'm, er, anyway I'm willing to do it. At a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, about his rival Hillary Clinton's performance during the presidential debates (15 October 2016) Such a nasty woman. [of Hillary Clinton] Third Presidential debate (19 October 2016), full transcript at fortune.com. 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. 20 October 2016, quoted in 2016-10-20 Donald Trump: 'I will totally accept' election results 'if I win' Jeremy Diamond CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/20/politics/donald-trump-i-will-totally-accept-election-results-if-i-win/index.html These events give not only the candidates a chance to be with each other in a very social setting; it also allows the candidates the opportunity to meet the other candidate's team — good team. I know Hillary met my campaign manager, and I got the chance to meet the people who are working so hard to get her elected. There they are — the heads of NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC — there's the New York Times, right over there, and the Washington Post. They're working overtime. True. True. Oh, this one’s going to get me in trouble. Al Smith charity dinner speech, 20 October 2016 Hillary is so corrupt, she got kicked off the Watergate commission. Al Smith charity dinner speech, 20 October 2016 I'm going to fight for every American in every last part of this nation. We have a president who doesn't fight. He goes out and plays golf all the time. Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017 October 23 rally She didn't know what to do, well how did you get him, uh well uh... they were sent by Russia! You know they're always using Russia October 25, 2016 rally in Sanford regarding Donna Brazile And I have to give the FBI credit, that was so bad, what happened, originally, and it took guts for Director Comey to make the move that he made, in light of the kind of opposition he had, with their trying to protect her from criminal prosecution, you know that. It took a lot of guts, I really disagreed with him, I was not his fan, but I'll tell you what, what he did, he brought back his reputation, he brought it back. He's got to hang tough, because there's a lot of, lotta people, want him to do the wrong thing, what he did was the right thing. At a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan shortly after Comey announced the FBI would investigate further emails relating to Hillary Clinton, but before his statement that no incriminating information was found within them (31 October 2016) Second presidential debate (October 9, 2016) Transcript, New York Times Anderson Cooper: You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that?Donald Trump: No, I didn't say that at all. I don't think you understood what was — this was locker room talk. I have great respect for women. Nobody has more respect for women than I do. ...if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your [Hilary Clinton's] situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it, and we're going to have a special prosecutor. Hillary Clinton: ...it's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.Donald Trump: Because you'd be in jail. Cooper: Please allow her to respond. She didn't talk while you talked.Clinton: Yes, that's true, I didn't.Trump: Because you have nothing to say. Martha Raddatz: ...you, Secretary Clinton, purportedly say you need both a public and private position on certain issues....Clinton: As I recall, that was something I said about Abraham Lincoln after having seen the wonderful Steven Spielberg movie ...Trump: Now she's blaming the lie on the late, great Abraham Lincoln. That's one that I haven't... OK, Honest Abe, Honest Abe never lied. That's the good thing. That's the big difference between Abraham Lincoln and you. That's a big, big difference. We're talking about some difference. I know nothing about Russia. I know — I know about Russia, but I know nothing about the inner workings of Russia. Cooper: Did you use that $916 million loss to avoid paying personal federal income taxes for years?Trump: Of course I do. Of course I do. And so do all of her donors, or most of her donors. ... I pay tremendous numbers of taxes. I absolutely used it. And so did Warren Buffett and so did George Soros and so did many of the other people that Hillary is getting money from. ...NAFTA, signed by her husband, is perhaps the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world. November 2016 I'm also honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has. Quoted by Sam Stein 2016-11-03 Donald Trump Is Honored To Have The Greatest Temperament, Donald Trump Says Huffington Post https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-temperament_n_581b75d3e4b0b8e11a135eac Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people. The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election. For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind. The political establishment that is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration and economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry. The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China and other countries all around the world. It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities. The only thing that can stop this corrupt machine is you. The only force strong enough to save our country is us. The only people brave enough to vote out this corrupt establishment is you, the American people. I'm doing this for the people and the movement and we will take back this country for you and we will make America great again. I'm Donald Trump and I approve this message. Closing argument for America (4 November 2016) Lines recycled from Trump's campaign rally in West Palm Beach, FL (10/13/2016) No dream is too big, no challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach. America will no longer settle for anything less than the best. Victory Speech (9 November 2016) I think I'm a sober person. I think the press tries to make you into something a little bit different. In my case, a little bit of a wild man, I'm not, I'm actually not. I'm a very sober person. During an interview on 60 Minutes (11 November 2016) New York Times Interview (November 23, 2016) New York Times Interview, Transcript (November 23, 2016) People are giving up tremendous careers in order to be subject to you folks and subject to a lot of other folks. But they're giving up a lot. I mean some are giving up tremendous businesses in order to sit for four or maybe eight or whatever the period of time is. But I think we're going to see some tremendous talent, tremendous talent coming in. We have many people for every job. I mean no matter what the job is, we have many incredible people. I think, Reince, you can sort of just confirm that. The quality of the people is very good. ... We're trying very hard to get the best people. Not necessarily people that will be the most politically correct people, because that hasn't been working. So we have really experts in the field. Some are known and some are not known, but they're known within their field as being the best. That's very important to me. I think the popular vote would have been easier in a true sense because you'd go to a few places. I think that's the genius of the Electoral College. I was never a fan of the Electoral College until now. What we do want to do is we want to bring the country together, because the country is very, very divided, and that's one thing I did see, big league. It's very, very divided, and I'm going to work very hard to bring the country together. I want to move forward, I don't want to move back. And I don't want to hurt the Clintons. I really don't. She went through a lot. And suffered greatly in many different ways. And I am not looking to hurt them at all. The campaign was vicious. They say it was the most vicious primary and the most vicious campaign. I guess, added together, it was definitely the most vicious; probably, I assume you sold a lot of newspapers. ... It's just not something that I feel very strongly about. ... I'm not looking to look back and go through this. This was a very painful period. This was a very painful election with all of the email things and all of the foundation things and all of the everything that they went through and the whole country went through. This was a very painful period of time. About not prosecuting Hillary Clinton. Our country's really in bad, big trouble. We have a lot of trouble. A lot of problems. And one of the big problems, I talk about, divisiveness. I think that a lot of people will appreciate … I'm not doing it for that reason. I'm doing it because it's time to go in a different direction. Clean air is vitally important. Clean water, crystal clean water is vitally important. Safety is vitally important. Sometimes I'll say I'm actually an environmentalist and people will smile in some cases and other people that know me understand that's true. Open mind. We're not a competitive nation with other nations anymore. We have to make ourselves competitive. We're not competitive for a lot of reasons. That's becoming more and more of the reason. Because a lot of these countries that we do business with, they make deals with our president, or whoever, and then they don't adhere to the deals, you know that. And it's much less expensive for their companies to produce products. So I'm going to be studying that very hard, and I think I have a very big voice in it. And I think my voice is listened to, especially by people that don't believe in it. And we'll let you know. As far as the, you know, potential conflict of interests, though, I mean I know that from the standpoint, the law is totally on my side, meaning, the president can't have a conflict of interest. That's been reported very widely. Despite that, I don't want there to be a conflict of interest anyway. And the laws, the president can't. And I understand why the president can't have a conflict of interest now because everything a president does in some ways is like a conflict of interest. I don't care about my company. ... Because it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters to me is running our country. It's hard to explain. I don't care about anything having to do with anything having to do with anything other than the country. In theory I could run my business perfectly, and then run the country perfectly. And there's never been a case like this where somebody's had, like, if you look at other people of wealth, they didn't have this kind of asset and this kind of wealth, frankly. It's just a different thing. I've known Steve Bannon a long time. If I thought he was a racist, or alt-right, or any of the things that we can, you know, the terms we can use, I wouldn't even think about hiring him. First of all, I'm the one that makes the decision, not Steve Bannon or anybody else. To me more important is taking care of the people that really have proven to be, to love Donald Trump, as opposed to the political people. And frankly if the political people don't take care of these people, they're not going to win and you're going to end up with maybe a total different kind of government than what you're looking at right now. These people are really angry. They're smart, they're workers, and they're angry. I call them the forgotten men and women. And I use that in speeches, I say they're the forgotten people — they were totally forgotten. I would love to be able to be the one that made peace with Israel and the Palestinians. I would love that, that would be such a great achievement. Because nobody's been able to do it. ... I've had a lot of, actually, great Israeli businesspeople tell me, you can't do that, it's impossible. I disagree, I think you can make peace. I think people are tired now of being shot, killed. At some point, when do they come? I think we can do that. I have reason to believe I can do that. The Times is, it's a great, great American jewel. A world jewel. December 2016 There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship, we pledge allegiance to one flag and that flag is the American Flag! Thank You Tour - Cincinnati, Ohio (1 December 2016) Funny how that term caught on, isn't it? I tell everyone, I hated it. Somebody said 'drain the swamp' and I said, 'Oh, that is so hokey. That is so terrible.' I said, all right, I'll try it. So like a month ago I said 'drain the swamp' and the place went crazy. And I said 'Whoa, what's this?' Then I said it again. And then I start saying it like I meant it, right? And then I started to love it, and the place loved it. Drain the swamp. It's true. It's true. Drain the swamp. During a rally in Des Moines, Iowa (December 2016) We will pursue a new foreign policy that finally learns from the mistakes of the past. We will stop looking to topple regimes and overthrow governments. ... Our goal is stability, not chaos, because we want to rebuild our country. It's time. Speaking at U.S. Bank Arena, quoted in 2016-12-01 Trump's new foreign policy: 'We will stop looking to topple regimes' Anna Giaritelli Washington Examiner http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-new-foreign-policy-we-will-stop-looking-to-topple-regimes/article/2608687 2017 20 January 2017 20px - Donald Trump's presidency began First presidency of Donald Trump Reporter: Would a reasonable observer say that you are potentially vulnerable to blackmail by Russia or by its intelligence agencies?Trump: Lemme just tell you what I do. When I leave our country, I'm a very high-profile person, would you say? I am extremely careful. I'm surrounded by bodyguards. I'm surrounded by people. And I always tell them—anywhere, but I always tell them if I'm leaving this country, "Be very careful, because in your hotel rooms and no matter where you go, you're gonna probably have cameras." I'm not referring just to Russia, but I would certainly put them in that category. And number one, "I hope you're gonna be good anyway. But in those rooms, you have cameras in the strangest places. Cameras that are so small with modern technology, you can't see them and you won't know. You better be careful, or you'll be watching yourself on nightly television." I tell this to people all the time. I was in Russia years ago, with the Miss Universe contest, which did very well—Moscow, the Moscow area did very, very well. And I told many people, "Be careful, because you don't wanna see yourself on television. Cameras all over the place."And again, not just Russia, all over. Does anyone really believe that story? I'm also very much of a germaphobe, by the way, believe me. Donald Trump Press Conference at Trump Tower (11 January 2017) People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why? Trump: Why Couldn't the Civil War Have Been Avoided? (May 1, 2017) 2019 Q: Does the buck stop with you over this shutdown?Trump: The buck stops with everybody. January 10, 2019 I just feel like a young man. I’m so young. I can’t believe it. I’m the youngest person. I am a young, vibrant man. I look at Joe — I don’t know about him. I don’t know. I would never say anyone is too old, but I know they’re all making me look very young, both in terms of age and I think in terms of energy. I think you people know that better than anybody. April 26, 2019 The Jews always flip. attested to by Michael Wolff 28 May 2019 Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do. Trump was describing battles in 1775, as quoted in Trump blames 'airports' gaffe on teleprompter The kidney has a very special place in the heart. 11 July 2019 2020 January 2020 Well, you have to give him credit. I spoke to him very recently, and he's also doing the rockets, he likes rockets, and he does good at rockets too, by the way. I never saw… where the engines come down with no wings, no anything, and they're landing. I've said I've never seen that before. And I was worried about him, because he's one of our great geniuses, and we have to protect our genius. We have to protect Thomas Edison, we have to protect all of these people that came up originally with the light bulb, and the wheel, and all of these things. And he's one of our very smart people, and we want to cherish those people, that's very important. But he's done a very good job. Shocking, how well, …how it's come so fast. You go back a year, and they were talking about the end of the company and all of a sudden they're talking about these great things. He's going to be building a very big plant in the United States. He has to. Because we help him, so he has to help us. on Elon Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX after Tesla stock valuation beat General Motors and Ford combined https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEwTFJG1DQ Trump on Elon Musk: I was worried about him, because he's one of our great geniuses Joe Kernen 2020-01-22 CNBC Television Youtube World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland February 2020 There are a lot of dishonest slimeballs out there. Dishonest scum. Dirty cops, lot of dirty cops … the ones on top, they were absolute scum. Trump described former senior law enforcement officials who were involved in the FBI probes into his campaign, as quoted in 2020-02-20 Trump repeatedly struggles to pronounce words during conspiracy-laden rally, before suggesting he'll pardon Roger Stone in late-night tweet Tom Embury-Dennis Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-rally-twitter-roger-stone-sentence-pardon-2020-election-rally-phoenix-arizona-a9345956.html Can we get like Gone with the Wind back, please? Sunset Boulevard, so many great movies. Trump slams Oscar-winning South Korean film 'Parasite', praises 'Gone with the Wind'video posted February 22, 2020 March 2020 See also: COVID-19 pandemic in the United States I know South Korea better than anybody, it's a very tight — do you know how many people are in Seoul? Do you know how big the city of Seoul is? 38 million people. That's bigger than anything we have. Trump talking about Seoul, which is a city with 10 million people according to the city government's English language website. As quoted by 2020-03-30 Trump tried to flex by asking a reporter about the population of Seoul. Then he got it wrong by 28 million. Jake Lahut Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-trump-got-the-population-of-seoul-wrong-by-millions-2020-3?r=US&IR=T April 2020 It's called "social media." It's social media. It gets out. I have, you know, hundreds of millions of people. Number one on Facebook. Did you know I was number one on Facebook? I mean, I just found out I'm number one on Facebook. I thought that was very nice for whatever it means. No, it represents something. And when I can explain to people: Just don't do it. You know, it's going to be bad if you do it. It's going to be really bad. And they don't need to do it. They have enough problems. Iran has enough problems without doing that. But we’ve been pulling back very substantially over the last year, in Iraq. And so, you know, that's the way it is. Coronavirus task force press briefing, , quoted in 2020-04-01 Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing James S. Brady White House https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-16/. Note: At April 1, Trump's official page, with 26.8 million likes and 28.5 million followers, was not among the most-followed Facebook pages. At January 6, speaking on Rush Limbaugh's radio show Trump stated that Mark Zuckerberg told him that he was "number one on Facebook", claim that was not refuted by Facebook as reported in Trump Claims Mark Zuckerberg Told Him He's 'Number One On Facebook' (January 8, 2020) by Josephine Harvey, HuffPost Australia May 2020 I have not touched my face in a week. August 2020 I read a lot. I comprehend extraordinarily well. Probably better than anybody you’ve interviewed in a long time,  As quoted by Aaron Rupar 2020-08-03 “They are dying. That’s true. It is what it is.” Trump’s Axios interview was a disaster. VOX https://www.vox.com/2020/8/4/21354055/trump-axios-interview-jonathan-swan I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know. I don't know John Lewis. He chose not to come to my inauguration. He chose -- I don't -- I never met John Lewis actually, I don't believe. Trump was responding to how civil rights icon John Lewis will be remembered, as quoted by Tyler Olson 2020-08-03 Trump withholds praise for John Lewis, notes he 'didn't come to my inauguration' Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-john-lewis-inauguration Yeah, I wish her well. But I wish her well. I do wish her well. Said about Ghislaine Maxwell, quoted in "Trump doubles down on well-wishes for alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell" Politico (August 4, 2020) So showerheads — you take a shower, the water doesn’t come out. You want to wash your hands, the water doesn’t come out. So what do you do? You just stand there longer or you take a shower longer? Because my hair — I don’t know about you, but it has to be perfect. Perfect. Quoted by Debbie White, Jon Rogers, Fionnuala O'Leary 2020-08-12 US proposes change to shower rules after President’s hair-washing complaint The SUN https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12369436/donald-trump-latest-news-live-updates/ Don't buy GOODYEAR TIRES - They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS. Get better tires for far less! (This is what the Radical Left Democrats do. Two can play the same game, and we have to start playing it now!) Quoted by Betsy Klein 2020-08-19 Trump 'cancels' Goodyear tires as he campaigns against 'cancel culture' CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/19/politics/trump-goodyear-cancel-culture/index.html I don't know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate Said about the QAnon group, as quoted by Kevin Liptak 2020-08-20 Trump embraces QAnon conspiracy because 'they like me' CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/19/politics/donald-trump-qanon/index.html If Jesus came down and was the vote counter, I would win California. "Trump tells Dr. Phil he would have won California in 2020 if Jesus 'was the vote counter'" Fox 11 Los Angeles (August 30, 2024) September 2020 CNN reported that I had a heart attack. Claimed as quoted by 2020-09-03 Even Fox News is choosing not to cover Trump's rallies in full, but his falsehoods are still eye-popping Brian Stelter CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/04/media/donald-trump-pennsylvania-reliable-sources/index.html I don't think science knows, actually. It'll start getting cooler. You just watch. Trump described his stance on climate science and global warming, as quoted in 2020-09-14 Trump baselessly questions climate science during California wildfire briefing Maegan Vazquez CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/14/politics/donald-trump-wildfires-briefing-climate-change/index.html Critical race theory, the 1619 Project, and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda, ideological poison that, if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together. It will destroy our country. Remarks by President Trump at the White House Conference on American History (17 September 2020) She just died? Wow. I didn't know that. You are telling me now for the first time. She led an amazing life. What else can you say? Whether you agreed or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. I am actually sad to hear that. On the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (18 September 2020) Can you believe it, in one week they nominated me, not for one, but for two Nobel prizes. But you know, you have a president, you love your president, and your president gets honored, because I’m not being honored, you’re being honored with the Nobel Peace Prize, for Israel, what we did with Israel. Quoted in 2020-09-19 Trump’s Nobel Nonsense Robert Farley FactCheck.org https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-nobel-nonsense/ I’m the only man that got nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and I didn’t get any press. They wouldn’t. For two of them. Last week, I’m not bragging about it. Quoted in 2020-09-21 Trump’s Nobel Nonsense Robert Farley FactCheck.org https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-nobel-nonsense/ The stated goal of BLM people is to achieve the destruction of the nuclear family, abolish the police, abolish prisons, abolish border security, abolish capitalism and abolish school choice. Claimed about the Black Lives Matter movement, as quoted in 2020-09-25 Donald Trump launches blistering attack on the Black Lives Matter movement Graeme Massie Independent.co.uk https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-rally-today-blm-black-lives-matter-b604727.html Totally fake news responding to the NYT report on the alleged tax avoidance by Donald Trump Steve Jobs would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine that is run by a con man (Goldberg) and spews FAKE NEWS & HATE. Call her, write her, let her know how you feel!!! Trump in Trump attacks the sixth-richest woman in the world for her ties to The Atlantic on September 6, 2020 October 2020 I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it. It was a blessing in disguise. Quoted by 2020-10-08 Trump returns to Oval Office and says coronavirus diagnosis was 'blessing from God' Kevin Liptak CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/07/politics/trump-oval-office-coronavirus/index.html I'll walk into that audience. I'll walk in there, I'll kiss everyone in that audience. I'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women and the -- everybody. I'll just give everybody a big, fat kiss. Quoted by 2020-10-12 Trump mocks virus as he launches potential superspreader sprint to win reelection Stephen Collinson CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/13/politics/donald-trump-election-2020-campaign/index.html They say he was born in Scranton, but he left, he left. He abandoned you. Trump referred back to when Joe Biden was 10 years old and the family moved from Pennsylvania to Delaware because his father started in a new job, as quoted by 2020-10-14 Fact check: Trump continues dishonesty bombardment at Pennsylvania rally Daniel Dale CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/14/politics/fact-check-trump-rally-johnstown-pennsylvania/index.html That was an opinion of somebody and that was a retweet. I’ll put it out there. People can decide for themselves. Trump explained why he retweeted a claim that Osama bin Laden’s killing was staged and that members of Navy SEAL Team 6 had been killed to cover it up. Quoted by 2020-10-16 Column: Trump and Biden town halls showed us two worlds, and only one of them is terrifying Rex Huppke Chicago Tribune https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/rex-huppke/ct-trump-biden-town-hall-qanon-rogers-calm-election-polls-huppke-20201016-3oke7rhwhbdrfcshgbnpqmimbe-story.html Would you like a nice low-income housing project next to your suburban beautiful ranch style house? Generally speaking, no. I saved your suburbs -- women -- suburban women, you're supposed to love Trump. Quoted by 2020-10-17 Trump continues bizarre appeals to suburban women as he campaigns in Covid hotspots Maeve Reston CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/18/politics/donald-trump-women-gretchen-whitmer/index.html 2021 20 January 2021 20px - End of presidency February 2021 The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political “leaders” like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm. McConnell’s dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse. The Democrats and Chuck Schumer play McConnell like a fiddle—they’ve never had it so good—and they want to keep it that way! We know our America First agenda is a winner, not McConnell’s Beltway First agenda or Biden’s America Last. It was a complete election disaster in Georgia, and certain other swing states. McConnell did nothing, and will never do what needs to be done in order to secure a fair and just electoral system into the future. He doesn’t have what it takes, never did, and never will. Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again. He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country. Statement by Donald J. Trump, February 16, 2021 March 2021 Do you miss me yet? Do you miss me? Mr. McLaughlin just gave me numbers that nobody's ever heard of before, more popular than anybody. That's all of us. It's all of us. We won the election twice. I mean, you know, think about it ... But who knows? Who knows? I may even decide to beat them for a third time, OK? For a third time. This election was rigged. And the Supreme Court and other courts didn't want to do anything about it. And the only people that should be allowed to vote by mail are people that can be proven to be either very sick or out of the country or military where they can't do it. One day. And then a Republican president will make a triumphant return to the White House. And I wonder who that will be. I wonder who that will be. Who, who, who will that be, I wonder? Quoted by 2021-03-01 Chris Cillizza The 50 most ridiculous lines from Donald Trump's CPAC speech https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/01/politics/donald-trump-cpac-speech/index.html CNN Karl Rove has been losing for years, except for himself. He's a RINO of the highest order, who came to the Oval Office lobbying for 5G for him and a group. He's a pompous fool with bad advice and always has an agenda. If the Republican Party is going to be successful, they're going to have to stop dealing with the likes of Karl Rove and just let him float away, or retire, like Liddle' Bob Corker, Jeff 'Flakey' Flake, and others like Toomey of Pennsylvania, who will soon follow. 31 million people listened to my CPAC speech online, and it had among the largest television audience of the week, even though it was on cable at 4pm on Sunday afternoon. Quoted by 2021-03-05 Chris Cillizza The 17 most outlandish lines from Donald Trump's attack on Karl Rove https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/05/politics/donald-trump-karl-rove-2020-election/index.html CNN I will not be endorsing, under any circumstances, the failed candidate from the great State of Alaska, Lisa Murkowski. She represents her state badly and her country even worse. I do not know where other people will be next year, but I know where I will be — in Alaska campaigning against a disloyal and very bad Senator. Quoted by 2021-03-06 Alex Isenstadt Trump vows to campaign against 'disloyal' Murkowski https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/06/trump-lisa-murkowski-2022-474028 Politico No more money for RINOS. They do nothing but hurt the Republican Party and our great voting base--they will never lead us to Greatness. Send your donation to Save America PAC at DonaldJTrump.com. Quoted by 2021-03-10 Michael Warren, Fredreka Schouten, Eric Bradner Trump's clash with GOP over using his name in fundraising ignites midterm worries https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/10/politics/trump-republican-fundraising-midterms/index.html CNN I would recommend it, and I would recommend it to a lot of people that don't want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly. But again, we have our freedoms and we have to live by that and I agree with that also. But it is a great vaccine. It is a safe vaccine and it is something that works. On the COVID-19 vaccine. Quoted by 2021-3-16 Meredith McGraw Trump encourages Americans to get the Covid vaccine Politico https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/16/trump-americans-covid-vaccine-476479 About the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol: It was zero threat, right from the start, it was zero threat. Look, they went in, they shouldn't have done it. Some of them went in, and they are hugging and kissing the police and the guards, you know, they had great relationships. A lot of the people were waved in, and then they walked in and they walked out. Quoted by 2021-03-26 Veronica Stracqualursi Trump lies about Capitol riot by claiming his supporters were 'hugging and kissing' cops https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/26/politics/donald-trump-january-6-rioters-arrests/index.html CNN And China, the same thing, they never treated us that way, right? You saw what happened a few days ago, was terrible, and uh, the border is not good, the border is the worst anybody’s ever seen it, and what you see now, multiply it times 10, Jim — he’s the only one I know who would handle the border tougher than me. We have to, and the tough is…in the most humanitarian way, because that’s what it is. What’s happening to the kids, they’re living in squalor, they are living like nobody has ever seen anybody, there’s never been anything like what’s, and you’re gonna have hundreds, and you have it now, they have the airplane photos, the shocks, and they call ’em shocks, and these things are showing thousands and thousands of people coming up from South America and it’s gonna be, it’s just uh, look, it’s a disaster. It’s a humanitarian disaster from their standpoint, and it’s gonna destroy the country, and frankly, the country can’t afford it because you’re talking about massive, just incredibly massive amounts. Our school systems, our hospital systems, everything. Wedding toast, quoted by 2021-03-29 Bess Levin Of course Donald Trump crashed a wedding a gave a rambling, incoherent speech about Biden, Iran and China https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-wedding-speech Vanity Fair Based on their interviews, I felt it was time to speak up about Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, two self-promoters trying to reinvent history to cover for their bad instincts and faulty recommendations, which I fortunately almost always overturned. They had bad policy decisions that would have left our country open to China and others, closed to reopening our economy, and years away from an approved vaccine — putting millions of lives at risk Dr. Birx was a terrible medical advisor, which is why I seldom followed her advice. I only kept Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx on because they worked for the U.S. government for so long — they are like a bad habit! Quoted by 2021-03-29 Benjamin Din Trump lashes out at Fauci and Birx after CNN documentary https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/29/trump-fauci-birx-cnn-documentary-478422 Politico Dr. Birx is a proven liar with very little credibility left. Quoted by 2021-03-29 Brett Samuels Trump targets Fauci, Birx in lengthy diatribe https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/545472-trump-targets-fauci-birx-in-lengthy-diatribe The Hill April 2021 Happy Easter to ALL, including the Radical Left CRAZIES who rigged our Presidential Election, and want to destroy our Country! Quoted by 2021-04-05 Martin Pengelly Who needs Twitter? Trump wishes happy Easter to 'radical left crazies' https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/04/trump-wishes-happy-easter-to-radical-left-crazies The Guardian I'll give you a little breaking news, Pfizer is in with the FDA. What the FDA did with Johnson and Johnson is so stupid TV interview with Sean Hannity Getting out of Afghanistan is a wonderful and positive thing to do. I planned to withdraw on May 1st, and we should keep as close to that schedule as possible. "Trump says Biden's plan to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan is a 'wonderful and positive thing to do'", Business Insider, 19 April 2021 May 2021 If a thief robs a jewelry store of all of its diamonds (the 2020 Presidential Election), the diamonds must be returned. 10 May 2021 The entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED! This is illegal and the Arizona State Senate, who is leading the Forensic Audit, is up in arms. Additionally, seals were broken on the boxes that hold the votes, ballots are missing, and worse. Mark Brnovich, the Attorney General of Arizona, will now be forced to look into this unbelievable Election crime. 15 May 2021 June 2021 Congratulations to the country of Nigeria, who just banned Twitter because they banned their President. More COUNTRIES should ban Twitter and Facebook for not allowing free and open speech — all voices should be heard. Zuckerberg kept calling me and coming to the White House for dinner telling me how great I was. They may allow me back in two years. We got to stop that. We can’t let it happen. So unfair. They are shutting down an entire group of people. Not just me. They are shutting down the voice of a much more powerful and a much larger group. about Facebook banning him, in rally speech July 2021 The American people’s birthright of freedom must prevail against Big Tech and other forces that seek to destroy it. 7 July 2021 Politico, Trump plans class action suit against Twitter, Facebook Many say I am the greatest star-maker of all time. But some of the stars I produced are actually made of garbage. 15 July 2021 on DonaldJTrump.com August 2021 There is massive and unconditional evidence that the election was shattered with fraud and irregularities at a level that our Country has never seen before. Much of it is already public, and a great deal more is coming out in the very near future. Every time you read a statement that there is “no evidence of election fraud,” about the 2020 election scam, just attribute that statement to a crooked and collusive media (they work closely together with the Radical Left Democrats) that will do anything to hide the real facts of this election fiasco. 1 August 2021 If I were President right now, with COVID raging back, people being shot and killed in record numbers all over our cities, and the Border totally open with criminals and heavily infected COVID people pouring through our Southern Border and into our communities, the Fake News Media would be having an absolute field day. 2 August 2021 If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they would have won the Gold Medal instead of the Bronze. Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad, and our soccer team certainly has. They should replace the wokesters with Patriots and start winning again. The woman with the purple hair played terribly and spends too much time thinking about Radical Left politics and not doing her job! Said about the US women's national soccer team after winning a bronze medal in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, as quoted in "‘Woke means you lose’: Donald Trump rails at USWNT after Olympic bronze", The Guardian, 5 August 2021 I have quietly said for years that Mitch McConnell is the most overrated man in politics— now I don't have to be quiet anymore. Quoted in "Trump Calls Mitch McConnell 'Most Overrated Man in Politics' Ahead of Infrastructure Vote", Newsweek, 10 August 2021 I recommend: take the vaccines. I did it. It’s good. Take the vaccines. "Trump booed at Alabama rally after telling supporters to get vaccinated", CNBC, 22 August 2021 September 2021 If they let you do your job you wouldn’t have crime in New York! I’ve been given so much support by the people who do what you do. We love the blue. I’ll say it loud. You know, you’re not supposed to say that. We love the blue. Trump makes surprise visit to New York police and firefighters on 9/11 We’re not going to have a country left in three years, I’ll tell you that. "Donald Trump Predicts America Will End Within 3 Years", quoted by David Moye, Yahoo News, 15 September 2021 1 down, 9 to go! "Trump celebrates Gonzalez’s exit: ‘1 down, 9 to go!’" (September 17, 2021) Everybody will be watching Arizona tomorrow to see what the highly respected auditors and Arizona State Senate found out regarding the so-called Election! "GOP-led Arizona election review closely matches Biden's winning margin" (September 23, 2021) October 2021 Nobody has done more for Christianity or for evangelicals — or for religion itself — than I have. Quoted in "Donald Trump Claims Nobody Has Done More 'for Religion Itself' Than Him", Newsweek, 2 October 2021 the real insurrection happened on November 3rd, the Presidential Election, not on January 6th—which was a day of protesting the Fake Election results Trump continues to lie, says 'real insurrection' happened when he lost election" (October 6, 2021) Republican Senators, do not vote for this terrible deal (debt limit) being pushed by folding Mitch McConnell. Stand strong for our Country.  The American people are with you! In an emailed statement "Trump urges GOP senators to vote against McConnell debt deal" (October 7,2021) If we don't solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020 (which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented), Republicans will not be voting in '22 or '24. It is the single most important thing for Republicans to do. According to an MSNBC article and a short video "Democrats finally have reason to celebrate one of Trump's threats" (October 13, 2021) It’s so sad when you see that they are approving these windmills — worst form of energy, the most expensive. You talk about carbon emissions, well they are making them. More goes into the air than if you ran something for 30 years. I’m not into golden showers. "Trump Touts Putin Relationship, Rails About Wind Energy's 'Carbon Emissions' In Speech", Yahoo News (October 16 2021) I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit. And some fruit is a lot worse than — tomatoes are bad by the way. Deposition, October 18, 2021 After years of litigation, I was pleased to have had the opportunity to tell my side of this ridiculous story — Just one more example of baseless harassment of your favorite president "Trump faces a pile of civil lawsuits as depositions begin" (October 18, 2021) Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media. Hope that happens to me someday. He was a classic RINO, if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace! Chris Cillizza https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/19/politics/donald-trump-colin-powell-death/index.html Donald Trump (yet again) proves there's no bottom cnn.com October 19, 2021 October 19, 2021 We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American president has been silenced "Trump announces social media platform launch plan, SPAC deal" (October 20, 2021) Israel doesn’t even control Congress anymore. 29 October 2021 per https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-president-donald-j-trump-speaks-to-the-post-millennial November 2021 RINOs who supported infrastructure bill should be ashamed of themselves on Sky News Australia Youtube channel video (November 7, 2021) December 2021 He was very early. Like earlier than most. I haven’t spoken to him since. Fuck him, 10 December 2021 interview with Barak Ravid about Benjamin Netanyahu per Times of Israel I thought the Palestinians were impossible, and the Israelis would do anything to make peace and a deal. I found that not to be true. Donald Trump, Trump: I thought Israelis would do anything for peace, but found that not to be true, Times of Israel (11 December 2021) Bibi did not want to make a deal. Even most recently, when we came up with the maps. Now I don’t know if he didn’t want to make it for political reasons, or for other reasons. I wish he would have said he didn’t want to make a deal, instead of…. Because a lot of people devoted a lot of work. But I don’t think Bibi would have ever made a deal. That’s my opinion. I think the general [Gantz] wanted to make a deal. 11 December 2021 quoted by Times of Israel There’s people in this country that are Jewish that no longer love Israel.I’ll tell you the Evangelical Christians love Israel more than the Jews in this country.It used to be that Israel had absolute power over Congress and today I think it’s the exact opposite, and I think Obama and Biden did that.And yet in the election, they still get a lot of votes from Jewish people…which tells you that the Jewish people, and I’ve said this for a long time.The Jewish people in the United States either don’t like Israel or don’t care about Israel.I mean, you look at The New York Times, The New York Times hates Israel, hates them, and they’re Jewish people that run The New York Times, I mean the Sulzberger family. 17 December 2021 per Vanity Fair I think the origins are so obvious. They came out of the Wuhan lab. And I think if anybody thinks anything differently, they’re just kidding themselves. So, you can ask — China has to pay. They have to do something. They have to pay reparations. And China doesn’t have the money to pay those reparations. I believe that worldwide — I’m not just talking United States — worldwide, $60 trillion of damage, $60 trillion. China doesn’t have $60 trillion. But they have to do something to make up for what they’ve done. What they’ve done to the world is so horrible. It’s been horrible, all over the world. And it doesn’t stop. 19 December 2021 About developing vaccines against Covid-19: Look, we did something that was historic, we saved tens of millions of lives worldwide. We, together, all of us, not me. "Trump met with boos after revealing he received Covid-19 booster", CNN, 21 December 2021 I came up with a vaccine, with three vaccines. "Trump pushes back on Candace Owens: 'People aren't dying when they take the vaccine'", The Hill, 23 December 2021 2022 January 2022 If you take the vaccine, you're protected. Look, the results of the vaccine are very good, and if you do get it, it's a very minor form. People aren't dying when they take the vaccine. 6 January 2022, interviewed by Candace Owens, discussing the COVID-19 vaccine; reported in Bruce Y. Lee, "Trump Tells Candace Owens That Covid-19 Vaccines Work: 'One Of The Greatest Achievements Of Mankind'", Forbes (Jan 6, 2022) I ran twice and we won twice.This crowd is a massive symbol of what took place, because people are hungry for the truth. They want their country back. 15 January 2022 via Elaine Godfrey of The Atlantic If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from January sixth fairly. We will treat them fairly.And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly. 30 January 2022 reported by TGP Actually, what they are saying, is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power. He could have overturned the election! 31 January 2022, at a rally in Conroe Texas, as quoted in “Quiet part loud: Trump says Pence ‘could have overturned the election’”, by Martin Pengelly, for The Guardian. February 2022 I was right and everyone knows it. If there is fraud or large scale irregularities, it would have been appropriate to send those votes back to the legislatures to figure it out. 4 February 2022 per 7 February 2022 report by Reuters Pence says Trump was wrong that he could have overturned 2020 election by Alexandra Ulmer I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, 'This is genius.' Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine, of Ukraine, Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful. So Putin is now saying, 'It's independent,' a large section of Ukraine. I said, 'How smart is that?' And he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper. That's the strongest peace force. We could use that on our southern border. That's the strongest peace force I've ever seen. ... Here's a guy who's very savvy. ... I know him very well. Very, very well. Said about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in an interview at The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, as quoted in "Trump sides with Putin as Biden tries to stop a war", CNN, 23 February 2022. They say, 'Trump said Putin's smart.' I mean, he's taking over a country for two dollars' worth of sanctions. I'd say that's pretty smart. He's taking over a country — really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and just walking right in. "Why Donald Trump can't stop praising Vladimir Putin", CNN, 24 February 2022 March 2022 They laid down the welcome mat and gave Russia the opening, now Putin may be getting everything he wanted, with Ukraine and the rest of the World suffering the consequences. It’s terrible, but this is what you get with Biden, the Democrats, and RINO warmongers! 03/01/22 The vote counter is often more important than the candidate. "Trump says the GOP needs to get 'tougher' at the ballot box: 'The vote counter is often more important than the candidate'", yahoo news, 6 March 2022 Whatever happened to free speech in our Country? Incredibly, but not surprisingly, the Big Tech lunatics have taken down my interview with the very popular NELK Boys so that nobody can watch it or in any way listen to it....In Russia, the people are not allowed to know that they’re fighting a war with Ukraine, that’s where our media is going, and that’s where our Country is going because it quickly follows—just study history.We need freedom of speech again, we don’t have it and it’s getting worse every day! Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America 03/11/22 She owes me nearly $300,000, Now all I have to do is wait for all of the money she owes me. Trump crows as liberal 9th Circuit seals victory over Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti I listen to him constantly using the n-word, that’s the n-word, and he’s constantly using it, the nuclear word. They didn’t attack any other countries under us. I’m the only one where that didn’t happen. And with Bush, they took Georgia, and they took Crimea with Biden and Obama. And now he said ‘to hell with it. Let’s take the whole thing'. Trump says Putin keeps using the ‘n-word’ meaning ‘nuclear’ as he claims Russian leader is ‘different’ man to one he dealt with Single most dangerous time for our country in history... yet you have people like John Kerry worrying about the climate! The climate! Oh, I heard that the other day. Here we are, [Russian President Vladimir Putin is] threatening us [and] he’s worried about the ocean will rise one-hundredth of one percent over the next 300 fucking’ years. Two stark reminders about the political challenge of tackling climate change The Left has become so extreme that we now have a justice being nominated to the Supreme Court who testified under oath that she could not say what a woman is, And a party that's unwilling to admit that men and women are biologically different in defiance of all scientific and human history, is a party that should not be anywhere near the levers of power in the United States of America. ‘Single most dangerous time’: Trump blasts climate change, CRT, and KBJ April 2022 Happy Easter to all including the Radical Left Maniacs who are trying everything to destroy our country May they not succeed, but let them, nevertheless, be happy, healthy, wealthy and well! Yahoo! He went out of his way to deceptively edit an interview and got caught. That is a big story, isn’t it? Donald Trump, mediaite I think I’m the most honest human being perhaps that god ever created. Claimed at an an event in Selma, North Carolina, on April 10, 2022, referred to in "Donald Trump Just Described Himself In A Very Unexpected Way", The List (April 12, 2022) But when I didn’t win the election .. Marjorie Taylor Greene & Matt Gaetz NOT HAPPY with Jimmy & Trump FINALLY Admits Defeat (Apr 11, 2022) (video) Which would you rather be, a dumb person or a dictator? Perhaps a dictator would be better. I don't want to be a dumb person. Trump says he'd rather be 'a dictator' than 'a dumb person' after bragging about the cognitive test he took in 2018, Business Insider, 22 April 2022 April 2022 May 2022 With rampant and record setting crime, a 42.8% increase over last year was just announced, and every other unimaginable problem, no wonder everyone is leaving the New York State, including businesses left and right. Save America I am not currently in possession of any Trump Organization-issued phones, computers or similar devices. I believe the last phone or device I was issued by the Trump Organization was a cellphone in 2015. I no longer have the cellphone in my possession and I am not aware of its current location. Since January 1, 2010, I previously owned two flip phones and a Samsung mobile phone. I do not have the two flips [sic] phones in my possession and I do not know their current whereabouts.” [Samsung] it was taken from me at some point while I was president. I do not have the Samsung in my possession and I do not know its current whereabouts. Trump must pay $110,000 fine to purge contempt, judge says (Wed 11 May 2022 18.53 BST) Kathy Barnette will never be able to win the general election against the radical left democrats. She has many things in her past which have not been properly explained or vetted, but if she is able to do so, she will have a wonderful future in the Republican Party — and I will be behind her all the way Trump according to Pennsylvania: My Primary Concern (May 14) NRA convention speech (May 27, 2022) The existence of evil in our world is not a reason to disarm law-abiding citizens. The existence of evil is one of the very best reasons to arm law-abiding citizens. Every time a disturbed or demented person commits a hideous crime there is always a grotesque effort by some in our society to advance their own extreme political agenda. Speech at the NRA convention, Houston (May 27, 2022), as cited in "School shooting strengthens case for guns, Donald Trump tells NRA" The Guardian (May 28, 2022) We need a top-to-bottom security overhaul of schools [...] Every building should have a single entry point. No one should ever be able to get near a classroom until they have been checked, scanned and screened ... Above all, from this day forward, every school in America should have an armed police officer or an armed resources officer on duty at all times. [...] Clearly, we need to make it far easier to confine the violent and mentally deranged into mental institutions. Speech at the NRA convention, Houston (May 27, 2022), as cited in "After horror, failure of Uvalde massacre, business as usual at NRA meeting in Houston" The Sydney Morning Herald (May 28, 2022) July 2022 Warmongering and despicable human being Liz Cheney, who is hated by the great people of Wyoming (down 35!), keeps saying, over and over again, that HER Fake Unselect Committee may recommend CRIMINAL CHARGES against a President of the United States who got more votes than any sitting President in history, Said about Republican Congress Member Liz Cheney after she mentioned the possibility of raising criminal charges against Trump for his role in connection with the January 6 attack on the Congress of the United States, quoted in "Trump rips ‘despicable’ Liz Cheney after she suggests Jan. 6 charges for ex-president", New York Post, 4 July 2022 Leon’s, I’ll tell you what, Elon, Elon, is not going to buy Twitter. … He’s got himself a mess. He said the other day, ‘Oh, I’ve never voted for a Republican.’ I said, ‘I didn’t know that. He told me he voted for me.’ So, he’s another bullshit artist. But he’s not going to be buying it. Claimed about Elon Musk, who later bought Twitter. Quoted in "Trump Bashes Elon Musk as ‘Bullshit Artist’ at Alaska Rally", Rolling Stone (July 9, 2022) I feel very confident that, if I decide to run, I’ll win. In my own mind, I’ve already made that decision, so nothing factors in anymore. In my own mind, I’ve already made that decision. I made America great again, and I may have to do it again. "Donald Trump on 2024: ‘I’ve Already Made That Decision’ The only question left in the former president’s mind is when he’ll announce", Intelligencer, 14 July 2022 September 2022 J.D. is kissing my ass he wants my support so bad. Said about J.D. Vance, Republican Senate candidate for Ohio, quoted in "Donald Trump humiliated J.D. Vance for fun", CNN, 20 September 2022 If you're the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it's declassified, even by thinking about it, because you're sending it to Mar-a-Lago or to wherever you're sending it. And there doesn't have to be a process. There can be a process, but it doesn't have to be. "Trump: Presidents can declassify files by 'thinking about it'", Bay News 9, 22 September 2022 October 2022 They actually taunted him, if you really look at it. Our country, and our so-called leadership, taunted Putin. I said, you know, they're almost forcing him to go in with what they're saying. The rhetoric was so dumb. Trump Blames U.S. for 'Almost Forcing' Putin to Invade Ukraine, Newsweek, 8 October 2022 November 2022 We're winning big, big, big in the Republican Party for the nomination like nobody's ever seen before There it is, Trump at 71 [percent]. Ron DeSanctimonious at 10 percent. Mike Pence at 7 — oh, Mike Pence doing better than I thought​. Pompeo jumps to defend DeSantis after Trump's 'Ron DeSanctimonious' comments (By Mark Moore November 6, 2022 1:41pm Updated) The Absentee Ballot situation in Detroit is REALLY BAD.People are showing up to Vote only to be told 'sorry, you have already voted.'This is happening in large numbers, elsewhere as well.Protest, Protest, Protest! 8 November 2022 post on TruthSocia later quoted via screenshot in tweet by Jocelyn Benson which was quoted by Yahoo News Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit. And if they lose, I should not be blamed at all, OK, but it’ll probably be just the opposite. Trump Hoped for a Celebration but Did Not Have Much to Cheer (By By Michael C. Bender and Maggie Haberman November 9, 2022, 2:33 a.m. ET) Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games! The Fake News asks him if he's going to run if President Trump runs, and he says, 'I'm only focused on the Governor's race, I'm not looking into the future.' Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that's really not the right answer. Adam Carlson, Jay O'Brien, and Katherine Faulders, Trump takes aim at Ron DeSantis, suggesting he's a 2024 rival, ABC News (November 10, 2022). He shows up with 3 people, two of which I didn’t know, the other a political person who I haven’t seen in years,” the former president wrote on Truth Social. “Fake News went CRAZY!” 29 November 2022 on Truth Social (per this article by Charisma Madarang of Rolling Stone) after Kanye West showed up for dinner with Boeing employee Jamal and Nick Fuentes (the two unknowns) and Karen Giorno (an aide from Trump's 2016 campaign) in a meeting arranged by Milo Yiannopoulos (who did not attend) via Karen December 2022 People have been treated unconstitutionally in my opinion and very, very unfairly, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it. Comments made concerning rioters involved in the 2021 United States Capitol attack during a fund raising speech cited in "Trump expresses support for Capitol rioters as he continues to embrace extremist groups" CNN Politics (December 2, 2022) Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. cited in "Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post" CNN Politics (December 4, 2022) 2023 January 2023 So an out-of-control wild man kills beautiful Ashli Babbitt, a true Patriot, who was the only one killed on January 6th.Her mother goes to protest her death and memory, and they arrest her mother.Something has to be done about these Communists and Marxists that are taking over and destroying our Country.Pray for Ashli, and her wonderful, brave mother! 8 January 2023 gab The left-wing gender insanity being pushed on our children is an act of child abuse—very simple. 31 January 2023 per Rolling Stone February 2023 Rihanna gave, without question, the single worst Halftime Show in Super Bowl history—This after insulting far more than half of our Nation, which is already in serious DECLINE, with her foul and insulting language. Also, so much for her ‘Stylist!’ "Donald Trump Calls Rihanna's Super Bowl Halftime Performance an 'Epic Fail'", Vanity Fair, 13 February 2023 March 2023 CPAC keynote speech (March 4, 2023) CPAC keynote address in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 4, 2023, reported in https://www.newsweek.com/five-key-moments-donald-trump-cpac-speech-1785586 Five Key Moments from Donald Trump's Crucial CPAC Speech Khaleda Rahman Newsweek March 5, 2023 I'm the only candidate who can make this promise: I will prevent, and very easily, World War III. We are never going back to a party that wants to give unlimited money to fight foreign endless wars but demands we cut veteran benefits and retirement benefits at home. We’re not going back to people that want to destroy our great Social Security system – even some in our own party; I wonder who that might be – who want to raise the minimum age of Social Security to 70, 75 or even 80 in some cases, and who are out to cut Medicare to a level that will be unrecognizable In 2016, I declared: I am your voice. Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution. I will totally obliterate the deep state. I will fire the unelected bureaucrats and shadow forces who have weaponized our justice system like it has never been weaponized before. And I will put the people back in charge of this country again. This is the final battle – they know it, I know it, you know it, everybody knows it. Either they win, or we win. And I promise you this: If you put me back in the White House, their reign will be over, and America will be a free nation once again. Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, I will have the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine settled.I will get the problem solved.And I will get it solved in rapid order and 'it will take me no longer than one day, I know exactly what to say to each of them, I got along very well with Putin. the March 4th speech was referenced when this was quoted March 7th by Stephen Collinson in a CNN analysis Trump later reuses the phrase "before I even arrive at the Oval Office" in #June 2024 in Philadelphia April 2023 Republicans in Congress should defund the DOJ and FBI until they come to their senses. The Democrats have totally weaponized law enforcement in our country and are viciously using this abuse of power to interfere with our already under siege elections! Donald Trump calls for defunding federal police after his arrest in New York Truth Social (April 5, 2023) NRA convention speech (April 14, 2023) Our country has been chock full of guns for centuries, and there was no talk of massacres of schoolchildren until around the year 2000. That's what it really started. They started talking about it. This is not a gun problem. This is a mental health problem. This is a social problem. This is a cultural problem. This is a spiritual problem. I will ask Congress to repeal totally ineffective legislation that makes it harder to protect our schools and easier for criminals to face absolutely no opposition when they go in. I will also create a new tax credit to reimburse any teacher for the full costs of a concealed carry firearm and training from highly qualified experts. Who's better? Who's better? If even 5% of teachers, people that are skilled with arms, we want that. 5% were voluntarily armed and trained to stop active shooters. We would achieve effective deterrence and the problem would cease to exist. From a NRA convention speech in Indianapolis (April 14, 2023), cited in "Trump calls for arming teachers at NRA convention" AP Newsroom (April 15, 2023) [T]he only way to stop these wicked actions is to ensure that any sicko who would shoot up a school knows that within seconds, not minutes, they will face certain death. Speech at the NRA convention, Indianapolis (April 14, 2023), cited in "Trump, in legal peril, draws cheers at NRA convention; Pence draws boos" The Washington Post (April 14, 2023) May 2023 They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours May 2023 at a CNN Town Hall, quoted in 2 July 2024 article by Edith M. Lederer for AP News June 2023 thumb|I AM AN INNOCENT MAN! I have been summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, at 3 PM. I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former President of the United States, who received far more votes than any sitting President in the History of our Country, and is currently leading, by far, all Candidates, both Democrat and Republican, in Polls of the 2024 Presidential Election. I AM AN INNOCENT MAN! Web posting, reported in "Trump told to appear in Miami after indictment by federal grand jury, ABC reporting" in WPLG Local 10 (8 June 2023) This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, and we will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will rout the fake news media, and we will defeat crooked Joe Biden. We will liberate America from these villains once and for all. Trump told the audience at the Oakland County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner For three years, Biden and his radical left allies have waged war on American auto workers in his ridiculous crusade to force everyone into electric cars, ridiculous regulations kill more than half of US auto jobs and decimate the suppliers that they decimated already, decimate the suppliers and it’s going to decimate your jobs. Telegraph , Trump headlines Oakland County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner July 2023 “Is it Crooked Joe and his wonderful son, Hunter? Release the findings, release the tapes. We can’t have a crackhead in charge of our Nuclear Arsenal!! … He’s totally compromised...I don’t like doing the same word for two people. We’re using the word crooked for Joe Biden because Joe Biden is the most crooked president in the history. republicworld We have potential for a war outside of Ukraine - Russia. We should have kept Bagram because Bagram is one of the largest military bases in the world cost us billions of dollars to build forget about Afghanistan, it's one hour away from where China is building their nuclear weapons. If China takes Taiwan they will turn the world off potentially. Millions of illegal aliens have stormed across our borders. It is an invasion, like a military invasion. Our rights and liberties are being torn to shreds,Your country is being turned into a third-world hellhole, run by censors, perverts, criminals, and thugs.” criminals and perverts America is tired of being ruled by radical bureaucrats in Washington the Bidens, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Radical Left Democrats, the Marxists – guys like Paul Ryan and Karl Rove. Their reign will be over, and it will be over quickly, and America will be a free nation once again. speech Think of this. We give them everything, including military protection and trade, and now we have to pay them to go there. As President I will not allow this, will end very quickly. “U.S. CITIZENS WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR A VISA TO TRAVEL TO EUROPE STARTING IN 2024.” Gloves are off.Under crooked Joe Biden. I never called him that. I took the name away from Hillary Clinton. We call her beautiful Hillary now.Now it's crooked Joe, because it's a much more appropriate name right now for this man who's just destroying our country. rally As part of my plan to obtain total independence from China, we will phase in tariffs and import restrictions to bring back production of all essential medicines to the United States of America where they belong. I signed an executive order to begin this process in 2020 but Biden has shamefully failed to follow through. He wants it ended. He wants to take care of China. They don’t go after the people who cheated in the election, they only go after the people who report on, or question the cheating if you don't have strong borders you don't have a country, right now we don't have a country. Trumpism or America first is very simple low taxes and regulations , the most powerful military , tariffs on countries taking advantage, protection of section amendment , great healthcare , low energy prices, parental power on school boards, life , strong borders. I expect nothing from the meeting with my lawyers and the lunatics in the DOJ regarding January 6th. They just want to interfere with the Presidential Election on 2024. It is their new form of cheating, but we will win !!! How can deranged Jack Smith bring a case on January 6th., as ridiculous as it is anyway, when I have already won such a case, and been fully acquitted, in the U.S. Senate? In other words, I was Impeached on this, and won!!! August 2023 These monsters, all controlled and coordinated by the DOJ and Radical Left Lunatics, are Criminalizing Political Speech, a total SHUTDOWN OF DEMOCRACY! Truth Social Post 6:28 PM on August 15, 2023. CROOKED JOE BIDEN IS TOTALLY CONTROLLED BY CHINA, UKRAINE, & VARIOUS OTHER COUNTRIES. THEY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM - ALL OF HIS MISDEEDS. HE IS A COMPROMISED PRESIDENT WHO IS LEADING OUR COUNTRY TO HELL. HE IS A MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE! Truth Social Post 6:20 PM on August 15, 2023. I believe we have a compromised president. He was bribed, and now he’s being blackmailed. He’s a Manchurian Candidate. That’s why Crooked Joe is letting other countries walk all over the United States. Truth Social Post on August 15, 2023. IMPOSSIBLE to get a fair trial in Washington, D.C., which is over 95% anti-Trump, & for which I have called for a Federal TAKEOVER in order to bring our Capital back to Greatness. It is now a high crime embarrassment to our Nation and, indeed, the World https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110823476578708544 I AM NOW GOING TO WASHINGTON, D.C., TO BE ARRESTED FOR HAVING CHALLENGED A CORRUPT, RIGGED, & STOLEN ELECTION. IT IS A GREAT HONOR, BECAUSE I AM BEING ARRESTED FOR YOU. Biden and his family steal Millions and Millions of Dollars, including BRIBES from foreign countries, and I’m headed to D.C. to be ARRESTED for protesting a CROOKED ELECTION. UNFAIR VENUE, UNFAIR JUDGE. We are a Nation in Decline. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110826519469646840 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110826840688757163 CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT I HAD TO FLY TO A FILTHY, DIRTY, FALLING APART, & VERY UNSAFE WASHINGTON, D.C., TODAY, & THAT I WAS THEN ARRESTED BY MY POLITICAL OPPONENT, WHO IS LOSING BADLY TO ME IN THE POLLS, CROOKED JOE BIDEN, IT WAS A VERY GOOD DAY! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110828062805817649 A very sad day for America, and it was also very sad driving through Washington, D.C., and seeing the filth and decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and the graffiti. This is not the place that I left. It’s a very sad thing to see it. https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-tells-reporters-if-you-cant-beat-him-you-persecute-him-or-you-prosecute-him/ They’re trying to make it illegal to question the results of a bad election…But only a party that cheats in elections would try to make it illegal, on Election Day 2024, we’re going to evict Crooked Joe Biden from the White House…We’re going to expel the criminals and thugs from the halls of power in Washington, D.C. Alabama We are NOT a free nation, We don’t have a free press. We have a corrupt press. Alabama OUR HIGHLY PARTISAN, AND VERY CORRUPT, DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE, COULD HAVE BROUGHT THIS BIDIN “OPPONENT” CASE YEARS AGO, BUT CHOSE TO WAIT AND BRING IT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY ELECTION CAMPAIGN. NO WAY!!! I HOPE YOU ARE WATCHING AMERICA. OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110842856814664717 This will be the single biggest and most important election in the history of our country - maybe in the history of the WORLD. https://truthsocial.com/@RSBN/posts/110840001623943794 The “shocking and totally unexpected” loss by the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to the our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden. Many of our players were openly hostile to America - No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close. WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110845290114601452 WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE IS DOING TO ME IS THE SAME THING DONE BY THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD, BUT IT WILL NOT WORK. https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-explains-why-he-should-not-have-a-protective-order-placed-on-him-by-deranged-jack-smith/ Let’s see! My political Opponent, Crooked Joe Biden, tells Merrick Garland and the DOJ to indict and arrest me on bogus charges and accusations, trying desperately to steal the Election. But that wasn’t enough! He now wants Thug Prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith, to file for a Court Order taking away my first amendment rights, SPEECH. So, based on yet another Radical Left Hoax, I’ll be the only “Politician” in American history not allowed to SPEAK. THE NEVER ENDING WITCH HUNT CONTINUES. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110852063479466833 They just found a letter from Crooked Joe Biden directly to Keven Archer. Oh well, so much for “Joe” not knowing anything about all of the money he extorted. At some point the LameStream Media will have to cover this story, perhaps the biggest scandal in U.S. history. When they do, our Country will start to heal! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110850107581995665 HOW CAN MY CORRUPT POLITICAL OPPONENT PUT ME ON TRIAL(S) DURING A CAMPAIGN THAT I AM WINNING (BY A LOT!), BUT FORCING ME TO SPEND TIME AND MONEY AWAY FROM THE “CAMPAIGN TRAIL” IN ORDER TO FIGHT BOGUS ACCUSATIONS & CHARGES? IS THIS GOING TO BE THE FUTURE OF ELECTIONS IN AMERICA? CAN A PRESIDENT ORDER HIS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO INDICT AN OPPONENT JUST PRIOR TO AN ELECTION? https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110849582956879248 Just found out that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ secretly attacked my Twitter account, making it a point not to let me know about this major “hit” on my civil rights. My Political Opponent is going CRAZY trying to infringe on my Campaign for President. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Does the First Amendment still exist? Did Deranged Jack Smith tell the Unselects to DESTROY & DELETE all evidence? https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110860965885418709 It’s not like the State or Country is coming down on me. It’s a dishonest politician and his gang of Thugs breaking the law in order to get re-elected. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110859441854770499 So now that I have full Subpoena Power because of the Freedom of Speech Sham Indictment by Crooked Joe Biden, Deranged Jack Smith, and the DOJ, it has just been reported that the Unselect January 6th Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs has illegally destroyed their Records and Documents. This is unthinkable, and the Fake Political Indictment against me must be immediately withdrawn. The system is Rigged & Corrupt, very much like the Presidential Election of 2020. We are a Nation in Decline. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110857162338915853 Thousands of veterans were put on secret medial wait lists and many of them were left to die, All of that changed when WE arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-lays-out-exemplary-agenda-that-will-restore-hope-and-care-to-americas-veterans/ Whenever more Biden corruption is exposed his henchmen charge me with a crime. https://truthsocial.com/@RSBN/posts/110855681234356104 I think that Crooked Joe Biden is not only dumb and incompetent, I believe he has gone MAD, a stark raving Lunatic, with his HORRIBLE AND COUNTRY THREATENING ENVIRONMENTAL, OPEN BORDERS, & DOJ/FBI WEAPONIZATION POLICIES. HE IS A MENTAL CATASTROPHE THAT IS LEADING OUR COUNTRY TO HELL!What Crooked Joe Biden, who can’t string two sentences together, has done to our once great Country through his Open Borders CATASTROPHE, may go down as the greatest and most damaging mistake ever made in USA HISTORY. It is not even believable that such incompetence and stupidity could have been allowed to happen. OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED BY A MAN WITH THE MIND, IDEAS, AND I.Q. OF A FIRST GRADER. THIS INVASION OF OUR COUNTRY MUST STOP IMMEDIATELY. IT CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110865224814637476 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110865185229848140 The Fake Indictments against me didn’t come down from heaven, they came from the most corrupt President in the history of the United States, Crooked Joe Biden, in order to Rig & Steal another Election. Why is “Phoney” (Like in PERFECT “PHONE” CALL, get it?) Fani Willis, the severely underperforming D.A. of Fulton County who is being accused of having an “affair” with a Gang Member of a group that she is prosecuting, leaking my name in regard to a Grand Jury pertaining to Election Fraud & Irregularities that I say took place in Georgia. I made a PERFECT PHONE CALL OF PROTEST. What does Phoney Fani have to do with me? She should instead focus on the record number of murders in Atlanta! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/110882230702522121 The only Election Interference that took place in Fulton County, Georgia, was done by those that Rigged and Stole the Election, not by me, who simply complained that the Election was Rigged and Stolen. We have Massive and Conclusive Proof, if the Grand Jury would like to see it. Unfortunately, the publicity seeking D.A. isn’t interested in Justice, or this evidence. Also, as in Manhattan, the corrupt DOJ is pushing hard trying to keep Biden in Office. The whole system is dishonest and broken! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/110882321735123573 To say no comment is oftentimes fine, but to be smiling when you say it, especially again such a tragedy as this, is absolutely horrible and unacceptable, Our government was not prepared. And very importantly, the aftermath is going very poorly with the governor of the island wanting to do nothing but blame it on global warming, and other things that just happen to pop into his head. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4152554-trump-bidens-response-to-maui-fires-disgraceful/ “Hey, I’m running against a guy, I’m going to Indict him 3 or 4 times to keep him busy.” Does anyone think that Crooked Joe Biden would have said something like this??? https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110914172490735501 David Rivkin, a highly respected Constitutional law scholar, just clearly stated that I have “Constitutionally-based immunity” and “absolute immunity! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110918895000463495 Why should Crooked Joe Biden be able to force me into the time and expense of trials, especially before the Election, on bogus claims pushed by his chief political supporter, The Department of Injustice? What a horrible precedent this sets for future Presidential campaigns. Crooked Joe Biden’s only campaign strategy is Indicting me, going on extended vacations, and Sleep, Sleep, Sleep!!! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110918860464876718 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110918173717605996 I easily won the Great State of Georgia in 2016, did a fantastic job, as President, for Georgia and the entire USA, received 10 Million more votes than I got, nationwide, in 2016, got by far the most votes in history for a sitting President, but shockingly, “LOST” Georgia. All this despite winning nearby Alabama and South Carolina in Record Setting Landslides. Why did Georgia officials agree to, and sign, the one sided Consent Decree? Does anybody really believe I lost Georgia? I DON’T! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110916681777676824 September 2023 MINORITY VOTERS ARE ABANDONING CROOKED JOE BIDEN & THE DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR “TRUMP.” THANK YOU, A VERY WISE DECISION! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1110151303435539041 It is all a shadow of its former self. Ukraine, Inflation, Bad Economy, Woke Military, No World Standing, No Respect, and today, 6 Billion Dollars for hostages. Where is the call from Republicans for the 25th Amendment. Truth social Can you believe that Crooked Joe Biden is giving $6 Billion to the terrorist regime in Iran? That money be used for terrorism all over the Middle East, and, indeed, the World. This incompetent FOOL is absolutely destroying America He had the audacity to announce this terrible deal today, September 11th. To pay for hostages will lead to kidnapping, ransom, and blackmail against Americans across the globe So, lets get this straight! We did a hostage TRADE with Iran. We gave them 5 very tough, smart people that they desperately wanted. We likewise got back 5 people BUT, we also gave them 6 BILLION DOLLARS! How much of a kickback does Crooked Joe Biden get Does anyone realize how much money 6 Billion Dollars is? When I was President, I got back 58 hostages for ZERO money. Remember Pastor Brunson? It sets a TERRIBLE precedent. Republicans, call out the 25th Amendment, NOW! Biden is INCOMPETENT https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4199317-trump-rips-biden-for-release-of-6b-in-iranian-funds/ Early in the administration Education department will be closing . we spend more money on education than any other country yet we are bottom of every list. Truth social Biden’s job killing EV mandate has dictated that nearly seven percent of all cars sold in the US must be fully electric in less than 10 years. Crooked Joe Biden is back like a wretched old vulture. Mark Milley, who led perhaps the most embarrassing moment in American history with his grossly incompetent implementation of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, costing many lives, leaving behind hundreds of American citizens, and handing over BILLIONS of dollars of the finest military equipment ever made, will be leaving the military next week. This will be a time for all citizens of the USA to celebrate! This guy turned out to be a Woke train wreck who, if the Fake News reporting is correct, was actually dealing with China to give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States. This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH! A war between China and the United States could have been the result of this treasonous act. To be continued!!! Truth social Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from. And we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions, insane asylums. We know they're terrorists. Nobody has seen anything like we're witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It's poisoning the blood of our country. It's so bad. The National Pulse interview, quoted in 2023-10-17 Trump - "Migrants Poisoning the Blood of Our Country" Meidas Touch https://www.meidastouch.com/:section/trump-migrants-poisoning-the-blood-of-our-country October 2023 We will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft. Very simply: If you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store... Shot! The word that they shoot you will get out within minutes and our nation, in one day, will be an entirely different place. There must be retribution for theft and destruction and the ruination of our country 2 October 2023 in NY Post I had a wonderful life before all this stuff. I didn't know what a grand jury was, I didn't know what a subpoena, what is a subpoena? I had a wonderful life. 5 October 2023 in spoken interview lowlife with a very small brain and a very big mouth by far the dumbest of my military people incapable of doing a good job It was too much for him, and I couldn’t stand the guy, so I fired him like a ‘dog’ Claimed about John Kelly, retired U.S. Marine Corps general, former Chief of Staff for Donald Trump, and before that US Homeland Security Secretary, quoted in "‘Lowlife with small brain and big mouth’: Trump hits out at ex-aide Kelly", The Guardian (October 5, 2023) There’s a man, Viktor Orbán, did anyone ever hear of him? He’s probably, like, one of the strongest leaders anywhere in the world. He’s the leader of Turkey. 24 October 2023 in "Trump praises Hungary’s ‘Viktor Orbán’ as great ‘leader of Turkey’", Politico November 2023 We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our Country, lie, steal, and cheat on Elections, and will do anything possible, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America, and the American Dream. The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave, than the threat from within. Despite the hatred and anger of the Radical Left Lunatics who want to destroy our Country, we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! "The “Is Donald Trump a Fascist?” Debate Has Been Ended—by Donald Trump", The Nation (November 14, 2023) December 2023 Sean Hannity: Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody? Donald Trump: Except for day one. Sean Hannity: Except for— Donald Trump: [aside to audience, pointing at Sean] He's doing great. [to Sean] Except for day one. I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill. We love this guy. He says, "You’re not going to be a dictator, are ya?" I said: "No, no, no, other than day one. We're closing the border, and we're drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I'm not a dictator." 5 December 2023 in Davenport, Iowa town hall, quoted in 2023-12-05 Trump to Hannity on Whether He’ll Abuse Power as President: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-hannity-iowa-town-hall-1234917385/ They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do.They're poisoning the blood of our country, that's what they've done.They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just to three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They're coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world. 16 December 2023 in Durham, New Hampshire rally, quoted in 2023-12-17 Trump says immigrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country.' Biden campaign likens comments to Hitler. NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-immigrants-are-poisoning-blood-country-biden-campaign-liken-rcna130141 ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS POISONING THE BLOOD OF OUR NATION 17 December 2023 per Alex Woodward article in The Independent on Trumps TruthSocial account after leaving New Hampshire 2024 January 2024 Even if you vote and then pass away, it's worth it. 14 January 2024 per Business Insider and CNN “We’re going to place strong protections to stop banks and regulators from trying to debank you from your—our political beliefs what they do. They want to debank you. We’re going to debank—think of this. They want to take away your country. Electric cars... They wanna take away your rights. They wanna take away your country. The things they’re doing. All electric cars. Give me a break. If you want an electric car, great. But they don’t go far. They’re very expensive. They gotta be made in China. That’s why I think I’m gonna get the autoworkers to vote for Trump. You know, we’re having great, great talks. But think of what they wanna do. They wanna take away your rights.” 17 January 2024 at a campaign rally in New Hampshire, reported by several sources.The Daily Beast 2024-01-21 2024-01-21 We Need an Interpreter to Work Out Trump’s ‘Debanking’ Rant The New Abnormal https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-debanking-rant-in-new-hampshire-and-electric-cars-makes-no-sensehttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/huh-trump-declares-they-wanna-de-bank-you-and-we-re-going-to-de-bank/ar-AA1n9KYV Huh? Trump Declares, ‘They Wanna De-Bank You and We’re Going to De-Bank’ Michael Luciano 2024-01-18 2024-01-21 Mediaite There is a great man, a great leader in Europe — Viktor Orban [...] He is the Prime Minister of Hungary. He is a very great leader, a very strong man. Some people don't like him because he's too strong. 20 January 2024 at a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, as cited in "Trump hails Hungarian PM Orban as 'great leader' and 'strong man', Yahoo! News, reproduced from The New Voice of Ukraine (21 January 2024) We have become a drug infested, crime ridden nation which is incapable of solvin’ even the sollest smallest problem. The simplest of problems, we can no longer solve. We can’t do anything. We are an institute in a powerful death penalty. We will put this on. "Trump utter's incoherent sentence about US not solving 'sollest smallest problem'", Indy 100 (January 23, 2024) You know, I had an uncle. He's the longest-serving professor, Doctor John Trump, in the history of MIT, with same genes—we have genes, we're smart people, we're smart people... We're like race—Mr. Lieutenant Governor—we're like racehorses, too. You know, the fast ones produce the fast ones, and the slow ones doesn't work out so well, right? But we're no different in that sense. January 2024 March 2024 There's a lot of good and there's a lot of bad with TikTok, but the thing I don't like is that without TikTok, you're going to make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people, along with a lot of the media. I'm not looking to make Facebook double the size. I think Facebook has been very bad for our country. 11 March 2024 per CBS article by Jacob Rosen They call it BleachBit, but it’s essentially acid that will destroy everything, you know, within ten miles. 13 March 2024 about a computer software program, quoted in "Trump STILL Seems to Think Hillary Clinton Used Acid to Delete Emails", The Daily Beast People who are coming from parts unknown, countries that you’ve never heard of. Languages that nobody in this country speaks. We don’t even have teachers of some of these languages. Who would think that we have languages that are like from the planet Mars? Nobody, nobody, knows how to, you know, speak it. 25 March 2024 "Donald Trump Dragged To The Moon Over New Interplanetary Dog Whistle", Huffington Post April 2024 I called [Bill Bar] him ‘Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy,Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate his wholehearted Endorsement, I am removing the word ‘Lethargic’ from my statement. 25 April 2024 per archive of The Gazette May 2024 These people are running a Gestapo administration,And it’s the only thing they have. And it’s the only way they’re going to win in their opinion. Once I got indicted, I said well, now the gloves have to come off,If you care too much, you tend to choke. And in a way, I don’t care. It’s just you know, life is life. 4 May 2024 per NBC writers Burns/Brooks/Sonnier/Gomez/Terkel We will make America powerful again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. We will make America great again! Presidential campaign slogans, Bronx, NY (25 May 2024) If he wins, our country is going to be destroyed. He’s a demented tyrant. Claimed about President of the United States of America Joe Biden, quoted in "The Politics of Fear Itself", The Atlantic (May 7, 2024) Our cities are choking to death. Our states are dying. And frankly, our country is dying. "The Politics of Fear Itself", The Atlantic (May 7, 2024) I have been indicted more than the great Al Capone, on bullshit. 11 May 2024 per InsiderNJ writer Max Pizarro Has anyone ever seen The Silence of the Lambs? The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He's a wonderful man. He oftentimes would have a friend for dinner. 11 May 2024 from a speech in Wildwood, N.J. per Washington Post, as cited 16 May 2024 in "When Donald Trump Met Hannibal Lecter", The New York Times I know we won (Minnesota) in 2020. We've got to be careful. We've got to watch those votes. 17 May 2024 during an address to the Minnesota Republican Party's annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner in St. Paul per Donald Trump falsely tells supporters he won Minnesota in 2020, USA Today Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after we win the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled, and we will restore, as we had just four years ago, peace through strength. They respected our country and they respected your President. 18 May 2024 in Dallas, Texas in speech to NRA aired on Fox, transcribed 20 May 2024 Trump had previously used the "before I even arrive at the Oval Office" phrase in #May 2023 and would again use it in Philadelphia the following month in #June 2024 And if you vote for me, on Day One, I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht 20 May 2024 (Saturday night) at Libertarian National Convention, reported in 25 May 2024 article by Peter Shaefer of Politico It boiled down to something that was very beautiful, the way it happened, and I got along with him very well.He respected me, I respected him.Very smart guy, very strong guy 28 May 2024 about Kim Jong-Un, dictator in North Korea, cited in "Watch: Trump’s Disgusting Praise for “Beautiful” Bond with Kim Jong Un", New Republic We have a country that’s in big trouble, but this was a rigged decision right from day one, with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case, And we’ll keep fighting we’ll fight till the end and we’ll win because our country has gone to hell. We don’t have the same country anymore. We have a divided mess. We’re a nation in decline, serious decline, millions and millions of people pouring into our country right now, from prisons and from mental institutions terrorists, and they’re taking over our country, real verdict would come in November. 30 May 2024 from Melissa Quinn of CBS and Ariana Baio of The Independent Our witnesses were literally crucified by this man who looks like an angel, but he is really a devil. 31 May 2024 tweet by Acyn shows footage of Trump saying this about Judge Juan Merchan, after Trump was found guilty in concealing payment of hush money to adult film performer Stormy Daniels, cited in "Social Media Mocks Trump's Claim That Trial Witnesses Were 'Literally Crucified'", Huffington Post (June 02, 2024) June 2024 Don’t forget, if it weren’t me, they’d be going after somebody else. And I know a lot of the competition, They wouldn’t be doing so well right now. They’d be saying, ‘Mommy, take me home, I want to go home. 2 June 2024 cited in Politico article by Mia McCarthy Wouldn't it be terrible to throw the President's wife and the former Secretary of State into jail? Wouldn't that be a terrible thing? But they wanna do it! It's a terrible, terrible, path that they're leading us to & it's very possible that it's going to have to happen to them. 5 June 2024 per NewsNationNow article by Brett Samuels of The Hill [Rachel Campos-Duffy:] Would you declassify the 9/11 files?[Donald Trump:] Yeah.[Campos-Duffy:] Would you declassify the JFK files?[Trump:] Yeah. I did a lot of it.[Campos-Duffy:] Would you declassify the Epstein files?[Trump:] Yeah. Yeah, I would. I guess I would. I think that less so because, you know, you don't know — you don't want to affect people's lives if it's phony stuff in there, because it's a lot of phony stuff with that whole world. During an appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend, quoted in Donald Trump ‘panics’ when asked if he'd declassify Epstein documents, netizens wonder ‘what is he afraid of?’ Hindustan Times (June 6, 2024) Those J6 warriors — they were warriors — but they were really, more than anything else, they’re victims of what happened... All they were doing is protesting a rigged election. That’s what they were doing. 9 June 2024 "Trump calls Jan. 6 defendants ‘warriors’" I don't care about you. I just want your vote. 10 June 2024 "Trump to Nevada: ’I Don't Care About You... I Just Want Your Vote’", Los Angeles Magazine So I said, ‘Let me ask you a question. Nobody ever asked this question. And it must be because of MIT. My relationship to MIT. Very smart. I say, What would happen if the boat sank from its weight? And you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater, and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there. By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately. You notice that? A lot of shark. I watch some guys justifying it today. ‘Well, they weren’t really that angry. They bit off the young lady’s leg because of the fact that they were — they were not hungry, but they misunderstood what - who she was.’ These people are crazy. ‘There’s no problem with sharks. They just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming. No really got decimated and other people too, a lot of shark attacks. So I said, ‘So there’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, 10 yards or here. Do I get electrocuted? If the boat is sinking, water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking. Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted? Or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted? ‘You know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.’ I said, ‘I think it’s a good question. I think there’s a lot of electric current coming through that water.’ But you know what I’d do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted? I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark! 10 June 2024 "Cognitive Decline? Trump Short-Circuits During Bonkers Rant", The New Republic before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after we win the presidency 22 June 2024 rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, quoted in a 2 July 2024 Politico article by Michael Hirsh Trump had previously used the phrase "before I even arrive at the Oval Office" in #March 2023, and also used it in a May 2024 speech to the NRA the previous month I'm not rambling. 23 June 2024 "'His brains are pudding': Internet mocks Trump for 'incoherent' defense of 'rambling' rant", MSN But I will tell you that would have never happened [if I was president]. Ukraine would have never happened. The israeli attack would have never happened and inflation would have never happened. Those are three big things. Inflation would have never happened.No, I wouldn't support a national ban [on abortion]. No, I would not. 20 June 2024 "In conversation with President Trump", on All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg, found on DeepCast I want you to remember what they did to me. They tortured me in the Fulton County Jail, and TOOK MY MUGSHOT. So guess what? I put it on a mug for the WHOLE WORLD TO SEE! 24 June 2024 "Trump Fundraising Email: I Was 'Tortured' in Jail", Newsmax If I took this shirt off, you would see a beautiful beautiful person. But you would see wounds all over. I’ve taken a lot of wounds I can tell you. More than I suspect any president ever. 24 June 2024 "Donald Trump Talks About Taking Off His Shirt To Show 'Wounds.' Internet Can't Even.", Yahoo News Israel is the one. And you should let them go and let them go finish the job. He doesn’t want to do it. He’s become like a Palestinian, but hey, don’t like him because he’s a very bad Palestinian. He’s a weak one. 27 June 2024 per The Hill article by Brett Samuels If we had a real president, a president that knew -- that was respected by Putin ... he would have never invaded Ukraine. 27 June 2024 debate with Joe Biden, cited 1 July 2024 by Edith Lederer I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he said either. About Joe Biden. Presidential debate, June 27, 2024 July 2024 I know nothing about Project 2025. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Claimed on July 5, 2024, quoted in: "Trump claims not to know who is behind Project 2025. A CNN review found at least 140 people who worked for him are involved", CNN (July 11, 2024) "Project 2025 Co-Author Says Donald Trump ‘Very Supportive Of What We Do’", Huffington Post (August 15, 2024) It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening...In this moment, it is more important than ever that we stand United, and show our True Character as Americans, remaining Strong and Determined, and not allowing Evil to Win 14 July 2024 per NDTV By luck or by God, many people are saying it’s by God I’m still here.The agents hit me so hard that my shoes fell off, and my shoes are tight.I had all prepared an extremely tough speech, really good, all about the corrupt, horrible administration. But I threw it away. I want to try to unite our country. 14 July 2024 cited by NY Post writer Michael Goodwin and Politico writer Isabella Ramirez Kamala even wants to pass laws to outlaw RED MEAT to stop climate change. You know what that means? That means no more cows. I guess eventually she’s gonna mean no more people. Right? No more people. Claimed on July 25, 2024, without providing evidence, quoted in "Fact check: ​​Kamala Harris does not want to ban red meat as Trump keeps falsely claiming", Yahoo News (August 1, 2024) And then the [Kamala Harris] campaign says, 'I'm the prosecutor and he is the convicted felon.' 25 July 2024 "Kamala Harris Uses 6-Second Clip Of Trump Telling The Truth About Her Campaign In New Ad—And It's Gold", Comic Sands They say something happened to me when I got shot. I became nice.If you don't mind, I'm not going to be nice. Is that okay?If border czar Harris is in charge, every week they'll bring in a neverending stream of illegal aliens, rapists, blood thirsty killers, child murderers to go after our sons and our daughters.Everything Kamala touches turns into a total disaster. 25 July 2024 claims about US Vice President Kamala Harris at a sports arena in Charlotte, cited in "Donald Trump turns his attention to 'radical left lunatic' Kamala Harris in first rally since Biden dropped out", Daily Mail We have a new victim now, Kamala. A brand new victim, and honestly she’s a radical left lunatic. When you find out about her, all I have to say is defund the police,Three months ago, she was thought of so badly, [the media] were just killing her. And now they’re trying to make her into a, let’s say, Margaret Thatcher. I don’t think so. It’s not going to happen. Margaret Thatcher didn’t laugh like that. Did she? 27 July 2024 in Politico article by Myah Ward I pledge to the bitcoin community, that the day I take the oath of office, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ anti-crypto crusade will be over. On day one, I will fire Gary Gensler. date unknown, Financial Times article You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians...I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote. 27 July 2024 in a speech to Turning Point Action in West Palm Beach, Florida, quote from the Reuters article "Trump tells Christians they won't have to vote after this election" by Tim Reid I thought she was a little younger, but she's 60 29 July 2024 about Kamala Harris, cited in "She'll 'destroy the country': Trump rambles about Kamala Harris in new Fox News interview", RawStory Kamala Harris was born 20 October 1964 so would not turn sixty until 20 October 2024, two weeks prior to the upcoming election - she was actually 59 years 9 months old when he said this I’m not so sure which is better. But she either likes or loves me. And that’s nice. 30 July 2024 about his wife Melania Trump, cited in "Trump thinks Melania ‘either likes or loves’ him following assassination attempt", Mercury News Perverts and losers 30 July 2024 describing members of the Lincoln Project, an organisation of moderate conservatives who oppose Trump and trumpism. Quoted in "Donald Trump Rages at Republicans Campaigning Against Him", Newsweek She doesn’t like Jewish people. You know it, I know it and everybody knows it and nobody wants to say it. 30 July 2024 claimed about US Vice President Kamala Harris, who is married to a Jewish husband. Quoted in "Trump claims Harris ‘doesn’t like Jews,’ seems to agree with calling her husband ‘a crappy Jew’", Times of Israel If you are Jewish, regardless of Israel, if you’re Jewish, if you vote for a Democrat, you’re a fool, an absolute fool. 30 July 2024 "Trump Agrees With Radio Host Who Calls Emhoff a ‘Crappy Jew’", The Daily Beast So I've known her a long time - indirectly, not directly very much - and she was always of Indian heritage. And she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black. And now she wants to be known as Black. So I don't know, is she Indian or is she Black? 31 July 2024 about Kamala Harris, whose mother was a biologist from India and father is an emeritus professor of economics at Stanford University, originating from Jamaica. Quoted in "‘All of a sudden': Trump tells Black journalists in Chicago Kamala Harris ‘turned Black'", NBC Chicago I don't want pronouns. 31 July 2024 "Donald Trump Gets Basic English Lesson After Ridiculous Comment About His ‘Pronouns’", Huffington Post / Yahoo Entertainment A Black job is anybody that has a job. 31 July 2024 "Trump questions if Harris is Black, downplays Vance pick at Black journalists convention", CNBC August 2024 That’s a weird deal going on there. They’re the weird ones. Nobody’s ever called me weird. I’m a lot of things, but weird I’m not.You notice the evening news, every one of them, you know, they introduced the word ‘weird’, and all of a sudden they’re talking about ‘weird’. No, we’re not weird people. We’re actually just the opposite. We’re right down the middle.No, we're not weird. We're very solid people. We want to have strong borders. We want to have good elections. They’re the weird ones. 1 August 2024 Time and "Donald Trump: Stop Calling Me and J.D. Vance ‘Weird’", The Daily Beast 24 HOURS UNTIL WE UNLEASH HELL. At this time tomorrow, Crooked Kamala’s worst nightmares come true.Tomorrow I step on stage and deliver Open Border Czar Kamala Harris the WORST defeat of her failed political career. 2 August 2024 campaign e-mail from Trump, cited in "Trump vows to ‘unleash hell’ on Harris at Atlanta rally", The Hill This one is so smart, so sharp. She grabbed me. She gave me a kiss. I said "I think I'm never going back home to the first lady." See now for the average politician, that's death. For me, I don't care. 4 August 2024 about Michaelah Montgomery at a rally in Georgia about an incident earlier in 2024, cited in "Trump's risqué remark to young activist who went viral for hugging him at Chick-fil-A after he invited her on stage at rally - as she makes VERY personal dig at Kamala", Daily Mail I’m for electric cars. I have to be, you know, because Elon endorsed me very strongly. So I have no choice. 5 August 2024 "Trump Says Electric Cars Are 'Fantastic' After Tesla CEO Elon Musk's Endorsement: 'I Have To Be, You Know… I Have No Choice'", Benzinga Kamabla Harris is afraid to Debate me on FoxNews 6 August 2024 cited in "Donald Trump’s ‘Pathetic’ New Way Of Attacking Kamala Harris Is Slammed Online", Yahoo News / Huffington Post What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE. He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!! 6 August 2024 Cited in "Donald Trump Suggests Biden May Try to 'Take Back The Nomination'", Newsweek Crazy Kamabla is, indeed, CRAZY. I HEAR THERE IS A BIG MOVEMENT TO “BRING BACK CROOKED JOE". 6 August 2024 Cited in "Trump shares outrageous Biden prediction in baffling Truth Social rant", Indy100 If you look at Caracas, it was known for being a very dangerous city and now it's very safe. In fact, the next interview we do, we'll do it in Caracas, Venezuela, because it's safer than many of our cities. 6 August 2024 "Trump Says Caracas Is 'Safer Than Many of Our Cities'", Miami New Times I heard she's sort of a nasty person.She doesn't do interviews 'cause she can't answer questions. 7 August 2024 about Vice President of the United States of America, Kamala Harris, cited in "Trump’s Latest Desperate Kamala Attacks Fall Hilariously Flat", The New Republic A ticket that would want this country to go communist immediately, if not sooner.We’re gonna be living like dogs. Our whole country, our whole system, is gonna collapse. 7 August 2024 about Tim Walz, cited in "Trump, on the selection of Walz: 'A ticket that would want this country to go communist immediately, if not sooner'", Voz (August 7, 2024) Kim Jong Un liked me a lot. He doesn't like this group [the Harris campaign] 8 August 2024 cited in "Trump Agrees to Debate Harris at Rambling Press Conference: How It Happened", New York Magazine I’ve spoken to the biggest crowds. Nobody’s spoken to crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther King when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people, if not we had more. And they said he had a million people, but I had 25,000 people.Nobody was killed on Jan. 6.The presidency was taken away from Joe Biden, and I’m no Biden fan, but I tell you what, from a constitutional standpoint, from any standpoint you look at, they took the presidency away.Twenty million people came over the border during the Biden-Harris administration — 20 million people — and it could be very much higher than that. Nobody really knows. 9 August 2024 quoted in "FACT FOCUS: A look at claims made by Trump at news conference", AP News Christie, he’s eating right now. He can’t be bothered.Sir, please do not call him a fat pig, that’s very disrespect.See, I’m trying to be nice. Don’t call him a fat pig. You can’t do that.I was extremely respectful of Sloppy Chris Christie today in New Hampshire. During a speech in front of a large crowd of Patriots, somebody shouted out that "Chris Christie is a fat pig." Rather than acknowleding that, which many speakers would have done, I said "No, No, he is not a fat pig." I'm sure Chris would have been very happy with my defense of him! 10 August 2024 Chris Christie, cited in "Trump Is Pretending He Didn’t Call Christie a ‘Fat Pig’", Intelligencer (August 10, 2024) Has anyone noticed that Kamala CHEATED at the airport? There was nobody at the plane, and she ‘A.I.’d’ it, and showed a massive ‘crowd’ of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST! 10 August 2024 cited in "Trump’s Latest Falsehood Is a Huge Tell", The Atlantic She’s a CHEATER. She had NOBODY waiting, and the ‘crowd’ looked like 10,000 people! Same thing is happening with her fake ‘crowds’ at her speeches. This is the way the Democrats win Elections, by CHEATING ‒ And they’re even worse at the Ballot Box. She should be disqualified because the creation of a fake image is ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Anyone who does that will cheat at ANYTHING!EVERYTHING ABOUT KAMALA IS FAKE! 12 August 2024, cited in "Trump blames Harris' crowds on AI, so let's all assume everything we don't like is fake!", USA Today The worst president in history. And one of the reasons he was so bad, first of all, the Israeli attack would have never happened. Russia would never have attacked Ukraine and we'd have no inflation. And we wouldn't have had the Afghanistan mess if you think of it.Now she's looking like she wants to be more Trump than Trump if that's possible.She wants to have open borders. And now she's going like she's tough on the border. It's such a lie. 12 August 2024 in TurboScribe article The ocean is going to rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years. 13 August 2024 about sea level rise, which is currently at 4 mm (5/32") per year with an accelerating trend. Quoted in "Trump revisits most divisive talking points in rambling interview with Musk", The Guardian The biggest threat is nuclear warming. 13 August 2024 quoted in "Trump revisits most divisive talking points in rambling interview with Musk", The Guardian "I said to Vladimir Putin, I said, 'Don't do it. You can't do it, Vladimir, you do it, it's going to be a bad day. You cannot do it.' And I told him things that what I do. And he said, 'No way.' And I said, 'way.' And, you know, it's the last time we ever had the conversation. 13 August 2024 in Politco article You’re the greatest cutter,...I need an Elon Musk — I need somebody that has a lot of strength and courage and smarts. I want to close up the Department of Education, move education back to the states. 13 August 2024 in AP News article Iran is no friend of mine, a lot of bad signals get sent.The reason is because I was strong on Iran and I was protecting people in the Middle East that maybe they aren’t so happy about that. 14 August 2024 per political article Kamala has declared that tackling inflation will be a Day One priority, but Day One for Kamala was 3½ years ago. Why hasn’t she done it? .‌‌.‌‌She's a critic. That's all she is. 14 August 2024 per NBC News article Can I hang our picture together in Mar-a-Lago?I’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO MEET YOU! Chris, can we take a picture during our all-expenses-paid trip together? I already have the PERFECT spot picked out in Mar-a-Lago to show it off! MEET TRUMP! ENTER TO WIN 14 August 2024 mass E-mail sent out to a large number of people. "Can I hang our picture together in Mar-a-Lago?", PoliticalEmails.com (August 14, 2024) "Trump Goes TOTALLY NUTS as his ENTIRE LIFE COLLAPSES", MeidasTouch (August 14, 2024) Miriam, I watched (Sheldon Adelson, her late husband) sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian, it’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version. It’s actually much better, because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor – that’s soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead. She gets it and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman, and they’re rated equal. 15 August 2024 Trump says civilian award is ‘much better’ than Medal of Honor We’re talking about a thing called the economy.We’re doing this as an intellectual speech.We literally are a third world nation, we literally are a third-world nation. We’re a banana republic in so many ways, and we’re not going to let that happen because we’re starting a free fall.For nearly four years Kamala has crackled as the American economy has burned.What happened to her laugh? I haven’t heard that laugh in about a week. That’s why they keep her off the stage, that’s why she has disappeared.That’s the laugh of a crazy person, I will tell you. She’s crazy.Incompetent socialist lunatic.Kamabla.Rape and murder, rape and beatings, rape and something else, and sometimes just immediate killing. These people are brutal. These are people that came out of the toughest jails anywhere in the world from all over the world, and we can’t take them. 16 August 2024 per "Trump's North Carolina speech went predictably off the rails. Can he even spell 'economy'?", USA today I think I’m entitled to personal attacks.Now you’ll say he ranted and raved […] I’m a very calm person, believe it or not. 16 August 2024 from "Trump’s fury over Harris’ switch with Biden is increasingly driving his campaign", CNN She actually called me ‘weird. And she called JD and I ‘weird.’ He’s not weird, he was a great student at Yale.We have this guy that’s running a failed, really a very failed state who’s had a terrible career. I mean you have him saying, ‘They’re weird.’ No, he’s a weird guy, and she’s weird in her policy. 16 August 2024 claim about Vice President of the USA Kamala Harris and Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz, quoted in "Trump Denies He And JD Vance Are Weird In The Weirdest Way Possible", Yahoo News / Huffington Post I watched Sheldon sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom.That's the highest award you can get as a civilian.It's the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version.It's actually much better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they're soldiers.They're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets or they are dead.She gets it and she's a healthy, beautiful woman.And they're rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom. "Trump says Medal of Freedom "equivalent" to and "much better" than Medal of Honor, sparking backlash from veterans" CBS News (August 16, 2024) Kamala will implement SOVIET Style Price Controls. EVERY American will be taxed up to 80% of their income!If Kamala is elected and implements her Communist Price Caps, there will be famine, starvation, and poverty, the likes of which we have never seen. America will NEVER recover!Kamala Harris wants to raise your taxes and make you pay for free healthcare and free housing in luxury hotels for her millions of illegal aliens. 16 August 2024 quoted in "Donald Trump rants that 'famine' will come to America if Kamala Harris is elected", RawStory Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down, and we will make America affordable again. 17 August 2024 At a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, quoted in Trump claims he's 'better looking,' continues personal attacks toward Harris ABC News I am much better looking than her. I’m a better looking person than Kamala.I say that I’m much better looking than her. I had never heard that one. They said her biggest advantage was that she’s a beautiful-looking woman. Ha. I’d never thought of that.I said, who am I running against, Harris? I said, ‘Who the hell is Harris?'Joe Biden hates her.They will say he’s rambling. I don’t ramble. I’m a really smart guy, 18 August 2024 per "Trump: ‘I’m Better Looking than Kamala—and Don’t Say I Ramble’", The Daily Beast You know, he said we’re weird. That J.D. and I are weird. I think we’re extremely normal people. We’re like you, we’re exactly like you.He [Tim Walz] is weird. Did you ever see him go on the stage and go, like, crazy? Between his movement and her laugh, there’s a lot of crazy. I’d say a step further than weird, weird is a nice word by comparison. 19 August 2024 to a small crowd in York, Pennsylvania, quoted in "Trump Insists He’s “Extremely Normal” During Incredibly Weird Speech", Yahoo News / The New Republic Prices will come down. You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything…. Prices will come down and come down dramatically and come down fast. 20 August 2024 from a recent speech in Asheville, North Carolina, quoted in Trump promises to make prices plunge again. That’s a dangerous proposal CNN You can’t walk across the street to get a loaf of bread. You get shot, you get mugged, you get raped, you get whatever it may be. 21 August 2024 at a rally in Howell, Michigan, quoted in "Trump's Latest Claim About Crime Is A Real Doozy", Yahoo News / Huffington Post That was a coup, it was a vicious violent overthrow of a president of the United States. 20 August 2024 about Joe Biden pulling out of the 2024 presidential election, quoted in "Trump Counters DNC With Rally In Michigan - "That Was A Coup"", KTRH Local Houston and Texas News We have a fool as a president. 20 August 2024 cited in "Trump Counters DNC With Rally In Michigan - "That Was A Coup"", KTRH Local Houston and Texas News I think that women living in the suburbs—I keep hearing about ‘the suburban woman doesn’t like Trump,’ well, I think it’s a fake poll because why wouldn’t they like me? I keep the suburbs safe. 202 August 2024 during a rally in a garage in Howell, Michigan, quoted in "Trump Derails Weird Speech on Crime to Complain Women Hate Him", New Republic We're going to bring up electronics too. Electronics. We buy everything away. When you see the sophistication of the product I just saw at this place, electronics is peanuts. 20 August 2024 in "Thanks, Joe. We won't forget who was POTUS in 2020", Daily Kos Our primary focus is not to get out the vote, it is to make sure they don’t cheat. We have all the votes we’ll need. You can see it ... every house along the way has signs: Trump, Trump, Trump, Vance, Trump, Vance. 20 August 2024 in "Trump says his focus is ensuring Democrats 'don't cheat,' not voter turnout — echoing efforts to undermine election", NBC News There will be no future under Comrade Kamala Harris, because she will take us into a Nuclear World War III , She will never be respected by the Tyrants of the World! 23 August 2024 in "Harris’s convention speech sparks live rant from outraged Trump", The Guardian My Administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights. 23 August 2024 Truth Social Kamala Harris is the weakest presidential candidate in history on crime.She’s allowed millions of people to pour through our borders, many from prisons, mental institutions and, indeed, terrorists, coming in at levels never seen before.What gives her the right to run for president?She got no votes to Biden’s fourteen million.She failed in her previous attempt, was the first one out of twenty-two people to quit, never made it to Iowa, and now she’s a presidential candidate?This is a threat to democracy! "'What gives her the right to run?' Trump launches overnight tirade at Kamala Harris", RawStory (August 24, 2024) The truth is, they’re trying to get out of it because she doesn’t want to debate. She’s not a good debater, she’s not a smart person. She doesn’t want to debate. 26 August 2024 in response to the Harris campaign‘s demand that their September 10th debate occur without muted microphones; in "Trump says Harris ‘trying to get out of’ debate over unmuted microphones demand" 15 stunning all-new digital trading cards, it's really something. These cards show me dancing, even holding some BitCoins! "Trump revives widely mocked digital trading cards as Harris gains in polls", RawStory (August 27, 2024) The Harris/Biden administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating job statistics to hide the true extent of the economic ruin that they’ve inflicted on America, Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the administration padded the numbers with an extra, listen to this one, 818,000 jobs that don’t exist. "Donald Trump falsely claimed that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris manipulated job data", Poynter (August 27, 2024) I think to a certain extent it’s Biden’s fault and Harris’s fault. And I’m the opponent. Look, they were weaponizing government against me, they brought in the whole DOJ to try and get me, they weren’t too interested in my health and safety,They’re saying I’m a threat to democracy,They would say that, that was standard line, just keep saying it, and you know that can get assassins or potential assassins going. That’s a terrible thing … Maybe that bullet is because of their rhetoric. With "dr Phil" "Trump, without evidence, in part faults Biden, Harris for assassination attempt", Washington Post (August 28, 2024) Well, I think the six-week (ban) is too short. It has to be more time. So…and I’ve told them that, I want more weeks. I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks…. I believe in exceptions for life of the mother, —if you look— incest, rape. 29 August 2024 when asked how he was going to vote on the Florida amendment to overturn the six-week ban on abortion; in "Trump says he wants to make IVF treatments paid for by government or insurance companies if elected" I’m announcing today in a major statement that under the Trump administration, your government will pay for — or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for — all costs associated with IVF treatment. Because we want more babies, to put it nicely. 30 August 2024 in 'We want more babies': Trump promises free IVF treatments amid abortion rights debate, says 'US government will pay' - But how? I’ll be voting ’no’ for that reason“’No’ on (Florida) Amendment 4?”For that reason because it‘s radical. You talk about radical. Doing an abortion in the ninth month is unacceptable to anybody…. There‘s something in between, but the six (weeks) is too short, it‘s just too short a period and the nine months is unacceptable…. But for that reason, for the radicalization on the Democrats side, we‘re voting ’no’.“…Would you veto a federal abortion ban?”I‘m not going to have to think about it because it‘s working out so well right now. The states are doing it. It‘s a states issue…. Well, what‘s happening is you‘re never going to have to do it because it‘s being done by the states. The states are voting. And the people are now getting a chance to vote and this is the way everybody wanted it. 30 August 2024 when asked about how he would vote on the Florida abortion amendment in the upcoming election in Pro-lifers blast Trump 'betrayal' with shifting abortion stance, answer on Florida Amendment 4 It’s crazy. Our country is being poisoned, and your schools and your children are suffering greatly because they’re going into the classrooms, they’re taking the seats and they don’t even speak English. 30 Aug 2024 quoted in Washington Times article by Ali Swenson and Will Weissert If you look at Kamala and you look at what she’s done to every place she’s touched has turned to s**t. Every single place she’s touched. I have to say, it. Every place she’s touched, you know? "Melania’s plea for Trump to control his swearing flops as he tears into Harris at rally", Yahoo News / Independent (August 31, 2024) I don’t need publicity. I get a lot of publicity. I would like to get a lot less publicity.I would hire a public relations agent to get less publicity. "Trump denies exploiting visit to US soldiers’ graves: ‘I don’t need publicity’", The Guardian (August 31, 2024) Now, they have Kamala who has many deficiencies, but she's a nasty person. The way she treated Mike Pence was horrible. The way she treats people is horrible. 31 August 2024 Donald Trump Saying Kamala Harris Was 'Horrible' to Mike Pence Mocked September 2024 you take a look at Venezuela as an example, the crime is down 72% because they've taken their criminals from Caracas, they've taken their drug dealers. They're emptying their prisons into our country "Crime Drop in Venezuela Does Not Prove Trump’s Claim the Country Is Sending Criminals to U.S.", FactCheck.org (June 14, 2024) I think you believe [in God] more, because when you speak to experts, like my sons who are shooting experts. But when you speak to experts, they said there was no chance that he could have missed from that distance....I think you think like, if you believe in God, you believe in God more. And somebody said like, why? And I’d like to think that God thinks that I’m going to straighten out our country. Our country is so sick and it’s so broken. Our country is just broken. And maybe that was the reason, I don’t know. I don’t know, a lot of people have said that. Speaking about assassination attempt on July 14, 2024, in interview on Fox News “Life, Liberty & Levin”, quoted in "Trump: ‘I’d like to think that God thinks that I’m going to straighten out our country’", The Hill YouTube interview (September 1, 2024) You just cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. But I will say this: If they do have a nuclear weapon, Israel is gone. "Trump says if Iran gets a nuke, 'Israel will be gone'", Iran International (September 1, 2024) Whoever heard you get indicted fo