Best 722 quotes in «trump quotes» category

the stories that produced [Trump] were always contested. There were always other stories, ones that insisted that money is not what’s valuable, and that all of our fates are intertwined with one another and with the health of the natural world… while Trump is the logical culmination of the current neoliberal system, the current neoliberal system is not the only logical culmination of the human story

The strangest thing about fascism in America today is that American facists are so dumb, they don't even know they're fascists. They don't even know what the word fascism means. They vaguely know that it had something to do with Hitler and the Nazis, but that's it. They have no idea that the first words of the Nazi anthem were "Germany above all else" which was their version of "America first." And the way Nazis demonized jews was no different than the way American fascists demonize liberals. Hitler promised to "make Germany great again." And Hitler denounced the newspapers, which exposed him for what he really was, as "Lügenpresse," which is German for "fake news." If the German Nazi party still existed today, they would look exactly like the Republican party under Trump. Hitler's rallies looked no different than Trump's rallies. And Hitler would absolutely love a well-oiled propaganda outlet like Fox News.

The Trump administration would do well to hire some fiction writers. Those of us who write horror are the cons. Those writing any other genre are the pros. Either way, we know how the story will end.

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion.

The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people.

The United States is extremely lucky that no honest, charismatic figure has arisen. Every charismatic figure is such an obvious crook that he destroys himself, like McCarthy or Nixon or the evangelist preachers. If somebody comes along who is charismatic and honest this country is in real trouble because of the frustration, disillusionment, the justified anger and the absence of any coherent response. [Chomsky in an interview with Chris Hedges in 2010]

The United States was no longer the overwhelming military power in the world, no longer sure of never losing wars. no longer confident of having learned how to maintain employment and to check inflation, no longer reveling in resource independence, technological supremacy, favorable exchange rates, and the privileged life abroad. (xiii)

The ultimate vote of confidence in the Boeing 737 Max would be for the USA government to buy one to fly president Trump everywhere in it.

The White House says that the FBI has an "extreme bias" against Donald Trump..... or as the FBI calls it: "Evidence!

THE WISER I GET.... THE LESS I SPEAK, THE MORE I THINK AND THE MORE THOUGHTFUL MY WORDS BECOME" ~QWANA M. "BABYGIRL" REYNOLDS-FRASIER

The winning candidate, now the president elect, calls for rapid increase in use of fossil fuels, including coal; dismantling of regulations; rejection of help to developing countries that are seeking to move to sustainable energy; and in general, racing to the cliff as fast as possible. Trump has already taken steps to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by placing in charge of the EPA transition a notorious (and proud) climate change denier, Myron Ebell. Trump's top adviser on energy, billionaire oil executive Harold Hamm, announced his expectations, which were predictable: dismantling regulations, tax cuts for the industry (and the wealthy and corporate sector generally), more fossil fuel production, lifting Obama's temporary block on the Dakota Access pipeline. The market reacted quickly. Shares in energy corporations boomed, including the world's largest coal miner, Peabody Energy, which had filed for bankruptcy, but after Trump's victory, registered a 50 percent gain.

They might watch American movies, wear American clothes, even read American books but Bush and the Iraq War have made actual American people social lepers; she only has to open her mouth in some places to feel a wave of loathing directed at her. Katie is weary of pointing out that at least half her countrymen detest their President even more than Europe does, but it’s no good.

They will not be identical unless by chance: human prediction about other humans is not good enough. Why that is sometimes hard for readers inexperienced in government to see, I cannot tell (xvi).

Throughout an erratic campaign, Trump consistently blasted political correctness, blaming it for an extraordinary range of ills and using the phrase to deflect any and every criticism.

This is what we get for thinking that scaley orange skin and fake hair could keep that former demon out of elected office.

Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy—not that this is the intention of the generality of them. Yet it would not be difficult to lay the finger upon some of their party who may justly be suspected. When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion—to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may “ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.

To my friends in Iran, I apologize for President Trumps aggressiveness. I have it assessed as the nasty side effects of billionaire white privilege.

To be fair, any condemnation of the worst parts of human nature is going to read as a veiled criticism of Trump

Trump is a counter-product of the traditional political scheme.

Trump is not a president who got caught in a lie — he is a mobster who got caught being president.

Trump isn’t the first wannabe dictator who accused the press of being fake news and the enemy of the people. Hitler called the press Lügenpresse, which is German for fake news.

Trump said that he wrote many books. It’s not called “writing” when someone else writes it for you. Just like it’s not called “winning an election” when another country steals it for you!

Trump's defense is in his tweets. Insanity.

Trump's most fanatic supporters will never admit that he is anything less than the Second Coming of Christ, because it is much easier to brainwash someone into being a zealot than it is to make a zealot realize he has been brainwashed.

Trump voters hate my books. They can't stand it when a book makes them think.

Trump didn't want to win the election. He wanted to use the platform to boost his brand. Russia wanted him to win the election. Russia succeeded, and Trump continues to use his platform to boost his brand.

Trump's MAGA minions live in a Fox News bubble.

...Trump could bring Trumpism down...

Trump didn't divide America. He just doused us with gasoline and fanned the flames.

Trump is what happens when a Presidential candidate isn’t pushed hard enough to release his tax returns. If he did, all this corruption would have been exposed before the election.

Trump’s ridiculousness, his narcissistic ability to make everything about himself, the outrageousness of his lies, and the profundity of his ignorance can easily distract attention from the more lasting implications of his story: how easily Republicans in Congress enabled him, undermining the whole concept of checks and balances set in place by the founders; how a third of the country passively accepted his assaults on the Constitution; how easily Russian disinformation took root in a culture where the teaching of history and civics had seriously atrophied.

Trump/Russia is Far Worse Than Watergate. It’s basically Watergate on Russian-made steroids. That would also help explain Trump’s man-boobs and crazy mood swings.

Trump will fuck with the Democrats and nominate for Supreme Court a covert right-leaning man or woman African American, Hispanic, Muslim, or, quite probably a bona fide centrist, President Obama's pick- Merrick Brian Garland. Oh, who am I kidding? He's not that smart.

We are not profiling Trump, I mean Donald Trump supporters, we do not, I repeat see racists or in them some potential terrorists. That is just absurd - yes some absurd, ridiculous presumptions'. They have a right to exercise their franchise and they're better citizens because of that. We all want similar end, the same end, but maybe different means and I am not saying the means don't matter or ain't critical - but we can't say they are all misogynistic, racists or averse to Islam or the beautiful Muslims in our communities- hold on, hold on please, I'm coming to that - we won't say because you voted Trump, you are ineligible to work in our company or your values are not in synchronization with ours, we can't do this, we can't come that low to start to say because you voted Trump, we can't put you in dire positions where crafty decision making skills are required, yes a child won't be rebuked because of his parents decision to have voted Trump, we won't say a parent capable, capable of that decision must have brought up a child submerged in hatred, yes they want guns, that is why a minute number is voting for him but of coz we have always wanted guns to protect ourselves from some not only disoriented Muslims or an irrepressible libido maniac or of some black thugs whose looks threatens our safety, the safety of our daughters, or even some trespassers - we do need gun, we have hunters too- or for some who the health system has failed. And no, it is absolutely, absolutely ridiculous to say- because they do not want their jobs taken by migrants or that they are founded in the superiority of one color over another, these are serious concerns, businesses we mustn't forget - this people spoke out, voted out- of, from a concern for a safer nation, for a better tomorrow - not only for ourselves but for tomorrow.

Until I see President Trump routinely flying on a Boeing 737 Max, I will be avoiding it.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is the President of Russia and the United States of America.

We all cope with fear and uncertainty differently. A great many conservatives are dealing with their fears about a changing and destabilizing world by attempting to force back the clock. But if the Right specializes in turning backward, the Left specializes in turning inward and firing on each other in a circular hail of blame.

Well, you know, I love to read. Actually, I'm looking at a book, I'm reading a book, I'm trying to get started.

We elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges.

We teach our kids not to lie. We teach them not to cheat. Why the hell do some of us still support a President who goes against everything we want in our own kids? Your kids will one day see your hypocrisy.

We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.

When all is said and done, Donald Trump will make History completely forget about Richard Nixon.

What if Melania is a Red Sparrow?

When I see President Obama and President Trump criticizing each other, I see two crooked actors spewing nonsense.

When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of "greatness." "Greatness," it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the "great" man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a "great" man can be blamed. "C'est grand!"* say the historians, and there no longer exists either good or evil but only "grand" and "not grand." Grand is good, not grand is bad. Grand is the characteristic, in their conception, of some special animals called "heroes." And Napoleon, escaping home in a warm fur coat and leaving to perish those who were not merely his comrades but were (in his opinion) men he had brought there, feels que c'est grand, and his soul is tranquil. peating: "Sublime! Grand! Napoleon le Grand!" Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.("From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.") And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness. For us with the standard of good and evil given us by Christ, no human actions are incommensurable. And there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.

When it comes to established environmental science, President Trump is like a bull in a china shop.

WHEN PEOPLE SHOW YOU THEIR TRUE COLORS, DON'T GO COLOR BLIND

When Putin or any wealthy corrupted dictator can decide who is the US President, while Obama or the regular democratic authorities don't have the same power to decide who is the Russian or Chinese president, then the problem is not about Donald Trump, not about The Person,rather it is structural gap related to the Democracy and Dictatorship in deep substance and concept, and should be discussed, reflected, thought, spoke and solved from this very respect, not from drawing daily cartoons for Trump's hairstyle!

When words lose their meaning and their capacity to bind those who use them, neither democracy nor the rule of law can long survive.