Donald Trump Quotes

“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
― Kamand Kojouri

“A little stupid is like a little forest fire. If you happen upon some stupid, please stomp it out before it spreads.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle, Horse Latitudes

“I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.”
― Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal

“Trump’s America is not America: not today’s or tomorrow’s, but yesterday’s.

Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation.

And that is a vision of America that most of the people in this country cannot and will not abide.”
― Charles M. Blow

“The reality was that the United States in 2017 was tethered to the words and actions of an emotionally overwrought, mercurial and unpredictable leader. Members of his staff had joined to purposefully block some of what they believed were the president’s most dangerous impulses. It was a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world.”
― Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

“Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile.”
― Wynne McLaughlin

“It's a blip, not a catastrophe.”
― Donald Trump

“When you walk in distinction, even the photocopying machine can’t replicate your unique quality.”
― Onyi Anyado

“It turned out that in the governance of a nation’s security, many absurd situations had to be worked around: a toxic clown in the Foreign Office [Boris Johnson], a state visit by a narcissistic bed-wetter [Trump], the tendency of the electorate to 'jump off' the occasional cliff [Brexit].”
― Mick Herron, Joe Country

“which will lead to even more of them despairing at the future and what with the planet about to go to shit with the United Kingdom soon to be disunited from Europe which itself is hurtling down the reactionary road and making fascism fashionable again and it’s so crazy that the disgusting perma-tanned billionaire has set a new intellectual and moral low by being president of America and basically it all means that the older generation has RUINED EVERYTHING and her generation is doooooomed”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“When Trump called Mexicans “rapists” in the speech announcing his candidacy on June 16, 2015, Priebus called him and said, “You can’t talk like that. We’ve been working really hard to win over Hispanics.”
― Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

“Our president looks like a Christmas ham and talks like Chucky. We're America, bitch.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“Resistance isn’t enough. If we want change, we have to get out the vote.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Donald Trump is a liar because he is a coward. It is fear and cowardice that make him lie. it is his fragile ego that makes him lie.”
― Gizmo, The Puzzled Puppy, What Donald Trump Supporters Need to Know: But Are Too Infatuated to Figure Out

“Despite almost daily reports of chaos and discord in the White House, the public did not know how bad the internal situation actually was. Trump was always shifting, rarely fixed, erratic. He would get in a bad mood, something large or small would infuriate him, and he would say about the KORUS trade agreement, “We’re withdrawing today.”
― Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

“The ability of a free and independent press to hold political leaders accountable is what makes open government possible—it is the heartbeat of democracy. Trump is intent on stilling, or slowing down, that heartbeat. This is a gift to dictators, and coming from a chief executive of the United States, cause for shame.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

“Conway agreed with Bannon that if the Trump campaign could make the race about Hillary, not Trump, they would win with those hidden Trump voters. If the race stayed about Trump, “we’ll probably lose.”
― Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

“The problems that had been Obama's problems for the past eight years were about to become Trump's problems. But his people didn't seem to want to know about them.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk

“Yet behind all of the populist hot air, and the big shot persona, is a man who is very cunning. As a real estate mogul worth billions, a man like Donald Trump knows how to relate to an audience better than a politician. He has to as each transaction he is working on can increase his personal wealth. Moreover, he doesn’t have the time to make the connections while trying to close a deal that an average politician does. He has to, as a salesman, become expert at being a “five minute friend”. Every move has to count in building a credible connection that will get him to, and beyond, the closing table.”
― Robert Montgomerie

“For Mr. Trump, though, bringing in Mr. Bannon was the political equivalent of ordering comfort food.” Bannon tried to sit down with Trump and walk him through refinements of the strategy and how to focus on particular states. The candidate had no interest in talking about it.”
― Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

“If I had to describe the interpersonal relationship between Donald Trump and me in a few words, I’d say we’re opposites that attract—or maybe similars that repel. Either way, it’s a very complicated relationship. Because however much we disagree ideologically and politically, when it comes to all the little choices and quirks that make up every person’s special sauce of life, far removed from partisan politics and religious affinities, POTUS and I turn out to be terrifyingly similar. Just like my orange doppelganger, I always launch into things with huge enthusiasm and verve, but very soon lose interest. And just like him, yours truly favors spontaneity and last-minute decisions, even with things other people prefer to plan ahead, like, say, war with Iran or where to have Passover dinner. And we both love this freedom so much that we’re willing to pay a heavy price for it, whether that means offending our brother-in-law or tolerating sky-high gas prices. But the greatest similarity between Trump and me might be that when our feelings are hurt and we reach the boiling point, we’re both capable of using harsh words that we later regret (or not).

Another curious parallel: just like The Donald, I married a very beautiful woman who thinks I talk too much, and I, too, have a young son who is a head taller than me and barely glances in my direction.”
― Etgar Keret

“Donald Trump’s economic policies are geared toward enriching White male power—but at the expense of most of his White male followers, along with the rest of us.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“It’s long past overdue for the free press to stop ignoring the elephant in the room: What is increasingly obvious and is being discussed in bars, cafes, and universities around the world — in Trump, the United States of America has an unabashed fascist as president.”
― Bill Madden

“A Trump rally is where feeble-minded people congregate to escape their conscience.”
― Bill Madden

“Even the ill-gotten billions reaped over decades from extortion, assassinations, and rackets by New York City’s Five Mafia Families pale in comparison to the trillions in economic devastation — from ballooning national debt to household-crushing tariffs — and the deliberate erosion of laws, the Constitution, and democratic institutions inflicted on America by Trump across his terms. This isn’t a U.S. presidency; it’s a mob boss running a criminal enterprise out of the White House.”
― Bill Madden

“Ever since the campaign of businessman Donald Trump began in 2015, I had tried to ignore what was happening. Mentally, as things got worse, I clung faithfully to the previous picture of Barack Obama and his family. I tried to accept the illogical logic of America, the logic telling me that despite all that I’d read in the historical archives, things had changed for the better; that the presidential administration of Donald Trump was a hiccup.

After all, I’d believed that the election of Barack Obama in 2008 would change five centuries of American history. And so had my mother. And so had so many other African Americans. I’d believed in that change in his first term.

My letting go of the fantasy was gradual. Bits and pieces of trust died off, and after January 6, 2021, my fantasy was completely dead.”
― Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings – A Personal and Historical Exploration of Black Women's Journeys Through Intersectionality

“You could have written one term of Donald Trump off as an anomaly, but the second time around everybody knew who he was. And I think we'd just be so foolish to think that we can move on as a country by just winning another election. I think we'd make such a mistake if we didn't as a country really think hard about what is broken in America and how both parties contributed to breaking a country that used to care more about the "we" than the "me.”
― Chris Murphy

“Love how "Trump says X" is taken as proof of anything other than proof he's speaking.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“The Trumpian lie is different. It is the power lie, or the bully lie. It is the lie of the bigger kid who took your hat and is wearing it--while denying that he took it. There is no defense against this lie because the point of the lie is to assert power, to show 'I can say what I want when I want to.' The power lie conjures a different reality and demands that you choose between your experience and the bully's demands: Are you going to insist that you are wet from the rain or give in and say that the sun is shining?”
― Masha Gessen