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Quotes About Trump

Trump did extremely well with voters that some analysts have called 'white trash', the pejorative epithet frequently used to describe poor white people throughout history. It was a cry for survival based on the only thing they had a handle on: being white
~ Manuel Castells
Trump responded to all this with scorn, lies and personal attacks, establishing a whole new means of presidential communication: governance by Twitter.
~ Manuel Castells
All you need to know about Donald Trump is he loves his family and he loves this country. And he's going to be a great president of the United States.
~ Mike Pence
Nunes's once-promising career in Congress had been given over fully to being a house organ for Trump.
~ Mark Leibovich
GOP voters were the opposite of Trump's kryptonite; they were his superpower.
~ Mark Leibovich
Empathy, he finally assured me, "will be one of the strongest things about Trump. "When I'm in that position," he continued, "when we have horrible hurricanes, all kinds of horrible things happen, you've got to have empathy." Trump then returned to watching himself on the flat screen.
~ Mark Leibovich
His epic career of ups and downs, feuds, outrages, and swift descent into shamelessness and desperation made Giuliani the master creature of the Trump Swamp.
~ Mark Leibovich
This Republican party dances to whatever tunes come into Mr. Trump's head," wrote Edward Luce of the Financial Times.
~ Mark Leibovich
Trump did not come close to passing muster with the Membership. He was, for starters, not considered sufficiently solvent or transparent to proffer a serious bid. Football owners, as it turns out, get a much closer look at a candidate's finances than electorates do.
~ Mark Leibovich
Rubio became just another dispiriting casualty of Trump's moral slaughter of the Republican Party. He was another in the parade of leaders willing to discard every principle they once held for the purpose of staying in office.
~ Mark Leibovich
Trump was correct in his original assessment of so many Republican "leaders." They have proven to be weak, conniving, and two-faced cowards. They fear Trump as much as they despise him. They fear his (and their own) voters as much as they have contempt for them. It
~ Mark Leibovich
Bottom line: any ambivalence Graham had over Trump's conduct (for example, for trashing his best friend to the grave and beyond) was eclipsed by his desperation to remain a U.S. senator.
~ Mark Leibovich
Far from being a line of demarcation against Trump, January 6 would result in a rehabilitation of the former president that would propel a narrative of denial, lies, and autocratic intolerance of dissent that has become the hallmark of the GOP.
~ Mark Leibovich
For the first time in living memory, we liberals have no ideological adversary worthy of the name. So it is crucial that we look beyond Trump.
~ Unknown
Trump is only the most visible symptom of a disease that has long been sickening the country's blood - a rapidly metastasizing tumour of inequality, hyper-militarism, racism, surveillance, and fear that we might as well go ahead and diagnose a terminal-stage capitalism
~ Unknown
press has been campaigning alongside Democratic politicians, officials, consultants, and surrogates for President Trump's impeachment since even before his nomination.
~ Mark R. Levin
How Giuliani is not Trump's running mate no one will ever understand. Theirs is the most passionate love story since Beavis and Butthead.
~ Matt Taibbi
America has been trending stupid for a long time. Now the stupid wants out of its cage, and Trump is urging it on.
~ Matt Taibbi
Lots of people have remarked on the irony of this absurd caricature of a spoiled rich kid connecting so well with working-class America. But Trump does have something very much in common with everybody else. He watches TV. That's his primary experience with reality, and just like most of his voters, he doesn't realize that it's a distorted picture. If
~ Matt Taibbi
The Republicans already lost virtually the entire black vote (scoring just 4 percent and 6 percent of black voters the last two elections). Now, by pushing toward the nomination a candidate whose brilliant plan to "make America great again" is to build a giant wall to keep out Mexican rapists, they're headed the same route with Hispanics. That's a steep fall for a party that won 44 percent of the Hispanic vote as recently as 2004. Trump
~ Matt Taibbi
It was also the content. Trump sold hate, violence, xenophobia, racism, and ignorance, which oddly enough had long been permissible zones of exploration for American television entertainment. And the news media was becoming more and more indistinguishable from entertainment media. Meanwhile
~ Matt Taibbi
The final insult to all of this is that when Trump secured the nomination, media companies looked down at their bottom lines and realized that, via the profits they made during his run—Trump is "good for business," CBS president Les Moonves infamously confessed—they had been made accomplices to the whole affair. —
~ Matt Taibbi
Donald Trump, a man whose idea of policy is a big wall, was the Republican front-runner for months, and ceded the lead to a man who wants to fight immigrants with drones. This whole thing is a joke.
~ Matt Taibbi
Donald Trump, if elected, would find a way to turn being the president into a moneymaking operation. Sanders
~ Matt Taibbi