Quotes tagged ‘Trump Presidency’

“We can’t pretend that the Trump presidency is this weird anomaly that we can just kind of recover from by returning to the old normal. We are where we are because normal didn’t work.”

— Pete Buttigieg, newyorker.com

“Every day brings a new low, with the president exposing himself as a deliberate liar who will say whatever he pleases to get whatever he wants.”

— Andrew G. McCabe, theatlantic.com

“These are adults. Theoretically.”

— Frida Garza, theslot.jezebel.com

“I love Washington. I love to live there. And I made the White House home — for our son and my husband — and we love to live in the White House.”

— Melania Trump, abcnews.go.com

“Trump is with you.”

— Donald Trump, buzzfeednews.com

“The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.”

— Anonymous, nytimes.com

“Bring it.”

— Senator Cory Booker, msnbc.com

“The Conways, like the rest of the country, have been jolted by the Trump presidency. They love each other, are exasperated by each other, talk about each other behind each other’s backs.”

— Ben Terris, washingtonpost.com

“For almost 90 minutes Sunday morning, immigrants and those undocumented U.S. residents who were brought to the country as children could reasonably have thought that Donald Trump had wished them a happy Easter.”

— Alan Pyke, thinkprogress.org

“We're living in a different climate since Trump got into office. Pathological lying has been normalized and vulnerable groups of people are afraid of losing their rights. I feel like we are all at risk of losing certain rights.”

— Alice Glass, thump.vice.com

“This is what it looks like when the White House itself plays in these waters. It’s the stuff of petty strong-man dictatorships for the President to pronounce an individual guilty of a crime without having to proffer any evidence, offer a legal theory, or convince a jury.”

— Benjamin Wittes, Susan Hennessey, lawfareblog.com

“President Trump should open channels of communication with the North and dispatch a high-powered special envoy to Pyongyang. He also needs to have an inter-subjective understanding of North Korea, which is essential to trust-building, and to avoid the folly of demonizing the North.”

— Chung-in Moon, nti.org

“On the Hill, Donald Trump has far more people willing to sit to one side and not help him right now, and I think that he needs to recognize that he’s taken a good first step with bringing in General Kelly, but he needs to think about what has not worked. You don’t get down to 35 percent approval and…”

— Newt Gingrich, dailycaller.com

“Everything we are seeing stems almost inevitably from the decisions the country made, collectively, last November. We elected a President driven by white racial grievance. That is the fulcrum and driving force of his politics. It’s no surprise that a big outbreak of white supremacist violence would…”

— Josh Marshall, talkingpointsmemo.com

“We are appalled by this resurgence of bigotry and antisemitism, and the renewed vigor of the neo-Nazis, KKK, and alt-right. While we avoid politics, we are deeply troubled by the moral equivalency and equivocation President Trump has offered in his response to this act of violence.”

— Haskel Lookstein, Chaim Steinmetz, Elie Weinstock, nymag.com

“We can't imagine that as a Jewish woman, Ivanka Trump is not deeply disturbed by what happened in Charlottesville, and what continues to happen around the country.”

— Nancy Kaufman, cnn.com

“The very moral fabric in which we’ve made progress when it comes to race relations in America? He’s failed us, and it’s very unfortunate that our president would say things like he did in that press conference yesterday when he says, ‘There are good people on the side of the Nazis. They weren’t all…”

— Gianno Caldwell, thinkprogress.org

“The request from the DOJ demands that DreamHost hand over 1.3 million visitor IP addresses — in addition to contact information, email content, and photos of thousands of people — in an effort to determine who simply visited the website. (Our customer has also been notified of the pending warrant on…”

— Dreamhost, dreamhost.com

“The position of President Trump since he started his, the campaign for presidency till this moment is that the priority is to fight terrorism. And we agree – about this priority. That’s our position in Syria. The priority is to fight terrorism.”

— Bashar Al Assad, yahoo.com

“They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”

— Donald Trump, cnbc.com