Mudline July 5, 2025
July 5, 2025
........Elon Musk on Big Beautiful Bill: "It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS, that we live in a one-party country -- THE PORKY PIG PARTY!"....Trump on Musk: "We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon."....Trump, asked if he would call Gov. Walz after shooting of representatives in MN: "Well, I may. He's a terrible governor and grossly incompetent but I may call him."....Garrison Keillor: "What sort of brain responds to that question with insults? Why not just say what you think, 'Those Democrats deserved to get shot.'"....Sen. Mike Lee, posting security cam photo of shooter: "This is what happens when Marxists don't get their way."...comments in Proud Boys chat, re immigrants: "Shoot one, the rest will go home." "Hang the traitors, expel the invaders."....former DOJ pardon attorney Liz Oyer: "Why do these people think it's okay to threaten political violence? Well, probably because Trump has been handing out pardons like candy to people who commit crimes in his name."....Laura Ingraham: "If you can't survive in business without hiring illegals, then you shouldn't be in business."....George Conway: "Pretending to be an ignorant and impulsive sociopath by appearing to make sh*t up as he goes along is just Donald Trump's way of playing 7,822-dimensional chess."....Trump: "Stupid AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the 'dumbest' people in Congress."....Trump on Fed Chair Jerome Powell: "He's a very average mentally person...Low IQ for what he does."....Trump: "AT&T is totally unable to make their [conference call] equipment work properly...AT&T obviously doesn't know what they're doing."....sign at demonstration: "Don't blame Trump. He did everything he could to prove he was unfit to be president."...Donald Trump Jr. on NY Dem primary winner Zohran Mamdani: "I'm old enough to remember when New Yorkers endured 9/11 instead of voting for it."....Mary Trump on Don Jr.: "A vile human being who's accomplished nothing in his meaningless, miserable little life."....WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Mamdani: "Is quite literally a communist, and condemns every value that makes this country great. Common sense, law and order, low taxes, working hard and earning your keep...He's against all of that."...Trump: "FAKE NEWS REPORTERS FROM CNN & NEW YORK TIMES SHOULD BE FIRED, IMMEDIATELY!!! BAD PEOPLE WITH EVIL INTENTIONS!!!"....Trump: "CNN is scum. MSDNC is scum. The New York Times is scum. They're bad people. They're sick."....Proud Boys on Trump attacking Iran: "F*ck this sh*t."....Tim Miller on Israel-Iran conflict: "I wish that a genocidal maniac was not leading Iran and that a corrupt, indiscriminate prime minister was not leading Israel and that a f*cking moron was not leading our country."....Kate Harding: "What haunts me is that I am just not smart enough for so many people to be this much stupider than I am."....Andy Borowitz: "Nothing damages the presidency more severely than the fact that Trump is president."...Dave Barry: "There's 23 million people in Florida, and is it fair to judge 23 million people because of the behavior of 21 million people?"....
