Mudline January 30, 2026
January 30, 2026
........former Sen. Barbara Boxer on Trump: "He doesn't drink, but he is drunk on power. The people around him love power."....Minnesota ICE agent to unarmed observer: "You raise your voice, I erase your voice."....Trump on attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I think she's a fraud...She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her."....Rep. Randy Fine: "I want Ilhan Omar to be deported and denaturalized."....Trump: "Biden and his allies destroyed our economy."....Trump adviser Stephen Miller on ICU nurse Alex Pretti: "Assassin...Domestic terrorist...Tried to murder federal agents."....Sen. Chuck Schumer on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller: "F***ing liars."....Sen. Ruben Gallego on Miller: "Has turned ICE into a rogue agency, where his goons terrorize communities and cosplay as law enforcement."....Megyn Kelly: "I know I'm supposed to feel sorry for Alex Pretti but I don't. You know why I wasn't shot by Border Patrol this weekend? Because I kept my ass inside and out of their operations."....Andrew Sullivan on Kelly: "A cruel and sadistic human being."....Treasury Sec. Scott Bessant on Alex Pretti: "I've been to a protest. Guess what, I didn't bring a gun I brought a billboard."....Aaron Rupar on Trump's Davos speech: "Sounded like a fascist dictator suffering from a brain bleed."....Maureen Dowd on Trump: "The depth of his shallowness is infinite...Trump has made America un-American."....Trump on Somalia: "It's not a nation. Got no government, got no police, got no military, got no nothing."....Canadian columnist Robyn Urback: "How would Trump behave differently if he was legitimately losing his mind?"....Trump on Canada: "Gets a lot of freebies from us...Canada lives because of the United States."....David Rothkopf on Trump: "So profoundly ignorant of the Cold War era...He's destroying NATO from the inside out, in a way Putin could only have dreamed of."....Rickie Lee Jones: "[Trump's] takeover of the once free and wondrous Americas will end in his being escorted by armed guard out of the White House and into his helicopter and back to Russia."....Norm Ornstein: "Rubio's tombstone will read, 'I was only following orders.'"....ICE agent to Minnesota demonstrators: "You guys need to stop obstructing us. That's why the lesbian bitch is dead."....Gov. Gavin Newsom: "The Trump administration is weakness masquerading as strength...We could lose our republic as we know it. It's code red in the U.S."....Trump on Newsom: "If he ever ran the country this country would be Venezuela."....Protect Democracy's Ian Bassin on Trump: "The Madman of January."....Trump on NATO: "Will they be there if we ever needed them?"....Stephen Miller on Denmark: "To control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory, improve a territory, inhabit a territory. Denmark has failed on every single one of these tests."....Garrett Graff: "A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever."....UN Ambassador Mike Waltz, on Trump's demand to take over Greenland: "Everybody knows that if you are renting a place you treat it differently than if you own it."....Trump on polls showing popular opposition to his threat to take over Greenland: "Fake."....Tina Brown on Trump: "His stipulation that nation members of the new Gaza Board of Peace must pay a billion dollars for membership in perpetuity, as if they are top-tier Mar-a-Lago applicants, was a vomitous expression of diplomatic profanity."....Fox host Jesse Watters, on Trump critics: "Is Trump a four-year-old brat or an aging, mentally ill dictator? You gotta pick a lane."....former WH attorney Ty Cobb: "I don't think there's anybody outside the United States that thinks Trump is sane."....Trump on Biden: "It's early, but he has to be rated as the worst president we've ever had, by far."....Mary L. Trump on her uncle: "The walking black hole of need is still going. No amount of attention, or airtime, or power, or territory, or money will ever be enough for him."....Trump, shortly after 2nd inauguration: "He who saves his country does not violate any law."....ICE agent, asked why he was filming a legal observer's car: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."....Andy Borowitz fake headline re weather: "God Punishes Trump by Turning US into Greenland."....
