Mudline October 27, 2025
October 27, 2025
....Speaker Mike Johnson on 'No Kings 2': "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18th? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all going to gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes."....Rep. Tom Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up."....homeland security adviser Stephen Miller: "The Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization."....Tina Brown on American life: "Has turned into a dream sequence from a bad horror movie."....Trump to reporter: "You're 'ABC Fake News.' I don't take questions from 'ABC Fake News.'"....Trump: "MSNBC is dying and CNN is dying like a dog. It's so pathetic. Did you see their anchors in the evening? Nobody's ever heard of them...I could take anybody off the street in Washington, DC, they'd do a better job."....Trump at press conference: "This is one of the worst reporters that you'll ever -- I don't even want to take your question. It's a waste of time."....Trump to ABC's Jonathan Karl: "You're not a wonderful person. Frankly, you're a terrible reporter. You know it and so do I."....Trump nickname for co-anchor of "Good Morning America": "George Slopodopoulos."....JD Vance on Gov. JB Pritzker: "There are thousands of innocent Chicagoans who are dead because he failed to do his job."....Pritzker on Trump: "He's copying the tactics of Vladimir Putin...There is something genuinely wrong with this man, and the 25th Amendment ought to be invoked."....Will Saletan: "To bring a democracy under authoritarian control...you need politicians who will assure the public...that nothing odd is happening. That's the role Johnson is playing in Trump's takeover of America."....Chris Christie on Trump DOJ: "What it is now is a Capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so."....Trump on "the Epstein whatever": "I don't comment on something that's a dead issue."....Fox host Jimmy Failla on Bad Bunny: "Don't be mad that we have a cross-dresser who doesn't speak English doing the halftime show, because if Kamala won, he would have been a cabinet member."....Andy Borowitz: "Bad Bunny was born in America. The same cannot be said about 67 percent of Trump's wives."....Rep. Jim McGovern: "Donald Trump has kept his promise to run our government like he ran his companies: shut down, with unpaid workers and blaming everyone but himself."....Trump: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats. They want to give all our money to illegal aliens."....Rep. Jasmine Crockett: "It is the old white nepo baby that is sitting in the White House that is causing all the destruction, pain and problems that you are enduring."....Trump: "We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms."....retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey on Trump and Hegseth at Quantico: "One of the most bizarre, unsettling everts I've ever encountered. The president sounded incoherent, exhausted, rabidly partisan, at times stupid, meandering, couldn't hold a thought together."....Don Knight: "Two men wearing more makeup than their wives just stood on stage and lectured 800+ military generals on how to be 'real men.' Satire did a double backflip."....Paul Krugman on SecDef Hegseth: "I think he's living in the 4th century BC."....Stephen Miller: "Those trying to foment hatred against us, what do you have? You have nothing, you are nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are envy, you are hatred...You can build nothing, you can produce nothing, you can create nothing."....Jimmy Kimmel on Trump construction projects: "By the time he's out of office, the White House will have slot machines and a water slide."....Trump on Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I think she's a disgraceful person, a loser...I think she's a disgusting person."....Peter Navarro, who went to prison for contempt of Congress: "There's a disturbing asymmetry between what the left is doing to us and what we're not doing to them...Bannon and I went to prison. Now they got Charlie."....Dean Blundell on AG Pam Bondi's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee: "So blinded by loyalty to Trump, she couldn't even fake professionalism."....Rick Wilson: "It was the fake orgasm of committee hearing performances...meant to trick just one man into keeping her around by flattering his ego."....Sen. Dick Durbin to Bondi: "What has taken place since January 20th, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy...It will take decades to recover."....Bondi to Durbin: "I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump."....Australia's Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, denying MAGA influencer Candace Owens entry: "Inciting discord might be the way some people make money, but it's not welcome in Australia. Australia's national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else."....Andrew Sullivan: "Trump is a tyrant in every cell of his lardaceous body. There is a reason he bonded with Kim Jong Un and has a soft spot for Putin and Xi. He envies their total control, and, more importantly, the opportunities for cruelty that come with it."....Trump, in 2023: "We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country."....Donald Trump Jr on Fox News: "Honestly, I don't watch it anymore because it's so ridiculous."....Trump on David Letterman: "He looks like hell, but at least he knew when to quit. LOSER!!!"....Andy Borowitz: "Soon the only comedian left on TV will be Karoline Leavitt."....Trump on new kickoff rule: "'Sissy' football is bad for America, and bad for the NFL."....Trump on Greta Thunberg: "She's just a troublemaker...I think she should see a doctor. For a young person, she's so ANGRY, she's so CRAZY!"....Trump on Biden having cancer: "He was a stupid guy. But he was always a mean son of a bitch...It's not working out too well for him right now. So when you start feeling sorry for him, remember he's a bad guy!"....Charlie Kirk: "Joe Biden is a bumbling dementia-filled Alzheimer's corrupt tyrant who should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for his crimes against America."....JD Vance on Trump UN speech: "It's nice to have a president with a brain!"....Trump on the US: "A year ago, we were a dead country. We were dead. The country was going to hell."....Jon Stewart: "Chuck Schumer is a human flat tire."....Hitler's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, ending the professional careers of five 'Aryan' actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture in 1939: "In their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades."....
