Mudline February 22, 2025
February 22, 2025
....Zelensky on Tucker Carlson: "Just stop working for Putin. Just stop licking his ass."....National Review on Trump tariffs: "This episode illustrates that Trump is a cheap date."....Rep. Jim McGovern on Trump and J6: "These pardons are sick...handing a get-out-of-jail-free card to KKK members, Proud Boys, and other criminals."....Colombian president Gustavo Petro on Trump, who deported immigrants in shackles and handcuffs: "I don't shake hands with white slavers."....Trump on Pete Buttigieg: "He's got a good line of bullshit."....Buttigieg: "Time for the President to show actual leadership."....Elon Musk on USAID: "What we have here is not an apple with a worm in it, it's a bowl of worms...A criminal organization. Time for it to die."....DNC chair Ken Martin: "Elon Musk is already showing people that he's the worst president we've ever had."....James Carville on Kamala Harris as 2024 candidate: "If we were playing a Superbowl, we started our 7th-string quarterback."....David Axelrod on Trump inaugural address: "An American Carnage burger in a Golden Age bun."....Tina Brown: "The rude vigor of Trump's charismatic presence parrying with reporters was refreshing, even if most of his answers were a fire hose of bullshit."....Dan Rather: "President Trump believes his number one opponent is a free press."....Trump: "MSNBC IS CLOSE TO DEATH. CNN HAS REACHED THE BOTTOM. This is a good thing. They are the ENEMY of the people."....Trump on NBC: "A 'network' run by a truly bad group of people."....Trump on Jim Acosta: "One of the worst and most dishonest reporters in journalistic history, a major sleazebag."....Trump on Seth Meyers: "I got stuck watching Marble Mouth Meyers the other night...and every time I watch this moron I feel an obligation to say how dumb and untalented he is, merely a slot-filler for the Scum that runs Comcast."....Trump on Jimmy Kimmel: "Weak and pathetic...One of the dumbest human beings ever."....Trump on Stephen Colbert: "A total loser."....Trump: "Wow! Rachel Maddow has horrible ratings. She'll be off the air very soon."....Trump on late-night television: "Talentless, low-rated CREEPS."....Rep. Tim Burchett on CNN: "More people are watching the Cartoon Network 'Spongebob' re-runs right now."....border czar Tom Homan on MSNBC's Joy Reid: "She's dumber than a box of rocks."....Rep. MTG on French journalist Sonia Dridi's question at WH briefing: "How about that accent...I think we need to throw out all the foreign press."....Trump on Sen. Adam Schiff: "Scum."....Andrew Sullivan on Trump: "A thug who loves thugs."....Stephen Colbert on Trump: "He's two-dimensional. He's Fascist Flat Stanley."....Martin Short: "It's like the second act of 'Cabaret.'"....
