Mudline January 6, 2026
January 6, 2026
........Trump on MTG: "A ranting lunatic."...MTG on the GOP: "Has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you're wrong. You just keep pummeling your enemies, no matter what. And as a Christian, I don't believe in doing that."....WH spokesperson Davis Ingle on MTG: "We don't have time for her petty bitterness."....Tina Brown on tricked-out Oval Office: "Here, he holds forth, the all-powerful potentate in Doritos bronzer, the most aureate of mighty assholes, entertaining a confederacy of smiling despots: Bukele, Orban, MBS."....Mary Trump on her uncle: "He wants to turn every public space in America into some version of WWE or Ultimate Fighting. And it is just grotesque that he thinks that somehow this legitimizes him or gives him the same stature and standing as someone like President Kennedy."....Gene Weingarten on Trump speech: "Sounded like a desperate babbling auctioneer trying to unload a flimsy piece of crap on unwitting buyers."....Trump social media post: "Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein, gave him bundles of money, went to his island, attended his parties, and thought he was the greatest."....Steven Beschloss on Trump: "Dishonors the human race every time he opens his mouth."....Trump on Stephen Colbert: "A pathetic trainwreck."....Gov. Gavin Newsom on Trump: "This is a sick man."....NYT columnist Bret Stephens on Trump: "The most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House."....Mary Trump on her uncle: "You have gone out of your way to prove, to anyone who doesn't already know, that you are a depraved, deviant, damaged little man who cannot bear the thought that there are people in this world who are talented, valued, and loved -- three things you are not."....Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed."....Oliver Alexander: "Sauron wants Frodo to succeed."....Bulwark's Sarah Longwell: "When I truly want my neighbor to succeed, I break into his house, brutalize his family, steal his children, and burn his house to the ground while screaming 'Bro, I'm just trying to help!'"....Tina Brown on Trump: "Putin plays him like a balalaika."....Andy Borowitz on RFK Jr.: "As a drug dealer in college and a drug consumer afterward...he has poisoned his brain to such a degree that it's remarkable a worm found it habitable."....
