Mudline March 18, 2026
March 18, 2026
........Trump on Maggie Haberman: "Just another SLEAZEBAG writing for The Failing New York Times...The exact opposite of anything she says is usually the truth."....Tucker Carlson on attacks on Iran: "Absolutely disgusting and evil."....Trump on Iran navy: "Many, many ships are gone. They were war-fighting ships, but I guess they didn't know how to use them."....SecDef Pete Hegseth: "The only ones who need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they're going to live."....Paul Krugman on Iran war: "Amid the bloody shambles, one big question is, who put The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight in power?"....Sen. Mark Kelly: "Donald Trump has no effing idea what he's talking about."....Heather Delaney Reese: "His whole presidency has turned into a race to give him prizes. Gold medals. Stickers. Awards. Trophies."....Sen. Ron Wyden on Kristi Noem: "Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0."....former Rep. Riggleman on Markwayne Mullin taking over DHS: "That's like replacing syphilis with gonorrhea."....Tina Brown on WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: "Looks more like a mendacious milkmaid every day."....Trump, on Iranian government: "A vicious group of very hard, terrible people."....Rep. Thomas Massie on Trump: "Bombing a country on the other side of the globe won't make the Epstein files go away."....Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Netanyahu: "It took him 40 years to find an American president who is stupid enough to drag Ameria into this war and open up Pandora's Box."....Iran, on Trump calling for "total surrender": "That's a dream that they should take to their grave."....Rep. Andy Ogles: "Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie."....Karoline Leavitt on Biden: "A very stupid and incompetent leader."....Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: "If Trump were purposefully doing Russia's bidding, it is hard to see what he would be doing differently."....Jimmy Kimmel: "As you know there are some countries whose leaders don't support free speech. I'm not at liberty to say which. Let's just leave it at North Korea and CBS."....WH Communications Director Steven Cheung on Kimmel: "A classless hack who is self-projecting his depression and sadness onto others. He lives a pathetic existence where nobody -- not even his family -- enjoys his miserable company."....Jamelle Bouie on Trump SOTU: "Lashed out...with jeers and insults, as if he were auditioning to play a knockoff of Andrew Dice Clay, not speaking as the president of the United States."....financial journalist Ron Insana: "This is the worst of times, and the worst of times."....MTG on Trump administration: "Sick, f***ing liars."....
