Mudline March 14, 2026
March 14, 2026
....James Fallows on SOTU: "The speech had different modes: Bad. And also bad."....Robert De Niro on Trump: "Failing, flailing, and desperate."....Trump on De Niro: "Another sick and demented person with, I believe, extremely low IQ, who has absolutely no idea what he is doing or saying -- some of which is seriously CRIMINAL!"....Mary L. Trump on SOTU: "He asked Americans to believe him over data, over courts, over history, and over their own eyes...He invents statistics the way other people breathe."....former US attorney Joyce Vance: "He seemed to luxuriate in the spotlight like a show-off kid with a captive audience."....Trump on Dems: "They caused and created the increased prices that all of our citizens had to endure...They knew their statements were a dirty, rotten lie."....The Atlantic's Tom Nichols: "He turned the State of the Union into a vulgar, populist carnival."....Trump on Dems: "They want to cheat. They have cheated, and their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat."....Steven Beschloss on SOTU: "A sickening sadist pleasurably reveling in tales of bloody violence and murder."....Rachel Maddow: "Essentially sort of violence porn."....Trump on Democrats: "Professional cheaters."....former Rep. Joe Walsh on Trump: "He's everything our Founders feared."....WH spokesperson Abigail Jackson on Never Trump Republicans: "A bunch of deranged has-been politicians."....Gov. Gavin Newsom on Trump: "A punch-drunk boxer. He's just trying to hit anything, a shadow, and he's a shadow of himself."....Bill Maher on Trump: "He's such a Karen."....Jonah Goldberg on Trump: "Crossing him, he often says, is treason, because Trump is -- in his mind -- l'état."....Sen. Jon Ossoff: "Donald Trump himself is a symptom of a deeper disease."....AG Pam Bondi on Rep. Jamie Raskin: "A washed-up loser lawyer."....Raskin on Bondi: "You turned the people's DOJ into Trump's instrument of revenge. Trump orders up prosecution like pizza."....Frank Bruni on Bondi: "She and her fellow insult-mongers aren't owning the libs, they're beclowning themselves. And it's a repellant circus."....Stephen Miller on Dems at SOTU: "They were repeatedly entreated to stand. Over and over. They refused. It was a moment that chills to the bone and which will live for a thousand years."....James Carville on Trump: "People hate you...Everybody is stabbing you in the back...They don't give a s*** about you, okay?...You can't trust anyone. Okay, maybe Stephen Miller."....Garrison Keillor: "Satire has taken over the federal government...Who is writing this show?"....Trump: "My goal is to not let any windmills be built. They're losers.".....Don Lemon: "If you look at the definition of 'sleazebag,' I think there might be a big picture of Donald Trump."....Trump on Rep. Jasmine Crockett and Rep. AOC: "Low IQ."....Trump on Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib at SOTU: "They had the bulging bloodshot eyes of crazy people, LUNATICS, mentally deranged and sick who, frankly, look like they should be institutionalized."....Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Trump: "Is obsessing over two women of color that are members of the House. You are THE PRESIDENT! I don't know what black woman hurt him in his past, honey, but it is really taking him through it."....
