Mudline April 18, 2026
April 18, 2026
....Trump to Fox execs: "Take Jessica Tarlov off the air. She is, from her voice to her lies and everything else about her, one of the worst 'personalities' on television, a real loser!"....Trump: "Allowing a sick country, with demented leadership, to have a nuclear weapon -- that's a war crime."....Alex Jones: "Trump's run off the edge of a cliff, and I don't think he's coming back from it...We cut bait on Trump...Trump is just a minor figure."....Laura Ingraham on Trump war briefings: "Was he...able to take it all in and understand the complexity?"...Megyn Kelly on Trump's "a whole civilization will die tonight" post: "I don't know about you but I am sick of this shit. I'm sick of it. Can't he just behave like a normal human? Just fucking shut up about that shit!"....Aaron Rupar on Trump: "It's really difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is...When you actually watch his rallies, you see that they're full of hatred, he's lying constantly, and a lot of it is incoherent."....Steven Beschloss: "The man sitting behind the Resolute Desk is out of his mind."....Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: "Unfortunately, invoking the 25th is not realistic right now, given his oddball cabinet of sycophants and eccentrics, and Republican 'spines of foam.'"....Trump: "NATO is a paper tiger. NATO is us. But when we needed them -- we didn't need them, by the way. We didn't need them. Obviously."....Sen. Tim Kaine on former AG Pam Bondi: "Basically sold out her own integrity...couldn't even look at herself in a mirror. And she still got sacked."....French senator Claude Malhuret on Trump: "The golfer from Mar-a-Lago...The only elephant who walks around with his own china shop."....Trump: "If you import The Third World, you become The Third World."....CNN's Abby Phillips on Trump speech: "Basically repeated a lot of the things that he's been saying in Truth Social posts, except he said it out loud."....WH Comms Director Steven Cheung on Phillips: "Totally unhinged...Complete lightweight...It's now clear why her ratings are in the shitter."....Trump on Great Britain's aircraft carriers: "They're little ones. They're not very good. I know they don't go fast and I know they don't work very well."....Trump on the Grammys: "Not watchable."....Trump on SCOTUS: "Has really hurt our country...[The world is] laughing at how STUPID our U.S. court system has become."....Trump on SCOTUS: "The country can only withstand so many bad decisions from a Court that just doesn't seem to care."....Trump on US legal system: "We've got rogue judges who are criminals. THEY'RE CRIMINALS!"....Trump on Iran: "The reason they want to make a deal is they have been BEAT TO SHIT."....Trump: "We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow 'Birthright' Citizenship!'" (off by 30, including Canada, Mexico, and Brazil)....Maureen Dowd on Trump: "He continues the amoral, pseudo-macho posturing -- just with a bigger stage and the biggest weapons."....Robert De Niro on Trump: "A corrupt leader enriching himself [and his] Epstein class buddies."....Will Saletan on Trump and D.C.: "He's basically doing to our city what a dog does to a tree."....Kid Rock, on two Apache attack helicopters hovering near his house during the No Kings Day march: "This is a level of respect that shit-for-brains Governor of California will never know."....Trump on Dems: "We're a party of Common Sense. They're a party of insanity."....Trump on Biden and Harris: "Two sleepy people. Two stupid people."....Trump: "President Obama wasn't a smart man. Highly overrated. He was a great divider."....Trump on Kennedy Center: "That building's ready to fall down. It's in terrible shape."....Trump on USA: "A year ago we were a dead country."....Rachel Maddow on Trump "What he most wants is for everybody to be thinking about him and talking about him all the time."....protest sign at No Kings Day march: "Alexa: Change the president."....
