Mudline September 1, 2026
September 1, 2026
....Rep. Jim McGovern, speaking on House floor: "Is Joe McCarthy back from the dead? Because it sounds like that's who wrote all the garbage coming from Republicans, about communism."....Trump on electric vehicle owners: "They have a disease...They get screwed up...These people are crazy."....Trump on imaginary Reflecting Pool vandals: "These people are sick."....Trump on Minnesotans: "They're grossly incompetent."....Trump on Sen. Adam Schiff: "Watermelon Head...How does that big, fat, ugly head stand on a little pencil neck?"....Trump on US Attorney Jeanine Pirro: "She choked...She folded like an umbrella."....Trump: "The blue cities have something in common: crime, high crime, vicious, violent crime...It's always dirty. The sidewalks are dirty. The people are, I hate to say this, not clean."....Trump on Iran: "They've already apologized, but we've got to spank them a little bit."....Elon Musk on The Economist e-i-c Zanny Minton Beddoes: "She is a traitor to the West, plain and simple."....Trump, at WHC Dinner: "I want to personally congratulate CNN's Kaitlyn Collins on receiving her award. It was all about me. She shouldn't get the award, it was fake."....Trump on Gov. Gavin Newsom: "Everything about him is dumb."....Newsom on Trump: "I just watched the rambling of a mad king and what else can I say -- the only thing missing was tin foil."....Tina Brown on Trump: "We have a president who loves cheats. They are his tribe, his confreres, his soulmates."....former Rep. Joe Walsh on Trump: "A malignant narcissist, a sociopath, and the biggest crybaby in the history of the world, all wrapped up in one."....Umberto Eco on the Internet: "Has promoted the village idiot to the level of bearer of truth."....
