....Trump on the US: "The pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair...We have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves, in many cases to hate our country."....Trump on 2020: "They rigged the election."....Trump on Democrats: "They don't love our Country, they only think of themselves."....Trump on Episcopal bishop, Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, who urged him to show mercy: "She was nasty in tone and not compelling or smart. She is not very good at her job."....Rep. Mike Collins on Budde, a NJ-born US citizen: "Should be added to the deportation list."....Trump on John Bolton: "A warmonger...I thought he was a very dumb person, but I used him well..."....Trump, on Inauguration day, shortly after saying his legacy "will be that of a peacemaker and unifier": "Liz Cheney is a disaster. She's a crying lunatic...She hated the idea of not going to war with everybody."....on Nancy Pelosi: "Guilty as hell."....on former Rep. Adam Kinzinger: "A super crier. He's always crying."....on Gen. Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "Fascist to the core."....Steve Schmidt on inauguration: "Only Donald and Melania Trump -- with a little lift from the Princess Sanchez -- could strip a dignified event of dignity so vividly, dramatically, and with so little effort."....Megyn Kelly on Jeff Bezos' partner Lauren Sanchez's inauguration outfit: "She dresses like a hooker... No one should be talking about your tits."....Jon Stewart on Sen. John Fetterman's wearing shorts and sweatshirt: "[He] is literally America's teenage son."....pardoned Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio on J6 committee: "They need to be imprisoned...They need to pay for what they did."....Norm Pattis, lawyer for Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes and other J6 leaders, on criticism: "Our politics has always been violent. Violence is the norm in this country."....Craig Sicknick, brother of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died from the J6 assault: "The man who killed my brother is now president."....former police officer Michael Fanone, badly beaten on J6, on release of his assailants: "I have been betrayed by my country."....Bill McKibben: "It is hard, watching the richest men on earth grovel before the new king, not to feel a little fear."....Sen. Chris Murphy: "The billionaires are in charge. People who want to addict our kids to technology, control what we think and do, destroy small businesses so they own everything."....Andrew Sullivan: "I have what can only be called intermittent waves of nausea and panic triggered by the memory of the last, long four years of being tethered to a mercurial, malevolent bully who wouldn't ever shut up or leave us alone."....Ben Cohen on Elon Musk: "He falls for every bonkers conspiracy theory out there, lies incessantly, and uses his platform to destroy people he doesn't like. He's basically a super villain with so much money nothing can stop him."....Trump on LA fire-fighting: "We are watching fires still tragically burn from weeks ago without even a token of defense."....Bill Maher on LA Mayor Karen Bass: "The Nero of American politics...fiddling in Ghana while the city burned."....Laura Ingraham on Biden: "He had us wearing masks that didn't work."....Maureen Dowd on Trump: "The highchair king."....Steven Beschloss on Pete Hegseth: "Just the kind of angry, arrogant, retrogressive man who Trump adores."....Timothy Snyder: "What 'America First' means, in the 2020s as in the 1940s, is that America should be the first democracy to imitate leading foreign dictators. Trump has admired dictators and will admire dictators."....Noah Smith: "Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet."....

Trump: "GOOD NEWS FOR AMERICA! Neil Cavuto, the Lowest Rated Anchor on Fox, by far, is leaving. Should have happened a long time ago!"....Trump on Rep. Chip Roy: "An ambitious no-talent."....Trump on the DOJ: "I call it the Injustice Department."....Lara Trump on Democrats: "Great at lying and great at gaslighting. They've lied about just about everything."....James Fallows: "'Taking back' the Canal would be an open-ended invitation to disaster, as with the Iraq War. Even talking about it shows that you are out of touch with reality."....Elon Musk on Trump voters: "Unrepentant racists."....Paul Krugman: "MAGA is already eating its own. Pass the popcorn."....James Carville on the current House: "Not going to pass GAS, okay?"....Sen. Chris Murphy on GOP: "Now they're panicking because everyone is seeing the grift."....Rep. Suzan DelBene: "I guess Elon Musk is making the decisions now, because Republicans in Congress are incapable of making decisions on their own."....Rep. Jamie Raskin on Musk: "The fourth branch of government."....Sen. Bernie Sanders: "Are Republicans working for the American people or taking orders from President Musk?"....Dan Rather: "Move over Donald Trump and make way for the Ambassador of Chaos, Elon Musk...Paid an enormous amount of money to ride in Donald Trump's sidecar."....Elon Musk: "In most cases, the word 'homeless' is a lie. It's usually a propaganda word for violent drug addicts with severe mental illness."....former friend Sam Harris on Musk: "Palpably, visibly deranged...Snorting ketamine and tweeting at all hours of the day and night."....Errol Musk on his son Elon: "Tell him to get lost."....Trump on Canada: "We don't need their cars. We don't need their lumber. We don't need their dairy products. We don't need anything they have. Why are we spending...to protect them? We have a right NOT to help them with their financial difficulties."....Trump: "Woke is bullsh*t."....Stephen King: "Hard to believe there was ever a world leader as dumb as Trump...His brain is like a radio playing top volume, but between stations."....Sen. John Kennedy on kale: "To me, kale tastes like I'd rather be fat."....

Trump on the FBI: "They went after me, and I did nothing wrong."....Steve Bannon on Gen. Milley, Liz Cheney, J6 committee: "We've got these rats cornered like the rats they are."....Dinesh D'Souza on Trump: "Is using his appointments to express his contempt for government, same as if a man who hates baseball bought the Yankees and hired a coaching staff of soccer moms."....Rob Schneider on "The View": "As interesting as a Hunter Biden painting made of his own feces."....Rep. Jim McGovern on Trump nominees: "It looks like the requirements to be in the Trump White House are that you either abuse women or you're an out-of-touch billionaire."....Tina Brown on Trump: "He's like the megalomaniac Roman emperor Commodus, whose obsession with spectacle ultimately required constant deaths in the Colosseum."....SecDef pick Pete Hegseth on Trump, 2016: "All bluster, very little substance...An armchair tough guy. This is a guy who said that John McCain is not a war hero yet he sought his own five military deferments."....Ann Coulter: "In all of this talk about whether Pete Hegseth is an abuser of women, no one even mentioned that he is a serial adulterer!"....2018 email to Hegseth from his mom: "I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years)..."....Sen. Mark Warner (D.-Va.): "I think, frankly, the Democratic brand stinks."....Trump: "Everybody on [the J6] committee...for what they did, honestly, they should go to jail."....former Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Trump's threat: "Nothing more than the desperate howl of a man who knows history will regard him with shame...The evidence speaks louder than your words."....Elon Musk on The Guardian: "The most insufferable newspaper on planet Earth....A laboriously vile propaganda machine."....Kevin Roberts, Project 2025 architect: "Like deadwood in a forest, many of America's institutions have been completely hollowed out...For America to flourish again, they don't need to be reformed, they need to be burned. A nice start would include: Every Ivy League college, the FBI, the New York Times..."....Kash Patel, Trump's pick to head the FBI: "We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media...We are going to come after you...We are putting you on notice...This is why they hate us, this is why we are tyrannical, this is why we are dictators."....former Mike Pence counterterrorism adviser Olivia Troye on Patel: "A delusional liar."....former Patel supervisor Charles Kupperman: "Absolutely unqualified for this job. He's untrustworthy...It's an absolute disgrace to American citizens to even consider an individual of this nature."....host Megyn Kelly: "F*** you, Joe Biden, and your sob story about your rich, spoiled, presidential kid, Hunter."....Trump, on Biden pardoning his son: "An abuse and miscarriage of justice."....White-supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes on women: "Your body, my choice. Forever."....right-wing troll Jon Miller: "Women threatening sex strikes LMAO as if you have a say."....Timothy Snyder on Trump voters: "The best Americans, betrayed by you when you cast your vote, will be murdered at the whim and for the wealth of a dictator. Your tragedy will be living long enough to understand this."....John Oliver: "'The worst -- blank -- in American history' is going to be this administration's MO going forward."....Andy Borowitz: "The revelations about Pete Hegseth's drunkenness and sexual abuse raise a serious question: why didn't Trump nominate him to the Supreme Court?"....

Sen. Tammy Duckworth on SecDef nominee Pete Hegseth: "Inordinately unqualified."....former GOP chair Michael Steele on Sen. Matt Gaetz: "A hot, controversial figure that no one likes."....Rep. MTG on NPR: "Democrat propaganda."....Trump on Jan 6 and classified docs cases: "Empty and lawless."....Tucker Carlson: "I used to think Tony Blinken was running the White House. Now I think it is Satan himself."....Kellyanne Conway on Meghan McCain: "A years-long resident Mean Girl on 'The View' and Bravo, where her mouth was a spigot of vile and bile..."....John Bolton: "Sebastian Gorka is a con man...He displays fealty, and that's what Trump wants."....Lawrence O'Donnell on Trump: "The laziest and stupidest president in history by far."....Elon Musk on AG Merrick Garland: "An unprincipled douchebag."....Joe Rogan to Musk: "If you buy MSNBC I would like Rachel Maddow's job. I will wear the same outfit and glasses, and I will tell the same lies."....Donald Trump Jr.: "I'll mimic Lawrence O'Donnell...minus the castration of course."....Jeanine Pirro: "We've been operating without a president for a long time."....Nikki Haley on Tulsi Gabbard: "[The DNI] is not a place for a Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese sympathizer."....War Room's Grace Chong on JD Vance and Marco Rubio missing votes: "You guys better show up and do your fricken job!"....Vance on Chong: "A mouth-breathing imbecile."...Mary L. Trump on Rep. Nancy Mace: "Just another thug who has signed up to be a foot-soldier in Donald Trump's war on basic human decency."....Trump on NYT journalist Maggie Haberman: "A third-rate writer and fourth-rate intellect, writes story after story, always terrible."....NY Post on RFK Jr's ideas: "A head-scratching spaghetti of what we can only call warped conspiracy theories, and not just on vaccines."....Tina Brown on Gaetz: "Reminds me of the Tasmanian Devil in Looney Tunes cartoons, his face twisted with opportunism and low intent."....Stephen Colbert on Trump: "Continuing to shovel steaming piles of nominee into his cabinet."....Jon Stewart: "Republicans are playing chess, and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because they glued their balls to their thigh."....

Trump on Vice President Kamala Harris: "A very dumb individual, very dumb...Retarded...She's scum. She's garbage...Lazy as hell...A stupid person...Bitch...Does she drink? Is she on drugs?...A sleazebag...Grossly incompetent, a total trainwreck. She has destroyed everything in her path...Dumber than hell...Her message has been a message of hate and division...A low-IQ person. She's not smart...Virtually incoherent...Everything that comes out of her mouth is a LIE...A shit vice president. The worst...She's going to destroy the whole country."....Trump on Harris's campaign staff: "They're scum. And they want to take down our country. They are absolute garbage."....Trump on the US: "We're like a Third World nation...We're a nation in decline. Very, very serious decline...The US is now an occupied country...We are a country whose economy is collapsing into a cesspool of ruin...We are a failing nation...Our country is being destroyed...We're turning into a communist country in many ways...We're living in hell right now."....Trump on US autoworkers: "They don't build cars. They take them out of a box and they assemble them. You could have a child do it."....Trump on his former chief of staff Gen. John Kelly: "A total moron."...on Gen. Mark Milley: "A fucking idiot."....on Milley and Kelly: "Weak, stupid people."....on MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle: "A dumb-as-a-rock bimbo."....on NYT columnist Bret Stephens: "A Trump-hating loser."....on networks: "NBC is no good. ABC is no good. CBS is no good."....on Bill Maher: "A befuddled mess."....on former Rep. Liz Cheney: "She, like Kamala, is a stupid person."....on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "An enemy within."....on CA Gov. Gavin Newsom: "'Newscum' I call him."....on Rep. Adam Schiff and the Pelosis: "These people are so sick and evil."....on Sen. Chuck Schumer: "If Kamala loses you can still have a chance to become the first woman president."....Maureen Dowd on Trump: "Brazenly projecting every bad thing he does onto his rivals, and boldly hawking sneakers, Bibles and cologne like a late-night cable huckster, has no shame."....Sen. Mitt Romney: "He is unquestionably mentally unstable, and he is racist, bigoted, misogynistic, xenophobic, vulgar, and prone to violence."....Geraldo Rivera: "A sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution."....Mark Cuban: "You never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever."....CNN's Bob Costas: "A bubbling cauldron of loathsome traits. You have to be in the throes of some sort of toxic delusion and in a toxic cult to believe that Donald Trump has ever been in any sense -- emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, or ethically -- fit to be president of the United States."....Obama on Trump: "You would be worried if your grandpa was acting like this."....Trump on Bob Woodward: "He's lost his marbles."....Woodward on Trump: "He has this idea that he knows things he doesn't know." Trump: "I know more about drones than anybody...I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me...Nobody knows more about technology than me...Nobody knows more about construction than I do...Nobody knows more about taxes than I do...Nobody knows more about campaign finance than I do...Nobody knows more about environmental impact statements than me...I know more about renewables than any human being on Earth...I know more about courts than any human being on Earth...Nobody knows more about polls than me...Nobody knows more about banks than me...Nobody knows more about trade than I do...I understand the power of Facebook, maybe better than almost anybody...I understand money better than anybody...Nobody knows more about debt than I do...I know more about contributions than anybody...I understand politicians better than anybody...I understand things. I comprehend very well. OK? Better than, I think, almost anybody...I know a lot...I know more than I'm ever going to tell you...The truth is I'm actually a modest person, very modest...I think I am, actually, humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand."....James Fallows: "As best as I can tell, and as of mid-afternoon on the day after Navalny's killing, Donald Trump has never once, in any way, in any venue, at any time dared to criticize Vladimir Putin."....retired Army General Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump and Biden, on Trump: "We don't take an oath to a king, or a queen, or to a tyrant or dictator, and we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator...He is the most dangerous person ever."....