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Mudline November 17, 2025

November 17, 2025

........John Adams: "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."....Trump on Seth Meyers: "May be the least talented person to 'perform' live in the history of television. In fact, he may be the WORST to perform, live or otherwise."....Rep. Clay Higgins on SNAP recipients: "Any American who has been receiving $4200 per year of free groderies and does NOT have at least one month of groceries stocked should never again receive SNAP, because wow, stop smoking crack."....Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on immigration enforcement operations: "The Trump Administration has a strong proclivity to lie."....Stephen Miller: "To all ICE officers: You have federal IMMUNITY in the conduct of your duties!"....federal agent, pointing handgun at face of veteran demonstrating peacefully: "Bang bang. You're dead, liberal."....federal agent to Latino American citizen, protesting peacefully: "You got no right here. You're an amigo, brother."....Gov. Larry Hogan: "Enough of the lies. Enough of the hate...America would be better off if the President would resign or be removed from office."....Gov. Gavin Newsom on Trump breaking off talks with Canada: "The man-child in the Oval got his feelings hurt, so he is punishing the American people with higher costs."....Trump on cattle ranchers: "If it weren't for me, they would be doing just as they've done for the past 20 years -- terrible! It would be nice if they understood that."....NYT editorial board on Trump: "He does not have a mandate to treat people cruelly or to break the law himself."....Bill Maher: "A crazy person does not live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there."....Andrew Sullivan: "Grandiose building projects -- like this giant gilded palace that will dwarf the old White House and the Arc de Trump -- have long been part of any tyrant's core ambition -- it's how the first Roman emperor, Augustus, declared to the entire world that the republic was dead. This is Trump's way of telling us the same thing."....Chelsea Clinton: "This is what happens when we take a wrecking ball to our heritage."....Donald Trump Jr. in response: "Your parents tried stealing furniture and silverware from the White House...and let's not talk about the intern. Sit this one out."....David Axelrod: "Trump has a manic desire to tear down history and write his own."....Rick Wilson: "He saw a place designed for civic honor, official tenderness, and historical respect and wondered why it didn't look more like a casino atrium, a glittery Liberace dreamscape."....Drew Magary: "When you elect Trump president, as Americans have now done twice over, you're voting FOR desecration. Trump is the rabble, the confusion and the theft all in one neat little package...He is not asking for permission, or for forgiveness. He's just taking."....Mona Charen: "No opportunity for notice and comment from the public. Just Trump's whim -- and a beloved national symbol tumbles to dust. It's obscene."....James Carville on Sen. Sydney Hyde Smith: "She has the unique distinction of being at least as dumb as Tommy Tuberville -- I think dumber."....Steve Schmidt on SecDef Pete Hegseth: "A broken child...The cringiest reality show buffoon in world history."....Jeffrey Toobin on commutation of George Santos' sentence: "Mr. Trump's worldview is characterized by amoral deal-making, where friends are rewarded and enemies punished, regardless of the merits of their underlying conduct."....Trump: "The 2020 Presidential election [was] Rigged and Stolen...Look what happened to our Country when a Crooked Moron became our 'President!'"....WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: "Karine worked for the most incompetent president in history."....Matt Taibbi: "The world could see that Biden was in drool-cup mode as far back as 2019."....Trump, on invasion of Iraq: "The single worst decision ever made."....Maureen Dowd: "Congress is adrift. The White House is a shipwreck. Trump is marauding in the Caribbean. James Comey and Letitia James are being forced to walk the plank, and next up could be Jack Smith and Adam Schiff. We are awash in nautical metaphors as the president plunders and pillages. He's a pirate -- and not the fun Halloween kind."....Billie Eilish at award event: "If you have money, it would be great to use it for good things and maybe give it to people that need it...If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties."....

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During the 2000 Bush-Gore presidential race, we began collecting negative soundbites and posting them weekly on a MUDLINE ticker, as a temporary election feature. But in the aftermath of that tumultuous contest we realized that the tone of public discourse was unlikely to improve, and elected to continue the feature. Unfortunately, we were right; two decades later, incivility is hotter than ever. If you just can’t get enough snark on social media, this mud’s for you.

January 6, 2016

Chris Christie on Obama: "A petulant child...Wants to act as if he is a king, as if he is a dictator."....Trump on Obama: "He doesn't want to work too hard. He wants to go back and play golf."....National Review's Charles Cooke on Obama’s tears: “Well, that was embarrassing…Irrational. Dishonest. And ultimately weak.”….Fox News’ Andrea Tantaros: “I would check that podium for a raw onion…It’s not really believable.”….Meghan McCain: “Bad political theater.”….Breitbart’s John Nolte: “Fascist tears.”….Chris Christie: "I just don't think Marco Rubio's going to be able to slime his way to the White House."....Trump on protesters at his rally: "A bunch of losers."....Rick Santorum on Ted Cruz: "Has two years of grandstanding in Washington."....Trump on Charles Krauthmmer: "The worst...He's terrible."....Krauthammer on Trump: "I'm going to conceal carry for the time being."....Mike Huckabee on Congressional Republicans: "Grow a spine."....Trump on Obama: "He doesn't like people, I guess."....Cruz website: "Obama wants your guns."....Trump on Hillary Clinton: "She's caused death. She's caused tremendous death with incompetent decisions."....Rush Limbaugh on liberals: "Some of the most vicious, mean-spirited extremists among us....Have contempt for average, ordinary Americans and every other type of person."....Trump on Obama: "A bad cheerleader."....
December 30, 2015

New Hampshire Union Leader publisher Joseph McQuaid on Trump: "Has shown himself to be a crude blowhard...He reminds us of the grownup bully 'Biff' in the 'Back to the Future' series."....Trump on McQuaid: "A real lowlife... A very dishonest man."....NYC mayor Bill de Blasio on Trump: "He's now become dangerous."....Trump on de Blasio: "The worst mayor in the U.S. and probably the worst mayor in the history of NYC."....Trump on Virginia GOP: "Stupid!"....VA Republican state Rep. David I. Ramadan on Trump: "Your $$s and your bullying do not work in the Commonwealth. Moron!"....Roger Simon on Jeb Bush and Trump: "Like a mosquito biting a rhinoceros."....
December 24, 2015

Trump on Jeb Bush: "Sad. So sad...Close to incompetent."....Trump on Angela Merkel: "Ruining Germany."....Trump on Hillary Clinton: "Lies like crazy about everything."....Trump on Cruz: "Frankly like a little bit of a maniac."....Hillary Clinton on Trump: "Is becoming ISIS' best recruiter."....Jeb Bush on Trump: "A jerk."....Bernie Sanders on Trump: "A pathological liar."....Trump on Hillary Clinton: "That's not a president."....Clinton on Trump: "We can't let anyone bully their way into the presidency."....Jeb Bush on Trump: "Put an F on the scorecard."....
December 17, 2015

Trump on Jeb Bush: "Nobody cares."....Jeb Bush on Trump: "You're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency."....Trump on Bush: "He has failed in this campaign. It's been a total disaster."....Bush on Trump: "He's a chaos candidate. And he'd be a chaos president."....Trump on Bush: "With Jeb's attitude, we will never be great again."....Chris Christie on President Obama: "A feckless weakling."....Rand Paul on Christie: "If you're in favor of World War III, you have your candidate."....Trump on the U.S.: "We're not respected as a nation any more."....Trump on SC Chief Justice John Roberts: "Disgraceful."....Trump on Charles Krauthammer: "He's terrible. The worst."....Trump on George Will: "You fall asleep listening to the guy."....Carly Fiorina on Trump: "The pied piper that leads the media around by the nose."....Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Trump: "What rough beast slouches toward Washington to be born?"....
December 11, 2015

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "Trump is ISIS's greatest triumph...This cruel and dim-witted thinking is not the stuff presidents are made of."....Trump on Obama: "The worst thing that's ever happened to Israel. The worst."....Bernie Sanders on Trump: "Now he thinks we're supposed to hate Muslims. That kind of crap is not going to work in the United States of America."....Trump on Obama: "We have a president who is a stupid person."....Trump adviser Michael Cohen on wooing Latinos: "The ones that don't like Trump aren't even here legally and they can't vote, so it doesn't really matter, right?"....London mayor Boris Johnson on Trump: "Clearly out of his mind...A quite stupefying ignorance that makes him frankly unfit to hold the office of the President of the United States."....Martin O'Malley on Trump: "A fascist demagogue."....J.K. Rowling on Trump: "Voldemort is nowhere near as bad."....Simon Schama: "Just because Trump is a detestable moron doesn't mean he isn't also sinister and dangerous."....

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