....OMB director Russell Vought on federal employees, before his confirmation: "When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want to put them in trauma."....Mehdi Hasan: "Every time I think the appointees can't get worse, Trump says 'Hold my beer.' I am stunned that Dan Bongino, a man even Fox got rid of, is now the new deputy director of the FBI. We are so effed."....The Nation's Elie Mystal: "We are a nation of grifters, run by grifters, and regulatory agencies only get in the way of the next pyramid scheme."....Rep. AOC: "This is now a billionaire feeding frenzy."....Sen. Amy Klobuchar: "What is the difference between Greenland and Donald Trump? Greenland is not for sale."....Canadian MP Charlie Angus: "We will never kiss the ring of that gangster from Mar-a-Lago, Trump."....former Trump Russia adviser Fiona Hill: "There's no Team America for Trump. Not once did I see him do anything to put America first. Not once. Not for a single second."....Timothy Garton Ash: "[Trump's] appeasement of Vladimir Putin makes Neville Chamberlin look like a principled, courageous realist."....former Russian president Dimitry Medvedev on Trump calling Zelensky a "dictator without elections": "If you'd told me just three months ago that these were the words of the U.S. president, I would have laughed out loud."....Russia state TV on JD Vance's Munich address: "It was very nice to hear Vance's very strong speech. It was a public caning. I can't call it anything else."....Elon Musk: "DEI is just another word for racism. Shame on anyone who uses it."....Steve Bannon on Musk: "A parasitic illegal immigrant...It's pretty evident the president's using him as an armor-piercing shell that's delivering blunt force trauma against the administrative state."....Timothy Snyder: "People who have submitted to Trump see him as a strongman. But what they are experiencing is in fact their own weakness."....UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher on Trump Gaza plan: "Statecraft seems to have been replaced by real estate craft."....Thomas L. Friedman on Gaza plan: "Proves only one thing: how short a distance it is between out-of-the-box thinking and out-of-your-mind thinking."....Mona Charon on Trump: "The world's most credulous narcissist."....Mary L. Trump on her uncle: "Donald has never met an opportunity he didn't squander."....Andrew Sullivan: "There is no decent cause that Trump cannot make indecent."....

Zelensky on Tucker Carlson: "Just stop working for Putin. Just stop licking his ass."....National Review on Trump tariffs: "This episode illustrates that Trump is a cheap date."....Rep. Jim McGovern on Trump and J6: "These pardons are sick...handing a get-out-of-jail-free card to KKK members, Proud Boys, and other criminals."....Colombian president Gustavo Petro on Trump, who deported immigrants in shackles and handcuffs: "I don't shake hands with white slavers."....Trump on Pete Buttigieg: "He's got a good line of bullshit."....Buttigieg: "Time for the President to show actual leadership."....Elon Musk on USAID: "What we have here is not an apple with a worm in it, it's a bowl of worms...A criminal organization. Time for it to die."....DNC chair Ken Martin: "Elon Musk is already showing people that he's the worst president we've ever had."....James Carville on Kamala Harris as 2024 candidate: "If we were playing a Superbowl, we started our 7th-string quarterback."....David Axelrod on Trump inaugural address: "An American Carnage burger in a Golden Age bun."....Tina Brown: "The rude vigor of Trump's charismatic presence parrying with reporters was refreshing, even if most of his answers were a fire hose of bullshit."....Dan Rather: "President Trump believes his number one opponent is a free press."....Trump: "MSNBC IS CLOSE TO DEATH. CNN HAS REACHED THE BOTTOM. This is a good thing. They are the ENEMY of the people."....Trump on NBC: "A 'network' run by a truly bad group of people."....Trump on Jim Acosta: "One of the worst and most dishonest reporters in journalistic history, a major sleazebag."....Trump on Seth Meyers: "I got stuck watching Marble Mouth Meyers the other night...and every time I watch this moron I feel an obligation to say how dumb and untalented he is, merely a slot-filler for the Scum that runs Comcast."....Trump on Jimmy Kimmel: "Weak and pathetic...One of the dumbest human beings ever."....Trump on Stephen Colbert: "A total loser."....Trump: "Wow! Rachel Maddow has horrible ratings. She'll be off the air very soon."....Trump on late-night television: "Talentless, low-rated CREEPS."....Rep. Tim Burchett on CNN: "More people are watching the Cartoon Network 'Spongebob' re-runs right now."....border czar Tom Homan on MSNBC's Joy Reid: "She's dumber than a box of rocks."....Rep. MTG on French journalist Sonia Dridi's question at WH briefing: "How about that accent...I think we need to throw out all the foreign press."....Trump on Sen. Adam Schiff: "Scum."....Andrew Sullivan on Trump: "A thug who loves thugs."....Stephen Colbert on Trump: "He's two-dimensional. He's Fascist Flat Stanley."....Martin Short: "It's like the second act of 'Cabaret.'"....

....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?"....