Mudline April 25, 2025

April 25, 2025

........Trump: "Foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American Dream."....Andrew Sullivan on Trump: "He is precisely -- almost uncannily -- what this country was founded to oppose: an arbitrary, corrupt, mendacious, and utterly incompetent king."....Tina Brown: "There is a sense that we are in full-on Caligular madness, that Emperor Trump's next step could be to appoint his horse as proconsul of Florida."....Maureen Dowd: "The White House was not meant for petty tyrants on revenge tours. In the biggest job in the world, Trump seems like a very small man."....Trump on former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor, who anonymously wrote a highly-critical 2018 op-ed: "Guilty of treason."....Rachel Maddow on Trump admin handling of Abrego Garcia case: "Like Kafka mixed with Bozo the Clown."....David Axelrod: "We're living in a bizarro world where heroes are being targeted and scoundrels are in a position to target them."....biographer Tim O'Brien on Trump: "Revenge is the oxygen that keeps him afloat...He's the kid in the garage with matches, standing next to the gasoline tank."....Rep. Jamie Raskin: "Instead of removing books from the shelves about America's history and constitutional values, Secretary Hegseth should try reading them."....economic analyst Steve Rattner: "My border collie could do a better job managing this economy than this administration has done so far."....Nobel laurate economist Paul Krugman: "Trump is stupid, erratic, and weak."....former Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen on Trump tariff policy: "The worst self-inflicted wound that I have ever seen an administration impose on a well-functioning economy."....Chris Hayes to Trump: "You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially-burned house. Great job."....George Conway on Trump: "What an incredibly incompetent clown. He's like a monkey on a keyboard."....Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro on Elon Musk: "He is not a car manufacturer, he's a car assembler in many cases."....Musk: "Navarro is truly a moron...Dumber than a sack of bricks...He ain't built sh*t."....Vivian Wilson, Musk's trans daughter, on her father: "A pathetic man-child."....Sen. John Kennedy on Rep. AOC: "Our plan for dealing with her is Operation Let Her Speak."....Fox host Jesse Watters: "When you sit behind a screen all day, it makes you a woman. Studies have shown this."....Robert Reich on Trump administration: "It is by far the worst presidency in American history...The regime is filled with bottom-feeders, frauds, fanatics, and fools."....fired FDA vaccine regulator Dr. Peter Marks on RFK Jr.: "It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."....Will Saletan: "The American Age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it."....Sen. Brian Schatz simulating Trump: "OUR PLAN IS WORKING PERFECTLY AND IS JUST A NEGOTIATING TACTIC BUT IT IS ALSO GOING TO BE PERMANENT AND WE WILL BE THE WORLD LEADER IN TEXTILES AND NOW THERE IS A PAUSE AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHILL BUT ALSO WE WILL NEVER BACK DOWN AAAAAAHHHHHH."....WaPo's Catherine Rampell: "Who will tell Trump he's naked?"....

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