"I love my signature. I really do. Everyone loves my signature."
-- Trump, to assembled US military leaders

"I'll be meeting with President Xi, of China, in four weeks, and Soybeans will be a major topic of discussion. MAKE SOYBEANS, AND OTHER ROW CROPS, GREAT AGAIN!"
-- Trump

"One thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a President, but he would bop down those stairs...Da-da, da-da, da-da, bop, bop, bop. He'd go down the stairs. Wouldn't hold on. I said, 'It's great. I don't want to do it.' I guess I could do it, but eventually, bad things are going to happen, and it only takes once. But he did a lousy job as president. A year ago, we were a dead country."
-- Trump, to hundreds of US military leaders summoned from around the world

"I'm going to be meeting with generals and with admirals and with leaders, and if I don't like somebody, I'm going to fire them right on the spot."
-- Trump, Tuesday morning, before leaving for Quantico, VA

"We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military."
-- Trump, at the event, on his order to create a National Guard "quick reaction force"

"If the words Ι'm speaking today are making your heart sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign...The Department of Woke...We are done with that s***."
-- SecDef Pete Hegseth, to the gathering

"Some of the highest-quality 24-Karat Gold used in the Oval Office and Cabinet Room of the White House. Foreign Leaders, and everyone else, 'freak out' when they see the quality and beauty. Best Oval Office ever, in terms of success and look!!!"
-- Trump, in recent post

"I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America. Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents."
-- Trump, earlier this year, in inauguration speech

"They're licensed. They're not allowed to do that...I think that's really illegal."
-- Trump, now, on TV networks criticizing him

"Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen."
-- Trump

"All kidding aside, did everyone notice how despite the lack of a teleprompter, he delivered a clear, reasonable address on US foreign policy? It's nice to have a president with a brain!"
-- JD Vance on Trump's recent UN speech

"The answer to hate is not hate. The answer, as we know from the Gospel, is love, always love."
-- Erika Kirk, at her husband Charlie Kirk's memorial service

"Our lineage and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome...Our ancestors built the cities, they produced the architecture, they built the industry. We stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble...Those trying to foment hatred against us, what do you have? You have nothing, you are nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are envy, you are hatred...You can build nothing, you can produce nothing, you can create nothing...We are the ones who build...who create...who lift up humanity... We have beauty, we have light, we have goodness."
-- Stephen Miller, WH deputy chief of staff, at that same service

"Free speech is the counterweight. It is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian's dream."
-- Brendan Carr, 2023

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way."
-- Carr, last week