"I'll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval."
-- Trump, reassuring staff in recent meeting, to laughter

"I hope so. I mean, I think so. It could be. It could be the same or maybe a little bit higher. But it should be around the same. I think this won't be that much longer."
-- Trump, asked if the price of gas will drop before the midterms

"We're in very deep negotiations with Iran. We win, regardless. We've defeated them militarily. They've dropped a couple of water mines, you call them water mines, in the boat. We've defeated all of their water boats too. Their navy is gone -- 158 ships. They have 28 water droppers, mine droppers they call them. All of them are sunk."
-- Trump update, yesterday

"We will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end -- and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into."
-- Trump, January 20, 2025, in Second Inaugural Address

"We're loading up the ships with the best weapons ever made, even at a higher level than we used to do a complete decimation. And if we don't have a deal, we will be using them, and we will be using them very effectively."
-- Trump, yesterday

"NATO is a paper tiger... You know, it all began with, if you want to know the truth, Greenland. We want Greenland. They don't want to give it to us. And I said, 'bye-bye.'"
-- Trump

"If I had my choice, what would I like to do, take the oil. Because it's there for the taking. There's not a thing they can do about it. Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home. If it were up to me, I'd take the oil, I'd keep the oil, it would make plenty of money."
-- Trump on Iran

"I love working for President Trump. It's the greatest honor of a lifetime. And if President Trump... chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I'll say, 'Thank you very much. I love you, sir.' I don't have any goals or aspirations beyond that."
-- Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche

"Terrorism involves violence or the threat of violence against people or property to further a particular ideology. Terrorists do not care who they hurt or kill to achieve their goals."
-- from official website of ICE

"Grant this task force clear and righteous targets for violence."
-- SecDef Pete Hegseth, at prayer service in Pentagon

"Happy Easter. We had a great Easter. This is one of our better Easters, I think, in a lot of different ways. Ι can say, militarily, it's been one of the best."
-- Trump

"The press was unfair to ICE, and so was everyone else."
-- Trump

"Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell -- JUST WATCH. Praise be to Allah."
-- Trump's Easter message