"[Their signs were] all made professionally in a printing shop. Looks like on Madison Avenue someplace. Some guy is paying for all that stuff... They're getting paid. They're professional agitators, and we are finding out who's paying them. Yeah. You're going to be very surprised when you find out."
-- Trump, on the "No Kings" demonstrations

"...They say that he was not guilty of anything, that what he did -- well, you don't know much about crypto...You know nothing about nothing. You're fake news. But...they said that what he did is not even a crime...So I gave him a pardon at the request of a lot of very good people."
-- Trump, asked about his pardoning crypto CEO Changpeng Zhao, who pled guilty to money laundering and had involvement with the Trump family's crypto startup

"Somebody [said],'You're the third-best president in the United States.'...'Who were the first two?' 'George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.' And I got extremely angry at this man...It's going to be very tough to beat Washington and Lincoln but we're going to give it a try, right? Hey, they didn't put out eight wars, nine coming. Alright? We put out eight wars and the ninth is coming, believe it or not."
-- Trump

"THIS SITE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION."
-- sole message on website of ACECO, the demolition company tearing down the East Wing

"It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it. And pays total respect to the building, which I'm the biggest fan of. It's my favorite. It's my favorite place. I love it."
-- Trump, in July, on his new ballroom

"Manufactured outrage."
-- the White House, on criticism of the unannounced destruction of most of the East Wing on Monday and Tuesday

"I think it's a joke. They're not representative of this country. The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people were whacked out."
-- Trump, on the 7,000,000 "No Kings" demonstrators

"The Democrats want to destroy all health care."
-- Trump

"Don't forget to get a copy of my son Eric's book, Under Siege, which is breaking records everywhere."
-- Trump post

"The Democrat Party's main constituency are [sic] made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
-- WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

Reporter, asking about Trump's upcoming meeting with Putin: "Who picked Budapest?"
WH Communications Director Steven Cheung: "Your mom."

"We call it the 'hate America' rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see the Marxists on full display, the people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic."
-- Speaker Mike Johnson, on today's "No Kings" events

"They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. You know. But I was -- I made a turn at a good time. I turned to the right. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually. He said, 'How the hell did you make that turn?' I said, 'I don't know!'"
-- Trump, while posthumously awarding Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom