"My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?"
-- reporter

"I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure."
-- Trump

"Question. Which one do you prefer,,, lewd and lascivious conduct ,, or procuring minors for prostituion."
-- email from Jeffrey Epstein, seeking plea agreement advice, May 23, 2008

"I suppose Lewd and lecivious conduct. I would prefer lewd and lescivious conduct w/ a prositute if possible."
-- Ghilaine Maxwell

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"Here we go!"
-- Trump, on Poland shooting down Russian drones crossing its airspace to attack Ukraine

"Important move! We don't need destructive, WOKE recipients getting our cherished American Awards!!!...Hopefully the Academy Awards, and other Fake Award Shows, will review their Standards and Practices in the name of Fairness and Justice."
-- Trump, on canceling of West Point alumni award ceremony for Tom Hanks, actor and advocate for veterans

"Why the f*** are you talking to the president about me? F*** you. I'm gonna punch you in your f***ing face."
-- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to FHFA Director Bill Pulte at a recent dinner party

"It's a goat rodeo over there."
-- Sen. John Kennedy on RFK's HHS

"I love the smell of deportations in the morning. Chicago is about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR."
-- Trump post, with Apocalypse Now-style artwork

"The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal...Illinois won't be intimidated by a wannabe dictator."
-- Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker

"If you think that Joe Biden was a better leader or a better man than Vladimir Putin, I don't even know what to say to you. That's insane...Why is he more evil than Joe Biden? I can't even conceptualize that."
-- Tucker Carlson

"As previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie O'Donnell's Citizenship. She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!"
-- Trump

"I'm the distraction -- EPSTEIN SURVIVORS are the reckoning and your gold lamé throne is melting."
-- O'Donnell

"I want to try and get to heaven, if possible. I'm hearing I'm not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole."
-- Trump, on why he wants to help end the war in Ukraine

"I think the president was serious. I think he wants to get to heaven, as I hope we all do in this room as well."
-- WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, asked if Trump was serious