"We're deportation-maxxing."
-- border czar Tom Homan

"They are indeed great heroes, actually... All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.' So we're going to honor them. And it's one of the hardest things for me to do as president, but it has to be done."
-- Trump, before going to Dignified Transfer ceremony to receive remains of four U.S. soldiers

"It was four times greater than any FIFA ever held. And it's probably about five times, they're telling me today."
-- Trump, on 2026 World Cup

"Sounds like gender-affirming care to me."
-- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, on Hegseth proposal to raise testosterone levels in "low T" servicemen

"What he's going to say is that when Barack Obama was president the election was free and fair and I won. When Joe Biden was president the election was free and fair and I won. When I was in charge I f***ed it up so badly that I lost. It's like an epic epic epic mind f*** to his own base. He's going to make his base swallow this absolute s*** sandwich...It's the most cynical thing I've seen him do."
-- Nicolle Wallace, before Trump speech

"The flyovers will continue until morale improves."
-- SecDef Pete Hegseth, on Blue Angels controversy

"We control the House, Senate, White House, and Supreme Court, so I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the elections!"
-- GOP Sen. Thomas Massie

"We had transgender for everybody."
-- Trump, on the US at the beginning of his current term

"This is worse than any third-world country. There's no third-world country that has elections like we have."
-- Trump

"He was a great guy, and he was a friend. He would call me all the time. He would just... I'd say, 'Stop calling me, Lindsey.'"
-- Trump

"We guarded the Strait for 50 years -- more -- and we never got paid for it."
-- Trump