"It is my pleasure and my honor to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell."
-- Trump, 2017

"He's a terrible Fed chair. I was suprised he was appointed. I was surprised, frankly, that Biden put him in and extended him."
-- Trump, yesterday

"So we have the worst education almost in the large world, the world that people know about."
-- Trump

"I've known Jeff [Epstein] for fifteen years. Terrific guy... He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
-- Trump, 2002

"One year ago our Country was DEAD, now it's the 'HOTTEST' Country anywhere in the World. Let's keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about."
-- Trump

"We're on one Team, MAGA, and I don't like what's happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and 'selfish people' are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein."
-- Trump

"Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years. Are people still talking about this guy? This creep? That's unbelievable."
-- Trump

"You were the only person we were afraid of during the campaign."
-- Steve Bannon, to Jeffrey Epstein

"As well you should have been."
-- Epstein, in reply

"Jeff told me he had so much dirt of Trump and Clinton that, if revealed, the 2016 election would have been cancelled."
-- Jeffrey Epstein's brother, Martin

"Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours' notice to countries other than their own even if officials have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from persecution and torture, a top official said in a memo this week..Lawyers warned that thousands of longtime immigrants with work permits and families in the US could now be uprooted and sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language."
-- Washington Post

"I don't work for Mayor Karen Bass. Better get used to it now, cause this is going to be normal very soon. We will go anywhere, anytime we want in Los Angeles."
-- Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, after show of military force by ICE agents and military units on foot, horseback, and in armored vehicles, in MacArthur Park

"I know nothing about it other than what I read today, but I will tell you I think they're very dishonest people. I think they're crooked as hell. And maybe they have to pay a price for that."
-- Trump, asked if he wants to see James Comey and John Brennan, both under criminal investigation related to the Trump-Russia probe, behind bars

"I don't know. Why don't you tell me."
-- Trump, asked who at the Pentagon signed off on pausing weapons shipments to Ukraine last week

"No death tax. No estate tax. No going through the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker, and in some cases, Shylocks and bad people."
-- Trump, on benefits of BBB

"We didn't kill enough Indians."
-- Ann Coulter

"Biden emptied our whole country giving [Ukraine] weapons, and we have to make sure that we have enough for ourselves."
-- Trump