"Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism, and let freedom ring."
-- Bruce Springsteen, in England on his "The Land of Hope and Dreams" tour

"Dumb as a rock...This dried out 'prune' of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country."
-- Trump, in response

"Has anyone noticed that, since I said 'I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,' she's no longer 'HOT'?"
-- the president of the United States, Friday

"I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he's not a talented guy -- just a pushy, obnoxious JERK."
-- the president of the United States, Friday

"Has anyone noticed that, since I said 'I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,' she's no longer 'HOT'?"
-- the president of the United States, yesterday

"I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he's not a talented guy -- just a pushy, obnoxious JERK."
-- the president of the United States, yesterday

"Costs are way down. Groceries are -- we have a term, 'grocery.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying. Food. It's a pretty accurate term, but it's an old-fashioned sound. But groceries are down."
-- Trump to UAE President, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, during live broadcast

"I like him a lot. I like him too much."
-- Trump on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who US intelligence determined authorized the murder and dismemberment of WaPo journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018

"Only a FOOL would not accept this gift on behalf of our Country...We give free things out, we'll take one too...I would never be one to turn down that kind of offer...I mean I could be a stupid person and say, 'No, we don't want a free very expensive airplane.'...You look at some of the Arab countries and the planes they have parked alongside of the United States of America plane -- it's like from a different planet."
-- Trump, on $400M airplane offered as a gift by the Qatari royal family

"[Trump] can't be bought, unlke most of the politicians in this country...There's writers like Elizabeth Warren or Robert Reich saying that President Trump is on the side of the oligarchs. There's never been a president more willing to stand up to the oligarchs than President Donald Trump."
-- HHS Secretary RFK Jr.

"I'm a very artistic person."
-- Trump

"I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls. They don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."
-- Trump

"The Constitution is clear -- and that of course is the supreme law of the land -- that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion. So it's an option that we're actively looking at."
-- Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller