"These countries are calling us up. Kissing my ass. They are dying to make a deal. 'Please, please, sir, make a deal. I'll do anything. I'll do anything, sir.'"
-- Trump, telling his latest "sir" story

"THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH, RICHER THAN EVER BEFORE!"
-- Trump post

"America will be his seventh bankruptcy."
-- small business owner, on Trump

"We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture."
-- VP JD Vance

"I think your question is so stupid. I don't want to see anything go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something. And we have such a horrible -- we have been treated so badly, by other countries, because we had stupid leadership that allowed this to happen."
-- Trump, asked by Bloomberg reporter if there is a threshold for pain in the market

"Our country has been looted, raped, and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike."
-- Trump, announcing new tariffs

"In my opinion, they're really corrupt and they're illegal. What they do is illegal."
-- Trump on MSNBC and CNN

"Only the weak will fail!"
-- Trump post, yesterday

"There is a constitutional path. You have to amend the Constitution to do it, and that's a high bar."
-- House Speaker Mike Johnson, asked if there is a legal constitutional path for Trump to seek a third term

"Foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American Dream."
-- Trump, announcing new tariffs

"The administration's tariffs have no basis in logic and they go against the basis of our two nations' partnership. This is not the act of a friend."
-- Australian PM Anthony Albanese

"We'll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%...[There's] a good possibility that we could do it without military force [but] I don't take anything off the table."
-- Trump

"How successful would anyone in the business world be if their opening gambit was, 'Hi, asshole. Sell me your company or I will send my goons to talk to your mother'? I guess that's what the young Donald learned at the knee of Fred Trump."
-- Tina Brown

"I'll tell you, I have had more people ask me to have a third term, which in a way is a fourth term because the other election, the 2020 election, was totally rigged."
-- Trump