"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

24
-- percent of permanent staff lost by the National Park Service since Trump took office

$1.2 billion
-- amount "Big Beautiful Bill" will cut from NPS

"Our vision of America is similar to the founders 250 years go when they said, 'We will govern ourselves, we will not be governed by a tyrannical monarch or a dictator or king.'"
-- Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, wearing a MAGA hat on Fox News

"[The Democrats] hate Trump, but I hate them too, you know that? I really do. I hate them. I cannot stand them, because I really believe they hate our country."
-- Trump in July 3rd speech

"Well, we'd like to see them in many states, really, many states. This one, I know Ron's doing a second one, and probably a couple more. And, you know, at some point, they might morph into a system where you're going to keep it for a long time."
-- Trump, asked how many more "Alligator Alcatraz" facilities the country needs to enact his agenda of mass deportations

"Trump might not even understand what's in the bill. So it's a very dangerous moment when you think about what democracy is, and it doesn't speak well of what has become of the Republican Party."
-- Rep. Jamie Raskin

"...Raskin, a thire-rate Democrat politician, has no idea what is in our fantastic Tax Cut Bill, nor would he understand it if he did.This DOPE has been consistently losing to me for YEARS, and I love watching his ugly face as he is forced to consistently concede DEFEAT TO TRUMP."
-- Trump in response