"He's an ass."

"Now that Russia collusion is a proven lie, when do the trials for treason begin?"

"One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we're not necessarily such believers. Look at our air and our water and it's right now at a record clean... As to whether or not it's man-made and whether or not the effects that you're talking about are there, I don't see it -- not nearly like it is."

"He has to protect our security. But [lethal force] is not, I think, something that anyone is talking about."
-- senior adviser Ivanka Trump, on U.S. border troops 

"If they have to, they're going to use lethal force. I've given the okay."
-- Trump, the week before

"They're making a mistake because I have a gut and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else's brain can ever tell me."
-- Trump on the Fed, yesterday

"That's where the truth comes from, ladies and gentlemen, the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your stomach than in your head? Look it up! Now somebody is going to say, 'I did look that up, and it's wrong.' Well, mister, that's because you looked it up in a book. Next time, try looking in your gut."
-- Stephen Colbert, 2005

"In 2018 alone, not counting the Camp Fire, there have been eleven disaster events in the United States caused by weather and climate, each costing more than a billion dollars in losses. The annual average of billion-dollar disasters from 1980 to 2017 was six, but the annual average for the most recent five years is nearly twelve."

"Sometimes mistakes happen."

"Every case that gets filed in the 9^th Circuit, we get beaten. …The 9^th Circuit is really something we have to take a look at because it's not fair…This was an Obama judge. And I tell you what, it's not going to happen like this anymore."

-- Trump, criticizing Judge Jon Tigar

"We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for."
-- Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, in response   

"...115 plastic cups, 19 hard plastic pieces, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags, six wood splinters, two rubber sandals, one nylon sack, and more than 1,000 pieces of plastic rope. The total weight of the wet garbage was 5.9 kilograms."

"Maybe he did and maybe he didn't."