"The national emergency is avoiding a national emergency."
-- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, when asked what national emergency justifies imposing tariffs in an attempt to seize Greenland

"Fake."
-- Trump, on polls showing strong opposition in the U.S. to his threat to seize Greenland

"Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace...The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland."
-- Trump, in text to prime minister of Norway

"I'm the tariff king, and the tariff king has done a great job."
-- Trump

"Do you know what their defense is? Two dog sleds."
-- Trump, on Greenland

"One Homeland. One People. One Heritage."
-- Dept. of Labor ad

"Pedophile protector!"
-- T.J. Sabula, line worker at Ford plant, yelling at Trump

"F*** you! F*** you!"
-- Trump, in response, before flipping the bird

"No regrets whatsoever."
-- Sabula, on having been suspended

"Have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch."
-- ICE agent to protester

"We can't trust our government."
-- Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem

"You are the government."
-- CNN's Dana Bash

"Yes, that's what I'm saying."
-- Noem

"Many people in this room have been lying about this attack. She was trying to ram this guy with her car. He shot back. He defended himself."
-- JD Vance

"She behaved horribly. And then she ran him over. She didn't try to run him over. She ran him over."
-- Trump

"No one wants to go in there when a random f***ing tweet can change the entire foreign policy of the country."
-- oil industry investor, about Venezuela