"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

"I'm not joking...There are methods by which you could do it."
-- Trump, acknowledging that he might seek a third term

"We do have authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court."
-- House Speaker Mike Johnson, on a way to push back against legal challenges to Trump policies

"The birth rate is very low in almost every country, and unless that changes Civilization will disappear...Nothing seems to be turning that around. Humanity is dying."
-- Elon Musk

"The old relationship we had with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is over."
-- Canada's PM Mark Carney

"Our message to Denmark is simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland."
-- America's VP JD Vance