"America's doors are fully closed to asylum seekers. In every case, they're either criminals, benefit seekers, economic migrants, welfare seekers, etc., etc. They're coming to join family members and so forth. But the good news for them is that other countries [are] willing to take them."
-- White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller

"It is mostly made up. Fake News, largely fiction, as have been most of the things she has written about me for so many years. She is a third-rate writer and intellect, who has made a first-rate income because of your favorite Presdent. ME."
-- Trump, on NYT reporter Maggie Haberman, co-author of Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

"On July 4 we will have the greatest show of all on the national mall. Your favorite president will be speaking, so please show up! Because if we have two empty seats, you know what's going to happen? The fake news is going to say, 'He didn't fill out the arena.'"
-- Trump, at opening of 250 festivities

"If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour story. The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy."
-- JD Vance

"If we were to lose the midterms, heaven forbid, these Democrats -- y'all impeachment's not even the big concern. They will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors and friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. I'll take care of you. We're going to win the midterms."
-- Speaker Mike Johnson, at Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference

"The most crowded place in the world is under Trump's bus."
-- Jim Acosta

Trump, on the new bottom surface of the Reflecting Pool:

"If you had a knife, you can't even cut it. It's so strong."
-- May 4

"Vandals...A 350-foot slit right through it. Probably a box cutter, or a knife of some kind."
-- June 22

"Well, Jon, 'Severely damaged' versus 'obliterated,' I'm not exactly sure what the difference is. What we know is we set their nuclear program back substantially."
-- JD Vance, last summer, asked if Iran's nuclear facilities had actually be "obliterated" by US strike

"Everyone needs to say f***ing obliterated....That's the word. Everyone just needs to copy what I say. Obliterated. Obliterated."
-- Trump in angry response, to an associate, according to new Haberman/Swan book

"All I have to do is look, and I listen."
-- Trump, asked for evidence of his claim of fraud when a MAGA reality TV personality finished third in the recent LA election

"You close [the Strait of Hormuz], and you won't have a country. You won't even make it back to your f***iing country."
-- Trump, threatening Iranian diplomats at peace deal negotiations, causing them to walk out in protest