"Real inflation is way over 50 percent."
-- Trump, off by 47 points

"Under Crooked Joe, 109 percent of all net job creation over the last year has gone to migrants."
-- Trump

"I didn't even know what the hell NATO was too much before [I became president], but it didn't take me long to figure it out. Like about two minutes. And the first thing I figured out was they weren't paying."
-- Trump

"He doesn't understand it."
-- former Trump national security adviser John Bolton, on Trump and NATO

"If we're not going to become a banana republic, unfortunately we're going to have to use banana republic means."
-- former DOJ official John Yoo, on pursuing revenge during a second Trump administration

"As I looked at [the recent SC ruling on presidential immunity], I realized Richard Nixon would have had a pass. Virtually all of his Watergate-related conduct [and] virtually all that evidence falls in what could easily be described as 'official conduct.' I'm not even sure you could get to the Nixon tapes under this ruling."
-- John Dean

"By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately, do you notice that, a lot of sharks? I watched some guys justifying it today. 'Well, they weren't really that angry. They bit off the young lady's leg because of the fact that they were not hungry, but they misunderstood who she was.' These people are crazy. He said there's no problem with sharks."
-- Trump, at recent rally

"All they know is electric. They want electric army tanks. They want electric planes. What happens if the sun isn't shining while you're up in the air?"
-- Trump on green-energy advocates

"The historical left...do no not understand that the MAGA movement, as it gets momentum and builds, is moving much farther to the right than President Trump. They will look back fondly at Donald Trump. They'll ask: Where's Trump when we need him?"
-- Steve Bannon

"I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it."
-- Trump

"I believe that no one is above the law under our system and that includes the president."
-- now-Chief Justice John Roberts in his 2005 confirmation hearing

"No person in this country, no matter how high or powerful, is above the law."
-- Justice Samuel Alito, in his 2006 confirmation hearing

"We're all equal before the law...The foundation of our Constitution was that... the presidency would not be a monarchy...[T]he president is not above the law, no one is above the law."
-- Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Senate in 2018

"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless -- if the left allows it to be."
-- Kevin Roberts, president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation and head of Trump's Project 2025