"No, I didn't go. I got reports. They were so bad, I didn't want to go. There was nothing that I wanted to see."
-- Trump, asked if he has seen any shows at The Kennedy Center, of which he has now made himself president

A few of the over 200 Kennedy Center performances in 2024:
Macbeth
Renée Fleming sings Strauss
Mamma Mia!
National Bunraku Theater of Japan
Patty LuPone: A Life in Notes
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
Sara Bareilles: National Symphony Orchestra
Korean National Ballet
New York City Ballet: Jewels
Patty LuPone: A Life in Notes
Nora Jones: Visions Tour 2024
Cyrus Chestnut: Duke Ellington Sacred Concert
Here It Is: A Tribute to Leohard Cohen
Audra McDonald: National Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven's Fifth

"Have you ever looked at a map and thought, 'You know what Denmark needs? More sunshine, palm trees, and roller skates.' Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make that dream a reality. Let's buy California from Donald Trump! MAKE CALIFORNIA GREAT AGAIN!"
-- petition  in Denmark

"A lot of people have said that this has been the greatest opening -- almost three weeks -- in the history of the presidency."
-- Trump

"There's a light over the United States. People are happy, more confident. The approval ratings for this country have gone through the sky more than at any time... There's a light all over the world. I've been called by other leaders. They said, 'Sir, there's a light over our country right now.'"
-- Trump speaking pre-Super Bowl from Air Force 1

"There is no dictatorship here other than Donald Trump saying, 'This is not gonna happen.'"
-- Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Trump's ban of trans athletes

"CBS should lose its license, and the cheaters at '60 Minutes' should all be thrown out, and this disreputable 'NEWS' show should be immediately terminated."
-- Trump

"One word, groceries. Very simple word. Groceries. Like, almost, you know, who uses the word? I started using the word groceries."
-- Trump

"CFPB RIP"
-- tombstone emoji posted by Elon Musk

"The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has saved American consumers over $20B. No wonder the billionaires running the Trump White House want to eliminate it."
--  Rep. Brendan Boyle

"Very few in the bureaucracy actually work the weekend, so it's like the opposing team just leaves the field for two days!"
-- Elon Musk, on the federal workforce

"You go on a driving range in golf and hit hundreds of balls, thousands of hours. I've never seen a ball hit another ball... Balls going up all over the place, you never see them hit. It was amazing this could happen."
-- Trump, on DC plane-chopper crash

"The United States stands ready to lead and Make Gaza Beautiful Again."
-- Secretary of State Marco Rubio

"Gaza today is uninhabitable for at least the next 10 to 15 years."
-- Trump Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff

"The US will take over Gaza, and we will do a job with it...We'll own it...Everyone loves the idea."
-- Trump

"We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead."
-- Elon Musk, posting at 1:54 a.m. Monday

"We have to have pristine, perfect, beautiful law enforcement. And Kash is the one to do it...Who would have thought that the FBI could have been corrupted the way they were?... The FBI was a very corrupt institution. And I was a victim of it."
-- Trump

"We're getting rid of all the cancer -- I call it cancer -- that was caused by the Biden administration."
-- Trump

"Regulations, basically, should be default gone. Not default there, default gone...We've got to restore freedom.. If it's not possible now, it'll never be possible."
-- Elon Musk