"The question I get over and over again from my constituents is: what is in those Epstein Files that is so bad that Trump is invading Venezuela, threatening our NATO allies, and sending thousands of armed paramilitary troops onto our streets?"
-- Rep. Melanie Stansbury

"He wasn't there to peacefully protest. He was there to perpetuate violence."
-- Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, on Jeffrey Pretti

"An armed seditionist attacked federal law enforcement today as they were rounding up foreign invaders in Minneapolis. The insurrectionist was put down. Well done."
-- Rep. Randy Fine

"This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement."
-- Dept. of Homeland Security post

"Daddy is definitely home. Donald Trump is the Advocate for America I have waited for my entire life. He makes Reagan look a bit wishy-washy. What he said in Davos today was the most powerful speech perhaps ever given by a president to the world."
-- Glenn Beck

"They loved me. They called me 'Daddy,' right? The last time? A very smart man said, 'He's our daddy. He's running it.'"
-- Trump, on Europe and NATO before he tried to annex Greenland

"Without [the United States], right now you'd all be speaking German."
-- Trump speaking in Switzerland, where the main language is German

"The U.S. is back, and this is what U.S. leadership looks like."
-- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, on Trump's push to seize Greenland

"He is a madman. He is insane...The man is threatening war against a NATO ally."
-- Sen. Ruben Gallego

"I can't take this complicity...I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders."
-- Gov. Gavin Newsom at Davos

"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