"Very rational people. They were nice to deal with. They were strong people, smart people."
-- Trump on Iranian leadership, a month ago

"They're scum, they're sick people, they're led by sick people, and they're vicious, violent people. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a waste of time dealing with them. They're liars...They're cuckoo."
-- Trump on Iranian leadership, this week

"Every time I see a crypto guy where they dropped an investigation, I said, 'You're lucky I'm president.'"
-- Trump

"Weve got to put a bedsheet -- a big bedsheet -- over the Statue of Liberty. She's got to go to sleep for a while, because we're not letting anybody in anymore."
-- Rep. Troy Nehls

"If we terminate the filibuster, as we should do, and immediately vote for the Save America Act, then we will not lose an election for 100 years."
-- Trump

"And remember, 1776, what a time that was, where we've come from there, what a date it is. It's a date like no other date."
-- Trump

"If we terminate the filibuster, as we should do, and immediately vote for the Save America Act, then we will not lose an election for 100 years."
-- Trump, speaking at Mt. Rushmore yesterday

"Do you think people appreciate what a fantastic job we did in building and operating the Great American State Fair at the National Mall, packed with happy people, and everybody loving it? Ask yourself this simple question: 'DO YOU THINK THAT OBAMA OR SLEEPY JOE BIDEN COULD HAVE DONE IT?' THE ANSWER IS NO."
-- Trump

"I'm honoring Theodore Roosevelt, the man I have long admired. I don't admire too many people, I have to tell you... He had a freakin' wild life. He didn't want to be quiet. He wanted to be great."
-- Trump, at dedication of TR library and museum

"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