Mudline November 17, 2025

November 17, 2025

........John Adams: "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."....Trump on Seth Meyers: "May be the least talented person to 'perform' live in the history of television. In fact, he may be the WORST to perform, live or otherwise."....Rep. Clay Higgins on SNAP recipients: "Any American who has been receiving $4200 per year of free groderies and does NOT have at least one month of groceries stocked should never again receive SNAP, because wow, stop smoking crack."....Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on immigration enforcement operations: "The Trump Administration has a strong proclivity to lie."....Stephen Miller: "To all ICE officers: You have federal IMMUNITY in the conduct of your duties!"....federal agent, pointing handgun at face of veteran demonstrating peacefully: "Bang bang. You're dead, liberal."....federal agent to Latino American citizen, protesting peacefully: "You got no right here. You're an amigo, brother."....Gov. Larry Hogan: "Enough of the lies. Enough of the hate...America would be better off if the President would resign or be removed from office."....Gov. Gavin Newsom on Trump breaking off talks with Canada: "The man-child in the Oval got his feelings hurt, so he is punishing the American people with higher costs."....Trump on cattle ranchers: "If it weren't for me, they would be doing just as they've done for the past 20 years -- terrible! It would be nice if they understood that."....NYT editorial board on Trump: "He does not have a mandate to treat people cruelly or to break the law himself."....Bill Maher: "A crazy person does not live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there."....Andrew Sullivan: "Grandiose building projects -- like this giant gilded palace that will dwarf the old White House and the Arc de Trump -- have long been part of any tyrant's core ambition -- it's how the first Roman emperor, Augustus, declared to the entire world that the republic was dead. This is Trump's way of telling us the same thing."....Chelsea Clinton: "This is what happens when we take a wrecking ball to our heritage."....Donald Trump Jr. in response: "Your parents tried stealing furniture and silverware from the White House...and let's not talk about the intern. Sit this one out."....David Axelrod: "Trump has a manic desire to tear down history and write his own."....Rick Wilson: "He saw a place designed for civic honor, official tenderness, and historical respect and wondered why it didn't look more like a casino atrium, a glittery Liberace dreamscape."....Drew Magary: "When you elect Trump president, as Americans have now done twice over, you're voting FOR desecration. Trump is the rabble, the confusion and the theft all in one neat little package...He is not asking for permission, or for forgiveness. He's just taking."....Mona Charen: "No opportunity for notice and comment from the public. Just Trump's whim -- and a beloved national symbol tumbles to dust. It's obscene."....James Carville on Sen. Sydney Hyde Smith: "She has the unique distinction of being at least as dumb as Tommy Tuberville -- I think dumber."....Steve Schmidt on SecDef Pete Hegseth: "A broken child...The cringiest reality show buffoon in world history."....Jeffrey Toobin on commutation of George Santos' sentence: "Mr. Trump's worldview is characterized by amoral deal-making, where friends are rewarded and enemies punished, regardless of the merits of their underlying conduct."....Trump: "The 2020 Presidential election [was] Rigged and Stolen...Look what happened to our Country when a Crooked Moron became our 'President!'"....WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: "Karine worked for the most incompetent president in history."....Matt Taibbi: "The world could see that Biden was in drool-cup mode as far back as 2019."....Trump, on invasion of Iraq: "The single worst decision ever made."....Maureen Dowd: "Congress is adrift. The White House is a shipwreck. Trump is marauding in the Caribbean. James Comey and Letitia James are being forced to walk the plank, and next up could be Jack Smith and Adam Schiff. We are awash in nautical metaphors as the president plunders and pillages. He's a pirate -- and not the fun Halloween kind."....Billie Eilish at award event: "If you have money, it would be great to use it for good things and maybe give it to people that need it...If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties."....