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Mudline January 23, 2025
January 23, 2025
........Trump on the US: "The pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair...We have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves, in many cases to hate our country."....Trump on 2020: "They rigged the election."....Trump on Democrats: "They don't love our Country, they only think of themselves."....Trump on Episcopal bishop, Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, who urged him to show mercy: "She was nasty in tone and not compelling or smart. She is not very good at her job."....Rep. Mike Collins on Budde, a NJ-born US citizen: "Should be added to the deportation list."....Trump on John Bolton: "A warmonger...I thought he was a very dumb person, but I used him well..."....Trump, on Inauguration day, shortly after saying his legacy "will be that of a peacemaker and unifier": "Liz Cheney is a disaster. She's a crying lunatic...She hated the idea of not going to war with everybody."....on Nancy Pelosi: "Guilty as hell."....on former Rep. Adam Kinzinger: "A super crier. He's always crying."....on Gen. Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "Fascist to the core."....Steve Schmidt on inauguration: "Only Donald and Melania Trump -- with a little lift from the Princess Sanchez -- could strip a dignified event of dignity so vividly, dramatically, and with so little effort."....Megyn Kelly on Jeff Bezos' partner Lauren Sanchez's inauguration outfit: "She dresses like a hooker... No one should be talking about your tits."....Jon Stewart on Sen. John Fetterman's wearing shorts and sweatshirt: "[He] is literally America's teenage son."....pardoned Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio on J6 committee: "They need to be imprisoned...They need to pay for what they did."....Norm Pattis, lawyer for Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes and other J6 leaders, on criticism: "Our politics has always been violent. Violence is the norm in this country."....Craig Sicknick, brother of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died from the J6 assault: "The man who killed my brother is now president."....former police officer Michael Fanone, badly beaten on J6, on release of his assailants: "I have been betrayed by my country."....Bill McKibben: "It is hard, watching the richest men on earth grovel before the new king, not to feel a little fear."....Sen. Chris Murphy: "The billionaires are in charge. People who want to addict our kids to technology, control what we think and do, destroy small businesses so they own everything."....Andrew Sullivan: "I have what can only be called intermittent waves of nausea and panic triggered by the memory of the last, long four years of being tethered to a mercurial, malevolent bully who wouldn't ever shut up or leave us alone."....Ben Cohen on Elon Musk: "He falls for every bonkers conspiracy theory out there, lies incessantly, and uses his platform to destroy people he doesn't like. He's basically a super villain with so much money nothing can stop him."....Trump on LA fire-fighting: "We are watching fires still tragically burn from weeks ago without even a token of defense."....Bill Maher on LA Mayor Karen Bass: "The Nero of American politics...fiddling in Ghana while the city burned."....Laura Ingraham on Biden: "He had us wearing masks that didn't work."....Maureen Dowd on Trump: "The highchair king."....Steven Beschloss on Pete Hegseth: "Just the kind of angry, arrogant, retrogressive man who Trump adores."....Timothy Snyder: "What 'America First' means, in the 2020s as in the 1940s, is that America should be the first democracy to imitate leading foreign dictators. Trump has admired dictators and will admire dictators."....Noah Smith: "Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet."....
