Posted in Politics on March 5, 2020| 2 Comments »
“40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan…And now it’s the tallest.”
—Donald Trump, pointing out that his building was now the tallest structure in Manhattan during an interview with a New York TV station following the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.
Posted in Politics on March 4, 2020| 5 Comments »
“His wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say. She probably— maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.”
—Donald Trump, ridiculing Ghazala Khan, a Gold Star Mother, in ABC News interview, July 30, 2016.
“What’s that?”
—Bone Spurs Trump, champion of the military, after being advised that he’d just attacked a Gold Star family (the same Bone Spurs Trump who awarded the Congressional Medal of Freedom Medal to Rush Limbaugh—who, like Bone Spurs, never wore a military uniform).
Posted in Politics on March 3, 2020| 6 Comments »
“Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.”
—Donald Trump, ABC interview, March 2011
“I’m non-braggadocious.”
—Donald Trump, speech in Blue Ash, Ohio, Feb. 5, 2018.
Posted in Politics on March 2, 2020| 4 Comments »
“I don’t think I’ve made mistakes. Every time somebody said I made a mistake, they do the polls and my numbers go up, so I guess I haven’t made any mistakes.”
—Donald Trump, on Making Mistakes.
“There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down.”
—Donald Trump, making an unfounded accusation regarding the 9/11 attacks (aka a mistake, maybe?)
“Mexico is going to pay for the wall.”
—Donald Trump tweet, Dec. 13, 2018 (another mistake?)
Posted in Politics on March 1, 2020| 9 Comments »
“This year I got beaten out by Greta — you know Greta?”
–Donald Trump, Feb. 29, 2020, continuing to whine about teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg’s being named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, claiming instead that he “should win it every single year.”
“And this is their new hoax.”
–Donald Trump, Feb. 29, 2020, in claiming that the coronavirus threat is somehow a Democratic plot against his presidency—even as he tightens travel restrictions in an effort to combat the virus’s spread.
