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“Can you believe that with all the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf? Worse than Carter.”

—Donald Trump tweet, Oct. 13, 2014.

“Who plays more golf, yourself or the President? My money is on POTUS.”

—Donald Trump tweet, August 20, 2013.

“Obama should play golf with Republicans & opponents rather than his small group of friends. That way, maybe the terrible gridlock would end.”

—Donald Trump tweet, September 19, 2012.

“President Trump is at his Florida golf club this morning, marking the 95th day at a golf property and his 124th day at a Trump property since taking office.”

—NBC News, on February 3, 2018, the 379th day of Trump’s presidency.

“I’ve said that if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her. And I helped create her. She’s 6 feet tall, she’s got the best body. Yeah, she’s really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren’t happily married and, ya know, her father …”

—Donald Trump, talking about his daughter on The View, 2006.

“Is it wrong to be more sexually attracted to your own daughter than your wife?”

––Donald Trump, 1994 interview with Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen.

“I think she’s (Nancy Pelosi) an impressive person. I like her a lot. … But I was surprised she didn’t do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush. It just seemed like she was going to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which personally I think would’ve been a wonderful thing. Look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant, and they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense. Yet Bush got us into this horrible war with lies, by lying, by saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true.”

—Donald Trump, Oct. 17, 2008, on impeaching George W. Bush

“Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?”

—Donald Trump tweet on impeaching Barack Obama, 3:23 a.m., June 4, 2014

“You don’t even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic if this body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role. Impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.”

—Sen. Lindsey Graham, Jan. 16, 1999, on the impeachment of Bill Clinton

“It’s unlikely they will want to remove from power a representative of their party based on what are, in my opinion, completely fabricated reasons.” 

—Vladimir Putin, on the impeachment of Donald Trump, Dec. 19, 2019