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“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.

“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?)

“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.

“Democracy is the most fragile thing on earth, for what does it rest upon? You and me, and the fact that we agree to maintain it. The moment either of us says we will not, that’s the end of it. It doesn’t rest on anything but us; it doesn’t rest on armed force, the moment it does, it isn’t democracy.”

—Allen Drury, author of best-seller Advise and Consent.

“I just want to do it. I’m the president. Can’t I do it?”

—Donald Trump, on learning it was the role of Congress, not the president, to impose tariffs on foreign goods.

“I think the financial markets are very upset when they look at the Democrat candidates standing on that stage, making fools out of themselves, and they say, ‘If we ever have a president like this…’ When they look at the statements made by the people standing behind those podiums, I think that has a huge effect.”

—Donald Trump, attempting to explain that the Dow’s loss of 1,032 points on Monday and another 870 on Tuesday was the result of the Democratic debate in Charleston, S.C. [The only problem with that theory is that the Charleston debate occurred Tuesday night, several hours after the markets had closed.]

“It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump. Now, I have to tell you the truth about coronavirus. … Yeah, I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.”

—Congressional Medal of Freedom winner Rush Limbaugh, the medical expert who dropped out of college after only one year, explaining how the coronavirus is nothing more than a sinister plot against the Trump presidency.