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“My two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.”

—Donald Trump tweet at 6:27 a.m., Jan. 6, 2018.

“It would take an hour-and-a-half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles.”

—Donald Trump, Washington Post interview, Nov. 15, 1984.

“Maybe it’s a nice present. Maybe it’s a present where he sends me a beautiful vase, as opposed to a missile test.”

—Donald Trump, referring Tuesday to Kim Jong Un’s “Christmas surprise.”

“We’ll have an economy based on wind. I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. I’ve studied it better than anybody. I know it’s very expensive. They’re made in China and Germany mostly — very few made here, almost none. But they’re manufactured tremendous — if you’re into this — tremendous fumes. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint — fumes are spewing into the air. Right? Spewing. Whether it’s in China, Germany, it’s going into the air. It’s our air, their air, everything — right? So they make these things and then they put them up.”

—Donald Trump, at Turning Point USA Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, Saturday.

“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.