Trump Claims ‘Media Pile on Against Me…Worst in American Political History’
“It is being reported by virtually everyone, and is a fact, that the media pile on against me is the worst in American political history!”
“It is being reported by virtually everyone, and is a fact, that the media pile on against me is the worst in American political history!”
“He also recognizes there is a threat around the world, not just here in Minnesota, of radical Islam. I wish our President Obama also understood the threat of radical Islam and took it seriously.”
Der Stürmer, says a historian, “introduced the most rabid attacks on Jews, full of sexual innuendo, racist caricatures, made-up accusations”
“Some day, when things calm down, I’ll tell the real story of @JoeNBC and his very insecure long-time girlfriend, @morningmika. Two clowns!”
“We can’t have the president of the United States acting like the drug dealer in chief. Giving clean packs of money to a…state sponsor of terror.”
“I don’t know where he got the idea that you can just somehow drive a big pickup truck into Mexico and bring back all the jobs.”
The Zealots from the fringes “think if you say it often enough, they’re convinced that will get Donald Trump the white votes he needs”
In a single sentence Hannity managed to celebrate Trump using a teleprompter to attack Obama and Clinton, both of whom he himself has attacked for using a teleprompter.
Trump’s complete surrender to the fantasy world of paranoia and conspiracy theories has Alex Jones very excited. Yes, Alex Jones is excited by Trump’s retreat from our fact-based reality into a Breitbart-based reality. It hardly needs be said the two have nothing to do with one another. As CNN’s Brian Stelter put it, the addition…
“I think that anyone that’s from a Muslim country that wants to immigrate to the United States, they not only should ask these questions, they should do it hooked up to a polygraph machine.”
“I’d like to say, words do kill and the politicians have to exercise self-restraint and know where the line must not be crossed.”
“Even though if states are pushing these anti-Sharia laws, that does not prove that anyone is trying in any credible, tangible, big way to establish Sharia law”
“Keep in mind, when Donald Trump brings this up, this is not new. When the communist threat was the number one threat…as is Islamic extremists today.”
It is a short step from Trump’s demand in his ISIS speech for “an ideological screening test” to basing the right to vote on holding the right ideological position
“In the Cold War, we had an ideological screening test. The time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today.”
“In Israel, incitement such as this led to the murder of my father, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 20 years ago,” writes Yuval Rabin
“Mr. Trump prefers to watch the cable shows rather than read a briefing paper…Is that so hard? Apparently so…he needs to stop blaming everyone else”
“What I make of this is how bad things have become in America…it makes Donald Trump’s point that law and order is out of control”
“If he’s going to hold up made-up articles or made-up charts from fringe websites, how can we believe what he’s actually saying?”
If Clinton defeats Trump, “would that not suggest there is something fraudulent about American democracy, something rotten in the state?”
“The most unholy partnership of all time,” Obama and Clinton, are constantly “trying to bait Trump into saying something that will sidetrack him”
“The evidence that tax cuts stimulate business in any kind of meaningful way…is extremely poor to put it mildly.”
The NRA is coming to Trump’s defense spending millions of dollars to spread lies about Hillary Clinton because they know he will do their bidding.”
Paul Nehlen, Paul Ryan. The result for Democrats – and for the country – is unchanged, because nothing by any other name is still nothing.
Phil Robertson has threatened to run for president, because apparently he’s a better solution to nonexistent problems than the guy he is endorsing, Donald Trump. But I don’t think that’s the real story here. The real story is Robertson’s almost incomprehensibly high levels of hypocrisy. It’s breathtaking. According to Robertson, who says “spiritual warfare is…
Trump “has left the [GOP] few options but to act decisively and get this political train wreck off the tracks before something terrible happens.”
“You get to a certain point in this business, you’re not just responsible for what you say, you are responsible for what people hear. “
This man, frankly, is a traitor to our country. If he had been anything other than African-American he would have been impeached…by now”
Sean Hannity demands a “rebuttal to the health issues that are alleged by Drudge and others” even though they are invented and already debunked
“She looks like she’s got…Down syndrome whenever she’s out there with the balloons falling, like she’s a three-year old with a lobotomy.”
“From Team Bush, it’s a bitter pill to swallow, but you know what? You get back up and you help the man that won, and you make sure that we stop Hillary Clinton.”
Reactions to an American president who not only says but does things from a position of apparent insanity, can never mean good things for the United States
“The plane I saw on television was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million in cash going to Iran!”
Even as speculation arises that Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, may have illegally entered the country , the former reality star is warning of the dangers of immigration. In at least one case, an immigrant has plagiarized a speech and lied about having a college degree. So there is that. It appears the only immigrants Trump…
During a foreign policy briefing several months ago, Trump asked three times in an hour, “If we have them, why can’t we use them?”
Having lost both legs in Iraq, Duckworth tweeted, “This is how one usually looks when you are awarded the Purple Heart. Nothing easy about it”
“In God’s line of authority, “it seems very clear in the scripture that a woman should not be in authority over men, which would limit a woman from being the president of the United States of America.”
“Donald Trump is a silver-spooned draft dodger who bragged about bedding women while real men of courage were giving their lives serving this country in Vietnam.”
“It has become abundantly clear that Donald Trump shares the cruelty and recklessness of Joseph McCarthy as well as his lack of decency. “
“The first thing I want to do is correct a rumor that the media keeps stimulating, and that is that I’m probably going to support Hillary. That is a blood libel.”
And we must do it not only for ourselves, but for our adversaries. The survival of our democracy depends on it.
“As usual, Hillary & the Dems are trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games. Same as last time w/ Bernie. Unacceptable!”
“You’re not running for president because you want the power or you want to make America great, I think you need the $400,000 a year salary”
Pence said “I don’t think name calling has any place in public life” – unless it’s Trump talking about “Crooked Hillary” or “Crazy Bernie”
When and how did President Bush set up the kill shot? He had no interest at all in killing bin Laden in 2001 or at any time thereafter
“I spoke indirectly and directly with President Putin, who could not have been nicer…And I got to know him very well”
“Hillary’s wars in the Middle East have unleashed destruction, terrorism and ISIS across the world.”
“Our country does not feel ‘great already’ to the millions of wonderful people living in poverty, violence and despair”
When Priebus tweeted “the Trump-Pence ticket” will put America first, Olbermann observed, “Hey, @Reince, you misspelled ‘Trump-Putin.'”
Gaffney says the Democrats are “aligned with our enemies and not with America” and “will doom all of us if they have their way.”
“It’s as if this is a child playing with matches who doesn’t understand how badly he and the country can get burned.”
Rather than excluding, Democrats are looking to bring as many into the party as they can: Democracy’s many voices rather than an oligarch’s one.
“His neo-fascistic tendencies make him the most divisive and scary of any serious presidential candidate in American history.”
“I was there, I didn’t see any discord. I just saw a bunch of white people having a good time, that’s all I saw. “
Trump said “Sad to watch Bernie Sanders abandon his revolution,” while Bernie was talking about, “Our…new group called Our Revolution”
“Hard to believe that Bernie Sanders has done such a complete fold. He got NOTHING for all of the time, energy and money.”
“Over 45 Years … I Don’t Know What Else To Call What Emerges, Except Racism.”
“I think it was a home run…if you want to keep Donald Trump out of the White House, hard to find a better selection than that”
Trump stiffed The Paint Spot $34K, claiming it had been “paid enough” regardless of the contract he had signed
“If you believe that America is better off governed by five elites who are detached from any kind of control by the anybody, then vote for Hillary Clinton.”
“We cannot salute the Republican nominee or pretend that we might endorse him this fall. A Trump presidency would be dangerous for the nation and the world”
“If the Republicans and the evangelicals do not get off their posteriors and vote, I think I’m going to head back to the woods and hide out.”
“I was disappointed with Ken Burns. He is a historian, he knows better. This is a smear tactic that we’re seeing far too much of in this campaign.”
“It was a terrifying speech, a dark vision of…a mythical America that does not really exist”
“I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on January 20th 2017, safety will be restored”
Not only is this a lame comeback, its a recycled comeback, since he said the same thing about the wife of Bernie Sanders
To turn one of the GOP’s favorite misogynist tropes around on them, what did Trump think was going to happen?
“The headline of the week so far is, this convention is not a disaster, which is a massive victory for Trump.”
The GOP convention has introduced the banana republican idea that political opponents should not be merely denigrated, but arrested.
“It actually applies to her life. It talks about her parents and the values and the values she wants to put to her kids.”
“In the second passage…22 words out of 26 words that Melania Trump spoke were taken directly, word for word from Michele Obama’s words.”
“It violates the law to send fundraising emails to members of a foreign government on their official foreign government email accounts.”
“The U.S. government should never subject Americans to surveillance for exercising basic Constitutional rights.”
In a quickly replaced campaign logo, Trump’s T penetrates Pence’s P, or, as Samantha Bee puts it, ‘breaks the mattress of America’
Trump complained “people are pouring into this country and, in many cases they’re not well people, in many respects.”
Newt Gingrich showed up on Fox News’ Hannity Thursday to call for something really “kooky” (Bill Kristol’s words) – the imposition of religious tests for Muslims: “We should frankly test every person here who is of a Muslim background, and if they believe in Sharia, they should be deported.” This is coming from one of…
Trump reportedly made the offer Thursday and Pence accepted, putting an end to one aspect of Trump’s long political circus.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has garnered much negative attention for her remarks about Donald Trump and his unsuitability for the office of president (i.e. because Trump is a madman), but she is far from alone. On Facebook, a group of prominent historians led by Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, have…
“[T]he most high God may have lifted up Trump, because very possibly he’s the only one that could defeat Hillary Clinton this fall.”
What better bona fides for Trump’s VP pick, eh? If Gingrich doesn’t exactly walk the walk, he does love America so much he can’t keep his pants up
If what has occurred so far is an indicator, the final GOP platform is going to be even more hateful and scarier than the 2012 version.
“To say that the goal is not to win elections but for people to embrace his ideas is disconnected from what we are trying to do here.”
Pence announced “Even if I become vice president, I can fill out my term,” but Indiana law says he only has until July 15 to decide
“107 people have died under suspicious circumstances in and around the orbit of the Clintons,” and “it is hard to believe that that is just coincidental.”
“Look, anti-Semitic images – they’ve got no place in a presidential campaign. Candidates should know that…obviously they’ve got to fix that”
Ernst is a slightly more intelligent, or at least articulate, version of Sarah Palin, and that’s not saying much
it isn’t the media sending these messages but Trump himself, in language we all understand, that the greatness he aims for is right from the 1930s
There are more registered Democrats than Republicans in Colorado for the first time in 20 years
“I like the idea of using NATO and also neighbors that aren’t in NATO and take them out. You gotta take them out.”
“Trump exposes the GOP as America’s institution of bigotry, dishonesty, ignorance, warmongering and cruelty against the vulnerable and powerless.”
“Maybe he’s two Donalds…Maybe Today He’s Not Running For President, He’s Selling Suites.” But he’s not two Donalds and he’s always selling suites.
“For CNN to hire him 12 minutes after he was fired is to use, one of Trump’s famous words, sad.”
Trump met with Troy Newman, who says the federal government has a responsibility to execute abortion providers
Trump’s Muslim travel ban list seems then to be less about danger vectors than sources of wealth for Donald Trump
“I could give you names but I won’t because it’s meaningless. First of all it’s illegal, second of all you can’t do it. “
The Democrats of the antebellum south are the Republicans of today, and the Democratic Party that more closely resembles the party of Lincoln
Social media provides an unwelcome reality check, so “We need a conservative Facebook, a conservative Google, a conservative Twitter.”
The combination of Clinton securing her party’s nomination and several weeks of missteps by Trump is beginning to take its toll on the spray-tanned billionaire.
“Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.”