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Donald Trump
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“And we have a president that we don't even know if he's -- where is our president? We don't even know if he's a president. DAVID MUIR: And just to clarify here. They threw him out of a campaign like a dog. We don't even know, is he our president? But we have a president… DAVID MUIR: Mr. President,-- …that doesn't know he's alive.”
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Recorded in: Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript, ABC News (September 10, 2024)
“KAMALA HARRIS: …If Donald Trump were president, Putin would be sitting in Kyiv right now…. Putin would be sitting in Moscow and he wouldn't have lost 300,000 men and women. But he would have been sitting in Moscow… But eventually, you know, he's got a thing that other people don't have. He's got nuclear weapons. They don't ever talk about that. He's got nuclear weapons. Nobody ever thinks about that. And eventually uh maybe he'll use them. Maybe he hasn't been that threatening. But he does have that. Something we don't even like to talk about.”
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Recorded in: Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript, ABC News (September 10, 2024)
“And that's the kind of talent we have with her. She's worse than Biden. In my opinion, I think he's the worst president in the history of our country. She goes down as the worst vice president in the history of our country. But let me tell you something. She is a horrible negotiator. They sent her in to negotiate. As soon as they left Putin did the invasion.”
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Recorded in: Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript, ABC News (September 10, 2024)
“DAVID MUIR: …Why do you believe it's appropriate to weigh in on the racial identity of your opponent? I don't. And I don't care. I don't care what she is. I don't care. You make a big deal out of something. I couldn't care less. Whatever she wants to be is okay with me. DAVID MUIR: But those were your words. So, I'm asking -- I don't know. I don't know. All I can say is I read where she was not Black, that she put out. And, I'll say that. And then I read that she was black. And that's okay. Either one was okay with me. That's up to her. That's up to her.”
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Recorded in: Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript, ABC News (September 10, 2024)
“I built one of the greatest economies in the history of the world and I'm going to build it again. It's going to be bigger, better and stronger. But they're destroying our economy. They have no idea what a good economy is. Their oil policies -- every single policy -- and remember this. She is Biden. She's trying to get away from Biden. I don't know the gentleman, she says. She is Biden. The worst inflation we've ever had. A horrible economy because inflation has made it so bad and she can't get away with that.”
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Recorded in: Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript, ABC News (September 10, 2024)
“She is destroying our country. She has a plan to defund the police. She has a plan to confiscate everybody's gun. She has a plan to not allow fracking in Pennsylvania or anywhere else. That's what her plan is until just recently.”
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Recorded in: Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript, ABC News (September 10, 2024)
“It was 3 on 1, but they were mentally challenged people, against one person of extraordinary genius.”
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“They didn't correct her [Harris] once and they corrected me. Everything I said, practically, I think 9 times or 11 times. And the audience was absolutely, they went crazy. And the real, I thought, I walked off and I said, 'that was a great debate, I loved it.'”
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Recorded in: Regarding the debate audience (which there wasn‘t one), Donald Trump's Debate Crowd Comment Sparks Confusion: 'They Went Crazy', Newsweek (September 19, 2024)
“We do a lot of these beautiful rallies, and it's so great. We never have an empty seat, never have. Look at it.”
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Recorded in: Donald Trump Rally Videos Show Hundreds of Empty Seats", Newsweek (October 10, 2024)
“We have two enemies: We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within. And the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia and all these countries… But the thing that's tougher to handle are these lunatics that we have inside, like Adam Schiff — Adam 'Shifty' Schiff… I call him the enemy from within. When you look at the danger he put our country in potentially with Russia — with a phony, made-up deal that he made up with Hillary and some bad people.”
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Recorded in: Former President Trump calls the 'enemy from within' more dangerous than any foreign entity FoxNews (October 13, 2024)
“So we’re gonna take care of it, you and me. I’ll tell you, if everything works out and everybody gets out on January 5th, or before. You know, it used to be, you’d have a date. Today, you can vote two months before, probably three months after. They don’t know what the hell they’re doing. But we’re gonna straighten it all out. We’re gonna straighten that out, too. We’re gonna straighten out our election process, too. That’s gotta be important also.”
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Recorded in: Whoops! Trump Tells Supporters to Get Out and Vote on ‘January 5th’ Mediaite (October 14, 2024)
“Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music. Let’s make it into a music. Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?”
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Recorded in: Trump sways and bops to music for 39 minutes in bizarre town hall episode The Washington Post (October 14, 2024)
“To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff, and it’s my favorite word. It needs a public relations firm.”
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Recorded in: In Trump’s Economic Plan, Tariff Is ‘the Most Beautiful Word’ ‘’Bloomberg News’’ (October 15, 2024)
“I’m the father of IVF.”
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Recorded in: Fact check: Trump makes at least 19 false claims in one-hour Fox town hall with women", CNN (October 16, 2024)
“Ashli Babbitt was killed, nobody was killed.”
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Recorded in: Claimed about the January 6, 2020 United States Capitol attack. Quoted in "Univision Audience Reaction to Donald Trump Answer in Town Hall Goes Viral", Newsweek (October 17, 2024)
“Kamala should be investigated and forced off the Campaign, and Joe Biden allowed to take back his rightful place (He got 14 Million Primary Votes, she got none!). THIS WHOLE SORDID AND FRAUDULENT EVENT IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!”
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Recorded in: As it appeared on Truth Social, reported in Trump Melts Down In Wild Post Claiming Kamala Harris ‘Should Be Investigated’ And Biden Should Be His Opponent Again Mediaite (October 17, 2024)
“We have another former New York City mayor with us. Frankly, easily the worst in our history. And it's not Michael, that I can tell you. I'm surprised that Bill de Blasio was actually able to make it tonight, to be honest. He was a terrible mayor. I don't give a shit if this is comedy or not. He was a terrible mayor. He did a horrible job. That's not comedy, by the way. That's fact.”
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Recorded in: Al Smith dinner (October 17, 2024)
“If we go with Kamala, you won’t have any cows anymore. They want to do things like no more cows and no windows in buildings.”
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Recorded in: Trump tells child there will be no cows under Harris", The Hill (October 18, 2024)
“If radical left lunatics disrupt the election, it should be very easily handled by — if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.”
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Recorded in: Interview with Fox New host Howard Kurtz in 'It's been debunked': Fox News host fact checks Trump to his face on Springfield Haitians RawStory (October 20, 2024)
“Comrade Kamala Harris sees that she is losing, and losing badly, especially after stealing the Race from Crooked Joe Biden, so now she is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler, and anything else that comes to her warped mind. She is a Threat to Democracy”
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“I NEED THE KIND OF GENERALS THAT HITLER HAD”
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“When Kamala came in, she dismantled our border and threw open the gates to an invasion of criminal migrants. We're a dumping ground. We're like a garbage can for the world. That's what's happened. That's what's happened to our ... We're like a garbage can”
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“He’d take all the candy away very quickly. She wouldn’t have any idea what happened. It would be like a grand chess master playing a beginner. We would lose our country or be in World War III,because she’d get exasperated. She’s in no way able to handle him. He’s a fierce individual.”
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“Now we have income taxes, and we have people that are dying. They're paying tax, and they don't have the money to pay the tax. In the old days … we had so much money, they had to set up committees, blue-ribbon committees, [on] how to spend our wealth. We had no idea how to spend it with so much money. Then we went to the income tax system and the rest is sort of history. But no, there is a way”
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“And my people told me about four weeks ago, I was saying, ‘No, I want to protect the people. I want to protect the women of our country. I want to protect the women.’ “‘Sir, please don’t say that.’ “They said, ‘We think it’s, it’s very inappropriate for you to say.’ “I pay these guys a lot of money. Can you believe it? Well, I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I’m going to protect them.”
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Recorded in: Trump Says He Will Protect Women ‘Whether The Women Like It Or Not’ HuffPost (October 30, 2024)
“She's a radical war hawk. Let's put her with a rifle standing there, with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”
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Recorded in: Referring to Liz Cheney, reported in Arizona prosecutor investigating Trump for saying Cheney should face gunfire Reuters (October 31, 2024)
“I could’ve been anywhere I wanted to be. I could’ve had those waves smacking me in the face. That white, beautiful white skin that I have would be nice and tan. I got the whitest skin ’cause I never have time to go out in the sun. But I have that beautiful white, and you know what? It could’ve been beautiful, tanned, beautiful.”
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Recorded in: Trump Boasts He Has ‘Beautiful White Skin’ Right After Slamming Kamala Harris MSN (November 2, 2024)
“I shouldn’t have left. I mean, honestly, because we did so, we did so well.”
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Recorded in: Trump says he ‘shouldn’t have left’ the White House as he closes campaign with increasingly dark message CNN (November 3, 2024)
“In many cases, our allies are worse than our so-called enemies.”
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Recorded in: Claimed about allied NATO members and Russia, quoted in "Trump claims US is being exploited by allies, calls them ‘worse than enemies’", TVP World (November 3, 2024)
“Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner. Sometimes the votes can take two years, or more. This is what they did four years ago, and we cannot let it happen again. We need positions filled IMMEDIATELY!”
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Recorded in: Trump declares Senate majority candidates should allow him to make recess appointments NBC News (November 10, 2024)
“I spoke to over 100 countries. You wouldn’t believe how many countries there are.”
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Recorded in: 16 December 2024, Politico and CNN
“I’d like Egypt to take people. You're talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, 'You know, it's over.’”
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Recorded in: Regarding what to do with the Palestinian refugees currently on the Gaza Strip, quoted in Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more refugees to 'just clean out' Gaza NPR (January 26, 2025)
“Because I have common sense, OK, and unfortunately a lot of people don't.”
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Recorded in: When asked how he could come to the conclusion that FAA diversity policies had something to do with the fatal air disaster at Reagan Washington National Airport, quoted in Trump goes on offensive against FAA diversity i…
“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law”
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Recorded in: 15 February 2025 on X tweet and Truth Social, quoted in Trump suggests he’s above the law with ominous Napoleon quote Independent (February 16, 2025)
“The 14th Amendment Right of American Citizenship never had anything to do with modern day "gate crashers," illegal immigrants who break the Law by being in our Country, it had everything to do with giving Citizenship to former slaves.”
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Recorded in: 16 February 2025 post on TruthSocial, quoted same day by Ryan King of New York Post and Patrick Djordjevic of News Nation Now
“It’s called the Gulf of America now. It’s not called the Gulf of Mexico any longer. I have the right to do it. We are going to keep them out until such time that they agree it is the Gulf of America.”
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Recorded in: Referring to AP reporters being banned from the White House, referenced in Donald Trump Says White House Will Prohibit Associated Press From Events Until They Agree To Rename Gulf Of Mexico Deadline (February 18, 2025)
“I had an approval rating today of 71 and another one of 69. I have not heard of those numbers before.”
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Recorded in: Trump generously makes up an approval rating for himself, defying reality" MSNBC (February 21, 2025)
“Wow, that's beautiful. This is a different panel than I've ever — everything's computer!”
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Recorded in: When inspecting a Tesla Model S at the White House; quoted from Donald Trump reviews Tesla Model S: 'Everything's computer' Business Insider (Mar 11, 2025)
“I call it a lot of different names, but it's really, in a sense, it's a rebirth of a country because how we could have afforded to do what we did, we helped everybody and they don't help us. The term I like best probably is the liberation of America. It's a liberation of this country because it's incredible. Look, we have 36 trillion in debt for a reason and that accumulates over a long period of time. What you're going to be seeing over the next couple of days will be very inspiring to a lot of people.”
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Recorded in: Regarding the round of tariffs expected to be enforced on most imported goods beginning April 2nd as referenced in "Trump says India will 'substantially' cut tariffs, signals major US tariff moves" The Tribune (April 1,…
“We are going to be very nice, relatively speaking. We are going to be very kind.... Somebody said that about me the other day, who doesn’t know me very well. They said — ‘You are such a kind person’ and I said, ‘Say that again.’ They said, ‘You are a kind person.’ I said, ‘I’ve never heard that before.’”
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Recorded in: Speaking on the severity of the tariffs as reported in Trump has the world on edge as he mulls fateful tariffs decades in the making CNN (April 1, 2025)
“THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
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Recorded in: Posted on Truth Social following the implementation of sweeping tariffs as reported in ‘The operation is over, the patient lived’: Donald Trump after shaking global economies with US tariffs The Times of India (April 3,…
“I think it's going very well. It was an operation, like when a patient gets operated on and it's a big thing. I said this would exactly be the way it is.... The markets are going to boom, the stock is going to boom, the country is going to boom, and the rest of the world wants to see is there any way they can make a deal. They've taken advantage of us for many, many years. For many years we've been at the wrong side of the ball. And I'll tell you what, I think it's going to be unbelievable.”
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Recorded in: When asked how things were going after a drop in the stock market the first day after Trump's tariff announcement as reported in Trump says ‘it’s going very well’ after tariffs roil markets ABC News (April 3, 2025)
“TO THE MANY INVESTORS COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES AND INVESTING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY, MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE. THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH, RICHER THAN EVER BEFORE!!!”
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Recorded in: Posted on Truth Social following the announcement of his worldwide tariffs policy and the resulting sharp sell-off in the stock market a day later as reported in Trump insists he won’t back down from global trade war as…
“...We are bringing back jobs and businesses like never before. Already, more than FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS OF INVESTMENT, and rising fast! THIS IS AN ECONOMIC REVOLUTION, AND WE WILL WIN. HANG TOUGH, it won’t be easy, but the end result will be historic. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
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Recorded in: Truth Social (April 5, 2025)
“It's the only chance we're going to have to reset the table on trade, and when we do, we're going to come out unbelievably well. We're going to have a strong country economically again and we're going to have those factories that are empty all over the United States.”
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Recorded in: Indicating there would be no change of course regarding tariff plan, reported in Trump tariff team cites Chicago economist's work, but he says their math doesn't check out ABC7 Chicago (April 7, 2025)
“We’re dealing with them directly and maybe a deal is going to be made. Doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious. Iran is going to be in great danger, and I hate to say it…. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and if the talks aren’t successful, I think it’s going to be a very bad day for Iran.”
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Recorded in: Referring to upcoming talks with Iran about their nuclear capability, taken from Trump Says U.S. Will Have Direct Talks With Iran About Nuclear Program TIME (April 7, 2025)
“There can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations, because there are things that we need beyond tariffs. We need open borders.”
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“I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy. You know, they were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid…. Over the last few days it looked pretty glum… You have to be flexible. You have to be able to show a little flexibility. And I'm able to do that.”
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Recorded in: Reasons given for pausing his tariff plan for 90 days for all countries except China, reported in Trump explains dramatic reversal on tariffs: People getting 'a little bit afraid' ABC News (April 9.2025)
“I’m not asking for much ... but they can't have a nuclear weapon. If it requires military, we're going to have military. Israel will, obviously, be ... the leader of that. No one leads us. We do what we want. I don't want to be specific. But when you start talks, you know if they're going along well or not. And I would say the conclusion would be when I think they're not going along well.”
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Recorded in: Trump Repeats Threat to Use Military Force if Iran Does Not Agree to Nuclear Deal US News (April 9, 2025)
“In my case, I like to take a nice shower, take care of my beautiful hair.... I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet. It comes out drip, drip, drip. It’s ridiculous.”
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Recorded in: While signing an executive order repealing limits to the flow of water to bathroom showers, taken from ‘Make showers great again’: Why Trump’s fighting bathroom water pressure Al Jazeera (April 10, 2025)