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Donald Trump
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“I have to say that somebody from DOGE was very badly hurt… A young man who was beat up by a bunch of thugs in DC, and either they’re gonna straighten their act out in the terms of government and in terms of protection or we’re gonna have to federalize and run it the way it’s supposed to be run.”
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Recorded in: Trump reignites threat to take over DC after former DOGE worker assaulted in attempted carjacking CNN (August 6, 2025)
“Colbert has no talent. I mean, I could take anybody here. I could go outside in the beautiful streets and pick a couple of people that do just as well or better. They’d get higher ratings than he did. He’s got no talent. Fallon has no talent. Kimmel has no talent. They’re next. They’re going to be going. I hear they’re going to be going. I don’t know, but I would imagine because they’d get—you know, Colbert has better ratings than Kimmel or Fallon.”
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“It’s really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!”
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Recorded in: Claimed after the popular late night show hosts and comedians criticised the policies of Trump, quoted in "Trump repeats claim Kimmel, Fallon are ‘next’ after Stephen Colbert cancellation" New York Post (August 7, 2025)
“IT'S MIDNIGHT! BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TARIFFS ARE NOW FLOWING INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!”
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Recorded in: Claimed about tariffs paid by US importers, quoted in "New tariffs snap into effect, raising import taxes to highest level since Great Depression" NBC News (August 7, 2025)
“…I direct the Secretary of Defense to mobilize the District of Columbia National Guard and order members to active service, in such numbers as he deems necessary, to address the epidemic of crime in our Nation’s capital. The mobilization and duration of duty shall remain in effect until I determine that conditions of law and order have been restored in the District of Columbia.”
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Recorded in: RESTORING LAW AND ORDER IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA The White House (August 11, 2025)
“This is liberation day in D.C. and we’re going to take our capital back. We’re taking it back. Under the authorities vested in me as the president of the United States, I’m officially invoking section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act — you know what that is — and placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control.”
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Recorded in: Trump Places DC Police Under Federal Control: ‘We’re Going to Take Our Capital Back’ Yahoo News (August 11, 2025)
“See, they fight back until you knock the hell out of them, because it’s the only language they understand... You spit and we hit. And they’re standing there and people are spitting in their face and they’re not allowed to do anything. But now they are allowed to do whatever the hell they want.”
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Recorded in: Giving police permission to use whatever means of violence they want against Washington DC citizens, reported in Trump told cops to do ‘whatever the hell they want’ to fix DC. Here’s why that’s ‘extremely dangerous’ Ind…
“I don’t like being up here, talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once-beautiful capital was.”
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Recorded in: Trump Thought Alaska Was Russia, And The Internet Is Having An Absolute Field Day With It" Yahoo News / Buzzfeed (August 11, 2025)
“I’m going to see Putin. I’m going to Russia on Friday.”
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Recorded in: ‘I’m going to Russia’: Trump appears to forget Alaska is in US as he frets over facing Putin" The Independent (August 12, 2025)
“Our Economy is booming, and E.J. will ensure that the Numbers released are HONEST and ACCURATE.”
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Recorded in: Regarding his nomination of economist and contributor to Project 2025, E.J. Antoni, as the new Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Trump picks Heritage economist Antoni to lead US labor statistics agency Reuters (Au…
“There’s no deal until there’s a deal.”
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Recorded in: After meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska regarding ending the Russia-Ukraine War, Trump-Putin summit ends without a deal on Ukraine NBC News (August 15, 2025)
“Vladimir Putin said something – one of the most interesting things. He said: ‘Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting … No country has mail-in voting. It’s impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections.’”
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Recorded in: Love in a cold climate: Putin romances Trump in Alaska with talk of rigged elections and a trip to Moscow" The Guardian (August 16, 2025)
“I want to see a ceasefire rapidly. I don’t know if it’s going to be today. But I’m not going to be happy if it’s not today.”
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Recorded in: Said about the ongoing Russian warfare against Ukraine, quoted in "Trump Says No Deal Reached With Putin as Alaska Summit Ends Earlier Than Expected" Time Magazine (August 16, 2025)
“If I got Russia to give up Moscow as part of the Deal, the Fake News, and their PARTNER, the Radical Left Democrats, would say I made a terrible mistake and a very bad deal. That’s why they are the FAKE NEWS!”
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Recorded in: Trump Writes Post About Moscow That's Absurd Even For Him" Huffington Post (August 17, 2025)
“The very unattractive (both inside and out!) Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy, said ‘Putin got everything that he wanted.’ Actually, ‘nobody got anything,’ too soon, but getting close. Murphy is a lightweight who thinks it made the Russian President look good in coming to America.”
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“The Fake News has been saying for 3 days that I suffered a ‘major defeat’ by allowing President Vladimir Putin of Russia to have a major Summit in the United States. Actually, he would have loved doing the meeting anywhere else but the U.S., and the Fake News knows this.”
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Recorded in: Claimed about Vladimir Putin, who is subject to an arrest warrant that in most of the developed, democratic countries would have made him be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court in Hague for prosecution…
“Said about Melania Trump and the son that Donald and Melania have together:”
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“I want to try and get to heaven if possible…. I'm hearing I'm not doing well. …I am really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.”
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Recorded in: Speaking on Fox and Friends regarding his desire to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine War "Donald Trump shares fears he won't go to heaven as he says he's 'not doing well'" The Mirror US (August 19, 2025)
“When you go to a voting booth, and you do it the right way, and you go to a state that runs it properly, you go in -- they even asked me, they asked me for my license plate. I said, 'I don't know if I have it.' They said, 'Sir, you have to have it.' I was very impressed actually.”
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Recorded in: Trump Claims He Was Asked For His License Plate At The Voting Booth" Jalopnink (August 19, 2025)
“MSNBC IS DOING SO POORLY IN THE RATINGS THAT THEY ARE LOOKING TO CHANGE THEIR NAME IN ORDER TO GET AWAY FROM THE STENCH OF THEIR FAKE NEWS PRODUCT. SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH THEIR WEAK AND INEFFECTIVE OWNER, ‘CONCAST,’ HEADED BY DOPEY BRIAN ROBERTS, HOPELESSLY AND AIMLESSLY FLAILING IN THE WIND IN AN ATTEMPT TO DISASSOCIATE ITSELF FROM THE GARBAGE THAT THEY CREATED! MSNBC IS A FAILURE BY ANY NAME!!!”
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Recorded in: Trump Rants Against MSNBC After Lawrence O’Donnell Mocks His ‘Cankle’ Issue" TV Insider (August 21, 2025)
“They say, ‘we don’t need him, freedom, freedom, he’s a dictator, he’s a dictator.’ A lot of people are saying, ‘Maybe we would like a dictator.’ I don’t like a dictator; I’m not a dictator. I’m a man with great common sense, and I’m a smart person.”
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Recorded in: Trump insists he is not a dictator - but claims that many people think the US could use one Independent (August 25, 2025)
“Despite a very high popularity and, according to many, among the greatest 8 months in Presidential History, ABC & NBC FAKE NEWS, two of the worst and most biased networks in history, give me 97% BAD STORIES. IF THAT IS THE CASE, THEY ARE SIMPLY AN ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND SHOULD, ACCORDING TO MANY, HAVE THEIR LICENSES REVOKED BY THE FCC. I would be totally in favor of that because they are so biased and untruthful, an actual threat to our Democracy!!!”
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Recorded in: From Truth Social, reported in Trump Calls For 'Fake News' Networks To Have Licenses Revoked by FCC Newsweek (August 25, 2025)
“Except what is written and broadcast in the Fake News, I now have the highest poll numbers I’ve ever had, some in the 60’s and even 70’s.”
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Recorded in: Trump keeps boasting about his popularity. But where does he really stand?" NJ.com (August 25, 2025)
“If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail; no early exits, no nothing.”
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Recorded in: Trump bans burning of US flag in defiance of constitutional protections" Al Jazeera (August 25, 2025)
“WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOUTH KOREA? Seems like a Purge or Revolution. We can’t have that and do business there.”
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Recorded in: Trump claims 'Purge or Revolution' in South Korea ahead of meeting with new leader" Detroit News (August 25, 2025)
“And I don't like getting into looks. You know, looks don't mean anything, right? When you're in politics, looks don't matter. Look at Pam, I would never say she was beautiful because that would be the end of my political career.”
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Recorded in: Donald Trump makes 'creepy' flirty comment toward Pam Bondi during Cabinet meeting Irish Star (August 26, 2025)
“The Department of Defense… It didn’t sound good — defense. Why are we on defense? So it used to be called the Department of War, and it had a stronger sound. And as you know, we won World War I. We won World War II. We won everything. Now we have a Department of Defense. We’re defenders. I think Department of War, it just sounded better. We want defense, but we want offense too, if that’s OK. So you’ll make a decision. But you know, as Department of War, we won everything.”
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Recorded in: Trump wants to rename Department of Defense as ‘Department of War’: ‘It has a stronger sound’ The Indian Express (August 26, 2025)
“Baltimore is a hellhole.”
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Recorded in: Trump calls Baltimore a 'hellhole' during cabinet meeting" Fox 13 (August 26, 2025)
“I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States. If I think our country is in danger, and it is in danger in these cities, I can do it.”
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Recorded in: The US system always had loopholes. Trump 2.0 exploits what others resisted Roll Call (August 26, 2025)
“There is a sick rumour going around that Fake News NBC extended the contract of one of the least talented late-night television hosts out there, Seth Meyers. He has no Ratings, Talent, or Intelligence, and the Personality of an insecure child. So, why would Fake News NBC extend this dope’s contract. I don’t know, but I’ll definitely be finding out!!!”
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Recorded in: After Stephen Colbert, Donald Trump now targets Seth Meyers, host of ‘Late Night’: ‘Personality of an insecure child’" Mint (August 27, 2025)
“I’m sure that Ukraine thought they were going to win, you’re going to beat someone that’s 15 times your size ... you don’t go into a war that’s 15 times your size.”
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Recorded in: Trump Repeats His Favourite Kremlin Talking Point In Latest Anti-Ukraine Outburst" Yahoo / Huffington Post (August 27, 2025)
“Today a Highly Partisan Appeals Court incorrectly said that our Tariffs should be removed, but they know the United States of America will win in the end. If these Tariffs ever went away, it would be a total disaster for the Country. It would make us financially weak, and we have to be strong…. For many years, Tariffs were allowed to be used against us by our uncaring and unwise Politicians. Now, with the help of the United States Supreme Court, we will use them to the benefit of our Nation, and Make America Rich, Strong, and Powerful Again!”
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Recorded in: Most Trump tariffs are illegal, appeals court rules, setting up Supreme Court showdown USA Today (August 29, 2025)
“NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE”
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Recorded in: In response to questions about his health (bruised hands, swollen ankles, crooked gait) and lack of recent public appearances Trump claps back after weekend of speculation about his health: ‘Never felt better in my life…
“The problem I have with Colorado, one of the big problems, is they do mail-in voting. They went to all mail-in voting, so they have automatically crooked elections and we can’t have that. When a state is for mail-in voting that means they want dishonest elections because that’s what that means.”
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Recorded in: One of the reasons given for moving U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama Trump ends turf war and will move Space Command HQ to Alabama from Colorado MSN (September 2, 2025)
“I want to try and get to Heaven”
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Recorded in: From a campaign fundraising email asking supporters to contribute $15 during a 24-hour fundraising blitz Donald Trump Asks For $15 Donations to 'Get to Heaven' Newsweek (September 3, 2025)
“Without the United States, everything in the world would die.”
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“We get along with India very well.”
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Recorded in: 'Without US, everything in world would die': Trump defends his tariffs as 'war settler'" Business Today (September 3, 2025)
“Looks like we've lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest China. May they have a long and prosperous future together!”
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Recorded in: We've Lost India, Russia To Deepest, Darkest China": Donald Trump's Latest" NDTV (September 5, 2025)
“At least 54 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, 8 people were killed. The last two weekends were similar. Chicago is the worst and most dangerous city in the World, by far. Pritzker needs help badly, he just doesn’t know it yet. I will solve the crime problem fast.”
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“‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning...’ Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
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Recorded in: 'Chipocalypse Now': Trump threatens Chicago with deportations and Department of War ahead of potential crackdown" NBC News (September 6, 2025)
“Our great West Point (getting greater all the time!) has smartly cancelled the Award Ceremony for actor Tom Hanks. Important move! We don’t need destructive, WOKE recipients getting our cherished American Awards!!!”
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Recorded in: Trump attacks Tom Hanks after West Point cancels event honoring actor" The Guardian (September 8, 2025)
“Things that take place in the home, they call crime. They’ll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime scene.”
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Recorded in: Expressing frustration that domestic violence incidents are counted as part of city-wide crime totals, thus raising the number of verified crimes in Washington DC ‘A little fight with the wife’: Trump suggests domestic …
“It’s long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year, in the most hateful and despicable way possible.”
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Recorded in: ‘A Dark Moment for America’: Trump Responds to Charlie Kirk’s Death Time (September 10, 2025)
“I tell you something that is going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less. The radicals on the right are radical because they don’t want to see crime … The radicals on the left are the problem – and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, they want open borders. The worst thing that happened to this country.”
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Recorded in: In response to Ainsley Earhardt’s questions, “How do we fix this country? How do we come back together?” following the shooting death of Charlie Kirk Trump declines to call for unity after Charlie Kirk killing in stunni…
“He was a missionary with a noble spirit and a great, great purpose. He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry.”
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Recorded in: Speaking at Charlie Kirk memorial service Trump Says Kirk ‘Did Not Hate His Opponents … That’s Where I Disagreed With Charlie’ at Funeral for Conservative Activist Time (September 21, 2025)
“Acetaminophen. Is that okay? Which is basically, commonly known as Tylenol. Can be associated with a very increased risk of autism. So taking Tylenol is not good. I’ll say it, it’s not good.”
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“Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen. But with Tylenol, don't take it. Don't take it. And if you can't live, if your fever is so bad, you have to take one because there's no alternative to that. Sadly. First question, "What can you take instead?" It's actually, there's not an alternative to that. And as you know, other of the medicines are absolutely proven bad. I mean, they've been proven bad with the aspirins and the Advils and others, right? And they've been proven bad.”
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Recorded in: At a press conference along with members of his administration Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mehmet Oz, Transcript: Trump, RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz on Autism Rates and Tylenol The Singju Post (September 22, 2025)
“I’m going to be meeting with generals and with admirals and with leaders, and if I don’t like somebody, I’m going to fire them right on the spot.”
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“I never walked into a room so silent before. If you want to applaud, you applaud. You can do anything you want. If you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room. But there goes your rank and there goes your future.”
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Recorded in: Trump Threatens To Fire Military Leaders ‘On The Spot’ If They Cross Him" Huffignton Post (September 30, 2025)
“I hope I never have to use the nuclear arsenal.”
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Recorded in: Trump, spero di non dover mai usare l'arsenale nucleare, ANSA.it, 30 September 2025 (in Italian)