Trump Quotes

“Take your broken heart, make it into art.”
― Carrie Fisher

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
― Kamand Kojouri

“It doesn`t hurt to get more education.”
― Donald Trump

“The Trump marriage veered furthest away from my concept of the union — and surprised me most as a student of American politics. Donald and Melania seem to inhabit separate realms and to come together when necessary, when one could not move forward without the other. The presidency was one instance in which they were forced into a joint undertaking. If my choice of language sounds businesslike, that’s because that’s how I’ve come to view the Trumps. Having learned more about each partner’s history, I believe they are two highly ambitious individuals who benefit from their partnership. It’s a transaction: he gains a beautiful woman on his arm, a solid-seeming marriage, a son, and a savvy adviser. She gains wealth and international cachet.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

“I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.”
― Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal

“The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know? And I’m writing now another book on Hegelian dialectics, subjectivity, ontology, quantum physics and so on. That’s the only way to survive. Like Lenin. I will use his example. You know what Lenin did, in 1915, when World War I exploded? He went to Switzerland and started to read Hegel.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.”
― Donald Trump

“You know, it really doesn`t matter what (the media) write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”
― Donald Trump

“On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.”
― Hendrik Willem van Loon, The Story of Mankind

“All you Trump fans are gonna be really pissed off when your condom breaks and your sister can't get an abortion.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book

“It turned out that in the governance of a nation’s security, many absurd situations had to be worked around: a toxic clown in the Foreign Office [Boris Johnson], a state visit by a narcissistic bed-wetter [Trump], the tendency of the electorate to 'jump off' the occasional cliff [Brexit].”
― Mick Herron, Joe Country

“The great man of the masses. It is easy to give the recipe for what the masses call a great man. By all means, supply them with something that they find very pleasant, or, first, put the idea into their heads that this or that would be very pleasant, and then give it to them. But on no account immediately: let it rather be won with great exertion, or let it seem so. The masses must have the impression that a mighty, indeed invincible, strength of will is present; at least it must be seen to be there. Everyone admires a strong will, because no one has it, and everyone tells himself that, if he had it, there would be no more limits for him and his egoism. Now, if it appears that this strong will is producing something very unpleasant for the masses, instead of listening to its own covetous desires, then everyone admires it all the more, and congratulates himself. For the rest, let him have all the characteristics of the masses: the less they are ashamed before him, the more popular he is. So, let him be violent, envious, exploitative, scheming, fawning, grovelling, puffed up, or, according to the circumstances, all of the above.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Anyone who wants to govern the country, has to entertain it.”
― Saul Bellow, Ravelstein

“Donald Trump’s economic policies are geared toward enriching White male power—but at the expense of most of his White male followers, along with the rest of us.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“The accusation rankled. She would never cheat. He and his fellow Fox News zombies were the cheaters, gerrymandering districts and fixing the Supreme Court to do the bidding of the minority, storming the Capitol when they lost. She took pride in treating everyone who voted--Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Green, or Independent--equally. She cared about fairness and representation. He didn't care about any of that. All he cared about was winning. Now she did too, viciously, and it felt like a loss.”
― Stewart O'Nan, Evensong

“Another plane had to be rounded up and chartered to the fundraiser... a big Trump-Vance decal quickly plastered onto it... [and then] the worst plane ride in the collective experience of everybody on board, many who had spent much of their professional lives in the air. White-knuckle, head-banging lurches. Stomach-dropping turbulence. Sudden stone-falling drops in altitude and air pressure. People actually praying. Then, in the middle of it all, a report tracking the Trump team's peregrinations identified that they were riding on the former plane of Trump's old friend, the infamous sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein -- the one name he had struggled most not to be associated with. "I'm going to die," howled Trump, "on Jeffrey Epstein's plane!”
― Michael Wolff, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America

“If honest victors are shouldered out
and the losers announce they've won,
what law survives?”
― Sophocles, Sophocles II: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes

“And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump, it's how we stop the next one.”
― Zohran Mamdani

“I am not the first person to point out the similarities between Jones and Trump, but I highlight their overlapping oratories more as an invitation to consider the precise language forms that contributed to Trump's deceptive and violent charisma. Not to drum up fear that the man is capable of orchestrating a mass poisoning in Guiana. I doubt Trump could even name which continent Guiana is on.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

“I respect nothing about the dude. It would be hard to make up someone I find less appealing. -- Alex Karp in 2015”
― Michael Steinberger, The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the Surveillance State

“Imagine you are being prepared, not for Trump, but for who or what comes after him.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Love how "Trump says X" is taken as proof of anything other than proof he's speaking.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“The Iran War has sharply brought into focus the distinction between two approaches to geopolitics. Faced with a boldly hostile enemy, some would not even try to subdue it, afraid of failure. Others will take the plunge, ready for retreat in case of failure. Europe was the former, refusing to take on Hitler pre-WWII; Trump was the latter, taking on Iran, retreating when all the pre-war goals could not be achieved without ruining the Middle East allies. There seems to be widespread support for the former approach; of counting pennies while democracy is threatened by a theocracy.”
― R. N. Prasher

“Buffoonism, leads the great leaders of our lands.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“In New York gewinnt die Bank einen clownesken Bauunternehmer als Kunden, dem keine andere Bank mehr vertraut, weil er ständig Geldprobleme hat und seine Kredite nicht zurückzahlt. Der Clown, der Casinos in Atlantic City baut und Wolkenkratzer in Manhattan, heißt Donald Trump.”
― Konstantin Richter, Dreihundert Männer: Aufstieg und Fall der Deutschland AG

“A red card shouldn't send up red flags in soccer.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The fundamental mistake--and this is a mistake that basically both parties have been making for 25 years but like with everything, Trump does it on steroids--they assume that every single voter they get is voting for the most expansive, extreme version of their agenda. And so Trump came into office thinking that every single voter in every single swing state was voting for full-spectrum MAGA and wanted this administration to behave, you know, like a biker gang with diplomatic immunity on every front.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“« Ne me réveillez que si c’est bon pour moi ou s’il y a une menace nucléaire. » Ils laissèrent la note sur le bureau, à côté d’autres déjà entassées. Puis ils signèrent mécaniquement le registre : « Président non réveillé ». […] Et pourtant, l’homme qui devait décider ronflait encore.”
― Franck Paterne, BUNKER: Thriller géopolitique

“Dans la chambre voisine, Trump dormait dans son lit immense, un autel de velours rouge et d’oreillers dorés, où le corps massif du président des États-Unis s’enfonçait comme une flaque de gelée anglaise. Les draps, brodés à son nom « Donald J. Trump » en lettres trop grandes cousues de fil d’or étaient repliés sur son ventre mou, qui se soulevait et retombait avec la régularité poussive d’un moteur fatigué. Rien de majestueux : un souffle court et bruyant, comme si chaque inspiration négociait encore le droit de rester en vie quelques secondes de plus. Endormi, il n’y avait ni slogans, ni colère, ni grimaces de tribun : seulement cette masse flasque, livrée à la gravité, ce corps débordant de lui-même, gonflé de confort, de sucre et de certitudes périmées.”
― Franck Paterne, BUNKER: Thriller géopolitique