JOE BIDEN/OBAMA: “[W]ithout Biden and Obama, I wouldn’t be president. I wouldn’t have run. They were so bad. People don’t remember the hatred and division. There was tremendous division, probably a little more quiet, but it was tremendous hatred and division that we had for eight years. And, you know, people don’t like to talk […]
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8/20/2020
JOE BIDEN: “When you deal with President Xi of China, which I do all the time, and with President Putin, and with President Erdogan, and you’re dealing with all of these people, Kim Jong-un… I can tell you one thing, they’re very sharp. They’re at the top of their game. And if you’re not at […]
8/17/2020
JOE BIDEN/KAMALA HARRIS: “You can’t feel sorry for him [Joe Biden] and vote for him and — because if — that means then that Kamala Harris-es are going to take over, and she’s a disaster. Look at her positions on everything. She wants to take away everyone’s gun. She wants to totally ban fossil fuels. […]
8/17/2020
CHINA: “China has taken advantage of our country for 25 years like nobody else — $400, $500, almost $600 billion a year we’d lose on a regular basis for many, many — for decades with China. A one-way street. We didn’t even have — it wasn’t that we had a bad deal. We never even […]
8/17/2020
JOE BIDEN/MEDIA: “[M]y biggest opponent isn’t Biden, it’s not the Democrats, it’s the corrupt media. We have a corrupt media in this country, the likes of which nobody’s ever seen before… When they ask me questions, I have these people there’s fire out of their eyes coming.They’re asking me questions, and I see the fire […]
8/6/2020
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So when I did my physical, I asked the doctor, highly respected guy, do they have some kind of a test, a mental test, a mentality test, a cognitive test? They said yes, they do. I said, ‘Should I take it?’ He said, ‘Well, you can. But if you take it, we […]
8/6/2020
AFRICAN AMERICANS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I’ve done more for African-Americans than any president, with a possible exception of Abraham Lincoln, and that’s true. I’ve passed criminal justice reform, I funded the historically black colleges and universities, nobody else did it, I did it. I gave them long-term financing, they never had it, half of them were […]
8/6/2020
2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “I’m in favor of oil and gas, I’m in favor of the bible, I’m in favor of Second Amendment, right? Biden’s against all of those things. He’s against oil, he’s against the bible, essentially, against religion, but against the bible, and he’s against the Second Amendment.” [Geraldo Rivera: “That may be a […]
8/6/2020
DACA/IMMIGRATION: “DACA’s going to work out, Geraldo, it’s going to work out –“ [Geraldo Rivera: “So when? When? You’ve been telling me that for a while.”] “It’s going to work out, just tell people to relax, we’re using it for other purposes and DACA’s going to work out… I don’t want to promise anything. I […]
8/6/2020
CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “[W]hen you look at what’s happening with Facebook and with Twitter, it’s 100% possibly illegal.” [Geraldo Rivera: “Does Twitter tick you up that they could take out some of your tweets and –“] “The perfect statement. Yeah. You mean a statement about youth [being almost immune to coronavirus], right? The youth. They are […]
8/5/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/GOP: [Reporter: “There are reports that you’re considering possibly giving your acceptance speech [for the Republican nomination] from the White House lawn.”] “Well, we’re thinking about it, it would be the easiest from the standpoint of security… We’re thinking about doing it from the White House because there’s no movement, it’s easy. And I think […]
8/5/2020
CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/EDUCATION: “My view is the schools should open. This thing is going away. It will go away like things go away, and my view is that schools should be open. If you look at children, children are almost — and I would almost say definitely — but almost immune from this disease… They have much […]
8/5/2020
2020 ELECTION/DEMS/GOP: “The blue states, the Democrat states, they don’t wanna open up anything. They don’t want their schools open, they don’t want their business open. They want to keep it shut. And you can’t do that, you’re hurting people by doing that… But the Democrats are standing in our way, they don’t want our […]
8/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “You could have a second wave [of coronavirus]. Other countries have had a second wave. You know, what nobody talks about is some of these countries that were being held up as the greatest examples, they’re having massive second waves now. Look at what’s happening with Australia, and you look at what’s happening to […]
8/4/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Look, we have been — we have lost 160,000 people [to coronavirus]. We’re going to lose more. We would have lost millions had I just let it ride, as the expression goes. We could have lost millions at the same time. Can you imagine, with all of the death, and now you multiply that […]
8/4/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “I call it the China plague, China virus [coronavirus]. Call it whatever you want. It’s got like 20 different names. And we got hit hard. And we did close up. We had to close it up. And we did the right thing. We saved millions of lives, Lou. We would have had millions of […]
8/1/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FLORIDA: [Holly Gregory: “We are on our fourth day of record deaths here in this state… What should Floridians be doing to get a handle on this?”] “Well, the good news is I spoke to your governor. It’s [coronavirus deaths] heading down. It’s going to be heading down… But, you’re on their way down. The […]
7/22/2020
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “I think I’ve had to work harder than others because I’ve been attacked from fronts that nobody ever got attacked from, you know, with fake investigations. Fake Russia, Russia, Russia. Ukraine, Ukraine. I mean, nobody’s gone through — and yet, I’ve done more than any president in the first three years […]
7/19/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: [Chris Wallace: “But, sir, testing is up 37 percent.”] “Well, that’s good.” [Chris Wallace: “Cases are up 194 percent. It isn’t just that testing has gone up, it’s that the virus has spread. The positivity rate has increased…”] “Many of those [coronavirus] cases are young people that would heal in a day. They have […]
7/19/2020
2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “Do you know how many times I’ve been written off? My whole life… Don’t do it because that would be bad… And you know why I won’t lose, because the country, in the end, they’re not going to have a man who has – who’s shot. He’s shot. He’s mentally shot… Let […]
7/19/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Chris Wallace: “California locking down again. Florida, deadliest day of the entire pandemic. Hospitals at capacity at a number of places around the country… We don’t have a national plan. Do you take responsibility for that?”] “Look, I take responsibility always for everything because it’s ultimately my job, too. I have to […]
7/19/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MEXICO/WALL: “I say flames, we’ll put out the flames. And we’ll put out in some cases just burning embers [of coronavirus]. We also have burning embers. We have embers and we do have flames. Florida became more flame like, but it’s — it’s going to be under control. And, you know, it’s not just this […]
7/19/2020
MARY TRUMP/TRUMP FAMILY: [Chris Wallace: “Your niece, Mary Trump, has written a book about you and your family. And one of her main points is that she says your dad, Fred Trump Sr., damaged the whole family.”] “My father liked to win. My father was a very good man. He was a strong man. It’s […]
7/19/2020
DACA/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court gave the president of the United States powers that nobody thought the president had by approving — by doing what they did, their decision on DACA. And DACA’s going to be taken care of also. But we’re getting rid of it because we’re going to replace it with something much […]
7/19/2020
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE (ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: [Chris Wallace: “Why does it make sense to overturn Obamacare, which — which people now are — are relying on?”] “First of all, we got rid of the individual mandate… Pre-existing conditions will always be taken care of by me and Republicans, 100 percent… [W]e’re signing a health care plan within two […]
7/19/2020
EDUCATION: [Chris Wallace: “You said our children are taught in school to hate our country. Where do you see that?”] “I just look at — I look at school. I watch, I read, look at the stuff. Now they want to change 1492, Columbus discovered America. You know, we grew up, you grew up, we […]
7/19/2020
BLM/CONFEDERATE FLAG/RACISM: “When people proudly have their Confederate flags, they’re not talking about racism. They love their flag, it represents the South, they like the South. People right now like the South. I’d say it’s freedom of many things, but it’s freedom of speech… I’m not offended either by Black Lives Matter. That’s freedom of […]
7/19/2020
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Chris Wallace: “will you consider a national mandate that people need to wear masks?”] “No, I want people to have a certain freedom, and I don’t believe in that. No, and I don’t agree with the statement that if everybody wear a mask everything disappears. Hey, Dr. Fauci said don’t wear a […]
7/14/2020
PROTESTS: “[W]hat happened was terrible with, as you know, George Floyd. What happened there was terrible. We all — everybody acknowledges that. But what this has done to the world, what this has done to law and order. And when you look at St. Louis with two people that came out, they were going to […]
7/9/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/ROGER STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As far as General Flynn, he’s a great hero. He’s a great gentleman. What they are doing to that man, they have destroyed that man. But he will come back. He’s going to come back. Roger Stone was treated very unfairly, unbelievably unfairly. And I watched that, and I thought it […]
7/9/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “But we have a mortality rate, think of this, that’s tenfold better than any other. We — what we are doing is incredible, if you look. You have heard the numbers, tenfold. We have fewer people dying. And our people have done an incredible job… But the testing is just showing up all these […]
7/9/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “We do testing like nobody’s ever done testing. And when we test, the more you test, the more cases you find. Other countries, you know when they test? And I ask them all. They test when somebody’s not feeling well or when somebody walks into a hospital. So they don’t have tests. They have […]
7/9/2020
2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “[Joe Biden] hasn’t taken any cognitive test, because he couldn’t pass one. I actually took one when I — very recently, when I — when I was — the radical left were saying, is he all there? Is he all there? And I proved I was all there, because I got — I […]
7/9/2020
POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We need security. We can’t defund our police. And we can’t abolish our police. They want to abolish our police. And as far as the surplus equipment, I have given out hundreds of millions of dollars. This is stuff that was sitting in storage houses all over the country. It wasn’t even […]
7/8/2020
PROTESTS/STATUES: “They’re taking down everything and they call it ‘cancel culture.’ I don’t think it’s a beautiful term, but it’s actually very descriptive. . . . They want to cancel everything. They want to cancel the good and the bad. They started off by canceling things that were controversial, and I actually said years ago. […]
7/1/2020
2016 ELECTION/2020ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/POLLS: “I was 14, 15 points down in some polls in front of the last election and then I won… We won. It’s the fake polls, I call them fake polls, they’re suppression polls. They’re meant to dampen the enthusiasm of your voters, of your people. Cause we have tremendous enthusiasm. You know, […]
6/25/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTING/VOTE BY MAIL: [Audience question: “The big concern I’ve got is: How are you going to make sure that the election is fair and free from fraudulent absentee votes and mail-in ballots?”] “I think it’s the most important question I’ll be asked, because it’s a great question. So now we have a mail-in […]
6/25/2020
JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “I have great people in the administration. You make some mistakes. Like, you know, an idiot like Bolton, all he wanted to do was drop bombs on everybody. You don’t have to drop bombs on everybody. You don’t have to kill people… But I’ll tell you, he was good for […]
6/22/2020
2020 ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTING/VOTE BY MAIL: “No, I don’t like mail-in ballots… I can tell you this… An example, an example, all over the country you have thousands of cases. A friend of mine gets a ballot, his son, unfortunately, passed away seven years ago. He gets a ballot for his son to vote. That’s […]
6/19/2020
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTING/VOTE BY MAIL: “President Donald Trump called mail-in voting the biggest threat to his reelection and said his campaign’s multimillion-dollar legal effort to block expanded ballot access could determine whether he wins a second term… The president’s assertion that mail-in voting will endanger his reelection comes as states across the country are rushing […]
6/17/2020
AFRICAN AMERICANS/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Interviewer: You did move your rally off Juneteenth. Can you talk about why you did that?] “Well, I did that out of respect because I had two African-American friends and supporters. And most people, and I went to a lot of people, they didn’t they had not heard the term Juneteenth… […]
6/17/2020
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Interviewer: “You said you hope there’s not systemic racism. Do you think there is?”] “I would like to think there is not. Yeah, I would like to think there is not such systemic racism. And it would be whatever I can do to make myself correct on that thought, I’d like to do […]
6/17/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/IRAN: “So they say the United States has more cases than anybody else. That’s because we do more testing. If we use the same testing that I used in China, or in Iran, or in some of these larger countries, it would blow us away… I personally think testing is overrated, even though I created […]
6/17/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On coronavirus, I acted very quickly, and I acted early. And they can’t get over it. Number one. Number two. If I didn’t act, we would have had 3 million deaths. And instead we’re at 110,000. And we could be heading to a number that’s, you know, higher than 150,000 to 200,000, […]
6/17/2020
JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I lost respect for Bolton’s intellect fairly early in the process. It wasn’t a big deal to me because frankly, he was good for me to use in negotiations because everyone thought he was crazy and he would go to war… When people saw Bolton in the room, they figured probably […]
6/17/2020
COURTS/LEGAL/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re going to have potentially close to 300 judges including DC it’ll be close to 300. Nobody’s close. They’re all conservative, highly respected judges. They’re going to be there for many years. They’re all young. They’re all conservative. They’re all very smart. And they’re getting great reviews. If I did nothing […]
6/17/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOHN BOLTON/MEDIA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Bolton never told me to do tariffs on China. Bolton never thought you could get any tariffs done on China. Bolton has no economic sense. Bolton never thought you could get tariffs on China. They paid us billions of dollars. I gave our farmers $12 billion and $16 billion dollars out […]
6/17/2020
IRAQ/JOHN BOLTON/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Now, I don’t know what Bolton has said [in his forthcoming book]. I haven’t seen it yet. But Bolton is a disgruntled guy who made tremendous mistakes. He was one of the architects of the Middle East policy. And the only thing I liked about Bolton was that everybody thought he was […]
6/17/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/MEDIA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China, last year, would have had the worst year they’ve ever had in many, many years and decades. And that was because I put a lot of tariffs on China that they never wanted. And I don’t want them to have bad years, but they happened to have a very bad year […]
6/17/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOBS/MEDIA: “I think we can get tremendous numbers of jobs by November. I think by the end of the year, we’re going to have a vast number of jobs, largely…shortly thereafter, we should be almost where we were. And I think ultimately next year is going to be a fantastic year… You know, I was […]
5/22/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have to continue to talk about the things that matter and the things that matter are, for example, right now there’s a study out of Columbia University and a disease control center up there. They pointed out that if he [President Trump] had listened to me and others and acted […]
5/21/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’ve lost 36 million jobs, we have over 93,000 dead and the number’s climbing. And the way he’s [President Trump] walked away from the rest of the world… I just do not understand it… [T]he CDC had set out and were prepared to issue some very detailed guidelines about how to […]
5/14/2020
2020 ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTING/VOTE BY MAIL: “Voting by mail is very dangerous because people can grab them. People can take that proxy, sign a name. They can — they can do all sorts of things, especially harvesting. They go out and they say just — let’s put them all together… So now they want to […]
5/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I’ve had tremendous lack of support from Democrats…I thought the Democrats — because this is a crisis. I thought the Democrats would come together and work with us. They really don’t… They said I called it a hoax. No, I called the Democrats a hoax because of what they were saying […]
5/5/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This is a situation — who would have ever thought a thing like this could happen? Frankly, I’ve read about and heard about, in 1917, The Great Flu. They call that the Flu, right? The Spanish flu, and it might have killed 100 million people. Probably stopped the First World War ‘cause […]
5/3/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are very confident that we’re going to have a vaccine at the end of the year… Now, the doctors would say, ‘Well, you shouldn’t say that.’ I’ll say what I think. I’ve met with the heads of the big companies. These are great companies. Yeah, I think we’re going to have […]
5/3/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: “The World Health Organization has been a disaster. Everything they said was wrong. And they’re China-centric. ll they do is they agree with China, whatever China wants to do. So our country, perhaps foolishly, in retrospect, has been paying $450 million a year to the World Health Organization. And China has been […]
5/3/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “[T]he one thing about this disease that everybody’s learned very easily and very quickly is, it’s so contagious. It is the most contagious thing people have seen. So, in 1917, we had a horrible – in that case it was the flu, right, you remember, the Spanish Flu, so much has been written about […]
5/3/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “I think a lot of people want to go back. They just want to go back. You see it every day. You see demonstrations all over the country and those are meaningful demonstrations. It’s big stuff. But you also have some people that are very scared. Probably everybody’s scared when you get right down […]
4/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: “Mr. President, can you clarify your comments about injections of disinfectant? They were quite provocative.”] “No, I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen. Now, disinfectant for doing this maybe on the hands would work. And I was asking the question of the […]
4/11/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re working very hard with Congress on stimulus and taking care of our workers and taking care of people whose fault this was not… And I think the stimulus coupled with this pent-up demand and everybody wanting to get out and go back to work, I think we’re going to have just […]
4/7/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “And they’re finding that people that — like in the malaria countries, that it doesn’t seem that those countries have been hit, because the people take it. You have countries that have massive malaria problems and they take the hydroxychloroquine, and they don’t seem to be having the problem with the — the virus […]
3/30/2020
GERMANY/NATO/RUSSIA: “Germany takes advantage of us on trade for years. They pay far too little in NATO, they’re paying one percent and they’re supposed to pay 2 percent. And nobody talks about that. You know, it’s sort of interesting, if you look at Russia, Russia lost 50 million people in World War II, 50 million. […]
3/30/2020
ENVIRONMENT/GREEN NEW DEAL: “They wanted the Green New Deal. They didn’t even know how to define it. I said how do you define the Green New Deal? They had no idea how to define it. I said which aspect do you want? No more cows? What do you want? No more airplanes? No more flying? […]
3/26/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be. I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you’re going to major hospitals sometimes, they’ll have two ventilators.” -Donald Trump as quoted by Fox […]
3/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Look, you’re going to lose a number of people to the flu. But you’re going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession or depression. You’re going to lose people. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands. You’re going to have all sorts of things happen. You’re going to […]
3/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “We have had flus before. We have had viruses before. So this is something new. And this is why I say we have to – I gave it two weeks. And I guess, by Monday or Tuesday, it’s about two weeks. And we will assess at that time, and we will give it some […]
2/13/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[W]e’re working on it very closely. I spoke to President Xi two days ago. They’re working on it very professionally. It’s a problem, we think and we hope, based on all signs that the problem goes away in April because — which is not too far down the road, because heat kills […]
2/2/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Well, we pretty much shut it [coronavirus] down coming in from China. We have a tremendous relationship with China, which is a very positive thing. Getting along with China, getting along with Russia getting along with these countries.” -Donald Trump, “President Trump sits down with Sean Hannity for Super Bowl interview,” foxnews.com, […]
1/22/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: [Maria Bartiromo: “So, do you think that people should be worried [about coronavirus] when they’re traveling in the airport?”] “No, not at all. I don’t think they should be worried. This is one person out of tens of millions of people that travel and we just announced it yesterday, and it’s all taken care […]
1/22/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: [Maria Bartiromo: “What about this coronavirus?”] “Yes, we have one person right now, as you know, quarantined, and we got lucky, actually. But, we’re in great shape. We have — CDC did a fantastic job. Immediately got the person and we think we’re in good shape. And I think China’s in good shape too, […]