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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
—Harry S Truman

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
—W. C. Fields

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
—Napoleon Bonaparte

He is a low-information voter who became President.
—Jon Favreau, former Obama speechwriter, referring to Donald Trump, 5/12/17

Donald Trump: A remarkable combination of unhinged and dumb as dirt. Time to start talking impeachment. Really. Enough is enough.
—Stephen King, May 10, 2017

There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.
—Donald Trump

He is, quite simply, the Babe Ruth of bullshit.
—Geoffrey Russk, Washington Post fact checker, re Donald Trump

Trump is an enemy of the truth.
—Carl Bernstein

Donald Trump has broken the Constitution.
—The Atlantic

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
—Thomas Paine

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
—Voltaire

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
—Isaac Newton

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
—Aldous Huxley

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
—Oscar Wilde

Trump is crude, and in his halo of crudeness other people get to be crude as well.
―Katy Tur

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
—H. L. Mencken

Many people still don’t realize how crazy Trump is, even though he keeps trying to show us.

Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.
—Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister

If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
—George Carlin

If we don’t stop Trump, we deserve him.
—Cher

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump.
—John Dean

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.
—Nelson Mandela

Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now?
—Marco Rubio

Trump was thumbing his nose at the emoluments clause of the Constitution while being sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts, a Dubya appointee, who should have refused the task if he actually believed in the U.S. Constitution.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
—Gore Vidal

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.
—Gore Vidal

There's a deep, deep sickness in the Republican Party.
—Max Boot

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
—H. L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
—Alexis de Tocqueville

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
—Baron de Montesquieu

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
—George Bernard Shaw

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
—Donald J. Trump

Trump applied for permission to build a seawall to protect a golf course he owns in Ireland from rising sea levels.

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