Thread by @Lcars24

Things that inspired Trump’s voters:
* Birther Movement
* Calling Mexicans drug dealers and rapists
* Mocking a reporter’s handicap
* Calling on Russia to hack Hillary’s e-mail
* Name-calling
* Insulting McCain's war record
* Advocating war crimes
* Doubling down on proven lies

Also:
* Insulting a Gold Star family
* Access Hollywood tape
* Saying he'd only accept the election results if he won
* People who showed up for his announcement turned out to be paid actors
* Ridiculous border wall
* Racism
* Climate denial
* Refusal to show tax returns

No, I’m not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed.
—Donald Trump, Jan. 15, 2018

When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor.
—Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump’s Castle

Donald Trump is a master salesman. And he creates his own reality. So if he tells you, "This is a middle-class tax cut, and I Donald Trump won't benefit," he expects you to believe that. It doesn't matter that it's not true.
—David Cay Johnston

Hillary Clinton belongs in the White House. Donald Trump belongs on my show.
—Jerry Springer, 09/26/16

The thing that annoys me about Trump is that he took my show and brought it to the White House.
—Jerry Springer, 09/11/19

Here's what I know: Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing members of the American public for suckers. He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat.
—Mitt Romney 03/03/16

Trump’s actual speech patterns sound like when you write long text by only choosing the predicted words your i-Phone suggests for you.
—John Oliver

If a TV producer could go back in time a few years and pitch a fictional series based on the political reality of the past two years, wouldn’t everyone consider it too far-fetched, even as comedy?

Donald Trump doesn't release his tax returns and is indebted to foreign banks and foreign lenders.
—Hillary Clinton

When Donald Trump says a distinguished judge born in Indiana can't do his job because of his Mexican heritage, or he mocks a reporter with disabilities, or calls women pigs, it goes against everything we stand for.
—Hillary Clinton

It would be impossible to be fact-checking Donald Trump all the time.
—Hillary Clinton

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

The whole environment is one of dysfunction in the Trump administration.
—John McCain, February 14, 2017

Our liberty depends upon freedom of the press.
—Thomas Jefferson

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy; it is democracy.
—Walter Cronkite

The media is the enemy of the American people.
—Donald Trump

This White House doesn't value an independent press, There's a word for that line of thinking: The word is Un-American.
—Jake Tapper

Lying has worked for Donald Trump—so why stop now?
—Michael D'Antonio, CNN, January 25, 2017

The way Trump is trying to marginalize and dehumanize certain people in this country is criminal and un-American.
—Zoe Kazan

History will remember the current U.S. Congress as those who chose not to rein in a known incompetent lunatic.
—Evan Handler

Donald Trump has achieved nothing besides sowing discord and racial tension. He's also really hard to look at.
—Chelsea Handler

The Republicans have gone from Abraham Lincoln to Sarah Palin to Donald Trump. No wonder they don’t believe in evolution.
—Andy Borowitz

Trump’s stubborn deceit about the pain and suffering of a Gold Star widow reflects the cruel, cold heart of a bullying bigot.
—Sam Fulwood

I really do believe that much of what was coming out of Donald Trump's mouth was a play from Vladimir Putin's playbook.
—Maxine Waters

All you have to do is follow the money. And if you follow the money, it leads right back to Donald Trump's pockets.
—Elijah Cummings

Putin and Trump, they care just about two things. They care about their money, and they care about their power.
—Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Russian conceptual artist and political activist, founding member of Pussy Riot

Trump Urges Russia To Wade Into Race
—Wall Street Journal headline, July 28, 2016, re his suggestion that Russia hack the DNC e-mail server

We're at a very dangerous moment for democracy right now, when the core institutions of our democratic system have repeatedly been attacked by the President of the United States. Saving American democracy is the most urgent fight of the Trump era.
—Ari Berman

Lying is second nature to him. More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.
—Tony Schwartz, ghostwriter of Trump's book Art of the Deal

Though P.T. Barnum is famous of for saying, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” Donald Trump is famous for proving it.
—Stephen Colbert

I have never seen my country on an inauguration day so divided, so anxious, so fearful, so uncertain of its course.
—Dan Rather, 01/20/17

This is the most I've ever heard the words Jesus Christ and the most I've ever said the words Jesus Christ.
—Sarah Silverman, 01/20/17

What's clear is that unapologetic propagandists now occupy the White House dais, and for the next four years, Americans will be governed by officials who remain wholly uninterested in earning their trust.
—Jay Willis, GQ Magazine, January 23, 2017

The only way things will be okay is if we all understand how not okay they are. If we were are sufficiently inflamed, we may be able to put the fire out.
—David Frum, conservative pundit, senior editor at The Atlantic, commenting on the election of Donald Trump

Demagogues achieve and maintain power by wanting people to hate others because of their race, religion, or nation of origin.
—Bernie Sanders

Only a fake president would declare the First Amendment to be the enemy of the people.
—Joe Scarborough

Trump's got the attention span of a gnat on meth.
—Rick Wilson

I’m a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too. I want to bring everything crashing down and destroy all of today’s establishment.
—Steve Bannon, in an interview with the Daily Beast, 2013

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive, because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they could get away with it.
—Tony Benn

Donald Trump is a vulgar, uninformed, anti-intellectual, extremely unpopular grifter helming a family of grifters who apparently intend to milk their moment on the mount for every red cent.
—Charles M. Blow, New York Times columnist

We should all pray that Trump doesn’t enter into an actual armed conflict. He’s not equipped for that. . . .
—Charles M. Blow, New York Times columnist

The White House is peeing on our leg and trying to tell us it's raining outside.
—Brian Fallon, former communications director for Hillary Clinton, on CNN, discussing the reason Trump gave for firing FBI Director James Comey

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

The truth will set America free—of Trump & Pence.
—Scott Dworkin, cofounder of the Democratic Coalition

Remember, Donald Trump only plays a billionaire on television. He’s not a billionaire.
—Greg Palast, investigative reporter @Greg_Palast

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

It’s not coincidental that our first Twitter President is a man of limited character.
—Tom Simmons

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

There are no checks and balances on the President's authority to launch a nuclear strike, but between the time he authorizes one and the time it's carried out there are other people involved.
—Mark Fitzpatrick, nuclear nonproliferation expert, answering BBC question about Trump

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

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 for that reason.

If we think of fascism as a wound from the past that had almost healed, putting Trump in the White House was like ripping off the bandage and picking at the scab.
—Madeleine Albright, in her book Fascism: A Warning

I find that ridiculous.
—Madeleine Albright, re Trump’s calling the FBI raid on the offices of his personal lawyer “an attack on country”

The Trump administration has loosed political termites into the agency. So we’re eating away at the structure of our government. He didn’t DRAIN the swamp. He stocked it with the biggest predators from Goldman Sachs.
—David Cay Johnston