Thread by @Lcars24

You never realize how important character is in the presidency until you have a president without it.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)

I again appeal to the President-elect of the U.S. Donald Trump to show leadership on this issue by abandoning his position that man-made climate change is a hoax.
—Frank Bainimarama, Prime Minister of Fiji, which has already been severely affected by rising sea levels

You don’t have massive fraud by voters. You have massive fraud by election officials.
—Greg Palast, investigative reporter @Greg_Palast

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

This isn’t a presidency. It’s a neurosis.
—Bret Stephens, 09/15/17

New York City voted nine to one against Donald Trump—okay?—because we already knew him.
—Fran Lebowitz

You can’t fact-check crazy.
—David Corn, Washington Bureau Chief, Mother Jones

In 2017 we still refuse to be controlled by a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot.
—Lily Tomlin, at the Emmys, re Donald Trump

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
—Lily Tomlin

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people.
—Morgan Freeman

This is an alien in the White House. We’ve never had this kind of President.
—Bill Moyers

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

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
—Ansel Adams

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

One difference between Nixon and Trump: When the Republicans nominated Nixon, they didn’t actually KNOW he was a crook.
—Stephen King

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

Great power involves great responsibility.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt

The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is preeminently a place of moral leadership.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.
―DaShanne Stokes

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

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

President Trump is quick to attack American students, immigrants, women, the LGBT community, journalists, and our international allies, but he is either too weak or too ignorant to stand up to white supremacists and others who spew hatred.
—Gavin Newsom

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.
—Chris Hedges

It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.
—Bill Moyers

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

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

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

He is clearly, clearly not up to the task of being President, and that should be news to absolutely nobody.
—Joe Scarborough, re Trump, Jan. 22, 2018

If it talks like a goose and walks like a goose, it’s a Nazi.
—Seth Meyers

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

Having Trump as president is like tapping the drunkest guy at the party to be the designated driver.
—Stephen King

The Trump presidency is a joke, but it's no laughing matter.
―Graydon Carter

Many presidents have believed in God, but Donald Trump evidently believes that he is God.
—Michael R. Burch

Mr. President, since all my success is clearly based on talking about you, if you really want to take me down, there’s an obvious way: Resign!
―Stephen Colbert

Uh, the president you elected is an admitted sexual molester.
—Chase Masterson

Donald Trump is a despicable, hateful, little man.
—Wil Wheaton

The "you're fired" president thinks he's still in a reality show! He’s the one who should be fired.
—Barbra Streisand

Trump's no friend of the working man. If you're working for wages, brothers and sisters, he couldn't give Shit One about you.
—Stephen King

The truth is we should get that son of a bitch out of our White House.
—Nancy Sinatra, re Trump

This small, pathetic man serves no American but himself and the alt-right he works so hard to defend.
—Jason Alexander, re Trump

Donald Trump has given me, who is 94, the deep desire & will to live to 98 so I can vote for whomever runs against him.
—Carl Reiner

In a world where the President makes fun of handicapped people and fat people, how do we proceed with dignity?
—Tina Fey

Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.
—Meryl Streep

Puerto Rico is the Donald's test and our loser president has dropped the ball again. Sad!
—Tommy Chong

We have to fight him every inch. We have to fight him every moment.
—Danny Glover, re Trump

Border wall? Kids torn away from their parents? Trade war? If brains were black powder, Donald Trump couldn’t blow his nose.
—Stephen King

George Orwell on Trump and Putin, in 1945: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
—Stephen King

He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.
—John Kelly, when he was White House Chief of Staff

With a subservient Republican Congress and a far-right Supreme Court, there is a real risk that the worst impulses of the Trump presidency will go unchecked.
—Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)

Ann Richards once said about George W. Bush, “He was born on third base and thought he hit a triple.” Donald Trump was was born on third base and thought he kicked a field goal.
—Cenk Uygur

I think that Puerto Rico was an incredible unsung success.
—Donald Trump

Trump simply does not get it. Thus his neglect towards Puerto Rico cost about 3,000 lives. Unfortunately, it seems he will never get it.
—Carmen Yulin Cruz, Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in response

Donald Trump is the most unethical and dishonest president in the history of the United States. And every single week we get more details about just how unethical and dishonest he is.
—Max Boot

Trump's presidency is one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated in American history.
—DaShanne Stokes

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President or that we must stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but it is morally treasonable to the American public.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President.
—Theodore Roosevelt

President Pinocchio averages seven and a half lies a day, and yet his followers all say the same thing: “He tells it like it is. He speaks what’s left of his mind.”
—Bill Maher

You have Trump, who says, “Fake news!” so many times a day it’s like he has totalitarian Tourett’s.
—Bill Maher, 11/24/17

No, not every Trump supporter is a racist, xenophobic, alt-right man-child. However, every racist, xenophobic alt-right man-child is a Trump supporter.
―Rick Wilson, Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever