Senior trade advisor, Peter Navarro regarding BMW investment in South Carolina: “You take automobiles, what we’re doing now is a scam like BMW comes to Spartanburg, South Carolina, and all we do is assemble German transmissions and autos. It’s like they get all the good jobs. They get all the good profits, and we get stuck with a hindsight. This business model where BMW and Mercedes comes into Spartanburg, South Carolina, and have us assemble German engines and Austrian transmissions. That doesn’t work for America. It’s bad for our economics. It’s bad for our national security." [Note: In 2024 Trump said: “They build everything in Germany, and then they assemble it here. They get away with murder because they say, ‘Oh, yes, we’re building cars.’ They don’t build cars. They take them out of a box and they assemble them. We could have our child do it.”]
Trump’s previous comments on tariffs: “A tariff is a tax on a foreign country. That the way it is….whether you like it or not. People like to say it’s a tax on us. No. No. No. It’s a tax on a foreign country. It’s a tax on a country ripping us off and stealing our jobs.” “They are not going to have higher prices. Who is going to have higher prices is China and all of the countries who have been ripping us off.”
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth talking about Panama canal after trip to Panama: “Well, President Trump said at a State of the Union address, China has too much influence over the Panama Canal and America is gonna take it back and that’s exactly what I was charged to do what we’re continuing to do. Chinese influence cannot control our own backyard, especially a critical waterway key terrain like the Panama Canal. I want to thank President Molina, a pro-Trump, pro-America president of Panama who’s sticking his neck out against communists, whose influence was real there. Maria, we could see it; you could feel it.”
Steve Bannon regarding Trump running for third term: “President Trump is going to run for a third term, and President Trump is going to be elected again on the afternoon of January 20th of 2029. He’s going to be President of the United States. The interpretation of this [holding up the copy of the Constitution] is open for interpretation.”
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trump regarding bond markets:
Bessent – “I think that it is an uncomfortable but normal deleveraging that’s going on…happens every couple of years.”
Trump – “The bond market’s going good. It had a little moment, but I solved that problem very quickly. I’m very good at this.”
I just want to make sure we don’t forget this statement made around 4/13.
If I wrote that, I wouldn’t want my name referenced as authoring it neither. Yikes!
This statement worries me. It likely means that he knows there is a problem and that it is not fixed. Reminds me of what people told me in China years ago. The state always lies. Assume that the opposite of what it says is true.
The guy managed to bankrupt a casino to clear away debts, the most scary scenario is that he is trying to bankrupt US to clear away the debts…
Those weak Europeans, why didn’t they stop us?! 
Typical Trump administration, everything is somebody else fault… Blame, blame, blame 
What an Idiot!
I missed this gem. Yes, Europe should have scolded us and resisted our request to join the coalition.
Trump: “Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country. And ultimately, more production at home will mean stronger competition and lower prices for consumers.”
Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro: “The uncertainty in the stock market isn’t necessarily a negative. It can be an indication that things are going to work out. Just is things are uncertain right now and you have a president that is swinging for the fences.”
Fox News hosts discussing tariff effects on a person’s 401K account: Host 1 – I was in a town event in south Florida over the weekend and I met this guy. He is a retired banker and I asked him about the tariffs cause at that event everyone was talking about the tariffs….because everyone is on a fixed economy for the most part. They were talking about how they were impacted. He said you know I am on a pension and the pension amount doesn’t change. But I looked at my 401K and I am so underwater now. And he had the look of a guy…he was probably in his eighties…he is hoping that this all works….and this all comes back. Host 2 – Imagine if it does work….and it comes back….in a huge way.
Trump discussing El Salvador taking custody of American citizens who’ve committed violent crimes (related to meeting with El Salvador president Nayib Bukele): “We have bad ones too, and I’m all for it because we can do things with the president for less money and have great security. And we have a huge prison population.”
“We always have to obey the laws, but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they’re not looking, that are absolute monsters. I’d like to include them.”
“You’ve got to build five more places”[Note: suggesting Bukele doesn’t have enough prison capacity for all the U.S. citizens Trump would like to send there.
Jesus, I thought that was a spoof. Nope.
This is America
Trump regarding how much money the government is collecting from importers due to tariffs .: "The number is probably $3.5 billion a day. Look, we’re making $2 billion a day now. And during Biden, we were losing $3 billion a day.”
“On trade and other things, we’re doing great. We’re taking in billions and billions of dollars. We were losing $2 billion a day. … Now we’re making $3 billion a day.”
[Note. In February, about $259 million a day in customs duties was paid, and the March per-day total was roughly $264 million. More than $216 million per day in customs duties was paid to the federal government under Biden in 2024.]
Edward R. Martin Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, sent a list of questions to medical journals asking how the journals handle issues such as misinformation and competing viewpoints. : Excerpts from the letter – “It has been brought to my attention that more and more journals and publications like CHEST Journal are conceding that they are partisans in various scientific debates.” Martin’s letter asks five questions, including how the journal assesses its “responsibilities to protect the public from misinformation,” and how it “clearly articulate[s] to the public when you have certain viewpoints that are influenced by your ongoing relations with supporters, funders, advertisers, and others.” It also asks whether the journal accepts manuscripts from “competing viewpoints” as well as how it assesses the role of “funding organizations like the National Institutes of Health in the development of submitted articles.” Finally, it asks how the journal handles allegations that authors “may have misled their readers.” “I am also interested to know if publishers, journals, and organizations with which you work are adjusting their method of acceptance of competing viewpoints. Are there new norms being developed and offered?”
Trump after issuing an executive order opening up the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument (750 miles west of Hawaii) allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves. : “The United States should be the world’s dominant seafood leader. It’s so horrible and so stupid. You’re talking about a massive ocean and they’re forced to go and travel four to seven days to go and fish in an area that’s not as good.” [Note: A second executive order directed the Commerce Department to loosen regulations that “overly burden America’s commercial fishing, aquaculture, and fish processing industries.” It also asks the Interior Department to conduct a review of all marine monuments and issue recommendations about any that should be opened to commercial fishing.]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio regarding peace talks for Ukraine.: “If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on. We need to determine very quickly now, and I’m talking about a matter of days, whether or not this is doable.” [Trump when asked about Rubio’s comment: “If, for some reason, one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we’re just going to say, ‘You’re foolish, you’re foolish. You’re horrible people,’ and we’re just going to take a pass — but hopefully we won’t have to do that.”]
Trump regarding Federal Reserve not lowering interest rates : “Jerome Powell of the Fed, who is always TOO LATE AND WRONG, yesterday issued a report which was another, and typical, complete ‘mess!’ Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough!”
Trump commenting about egg and gas prices: “You can have all the eggs you want. We have too many eggs. In fact, if anything the prices are getting too low.”
'So they’ve already seen it get much better because if you were truthful, which you’re not, I know you very well, you have gasoline hit $1.98 yesterday in a couple of states. You have gasolines way down, the price of oil has dropped substantially. The price of groceries is substantially down.
Trump speaking to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins: “The egg prices they were going through the sky. And you did a fantastic job. Now we have lots of eggs and they are much cheaper now.”
Housing Secretary let his staff go home early to celebrate Easter. His chief of staff Andrew Hughes informed staff with email: “America’s founding fathers proclaimed that all men are endowed by their creator with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — this declaration rang true as the Jews fled Egypt and found freedom in the Holy Land, and it rang true once again when Jesus broke bread and drank wine with his disciples showing that sacrifice can truly change the world. I hope that everyone at HUD takes a moment to recognize what a privilege it is to live in a country that puts her citizens first.” [Note: When HuffPost questioned the type of message sent to staff the HUD spokesperson responded: “Huffington Post’s Trump Derangement Syndrome is so severe it is standing up for criminal gang members while standing against the Judeo-Christian values our country was founded on. Our constitution says that we were endowed by our creator. Every coin minted and dollar printed is minted with America’s motto ‘In God We Trust.’ HUD will continue to follow President Trump’s leadership in protecting our first amendment right to freedom of religion.”] [Note: The U.S. constitution does not say we were endowed by our creator. The use of “In God We Trust” on currency began in 1957.]
You’re right. It’s the Declaration of Independence. With these famous lines:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
I think the U.S. is very lucky the Constitution did not try to inject God into the running of the country.
Trump talking about Biden and Jimmy Carter: “And then you had like the last administration, the only thing they were good at was cheating in elections. That‘s about all they could do. They couldn‘t do anything. They were useless. They were incompetent. Worst administration in the history of our country. Worse than Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter died a happy man. You know why? Because he wasn‘t the worst. President Joe Biden was.”
Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner regarding how Americans should support Trump’s tariffs: “He can read the road ahead and make a deal — Art of the Deal. So part of that deal is to make sure your shareholders — the actual people, not by money, but by vote — understand what’s coming. And those 401(k) people who are depending, those retirees, all of that — just talking plain-speak with them. Look, when this nation used to go to war, people in this country would support the war effort with their materials at home and making things for weaponry and all of that. We gotta do 100 percent buy-in over this bumpy period."
Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner regarding damage to Tesla cars: “I did some homework for this segment, and I want to start someplace that no one’s talking about. What happens if there’s someone in one of these cars they blow up? That can happen. That becomes murder. Or worse. Terrorism plus. And I know that on January 20th, the president signed into law… through an executive order, restoring the death penalty. Do you think this sort of thing… I hate to think it; people leave their children and pets in cars. I mean, you don’t know. This is deadly dangerous stuff these liberal protesters are playing with….Well, and as I just pointed out, the president gave himself another tool if this really goes dark, much darker than it already has.”
Representative Lauren Boebert (Republican Colorado): “Wall Street is full of communists selling their stocks to hurt President Trump.”
May Mailman, the White House senior policy strategist regarding Harvard University’s response to White House official saying the administration stood by the letter sent to Harvard University which included a series of demands about hiring, admissions and curriculum.: “It was malpractice on the side of Harvard’s lawyers not to pick up the phone and call the members of the antisemitism task force who they had been talking to for weeks. Instead, Harvard went on a victimhood campaign.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubion regarding more cases of foreign tourists being deported.: “I would say that if you’re not coming to the United States to join a Hamas protest or to come here and tell us about how right Hamas is or to tell us about — stir up conflict on our campuses and create riots in our street and vandalize our universities, then you have nothing to worry about.”
Trump: “Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome. We look forward to being there!”
US special envoy Steve Witkoff commenting after meeting Putin regarding peace deal for Ukraine.: “This peace deal is about these so-called five territories. But there’s so much more to it… I think we might be on the verge of something that would be very important for the world at large. On top of that, I believe there’s a possibility to reshape the Russian-United States relationship through some very compelling commercial opportunities that I think give real stability to the region too,” [Note: Witkoff appeared to be referring to the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions in eastern Ukraine, much of which are under Russian military occupation after Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion in 2022. The fifth region is believed to be Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.]