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Donald John Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States, in office since January 20, 2017. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

Trump was born in the New York City borough of Queens. He earned an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A third-generation businessman, Trump followed in the footsteps of his grandmother Elizabeth and father Fred in running the family real estate company. He served as chairman and president of The Trump Organization from 1971 until his inauguration as president in January 2017, when he delegated company management to his sons Donald Jr. and Eric. Trump's business career primarily focused on building or renovating office towers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses.

Trump also started several side ventures and branded various products with his name. He is credited as having written or co-written several books , and produced and hosted The Apprentice television series for 12 years. As of 2017, he was the 544th richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $3.5 billion.

Trump had long expressed interest in politics. He entered the 2016 presidential race as a Republican and defeated sixteen opponents in the primaries. Commentators described his political positions as populist, protectionist, and nationalist. His campaign received extensive free media coverage; many of his public statements were controversial or false. Trump won the general election on November 8, 2016, in a surprise victory against Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. He became the oldest and wealthiest person ever to assume the presidency, the first without prior military or government service, and the fifth to have won the election despite losing the popular vote. His election and policies have sparked numerous protests.

In domestic policy, Trump has unsuccessfully attempted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. He appointed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. He ordered a travel ban on citizens from six Muslim-majority countries, citing security concerns; the ban was partially implemented after several legal challenges. In foreign policy, he withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris Climate Agreement, undid parts of the Cuban Thaw, and ordered missile strikes in Syria in response to the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack. After Trump dismissed FBI Director James Comey, the Justice Department appointed Comey's predecessor Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russia's interference in the presidential election, potential links between Russia and Trump campaign associates, and any related matters.

✵ 14. June 1946
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Donald J. Trump Quotes

“I'm going to fight for every American in every last part of this nation. We have a president who doesn't fight. He goes out and plays golf all the time.”

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Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_3IxKcQIA October 23 rally <br class="br">2010s, 2016, October

“I manage to blast through the ridiculous liberal bias of the media and speak right to the hearts of the people - or at least I try.”

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Source: 2010s, 2015, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015), p. 80

“She's (Hillary Clinton) a very dishonest person. I have one of the great temperaments. I have a winning temperament. She has a bad temperament. She's weak. We need a strong temperament and that's all it is, I have a strong temperament. … I think I have a great temperament. I beat 16 very talented people in -- and I've never done this before. You don't do that with a bad temperament. … I'm leading her in the polls, as you probably have noticed. And I think I have a great temperament. I have a temperament where I know how to win. She doesn't know how to win. She's not a winner. She doesn't know how to win. Honestly, she lies a lot and she really -- she should tell the truth. I honestly believe if she told the truth -- because she made some reference to my campaigning, I've had a beautiful -- I've had a -- had a flawless campaign. You'll be writing books about this campaign. And yet she's criticizing my campaign.”

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2010s, 2016, July, This Week Interview (July 30, 2016)

“If you can't get rich dealing with politicians, there's something wrong with you.”

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Campaign Rally in South Carolina http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/07/donald-trump-campaign-speech-lindsey-graham <br class="br"> YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImhJ2sFBJmA <br class="br">2010s, 2015

“Well I just want to say that we are, you know, very honored by the victory that we had, 306 electoral college votes, we were not supposed to crack 220, you [turning to the Israeli PM] know that right? There was no way to 221, but then they said there's no way to 270 [Netanyahu tries to respond, but Trump continues, so then mouths "I thought he was talking to me"] and there's tremendous enthusiasm out there. I will say that, um, we are going to have peace, in this country, we are going to stop crime, in this country, we are going to do everything within our power to stop long-simmering racism, and every other thing that's going on, because a lot of bad things have been taking place over a long period of time. I think one of the reasons I won the election is we have a very, very divided nation, very divided, and hopefully I'll be able to do something about that, and I, you know, it's something that was very important to me. As far as people, Jewish people, so many friends, a daughter who happens to be here right now, a son-in-law, and three beautiful grandchildren, I think that you're going to see a lot different United States of America over the next three, four, or eight years, er, I think a lot of good things are happening, and you're going to see a lot of love, you're going to see a lot of love.”

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Trump responding to a reporter&#x27;s question about rising anti-Semitic incidents and a perception of xenophobia in his administration, during a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmfseeZt5fA (15 February 2017) <br class="br">2010s, 2017, February

“Who is the state senator? Do you want to give me his name? We'll destroy his career.”

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Trump responding to Sheriff Harold Eavenson&#x27;s statement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1SKm1hTWq0 about a Texas state senator proposing legislation to require convictions before sheriffs could receive forfeiture money. (7 February 2017) <br class="br">2010s, 2017, February

“She (Hillary Clinton) lacks judgment, she lacks temperament and I'm the one that used unfit many, many months ago. And now they've turned it around, use it on me, unfit? I'm unfit? That's — that's a first. But she lacks the temperament and the moral character to lead this country, its very simple. She really does. She's a dangerous person who doesn't tell the truth which has been proven very loudly. I've never seen a — I don't think we've ever had greater proof of that, of anybody. And she has disregarded the lives of Americans — you see what's happening — with what she has done with her server? And you know why she did that. So, I just look at this, and I said that if she gets elected, she will cause the destruction of this country from within. Remember that. … She is disdainful of the rules set for everyone else and she hasn't changed a bit. This is — that was the good thing. I couldn't say the bad things. It was too much. Nobody would even — nobody would even believe it. You've got to see this book. Nobody would believe because it's so terrible, so terrible. And she comes across like this woman — nice, easy — but she's not. And — and she's — listen — she's not a leader, not a leader. And she is a liar.”

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2010s, 2016, August, Speech at rally in Wilmington, North Carolina (August 9, 2016)

“So I said to myself, you know, nobody's ever going to know unless I run, because I'm really proud of my success.”

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Announcement speech https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-donald-trump-helped-democrats-pass-obamacare/2015/06/22/002f4c7c-18ea-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html (June 2015) <br class="br">2010s, 2015

“The Bernie ones were — they had a lot more spirit. I think we're going to get a lot of Bernie voters, if you want to know the truth. Because they do understand that trade is killing us. Trade.”

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2010s, 2016, August, Speech at rally in Wilmington, North Carolina (August 9, 2016)

“I have no relationship with Putin. I don't think I've ever met him. I never met him. I don't think I've ever met him. … I have never spoken to him on the phone, no. I've speak -- I've spoken -- when we had the Miss Universe contest a number of years ago, we had Miss Universe in Moscow, in the Moscow area, he was invited. He wanted to come. He wasn't able to come. That would have been a time when I would have met him. … I don't know what it means by having a relationship. I mean he was saying very good things about me, but I don't have a relationship with him. I didn't meet him. I haven't spent time with him. I didn't have dinner with him. I didn't go hiking with him. I don't know -- and I wouldn't know him from Adam except I see his picture and I would know what he looks like.”

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2010s, 2016, July, This Week Interview (July 30, 2016)

“I use the media the way the media uses me—to attract attention. Once I have that attention, it's up to me to use it to my advantage.”

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Source: 2010s, 2015, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015), p. 10

“I hate to tell this to the woman, they're behind the fact, they're a little behind the fact. They haven't figured out that women may be in certain ways much better than men. But I don't want to say that because I will get myself in trouble with men. But they haven't figured this out yet but that's OK.”

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2010s, 2016, January, Speech at (18 January 2016)

“They share these oppressive views and values. We want to remain a free and open society. Then, and if we do, then we have to control our borders. We have to control, and we have to control them now, not later. Right now.”

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2010s, 2016, June, Speech about the Orlando Shooting (June 13, 2016)

“I thought today's women were independent and had a lot of sexual freedom. … Well, I guess they fooled me.”

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In April 2006, about women&#x27;s disaproval of one-night stands. As quoted in Trump on Clinton in 2008: ‘She&#x27;d make a good president&#x27; https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-on-clinton-in-2008-shed-make-a-good-president-2016-07-11 (July 11, 2016) by Michael Rothfield and Mark Maremont, MarketWatch. <br class="br">2000s

“The last major NATO mission was Hillary Clinton's war in Libya. That mission helped to unleash ISIS on a new continent.”

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2010s, 2016, June, Speech about the Orlando Shooting (June 13, 2016)

“Must be a pretty picture you dropping to your knees.”

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&quot; to Brande Roderick, From The Apprentice, Season 6, Episode 1&quot; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7NDpHfXTCI (3 March 2013) <br class="br">2010s, 2013

“I'm a free trader. But the problem with free trade is you need really talented people to negotiate for you. If you don't have talented people, if you don't have great leadership, if you don't have people that know business, not just a political hack that got the job because he made a contribution to a campaign, which is the way all jobs, just about, are gotten, free trade terrible. Free trade can be wonderful if you have smart people, but we have people that are stupid. We have people that aren't smart. And we have people that are controlled by special interests. And it's just not going to work.”

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2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)

“Ted Cruz: Donald, relax.
Donald Trump: I'm relaxed. You're the basket case. Go ahead, don't get nervous.”

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CNN-Telemundo Republican debate http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-carlson-6454d89c-dc90-11e5-8210-f0bd8de915f6-20160226-story.html (25 February 2016) <br class="br">2010s, 2016, February

“And in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, "You know, this Russia thing, with Trump and Russia, is a made-up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election."”

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Trump admitting in an interview with NBC&#x27;s Lester Holt http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/president-trump-this-russia-thing-is-a-made-up-story-941962819745 that annoyance at federal investigations was a motivation for firing FBI Director James Comey (11 May 2017) <br class="br">2010s, 2017, May

“We're fighting a political correct war. It's a political correct war. I mean, you know what's going on. You know what's going on. These are people that chop off heads. These are people that, in steel cages, drop steel cages into the waters and drowned large numbers of people. These are people that buried people in the sand. We've got to knock them out. I was against the war in Iraq. We shouldn't have been to the war in Iraq. It destabilized the Middle East and I said that was going to happen. But we shouldn't have gotten out the way we got out. The way we got out was insane. And Obama gave a date, and he — and that's how ISIS happened, folks. Hence, the birth of ISIS.”

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2010s, 2016, August, Speech at rally in Wilmington, North Carolina (August 9, 2016)

“We're in a bubble. We have artificially low interest rates. We have a stock market that, frankly, has been good to me, but I still hate to see what's happening. We have a stock market that is so bloated. Be careful of a bubble because what you've seen in the past might be small potatoes compared to what happens. So be very, very careful.”

Donald J. Trump

2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)

“Ted Cruz lies. He's a liar. And that's why nobody likes him, that's why his Senate people won't endorse him. That's why he stands on the middle of the Senate floor and can't make a deal with anybody. He looks like a jerk. He's standing all by himself. And you know, there's something to say about having a little bit of ability to get other people to do things. You can't be a lone wolf and stand there. That's sort of what we have right now as a president.”

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Morning Joe http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump-ted-cruz-lies-he-s-a-liar-608990275597 (26 January 2016) <br class="br">2010s, 2016, January

“I'll go backstage, before a show, and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else. And you know, no men are anywhere. And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it. You know I'm inspecting, I want to make sure everything is good, the dresses, "Is everyone OK?", you know they're standing there with no clothes, "Is everybody OK?", and you see these incredible-looking women, and so I sort of get away with things like that.”

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Comments about his ownership of Miss Universe on the Howard Stern Show https://soundcloud.com/user-735086019/101g1 (11 April 2005) <br class="br">2000s

“I’ve known a long time. If I thought he was a racist, or alt-right, or any of the things that we can, you know, the terms we can use, I wouldn’t even think about hiring him. First of all, I’m the one that makes the decision, not Steve Bannon or anybody else.”

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2010s, 2016, November, New York Times Interview (November 23, 2016)

“As I have always said, let ObamaCare fail and then come together and do a great healthcare plan. Stay tuned!”

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Tweet by @realDonaldTrump https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/887280380423938048 (18 July 2017) <br class="br">2010s, 2017, July

“Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

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Press conference, reported in Ashley Parker and David E. Sanger, &quot; Donald Trump Calls on Russia to Find Hillary Clinton&#x27;s Missing Emails http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-clinton-emails.html?, The New York Times (July 27, 2016). <br class="br">2010s, 2016, July

“President Obama has weakened our military by weakening our economy. He's crippled us with wasteful spending, massive debt, low growth, a huge trade deficit and open borders.”

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2010s, 2016, April, Foreign Policy Speech (27 April 2016)

“To me more important is taking care of the people that really have proven to be, to love Donald Trump, as opposed to the political people. And frankly if the political people don't take care of these people, they're not going to win and you're going to end up with maybe a total different kind of government than what you're looking at right now. These people are really angry. They're smart, they're workers, and they're angry. I call them the forgotten men and women. And I use that in speeches, I say they're the forgotten people — they were totally forgotten.”

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2010s, 2016, November, New York Times Interview (November 23, 2016)

“People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?”

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Trump: Why Couldn&#x27;t the Civil War Have Been Avoided? http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-why-couldn-t-civil-war-have-been-avoided-n753241 (May 1, 2017) <br class="br">2010s, 2017, May

“We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas.”

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&quot;Trump signs executive order to keep out &#x27;radical Islamic terrorists&#x27;&quot; http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/27/politics/trump-plans-to-sign-executive-action-on-refugees-extreme-vetting/, CNN (27 January 2017) <br class="br">2010s, 2017, January

“Every day I wake up determined to deliver for the people I have met all across this nation that have been neglected, ignored, and abandoned. I have visited the laid-off factory workers, and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country, and they are forgotten, but they're not going to be forgotten long. These are people who work hard but no longer have a voice. I AM YOUR VOICE.”

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2010s, 2016, July, (21 July 2016)

“You can't con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don't deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.”

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Source: 1980s, Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987), p. 60

“Our jobs have moved overseas, Islamic terrorism has spread within our shores and an open border has crushed low-income workers and threatened our security. The issues we face here in America are similar to the issues faced in Britain during their referendum on membership in the EU. This is the movement known as Brexit”

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2010s, 2016, August, Speech in Jackson, Mississippi (August 24, 2016)

“She turned out to be the wife of a man who was then the prime minister of a major country. I'd heard stories about this lady, but I never thought much of them until that night. We met at the house of the friend who'd phoned me. After we'd all chatted for a while in the living room, the four of us who already knew each other drifted out to the kitchen, leaving Ben and Madame X in the living room to get better acquainted. Which they did. In fact, when we drifted back in, about ten minutes later, she and Ben were involved in an incredibly torrid scene on the couch. I remember standing there and thinking to myself, "Well, Donald, you're not in Queens anymore."”

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Trump: Surviving at the Top (1990), p. 52
1990s

“Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T. V. doing the same - Nice!”

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Twitter, August 1, 2016 https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/760070280932982784 <br class="br">2010s, 2016, August

“North Korea best not make any more. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal state. They will be met with fire, fury, and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before.”

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Comment on North Korean nuclear tests, made during a public meeting on the .<br> Trump&#x27;s &#x27;fire and fury&#x27; remark was improvised but familiar http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/trump-fire-fury-improvise-north-korea/index.html, CNN. August 9, 2017. <br class="br">2010s, 2017, August

“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.”

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Source: 1980s, Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987), p. 63

“We are going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities.”

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2010s, 2016, July, (21 July 2016)

“[About David Becker] He's grovelling again. You know, I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they want to write something that you want to hear but not necessarily millions of people want to hear or have to hear.”

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&quot;Trump&#x27;s voter fraud talk has liberals worried&quot; http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38764653/, BBC (27 January 2017) <br class="br">2010s, 2017, January

“I will fight for their security, I will fight for their jobs, I will fight for their families. One American Nation.”

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2010s, 2016, August, Speech in Jackson, Mississippi (August 24, 2016)

“President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out -- what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.”

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2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

“She didn't know what to do, well how did you get him, uh well uh… they were sent by Russia! You know they're always using Russia”

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October 25, 2016 rally in Sanford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smKITCJJMnc&amp;t=18m30s regarding Donna Brazile <br class="br">2010s, 2016, October

“Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!”

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Tweet https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-celebrates-cinco-de-mayo-with-taco-bowl-from-his-tower/2016/05/05/ab18e0b6-12ff-11e6-81b4-581a5c4c42df_story.html (5 May 2016) <br class="br">2010s, 2016, May

“I want to move forward, I don't want to move back. And I don't want to hurt the Clintons. I really don't. She went through a lot. And suffered greatly in many different ways. And I am not looking to hurt them at all. The campaign was vicious. They say it was the most vicious primary and the most vicious campaign. I guess, added together, it was definitely the most vicious; probably, I assume you sold a lot of newspapers. … It's just not something that I feel very strongly about. … I'm not looking to look back and go through this. This was a very painful period. This was a very painful election with all of the email things and all of the foundation things and all of the everything that they went through and the whole country went through. This was a very painful period of time.”

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About not prosecuting Hillary Clinton.
2010s, 2016, November, New York Times Interview (November 23, 2016)

“We have a dysfunctional immigration system, which does not permit us to know who we let into our country, and it does not permit us to protect our citizens properly. We have an incompetent administration.”

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2010s, 2016, June, Speech about the Orlando Shooting (June 13, 2016)

“Israel maybe won't exist very long. It's a disaster, and we have to protect Israel.”

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Source: 2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)

“I was elected represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.”

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Statement by President Trump on the Paris Climate Accord https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/06/01/statement-president-trump-paris-climate-accord, announcing his intention to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement (1 June 2017) <br class="br">2010s, 2017, June

“I love working. I'm not a vacation guy. Right? Like Obama, he plays golf in Hawaii. He flies in a 747.”

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Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_3IxKcQIA April 21, 2016 rally <br class="br">2010s, 2016, April

“I said it to you once, had we taken the oil -- and we should have taken the oil -- ISIS would not have been able to form either, because the oil was their primary source of income. And now they have the oil all over the place, including the oil -- a lot of the oil in Libya, which was another one of her disasters.”

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2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

“I listened to a panel of judges and I'll comment on that — I will not comment on the statements made by, um, certainly one judge — but I have to be honest that if these judges wanted to, in my opinion, help the court, in terms of respect for the court, they'd do what they should be doing. I mean it's so sad, they should be, you know, when you read something so simple, and so beautifully written, and so perfectly written — other than the one statement, of course, having to do with "he" or "she" — but when you read something so perfectly written, and so clear to anybody, and then you have lawyers and you watched, I watched last night in amazement, and I heard things that I couldn't believe, things that really had nothing to do with what I just read, and I don't ever want to call a court biased, so I won't call it biased, and we haven't had a decision yet, but courts seem to be so political, and it would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to read a statement and do what's right.”

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2010s, 2017, February