Donald Trump

"The word affordability is a con job by the Democrats. The word affordability is a Democrat scam."

"ABC News Reporter Selina Wang: Mr. President, you released video of that first boat strike on September 2nd, but not the second video. Will you release video [of the September 2 US military strikes against a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean] so that the American people can see for themselves what happened? Donald Trump: I don’t know what they have, but whatever they have we’d certainly release, no problem."

"I was never on Epstein's Plane."

"Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly."

"My friends will get hurt."

"Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess, and I’m fixing it. When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years, and some would say in the history of our country, which caused prices to be higher than ever before, making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans. This happened during a Democrat administration, and it’s when we first began hearing the word affordability."

"Already, I’ve secured a record-breaking $18 trillion of investment into the United States, which means jobs, wage increases, growth, factory openings and far greater national security. Much of this success has been accomplished by tariffs, my favorite word, tariffs, which for many decades have been used successfully by other countries against us, but not anymore."

"One year ago, our country was dead. We were absolutely dead. Our country was ready to fail. Totally fail. Now we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world. And that’s said by every single leader that I’ve spoken to over the last five months."

"The current unaffordable care act was created to make insurance companies rich. It was bad health care at much too high a cost, and you see that now in the steep increase in premiums being demanded by the Democrats. And they are demanding those increases and it’s their fault. It is not the Republicans’ fault. It’s the Democrats’ fault. It’s the unaffordable care act, and everybody knew it. Again, I want the money to go directly to the people so you can buy your own health care. You’ll get much better health care at a much lower price. The only losers will be insurance companies that have gotten rich, and the Democrat Party, which is totally controlled by those same insurance companies. They will not be happy, but that’s OK with me because you, the people, are finally going to be getting great health care at a lower cost."

"On Day 1, I declared a national energy emergency. Gasoline is now under $2.50 a gallon, and in much of the country, in some states, it, by the way, just hit $1.99 a gallon."

"Somalians ripped off that state for billions of dollars, billions every year, billions of dollars. And they contribute nothing. The welfare is like 88 percent. They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country. I’ll be honest with you, okay? Somebody said, ‘Oh, that’s not politically correct.’ I don’t care. I don’t want them in our country. Their country’s no good for a reason. Their country stinks, and we don’t want them in our country."

"Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me. I don’t need international law. I’m not looking to hurt people."

"You got to win the midterms because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be — I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached."

"They say that when you win the presidency, you lose the midterm. So, you're all brilliant people. Most of you are in this business longer than me. That makes me smarter than you, because look where I am right? No, it doesn't. But I wish you could, explain to me what the hell's going on with the mind of the public. Because we have a — we have the right policy. They don't. They have a horrible policy. They do stick together."

"I think I have saved tens of millions of lives."

"Late last night and early today at my direction the United States armed forces conducted an extraordinary military operation in the capital of Venezuela."

"We are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition."

"Under our new national security strategy, American dominance in the western hemisphere will never be questioned again."

"The Grammy Awards are the WORST, virtually unwatchable! Noah said, INCORRECTLY about me, that Donald Trump and Bill Clinton spent time on Epstein Island."

"I don't want to drive housing prices down, I want to drive housing prices up for people that own their homes and they can be assured that's what's going to happen."

"I don’t know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat."

"U.S. Olympic Skier, Hunter Hess, a real Loser, says he doesn’t represent his Country in the current Winter Olympics. If that’s the case, he shouldn’t have tried out for the Team, and it’s too bad he’s on it."

"Iran is the world's number one state sponsor of terror, and just recently killed tens of thousands of its own citizens on the street as they protested. It has always been the policy of the United States, in particular my administration, that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon. I'll say it again, they can never have a nuclear weapon."

"They've rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we can't take it anymore. Instead, they attempted to rebuild their nuclear program and to continue developing the long range missiles that can now threaten our very good friends and allies in Europe, our troops stationed overseas, and could soon reach the American homeland. Just imagine how emboldened this regime would be if they ever had, and actually were armed with nuclear weapons as a means to deliver their message. For these reasons, the United States military is undertaking a massive and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests. We're going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally again obliterated. We're going to annihilate their navy. We're going to ensure that the region's terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region or the world and attack our forces, and no longer use their IEDs, or roadside bombs as they are sometimes called, to so gravely wound and kill thousands and thousands of people, including many Americans. And we will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. It's a very simple message. They will never have a nuclear weapon."

"To the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the armed forces and all of the police, I say tonight that you must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity. Or in the alternative, face certain death. So, lay down your arms. You will be treated fairly with total immunity, or you will face certain death. Finally, to the great proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand. Stay sheltered. Don't leave your home. It's very dangerous outside. Bombs will be dropping everywhere. When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations. For many years, you have asked for America's help. But you never got it. No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight. Now you have a president who is giving you what you want. So let's see how you respond. America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. Now is the time to seize control of your destiny, and to unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is close within your reach. This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass."

"I think the war is very complete, pretty much."

"Wrapping up is all in my mind, nobody else's."

"We think they should put a president in or the head of the country that’s going to be able to do something peacefully for a change. They’ve been doing this for 47 years, killing people for 47 years. Whether it’s the barracks or even the SS Cole where they were involved, very strongly, they always denied it. But they were very strongly involved and all of the people that died through the roadside bombs died and are right now walking around with no legs, no arms. A face that’s been so badly damaged."

"The United States is the largest oil producer in the world, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money."

"The straits are in great shape. We’ve knocked out all of their boats. They have some missiles, but not very many. I think we’re in very good … we’re in very good shape."

"Oil will be coming down. That’s just a matter of war that happens. You can almost predict it."

"The straits are in great shape. We’ve knocked out all of their boats. They have some missiles, but not very many."

"We may hit it a few more times just for fun."

"If we ever needed help, they won’t be there for us. I’ve just known that for a long period of time,"

"If we need them in boats or if we need anything, any piece of apparatus that they may have because of a situation that they have they should be jumping to help us."

"We want them to come and help us with the Strait."

"I’ve spoken to a certain president, who I like, actually. A past president, a former president. He said, 'I wish I did it.' But they didn't do it. I'm doing it."

"When we go in, we went in very hard, and we didn't tell anybody about it, because we wanted surprise—Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

"See this pen right here? This pen is a an interesting example. It's the same thing. So this pen is very inexpensive but it writes well. I like it. But I can't have the pen the way it was. You know what it is. I don't want to give too much publicity, but they do treat me well. Sharpie. So I came here and they have 1000 dollar pens. And you know you hand pens out and you sign and you're handing them out all these people sometimes you have 30, 40 people and they were a thousand dollar apiece. Beautiful pen. Ballpoint. Thousand. It was gold, silver, gorgeous, but I'm handing out to kids. They don't even know. "What is this mommy?" It's kids, they are getting a pen for 1000 dollars. They have no idea what it is and I feel guilty because I'm, like, you know, I am by nature, I don't, you know, it's the government. I love the government and I love myself economically. I want to save money so I'm saying this is crazy. And I had another problem. They didn't write well. So I take it out and I signed and there's no ink and I got all you people looking and you say "There must be something wrong with Trump" and I sign and there's no ink in the pen and it costs a thousand dollars. That's why I called a guy. I said "I'd like to use your pen but I can't have a grey thing with a big S on it saying Sharpie as I'm signing a trillion dollar airplane contract to buy brand new fighter jets, brand new B-2 bombers of which we just ordered plenty. I can't do that with the press, use your pen, but I like the pen the best but I'll sign I could like I do like Biden did, you know, give it to somebody else to sign or an autopen or maybe sign it separately in another but he can't use the pen. He said we can make it nicer. I said "What can you do?" He said "I'll paint it black". I said "That's nice" and "I can even paint a the white house on it, sir, if you like, in gold, almost real gold, not bad, and I can even do your signature, sir," and by the way this was not staged, I just saw the pen sit there and I saw that this is an example of how 25 million dollars spent by me at the Federal Reserve building would be a better job than 4 billion dollars that they're spending."

"They are begging to make a deal, not me."

"I read a story today that I’m desperate to make a deal…. I’m the opposite of desperate. I don’t care. I want to know ― in fact, we have other targets we want to hit before we leave. We’re hitting them on a daily basis."

"We don’t need the Hormuz Strait. We don’t need it. We don’t need it at all. We don’t ― we have so much oil. Our country is not affected by this."

"He’s got the best genes I think of any human being I've ever known. He's my son. Don Trump. My son's got the greatest genes in history. I’m a big believer in genes, by the way."

"You know, when I didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. You gotta understand, I don't care. Norway has lost so credible. I stopped 8 wars,"

"To be honest with you, my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran, but some stupid people back in the US say: ‘Why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people."

"Maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don’t. We have a lot of options. It would also mean we had to be there for a while."

"We have certain things in common, Jeffrey."

"Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?"

"These people should be executed. They are scumbags."

"Please help me with my military parade."