“They have to put Trump on every program, spewing his crazy ideas, because his poll numbers are so high. And his poll numbers are so high because they put him on every program, spewing his crazy ideas.” IdeasNumbersCrazyTrumpProgramPollsCrazy Ideas Author:Jon Stewart
“A recent analysis of election coverage by the Tindall report which tracks network nicely news programs found that Bernie Sanders received just ten minutes out of 857 minutes of campaign coverage in 2015. Compare that to 234 minutes for Donald Trump, and 113 for Hillary Clinton.” FoundMinutesTrumpTenNewsProgramElectionClintonTrackCampaignsCompareAnalysisReportsCoverage Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“In fact, in Indiana we suspended the Syrian refugee program in the wake of the terrorist attack. We have no higher priority than the safety and security of the people of this country, and Donald Trump is right to articulate that view.” PeopleCountryFactsViewsSecurityTrumpHigherProgramSafetyPrioritiesTerroristRefugeeSuspendedIndianaTerrorist AttacksSafety And SecuritySyrian Refugees Author:Mike Pence
“Donald Trump is going to take our Army up to 6,000. And Obama and Hillary are going to take it down to 4,200. He is going to take our Marine Corps from 23 battalions to 35 battalions. And he's going to reestablish and modernize our nuclear program.” TrumpProgramArmyNuclearMarineMarine Corps Author:Rudy Giuliani
“[Donald] Trump comes along and is singing a different song. He says, "I don't need your money; I'm rich enough on my own to run." And he says, "I think we need these programs." And, lo and behold, a lot of Republican voters liked what he said.” ThinkingNeedsSaidDifferentEnoughRunningSongMy OwnRichTrumpRepublicanSingingProgramVoters Author:Jane Mayer
“Hillary [Clinton] has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his.” WarWholeTrumpProgramClintonClimateFasterDamageFracking Author:Jill Stein
“Donald Trump has called for extreme vetting for people coming into this country so that we don't bring people into the United States who are hostile to our bill of rights freedoms, who are hostile to the American way of life, but I will say, Donald Trump and I are committed to suspending the Syrian refugee program and programs on immigration from areas of the world that have been compromised by terrorism.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesRightsTrumpAreasProgramBillsCommittedExtremesTerrorismImmigrationRefugeeHostileBill Of RightsAmerican Way Of LifeSyrian Refugees Author:Mike Pence
“There was even a time when Donald Trump didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him.” YearsThreeTvsTrumpProgramThree YearsRiggedEmmys Author:Hillary Clinton
“When Donald Trump raises money for the party, raises money, a lot of that money goes to the party, and that's fine. If you're doing a door-knocking program, for example, in Wisconsin, it also helps Ron Johnson who's running for senate. It helps the congressional candidates.” IfsHelpingRunningPartyDoorsExampleFineTrumpProgramRaisesCandidatesSenateJohnsonKnockingWisconsin Author:Kellyanne Conway
“There are a few things [Donald Trump] has been pretty clear he'll do. A big infrastructure program that he'll get bipartisan support for.” Has BeensBigsSupportClearTrumpProgramInfrastructureBipartisan Author:William Kristol
“I think, as a historian, what strikes one the most about this [Donald'd Trump] program is just simply its nationalism, with his commitment to the redevelopment of American manufacturing and industrial jobs, providing jobs for the constituency that was so important in electing him.” ThinkingImportantJobsTrumpCommitmentProgramStrikesNationalismHistorianProvidingManufacturing Author:Judy Woodruff
“That is certainly the promise of [Donald Trump] campaign and the promise of his economic program.This economic program is really the pickup truck of economic programs. It's the Ford F-150 of economic programs. It's about manufacturing. It's about oil, fossil fuels. It's a deliberate, forceful reassertion of an image of American industrialism that we have inherited from the 20th century.” EconomicCenturyTrumpPromiseProgramOilCampaignsFuel20th CenturyFossilsTruckDeliberateManufacturingFossil FuelPickupsPickup Trucks Author:Judy Woodruff
“In some senses, I think it's almost deliberately anachronistic. There's a retro feel to the [Donald] Trump program.” ThinkingFeelsTrumpProgramSensesRetro Author:Judy Woodruff
“What will be interesting to see is whether or not we see from the [Donald Trump] administration initiatives on higher education for this work force, because if those kinds of training opportunities are not provided, then I do think this program begins to look like a defensive holding action, a rear-guard action, buying time for workers who might not otherwise find positions in the 21st century.” IfsThinkingLooksKindMightActionOpportunityForceInterestingCenturyPositionTrumpHigherTrainingProgramWorkersAdministrationBuyingInitiative21st CenturyHigher Education Author:Judy Woodruff
“I think one can see the [Donald] Trump program as if it were that element of the bailout of 2009 writ very large, and now extended out towards both fossil fuels, and, on the other hand, the infrastructure program, which is such a key element of the spending side of the Trump program.” IfsThinkingHandsSidesKeysTrumpElementsProgramSpendingFuelFossilsInfrastructureFossil FuelBailouts Author:Judy Woodruff
“You have to be careful, because, in the [Donald] Trump stimulus package, there were two elements. One is the infrastructure investment program, which at this moment doesn't have the financing spelled out in any effective form.” TwoMomentsFormTrumpElementsProgramInvestmentCarefulBe CarefulInfrastructurePackagesStimulusFinancing Author:Judy Woodruff
“The sorts of sectors which feature so largely in the [Donald] Trump program, and its rhetoric, account now for perhaps only about 15 percent of the American work force.” ForceTrumpPercentProgramAccountsFeaturesRhetoric Author:Judy Woodruff
“What I think the appeal of the [Donald] Trump program has been is that it offers some kind of concrete, specific, historically rooted, a familiar image of how ordinary Americans, regular Americans can earn their living.” ThinkingKindHas BeensTrumpOffersOrdinaryProgramFamiliarAppealsConcreteRooted Author:Judy Woodruff
“[Donald Trump] said on MSNBC's Morning Joe program, "My primary consultant is myself." While this may make consensus easy, the range of perspective is dangerously narrow.” MaySaidEasyMorningPerspectiveTrumpProgramPrimariesRangeConsensusConsultants Author:David Krieger
“If Trump wins, the only thing blocking complete implementation of the programs of Trump, Paul Ryan, the Koch brothers, etc., is the Senate filibuster by the Democrats.” IfsWinningBrotherTrumpProgramDemocratBlockEtcSenateImplementationFilibuster Author:Allan Nairn
“Long ago I decided that this program has nothing to do, the success of the program depends nothing at all on who wins or loses elections. "Are you abandoning [Donald] Trump?" No, no, no, no, don't misunderstand, I'm just explaining. I should have told you. I get emails constantly from people asking me when am I going to Trump Tower. I'm not going to Trump Tower.” PeopleShouldLongWinningLosesDependsTrumpProgramDecidedShould HaveAskingElectionLong AgoTowersEmailExplainingWin Or Lose Author:Rush Limbaugh
“That's unfortunately common - to blame immigrants, to blame the African-Americans who are being helped by federal programs, to blame anyone available, to direct attention away from the roots of the distress which you're suffering. This combines with xenophobia, white supremacy, racism, misogyny, and other quite unpleasant phenomena which are far from being eradicated. All of this makes for a pretty dangerous brew. But economic issues are right in the center of it. And you can see this in the fact that so many former Obama voters now voted for Trump, or just didn't bother voting.” FactsSufferingWhiteCommonAttentionIssuesEconomicDangerousTrumpRacismProgramDirectRootsBlameAvailableFormerAfrican AmericanBotherVotingImmigrantsVotersDistressMisogynyWhite SupremacySupremacyXenophobiaEconomic Issues Author:Noam Chomsky
“Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.” SelfAmericaIdentityTrumpPromiseBuiltProgramPitySelf PityTrumpetsNational Identity Author:Susan Faludi
“Now that Mr. Trump is the President-elect: If he chooses, he can, by executive order, repeal most of what President Barack Obama brought into existence, including the thawing of the relationship between the United States and the people of Cuba. And because there is a Republican Senate, a Republican House of Representatives, a Republican president, it is more than likely that his legislative program will be accepted; his nominations to the Supreme Court may very well be accepted.” PeopleIfsWellsMayStatesOrderHousePresidentUnitedExistenceUnited StatesTrumpRepublicanProgramCourtIncludingAcceptedSupremeBarackExecutivesSenateRepresentativesSupreme CourtCubaPresident Barack ObamaNominationsHouse Of RepresentativesExecutive OrdersThawing Author:Louis Farrakhan
“If [Donald Trump] is got a program and an agenda and an infrastructure and all of that that he's going to do, let him come forward.” IfsTrumpProgramAgendasInfrastructure Author:Michel Martin
“If Donald Trump shows signs of backing out of Europe, the Russians might be willing to stay out of his confrontation with Iran. If he follows Obama's program in Europe, things might be different.” IfsDifferentShowsMightWillingTrumpEuropeProgramIranConfrontationBacking Out Author:Lawrence Davidson
“Donald Trump has the ability to renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal as he says, but if he were to do so, this would be regarded in Tehran as an abrogation of the deal. This would allow the Iranian side of the deal to in effect withdraw because they could say that the United States has not held up its end of the bargain, and therefore we're going to restart our nuclear program.” IfsEndsStatesWould BeSidesAbilityUnitedDealsUnited StatesEffectsTrumpProgramNuclearIranBargainsIranianTehran Author:Evan Osnos