“He [Donald Trump] is a tough boss. I've known him for decades. He hasn't changed very much. He's a driven person, highly intelligent, and he's very motivated, very charismatic, and he is tough as nails in the sense there's no slack there. You can't put anything over on Donald. Donald can see right through someone trying to dissemble or spin stuff.” TryingPersonsStuffKnownChangedTrumpToughIntelligentDrivenDecadesBossMotivatedNailsCharismaticHighly Intelligent Author:Geraldo Rivera
“Trump appeals to right-wingnuts because when the going gets tough, they wig out.” TrumpToughAppealsWigsGoing Gets Tough Author:Michael R. Burch
“Rand Paul tried hard to upstage Donald Trump at the first debate, talking tough about his guns and his right not to register them. But with his pixie-ish perm, Paul does not impress me as the gunslinger type. Rand Paul is the RuPaul of politics. He would do better to defend his right to carry an unregistered blow-dryer and curling irons.” FirstsDoeHardTalkingTypeTrumpGunToughBlowDebateIronImpressRegisterGunslingerPixiesDryersPerms Author:Michael R. Burch
“C'm'on lefties! Admit that Trump has been very tough on China. He has been especially tough on Chinese kids who slave away in sweatboxes, making his clothing lines.” Has BeensKidsLinesTrumpToughSlaveChinaChineseClothingsLeftiesClothing Line Author:Michael R. Burch
“But the irony is they think they're being tough on ISIS and Trump thinks he's being tough on ISIS. Senator Rubio in his interview with you touched on it very, very lightly.” ThinkingTrumpToughIronyInterviewsTouchedSenatorsIsis Author:Ted Koppel
“I've had the opportunity to spend some time with Donald Trump. He is - he - as you can imagine, I mean, he's a very engaging man. He's - he puts on an image as a lot of candidates and I think all of us do when we're in front of a microphone that's really tough and combative.” ThinkingMenMeanOpportunityImagineFrontsTrumpToughCandidatesEngagingMicrophones Author:Rick Santorum
“Although, my guess is that what Donald Trump will do tonight is to try to thread that needle by kind of softening his policy position or maybe just the questions about what you do with those 11 million, while getting tough on criminal migrants.” TryingKindMillionsPolicyPositionTrumpToughCriminalsTonightThreadNeedlesMigrants Author:Michelle Goldberg
“Donald Trump in Philadelphia, and he's delivering a very substantive speech on military preparedness, the status of the current military. He detailed the deterioration of the U.S. military in the past eight years and explained how he's going to rebuild it and why we need to, and it's a very tough audience. It's an expressly military audience, and they are of course listening for any sign that he's not really genuine here. I think, knocking this out of the park as far as that audience is concerned.” ThinkingNeedsYearsPastCoursesAudienceMilitaryListeningTrumpSpeechToughConcernedCurrentsEightGenuineParksKnockingPhiladelphiaDeliveringPreparednessDeterioration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I know Donald's [Trump] very praiseworthy of Vladimir Putin, but Putin is playing a really tough, long game here. And one of the things he's done is to let loose cyber attackers to hack into government files, to hack into personal files, hack into the Democratic National Committee. And we recently have learned that, you know, that this is one of their preferred methods of trying to wreak havoc and collect information.” KnowsTryingLongDoneGovernmentGamesInformationTrumpToughMethodDemocraticCommitteesFilesPutinHacksCyberHavocPraiseworthy Author:Hillary Clinton
“The thing I would worry a little bit about is Donald Trump owes about $650 million to banks, including the Bank of China. I'm not sure he could stand up so tough to the people who have loaned him money.” PeopleLittlesBitsMillionsWorryTrumpLittle BitToughIncludingChinaNot Sure Author:Tim Kaine
“By the physicality alone it was evident that we have one person [who] is incredibly smart, incredibly tough, and able to deal with him in a very, very calm and intelligent manner. And [Donald Trump] thought he was on The Jerry Springer Show.” PersonsShowsAbleDealsTrumpSmartToughIntelligentCalmEvidentJerryPhysicalityJerry Springer Show Author:Natalie Portman
“want to get to the substance of the book ["Thank You for Being Late"], but it is so closely connected to this presidential election. And you also wrote a series of columns during the campaign, very tough on Donald Trump. You called him a disgusting human being and now you're calling the election a moral 9/11 only 9/11 was done to us from the outside. We did this to ourselves.” WantHumansBookDoneHuman BeingsMoralTrumpCallingLateToughElectionSeriesConnectedCampaignsSubstancePresidentialDisgustingColumnsPresidential Election Author:George Stephanopoulos
“When it comes to economics, president-elect [Donald] Trump has promised to revive American manufacturing, get tough on trade with China, cut taxes and invest in infrastructure.” PresidentCuttingTrumpTaxesToughEconomicsTradeChinaInfrastructureManufacturingRevive Author:Judy Woodruff