“I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card.” WayTryingPlayTrumpCards Author:Billy Porter
“Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity.” WayHas BeensWholeOpportunityWinningChangedTrumpGratefulChanged My LifeApprenticeAmazing Experiences Author:Bill Rancic
“I've never quite been a peer of Donald [Trump]. When I knew him it was more in a social way. We were single at kind of the same time. You know having fun in that sense, but I've watched his career with great admiration, and now to really see him as an employee sees him as an aspirant within the corporate structure of the Trump enterprises is really fascinating.” KnowsWayKindFunSocialCareersTrumpStructureCorporateHaving FunEnterpriseEmployeeFascinatingAdmirationPeersNever Quit Author:Geraldo Rivera
“It is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you don't get mad at a monkey when he throws poop at you at the zoo... What does get me angry is the ridiculous, disingenuous defending of the poop-throwing monkey.” WayDoeHardStupidTrumpPoliticianAngryMadRidiculousComedianThrowingMonkeysZoosHumoristsStupid ThingsPoopDisingenuous Author:Jon Stewart
“[Donald] Trump is touching a nerve because people want the wall to be built. They want to see an end to illegal immigration. They want to see it, and we all do. But we all have different ways of getting there.” PeopleWayWantDifferentEndsWallTrumpBuiltImmigrationDifferent WaysIllegalNervesTouchingIllegal Immigration Author:John Kasich
“Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way.” WayPlayChristianEvilTrumpCardsGuiltySentimentsThrowingSovereign Book:Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free Source: Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free
“Donald Trump said he will not decide about a possible run for the presidency until after the current season of Celebrity Apprentice wraps up. Say what you want about Trump, at least this guy has his priorities in order. He doesn't want to let actual reality get in the way of his reality show.” WayWantSaidShowsRealityRunningGuyOrderTrumpSeasonsCurrentsWhat You WantPrioritiesPresidencyThis GuyWrapsApprenticeReality Shows Author:Jay Leno
“If you want to beat Donald Trump - then you need to be the candidate that is not the establishment in your thinking, in the way you're presenting yourself.” IfsThinkingWayWantNeedsTrumpBeatsCandidatesEstablishmentPresentingPresenting Yourself Author:Dalia Mogahed
“I don't think there's any clever way for the establishment to take Donald Trump down. It's very simple. Another candidate is going to have to find a way either to out-maneuver him, or to just frankly beat him in the argument.” ThinkingWaySimpleTrumpBeatsArgumentCleverCandidatesEstablishment Author:Dalia Mogahed
“[Ted] Cruz is not at all popular in the Senate. Republicans say he may be too disliked to be a nominee. And there is a real concern about that. I think the one way to go after Trump maybe is go after him as a closet Democrat. That he has supported Democrats in the past.” ThinkingWayMayRealPastTrumpRepublicanConcernDemocratOne WaySenateClosetsCruz Author:Dalia Mogahed
“I will say that Bernie Sanders are the opposite end of the spectrum from Donald Trump. We see him leading right now in the Republican Party in an intractable way.” WayEndsPartyTrumpRepublicanRight NowOppositesRepublican PartySpectrum Author:Rachel Maddow
“Many people feel he did cross a line in a way he hadn't even done before and also that Republicans had to speak out because they believe Trump poses a danger to the party.” PeopleWayFeelsBelieveDoneSpeakLinesPartyDangerTrumpRepublicanCrossesSpeaks Out Author:Mara Liasson
“Lets us all have an open conversation about what this might mean if [Donald] Trump gets his way or how we might be able to adjust that and make American people safer.” PeopleIfsWayMeanMightAbleTrumpConversation Author:Ted Cruz
“There`s one way of looking at the Trump phenomenon that he`s essentially a Doofus or he is an opportunist.” WayTrumpOne WayPhenomenonOpportunist Author:Steve King
“Donald [Trump], you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. That's not going to happen.” WayHappensAbleTrumpInsultPresidency Author:Jeb Bush
“What I do respect is that Donald Trump knows that it is an emotional appeal and it might be emotional appeals that I don`t - can`t expect.But he knows that you have to appeal to the voter, and that`s why I may be wrong. I made a big deal about there`s no way he`s going to win.” KnowsWayMayMadeBigsMightWinningDealsEmotionalTrumpAppealsVotersBig DealEmotional Appeal Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“What I`m starting to think of as the mythical beast of the Republican establishment, which is the sort of inchoate idea that we keep talking about what they`re going to do and it never seems to have much impact or be manifest in very visible ways, obviously, it is one thing for Donald Trump to have taken a shot like he did early in his campaign at John McCain, calling him not a war hero.” ThinkingWayIdeasWarSeemsTalkingTakenOne ThingTrumpHeroCallingRepublicanShotsImpactStartingCampaignsBeastVisibleManifestEstablishmentMccainKeep TalkingWar HeroMythical Beasts Author:Rachel Maddow
“What we really need to understand here is that it`s all about power. This is where the surge is coming from for Bernie Sanders. In some ways, it`s a very different - it`s a different surge, but it`s coming out of the same sort of sense of fundamental powerlessness and anger and frustration for Donald Trump.” WayNeedsDifferentTrumpFundamentalsFrustrationComing OutPowerlessnessMental PowerAnger And Frustration Author:Robert Reich
“Donald Trump you're never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency.” WayStatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesTrumpPresidencyInsulting Author:Carly Fiorina
“People that support Donald Trump are gonna circle the wagons around Trump even more so after this. This isn't gonna cause Catholics or other Christians to say, "Oh, my God, the pope, oh, no, pope says Trump's not a Christian. I gotta abandon Trump." No. It isn't gonna happen that way, I don't believe.” PeopleWayBelieveHappensChristianCausesSupportTrumpCatholicDon't BelieveCirclesAbandonPopeWagons Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Catholic Church spends a lot of time in very poor countries trying to recruit and spread the Gospel. Let me put it that way: The pope is simply saying...? Has he ever said that Mao Tse-tung, that Fidel Castro, that Raul Castro, any other communist is not a Christian? Why Donald Trump? 'Cause Trump wants to build a wall?” WayWantTryingSaidCountryChristianCausesChurchPoorWallTrumpLet MeCatholicSpreadCommunistPopeCatholic ChurchCastroRecruitMaoPoor Countries Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican Party`s reacting now to the news of [Donald] Trump`s dominance in different ways. For some, they are pushing resistance.” WayDifferentPartyTrumpRepublicanNewsResistanceDifferent WaysPushingRepublican PartyDominanceReacting Author:Chris Matthews
“I have Hispanic friends who are all for [Donald]Trump because they feel they`re getting a bad rap on the illegal people who are here. As opposed to those who came the right way, built up their businesses, have, you know, everything going for them in our country. The country isn`t going with them the way they thought it was going to go.” PeopleKnowsWayFeelsCountryTrumpBuiltRapOur CountryIllegalRight WayHispanic Author:Sue Lowden
“Colorado is a swing state, like Nevada, like North Carolina, like Florida. It all depends. [Donald] Trump has offended Mexicans and Muslims and millennials and some women. Will those offended people be energized to show up in the way that Trump supporters are energized to show up? It will be an energy.” PeopleWayStatesShowsEnergyDependsTrumpSwingsFloridaSupporterOffendedCarolinaColoradoNorth CarolinaMillennialsNevada Author:Geraldo Rivera
“I say that in jest a little bit, but Donald Trump is a blue collar guy with a balance sheet. That's the way he likes to have fun.” WayLittlesGuyFunBitsTrumpBalanceLittle BitBlueLikesHaving FunSheetsCollarsJestBlue CollarBalance Sheets Author:Donald Trump, Jr.
“I don't think it's fair, the way that the establishment is treating Donald Trump. I will be honest.” ThinkingWayHonestTrumpFairsBeing HonestEstablishment Author:Donald Trump
“I never wanted it to get to this point. I had hoped that, by its own course, by the way the media covers politics, people would open their eyes and see who Donald Trump really is. But that, unfortunately, has not happened. The polls in the early states indicate that he's been able to fool a significant number of people into believing that he is something that he is not.” PeopleWayBelieveStatesEyeAbleWantedCoursesNumbersHappenedMediaFoolTrumpSignificantPollsSignificant Numbers Author:Marco Rubio
“If Donald Trump is our nominee, it could be the end of the Republican Party. It will split us and splinter us in a way that we may never be able to recover. And the Democrats will be joyful about it. It's not going to happen.” IfsWayMayEndsHappensAblePartyTrumpRepublicanDemocratJoyfulSplitsRepublican PartySplinters Author:Marco Rubio
“I'm interested in - in that his power, if that is the word, is such that he has actually been able to be in a way a one-man wrecking crew in the area of deportment and how one proceeds politically on the stump. Marco Rubio is - is attempting, as you know, to a - to give [Donald] Trump a fight in Trump's own style. I'm not sure how that works, but - but certainly the indices are good.” IfsKnowsMenWayGivingAbleFightingStyleTrumpAreasNot SureOne ManCrewAttemptingMarcosStumps Author:Bernie Sanders
“I actually think the only way that you can beat Trump is recognizing that he is a one- man wrecking machine fueled by this cult personality. So you have to attack him on those bases. None of these ideological positioning issues matter for [Donald] Trump.” ThinkingMenWayMatterIssuesPersonalityTrumpBeatsMachinesBasesOne ManCultRecognizingIdeological Author:Bernie Sanders
“It's not something where you can say, one time you said this and now you said this. That doesn't peel off any of his people. The only way that you can do it is by out alphaing [Doanld] Trump, and I think that's what Marco Rubio's attempting to do.” PeopleThinkingWaySaidCan DoTrumpOne TimeYou Can Do ItAttemptingMarcos Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think the way for [Marco] Rubio to say to [Donald] Trump supporters, hey, essentially he's conned you. He's a con man. That's what they do. You pour gold people.My goodness, that's not the way to bring them in.” PeopleThinkingMenWayTrumpGoodnessGoldHeySupporterOld PeopleMarcos Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think that [Chris] Christie`s endorsement is, you know, it`s a sign that - you know, he is who we thought he was in so many different respects. He`s someone who ambition is the only thing that I think is bigger than his appetite.I think in this case, it`s a situation where he saw the one guy who he thinks he can maybe get a cabinet post with if he wins in Donald Trump. I think, you know, he kind of went out the door doing a number of favors in beating up Marco Rubio the way he did.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayKindDifferentGuyWinningNumbersSituationCasesSawsDoorsTrumpAmbitionBiggerFavorsPostsAppetiteCabinetsMarcosEndorsementsChristie Author:Ben Domenech
“If Donald Trump builds the wall the way he builds Trump Towers, he'll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it.” IfsWayWallTrumpLaborImmigrantsIllegalTowersIllegal Immigrants Author:Marco Rubio
“The base that Donald Trump is speaking to are not that conservative, at least not the way conservatives have defined themselves.” WayTrumpConservativeDefined Author:Chris Hayes
“Establishment suggests there must be some Wizard of Oz somewhere pulling the strings. That's not the way it works. There are individuals like myself. I sat there and watched Donald Trump, and I said, look, someone has got to say something.” WayLooksSaidIndividualTrumpSatStringsEstablishmentPullingWizards Author:Mitt Romney
“I don't care about Donald Trump himself. I care and I worry about the very big base that supports him because this kind of language would have been absolutely nonexistent maybe 15, 20 - by the way, I follow the American elections, and I have never seen someone who is that offensive. I have seen people who are stupid. But stupid and offensive, that's new.” PeopleWayKindHas BeensBigsCareLanguageWorrySupportStupidTrumpElectionDon't CareI Don't CareI CareOffensiveAmerican Elections Author:Bassem Youssef
“I think one of the many interesting things about [Donald] Trump is that people in the media did not take him seriously for months. Then, when it was clear he was going to be the nominee, they immediately hit the panic button. I think they overlook the possibility that he could just be a really bad president in the way that presidents are traditionally bad.” PeopleThinkingWayPresidentInterestingClearMediaPossibilityMonthsTrumpPanicButtonsInteresting Things Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Let's say Donald Trump loses but it's close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts - that to succeed in politics, you have to be a caricature of what a politician is supposed to be like.” WayWholeJobsLosesTrumpPoliticianSucceedSupposed To BeCaricatures Author:Chuck Klosterman
“[Donald] Trump is fascism, that's all, so we have to find a way to work it out between Hillary [Clinton] and Bernie [Sanders].” WayTrumpClintonWorking ItFascism Author:Tom Hayden
“I think that what Donald Trump is doing, the way in which racism, xenophobia, anti-Muslim belief and the like are being expressed through the campaign of Donald Trump, calls for, I think, a very vigorous and aggressive response to what he's saying.” ThinkingWayBeliefTrumpRacismResponseCampaignsAggressiveVigorousXenophobia Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I think what Donald Trump is saying to people is that America has way more leverage at the negotiating table than America has used in the past. And whether you like it or not, the government and trade representatives have made the decision not to use that leverage. And it has had an economic impact on the lower and middle class.” PeopleThinkingWayMadeUseGovernmentAmericaPastUsedDecisionClassEconomicMiddleTrumpTablesTradeImpactMiddle ClassRepresentativesYou Like ItNegotiating Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“Donald Trump is a way better leader than Hillary Clinton.” WayLeaderTrumpClinton Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“Donald Trump has built a super successful business. He's an effective organizer. He's an effective execution-oriented executive. He has the right political personality to get on with people in a way that'll surprise people. He will cut deals in a way that are more favorable for America than what establishment politicians have done.” PeopleWayDoneAmericaPoliticalDealsSuccessfulCuttingPersonalityTrumpPoliticianBuiltSurpriseExecutivesEstablishmentExecutionSuccessful BusinessOrganizer Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“I think it doesn't matter what color you are. Everybody is getting the - getting the stick, and I'm sure Trump feels the same way.” ThinkingWayFeelsMatterColorTrumpSticks Author:Joe Arpaio
“I still maintain that you cannot treat [Donald] Trump, analyze Trump, destroy Trump the way politics says you destroy people that are running for office. I don't think the standard, ordinary operating procedures work.” PeopleThinkingWayStillsRunningTrumpOfficeStandardsOrdinaryTreatsProceduresRunning For Office Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The more outlandish things he said, the deeper the connection. Well, [Donald] Trump has that. That's why I don't think they can destroy Trump the way that they're trying to destroy Trump over this thing in Scotland today. This is a perfect example.” ThinkingWayTryingWellsSaidTodayPerfectExampleTrumpConnectionsDeeperScotlandOutlandish Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Trump says things others so desperately want to say to people that work, to people wherever they encounter them. Trump says it. Trump carries a banner of this stuff for people. He says and acts in ways that they do in private, but can't get away with in public. But Trump is. It makes him a hero to these people.” PeopleWayWantStuffTrumpHeroEncountersGet AwayCarrieBanner Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrats, the left has this 30-year playbook of how to destroy conservatives by simply exposing the horrible, the mean-spirited, insensitive things they say, but that isn't going to work on Trump the way it works on conservatives, for a whole host of reasons.” WayYearsMeanReasonWholeLeftTrumpDemocratHorribleHostGoing To WorkExposingSpiritedInsensitiveMean SpiritedPlaybooks Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Donald] Trump won fair and square! He got 13.3 million votes. He won all over the country. He won when the race was crowded and when it was a one on one against Ted Cruz. There's just no reasonable way to keep Trump from the nomination while insisting that the will of the Republican voter is being respected.” WayCountryRaceMillionsTrumpRepublicanFairsVoteReasonableVotersSquaresCrowdedNominationsCruzInsistingOne On One Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza