“MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell is saying Donald Trump lied when he said he made $20 million a year off his 'Apprentice' series on NBC. NBC also denied Trump's claim, saying, 'We don't have $20 million. We're NBC.'” YearsMadeSaidMillionsTrumpClaimsSeriesHostDeniedLiedApprenticeNbc Author:Jimmy Fallon
“It was just revealed that Donald Trump hasn't voted in primary elections in over 20 years. Or in simpler terms, Trump hasn't voted in primary elections in over three wives.” YearsThreeTermWifeTrumpElectionPrimaries Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Republicans are taking the possibility of [Donald] Trump as nominee seriously enough that the committee that oversees next year's Senate races laid out a confidential seven-page blueprint for candidates on how to run with Trump at the top of the ticket.” YearsEnoughRunningNextRacePossibilityTrumpRepublicanPagesSevenCandidatesSenateTicketsCommitteesNext YearBlueprintsConfidential Author:Dalia Mogahed
“Sixty one percent of Donald Trump`s supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump`s lie about where President Obama was born, the lie he started telling four years ago and has since replaced with other hate-driven lies like the thousands of Muslims Donald Trump lies about having seen celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11.” YearsBelieveStatesLyingHatePresidentBornUnitedUnited StatesFourTrumpPercentYears AgoDrivenCelebrateBarackPresident ObamaFour YearsSixtyReplacedSupporterJerseyPresident Barack ObamaNew Jersey Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“I haven`t used that word since I was 7 years old. I don`t understand Donald Trump.” YearsUsedHavensTrump Author:Greg Gutfeld
“According to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, Donald Trump`s tax plan is going to increase the national debt by more than 50 percent over ten years.” YearsPlansPolicyTrumpTenTaxesPercentIncreaseDebtAnalysisNational Debt Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“The [Donald] Trump plan would increase the national debt a little over a $1 trillion a year, the Trump plan would reduce taxes at all income levels with, of course, the biggest tax cuts going to the richest taxpayers as they always do.” YearsLittlesCoursesLevelsCuttingPlansTrumpTaxesIncreaseDebtIncomeTaxpayersTax CutsNational Debt Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“My pick for Best Political Move of the Year, which is the decisive (ph) and this means it is actually the best political movement is Bill Clinton getting on the phone and encouraging Donald Trump to run for the president.” YearsMeanRunningMovingPoliticalPresidentMovementTrumpPicksBillsClintonPhonesPolitical MovementsBest Political Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“My biggest surprise of the year does involve Donald Trump and it involves his money. And I am one of the prominent disbelievers of his claims of wealth and how rich he was. He put out a press release before he did his financial disclosure form saying he made over $200 million from a TV show.If you know about the economics of televisions, that sounds impossible. I don`t believe it.” IfsKnowsYearsBelieveDoeMadeShowsFormSoundWealthMillionsRichImpossibleTelevisionTvsTrumpEconomicsClaimsPressesSurpriseDon't BelieveFinancialReleaseTv ShowsProminentDisclosurePress ReleaseDisbelievers Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“[Donald] Trump has threatened to withhold investment in Scotland in response to the calls to ban him from the UK. Over the years Mr Trump has made a number of statements about the different scale of his investment in the UK and his willingness to maintain them.” YearsMadeDifferentNumbersTrumpInvestmentResponseScalesStatementsWillingnessThreatenedScotlandBans Author:James Brokenshire
“It was a very unusual year [2015]. You usually don't have five campaigns operating full time in a state this late into the process, three states in. But I feel great that now that the choices have become less and less, more and more that new voter or alternative to Donald Trump vote, is going to coalesce around us.” FeelsYearsStatesChoicesThreeProcessFiveTrumpLateVoteCampaignsAlternativesVotersUnusual Author:Marco Rubio
“What we saw with both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, that their response, whenever you point to anything in their record, is just to yell, "Liar, liar, liar," and to get very personal and to make direct character attacks. And my approach, from the very beginning of this President's campaign, starting a year ago in 2015, is that I will not respond in kind. I do not intend to insult any of the candidates.” YearsKindCharacterPresidentRecordsSawsTrumpApproachYears AgoDirectResponseStartingCampaignsCandidatesInsultLiarsMarcos Author:Ted Cruz
“Donald Trump has been practicing the chords of reality politics for 11 years doing reality television. And so he's clearly the frontrunner and he is clearly dominating. But I still believe in some old rules.” YearsBelieveHas BeensStillsRealityTelevisionTrumpChordsI Still BelieveDominatingReality Television Author:Hugh Hewitt
“I believe you [Donald Trump] know politicians better than I do because for 40 years you've been funding liberal Democratic politicians.” KnowsYearsBelieveI BelieveTrumpPoliticianDemocraticFunding Author:Ted Cruz
“He [Donald Trump] said in the debate - he said, gosh, I'm being audited for two years. Then he said three years. Then he said maybe five years. Listen, if there's a problem in his taxes, the voters have a right to know, because come September, October, the general election, folks in the media are going to make a heyday about any problems in his taxes.” IfsKnowsYearsSaidTwoProblemThreeFiveMediaTrumpTaxesElectionFolksDebateFive YearsTwo YearsVotersThree YearsSeptemberOctoberGeneral ElectionsHeyday Author:Ted Cruz
“At the debate, Donald Trump backed off of his health care position for 20 years. For 20 years, he has agreed with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on socialized medicine, saying Obamacare doesn't go far enough. He wants the government to pay for everyone's health care and to control it.” WantYearsEnoughGovernmentCarePayPositionTrumpMedicineClintonDebateHealth CareObamacareSocialized Medicine Author:Ted Cruz
“Few years ago [Donald] Trump was being roasted by Comedy Central. They always have rules about things that you can't joke about. Donald Trump's rule at that time, the only thing that you couldn't joke about was a suggestion that he has less money that he claimed to.” YearsComedyTrumpJokesYears AgoSuggestions Author:Ben Domenech
“After starting a blood feud with Fox News, something no Republican presidential candidate has dared to do before, [Donald] Trump seems to have successfully undermine the network in the eyes of its core audience with perception of the Fox News brand among Republican adults hitting its lowest point in three years according to a new YouGov survey.” YearsSeemsEyeThreeAudienceBloodTrumpRepublicanPerceptionNewsAdultsStartingCoreBrandsPresidentialCandidatesThree YearsHittingFoxesLowestSurveysFox NewsPresidential CandidateFeudsLowest Point Author:Chris Hayes
“I had crazy experience when I was talking to voters at the Nevada caucus the other night in Vegas. Voter after voter after voter, these are Republican primary voters, caucus goers, saying I don`t listen to Fox anymore. I can`t trust Fox anymore. I`m over them. And these were all [Donald] Trump supporters who he had successfully sort of pried their trust away from the thing they have been trusting for years.” YearsHas BeensI CanNightTalkingCrazyTrumpRepublicanPrimariesVotersFoxesSupporterVegasNevadaCaucus Author:Donald Trump
“Well, it's possible that the new infusion of ad money against Donald Trump kept his margins in Kentucky and Louisiana down a bit. But we're also seeing something that we've never seen in 100 years, which is we are seeing the crackup of a major American political party.” YearsWellsPoliticalBitsPartySeeingTrumpMajorsAdsPolitical PartiesMarginsLouisianaKentuckyInfusion Author:Mara Liasson
“New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.” KnowsYearsTrumpSurpriseNew Yorkers Author:Fran Lebowitz
“All it takes is Harry Reid saying a friend told him [Mitt] Romney hadn't paid his taxes in ten years and it's over. But these kinds of things aren't gonna work on [Donald] Trump.” YearsKindTrumpTenTaxesPaidRomney Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Thanks to NBC News and thanks to the NBC primetime TV network, Donald Trump has been in living rooms for 11 years being who he is. The Donald Trump running for president is not an unknown quantity. The Donald Trump running for president is the Donald Trump everybody's gotten to know, and quite a lot of people watch those Donald Trump TV shows, The Apprentice and whatever else on there.” PeopleKnowsYearsHas BeensShowsRunningPresidentRoomsWatchesTvsTrumpNewsThanksQuantityTv ShowsLiving RoomApprenticeNbcNbc News 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
“I didn't endorse Donald Trump but I thanked him for coming, thanked him for raising issues that were important, thanked him for talking about immigration and considering the views that we had worked on for a number of years, on what a good immigration policy should be.” ShouldYearsImportantViewsNumbersTalkingIssuesPolicyTrumpImmigrationConsideringImmigration Policy Author:Jeff Sessions
“Donald Trump believed that the whole history of trade agreements, most of which I've supported over the years, have not been effective, and I've come to believe he's right.” YearsBelieveWholeTrumpTradeAgreementTrade Agreements Author:Jeff Sessions
“I think Donald Trump has done everything he can to take us back to policies like we had during the McCarthy years.” ThinkingYearsDonePolicyTrump Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“Due to the major demographic changes we have gone through in the last few years in this country, we will be a majority/minority nation and there are a large number of people who do not like that. Donald Trump has tapped into those people's fears because he comes from the extreme right wing part of the Republican Party, as does Ted Cruz. They believe that we should cut taxes to wealthy Americans and enforce anti immigrant laws. They don't believe in Education or Social Security, they would end it and change it and privatize it.” PeopleShouldYearsBelieveDoeEndsCountryLastsLawNationsSocialPartyNumbersGoneCuttingSecurityTrumpRepublicanTaxesMajorsMajorityWingsDon't BelieveExtremesDuesMinoritiesImmigrantsWealthyRepublican PartySocial SecurityRight WingLarge NumbersDemographicsCruz Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off when people say Donald Trump is authentic. Just because he says "Mexican rapists." What about me? I am the real deal.” PeopleYearsLongRealRememberTurnsDealsFourTrumpPoliticianBoundsFour YearsAmerican HistoryRemember WhenMexicanWheelchairsTurn Me Author:Joe Biden
“I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to be the Republican major figure in four, six or even within two years.” IfsThinkingYearsWellsTwoFourFiguresTrumpRepublicanSixMajorsTwo YearsConventionsCruz Author:David Brooks
“I said this man [Donald Trump] is peeling back the onion of White civility; and every level of that onion that he peels back, more and more of the nakedness of rancor and hate and bitterness is coming up out of the followers. This is one of the most interesting of all of the political presidential runs that I have had the blessing of seeing in my 83 years on this planet.” MenYearsSaidRunningPoliticalHateWhiteInterestingLevelsSeeingPlanetsTrumpBlessingPresidentialBitternessFollowersCivilityMost InterestingOnionsPeelingRancor Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Every presidential candidate for decades has released his tax returns, and I've released 33 years of my tax returns. The American people deserve to know about our taxes. And so Donald Trump is standing in the way of precedent that goes back on both sides of aisle Democrats and Republicans, and he clearly has something that he doesn't want us to see.” PeopleKnowsWayWantYearsSidesReturnTrumpRepublicanTaxesDeserveStandingDemocratDecadesPresidentialCandidatesBoth SidesWant UPrecedentAislePresidential CandidateTax Returns Author:Hillary Clinton
“The cavalier casual way that Donald Trump talks about nuclear weapons is not only frightening but it goes counter to more than 70 years of bipartisan, presidential leadership of Republicans and Democrats who believed that we have to prevent other countries from getting nuclear weapons and we have to do what we can to decrease the number of nuclear weapons in the world.” WorldWayYearsCountryNumbersTrumpRepublicanWeaponsDemocratNuclearPresidentialNuclear WeaponsFrighteningOther CountriesCasualDecreaseBipartisanPresidential Leadership Author:Hillary Clinton
“I ran for president. I ran for governor twice. And I've been the governor now for nearly seven years. I find that the people who are my best advisors are the people who are smart enough to give me really good advice and smart enough to keep their mouths shut about what advice they give me. And so if I want advisors that way, that's the kind of advisor I'm going to be for Donald Trump.” PeopleIfsWayWantGivingYearsKindEnoughPresidentAdviceTrumpSmartMouthsGive MeSevenRanGovernorsSeven YearsGood AdviceAdvisors Author:Chris Christie
“I've said consistently, the advice I give to Donald is to Donald [Trump]. And that's based upon our friendship over the last 14 years and the way I would expect to.” WayGivingYearsSaidLastsAdviceTrumpConsistentlyFriendship Over Author:Chris Christie
“If you closed your eyes during that [Donald Trump] conference and you didn`t pay attention to who was saying those words, it could have been Jeb Bush saying those words last year, Jeb Bush. It could have been Marco Rubio saying those words last year during the primaries, because that`s the position of, well, those two Floridians, you know, no pathway to citizenship according to Jeb Bush, pathway to citizenship in the long term, according to Marco Rubio, but talking about the need to brush up on the border.” IfsKnowsNeedsYearsWellsLongHas BeensTwoEyeLastsTermPayAttentionTalkingPositionTrumpPrimariesPay AttentionBordersLong TermLast YearCitizenshipBrushesConferencesCould Have BeenPathwaysMarcos Author:Jose Diaz-Balart
“As a matter of fact if you think about [Donald Trump press conference after visit to Mexico], that could have been may be one of the Gang of Eight, the bipartisan group that in the Senate some years ago passed a bill that said border security. It said thousands of new border guards to deal with the porous border. It talked about a pathway to legalization for the 11 or 12 million undocumented that live in this country.” IfsThinkingYearsMayHas BeensSaidCountryMatterFactsDealsMillionsGroupsSecurityTrumpYears AgoBillsPressesEightBordersSenateMexicoConferencesGangCould Have BeenPathwaysMatter Of FactBipartisanPress ConferencesBorder Security Author:Jose Diaz-Balart
“We played all that rhetoric, all of the thing - the provocative inflammatory things [Donald Trump] said over the last year, does that all add up to buying him enough wiggle room with his base that he can get out and change his position like that?” YearsDoeSaidEnoughLastsRoomsPositionTrumpAddBuyingLast YearRhetoricProvocative Author:Steve Kornacki
“Donald Trump, I guess one idea here if he`s flip flopping, has he bought himself cover with his base by all the inflammatory thing he`s said over the last year? But the flip side is, all of those inflammatory things, the voters he`s trying to reach by flip flopping, are they tuned out to him because of that?” IfsTryingYearsSaidIdeasLastsSidesTrumpVotersLast YearFlipFlip FlopsFlopping Author:Steve Kornacki
“Like the kind of voter who has been turned off to [Donald] Trump, who would normally vote Republican in an election like this, that`s who we`re talking about, can they get past - even if he comes to a position that`s more agreeable for them, a tone that`s more agreeable, can they get past the last year?” IfsYearsKindHas BeensLastsPastTalkingPositionTrumpRepublicanVoteElectionToneVotersLast YearTurned Off Author:Steve Kornacki
“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
“Interestingly enough, if you search Twitter, you'd see I have been saying this for 3-plus years now. I cannot believe we are now in this position that Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for President. That he is in this position.” IfsYearsBelieveHas BeensEnoughPresidentPositionTrumpRepublicanPlus Author:Chrissy Teigen
“I agree with Bill [Burton]. I agree with the pastor. I don't think Donald Trump has to be out there making the case against Hillary Clinton. I think people have known her 24 years. How you feel about her, you feel about her.” PeopleThinkingFeelsYearsPastKnownCasesTrumpAgreeBillsClintonPastorHow You Feel Author:John Brabender
“The rise of Trump is a repudiation of 30 years of bipartisan treason and failure.” YearsTrumpTreasonBipartisan Author:Roger Stone
“Today, suddenly, after, what, five years, suddenly he [Donald Trump] became convinced that it's not an issue. Yesterday it was an issue. It will probably become an issue again for him. You know, the guy may have a memory problem.” KnowsYearsMayProblemTodayGuyMemoriesIssuesFiveTrumpConvincedYesterdayFive Years Author:Jill Stein
“The only years [of Donald Trump's] that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax.” TryingYearsStatesTurnsPayTrumpCoupleTaxesAuthorityIncomeLicenseIncome TaxCasinos Author:Hillary Clinton
“Mr. [Donald] Trump, for five years, you perpetuated a false claim that the nation's first black president was not a natural-born citizen. You questioned his legitimacy. In the last couple of weeks, you acknowledged what most Americans have accepted for years: The president was born in the United States.” YearsFirstsStatesLastsNationsBlackPresidentBornNaturalUnitedUnited StatesFiveWeekTrumpCoupleCitizensClaimsAcceptedFive YearsLegitimacy Author:Lester Holt
“[Donald Trump] has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American citizen. There was absolutely no evidence for it, but he persisted, he persisted year after year, because some of his supporters, people that he was trying to bring into his fold, apparently believed it or wanted to believe it.” PeopleTryingYearsFirstsBelieveWantedPoliticalLyingBlackPresidentTrumpCitizensActivityEvidenceRacistSupporterFoldsAmerican Citizens Author:Hillary Clinton
“Donald Trump's laid out a plan to end illegal immigration once and for all in America. We've been talking it to death for 20 years. Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine want to continue the policies of open borders, amnesty, catch and release, sanctuary cities, all the things that are driving wages down in this country.” WantYearsEndsCountryAmericaCitiesTalkingPlansPolicyTrumpClintonDrivingImmigrationReleaseBordersIllegalWagesSanctuaryIllegal ImmigrationAmnesty Author:Mike Pence
“Donald Trump is going to lower taxes, Hillary Clinton's going to raise taxes. He's going to add to our military, she's going to decrease our military. He's going to support the police at a time in which we've had the biggest increase in crime in the last 41 years. He's going to take on radical Islamic terrorism.” YearsLastsSupportMilitaryCrimeTrumpTaxesIncreasePoliceRaisesAddClintonTerrorismRadicalIslamicDecreaseIslamic Terrorism Author:Rudy Giuliani