The most interesting conversation is not about why Donald Trump lies. Many public figures lie, and he’s only a severe example of a common type. The interesting conversation concerns how we come to accept those lies.
The conservative media ecosystem – like the rest of us – has to recognize how critical, but also how fragile, credibility is in the Orwellian age of Donald Trump.
We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that’s what we’re going to do.
Donald Trump is a friend.
I don’t know what a conservative is, you know, but I do know what good people are. And that’s where I sit with Donald Trump.
Donald Trump did denounce David Duke’s support.
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We’d play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He’d read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
I’ve been making fun of Donald Trump – we all have – for 10 years, and just bringing up his name… I mean, even if you’re supportive of Donald Trump, there’s still a lot to make fun of.
I think that for the United States, Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I’m not so sure about Donald Trump.
At the end of the day, I think Donald Trump will be the great unifier of the Democratic Party.
I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: ‘There’s no further new material; there are only new questions.’
I think the thing that you’ve seen with Donald Trump is that he doesn’t – he doesn’t look to the past and say, ‘I’ve got to conform to these precedents.’
As the country gets to know me more, they will see the reason I care so much about Russia is I understand why they thought to help Donald Trump.
What does not come across on paper for Donald Trump is how incredibly charismatic he is, his ability to connect with people. Because he has this bigger-than-life personality, you don’t realize how personable he is.
It’s very hard to get inside Donald Trump’s brain, and I don’t want to try.
Donald Trump has shown us his dark heart, has shown us his racism.
Hillary Clinton was rejected soundly by America, but instead of changing course, the Democrats and their media allies are intent on telling Americans just how terrible they are for embracing Donald Trump.
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
I don’t want to get political here, but everything I’ve heard out of Donald Trump is definitely, um, shocking. The fact that he’s got women fans is very alarming to me, because some of the stuff that has come out of his mouth is just so awful.
You know Donald Trump will secure our borders.
I promised to carry on Jeff Session’s legacy of fighting for the conservative values we believe in. I promised to help pass the Trump agenda and serve the people’s interest, not the special interests. And I promised to help Donald Trump drain the swamp in Washington.
If Donald Trump has proved anything, it is that there is nothing more powerful than a candidate’s voice.
I believe it is actually fomenting the growth of ISIL; Donald Trump could be a recruitment poster for ISIL because he is fanning the flames of hate.
I met Donald Trump in 2003 on a reality show. Could you ever imagine then that we would end up in the White House together?
In many respects, David Duke was the playbook. He established the playbook by which Donald Trump ran and ultimately became – I won’t even use the term – let’s just say he became the occupant of the White House.
Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.
A number of Donald Trump’s supporters told me during the campaign they had faith that he would be a good president because he would be helped by the experts around him. But the president’s improvisation saps experts of their key skill: pattern recognition.
Donald Trump did exactly what he said he’d do on the campaign trail and frankly what we should have more of, which is luring companies to stay here by easing regulations, by lowering the tax burden so that more Americans can have U.S. jobs.
I met Donald Trump in ’85. I ran into him several times throughout the years. We knew we had this connection, but it wasn’t appropriate timing. So we’d spend a lot of time on the telephone. By ’88, I knew I truly loved this guy.
I’m not going to opine as to whether I think a particular candidate can beat Donald Trump or not.
I think Donald Trump has a significant number of issues where he is not a Republican.
Donald Trump is liar-in-chief.
Let me just say that I’m the only candidate in this race now that has any firsthand experience fighting terrorism. And both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, I think, have proven in different ways that they’re unprepared for that challenge.
