2025
From book American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free (2020) by Pete Hegseth: "…will be forced to make a choice. It will not be good. Yes, there will be some form of civil war. It’s a horrific scenario that nobody wants but it would be difficult to avoid. If America is split, freedom will no longer have an army."
Trump on Musk: "He was very effective. He knows those computers better than anyone. Those vote counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide. It was pretty good. Thank you to Elon.
2024
Trump in September: "I’m now a big star on TikTok," he bragged in September, vowing to protect the site from being banned. He's also buddied up with the chief executive of the American division of TikTok, Shou Chew, inviting him to join the murder's row of tech billionaires attending the inauguration. "It’s been a great platform for him and his campaign to get his America first message out," Mike Waltz, an incoming national security advisor to Trump, said Thursday. "We will put measures in place to keep TikTok from going dark." Chew then took to TikTok to publicly credit Trump with working to save the platform.
Musk likes post "retarded American workers"
In May 2023, Mr. Ramaswamy went so far as to publicly state, “I have no reason to think Elon won’t jump like a circus monkey when Xi Jinping calls in the hour of need,” a reference to China’s leader.
During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump distanced himself from the initiative. He called parts of the 900-page guideline spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation "ridiculous and abysmal." "I know nothing about Project 2025," he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, in July. "I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal." Nov2024 interview with Time Magazine as "person of the year: "very conservative and very good." Last month, Trump nominated Russ Vought, who served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during his first term, to return to the role. For seven years, Vought served as the vice president of Heritage Action for America, a sister organization to the Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025. Since leaving office, Vought has worked on the initiative, authoring its section on the OMB.
Trump on 11Dec2024: "It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard."
Trump on 23Sep2024: "Vote Trump, and your incomes will soar. Your net worth will skyrocket. Your energy costs and grocery prices will come tumbling down."
President-elect Donald Trump promised on Sunday to deport U.S. citizens as part of his quest to expel all undocumented immigrants, describing them as collateral in his sweeping immigration plans.....“I don’t want to be breaking up families, so the only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back,” he said.
We need to get things straightened out in this country, including elections," he said, after accepting the "Patriot of the Year" award at a Long Island event organized by Fox Nation on Thursday....."We're gonna do things that have been really needed for a long time," he said. "And we are gonna look at elections. We want to have paper ballots, one day voting, voter ID, and proof of citizenship." But since the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. has seen major shifts in how elections work, with more people than ever voting early or voting by mail. In 2024, 88,233,886 mail-in and early in-person votes were cast nationally, with 47 states now allowing some form of early voting. Meanwhile, laws requiring voter ID are on the rise, with eight states enacting voter ID laws since 2020.
Kash Patel, Trump nominee for FBI director, in December 2023: "In the December 2023 interview, Patel, who previously served as chief of staff to the U.S. Secretary of Defense during Trump's first term, claimed that Trump's new administration will find "conspirators not just in government, but in the media." "We're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We're going to come after you," Patel said "We're going to come after you. Whether it's criminally or civilly, we'll figure that out. But yeah, we're putting you all on notice," Patel continued.
Trump 03Nov: "I have this piece of glass here, but all we have really over here is the fake news. And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don't mind that so much," he said at the event, just two days before Election Day. Trump joked that such a shooting could break out "any minute now."
Trump: “Your team is very good,” Trump began. “I would say the Greek is a seriously good player, do you agree? And tell me, who has more Greek in him? The Greek or me? I think we have about the same, right?” The same — that is to say, none.
Dick Cheney: "In our nation's 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump."
Trump on NBC: Asked Sunday whether banning certain vaccines would be an option during a second term, the former president didn’t rule it out. “Well I’m going to talk to [Kennedy] and talk to other people, and I’ll make a decision, but he’s a very talented guy and has strong views,” Trump said. “He can do anything he wants,” Trump said during an event Thursday in Arizona.
Trump CSPAN interview on Cheney: "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face."
Stephen Colbert: Trump blew up the Iran nuclear deal, withdrew us from the Paris climate agreement, slashed access to food stamps and gave a huge tax cut to corporations, he separated children from their families at the border, suggested curing Covid with bleach or bright light, summoned an insurrection, and put in 3 Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe vs. Wade.
New York Times: Donald Trump says he will prosecute his enemies, order mass deportations, use soldiers against citizens, abandon allies, play politics with disasters. Believe him.
Grant Cordone at MSG rally: He added, "Her and her pimp handlers will destroy our country."
Trump at PA rally: “Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to women, and I love women, but this guy, this guy, this is a guy that was all man,” the former president said. “This man was strong and tough, and I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, 'Oh my god, that's unbelievable.' I had to say it.”
“Yes they can control the weather,” explained the Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (on X, of course). “It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”
Trump at rally: "It's very dangerous for Kamala Harris voters to identify themselves becasue they'll get hurt.:"
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA): "On Sunday, George Stephanopoulos asked Johnson whether he can “unequivocally” say that Biden won the 2020 election and that Trump lost. “See, this is the game that is always played by mainstream media with leading Republicans. It’s a gotcha game,” Johnson said on ABC’s “This Week.” “You want us to litigate things that happened four years ago when we’re talking about the future."
Georgia state court ruling on abortion ban (https://www.aclu.org/cases/sistersong-v-state-georgia?document=SisterSong-v-State-of-Georgia-Superior-Court-of-Fulton-County-Decision): "While the State’s interest in protecting “unborn” life is compelling, until that life can be sustained by the State -- and not solely by the woman compelled by the Act to do the State’s work -- the balance of rights favors the woman." 2/. "Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote. Forcing a woman to carry an unwanted, not-yet-viable fetus to term violates her constitutional rights to liberty and privacy, even taking into consideration whatever bundle of rights the not-yet-viable fetus may have." 3/. "For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could -- or should -- force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another." 4/ "When someone other than the pregnant woman is able to sustain the fetus, then -- and only then -- should those other voices have a say in the discussion about the decisions the pregnant woman makes concerning her body and what is growing within it." 5/. "There is nothing so urgent or important to the State about the medical records of women who end pregnancies that the privacy rights of those women -- and the Fourth Amendment protections that attach to those rights -- can be bulldozed away by statutory enactment." 6/ Minnesota Senate candidate Royce White: "In the 2022 tweet, White wrote, "It dawned on me today...The bad guys won in WWII. There were no 'good guys' in that war. The controlling interests had a jump ball. If you look closely, you see the link between liberalism and communism in the Allied forces. Remember what Gen. Patton said and why they capped him.""
Trump at Wisconsin campaign stop: “You’re talking about areas of the Midwest where they’re becoming famous because they’re being occupied, and this is hundreds of little cities and little towns — they’re petrified, and their law enforcement is petrified. You have a sheriff and a deputy, or you have a small group, and you’ll have a group of Venezuelan killers, street gangs occupying the town with MK-47s,” he claimed (he probably meant AK-47s). “I know that gun very well,” he continued. “I got to know it very well. I’ve become an expert on guns quickly.”
Trump: “But we’re getting the criminals out, and we’re going to do that fast, and we know who they are, and the local police know their names, and they know their serial numbers......You put one wrong person onto a bus or onto an airplane, and your radical left lunatics will try and make it sound like the worst thing that’s ever happened,”
JD Vance: "“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually has to pay attention to the suffering of American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,” said Vance, a U.S. Senator representing Ohio."
JD Vance on the Georgia school shooting: “We don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the reality we live in.”
Trump: “I wanna get a law passed […] You burn an American flag, you go to jail for one year. Gotta do it — you gotta do it,” Trump said. “They say, ‘Sir, that’s unconstitutional.’ We’ll make it constitutional.”
Michelle Obama at DNC: "“the affirmative action of generational wealth.”"
Trump while on Fox News 04Aug2024: “Google, nobody called from Google. One of the things like doing a show like yours, your show, you know, you see it on Fox, but when you really see it is all over the place, they take clips of your show that you're doing right now with me and if I do a good job, they're gonna vote for me, they're gonna vote for me because it's not just on Fox, it's on Fox is a smaller part of it. You're on all over this, those little beautiful cell phones you're on, you're all over the place. You have a product, you have a great product. You have a great brand. So you have to get out, you have to get out, you have to do things like your show and other shows and Google has been very bad. They've been very irresponsible and I have a feeling that Google’s going to be close to shut down, because I don’t think Congress is going to take it. I really don’t think so. Google has to be careful.”
31July2024 Trump: “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black,” Trump told the journalists onstage, eliciting gasps from the audience. “I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”
Trump June 9, 2024 at Las Vegas: "“I don’t want anybody going on me. We need every voter. I don’t care about you. I just want your vote,”"
Trump: "We had no new wars other than I defeated ISIS but that was a war that was already started. I defeated 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate."
New audio was released on Thursday of Vance saying that he wanted a “federal response” to women traveling across state lines for an abortion. (Previously he has said that he wants a national ban on abortion.)
Trump: During his speech, Trump said that Democrats have "only one reason" why they do not support legislation to enact voter registration reform: "Because they want to cheat." "Republicans must win," he said Friday. "We have to win this election, [the] most important election ever. We want a landslide that's too big to rig." Trump added: "Christians, get out and vote just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It will be fixed. It will be fine. You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians."
“ELIZABETH LYNNE CHENEY IS GUILTY OF TREASON,” one post created by another user that Trump amplified on his social media website Truth Social on Sunday reads. “RETRUTH IF YOU WANT TELEVISED MILITARY TRIBUNALS.”
The Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, let loose with this recommendation at a recent campaign stop: "Some folks need killing!"
Kevin Roberts, Heritage Foundation president: "“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
"If I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath" during his rally speech in Ohio Saturday"
Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) on Thursday accused “the angry feminist movement” of emasculating men and said the U.S. should “work our way back” to 1960 if former President Donald Trump wins in November. President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty “took the purpose out of the man’s life, because now you have a basket of goodies for the mom.” He added, “They’ve taken away the purpose of the man to be part of a family. And if we want to get America back to, say, 1960, where this was almost unheard of, we have to fundamentally change these programs.”
Heritage Foundation tweet, 05Jul2024: "Conservatives have to lead the way in restoring sex to its true purpose, & ending recreational sex & senseless use of birth control pills."
02Jul2024: Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts made the comments Tuesday on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast: “And so,” Roberts said, “I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Donald Trump, on his social-media network, Truth Social, wrote that Mark Milley’s phone call to reassure China in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was “an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.” (The phone call was, in fact, explicitly authorized by Trump-administration officials.) https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/trump-milley-execution-incitement-violence/675435/
To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America’s founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying enough for its own defense. He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen. https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/
05May: MSNBC’s Kristen Welker on Sunday asked the South Carolina Republican point-blank if he would accept the 2024 election results, “no matter who wins.” Scott replied, “At the end of the day, the forty-seventh president of the United States will be Presid
Charlie Kirk, the head of the MAGA propaganda behemoth Turning Point USA: "Birth control like really screws up female brains," https://www.salon.com/2024/04/05/screws-up-female-brains-maga-leaders-are-conditioning-to-back-birth-control-bans/ https://www.salon.com/2024/04/05/screws-up-female-brains-maga-leaders-are-conditioning-to-back-birth-control-bans/
Nikki Haley on Alabama court ruling: “Embryos, to me, are babies,” Haley told NBC News. “When you talk about an embryo, you are talking about, to me, that’s a life. And so I do see where that’s coming from when they talk about that.”
Trump's plans for 2nd term: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-second-term-plans-wildest-proposals-1234947327/
He will indict Biden and his other political enemies
He will round up, intern, and deport undocumented immigrants
He will send the military to the border
He will invade Mexico
He will round up the homeless and send the National Guard into cities to fight crime
He will bring back the death penalty in a big way
He will make stuff more expensive by taxing all imported goods
He will reevaluate America’s participation in NATO
He will roll back all of Biden’s climate progress and reinvest in fossils fuels
He will construct “freedom cities” filled with flying cars
2022
JD Vance on abortion: “I’m sympathetic to the view that like, okay, look here, here’s a situation – let’s say Roe v Wade is overruled,” Vance said in a recently resurfaced podcast interview. “Ohio bans abortion in 2022, or let’s say 2024. And then, you know, every day George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately Black women to get them to go have abortions in California. And of course, the left will celebrate this as a victory for diversity – uh, that’s kind of creepy.”.....“And, and it’s like, if that happens, do you need some federal response to prevent it from happening? Because it’s really creepy. And I’m pretty sympathetic to that actually."
"The liberal line is always that Roe hangs by a judicial thread, and one more conservative Justice will doom it. Yet Roe still stands after nearly five decades. Our guess is that this will be true even if President Trump nominates another Justice [Neil M.] Gorsuch." - Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.
2021
January 5 2021: Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA): “If the vice president isn’t there, and we don’t expect him to be there, I will be presiding over the Senate and obviously listening to the debate without saying anything,” he said on a call with agriculture reporters Jan. 5, 2021. “You’re asking me how I’m going to vote. I’m going to listen to that debate on what my colleagues have to say during that debate and decide how to cast my vote after considering the information before me.”
2018
Trump: “Stick with us. Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. … What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.” https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/25/politics/donald-trump-vfw-unreality/index.html
2016
“We could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial,” Trump said at the rally. “It would grind government to a halt.”
“If she were to win, it would create an unprecedented Constitutional crisis that would cripple the operations of our government,” he said. “She is likely to be under investigation for many years, and also it will probably end up – in my opinion – in a criminal trial. I mean, you take a look. Who knows? But it certainly looks that way.”
“She has no right to be running, you know that,”
"If Hillary gets to pick her judges, there's nothing you can do. Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know."
McCarthy (R-CA): “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,”
Lindsey Graham, 03May: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed, and we will deserve it. "
2015
Lindsey Graham: “You know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell." "He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot… He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represents the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for. … He’s the ISIL man of the year.”
2008
When (CIA Director under Biden) William J. Burns met Putin: “No Russian leader could stand idly by in the face of steps toward NATO membership for Ukraine. That would be a hostile act toward Russia,” Putin said. “Don’t you know that Ukraine is not even a real country?” Putin said in 2008. He repeated that denial of Ukrainian nationalism when Burns met him in 2014 — after the Maidan revolution had swept Russia’s ally from power in Kyiv and an enraged Putin had stealthily invaded Crimea. “Don’t kid yourselves,” Putin admonished Burns, who was now deputy secretary of state. “And you shouldn’t kid yourselves,” Burns boldly replied. “You’ve managed to create an even stronger sense of Ukrainian nationalism than existed before.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/17/bill-burns-cia-ukraine-biden/
2004
Senior advisor to Bush (Rove?): The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
Founding fathers on religion:
."The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"
Treaty of Tripoli
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."
James Madison
"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."
Thomas Jefferson
"Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?" -John Adams
"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
Thomas Jefferson
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."
John Adams
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."
Thomas Jefferson
"Experience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of religion, have had a contrary operation. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
James Madison
"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries."
James Madison
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half of the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."
Thomas Paine
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
-Thomas Paine
"There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites."
-Thomas Jefferson