Quotable Quotes

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"Prices are down under the Trump administration, and they are down substantially." ~ Trump

Meanwhile Trump "isn't happy" when he's fact checked on the cost of Walmart's Thanksgiving dinner

"The worst healthcare anywhere in the world, Obamacare." ~ Trump

Have to wonder if he even knows what Obamacare is (other than it has Obama's name attached that is) - after all, it's not "healthcare" but is instead an insurance program

 

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"The First Lady worked very hard in making it perfect, and I think you're going to really love it." ~ Trump, to a White House tour group, a few months before demolishing the First Lady's offices

 

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Thank you for your "service"

 

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Thank you for your "service"

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"nyc clubs were my vietnam" trump

To corroborate the authenticity of #1,763 meme, I searched the following character string:

"nyc clubs were my vietnam" trump

The https://www.startpage.com/sp/search result:

Uh-oh, there are no results for this search.​

This is not a deliberate defense of President Trump's character. Instead
it's an exercise of journalistic authenticity, integrity.

Corroboration, or refutation of this unsubstantiated accusation are welcome.
Until then meme #1,763 may at best be regarded as partisan satire, a euphemism for a lie.

Also please note:
While President Trump has an established pattern of rambling before an open mic,
there's further reason for doubt that even if Trump did for example tweet words similar to this,
it may be less likely that the graphic is legitimately paired with the quoted wording.

 

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A link to the actual quote is here (along with a link to the full interview)

https://www.imdb.com/news/ni60366746/

 

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"A link to the actual quote is here (along with a link to the full interview)" #1,765

https://www.imdb.com/news/ni60366746/

Thanks S2.
IMDB stands for Internet Movie Data Base, and independent of journalistic integrity or lack thereof, is intrinsically theatrical. BUT !
Via that link the following:

In an unearthed interview from 1997, Donald Trump claimed he was a "brave soldier" for avoiding STDs during his single years in the late '90s.
"It's amazing, I can't even believe it. I've been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It's like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider," Trump said in the interview when Howard Stern asked how he handled making sure he wasn't contracting STDs from the women he was sleeping with.
https://people.com/politics/trump-b...nas-are-landmines-it-was-my-personal-vietnam/

people.com may not match The New York Times' reputation for journalistic integrity NYT had in its heyday. BUT !
It's corroboration.

Thanks S2, both for the insight in #1,763, and for the corroboration in #1,765. This pig is running out of lipstick.

"Also please note:
While President Trump has an established pattern of rambling before an open mic,
there's further reason for doubt that even if Trump did for example tweet words similar to this,
it may be less likely that the graphic is legitimately paired with the quoted wording." s #1,764

#1,765 traces the quotation to an interview with "Howard Stern", probably not what the meme in #1,763 depicts.

 

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"These emails prove absolutely nothing other than that President Trump did nothing wrong." ~ WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, on newly-released Epstein messages

 

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"These emails prove absolutely nothing other than that President Trump did nothing wrong." ~ WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, on newly-released Epstein messages #1,767

"The only crime that I've committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it." 23/04/09 on FOX Easter Sunday, President Trump, the president that presided over the longest U.S. federal shut-down in history (& demolished the East wing of the white house)

D.A. Bragg Announces 34-Count Felony Trial Conviction of Donald J. Trump

“Donald Trump is guilty of repeatedly and fraudulently falsifying business records in a scheme to conceal damaging information from American voters during the 2016 presidential election. Over the course of the past several weeks, a jury of 12 every day New Yorkers was presented with overwhelming evi

manhattanda.org

 

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Re #1,767

 

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"These emails are clearly extraordinarily explosive. They implicate the president..." ~ Rep. Melanie Stansbury on newly-released Epstein messages

"DUMMY ALERT: Rep. Stansbury may be the stupidest member of Congress..She beclowned herself on national television, flailing around like a jellyfish (which doesn't have a brain!) when confronted with the truth-facts." ~ WH communications director Steven Cheung

 

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"These emails are clearly extraordinarily explosive. They implicate the president..." ~ Rep. Melanie Stansbury on newly-released Epstein messages

- fine - BUT !
This source says she's a Democrat.

STANSBURY, Melanie Ann 1979 – ​

House Years of Service
117th – 119th(2021 – Present)
State / Territory: New Mexico
Position: Representative
Party: Democrat https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S001218

note:
Members of congress [MOC] are entitled to an opinion.
The problem is, when partisan quibble is a plausible explanation, it simultaneously appears to be the Ockham's Razor explanation, EVEN IF IT'S TRUE.
Such comment might be more persuasive if delivered by a Republican (the same party as Trump).

"Remaining silent,& ignoring the lie, emboldens the liar." Rep. Liz Cheney,addressing the house floor 21/05/12 regarding the Republican conspiracy to claim Trump won the 2020 election

[Trump]"summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing. ... There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution." Rep. Liz Cheney Republican Conference Chair 21/01/12, authenticated by Cheney 21/02/07 FNS​

“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)

 

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"I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body." ~ Epstein in 2017 email

C'mon Jeffrey. Tell us what you really think.

 

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"I am the one able to take him down...I know how dirty Donald is." ~ Epstein in 2018 email

"Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop." ~ Epstein in 2019 email

 

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"Nobody knows what magnets are." ~ Trump

 

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"Nobody knows what magnets are." ~ Trump

Electromagnetism:

Understanding that light has a finite speed and linking it to the larger realm of electromagnetism helped secure the spacetime distance scale that is a foundation of contemporary cosmology. Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025

I'm a little bit w/ Trump on this one. We "all" know magnets stick to refrigerators. - fine -
BUT !

Other than this familiar image of a bar magnet covered by a smooth sheet of paper with iron filings sprinkled evenly on the paper,
revealing the force vectors within the magnetic field, is that all?

I suspect we have more to learn about it.

Note:
Anyone that wishes to bring Christmas cheer to the white house can send their own refrigerator magnet to:

Donald J. Plump
#1600 Penn Ave
Warshington, DC

 

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"I call it 'The Epstein Hoax.'" ~ Trump

 

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"Rep. Melanie Stansbury" #1,777

It takes a little digging, but patient search of Stansbury's Internet site divulges she's a Democrat from Albuquerque, NM.

Committees and Caucuses

For a list of the committees and caucuses on which Congresswoman Stansbury is serving, please contact our office.

stansbury.house.gov

PS
Not yet certain why:

https://www.congress.gov/

usually helps obtain details like party affiliation and congressional district. BUT
for the first time my attempt to gain access resulted in:

Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed.

 

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"I'll go backstage before a show, and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else. And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant. And therefore I'm inspecting it... Is everyone OK? You know, they're standing there with no clothes on. And you see these incredible-looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that." ~ Trump

And of course this was a teen pageant so those girls were on the "younger side" (to use his words)

"He is a sick pervert." ~ Trump yesterday, on Epstein

 

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#1,778 PS
Not yet certain why:

https://www.congress.gov/

usually helps obtain details like party affiliation and congressional district. BUT
for the first time my attempt to gain access resulted in:

Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed. #1,778

Cloudflare CEO Apologizes for 'Unacceptable' Outage and Explains What Went Wrong​

When web services provider Cloudflare went down on Tuesday, a significant portion of the internet became unavailable. It was not, as initially thought, due to a cyberattack, explains Matthew Prince.
Katie Collins / Nov. 19, 2025 5:10 a.m. PT
Web services provider Cloudflare got hit by an outage on Tuesday, disrupting access to many websites and services including OpenAI, Spotify, X, Grindr, Letterboxd and Canva.
Cloudflare is a cloud services and cybersecurity company based in San Francisco that is used by approximately 20% of all websites, according to W3Techs. It's one of a handful of services, along with Amazon Web Services, CrowdStrike and Fastly (all of which have experienced major outages in the past few years) that you might never have heard of, but that provide essential internet infrastructure.

The bulk of sites and services impacted by Tuesday's outage, which began around 3.30 a.m. PT, seemed to recover just over three hours of Cloudflare going down. By the end of the day, everything had returned to normal and Cloudflare had published a blog post explaining what went wrong. Here's what you need to know.

What caused the Cloudflare Outage?​

First and foremost, Cloudflare was keen emphasize that the outage was not caused either directly or indirectly by a cyberattack. At first the company did suspect it was caused by a "hyper-scale DDoS attack," said Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. But it turned out that instead the outage was due to an internal software failure.
A change in one of Cloudflare's databases generated a larger-than-expected feature file, which was too big for the company's software to run, said Prince. This caused the software to fail.

Once Cloudflare had identified the problem, it was able to replace the problematic file with an earlier version and get most traffic flowing normally again by 6.30 a.m. PT.
Among those affected by the outage was Downdetector, which is where most people go to report problems when services are offline. (Downdetector is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.)

Cloudflare CEO Apologizes for 'Unacceptable' Outage and Explains What Went Wrong

When web services provider Cloudflare went down on Tuesday, a significant portion of the internet became unavailable. It was not, as initially thought, due to a cyberattack, explains Matthew Prince.

www.cnet.com