Quotes
This is what victory feels like.”
Elon Musk, a major Trump supporter and the world’s richest man, pumped the air, jumped up and down, whooped and bellowed, candid and unpretentious enough to break into a little dance saying The past is never dead,
William Faulkner famously wrote This machine kills fascists.”
After all, it came from the mind of a man who railed against injustice and famously wrote upon his guitar National unity is now returning to America and confidence and pride is soaring like never before.”
When Trump summoned so much of the American past We will not forget our country,
President Donald Trump said We will pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars,
That's what I want to be — a peacemaker and a unifier,
America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world,
All that red in the middle, where Trump won, what the map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward.”
Calling up the 2016 electoral map, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argued I don’t think hard-working Americans should be paying for all the social services for people who could make a broader contribution and instead are couch potatoes,
former Florida representative Matt Gaetz once argued in 2023 while lobbying against anti-poverty programs The administrative burdens themselves are, in some sense, a deliberate test of deservingness,
Dr. Heather Hahn, an associate vice president at the nonpartisan think tank Urban Institute, explained of America’s social insurance programs
