Mudline May 11, 2020
May 11, 2020
................Joe Scarborough to Trump: "Let Mike Pence run things for a week. You're not well."....former Australian PM Kevin Rudd on Trump: "Acts not as the leader of the free world but as a quack apothecary...Don't look to the United States for help in a genuine global crisis, because it can't even look after itself."....Trump: "I don't know what Kellyanne did to her deranged loser of a husband, Moonface, but it must have been really bad."....WaPo editorial board: "As the house burns, Mr. Trump is standing on the front lawn, boasting of success, denying responsibility, ordering others to grab the garden hose and promising that everything will be back to normal soon."....VP and engineer Tim Bray, on resigning from Amazon: "[Warehouse workers being fired is] evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture. I choose neither to serve nor drink that poison."....NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on Trump: "Stabbing his hometown in the back."....Trump: "The Russia Hoax is the biggest political scandal in American history. Treason!!!"....Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Trump: "Our most corrupt president in American history."....Fox host Tucker Carlson on CNN's Brooke Baldwin: "Some airhead."....MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Fox pandemic coverage: "Coronavirus trutherism."....Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren on social distancing: "It is starting to look a lot like willful slavery."....CNN's Peter Berger: "This is the kind of thing we expect in a banana republic: the nepotistic incompetence and the demands from the public to lavish praise on the brilliant ruling family."....Fran Leibowitz on Trump: "Every single thing that could be wrong with a human being is wrong with him...The same way basketball players say 'game recognizes game,' sloth recognizes sloth. This is a lazy guy."....David Corn on Kellyanne Conway: "She has the Trump virus; say anything at any time, even if wildly false, to deflect and distract. She's harming the nation."....Trump: "Cryin' Chuck Schumer...A totally overrated loser."....Robert Redford on Trump administration: "Monarchy in disguise."....Trump on Comcast (NBC) and CNN: "They are Chinese puppets who want to do business there. They use USA airwaves to help China. The Enemy of the People!".....CNN's Peter Berger on Fox News: "The Pravda of the Trump administration."....Donald Trump Jr. on Joe Biden: "Clown."....Trump on Dubya: "Where was he during Impeachment...He was nowhere to be found in speaking up against the greatest Hoax in American history!"....George Conway on Trump: "He lies endlessly, not just in the way sociopaths do, which is to con others, but also to delude himself. He claims to be a 'genius,' even though he apparently can't spell, can't punctuate, can't do math, and lacks geographic literacy."....Jennifer Rubin on Mike Pence's masklessness: "It is difficult to fathom someone so weak in character as to endanger others because of his boss's vanity."....MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Trump coronavirus briefings: "Pathological narcissistic propaganda show."....Windsor Mann: "The only thing worse than a pandemic is having Donald Trump as your president during a pandemic."....Elon Musk on coronavirus lockdown: "Fascist...Give people back their goddamn freedom...Free America Now."....Trump on the U.S. military in 2017: "Broken and depleted."....Rep. Peter King on Mitch McConnell: "To say that it is 'free money' to provide funds for...cops, firefighters and healthcare workers makes McConnell the Marie Antoinette of the Senate."....Michael Gerson on Trump: "A failed presidency defended by a cowed party."....Trump adviser Stephen Miller: "[Anyone who calls me a racist is] an ignorant fool, a liar and a reprobate who has no place in civilized society."....Trump on Dems: "They do everything they can do make things as bad as possible."....Frank Bruni on Trump: "He's not rising to the challenge before him, not even a millimeter. He's shriveling into nothingness."....Tucker Carlson on Boston University: "[AOC got a] silly pointless degree from a silly pointless private college."....senior Trump official working with coronavirus task force: "[Jared Kushner] could be in his office just googling 'coronavirus,' show the results to the president, and still get a gold sticker from his dad-in-law."....Patti LuPone on Trump: "He's everything you don't want to be in life...I never expected America to be this broken in my lifetime."...recently appointed HHS spokesperson Michael Caputo in deleted tweet: "Millions of Chinese suck the blood out of rabid bats as an appetizer and eat the ass out of anteaters."...strategist James Carville on Trump campaign aides: "A pack of grifters...His campaign manager's got two condos, a Ferrari, a yacht, a Range Rover. They're all just fleecing the campaign...This whole thing is just like a crumbling empire right before your eyes. Everybody is trying to take everything they can get on the way out and they're trying to prop him up so they all can make money."....Stephen Colbert on Trump: "He's gone from being a birther to a deather, and if there was any justice, he'd be a lifer."....Trump on U.S. Postal Service: "A joke."............
