Trump Quotes by Jacob Weisberg

17 Trump quotes by Jacob Weisberg

Jacob Weisberg leverages his media background to dissect Trump’s public persona, blending cultural critique with political observation. His remarks aim to illuminate how media narratives shape public opinion.

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Republicans with any moral sense are desperate for a supportable alternative to Donald Trump.

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Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections.

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Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly.

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Only when legislators judge that the risk of continuing to support Trump outweighs the risk of abandoning him will they begin to…

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To count as transformative, a president needs to synthesize the moment and mood of the country.

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Professional politicians often claim they are not professional politicians. Trump genuinely isn't one.

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Not all negativity is bad. In politics, it's a necessary clarifying tool.

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The party where humorless thought police work to enforce a rigid ideological discipline isn't made up of Democrats. It comprises Republicans.

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Members of Congress are less beasts of accumulating burden than computational machines designed to win re-election. Their sense of their own political…

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To Trump, being a billionaire means plating everything in gold and slapping his name everywhere in huge block letters. It means that…

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Obama is the rare Democrat who talks easily about faith and values and who does so without upsetting those offended by the…

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Where Republicans encourage popular myths about taxes, spending, and climate change, Democrats tend to stoke our fantasies about the sustainability of entitlement…

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Donald Trump is an archetypal grifter. Using the presidency to promote your golf courses, hotels, and real estate business is grifting. So…

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Politicians try to make friends, build constituencies, and avoid gaffes. Trump does the opposite, seeking out land mines in order to detonate…

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Blacks as a group have voted Democratic since the 1930s. The GOP has not courted them in any real way since the…

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Nearly everyone who chooses to work for Donald Trump is disreputable in one way or another; Ali Baba didn't find 40 wise…

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Abandoning traditions of responsibility and civility won the GOP control of both houses of Congress in 1994. Rejecting any compromise brought Republicans…

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Seeing the rich and famous screw up makes us feel superior, or at least not quite so inferior.

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The cradle-to-grave welfare state diminishes individual initiative and can breed a pervasive sclerosis.

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You may or may not agree with Obama's policy prescriptions, but they are, by and large, serious attempts to deal with the biggest issues…

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The invasion of Iraq was, in ways that have since become hard to dispute, a terrible mistake.

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In practice, conservatives are no less inclined than liberals to adopt superior stances or to tell people how to live their lives.

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The leader who loves books that tell him he is great and right may be worse than the leader who does not love books…

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Without medical records that he hasn't released, we can't know whether Gingrich may have inherited his mother's manic depression. Nevertheless, one observes in the…

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Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.

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In authoritarian societies, cultural institutions tend to become ideological proxies - think of the National Ballet in Cuba or the East German gymnastics team.

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Northeastern conservatism is moderate, accepts the modern welfare state, and dislikes mixing religion with politics. Western conservatism is hawkish, hates government, and embraces individual…

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The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable without them.

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