Trump Quotes by Jonah Goldberg

17 Trump quotes by Jonah Goldberg

Goldberg’s writings frequently defend Trump’s political instincts, and these quotes illustrate his arguments for the president’s strategic moves. The collection feels like a series of concise, principle‑driven statements.

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John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.

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Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

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I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

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A lot of the things that Trump needs to do to be a popular president requires annoying his biggest fans.

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The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.

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A week after his State of the Union address, political observers are still trying to figure out what President Obama's game is.…

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Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly…

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Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson…

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I think what we're seeing on a lot of parts of the right is people bending their positions and their principles on…

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I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained…

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When I started criticizing Donald Trump when he got more popular on the right, one of the most things that I discovered…

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The problem is I think Howie is exactly right, is that Donald Trump would rather be at the center of a media…

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Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them…

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Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America,…

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But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract…

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Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his…

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I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the…

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Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.

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Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

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Liberals are Nazis, and Nazis are liberals. And if you don't agree with me, you're a Nazi too.

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(I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the…

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(I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin appeased Hitler…

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Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

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The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony,…

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“No nation influenced American thinking more profoundly than Germany, W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Beard, Walter Weyl, Richard Ely, Richard Ely, Nicholas Murray Butler, and countless…

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In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't…

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“Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.”

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Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

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There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never…

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