Trump Quotes by Masha Gessen

15 Trump quotes by Masha Gessen

Gessen’s prose often blends personal observation with broader cultural critique, and this set reflects her thoughtful dissection of Trump’s public persona. Expect a tone that’s both reflective and incisively skeptical.

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I would not attribute any strategic thinking to Trump.

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I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. They voted for him.

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Many Americans have been looking for an explanation for Mr. Trump's apparent adoration of Mr. Putin. How can a powerful, wealthy American…

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Donald Trump ran for autocrat, he didn't run for president. The first thing in autocrat does is take over the media, or…

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Fact checking Donald Trump is a really... It is kind of fun but it is ungratifying because nothing checks out.

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Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists.

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A political conversation is a conversation in which people with different views come to agreements about how they're going to inhabit this…

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I think some people have blind faith in American institutions without knowing a whole lot about them and think they will stand…

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Basically, Trump's significant first moves have been twofold. To marginalize the media, and to start dismantling the federal government.

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Fact-checking is a terrible way to report on Donald Trump's lying . It's like we enter into a dialogue with him. It's…

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Putin has built a mobilisation society, his sky high popularity numbers, which Donald Trump so envies, are fully dependent on being able…

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There's this American pretense, which is the pretense of the journalist with the view from nowhere - which has somehow morphed into…

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Here in the U.S. we do have a problem with a president Donald Trump who uses language in two distinctly destructive ways.…

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Donald Trump creates word salads. And that is awful to language, because we try to parse out what he's saying and try…

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Donald Trump clearly doesn't have the intellectual capacity to have a concept of what he's doing. I think he has a very…

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Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies.

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I think that Putin's strategy has been throwing a lot of money, fairly haphazardly, at a lot of projects aimed at disrupting Western relations…

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Both Trump and Putin use language primarily to communicate not facts or opinions but power: it's not what the words mean that matters but…

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I worked both as a Russian journalist and an American journalist and ran a bunch of magazines in Moscow over the course of about…

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I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. They're troublemaking efforts. They're…

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For years I was the only publicly out gay person who was not a full-time gay activist: my position as a quasi-foreigner gave me…

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