Trump Quotes by Richard Cohen

Among the things I know is that Trump voters were played for suckers.

— Richard Cohen

I don't know if history will adjudge Barack Obama a great president, but he has been a necessary one.

— Richard Cohen

Hillary Clinton may have lied about her emails, but Donald Trump lies about everything.

— Richard Cohen

Trump's juvenilia stands in stark contrast to Obama's measured words.

— Richard Cohen

Trump's overriding accomplishment is plain: The Republican Party can no longer be shamed.

— Richard Cohen

Hillary Clinton looms over the Democratic Party like Evita from her balcony.

— Richard Cohen

Something about the Clintons sets the GOP to howling at the moon.

— Richard Cohen

As a presidential candidate, Trump seems heaven-sent just to make fools out of Republicans.

— Richard Cohen

Trump is a dust storm of lies and diversions with the bellows of a bully and the greasy ethics of a street-corner…

— Richard Cohen

How is it possible to defame Trump? When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the president a 'moron,' was that defamatory or…

— Richard Cohen

I met Clinton during her husband's first campaign for the White House. It was 1992, New Hampshire, and both Clintons had stopped…

— Richard Cohen

Pence is the very personification of the career politician. With the exception of a few years doing talk radio and television shows,…

— Richard Cohen

Trump lies when confronted with the truth, since any crack in his narcissism might spread like an Ebola of the soul, and…

— Richard Cohen

Republicans remain silent because Trump is doing what they want - lowering taxes on the rich, eviscerating regulations, bulldozing the environment, and…

— Richard Cohen

Say what you will about Donald Trump, he cares. He cares about things I don't, and he has some awful ideas, and…

— Richard Cohen

If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees…

— Richard Cohen

Trump was always a poster boy of the selfish, egomaniacal, ignorant, bragging, cruel rich kid, whose mirror was the sleazy pages of…

— Richard Cohen

It has become commonplace to call Trump a reality TV star. That is said as an aspersion, the way Ronald Reagan was…

— Richard Cohen

Trump is unloved in his own house. A figure of ridicule, a theatrical creation, he is almost sympathetic. He was told by…

— Richard Cohen

I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry - and anger is discomforting. We venerate that empty word, closure,…

— Richard Cohen

You have to admit that Trump is endlessly creative. He has insulted the disabled, the dead, the parents of the dead, women,…

— Richard Cohen

With a sinking feeling, I have come to a horrible conclusion: I am addicted to Donald Trump.

— Richard Cohen

Pence is not a man to look a gift horse in the mouth. He's got his eye on 2020.

— Richard Cohen

I long ago tired of politicians who never say anything, adhere to their talking points, and avoid all controversy.

— Richard Cohen

It is not true that Trump is nobody's fool. He is the GOP's.

— Richard Cohen

Trump is a menace, both ignorant and chaotic. His saving grace is his incompetence.

— Richard Cohen

Lots of men have failed as presidents, as Trump surely will, but few fail so dismally as role models. He's a boy's…

— Richard Cohen

Trump's presidency will fail. Just don't ask me how and when. It will collapse because at its center is a hollow man,…

— Richard Cohen

To anyone other than an adamant social conservative, Pence is shockingly unreasonable. But he is also shockingly hypocritical.

— Richard Cohen

Trump critics such as myself have been accused of living in a bubble. On the contrary, it is Trump's supporters in the…

— Richard Cohen

What if Hillary Clinton were a man? What if she were a 68-year-old man rather than a 68-year-old woman? Would we think…

— Richard Cohen

The ultimate question is whether the name Donald Trump will be attached to an era - whether he will so change America…

— Richard Cohen