--- title: "16 Trump Quotes By Jon Lovett" description: "16 Trump quotes by Jon Lovett. Plus more from Jon Lovett and more Trump sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3d/jon-lovett-8245_dishonest_kellyanne-conway-is-one-of-the-most-dish_1900583.jpg" --- > [Kellyanne Conway is one of the most dishonest humans ever to grace the office she holds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/kellyanne-conway-is-one-of-the-most-dishonest-humans-ever-to-grace/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3d/jon-lovett-8245_dishonest_kellyanne-conway-is-one-of-the-most-dish_1900583.jpg) > [The Internet didn't cause Donald Trump, and it certainly can't solve Donald Trump.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/the-internet-didn-t-cause-donald-trump-and-it-certainly-can-t-solve/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae7/jon-lovett-8245_cause_the-internet-didn-t-cause-donald-trump-a_2061954.jpg) > [It's certainly true that presidents have confidantes who rise above what you would call just staff.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/it-s-certainly-true-that-presidents-have-confidantes-who-rise-above/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7be/jon-lovett-8245_presidents_it-s-certainly-true-that-presidents-have_2477216.jpg) > [It's so unfair that Barack Obama, this cool, charming guy, also has good comedic timing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/it-s-so-unfair-that-barack-obama-this-cool-charming-guy-also-has-good/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52b/jon-lovett-8245_barack-obama_it-s-so-unfair-that-barack-obama-this-co_1437208.jpg) > [Everybody hates Congress; even Congress hates Congress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/everybody-hates-congress-even-congress-hates-congress/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/196/jon-lovett-8245_congress_everybody-hates-congress-even-congress-h_1777826.jpg) > [It doesn't matter what the early votes look like. It doesn't matter what the polls look like. We can lose everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/it-doesn-t-matter-what-the-early-votes-look-like-it-doesn-t-matter/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/279/jon-lovett-8245_early_it-doesn-t-matter-what-the-early-votes-l_827127.jpg) > [I went into politics for the reasons most people do: ambition, self-righteousness, and a desire to help others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/i-went-into-politics-for-the-reasons-most-people-do-ambition-self/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/feb/jon-lovett-8245_ambition_i-went-into-politics-for-the-reasons-mos_748659.jpg) > [It is extremely chilling that Donald Trump views the spectacle of choosing cabinet appointments in a way that is similar to deciding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/it-is-extremely-chilling-that-donald-trump-views-the-spectacle-of/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/733/jon-lovett-8245_cabinet_it-is-extremely-chilling-that-donald-tru_1898827.jpg) > [Little things had to go wrong for Donald Trump to become president: Comey, emails, all that stuff. Big things did make Trump…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/little-things-had-to-go-wrong-for-donald-trump-to-become-president/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00a/jon-lovett-8245_big_little-things-had-to-go-wrong-for-donald_3169312.jpg) > [Trump is a raptor testing the fences, and he found weaknesses to escape and try things that would work, every single day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/trump-is-a-raptor-testing-the-fences-and-he-found-weaknesses-to/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/402/jon-lovett-8245_day_trump-is-a-raptor-testing-the-fences-and_486158.jpg) > [The great thing about writing jokes for President Obama is that he is not afraid to tell jokes that are actually funny…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/the-great-thing-about-writing-jokes-for-president-obama-is-that-he-is/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a28/jon-lovett-8245_funny_the-great-thing-about-writing-jokes-for_762295.jpg) > [There are a lot of heartbroken, anxious people that thought better of their country. We're heartbroken by how far Trump has gotten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/there-are-a-lot-of-heartbroken-anxious-people-that-thought-better-of/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52f/jon-lovett-8245_better_there-are-a-lot-of-heartbroken-anxious-p_257850.jpg) > [I personally believe that Donald Trump being elected president is a national emergency and a crisis that stems from a great cascade…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/i-personally-believe-that-donald-trump-being-elected-president-is-a/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d1/jon-lovett-8245_believe_i-personally-believe-that-donald-trump-b_1238867.jpg) > [It was awesome how supportive the White House was. It meant a lot to me that when I left, the people that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/it-was-awesome-how-supportive-the-white-house-was-it-meant-a-lot-to/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/231/jon-lovett-8245_awesome_it-was-awesome-how-supportive-the-white_2461892.jpg) > [Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/regardless-of-how-lyrical-or-rhetorically-gifted-they-are-in/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/692/jon-lovett-8245_big-idea_regardless-of-how-lyrical-or-rhetoricall_1618507.jpg) > [Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/because-the-speech-is-an-argument-and-a-great-speech-makes-an/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/249/jon-lovett-8245_argument_because-the-speech-is-an-argument-and-a_2939748.jpg) ## Other authors on Trump ## More by Jon Lovett > [Most of my time at the White House, I wrote very unfunny speeches, but every year, I would work on the correspondents' dinner, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/most-of-my-time-at-the-white-house-i-wrote-very-unfunny-speeches-but/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) > [When in doubt, mock the powerful, not the powerless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/when-in-doubt-mock-the-powerful-not-the-powerless/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) > [I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/i-worked-on-one-speech-about-the-financial-system-that-caused-the-dow/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) > [There is that definition of leadership that says, 'Leadership is convincing people to do things that they otherwise wouldn't have done because you've made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/there-is-that-definition-of-leadership-that-says-leadership-is/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) > ['Veep' is a great satire of democracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/veep-is-a-great-satire-of-democracy/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) > [Part of my job as a presidential speechwriter (along with great writers like Jon Favreau and David Axelrod) was finding that sliver where 'presidential'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/part-of-my-job-as-a-presidential-speechwriter-along-with-great/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) > [If there is one way that I would sum up what the 2016 election was on cable news, it was world-class journalists interviewing morons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/if-there-is-one-way-that-i-would-sum-up-what-the-2016-election-was-on/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) > [There are a lot of heartbroken, anxious people that thought better of their country. We're heartbroken by how far Trump has gotten to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/there-are-a-lot-of-heartbroken-anxious-people-that-thought-better-of/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) > ['1600 Penn' was a hit. It's 2018. Anything you want can be true.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/1600-penn-was-a-hit-it-s-2018-anything-you-want-can-be-true/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) > [More and more people support equality for their gay friends and neighbors, and that is not because the 'Duck Dynasty' guy almost lost his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/more-and-more-people-support-equality-for-their-gay-friends-and/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) > [We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/we-need-people-to-point-out-groupthink-we-need-people-to-point-out/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) > [There's only so much mistrust we can take before things get much worse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/there-s-only-so-much-mistrust-we-can-take-before-things-get-much-worse/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) > [When I was a kid, all I knew about Michael Jackson was that he was crazy. He had a monkey named Bubbles and some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/when-i-was-a-kid-all-i-knew-about-michael-jackson-was-that-he-was/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) > [The First Amendment's protections have always put a great deal of responsibility in our hands: not only to respect the power of our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/the-first-amendment-s-protections-have-always-put-a-great-deal-of/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) > [Trump is a raptor testing the fences, and he found weaknesses to escape and try things that would work, every single day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-lovett/trump-is-a-raptor-testing-the-fences-and-he-found-weaknesses-to/) [Jon Lovett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-lovett/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/jon-lovett/#itemlist", "name": "16 Trump Quotes By Jon 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