--- title: "17 Trump Quotes By Jonah Goldberg" description: "17 Trump quotes by Jonah Goldberg. Plus more from Jonah Goldberg and more Trump sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/080/jonah-goldberg-2339_inspirational_someone-once-noted-that-a-gaffe-in-washi_2550473.png" --- > [Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/someone-once-noted-that-a-gaffe-in-washington-is-when-a-politician/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/080/jonah-goldberg-2339_inspirational_someone-once-noted-that-a-gaffe-in-washi_2550473.png) > [I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/i-think-as-all-in-all-it-s-better-to-have-a-cool-president-than-a-not/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f3/jonah-goldberg-2339_better_i-think-as-all-in-all-it-s-better-to-hav_3110428.png) > [John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/john-kerry-is-a-sphincter-okay-that-s-a-bit-juvenile/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc7/jonah-goldberg-2339_bits_john-kerry-is-a-sphincter-okay-that-s-a_2248405.png) > [The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/the-gop-needs-to-figure-out-a-way-to-become-more-appealing-to-new/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae4/jonah-goldberg-2339_figures_the-gop-needs-to-figure-out-a-way-to-bec_2826454.png) > [A lot of the things that Trump needs to do to be a popular president requires annoying his biggest fans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/a-lot-of-the-things-that-trump-needs-to-do-to-be-a-popular-president/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b65/jonah-goldberg-2339_annoying_a-lot-of-the-things-that-trump-needs-to_3080948.png) > [Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/of-course-it-s-a-mystery-to-me-why-any-american-who-can-t-be-bothered/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/063/jonah-goldberg-2339_attention_of-course-it-s-a-mystery-to-me-why-any-a_1843051.png) > [Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/republican-politics-have-been-off-kilter-for-several-years-now/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/555/jonah-goldberg-2339_conservative_republican-politics-have-been-off-kilter_1629683.png) > [A week after his State of the Union address, political observers are still trying to figure out what President Obama's game is.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/a-week-after-his-state-of-the-union-address-political-observers-are/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d82/jonah-goldberg-2339_addresses_a-week-after-his-state-of-the-union-addr_2781793.png) > [I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/i-am-just-mystified-by-these-people-telling-me-i-would-think-obama/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf9/jonah-goldberg-2339_bigotry_i-am-just-mystified-by-these-people-tell_1948750.png) > [I think what we're seeing on a lot of parts of the right is people bending their positions and their principles on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/i-think-what-we-re-seeing-on-a-lot-of-parts-of-the-right-is-people/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c3/jonah-goldberg-2339_accounts_i-think-what-we-re-seeing-on-a-lot-of-pa_594805.png) > [The problem is I think Howie is exactly right, is that Donald Trump would rather be at the center of a media…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/the-problem-is-i-think-howie-is-exactly-right-is-that-donald-trump/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a09/jonah-goldberg-2339_clinton_the-problem-is-i-think-howie-is-exactly_3072870.png) > [When I started criticizing Donald Trump when he got more popular on the right, one of the most things that I discovered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/when-i-started-criticizing-donald-trump-when-he-got-more-popular-on/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/624/jonah-goldberg-2339_angry_when-i-started-criticizing-donald-trump_1838806.png) > [Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/three-explanations-dominate-speculation-about-what-obama-is-up-to-the/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc5/jonah-goldberg-2339_agendas_three-explanations-dominate-speculation_1962602.png) > [Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/keep-in-mind-that-eric-alterman-is-media-critic-for-the-nation-a/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b46/jonah-goldberg-2339_america_keep-in-mind-that-eric-alterman-is-media_2701941.png) > [But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/but-there-s-a-fourth-interpretation-obama-can-t-leave-his-comfort/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aba/jonah-goldberg-2339_abstract_but-there-s-a-fourth-interpretation-obam_2350884.jpg) > [Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/nothing-drives-your-opponents-more-crazy-than-being-utterly/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b86/jonah-goldberg-2339_crazy_nothing-drives-your-opponents-more-crazy_2863366.jpg) > [I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/i-have-always-seen-the-clinton-foundation-yes-they-do-a-lot-of/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/jonah-goldberg-2339_charitable_i-have-always-seen-the-clinton-foundatio_130942.jpg) ## Other authors on Trump ## More by Jonah Goldberg > [Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/not-reassuring-when-weathermen-say-today-will-be-terrible-but-don-t/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) > [Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/are-you-a-producer-or-a-looter-if-diversity-were-always-and/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) > [You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/you-can-make-a-very-good-argument-that-society-would-be-much-worse/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) > [“The nasty racism that infused the progressive eugenics of Margaret Sanger and others has largely melted away. But liberal fascists are still racist in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/the-nasty-racism-that-infused-the-progressive-eugenics-of-margaret/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) > [Liberals are Nazis, and Nazis are liberals. And if you don't agree with me, you're a Nazi too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/liberals-are-nazis-and-nazis-are-liberals-and-if-you-don-t-agree-with/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) > [I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the charitable good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/i-have-always-seen-the-clinton-foundation-yes-they-do-a-lot-of/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) > [(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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/i-f-france-s-righteous-bloviating-against-war-makes-them-your/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) > [(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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/i-t-is-simply-wrong-to-confuse-cowardice-with-appeasement-cowardice/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) > [Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/social-distinctions-tend-to-matter-only-at-your-own-level-and-above/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/the-logical-upshot-of-liberalism-s-hatred-of-hypocrisy-is-that-it-is/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/no-nation-influenced-american-thinking-more-profoundly-than-germany-w/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/in-europe-and-america-alike-voters-increasingly-recognize-that-the/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) > [“Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/tom-friedman-says-china-is-so-awesome-they-make-kosher-pigs/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) > [Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/facts-are-mere-speed-bumps-on-the-road-to-lefty-moral-outrage/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) > [There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/there-was-no-intellectual-movement-in-american-history-called-social/) [Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/jonah-goldberg/#itemlist", "name": "17 Trump Quotes By Jonah Goldberg", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonah Goldberg" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/someone-once-noted-that-a-gaffe-in-washington-is-when-a-politician/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/080/jonah-goldberg-2339_inspirational_someone-once-noted-that-a-gaffe-in-washi_2550473.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/080/jonah-goldberg-2339_inspirational_someone-once-noted-that-a-gaffe-in-washi_2550473.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/080/jonah-goldberg-2339_inspirational_someone-once-noted-that-a-gaffe-in-washi_2550473.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.” — Jonah Goldberg", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonah Goldberg" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/i-think-as-all-in-all-it-s-better-to-have-a-cool-president-than-a-not/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f3/jonah-goldberg-2339_better_i-think-as-all-in-all-it-s-better-to-hav_3110428.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f3/jonah-goldberg-2339_better_i-think-as-all-in-all-it-s-better-to-hav_3110428.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f3/jonah-goldberg-2339_better_i-think-as-all-in-all-it-s-better-to-hav_3110428.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.” — Jonah Goldberg", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "John Kerry is a sphincter. 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