--- title: "15 Trump Quotes By Masha Gessen" description: "15 Trump quotes by Masha Gessen. Plus more from Masha Gessen and more Trump sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/019/masha-gessen-2322_americans_i-think-donald-trump-was-brought-to-powe_160543.png" --- > [I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. They voted for him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/i-think-donald-trump-was-brought-to-power-by-americans-they-voted-for/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/019/masha-gessen-2322_americans_i-think-donald-trump-was-brought-to-powe_160543.png) > [I would not attribute any strategic thinking to Trump.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/i-would-not-attribute-any-strategic-thinking-to-trump/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bb/masha-gessen-2322_any_i-would-not-attribute-any-strategic-thin_1925949.png) > [Donald Trump ran for autocrat, he didn't run for president. The first thing in autocrat does is take over the media, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/donald-trump-ran-for-autocrat-he-didn-t-run-for-president-the-first/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cce/masha-gessen-2322_donald-trump_donald-trump-ran-for-autocrat-he-didn-t_1924409.jpg) > [Many Americans have been looking for an explanation for Mr. Trump's apparent adoration of Mr. Putin. How can a powerful, wealthy American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/many-americans-have-been-looking-for-an-explanation-for-mr-trump-s/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/104/masha-gessen-2322_american_many-americans-have-been-looking-for-an_423231.jpg) > [Fact checking Donald Trump is a really... It is kind of fun but it is ungratifying because nothing checks out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/fact-checking-donald-trump-is-a-really-it-is-kind-of-fun-but-it-is/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b79/masha-gessen-2322_donald-trump_fact-checking-donald-trump-is-a-really-i_1529111.png) > [Basically, Trump's significant first moves have been twofold. To marginalize the media, and to start dismantling the federal government.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/basically-trump-s-significant-first-moves-have-been-twofold-to/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e39/masha-gessen-2322_basically_basically-trump-s-significant-first-move_2608669.png) > [I think some people have blind faith in American institutions without knowing a whole lot about them and think they will stand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/i-think-some-people-have-blind-faith-in-american-institutions-without-2/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/034/masha-gessen-2322_american_i-think-some-people-have-blind-faith-in_1457847.png) > [A political conversation is a conversation in which people with different views come to agreements about how they're going to inhabit this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/a-political-conversation-is-a-conversation-in-which-people-with/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f75/masha-gessen-2322_communication_a-political-conversation-is-a-conversati_1457310.png) > [Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/trump-like-putin-has-a-demonstrably-thin-skin-and-short-temper-when/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f14/masha-gessen-2322_being_trump-like-putin-has-a-demonstrably-thin_24254.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/fact-checking-is-a-terrible-way-to-report-on-donald-trump-s-lying-it/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f4/masha-gessen-2322_dialogue_fact-checking-is-a-terrible-way-to-repor_2844207.png) > [Putin has built a mobilisation society, his sky high popularity numbers, which Donald Trump so envies, are fully dependent on being able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/putin-has-built-a-mobilisation-society-his-sky-high-popularity/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87c/masha-gessen-2322_donald-trump_putin-has-built-a-mobilisation-society-h_2287181.png) > [There's this American pretense, which is the pretense of the journalist with the view from nowhere - which has somehow morphed into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/there-s-this-american-pretense-which-is-the-pretense-of-the/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffa/masha-gessen-2322_he-lied_there-s-this-american-pretense-which-is_11776.png) > [Donald Trump clearly doesn't have the intellectual capacity to have a concept of what he's doing. I think he has a very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/donald-trump-clearly-doesn-t-have-the-intellectual-capacity-to-have-a/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/947/masha-gessen-2322_bully_donald-trump-clearly-doesn-t-have-the-in_396826.jpg) > [Here in the U.S. we do have a problem with a president Donald Trump who uses language in two distinctly destructive ways.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/here-in-the-u-s-we-do-have-a-problem-with-a-president-donald-trump/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf0/masha-gessen-2322_language_here-in-the-u-s-we-do-have-a-problem-wit_2828305.jpg) > [Donald Trump creates word salads. And that is awful to language, because we try to parse out what he's saying and try…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/donald-trump-creates-word-salads-and-that-is-awful-to-language/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/415/masha-gessen-2322_choices_donald-trump-creates-word-salads-and-tha_139446.png) ## Other authors on Trump ## More by Masha Gessen > [There's this American pretense, which is the pretense of the journalist with the view from nowhere - which has somehow morphed into the journalist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/there-s-this-american-pretense-which-is-the-pretense-of-the/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) > [Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/where-incompetence-is-prized-it-is-ever-present/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) > [Pussy Riot have certainly changed some people's assumptions about the role of political art and the relationship between the intelligentsia and the church. That's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/pussy-riot-have-certainly-changed-some-people-s-assumptions-about-the/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) > [Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/trump-like-putin-has-a-demonstrably-thin-skin-and-short-temper-when/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) > [You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/you-risk-everything-if-you-so-much-as-join-a-legal-protest/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) > [Donald Trump creates word salads. And that is awful to language, because we try to parse out what he's saying and try to find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/donald-trump-creates-word-salads-and-that-is-awful-to-language/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) > [It is the first time since 1993 that Russians have come out into the streets without an explicit permission from the government to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/it-is-the-first-time-since-1993-that-russians-have-come-out-into-the/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) > [I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. They voted for him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/i-think-donald-trump-was-brought-to-power-by-americans-they-voted-for/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) > [In the 1990s, there was a lot of reform, and there was a lot of forward movement on a lot of fronts in Russia.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/in-the-1990s-there-was-a-lot-of-reform-and-there-was-a-lot-of-forward/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) > [Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/poverty-and-scarcity-are-actually-very-good-for-totalitarian/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/i-think-that-putin-s-strategy-has-been-throwing-a-lot-of-money-fairly/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/both-trump-and-putin-use-language-primarily-to-communicate-not-facts/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) > [I worked both as a Russian journalist and an American journalist and ran a bunch of magazines in Moscow over the course of about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/i-worked-both-as-a-russian-journalist-and-an-american-journalist-and/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/i-have-no-doubt-that-there-are-russian-efforts-to-disturb-the-fabric/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/for-years-i-was-the-only-publicly-out-gay-person-who-was-not-a-full/) [Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/masha-gessen/#itemlist", "name": "15 Trump Quotes By Masha Gessen", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. 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It's like we enter into a dialogue with him. It's as though, he says \"A,\" and we check \"A,\" and it gives it no context. Saying that he's \"misstating\" is an even worse way of covering it. That's NPR's ridiculous policy of not calling his lies \"lies.\" It's really destructive.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Masha Gessen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/fact-checking-is-a-terrible-way-to-report-on-donald-trump-s-lying-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f4/masha-gessen-2322_dialogue_fact-checking-is-a-terrible-way-to-repor_2844207.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f4/masha-gessen-2322_dialogue_fact-checking-is-a-terrible-way-to-repor_2844207.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f4/masha-gessen-2322_dialogue_fact-checking-is-a-terrible-way-to-repor_2844207.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Fact-checking is a terrible way to report on Donald Trump's lying . 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So, he doesn't know that Donald Trump lied yesterday, and the day before. So, he concludes that he doesn't know whether Trump lied accidentally or on purpose. You can only pretend not to know that if you don't know that he lied yesterday, and the day before. So, to my mind when NPR says they don't know if he's intentionally lying, they're lying. We have to be smarter about it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Masha Gessen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/there-s-this-american-pretense-which-is-the-pretense-of-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffa/masha-gessen-2322_he-lied_there-s-this-american-pretense-which-is_11776.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffa/masha-gessen-2322_he-lied_there-s-this-american-pretense-which-is_11776.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffa/masha-gessen-2322_he-lied_there-s-this-american-pretense-which-is_11776.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There's this American pretense, which is the pretense of the journalist with the view from nowhere - which…” — Masha Gessen", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Donald Trump clearly doesn't have the intellectual capacity to have a concept of what he's doing. 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