Trump In His Own Words
July 25, 2024 - CLDCThe Trump campaign paid Drake Enterprises, a non-union auto parts shop in Clinton Township, $20,000 to stage a fake event with people holding up "Union Members for Trump" signs behind him to make it look like he was holding a rally with union auto workers on strike. During the rally, he rambled nonsense that if he wasn't elected the entire American auto industry was going to move to China.
Feb 2, 2024
“He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said: ‘No, no, no, other than day one.”
—Donald Trump, Hannity/Fox News, Davenport, Iowa, Dec.5, 2023
“I don’t know if you call them [migrants] people. In some cases they’re not people, in my opinion. But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing to say.”
—Donald Trump, NewsNation, March 18, 2024
Trump tells billionaires he'll keep their taxes low.
—Donald Trump, Private Fundraiser, March 30, 2024
"I pledge to you that we will root out the communist, Marxist, fascist, and the radical left thugs that live like
vermin within the confines of our country."
—Donald Trump, Fox News, Nov. 16, 2023
"You see the spirit from the [Jan. 6] hostages, and that's what they are: hostages. They've been treated terribly and very unfairly. And you know that and everybody knows that."
—Donald Trump, Newsmax, March 16, 2024
"There is a lot you can do in terms of [Social Security] entitlement, in terms of cutting and in terms of also the
theft and the bad management of entitlements.”
—Donald Trump, Fox News, March 12, 2024
Donald Trump has been sued at least 60 times by individuals and businesses who accuse him of failing to pay for work done at his various properties, according to two published reports.
—Fox News, June 10, 2016