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All that red in the middle, where Trump won, what the map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward.”
Calling up the 2016 electoral map, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argued
The administrative burdens themselves are, in some sense, a deliberate test of deservingness,
Dr. Heather Hahn, an associate vice president at the nonpartisan think tank Urban Institute, explained of America’s social insurance programs
I don’t think hard-working Americans should be paying for all the social services for people who could make a broader contribution and instead are couch potatoes,
former Florida representative Matt Gaetz once argued in 2023 while lobbying against anti-poverty programs
Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,
Biden said in a December 23, 2024, statement
With my actions today, we will end the Green New Deal, and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate.”
Trump misled when he saidOver the span of more than three decades, at least 25,000 workers died in the construction of the Panama Canal,
author Christopher Klein wrote in a 2023 History.com articleI am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.”
But he addedTariffs artificially raise the cost of doing business, which depresses overall economic production in the form of lower gross domestic product, artificially higher prices and fewer goods sold,
Boise State University political scientist Ross Burkhart, who studies trade policy, told PolitiFact in AugustNext, I will direct all members of my Cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices.”
Trump saidHow many times can you say that an apple has doubled in cost,
Trump saidWe're going to save over a trillion dollars by withdrawing from that treaty,
he told the crowd as President Trump handed him the signed document
It'll save them a trillion dollars.
When the time came to sign an order withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, Trump whispered off cameraWhen we think about why the incoming Trump administration wants to freeze regulations and halt public protections wholesale, it is at the behest of the wealthiest among us, corporate special interests,
said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen
Donald Trump did not do that. This was one of the most partisan presidential inaugural speeches — it was less an inaugural speech and more a State of the Union. He just listed a series of bullet points of projects he wanted to undertake, from deporting immigrants to seizing back the Panama Canal,
said Jeremi Suri, a history professor at the University of Texas at AustinThe United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons,
he said in his inaugural address MondayI think this was a better speech than the one I made upstairs, OK?"
Trump saidIt's hard for the United States to tell [Russian President] Vladimir Putin or [Chinese President] Xi Jinping that they should not seek expansion when our president is talking about expansion, but insofar as we don't follow through on that rhetoric, we still are on very strong ground to say that invading your neighbor, as Putin has in Ukraine, or as China might potentially do in Taiwan, that is verboten, that crosses the line, so long as it's just words from us,
he saidFrom this moment on, America's decline is over,
Trump said, speaking in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda
It was a campaign speech,
said Lindsay Chervinsky, a historian and executive director of the George Washington Presidential LibraryOver the past eight years, I have been tested and challenged more than any president in our 250-year history,
Trump said