Donald Trump Quotes
Donald John Trump was born on the 14th of June, 1946 in Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, New York, United States. Billionaire real estate mogul and former reality television personality. Donald Trump is the 45th president of the United States.
Donald Trump’s political positions have been described as populist, protectionist, isolationist, and nationalist. He entered the 2016 presidential race as a Republican and was elected in a surprise electoral college victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Trump reacted slowly to the COVID-19 pandemic; he downplayed the threat, ignored or contradicted many recommendations from health officials, and promoted false information about unproven treatments and the availability of testing.
Below, we have compiled a collection of famous Donald Trump quotes and sayings.
70 Donald Trump Quotes About Life, Education & Politics
“As president, I will establish the national goal of providing school choice to every American child living in poverty. If we can put a man on the moon, dig out the Panama Canal and win two world wars, then I have no doubt that we as a nation can provide school choice to every disadvantaged child in America.”― Donald Trump Quote
“Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I have been consistent in my opposition to Common Core. Get rid of Common Core.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it’s literally going to cease to exist.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Keep education local!” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I will be phenomenal to the women. I mean, I want to help women.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“We’re twenty-sixth in the world. Twenty-five countries are better than us at education. And some of them are like third world countries. But we’re becoming a third world country.”― Donald Trump Quote
“The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA-infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great – but must suffer the consequences!” ― Donald Trump Quote
“You are getting a lot of money from Russia. You owe an explanation to the American people, you have to clean it up,― Donald Trump Quote
“No matter how well you run (the Affordable Care Act), it’s no good. What we’d like to do is terminate it. We have the individual mandate done. I don’t know that it’s going to work. If we don’t win (in court) … we’ll have Obamacare but it will be better run.”― Donald Trump Quote
“I am the least racist person in this room.”― Donald Trump Quote
“We have done an incredible job environmentally”― Donald Trump Quote
“I will not sacrifice tens and millions of jobs, thousands and thousands of companies because of the Paris accords,”― Donald Trump Quote
“No, I’m not cutting services, but I’m cutting spending. But I may cut Department of Education.”― Donald Trump Quote
“When you see the other side chopping off heads, waterboarding doesn’t sound very severe.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I was listening to some Europeans once and they seemed to agree that Americans didn’t seem to know their roots. Of course, their roots go back for many more centuries than ours and may be easier to decipher because many of us have ancestors from different countries. But it gave me a reason to think about what they said, and I realized in many cases they were right.”― Donald Trump Quote
“To be blunt, people would vote for me. They just would. Why? Maybe because I’m so good looking.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Defenders of the status quo insist that parental choice means the end of public schools. Let’s look at the facts. Right now, nine of ten children attend public schools. If you look at public education as a business—and with nearly $300 billion spent each year on K-through-twelve education, it’s a very big business indeed—it would set off every antitrust alarm bell at the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. When teachers’ unions say even the most minuscule program allowing school choice is a mortal threat, they’re saying: If we aren’t allowed to keep 90% of the market, we can’t survive. When Bell Telephone had 90% of the market, a federal judge broke it up.”― Donald Trump Quote
“I’m the most successful person ever to run for the presidency, by far. Nobody’s ever been more successful than me. I’m the most successful person ever to run. Ross Perot isn’t successful like me. Romney – I have a Gucci store that’s worth more than Romney.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I look very much forward to showing my financials, because they are huge.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I’m intelligent. Some people would say I’m very, very, very intelligent.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“The only card she has is the woman’s card. She’s got nothing else to offer and frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the vote. The only thing she’s got going is the woman’s card, and the beautiful thing is, women don’t like her.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I’m a negotiator, like you folks.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“In life you have to rely on the past, and that’s called history.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Show me someone with no ego and I’ll show you a big loser.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“The concept of shaking hands is absolutely terrible, and statistically I’ve been proven right.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“The line of ‘Make America great again,’ the phrase, that was mine, I came up with it about a year ago, and I kept using it, and everybody’s using it, they are all loving it. I don’t know, I guess I should copyright it, maybe I have copyrighted it.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Public education was never meant to only teach the three R’s, history, and science. It was also meant to teach citizenship. At the lower levels it should cover the basics, help students develop study habits, and prepare those who desire higher education for the tough road ahead. It’s a mandate the public schools have delivered on since their inception. Until now.”― Donald Trump Quote
“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“It’s really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!” ― Donald Trump Quote
“If the states collectively contribute another $110 billion of their own education budgets toward school choice on top of the $20 billion in federal dollars, that could provide $12,000 in school choice funds to every single K-12 student who today is living in poverty.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I’ve read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I’ve made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.”― Donald Trump Quote
“It’s a blip, not a catastrophe.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“We need to fix our broken education system!” ― Donald Trump Quote
“What I won’t do is take in two hundred thousand Syrians who could be ISIS… I have been watching this migration. And I see the people. I mean, they’re men. They’re mostly men, and they’re strong men. These are physically young, strong men. They look like prime-time soldiers. Now it’s probably not true, but where are the women?… So, you ask two things. Number one, why aren’t they fighting for their country? And number two, I don’t want these people coming over here.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I think I could have stopped it because I have very tough illegal immigration policies, and people aren’t coming into this country unless they’re vetted and vetted properly.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“There’s no failed policy more in need of urgent change than our government-run education monopoly.”― Donald Trump Quote
“It’s like in golf… A lot of people – I don’t want this to sound trivial – but a lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive… it’s weird. You see these great players with these really long putters, because they can’t sink three-footers anymore. And, I hate it. I am a traditionalist. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“A four-year degree today can be expensive enough to create six-figure debt. We can’t forgive these loans, but we should take steps to help students…. There is no reason the federal government should profit from student loans.…These student loans are probably one of the only things that the government shouldn’t make money from, and yet it does….Those loans should be viewed as an investment in America’s future.”― Donald Trump Quote
“No matter what you do – guns, no guns – it doesn’t matter. You have people that are mentally ill. And they’re gonna come through the cracks. And they’re going to do things that people will not even believe are possible.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“We’re number one in terms of cost per pupil by a factor of, worldwide, by a factor of many. Number two is so far behind, forget it.”― Donald Trump Quote
“Well, if I ever ran for office, I’d do better as a Democrat than as a Republican – and that’s not because I’d be more liberal, because I’m conservative. But the working guy would elect me. He likes me. When I walk down the street, those cabbies start yelling out their windows.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Comprehensive education dissolves the lines between knowing too much and knowing too little on a variety of subjects—subjects that are necessary for success.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Our schools aren’t safe, which is bad enough. On top of that, our kids aren’t learning. Too many are dropping out of school and into the street life—and too many of those who do graduate are getting diplomas that have been devalued into “certificates of attendance” by a dumbed-down curriculum that asks little of teachers and less of students. Schools are crime-ridden and they don’t teach.”― Donald Trump Quote
“.@arianahuff is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man – he made a good decision.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Sorry losers and haters, but my IQ is one of the highest – and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“As a kid, I was making a building with blocks in our playroom. I didn’t have enough. So I asked my younger brother Robert if I could borrow some of his. He said, ‘Okay, but you have to give them back when you’re done.’ I used all of my blocks, then all of his blocks, and when I was done I had a great building, which I then glued together. Robert never did get those blocks back.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I say, not in a braggadocios way, I’ve made billions and billions of dollars dealing with people all around the world.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I loved my previous life. I had so many things going. This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me ‘old,’ when I would NEVER call him ‘short and fat?’ Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend – and maybe someday that will happen!” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.”― Donald Trump Quote
“Russia will have much greater respect for our country when I am leading it than when other people have led it…If Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset, not a liability, because we have a horrible relationship with Russia.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I won’t do anything to take care of them. I’ll supply funds and she’ll take care of the kids. It’s not like I’m gonna be walking the kids down Central Park.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“He called black community ‘super predators'”― Donald Trump Quote
“We have the best carbon emission numbers we’ve had in 35 years under this administration. Look how ‘filthy’ are Russia and China, look at India…the air is so filthy”.― Donald Trump Quote
“Children are brought here by coyotes and lots of bad people, cartels..We let people in but they have to come in legally.”― Donald Trump Quote
“When I met with Obama, he said our biggest problem is North Korea. He indicated that we will have a war with North Korea. We have a different kind of relationship with the guy and there is no war. He is not going to do that,”― Donald Trump Quote
“Joe got three and a half million dollars from Russia,”― Donald Trump Quote
“I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Certain guys tell me they want women of substance, not beautiful models. It just means they can’t get beautiful models.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“If you look at Saddam Hussein, he killed terrorists. I’m not saying he was an angel, but this guy killed terrorists.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Our public schools have grown up in a competition-free zone, surrounded by a very high union wall. Why aren’t we shocked at the results? After all, teachers’ unions are motivated by the same desires that move the rest of us. With more than 85% of their soft-money donations going to Democrats, teachers’ unions know they can count on the politician they back to take a strong stand against school choice.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I’ve been challenged by so many people and I don’t, frankly, have time for total political correctness.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Our country is in serious trouble. We don’t have victories any more. We used to have victories but [now] we don’t have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say, China, in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I have a great relationship with African Americans, as you possibly have heard. I just have great respect for them. And they like me. I like them.” ― Donald Trump Quote
30 Donald Trump Quotes About Coronavirus (Covid-19)
“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“We only have five people. Hopefully, everything’s going to be great. They have somewhat of a problem, but hopefully, it’s all going to be great. But we’re working with China, just so you know, and other countries very, very closely. So it doesn’t get out of hand. But it’s, you know, it’s something that we have to be very, very careful with, right? We have to be very careful.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“We are coordinating with the Chinese government and working closely together on the coronavirus outbreak in China. My administration will take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. I hope that’s true. But we’re doing great in our country. China, I spoke with President Xi, and they’re working very, very hard. And I think it’s going to all work out fine.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. … One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.’ That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything, they tried it over and over. … And this is their new hoax.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Anybody that wants a test can get a test. That’s what the bottom line is.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“The better you do, the faster this whole nightmare will end.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“It’s going to be, really, a voluntary thing. You can do it. You don’t have to do it. I’m choosing not to do it, but some people may want to do it, and that’s OK. It may be good. Probably will. They’re making a recommendation. It’s only a recommendation.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“This will be probably the toughest week, between this week and next week. And there’ll be a lot of death, unfortunately, but a lot less death than if this wasn’t done. But there will be death.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“I’m going to put it very simply: The president of the United States has the authority to do what the president has the authority to do, which is very powerful. The president of the United States calls the shots.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“We think some of the states can actually open up before the deadline of May 1. And I think that that will be a very exciting time indeed.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“It’s going to be up to the governors. We’re going to work with them, we’re going to help them, but it’s going to be up to the governors. … I think you’re going to see quite a few states starting to open. And I call it a beautiful puzzle. You have 50 pieces, all very different, but when it’s all done, it’s a mosaic. When it’s all done, it’s going to be, I think, a very beautiful picture.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Today I am instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess [its] role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“The cases really didn’t build up for a while. But you have to understand, I’m a cheerleader for this country. I don’t want to create havoc and shock and everything else, but ultimately, when I was saying that, I’m also closing it down. I obviously was concerned about it because I closed down our country to China.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“We have a big decision to make at a certain point, OK? We have a big decision to make. We went this extra period of time. But I’ve said it from the beginning: The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“The sacrifices we make over the next four weeks will have countless American lives saved. We’re going to save a lot of American lives.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“The vast majority of Americans, the risk is very, very low.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“We’re getting rid of this virus. That’s what we’re doing. That’s the best thing we can do. By the way, for the markets, for everything — it’s very simple, very simple solution. We want to get rid of it. We want to have very — as few deaths as possible. This is a horrible thing.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Easter is a very special day for me. And I see it sort of in that timeline that I’m thinking about. And I say, wouldn’t it be great to have all of the churches full?” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Nobody would ever believe a thing like that’s possible. Nobody could have ever seen something like this coming, but now we know, and we know it can happen and happen again.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“America will again, and soon, be open for business — very soon — a lot sooner than three or four months that somebody was suggesting. A lot sooner. We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. We’re not going to let the cure be worse than the problem.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“My administration is recommending that all Americans, including the young and healthy, work to engage in schooling from home when possible. Avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people. Avoid discretionary travel. And avoid eating and drinking at bars, restaurants and public food courts. If everyone makes … these critical changes and sacrifices now, we will rally together as one nation and we will defeat the virus. And we’re going to have a big celebration all together. With several weeks of focused action, we can turn the corner and turn it quickly.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“This was unexpected. … And it hit the world. And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“Gallup just gave us the highest rating ever for the way we are handling the CoronaVirus situation. The April 2009-10 Swine Flu, where nearly 13,000 people died in the U.S., was poorly handled.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“In our country, we only have, basically, 12 cases and most of those people are recovering and some cases fully recovered. So it’s actually less.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed. And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flus … This is deadly stuff.” ― Donald Trump Quote
We pretty much shut it down, coming in from China.” ― Donald Trump Quote
“China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!” ― Donald Trump Quote