We weren’t expecting that we were going to have a small group of people that wanted to try to destroy effectively what is part of the Lincoln Memorial.
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OR-RLori Chavez-DeRemerOregon114 Quotes
Linda McMahon173 Quotes
Howard Lutnick126 Quotes
NY-DRobert F. Kennedy, Jr.New York808 Quotes
Brooke Rollins52 Quotes
Pam Bondi262 Quotes
GA-RDoug CollinsGeorgia595 Quotes
Scott Turner27 Quotes
Chris Wright82 Quotes
ND-RDoug BurgumNorth Dakota143 Quotes
Scott Bessent316 Quotes
WI-RSean DuffyWisconsin858 Quotes
Pete Hegseth493 Quotes
SD-RKristi NoemSouth Dakota1,158 Quotes
FL-RMarco RubioFlorida3,969 Quotes
NH-RKaroline LeavittNew Hampshire315 Quotes
OH-RJD VanceOhio1,128 Quotes
FL-RDonald TrumpFlorida46,021 Quotes
Thomas J. Vilsack47 Quotes
Former white house voices
We did have a few vandals, but all that's going to be repairable, and that'll all be fixed in the coming weeks as we go forward.
Thank you, FIFA, for reversing a great injustice.
It’s the biggest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, September 11.
A very special thank you to my friends from Antwerp for the magnificent Freedom 250 ring.
I reaffirmed my readiness to help achieve a quick cessation of hostilities and search for peaceful solutions to settle the crisis in Ukraine.
I promised a world record-breaking fireworks display, set to begin at 10:30 p.m. Eastern, later than in other years.
What they stand for is nothing that I could possibly agree with, but one of the foundational principles of the United States, which makes democracy messy, is free speech.
We are made the courage and the fire and the flesh and the blood of the best and the bravest people this world has ever produced.
If we have to speak in front of one person at 4 o’clock in the morning, I’m gonna be here, there’s no way we can be deterred.
We will find fraud. We will stop it. We will recover taxpayer dollars whenever the law permits, and we will restore integrity to the programs that millions of Americans rely on for their care.
You won’t have cheating on the elections anymore, it’s very simple.
You got to cut it out, you got to cut it out fast.
Communism is a loser, and it always will be.
There is no place we cannot go, there is no goal we cannot reach, and there is nothing that Americans cannot do. And we're proving that right now.
We've already made the deal, the concept of that deal,
I called for the interrupted White House Correspondents' Dinner to be rescheduled within 30 days and include more security.
He was a Christian, believer, and then he became an anti-Christian, and he had a lot of change.
Experiencing a little heat is a lot less than what a lot of people sacrifice to give us this freedom in this awesome country.
We are celebrating freedom's triumph over tyranny, liberty's conquest over oppression and the enduring victory of the American spirit from July 4, 1776 to July 4, 2026.
This is only the dawn of the golden age of America, and on this 250th fourth of July, we declare, just as they did two and a half centuries ago, that for our country, and for our children, and for the cause of liberty, we are going to take…
At 250 years old, we may be the oldest constitutional republic on earth, but our country is just getting started because the best is yet to come.
Don't let them take too much of your time. You know they're wasting your time, don't you? But we're not going to let them take up too long or too much of our time as they play their games and send them into exile.





