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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Aug 21, 2025

And now we’ll see how they do and, if necessary, and it probably would be, but if necessary, I’ll go and I’ll probably be able to get it close.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Aug 21, 2025

I had a very successful meeting with President Putin. I had a very successful meeting with President Zelenskiy. And now I thought it would be better if they met without me, just to see. I want to see what goes on. You know, they had a hard…

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 20, 2025

It’s tall, which makes it very, very difficult to climb, almost impossible. It also goes deep into the ground, which would make it very difficult, if not impossible, to dig under. And today we are also going to be painting it black.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Aug 20, 2025

It is so sad that Radical Left Activists can do this, and affect the lives of so many people. Those that fought it are Anti-American, and representing other Copper competitive Countries.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 20, 2025

The border wall will look very different based on the topography and the geography of where it is built.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 20, 2025

That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb. So we are going to be…

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

Let's free D.C. from lawlessness. Let's free Washington, D.C., from one of the highest murder rates in the entire world. Let's free Washington, D.C., so that young families can walk around and feel safe and secure.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

This should be a monument to American greatness. This should not be a place where parents of small children are afraid to bring them ... because we have empowered criminals over the people who actually need public safety in this city.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

You have vagrants, you have drug addicts, you have the chronically homeless, you have the mentally ill who harass, who threaten violence, who attack families, and they've done it for far too long.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
@robertfkennedyjr· Democratic · NY· Aug 20, 2025

Well, I just started doing that a long time ago because I would go hiking in the morning and then I’d go straight to the gym, and I found it was convenient, and now I’m used to it, so I just do it.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

We’re gonna come and say thank you to the National Guard folks, to the cops for actually keeping this place safe. If you look at what’s happened in Washington, DC, in just the past nine days, we’ve seen a 35 percent reduction in violent…

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

The fact that it’s taken so long to bring common decency and law and order back to Washington, DC, is an indictment of a generation of failed leadership, and I hope these guys know how grateful we are that they’re doing the job that so…

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

I really can’t overemphasize this enough. It’s the greatest country in the world. We’ve got moms and dads and young families; shouldn’t they be able to enjoy public spaces without vagrants taking away basic public safety from the American…

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

I think the president campaigned on being a president of peace. He’s already ended six wars; he’s trying to end another. I think it’s kind of disgraceful that the American media is attacking the president for trying to bring peace to the…

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Aug 20, 2025

It actually should make every American ashamed that the world’s leading superpower, our national capital, was unsafe for families to walk around at night.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Aug 20, 2025

I don’t think real Republicans want to see their President, who has had unprecedented success, targeted because of the ‘whims’ of a second-tier Senator named Josh Hawley.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Aug 20, 2025

I think that approach is a smart, measured approach, designed to address a very particular problem in a very particular moment in time.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Aug 20, 2025

And we’re going to do it in a temporary basis because we’re keeping our eye on where we want to be long term.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Aug 20, 2025

I believe that Gov. Newsom’s approach is a responsible approach. He said this is going to be responsible. We’re not going to try to completely maximize it.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Aug 20, 2025

Security guarantees for Ukraine would be provided by European countries in coordination with the U.S.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Aug 20, 2025

Look, ‘4 More Years.’ They go, ‘4 More Years!’ So it’s sorta cool.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Aug 20, 2025

You know, you’re not allowed to run [for a third term]. I’m 28 points higher than anybody. Everyone wants me to run.

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