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🇺🇸 Quote of the Moment 🇺🇸
"And our country is hot. We're doing a good job. We're doing a good job."
— Donald Trump · May 2, 2026 · Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, Florida
Context
Said while his approval rating sat at 40% (disapproval: 57%) per Decision Desk HQ. The country is, apparently, hot.
Dumbness Meter (Scientific Scale)
97% dumb
"I know so many, many killers. Very successful people."
Forum Club of the Palm Beaches · May 2, 2026 · complimenting the crowd
Context
Explaining why he agreed to show up in person rather than phone it in. Uplifting stuff.
NewUnintentional Confession
"You know, they don't like the word war. And they call it a military operation because that way, you don't have a war, you don't have legal problems."
Forum Club of the Palm Beaches · May 2, 2026 · on Iran
Context
Said into a microphone while his own White House lawyers were arguing in court that it wasn't a war and therefore needed no congressional authorization.
NewLegal Own Goal
"I'm dealing with some quite brutal people right now in the lovely country of Iran. They are very brutal. And I will tell you, we're doing very well."
Forum Club of the Palm Beaches · May 2, 2026
NewMixed Signals
Gasoline prices have "come down very substantially today."
Remarks to reporters · May 7, 2026
Fact Check — FALSE (PolitiFact)
AAA data showed no such drop. National average was still well above the prior year's level.
NewPants on Fire
"Consumer confidence is way up."
White House event · May 4, 2026
Fact Check — FALSE (PolitiFact)
The Conference Board index had dropped for several consecutive months amid tariff uncertainty.
NewFactually Wrong
"Thom Tillis is no longer a senator."
Fox Business interview · April 15, 2026
Fact Check — FALSE (PolitiFact)
Thom Tillis was, at the time of this statement, still very much a sitting U.S. senator.
NewMade Up Fact
"More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country."
Speech at Saudi Investment Conference, Kennedy Center · March 27, 2026
Fact Check — FALSE
While employment numbers were high, experts noted raw totals grow with population — the labor participation rate tells a more complete story, and it wasn't at historic highs.
NewMisleading
Iran "also has some Tomahawks."
White House press conference · March 9, 2026
Fact Check — FALSE (PolitiFact)
Tomahawk cruise missiles are a U.S. weapon system. Iran does not have them. Iran has its own missiles — calling them Tomahawks is just not a thing.
NewWeapons Confusion
"Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating."
Remarks at Memphis event · March 23, 2026
NewGreatest Hit, Still Wrong
"That bridge, we had so much — what a nice bridge, ooh, I like that color. What a nice bridge."
Corpus Christi, Texas · February 27, 2026 · policy speech
Context
The president of the United States, noticing a bridge, at a policy event. The bridge was given no further context.
NewProfound Observation
Among Somalis in Minnesota, "92% of them don't work."
Interview with Dan Bongino · February 2, 2026
Fact Check — FALSE
Bureau of Labor Statistics employment data does not support this figure in any measurable way.
Made Up Statistic
"I run the country and the world."
The Atlantic interview · January 28, 2026
Megalomaniacal
"Gasoline is at $1.99 in many states."
White House press briefing · January 20, 2026
Fact Check — FALSE
National average was $2.78. Lowest state was Oklahoma at $2.34. Only a handful of individual stations sold under $2.
Factually Wrong
"Big, beautiful piece of ice. It's hard to call it land. It's a big piece of ice."
Davos, Switzerland · January 21, 2026 · describing Greenland
Geographic Confusion
"We have secured a record-breaking $18 trillion in commitments for new investments."
White House press briefing · January 20, 2026
Fact Check
The White House's own website showed $9.6 trillion. Experts warned many pledges were unlikely to materialize.
Doubled the Number
"Let me tell you that nothing will ever be perfect in this world."
The Atlantic interview · January 2026
Context
When pressed about accidentally deporting legal residents or American citizens during mass deportations.
Concerning
"I ended seven wars... All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle."
United Nations General Assembly · September 2025
Context
Trump complained to assembled world leaders that the UN never called to help him broker peace deals — then pivoted immediately to a broken escalator. This is a real thing that happened.
Diplomatic Excellence
"We have just about every nation working on this deal and trying to get it done. Something that you could say 3,000 years, if you look at it in certain ways, or you could say centuries."
Press conference · October 2025 · on Middle East peace
Incoherent Rambling