2017 Trump: Qatar is a "funder of terrorism."

2025 Trump: it would be "stupid" not to accept the gift of a free Qatari plane.

Laura Loomer: Trump is great, but accepting that $400M Qatari plane is unequivocally bad.

JD Vance: it's not in Russia's strategic interest to agree to a ceasefire, and we have to understand their perspective.

Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick: we will impose a 10% base tariff no matter what, even towards countries with whom we have a trade balance.

Trump: "We don't have to sign deals. They want a piece of our market. We don't care about their market."

Education Department: Why wait the usual 65 days if we can fast-track student loan collections?

Fmr. CBO Director Holtz-Eakin on trade strategy: Biden admin found Trump's first-term tariffs had "zero impact" on China's behavior. The current strategy is a "badly misplayed" hand. Markets expect tariffs to fall "sharply" and will react very negatively if they don't.

MSNBC reporting on Trump's trade claims: Treasury Sec. Besson couldn't explain Trump's "200 deals" claim, suggesting "subdeals" but unable to define. No major China deal announced; Besson says it would take 2-3 years. Couldn't even confirm if Trump has spoken to Xi Jinping since January.

Even if duties on Chinese goods are rolled back, the U.S. average tariff rate would remain at 16% vs ~2.2% pre-trade war, a potential tax hike of nearly $500 billion on American importers (Washington Post / JPMorgan Chase analysis).

Fmr. Senator Claire McCaskill on Democrats vs. Trump: the Dem base have "a wealth of issues to attack Donald Trump on," but a lack of organization leads to a "scattershot effort" that the base sees as "ineffective."

Illinois Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker throws down the gauntlet and calls for Democrats to "fight everywhere and all at once," stating, "These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace."

Trump on the difference between his 1st and 2nd terms: "The first time I had two things to do, run the country and survive. I had all these crooked guys. And the second time, I run the country and the world."

Sen. David McCormick: elite universities are too liberal and too progressive.

Sen. David McCormick: Harvard took our tax dollars, so the White House gets to personally approve their hiring policies, curriculum choices, and maybe even their preferred font for campus emails.