#political-rhetoric

#political-rhetoric

Trump was speaking with reporters Thursday evening near the National Mall. When asked about U.S. strikes against Iranian military facilities and the status of the ceasefire, Trump said that the U.S. "blew them away" and threatened "one big glow" if Iran doesn't come to an agreement with the U.S. "They trifled with us today. We blew them away. They trifle. They call that a trifle," Trump rambled. "I'll let you know when there's no ceasefire. You won't have to know. If there's no ceasefire, you're not going to have to know. You'll have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran. And they'd better sign their agreement fast."

SCOTT: Mr. President, you are here against the backdrop of the war in a Iran. Why focus on all these projects right now with gas prices soaring? TRUMP: You know why? Because I wanna keep our country beautiful and safe. Beautiful also. This place was a disgusting place. It was Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, and we had a terrible, disgusting you probably don't see dirt. But I do. And you walked down this pond. If you would've walked down they'll tell you better than anybody. They had to take 11 or 12 truckloads of garbage out of that lake, out of that water. And it sat there for years like that. And that's not what our country's about. Our country's about beauty, cleanliness, safety, great people. Not a filthy capital.

There's obviously a lot of incendiary language out there, horrific language out there... That's a lot crazy people saying a lot of horrific things.

Hegseth invoked the Bible and again compared Trump directly to Jesus in an opening rant attacking the press as Pharisees trying to hang Jesus/Trump with misconduct charges when they were actually performing a miracle.

In his speeches, Squealer would talk with tears rolling down his cheeks of Napoleon's wisdom, the goodness of his heart, and the deep love he bore to all animals everywhere.

Sanewashing is a word that had to be invented to describe how the more strait-laced media outlets were covering the speeches and tweets and other outpourings of Donald Trump.

Judges block the deportations of rapists. Where are the feminists? Vote yes there will not be another opportunity, it read. The flyer, posted on the Facebook page of Meloni's Brothers of Italy, was subsequently removed.

Four days into this situation in the skies over Tehran, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said, 'We're not at war right now.' This was, rather, a 'very specific, clear mission-an operation.' Operation does seem to be the preferred word in government talking points, even as it encompasses assassinating an ayatollah, torpedoing an Iranian naval ship, blowing up fuel depots and a desalination plant, and losing the lives of (so far) eight American service members along the way.

Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie. Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie. Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) March 9, 2026

I didn't feel included in the Latino community. I always felt left out. Las Comadres has since become a national nonprofit organization. De Hoyos Comstock, petite with a warm smile, describes Las Comadres as a 'Latina culture club.' The current political rhetoric, characterized by the most aggressive immigration enforcement in modern history, is forcing many U.S. citizen Latinos to question whether they belong.

He's an idiot. We gotta get rid of him. He's gonna ruin the country. I don't want everybody going around with their Maga, the American flags, like they're the only ones. We are Americans too.

"My administration will be Donald Trump's worst nightmare," Mamdani said on Aug. 11, representing the aggressive campaign rhetoric he deployed during his mayoral race.

Tomorrow's United States Supreme Court case is, literally, LIFE OR DEATH for our Country. The good news is that almost all countries and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made—knowing that the legal power that I, as president, have to make a new deal could be far worse for them, and therefore they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before the Supreme Court's unfortunate involvement.

I'm not going to talk about fascism or Nazism, you just read history and see what type of regimes will pick one or two groups and blame all of America's ills on those groups. That's one of the things that the president did.

Populism may well have been the defining word of the previous decade: a shorthand for the insurgent parties that came to prominence in the 2010s, challenging the dominance of the liberal centre. But no sooner had it become the main rubric for discussing both the far left and far right than commentators began to question its validity: worrying that it was too vague, or too pejorative, or fuelling the forces to which it referred.

At a time when geopolitical certainties of old are crumbling away, it has become the go-to quote to make sense of the current moment in all its seeming senselessness. The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters is a line attributed to the former Italian Communist party leader Antonio Gramsci. Over the last two months alone, it has been quoted and often mangled by a rightwing Belgian prime minister, a leftwing British political leader, an Irish central banker and in the title of the most recent BBC Reith lecture, given by the author Rutger Bregman.

In January, Florida Rep. Randy Fine made a typically bigoted post on X about his colleague in the House of Representatives, Ilhan Omar. The post was in conversation with a specious right-wing conspiracy alleging that Omar's net worth had increased, nefariously, through a variety of unspecified means-perhaps cryptically linked back to her Somali heritage. Fine asserted that to "solve all this," Omar ought to be "denaturalized and deported."

In the hours after the 7 January fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother of three, gut-wrenching footage of her killing was released, discrediting initial claims from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and the Department of Justice that she was shot in self-defense. As a response to the public outcry, the Trump administration and a chorus of conservative public figures unleashed a litany of dehumanizing and defamatory remarks about Good,