Donald Trump Quotes


I think in some cases, a penny is nothing compared to the kind of numbers. Then you get to fraud, waste and abuse, Sean. I mean, the fraud and the waste and the abuse, which everybody agrees if you can solve that problem, but it's, you know, mind-boggling the kind of numbers.


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Trump, Donald. Interview by Sean Hannity. Hannity, Fox News, 2016.

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Arguing against the practice of the government utilizing Social Security trust funds for general purposes:


He and the other commissioners of both political parties were agreed that the procurement by The State Department, USAID, and especially the Defense Department which spent the most was terrible. The even had military generals in charge of billions of dollars of procurement who did not even know the procurement laws and regulations they were supposed to obey much less the skill of good procurement.


Donald Trump
Donald Trump
  • Born: June 14, 1946
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: U.S. President, Businessman

Donald John Trump is an American media personality and businessman who served as the 45th and 47th president of the United States.