Martha MacCallum Quotes

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

This is the craziest presidency in U.S. history.

…Democrats are complaining that they can’t get their message out … because Donald Trump has blotted out the media sun. … The eclipse won’t end. The media has turned the Trump presidency into a phenomenon of constant self-absorption—their self-absorption in this one person. Donald Trump has become the biggest balloon in a political Macy’s parade of modern media’s own creation. They could let go of the ropes. But they won’t.

Simply put, a Trump presidency is unthinkable.

I grew up during Watergate. I was enamored of the study of that.

Oh, man. I think if anybody deserves to be inducted into the Hall of Pain, it's Donald Trump.

I fear that Donald Trump will continue to be followed around by the media in its totality as he continues to rail against Hillary Clinton.

I don't know if history will adjudge Barack Obama a great president, but he has been a necessary one.

Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama.

Here's the thing - if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, in a kind of historical way, it's exciting because we will see the actual last president of the United States. It just won't work after that.

Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?

I've done 44 portraits of Obama because he's the 44th president.

At times, President Trump has behaved far worse than Nixon did.

Barack Obama is probably the coolest president this country will ever have.

My stint as general manager of MSNBC made me particularly sensitive to how the big stories are covered.

In the scale of American blunders - from the Dred Scott decision to the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s to the tragedy of Vietnam - is the Trump presidency really unique?

I've never seen anyone say, 'Let's go get this person today; let's really ram it into him.' I've never seen it. If a Democrat or Republican commits some horrendous story, the story will run. The networks will cover it.

A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.

Whatever its cause, the media's general Hillary Clinton loathing is a foundational truth that would define her as president.

Trump is somebody who sees the media as basically his main constituency. So much of his self-worth and his image and his view of what the presidency should be about is the media and how he is reflected in the media.

You have to come to full realization of just how horrible things are. And this is how horrible things are: Donald Trump is almost the President of the United States.

I don't subscribe to the argument that TV networks gave Trump too much attention and that's the main reason why he's president, nor do I subscribe to the argument that reporters ignored Trump's America.

For many Americans - many humans - Trump's presidency can often feel unbearable.

We as Americans should all be concerned with the smearing of the Trump administration and unfounded allegations of collusion with the Russians.

In a way I never did with George W. Bush or Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, I will write about the actions of the Trump presidency with the working assumption that our nation must be protected both by and from the president.