Trump Phenomenon Quotes

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.

I think behavioral economists don't have any more of an explanation about the rise of Trump than anyone else.

The media did not make Donald Trump, and they can't destroy him.

The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.

Donald Trump is in office. It's not just another Republican candidate - Donald Trump. And people were so disaffected with the liberal message that they were willing to vote for him.

…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.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

If Donald Trump's candidacy has proven anything, it's that the media has no idea what Americans care about.

I think that liberalism and the centrist governing elite of this country need to learn lessons from the Trump phenomenon. It is part of the way that the country is governed and the country is shaped that induces spasms of populism, including spasms of bigoted populism.

It's too easy to dismiss Donald Trump as a buffoon - to point and laugh at a man whose worldview is as ridiculous as his hairdo. But to do so is to make light of a very serious threat.

Trump is a hybrid phenomenon as I see it. He is somewhat like UKIP and Le Pen with his right-wing populism that espouses some fascist overtones, but he's also partly just the old neoliberalism in disguise, especially if we look at some of the people he appointed to his cabinet.

Any time you try to apply conventional techniques to Donald Trump, you're going to be disappointed.

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

I think Donald Trump tapped into something where folks didn't think the economy and the political system was working for them.

The rise of Donald Trump has exposed a deep chasm in America between the haves and have-nots.

Donald Trump proved that he understood America in the way that those who say they're informing America simply did not.

The Trump phenomenon might feel both interminable and unprecedented to Republican elites, but of course it isn't.

There's one way of looking at the Trump phenomenon that he's essentially a Doofus or he is an opportunist.

My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'

Trump represents a vibrant and fed-up mass of people who see the Republican Party as standing for nothing, so they have turned to someone who can beat the party by standing for anything.

Trump is not the problem. He is the symptom of the problem where Americans no longer believe that the system works for them.

Trump's rise was contingent on wide swaths of the country completely tuning out so-called mainstream media sources, while all too many outlets did a poor job covering 2016.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump.