“Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I’ve written.”
― Stephen King

“Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation.”
― Charles M. Blow

“Lying is second nature to him… More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.”
― Tony Schwartz

“The election of Donald Trump confirmed everything I knew of my country and none of what I could accept. The idea that America would follow its first black president with Donald Trump accorded with its history. I was shocked at my own shock. I had wanted Obama to be right.

“I still want Obama to be right. I still would like to fold myself into the dream. This will not be possible.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Donald Trump comes closer than anyone else to being the archetype of the species; crossing genres, he exemplifies all the ways an asshole can capture our attention.”
― Geoffrey Nunberg

“Donald Trump is nuts, his party is chock full of nuts too, and that is bad news for Americans with a nut allergy.”
― Steve Merrick

“Donald Trump has got unlimited number of insecurities. But the No. 1 one thing, I would say, is his insecurity with his intellect. There’s a reason why he always refers to where he went to college and, you know, that, ‘I’m a smart person.’ You know, it may be narcissism. But I think it really reflects an insecurity.”
― Mark Cuban

“The idea that Donald Trump is a conservative is a complete farce. He is a conman who pretends to be a conservative.”
― Evan McMullin

“His casual relationship with the truth, as though it’s a pesky but disposable annoyance, has destroyed the credibility of the White House in just six months.”
― Brian Klaas