In their own words
“Just Mike Waltz both blaming Biden for a depleted stockpile which in the very next breath he claims doesn't exist and that anybody who suggests otherwise should be jailed”
on contradictions in claims about munitions stockpiles
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Brian Tyler Cohen quotes
33 things Brian Tyler Cohen said, verbatim, from July 6, 2026 to September 30, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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Brian Tyler Cohen on National security & surveillance1
Brian Tyler Cohen on Trade & tariffs1
In their own words
“These decisions come down to nothing more sophisticated than his golf buddies asking for a favor and him announcing the carveout to applause.”
on Trump's Irish whiskey tariff carveout
Brian Tyler Cohen on Economy, jobs & inflation1
In their own words
“So, Americans can't afford to eat, drive, or travel. Well, I'm sure everybody is taking this in stride.”
on rising costs of food, gas and travel tied to the Iran war
Brian Tyler Cohen on Housing & rent1
In their own words
“It's an America where buying a house or sending your kids to college becomes less and less attainable, but a crystal chandelier filled ballroom is considered a top priority.”
on Trump's ballroom priorities amid housing and college affordability struggles
Brian Tyler Cohen on Immigration & the border3
In their own words
“Our government has decided to not just endorse, but pay for a device that is wrongfully reserved for animals.”
on ICE using shock gloves meant for animals on people
In their own words
“Donald Trump and his minions are demanding John Thune do something that he simply can't do. It's like demanding Stephen Miller grow his hair back.”
on Trump demanding Thune enforce immigration policy beyond authority
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“a player who exists on this team only because of a policy that Trump has tried and failed to gut”
on birthright citizenship creating a player Trump sought to exclude
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Brian Tyler Cohen on Tech & AI1
In their own words
“The reality is, while I'm not the biggest fan of AI being the solution to all that ails us as a society, I agree with the general premise that the federal government to best serve its people should be operating at the same pace”
on the Trump administration's AI self-policing accord and the federal government's pace
Brian Tyler Cohen on Campaigns & elections3
In their own words
“This GOP is chock-full of people claiming that they're in government to help people when the truth is, their only goal is enriching themselves off the backs of those people who need the help most.”
on Republicans enriching themselves instead of helping constituents amid a midterm slide
In their own words
“A lot of these republicans are sitting in competitive districts, heading into a brutal Midterm environment, thanks to Trump, and spending two days in Dallas means two days not knocking on doors, not doing local press, not doing the work that actually wins tight races.”
on Republicans attending a Dallas convention instead of campaigning for the midterms
In their own words
“Let's just sit in the gravity of this for a moment, shall we? 97% of the time Trump's endorsement leads to a win for his pick in a GOP primary, which means Mike Lindell was such a terrible candidate, even the patented Trump bump couldn't help his sorry ass.”
Brian Tyler Cohen on Democracy & voting rights2
In their own words
“Donald Trump does not get a vote on how Massachusetts or California or any other state runs its own elections.”
on the Supreme Court ruling on state mail-ballot rules
In their own words
“You have Trump and national Republicans who are engaged hellbent on trying to cut mail-in voting and then you have Republicans at the state level who are trying to eliminate polling places. And so, what message does that send if you're trying to eliminate every avenue of voting that people actually have?”
Brian Tyler Cohen on Corruption & scandal4
In their own words
“Yes, the same Department of Justice that lacks the proper resources to produce the rest of the Epstein files, luckily has more than enough resources to get an emergency application together, so the construction of Donald Trump's golden crusted ballroom can continue.”
In their own words
“It looks like after a long dormant period, we are now one step closer to actual transparency as far as the Epstein files are concerned.”
on hopes for transparency in the Epstein files after Blanche's court hearing
In their own words
“See, what this president can't understand is why his old friend wouldn't just do him the solid of ignoring evidence and continuing to prosecute a man who she knew to be innocent”
on Jeanine Pirro's handling of the Reflecting Pool prosecution
In their own words
“his own family, which does exist, has turned the presidency into the most profitable grift in American history”
Brian Tyler Cohen on Courts & the law2
In their own words
“Trump won a procedural skirmish about when courts can intervene, not a substantive victory about whether he has the authority to do any of this in the first place.”
on the Supreme Court's mail ballot ruling being procedural, not a win on Trump's authority
In their own words
“if the top law enforcement official in the United States of America cannot acknowledge that it is wrong for a president to fire a prosecutor for not continuing to prosecute an innocent man, innocent by the Department of the Interior's own standards, own admission, then that person doesn't have the character for that job”
on Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing and a prosecutor fired over a case
Brian Tyler Cohen on The presidency & national symbols9
In their own words
“Look, if you have to cancel votes because members of your own party issue articles of impeachment, that doesn't exactly convey a sense of confidence that Republicans are the ones who can get done.”
on Republicans canceling votes after party members filed impeachment articles against Hegseth
In their own words
“I wish I was as motivated to do literally anything as Donald Trump is to get his name on the outside of that building, which I should remind everybody is a memorial to a different person.”
In their own words
“In an effort to make today all about him, the current president of the United States willfully isolated himself from all previous presidents attending the memorial at ground zero, politicized his speech and fell asleep as the names of people who gave their lives for this country were read aloud.”
on Trump's conduct at the 9/11 memorial in New York
In their own words
“Trump will do everything other than the things that actually help people. This guy doesn't give a shit about regular Americans. This is about his ego, his legacy.”
on Trump's plan to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America
In their own words
“The reality is Donald Trump is a shitty builder whose side hustle is the presidency. He doesn't care about how any of his choices affect the American people because as long as he's got his crystal chandeliers and his white granite driveway, he'll be just fine.”
on backlash to Trump's plan to build a White House helipad
In their own words
“The quote is intended to send one message that Donald Trump is focused on himself and his loyalists and his projects, not the American people. And nothing in that quote is untrue or unfair.”
on whether Ossoff's remark about Trump and a female aide was fair
In their own words
“And I think that tells you everything you need to know about this White House. It's not about what's true, it is about what version of events is convenient for Trump.”
on the White House's handling of the Reflecting Pool vandalism story
In their own words
“these are three Republicans who have already been excommunicated from the party by Trump for not being sufficiently loyal, because courage is only possible on the right starting from the moment that Trump is no longer there to protect you”
on Republicans breaking with Trump only after being cast out of his favor
In their own words
“Trump is so hellbent on making himself the center of attention that he outright refuses to move, refuses to take the hit. I am legitimately having trouble trying to wrap my head around the degree of narcissism that this person suffers from”
on Trump's narcissism preventing him from leaving events
Brian Tyler Cohen on Free speech & the media5
In their own words
“this attempt to reach around the press is nothing more than the Trump administration giving themselves a reachound. Not a single self-respecting person is going to sit at home and tune into Trump TV.”
on the Trump administration's new outlet meant to bypass the press
In their own words
“So unlike ABC, which coughed up $15 million to Trump, and CBS's 60 Minutes, which did the same to the tune of 16 million, turns out other members of the press actually have something of a spine.”
on other outlets resisting Trump's press ban after ABC and CBS paid settlements
In their own words
“You don't beat a bully by cowering to him, you beat a bully by punching back. That's a lesson that legacy media could learn, but refuses to.”
on how the press should respond to Trump's ban on White House media access
In their own words
“Not even trying to hide the fact that he is violating the First Amendment by banning the press from entering the White House for the crime of reporting critically on what he's doing.”
In their own words
“He is using basically anything now as a justification, as some excuse to try and sick his FCC on what networks still remain.”
on Trump using pretexts to direct the FCC against remaining broadcast networks
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