← Back to quotes

When somebody's the president of the United States, the authority is total. — Donald Trump

When somebody's the president of the United States, the authority is total.

Donald Trump
2020
★ 4.5
Other tags relating to this quote
Topic
Presidential powerAmerican politics
Time
2020
Person
Donald Trump
Provenance
Current citation
Trump, Donald. Quoted in Checks in the Balance: Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power, written by Alexander Bolton and Sharece Thrower. Princeton University Press, 2021, ch. 1.
Original citation
Trump, Donald. Remarks at White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing. 13 Apr. 2020, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

Related quotes

Other quotes that share a subject, a time, or a voice with this one.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln
First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln · 1861
Another quote aboutTopic·American politics

Other media

Works in other forms that share a subject with this one.

Other media onSubject·American politics