Quote of the Year 2025

“I’m sure some have been pretty nice to him the same way you would try to be nice if you suddenly found yourself in the same room as a monkey with a gun… We dodged a bullet, but the monkey still has a gun.”

— John Oliver, Last Week Tonight Comedian (on King Donald’s claim that his threatened tariffs had countries begging him to make a deal and his first round of pumping of the brakes).

Runners Up:

“A traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves”.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican Congresswoman (after MAGA’s Dear Leader brands her traitor for demanding that he release the Epstein Files).

“Everyone has the right to choose. That is democracy. Some chose prison, others chose exile.”

— Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus (when asked if his election could really be called democratic if his main rivals are either in prison or in exile).