Victim Blaming

“I’m not going to any more events where Trump’s at. I don’t feel safe. … Chaos follows him. … He does not care about your safety. He’s not going to protect you if you go into his orbit because he’s always going to protect himself first. He’s more likely to throw you under the bus.” —former NBC host Chuck Todd

Braying Jenny

“Nobody needs to thank the president for anything. This man is engaged in a hostile coup takeover. He is a criminal that commits crimes every single day. He’s shooting American citizens.” —podcaster Jennifer Welch

Double Standards

“Many of the ‘journalists’ at the [White House Correspondents’ Association] dinner had written glowing articles about the ‘defund the police’ movement. But they sure were glad there were plenty of Washington, D.C., police officers and Secret Service agents on hand Saturday night.” —Gary Bauer

Observations

“Young men like Cole Allen shouldn’t emerge from years of ‘liberal’ education more ready to accept, or commit, political violence. Yet the effect of higher education is now the opposite of what it should be, moving graduates, and especially graduate students, in the direction of radicalism.” —Daniel McCarthy

“Democrats ‘increase the temperature’ until something excessively violent happens and then insist that Republicans ‘lower the temperature’ by giving Democrats everything they want…lest more violence happens. It’s a political extortion racket.” —former Virginia House Delegate Nick Freitas

“I know this will fall on deaf ears, but progressives cannot just keep saying the right is provoking rage when the bullets are disproportionately coming from the Left.” —Erick Erickson

“There may be improvements in security, but there likely will be no improvement in the labeling too many politicians attach to those on the ‘other side.’ Why can’t the other side be the Iranian leadership, Russia, North Korea and China? Don’t we already have enough enemies without creating new ones among ourselves?” —Cal Thomas

For the Record

“We now have an ACTUAL king on our soil, but there are NO SIGNS of any ‘No Kings’ protests anywhere in the nation right now. Interesting how that works!” —Nick Sortor

Upright

“Honoring the British king might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of American independence — but in fact, no tribute could be more appropriate. Long before Americans had a nation or a Constitution, we first had a culture, a character, and a creed. Before we ever proclaimed our independence, Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts: moral courage, and it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea.” —President Donald Trump

Belly Laugh of the Day

“I cannot help noticing the readjustments to the East Wing, Mr. President, following your visit to Windsor Castle last year. And I’m sorry to say that we British, of course, made our own small attempt at real estate redevelopment of the White House in 1814.” —King Charles III