SUNDAY
"I support anybody with an ‘R’ behind their name. I hope when all of this comes out that it’s not true. But at the end of the day, we’ve got to let the process play out. "
— Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) about Rep. Miller (R-OH), accused of abuse by his ex-wife and an ex-girlfriend, including breaking his 2-year-old daughter’s collarbone
MONDAY
"And I went down. I was building a building in New York and I had a lot of construction workers, and I went shortly after, the following day. You couldn’t go down the same day. But, like the following day. Very quickly afterwards, and we worked long and hard. "
— Donald Trump on September 7, 2026, describing the September 11 attack in New York. His claim to have worked or paid for others to work the site remains unverified 25 years later.
TUESDAY
"The United States Steel Building was creaking, really creaking, and we thought it was going to fall down. The truth is, it creaked a lot. It creaked. It still creaks, but, uh, it never came down. And I — I’ll never forget two firemen. We thought it was coming down on top of us, and two firemen, big, strong guys. And I’m not the smallest guy in the world. They grabbed me under the arms. They — Gotta get out of here! And they literally lifted me up. This is not easy to do. I’m big. They lifted me up and they started running with me. I said, Fellas, I can run myself.<br />
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— Donald Trump speaking on September 8, 2026 to an audience of first responder and 9/11 families
WEDNESDAY
"We were going down the drain. If we hadn’t won the last election, I’m not sure that our country right now would even exist. It was going so bad. "
— DoDonald Trump on September 9, 2026 at a speech to an RNC midterm convention
THURSDAY
"For the first time in history, they cancelled their own convention. No voter ever cast a primary ballot for Kamala Harris, no elected delegate was ever consulted; the party of ‘No Kings’ simply anointed a queen "
— HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, lying during a speech at the Republican convention. The 2024 Democratic Convention selected Kamala Harris as its presidential nominee.