Howard Mortman

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"Whaaaaat?" -- NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani reaction when he learns a reporter didn't watch the Knicks game ...

Boos ... “Shut up! Shut up!” ... "Next question" when Rep. Mike Johnson is asked about efforts to overturn 2020 presidential election results ...

"In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law." -- Donald Trump August 18, 2016 (Charlotte NC rally)

"Ladies and gentlemen, several things distinguish us Naval Aviators from our Air Force counterparts. First, we are better looking. Second, we leave on a constantly moving, 100,000 ton nuclear-powered warship."

"Rudy Giuliani. There's only three things he mentions in sentence: a noun, and a verb, and 9/11." -- Joe Biden, 10/30/2007

"Under the previous order, the Senate stands adjourned until 3pm on Monday. Bang gavel." Sen. Fetterman then bangs gavel. Then laughs. (h/t Craig Caplan )

"Jen Psaki, who's in the back, thank you so much. I see you. And I'm so grateful that you took the time to be here. And so thank you for your kindness. Thank you for your friendship. We miss you around here. And it's so good to see your face." - WH press sec. Karine Jean-Pierre

Cheers and smiles when Speaker pro tempore Rep. Patrick McHenry says this: "John Boehner of the state of Ohio has received one."

PRO TIP: Presiding over the U.S. Senate? Read a book about the U.S. Senate.

Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) and sons pay respects to Jimmy Carter in U.S. Capitol Rotunda

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January 6, 2015: VP Joe Biden ceremonial swearing-in for Sen. Lindsey Graham. Darline Graham Nordone holds the Bible.

#RIP Lindsey Graham ... He set up Elena Kagan's famous "Like all Jews I was probably at a Chinese restaurant" on Christmas line that slayed her 2010 SCOTUS nomination hearing ...

Barack Obama "is really messed up. I'm giving him some time because this beautiful skirt that my stylist Meredith Koop picked out that is my favorite portrait of my mom. He didn't know it existed until just a few minutes ago. I've had a few weeks to settle down" - Michelle Obama

Elon Musk arrives Mar-A-Lago New Year's Eve party with Trump

Today, July 1, 2026, President Trump flies the new Air Force One to North Dakota.... On July 3, 2020, he flew the prior Air Force One to South Dakota ...

Darline Graham is sworn in today to replace Lindsey Graham as South Carolina U.S. Senator ... She joined her brother for his January 6, 2009, ceremonial swearing-in by VP Dick Cheney

"I F---ed it up. I F---ed it up. Can I go back. Can go back, please." "You can't. We're live" -- National Anthem

Pete Hegseth joins service members at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for a morning physical training PT session

"Should the Defense Secretary.." Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Wait what country are you from?" "From the UK" "OK we don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why don't you go back to your country. We have a major migrant problem. You should care about your own borders"

"You know what Reagan and O'Neill did? They sat down and actually got to know each other. They had a drink. If I get to be president we're going to open up a bar in the White House. We're going to get liquored up and solve problems." -- Lindsey Graham Dec. 10, 2015

"We had just lost the 2019 election, which nearly broke my party. It was the worst result since 1935, and we were we were found to be institutionally antisemitic. I picked up our party. I turned it round. I made a promise to rip antisemitism out of my party." - Keir Starmer #PMQs

Pres. Biden at the beach ... Rehoboth Delaware (8-10-2024)

"My little theory about why they decided to have the convention in Chicago, is, Tim Walz has been going around saying that he served in war, and maybe they did it in Chicago so that he could actually accurately say that he visited a combat zone" - JD Vance in Kenosha Wisconsin

Marco Rubio samples Ice Cube (“Check yourself before you wreck yourself”) and Cypress Hill (“Insane in the brain”)

Tammy Duckworth to Rubio: "When I first got to Senate I was pregnant with my daughter and trying to change Senate rules so I could bring her onto the floor so I could do my job and vote...not accessible to wheelchairs...You came running down to me 'I'm with you! I support you!"

Pres. Trump motorcade drives across Arlington Memorial Bridge, then around Memorial Circle, the large traffic roundabout in Arlington, Virginia, where the president’s "United States Triumphal Arch" is planned to be built.

“We're donating a $400 million ballroom...400...It’ll handle inaugurations. It’s got 5-inch-thick glass windows. Impenetrable by anything but a howitzer... Who else but in our country would sue to stop $400 million beautiful ballroom?...Designed to handle inauguration" - Trump

JD Vance buys donuts in Holt’s Sweet Shop in Valdosta Georgia

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump and family board plane for flight from West Palm Beach Florida to Washington DC for inauguration ...