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TWO DECADES OF WTF

Welcome to the world's largest and most up-to-date collection of insane, tragic, misguided, dishonest, inexplicable, and darkly hilarious comments by public figures. This is where reality comes when it wants its mind blown.

  • November 25, 2023

    "I don't use that kind of language, but it's a free country."
    -- Sen. Lindsey Graham, asked about Trump calling his rivals "vermin"

  • November 24, 2023

    "We're headed into nut country today."
    -- JFK to Jackie, November 22, 1963

  • November 22, 2023

    "We went to buy a turkey today. It was $90! It's all a choice by Joe Biden."
    -- former Rep. Jason Chaffetz on Fox News

  • November 21, 2023

    "2024 is our final battle...We will throw off the sick political class that hates our Country, we will rout the Fake News Media, we will evict Joe Biden from the White House, and we will FINISH THE JOB ONCE AND FOR ALL!"
    -- Trump

  • November 20, 2023

    "Every sane person without what they call Trump Derangement Syndrome -- Do you know what that is? It's a great honor. I had a disease named after me: Trump Derangement Syndrome -- wants to get back to how great we had it under the Trump Administration."
    -- Trump

  • November 19, 2023

    "I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing -- one -- that I can go campaign on and say we did. One! Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me, one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done besides, 'Well, I guess it's not as bad as the Democrats.'"
    -- Rep. Chip Roy on the floor of the House, angrily

  • November 18, 2023

    "I have a castle. At some point, maybe in my very old age, I'll go there and do the most beautiful thing you've ever seen."
    -- Trump to judge, who asked about his holdings in Aberdeen

  • November 17, 2023

    "President Xi of China, he's like a piece of steel. Strong. Smart. There's nobody in Hollywood who could play the role."
    -- Trump

  • November 16, 2023

    "We published a piece that [Trump] really hated, in which the author Marie Brenner wrote that she had noticed that on his desk he had Hitler's speeches. And he went ballistic. And in fact, at a benefit six months later he passed behind Marie Brenner at the dinner party and he emptied white wine down the back of her dress. And that in a sense was a little flash of the Trump we know today."
    -- former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown in 2017 interview

  • November 15, 2023

    "On Day One, instantly fire 50% of federal bureaucrats. Here's how: if your SSN ends in an odd number, you're fired. That downsizes the government by half."
    -- Vivek Ramaswamy