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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.

  • September 30, 2022

    "No black or mulatto, or Indian, Mongolian, or Asiatic, shall be permitted [to testify in court] against any white person... All marriages between a white person and a [Black person], shall... be absolutely void."
    -- provisions in The Howell Code, the first set of laws put in place by Arizona's Territorial legislature in 1863

  • September 29, 2022

    "It was almost too stupid for words."
    -- former WH official, on Trump's demanding to know if China was shooting us with a "hurricane gun"

  • September 28, 2022

    Dr. Oz on opponent John Fetterman's hoodies:
    "When he dresses like that, it's not an accident. He's kicking authority in the balls. He's saying, 'I'm the man. I'll show those guys who's boss.'"

    Twitter responses:
    "If you advertised an event where Philadelphians were given the opportunity to 'Come kick authority in the balls,' there would be a line six miles long before the first kick was landed." -- Toxic

    "'Kicking authority in the balls' may be the greatest campaign slogan ever." -- Exasperated Human

  • September 27, 2022

    "Everyone was asked to leave the premises. They wanted to be left alone, without any witnesses to see what they were doing, taking or, hopefully not, 'planting.'"
    -- Trump on the FBI at Mar-a-Lago

  • September 26, 2022

    "The question I get asked more than any other question: 'If you had to do it again, would you have done it?' The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here's the way I look at it. I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are."
    -- Trump to NYT reporter Maggie Haberman

  • September 25, 2022

    "How to break an arm at home."
    -- top Google search in Russia

  • September 24, 2022

    "This is not really a trial. This is a show trial, a literal kangaroo court."
    -- Alex Jones, in news conference held outside courthouse

  • September 23, 2022

    "Were they looking for the Hillary Clinton emails that were deleted?...They may have thought that it was in there."
    -- Trump on FBI seizing documents at Mar-a-Lago

  • September 22, 2022

    "I did declassify...There doesn't have to be a process, as I understand it...If you're the President of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, "It's declassified" -- even by thinking about it."
    -- Trump

  • September 21, 2022

    "They're juicing the numbers and they're cooking the books."
    -- Rep. Jim Jordan on the DOJ