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Say What? Archive
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.
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August 22, 2025
"Zelensky walked into the Oval Office. I was chatting with him... I said, 'Mr. President, so long as you behave, I won't say anything.' It was a good little icebreaker."
-- VP JD Vance -
August 21, 2025
"He's in there fighting, they're working to put him in jail on top of everything else, how about that? He's a war hero because we worked together. He's a war hero. I guess I am too."
-- Trump, on Netanyahu -
August 20, 2025
"President Stubb of Finland. And he's uh, he's somebody that, where are we here? Huh? Where? Where?"
-- Trump, at meeting with European leaders on Monday"I'm right here."
-- Stubb, seated directly across from him"Oh. You look better than I've ever seen you look."
-- Trump -
August 19, 2025
"Mail-in ballots are corrupt. You can never have a real democracy with mail-in ballots...I think we're the only country in the world that uses them, because of what happens -- massive fraud all over the place."
-- Trump, ignoring or ignorant of the fact that dozens of countries use mail-in ballots, including Canada, the UK, Germany, Australia, and Switzerland -
August 18, 2025
"Just about the most vomit-inducing episode in all the tawdry history of international diplomacy."
-- former British PM Boris Johnson on Alaska summit -
August 17, 2025
"If you still think he's playing 4-D chess, I hate to break it to you -- the guy's barely playing checkers. And he's eating the pieces."
-- Joe Rogan on Trump -
August 16, 2025
"President Trump doesn't have a limitation on his authority to make this country safe. There's no limitations."
-- "Border Czar" Tom Homan -
August 15, 2025
"I turned down plenty. They were too woke. I had a couple of wokesters. We have great people. This is very different than it used to be. These are great people."
-- Trump, on selecting the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees -
August 14, 2025
"But even Trump's attack on Washington, D.C., yesterday has not managed to distract attention from the possibility that the president of the United States sexually assaulted children."
-- historian Heather Cox Richardson -
August 13, 2025
"They've wanted a ballroom at the White House for more than 150 years, but there's never been a president that was good at ballrooms."
-- Trump