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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.
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May 09, 2025
"[Trump] said he was sorry for what Joe Biden did to all J6ers... I thanked him for giving me my life back. He replied with 'I love you guys.' To the J6ers he wanted me to send y'all a message. He said, 'Thank you.'"
-- Enrique Tarrio, convicted (22-year sentence) and pardoned seditionist and former Proud Boy leader, on talking to Trump at Mar-a-Lago -
May 08, 2025
"By not trading, we're losing nothing. So we're saving a trillion dollars. That's a lot."
-- Trump, during his meeting with Canadian PM Mark Carney"I'm glad that you couldn't tell what was going through my mind."
-- Carney, after the meeting -
May 07, 2025
"It's just an idea I've had... It's long been a symbol, Alcatraz, of whatever it is."
-- Trump, asked how he came up with the idea of re-opening the prison -
May 06, 2025
"To preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
-- Trump, taking his oath of office
"Don't you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?"
-- Meet the Press's Kristen Welker"I don't know."
-- Trump -
May 05, 2025
"Well, it means exactly what it says. It's a declaration, it's a declaration of unity, and love and respect, and it means a lot."
-- Trump, asked what the Declaration of Independence means to him"I don't know. I'm not a lawyer."
-- Trump, asked if citizens and noncitizens in the US are entitled to due process, per the Fifth Amendment -
May 04, 2025
"The election didn't turn out the way it should; it was a rigged election. We might as well say it. Totally rigged. Disgraceful."
-- Trump, on 2020 -
May 03, 2025
"In your last hundred days you saved 258 million lives."
-- Attorney General Pam Bondi on Trump administration fentanyl seizures, crediting the president with saving 75% of the US population -
May 02, 2025
"THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET BECAUSE MY POLLS AGAINST BIDEN ARE SO GOOD THAT INVESTORS ARE PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN, AND THAT WILL DRIVE THE MARKET UP."
-- Trump, last January"This is Biden's Stock Market, not Trump's. I didn't take over until January 20th."
-- Trump, yesterday"And you could even say the next quarter is sort of Biden because it doesn't just happen on a daily or an hourly basis."
-- Trump, yesterday -
May 01, 2025
"You know, somebody said, 'Oh, the shelves are going to be open.' Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally."
-- Trump -
April 30, 2025
"This morning, I proudly ENDED the 'Women, Peace & Security' (WPS) program...yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative...a UNITED NATIONS program pushed by feminists and left-wing activists. Politicians fawn over it; troops HATE it."
-- SecDef Pete Hegseth, cutting a program put in place by Trump in 2017, with support from Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and Ivanka Trump