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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 01, 2019


    "'...surrounded by enemies and spies catching and perverting every word that falls from my lips or flows from my pen, and inventing where facts fail them.' Some things never change, Dad!"
    -- Ivanka Trump, quoting Jefferson to her father

  • October 31, 2019

    "I wish my name was Hunter Biden. I could go abroad, make millions off of my father's presidency. I'd be a really rich guy."
    -- Donald Trump Jr.

  • October 30, 2019

    "I am unquestionably, undoubtedly, the greatest human artist of all time. It's not even a question at this point. It's just a fact."
    -- Kanye West

  • October 29, 2019

    "He was scared out of his mind...He died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering, screaming, and crying all the way."
    -- Trump on the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

    "I don't have those details."
    -- Defense Secretary Mark Esper, asked to confirm Trump's account

    "I don't know what the source of that was. But I assume it was talking directly to the unit and unit members."
    -- Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

    "I don't want to talk about it."
    -- Trump, asked if he could hear the whimpering on his video feed

  • October 28, 2019

    "[Al-Baghdadi] was a gutless animal...He died like a dog. He died like a coward...Our canine, I call it a dog, a beautiful dog, a talented dog, was injured and brought back."
    -- Trump

  • October 27, 2019

    "I worked with John Kelly, and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great President."
    -- WH Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham on former WH chief of staff

  • October 26, 2019

    "He looks for corruption wherever he goes."
    -- Trump on Giuliani

  • October 25, 2019

    AOC, questioning Mark Zuckerberg in House Financial Services Committee hearing:
    "Could I run ads on Facebook targeting Republicans in primaries saying that they voted for the Green New Deal?"

    Zuckerberg:
    "I don't know the answer to that off the top of my head. I think probably." 

  • October 24, 2019

    "Now people are saying, 'Wow! What a great outcome. Congratulations!' It's too early, to me, to be congratulated, but we've done a good job. And we've saved a lot of lives."
    -- Trump on Erdogan and Putin taking over northeast Syria and driving the Kurds out

  • October 23, 2019

    "Most of the ISIS fighters that we captured -- we, we, not Obama, we. We captured them. Me. Our country captured them. Working with others, including the Kurds."
    -- Trump

    "[Former Defense Secretary James Mattis is] the world's most overrated general. You know why? He wasn't tough enough. I captured ISIS. Mattis said it would take two years. I captured them in one month."
    -- Trump