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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.

  • August 27, 2019

    "With Doral, we have a series of magnificent buildings -- we call them bungalows -- they each hold from 50 to 70 very luxurious rooms with magnificent views. We have incredible conference rooms, incredible restaurants...We have many hundreds of acres so that in terms of parking, in terms of all the things that you need -- the ballrooms are among the biggest in Florida, and the best. It's brand new...Each country can have their own villa or their own bungalow, and they have a lot of units in them, so I think it just works out well...From my standpoint, I'm not going to make any money. In my opinion I'm not going to make any money."
    -- Trump pitching his Doral resort for next year's G-7 summit

  • August 26, 2019

    "In six years, when I'm not here, the New York Times goes out of business very quickly. And you know who else goes out? NBC News."
    -- Trump

    "The Media is destroying the Free Press!"
    -- Trump

  • August 25, 2019

    "The finding was very, very strong. No collusion, no obstruction, no nothing...It's a beautiful report."
    -- Trump on Mueller Report

     

  • August 24, 2019

    "We don't need China and, frankly, would be far better off without them...Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA."
    -- Trump

    "My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, [Federal Reserve chairman] Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?"
    -- Trump

     

     

  • August 23, 2019

    "We vow to act with urgent resolve."
    -- Trump, in immediate aftermath of El Paso and Dayton shootings

    "The Democrats would... give up the Second Amendment... We have to be very careful about that. You know, they call it a 'slippery slope,' and all of a sudden, everything gets taken away. We're not going to let that happen."
    -- Trump, this week

  • August 22, 2019

    "The president, who knows a thing or two about buying real estate, wants to take a look at a Greenland purchase."
    -- National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow

    "He has been talking privately about buying Greenland for more than a year and even detailed the National Security Council staff to study the idea."
    -- NYT story

    "We are open for business, but we are not for sale."
    -- Ane Lone Bagger, Greenland's foreign minister

    "I strongly hope that this is not meant seriously...An absurd discussion."
    -- Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen

    "I thought the prime minister's statement...that it was an 'absurd' idea, was nasty. I thought it was an inappropriate statement. All she had to do was say, 'No, we're not interested.'...Based on [her] comments that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting..."
    -- Trump

  • August 21, 2019

    "I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty."
    -- Trump

  • August 20, 2019

    "It's summer."
    -- Sen. John Cornyn, on July 2019 having been the hottest month on record

  • August 19, 2019

    "Has so much energy... Donald Trump can outwork anyone, and he's I think the only president who actually starts to look younger in office. Most of them get aged."
    -- Rachel Campos-Duffy, Fox News contributor

  • August 18, 2019

    "'Journalism' has reached a new low in the history of our Country. It is nothing more than an evil propaganda machine for the Democrat Party. The reporting is so false, biased and evil that it has now become a very sick joke."
    -- Trump