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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 28, 2018

    "The expectation was that the kids would go to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, that the parents would get deported, and that no one would care."
    -- Trump administration official on "zero tolerance" policy of separation

  • August 27, 2018

    "The 'Justice' Department. I always put quotes on 'Justice' now."
    -- Trump

  • August 26, 2018

    "Russia is a gas station maquerading as a country."
    -- Sen. John McCain, 2014
     
    "He was good at hating Russia, and he is the symbol of modern, openly anti-Russian thinking: Russia cannot be anything other than hostile. A good Russia is a dead Russia...We are enemies forever! This is McCain's logic, and it is good at its transparency...Others act crookedly. This one says what he thinks. He taught us to better understand ourselves and the United States."
    -- Russian parliament member Oleg Morozov, on McCain's passing

  • August 24, 2018

    "I have great respect for what he's done... What he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in Washington probably does... Unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to 'break' -- make  up stories in order to get a 'deal.' Such respect for a brave man."
    -- Trump on Paul Manafort

  • August 23, 2018

    "If I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash. I think everybody would be very poor, because without this thinking, you would see numbers that you wouldn't believe, in reverse. I don't know how you can impeach somebody who's done a great job."
    -- Trump

  • August 22, 2018

    "From this point on you are going to see a liberated Michael Cohen, speaking truth to power...Mr. Mueller, who I greatly respect, will have a lot of interest in what Michael has to say."
    -- Michael Cohen attorney Lanny Davis

  • August 21, 2018

    "I've decided to stay out. I don't have to stay out, you know. I can go in and I could do whatever -- I could run it if I want."
    -- Trump on Mueller investigation

  • August 20, 2018

    "Social media...can be used in many positive ways, but can also be destructive and harmful when used incorrectly."
    -- Melania Trump speaking on Monday about preventing cyberbullying
     
    "[John Brennan] will go down as easily the WORST [CIA director] in history, and since getting out he has become nothing less than a loudmouth, partisan, political hack..."
    -- Trump tweet that same day

  • August 19, 2018

    "Lying...Increasingly frenzied commentary..."
    -- White House on why Trump took away security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan

  • August 18, 2018

    "I think the whole Manafort trial is very sad...A very sad day for our country...He happens to be a very good person. And I think it's very sad what they've done to Paul Manafort."
    -- Trump, while jury deliberates over 18 criminal counts, including tax evasion and bank fraud
     
    "Drunk on power...These are frightening times."
    -- former CIA director John Brennan on Trump