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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.

  • February 04, 2018

    "Over the past half year, I have had the privilege to serve as an informal advisor to the staff of the Kremlin."
    -- Carter Page, in an August 2013 letter to an academic press he had submitted a manuscript to

  • February 03, 2018

    "This memo totally vindicates 'Trump' in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their [sic] was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction...This is an American disgrace!"
    -- Trump

    "...Special counsel Mueller's investigation must proceed unimpeded... If we continue to undermine our own rule of law, we are doing Putin's work for him."
    -- Sen. John McCain

    "In the case of McCarthy, it was a senator, not the president of the United States, who was a demagogic authoritarian."
    -- Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein

  • February 02, 2018

    "We can't have someone in the Oval Office who doesn't understand the meaning of the word 'confidential,' or 'classified.'"
    -- Trump during campaign, on Clinton

  • February 01, 2018

    "Consider checking the identification of all attending the State of the Union and arresting any illegal aliens in attendance."
    -- Rep. Paul Gosar

    "What's wrong with you?"
    -- Rep. Joe Crowley

  • January 31, 2018

    "...I'm not answering."
    -- House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes, asked by fellow committee member Mike Quigley if he had coordinated with the White House on the surveillance memo alleging abuses by the FBI and Justice Department

  • January 30, 2018

    "The only thing the president has applied pressure to is to make sure we get this resolved so you guys and everyone else can focus on the things that Americans actually care about. And that is making sure everybody gets the Russia fever out of their system once and for all; that you're all reminded once again there was no collusion; and that we can move forward to focus on things like national security, the economy, and solving the immigration crisis that we have here in our country."
    -- Sarah Huckabee Sanders, on critics' assertion that the White House and the president have been applying pressure on the FBI and Justice Department for months

  • January 28, 2018

    "The ice caps were going to melt. They were going to be gone by now. But now they're setting records. They're at a record level."
    -- Trump

  • January 27, 2018

    "I have to admit that I don't know my Twitter account log-on and password, so certainly that's one of the changes I've made."
    -- Hawaii Governor David Ige on why it took so long to tell citizens that the nuke attack message was inaccurate

  • January 26, 2018

    "I know no Russians. I don't know nothin' about nothin'. I'm not being a witness. I'm not hiring a lawyer."
    -- Steve Bannon to Michael Wolff before 'Fire and Fury' came out; he was subpoenaed by the FBI four days after publication

  • January 25, 2018

    "There's no collusion. I couldn't have cared less about Russians having to do with my campaign."
    -- Trump