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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.

  • March 07, 2026

    "What's happening with Cuba is amazing. And we think that -- we want to finish this one [Iran] first, but that will be just a question of time... We could do them all at the same time. But bad things happen. If you watch countries over the years, you do them all too fast, bad things happen."
    -- Trump, on Cuba

  • March 06, 2026

    "If they rise, they rise."
    -- Trump, on gas prices

    "I guess."
    -- Trump, asked if Americans should fear retaliatory attacks

    "Pretty neat."
    -- Sen. Markwayne Mullin on being nominated to head DHS

  • March 05, 2026

    "Flying over Tehran and Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only U.S. and Israeli firepower every minute of every day until we decide it is over. B-2s, B-52s, drones and fighters controlling the skies. Death and destruction from the sky all day long. This was never meant to be a fair fight... We control their fate."
    -- SecDef Pete Hegseth

    "We're not at war right now."
    -- Speaker Mike Johnson

  • March 04, 2026

    "In my knowledge and understanding today, the American government does not have a clearly formulated strategy for the future civilian leadership of this country."
    -- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz

    "Most of the people we had in mind are dead."
    -- Trump

     

  • March 03, 2026

    "We don't know who's leading the country now. They don't know who's leading. It's a little like the unemployment line."
    -- Trump, on Iran

  • March 02, 2026

    "Our president will start a war with Iran because he has no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective."
    -- Trump on Obama, 2011

    "Our interest, I think very much is in not going to war with Iran. It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country."
    -- JD Vance, 2025

  • March 01, 2026

    "I don't know anything about the Epstein files. I've been fully exonerated."
    -- Trump

  • February 28, 2026

    "I've always wanted the Congressional Medal of Honor, but I was informed I'm not allowed to give it to myself, and I wouldn't know why I'd be taking it. But if they ever opened up that law I will be there with you someday."
    -- Trump, in his State of the Union address

  • February 27, 2026

    "Our country is winning again. In fact, we're winning so much that we really don't know what to do about it. People are asking me: 'Please, please, please, Mr. President, we're winning too much; we can't take it anymore. We're not used to winning in our country. Until you came along, we were just always losing, but now we are winning too much.' And I say, 'No, no, no, you're going to win again. You are going to win big. You are going to win bigger than ever.'"
    -- Trump, in State of the Union address

  • February 26, 2026

    "It just amazes me that there's not more support out there. We actually have a silent support."
    -- Trump, on his latest poll numbers