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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.

  • January 03, 2018

    "The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my desk. This is reality, not a threat."
    -- Kim Jong Un

    "Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his, and my Button works!"
    -- Trump

  • January 02, 2018

    "I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department."
    -- Trump

  • January 01, 2018

    "I know the details of taxes better than anybody. Better than the greatest CPA... I know more about the big bills... than any president that's ever been in office... 'Oh, he doesn't know the details.' These are sick people."
    -- Trump, in recent NYT interview

  • December 31, 2017

    "I like very much President Xi. He treated me better than anybody's ever been treated in the history of China...The presentations...One of the great two days of anybody's life and memory having to do with China. He's a friend of mine. He likes me, I like him."
    -- Trump

  • December 30, 2017

    "The U.S. is colder than the surface of Mars and Niagara Falls has turned to ice as temperatures plummet to record-breaking lows -- leading to frozen sharks washing up on the beach. It is set to be the coldest New Year in living memory..."
    -- from story in The Sun

  • December 29, 2017

    "Frankly there is absolutely no collusion, that's been proven by every Democrat saying it... Virtually every Democrat has said there is no collusion... I think it's been proven there is no collusion... There is absolutely no collusion. Everybody knows it... Everybody knows the answer already. There was no collusion. None whatsoever."
    -- Trump in New York Times interview

  • December 28, 2017

    "We got a lot of legislation passed. But I believe -- and  you would have to ask those folks who will know the real answer -- we have more legislation passed, including the record was Harry Truman a long time ago. And we broke that record, so we got a lot done."
    -- Trump, who signed 96 bills his first year in office, fewer than any president since Eisenhower

  • December 27, 2017

    "NIXON BLASTS
    'FALSE CHARGES'
    Asks Public to End 'Obsession,'
    Get on With Nation's Business"
    -- New York Daily News front page, August 16, 1973

  • December 26, 2017

    "People are proud to be saying Merry Christmas again. I am proud to have led the charge against the assault of our cherished and beautiful phrase."
    -- Trump

    19%
    -- percentage of Americans who think "Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays" is a real issue

    76%
    -- percentage who think it was made up for political purposes

  • December 24, 2017

    "We have no intentions of firing Bob Mueller. We are continuing to work closely and cooperate with him. We look forward to seeing this hoax wrap up very soon."
    -- White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders