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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.
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December 20, 2017
"My accountants are going crazy...It's going to cost me a fortune, this thing. Believe me. Believe me. This is not good for me."
-- Trump on GOP tax bill
"There are a number of provisions that would negatively impact the president personally....[He] will likely take a big hit."
-- WH press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders -
December 19, 2017
"People that don't know me, they like to say I watch television -- people with fake sources. You know, fake reporters, fake sources. But I don't get to watch much television. Primarily because of documents. I'm reading documents. A lot."
-- Trump -
December 18, 2017
"Yes, I believe they did."
-- U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis, asked last week if the Russian government meddled in the 2016 election
"Probably not."
-- Attorney General Jeff Sessions on whether the Trump administration has done enough to prevent Russian interference in future elections
"Every time [Putin] sees me, he says, 'I didn't do that.' And I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it...."
-- Trump -
December 17, 2017
"The stench coming out of the FBI and Justice Department is like that of a Third World country where money and boys and clubs decide elections. It's time to take them out in cuffs."
-- Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro -
December 15, 2017
"That's been the playbook in our government for so long: distract, disrupt, hurt, bash, defame, do whatever you can for your own political gain. It's sad that we don't have more morals or character or whatever it is."
-- Eric Trump -
December 14, 2017
"We are living in a fake news era."
-- Syrian President Bashar Assad on Amnesty International report that 13,000 people have been killed in one of his prisons
"There is no such thing as Rohingya. it is fake news."
-- Myanmar state official on accusations of genocide
"Fake news."
-- Spain's foreign minister on reports of police violence against Catalonian protestors, backed up by photos and video
"This is what we call 'fake news' today, isn't it? The era of post-truth..."
-- Venezuelan President Nicola Maduro on world media reporting on his country
"Trump is right, fake news is the enemy, something China has known for years."
-- People's Daily, official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party -
December 13, 2017
"Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office 'begging' for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them)..."
-- Trump
"A president who'd all but call a senator a whore is unfit to clean toilets in Obama's presidential library or to shine George W. Bush's shoes."
-- USA Today Editorial Board -
December 12, 2017
"Does Judge Moore still believe that homosexual conduct should be illegal and homosexuality is still the same thing as bestiality?"
-- Anderson Cooper
"I can't answer that question."
-- Roy Moore spokesperson Janet Porter -
December 11, 2017
"Diversity is not our strength."
-- Rep. Steve King
"Diversity is not our strength. Diversity is our destruction!"
-- David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the KKK
"Diversity is not our strength. Diversity will kill us."
-- KKK national director Thomas Robb -
December 10, 2017
"Doug Jones wants to put out a welcome mat in front of these young girls. If you are a junior high school girl, or if you are a high school girl, what Abortion Jones is saying is we're putting out a welcome mat to any boy who's feeling like a girl that day; he's fine to walk into the bathroom, the locker room, with his camera phone and shower with your daughter."
-- Roy Moore spokesperson Janet Porter