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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.

  • October 31, 2017

    "[During the campaign] at least 16 women accused the president of sexually harassing them... Last week...the president called these accusations 'fake news.' Is the official White House position that all these women are lying?"
    -- CBS News reporter Jacqueline Alemany

    "Yeah, we've been clear on that from the beginning..."
    -- WH press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders

  • October 30, 2017

    The United States and Syria.
    -- the only two countries not supporting the Paris climate accord

  • October 29, 2017

    "I cannot believe the media produced such beautiful children. How the media did this, I don't know... These are beautiful, wonderful children. Ohhhh -- you going to grow up to be like your parents? Don't answer."
    -- Trump joshing with the Halloween-costumed children of White House reporters, in the Oval Office

  • October 28, 2017

    "It is now commonly agreed, after many months of costly looking, that there was no collusion between Russia and Trump."
    -- Trump

  • October 27, 2017

    "I think the press makes me more uncivil than I am. People don't understand. I went to an Ivy League college. I was a nice student. I did very well. I'm a very intelligent person. That fact is, I think, I really believe, I think the press creates a different image of Donald Trump than the real person."
    -- Trump

  • October 26, 2017

    "One of the greatest memories of all time."
    -- Trump, on himself

    "He's got perfect genes."
    -- Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Trump

  • October 25, 2017

    "Am I mad at God? Yeah, I'm mad at him. I wish I had more protection. I wish this stuff didn't happen... These people at the New York Times... don't want me in the marketplace. That's what this is all about."
    -- Bill O'Reilly, in wake of report on $32M settlement with Fox News colleague re sexual misconduct accusation

  • October 24, 2017


    "An utterly untruthful president....The debasement of our nation is what he will be remembered most for."
    -- Sen. Bob Corker

    "Corker is the incompetent head of the Foreign Relations Committee, and look how poorly the U.S. has done. He doesn't have a clue... People like liddle Bob Corker have set the U.S. way back."
    -- Trump

  • October 23, 2017

    "The only good thing this hurricane brought us is that now everybody knows that we are American citizens."
    -- Rep Jenniffer González-Colón, Puerto Rico's sole representative to the U.S. Congress

  • October 22, 2017

    "Nearly half of voters, 46 percent, believe the news media fabricate news stories about President Donald Trump and his administration."
    -- Politico reporting on new poll

    "Trump's Big Lie is that the media is telling the Big Lie."
    -- Heather Digby Parton