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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 08, 2017

    "I'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that."
    -- Rex Tillerson, asked if he had called President Trump "a moron"

    "The NBC News story has just been totally refuted by Sec. Tillerson and VP Pence...They should issue an apology to America."
    -- Trump

  • October 07, 2017

    "I think Secretary Tillerson, Secretary Mattis, and Chief Kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos."
    -- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker

    "I think that the president is the one that's keeping the world from chaos."
    -- White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders

  • October 06, 2017

    "You guys know what this represents? Maybe it's the calm before the storm."
    -- Trump to reporters while posing for photo with military officials and their spouses in WH

  • October 05, 2017

    "We're going to help you out. Have a good time."
    -- Trump to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico

  • October 03, 2017

    "I think it's now acknowledged what a great job we've done... We have it under really great control... The job that's been done here is really nothing short of a miracle. It's been incredible."
    -- Trump on Puerto Rico relief efforts

    "We are outraged at the slow and inadequate response the U.S. Government has mounted in Puerto Rico."
    -- Abby Maxman, president of Oxfam America


  • October 02, 2017

    "Being nice to Rocket Man hasn't worked in 25 years, why would it work now?... I told Rex Tillerson... that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate... Save your energy, Rex, we'll do what has to be done."
    -- Trump tweets

  • October 01, 2017

    "We are dying here, and I cannot fathom the thought that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out logistics for a small island of 100 miles by 35 miles. Mayday! We are in trouble."
    -- San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz

    "Fake news... Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico... They want everything done for them when it should be a community effort."
    -- Trump

    "She has been working 24/7... You're going straight to hell."
    -- Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda in response

  • September 30, 2017

    "The protesters were insulting us, and they were screaming and shouting. The police failed to intervene properly."
    -- Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey, on why his bodyguards attacked and beat demonstrators in Washington, D.C. in May

  • September 29, 2017

    "We have the votes for health care. We have one senator who's in the hospital. He can't vote because he's in the hospital...We have one senator who's a 'yes' vote -- a great person -- but he's in the hospital... You can't do it when somebody is in the hospital."
    -- Trump explaining why Obamacare repeal failed

    "I'm not hospitalized, but am recuperating at home."
    -- Sen. Cochran

    "[The president is] just, you know, doing his thing."
    -- Trump aide explaining the false claim, which Trump repeated publicly seven times

  • September 28, 2017

    "Amazing... Tremendous... Incredible... Really good... We have been really treated very, very nicely by the governor... The governor has been so incredible in his statements about the job we're doing."
    -- Trump, on his administration's efforts to help Puerto Rico