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Say What? Archive
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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July 20, 2017
"You have indicated that Mars was totally different thousands of years ago. Is it possible that there was a civilization on Mars thousands of years ago?"
-- Rep. Dana Rohrabacher to NASA project scientist Ken Farley, at hearing
"The evidence is that Mars was different billions of years ago, not thousands of years ago... There's no evidence that I'm aware of."
-- Farley
"Would you rule that out?"
-- Rohrabacher -
July 19, 2017
"As someone who's run for office five times, if the devil called me and said he wanted to set up a meeting to give me opposition research on my opponent, I'd be on the first trolley to hell."
-- Judge Jeanine Pirro, Fox News commentator, on Trump Jr. taking the Russia meeting -
July 18, 2017
"France is America's first and oldest ally. A lot of people don't know that."
-- Trump -
July 17, 2017
"Republican Senators are working hard to get their failed Obamacare replacement approved. I will be at my desk, pen in hand!"
-- Trump -
July 16, 2017
"I think from a practical point, most people would have taken that meeting. It's called opposition research... It's very standard where they have information, and you take the information... I think the press made a very big deal over something that really a lot of people would do."
-- Trump, on his son Donald, Jr. taking a meeting that was pitched as offering information that was "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump" -
July 15, 2017
"Why all these lies? Why is it lie after lie after lie?... The deception, Chris, is mind-boggling."
-- Fox News' Shep Smith
"This shouldn't be a matter of liberal versus conservative, pro-Trump versus anti-Trump. If you're a fair-minded citizen, you ought to be concerned about the fact that we were repeatedly misled about what this meeting concerned."
-- Fox News' Chris Wallace -
July 14, 2017
"Now it's shown there's no collusion, there's no obstruction, there's no nothing. Honestly, the whole thing, it is really a media witch hunt."
-- Trump -
July 13, 2017
"I am not a person who goes around trusting a lot of people. But he's the leader of Russia..."
-- Trump -
July 12, 2017
"Somebody sent me an email, I can't help what someone sends me."
-- Donald Trump, Jr.
"This is the greatest Witch Hunt in political history. Sad!"
-- Trump on allegations regarding his son -
July 11, 2017
"There's been no collusion, no obstruction, and virtually everybody agrees to that."
-- Trump