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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.

  • May 27, 2017

    "There was not a single hint of a protester anywhere there during the whole time we were there. Not one guy with a bad placard."
    -- Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, on being in Saudi Arabia with Trump

  • May 26, 2017

    "Stumbling around in a sightless rage, screaming."
    -- Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson on U.S. media

  • May 24, 2017

    "I just want to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem."
    -- Trump to Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, whose extrajudicial offensive has involved vigilantes and police officers killing an estimated 9,000 people

  • May 23, 2017

    "I won't call them 'monsters' because they would like that term. They would think that is a great name. I will call them, from now on, 'losers' because that's what they are: losers."
    -- Trump on Manchester terrorists

  • May 22, 2017

    "Every day he looks more and more like a complete moron. I can't see Trump resigning or even being impeached, but at this point I wish he'd grow a brain and then be the man that he sold himself as on the campaign."
    -- senior Trump administration official to The Daily Beast

  • May 21, 2017

    "We've got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar."
    -- David Brooks

  • May 19, 2017

    "I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut-job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off."
    -- Trump to Russian officials, the day after firing Comey

    "If Donald Trump gets impeached, he will have one person to blame: Donald Trump...He has a competent comms staff. But they can't do their jobs because he keeps running his mouth."
    -- senior Trump Administration official to The Daily Beast

  • May 19, 2017

    "This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history."
    -- Trump, on the appointment of Robert Mueller as Special Counsel for the Russia Investigation

    "[President Obama] doesn't have a birth certificate, or if he does, there's something on that certificate that is very bad for him. Now, somebody told me -- and I have no idea if this is bad for him or not, but perhaps it would be -- that where it says 'religion,' it might have 'Muslim.' And if you're a Muslim, you don't change your religion, by the way."
    -- Trump, 2011

  • May 18, 2017

    "This is a scandal with no video, with no audio, with no sex, with no money, with no dead bodies. It's a boring scandal. No one knows the deputy AG's name. Nobody can pronounce the Russian defense minister's name. There's memos -- which memo and who said what memo to who. No one is emotionally invested or can even understand this story."
    -- Fox News host Jesse Watters on Russiagate

  • May 17, 2017

    "Blech, I need to take a shower."
    -- Kellyanne Conway, after defending Trump on 'Morning Joe' during the campaign, according to Mika Brzezinski